My 1995 Small Farm.

And then, needless to say...

Yu Qi'an didn't dare to run away, and obediently waited for Chen Ling to finish bathing the little green horse and cleaning the mud off Ashou's feet.

Only then did he cautiously return to the village with Chen Ling.

However, he's a chatterbox, even though he was just scared.

They kept marveling at it along the way.

"This horse is truly a fine horse. In such cold weather, it looks even more energetic after taking a cold shower. It's simply an exceptional horse."

"This tiger is really something. It washes its paws in the river and isn't afraid of the cold at all."

"And these geese, Ah Fu and Ah Shou actually knew to help herd them..."

The so-called "circling geese" is similar to how sheepdogs herd sheep, circling around them to drive and graze them, thus providing excellent assistance to their owners.

But now...

Chen Ling was speechless. He glanced at the two tigers and the little blue horse who weren't even looking at him and said, "Stop talking. Nobody's paying attention to you."

Yu Qi'an wasn't embarrassed at all.

Humming a little tune, he followed Chen Ling home. When they arrived at the courtyard on this side of the village, Chen Ling had already picked up the pair of red-beaked jade pieces and put them in a basket.

It was covered up in the warehouse, with some millet grains scattered under the basket.

The Red-billed Jade is a beautiful bird. Although it is also a bit silly, it is best not to put wild birds that you have just caught into a birdcage.

Otherwise it will crash into the cage and get its head bleeding.

"Look, isn't this bird different from other red-billed jade birds?"

Yu Qi'an lifted the basket, covered it with his hand, and put a chicken cover over it to show him.

"what?"

Chen Ling frowned: "It really does feel a bit different."

A typical red-lipped jadeite has a red mouth, a colorful coat, yellow spots on its cheeks, and a pale yellow neck, making it very beautiful overall.

The pair that Yu Qi'an caught, on the other hand, looked more like a goldfinch and a swallow.

The goldfinch is also known as the yellow-winged finch or the yellow nanmu bird.

The swallow is also called the swallow sparrow.

The color distribution of these two birds is somewhat similar to that of the Red-billed Jade.

But it's definitely not as pretty as the red-lipped jade.

Red-billed jade plants are typically small and vibrant, with delicate and refined plumage.

Just like the goldfinch and the finches, the yellow color of this pair of birds became more pronounced. The olive color on their backs turned into a faint blue at the tip of their tails, and their wings were a mixture of blue, yellow and white.

She looked even more beautiful instantly.

Chen Ling squatted down and stared at it, saying, "If it weren't for the fact that its lips are so red, I really wouldn't have recognized it as a Red-Mouthed Jade. I've caught countless Red-Mouthed Jades since I was a child, but I've never seen one like this before."

"Right, you think so too, don't you!"

Yu Qi'an became even more smug upon hearing this. Just as he finished speaking, a crackling sound came from outside. Ah Shou excitedly poked his big head in, carrying a large, wriggling fish in his mouth, and trotted in.

Yu Qi'an was almost knocked over.

"Ouch, damn!"

"Ah Shou, are you deliberately targeting me to bully me?"

Bai Huining walked in at this moment and glanced at him sideways: "Who told you to make Rui Rui cry? Now everyone hates you."

Chen Ling then noticed that Bai Huining was actually followed by Afu, who was tilting his head back and sniffing the food in Bai Huining's hand.

"I fried some small fish, Brother Ling, you should try some."

"Okay, I just ate something light this morning, only two bowls of plain porridge before coming out."

"Then I'll get you some steamed buns."

"No need, no need. It's been raining these past two days, so Rui Rui has been getting up late. He can have some when I go back and cook for him later."

Chen Ling waved his hand, stood up and walked over to Ashou, pulling the fish out of its mouth: "Who have you been learning from these past few days? You don't learn the good things, you only learn the bad things, and you've started to be unruly wherever you go."

The pond that Chen Ling had previously created next to the jujube tree always had fish.

The small pond has many miscellaneous fish, all kinds of fish.

There are also big ones.

But the big ones are slippery and very cunning.

Normally they are on the surface of the water, but they sink as soon as someone approaches.

I don't know how Ah Shou learned to catch fish, but he caught a big one as soon as he arrived.

"Can we eat the fish we have at home?"

"They're all edible. I raise fish, and apart from certain ornamental fish, most of them are edible."

Chen Ling smiled and said, "Especially those fish tanks, I'm afraid they'll get too much trouble to keep, and if they get too big, they'll be hard to manage. Keeping some edible fish is a good idea."

"Uncle Qi'an, Uncle Qi'an, we caught another bird. It looks like a stinky cuckoo. Will you take it?"

Suddenly, a child's shouts came from outside the courtyard.

"Wow, Little Green Horse is here, there are geese in the yard, and Uncle Fugui is home too!"

"Uncle Fugui, Uncle Fugui, we caught a bird near the old stage, and we also found a huge pit, a really, really big pit, it's this big..."

The children ran over and gestured, "It's a dark hole inside. Liu Ni'er said it looks like a badger's den. Everyone says badger meat is delicious. Do you want to take the tiger to catch one?"

They chattered away, talking all at once, like a flock of excited little ducks.

"Does that big hole really look like a badger's den? On which side of the old stage is it?" Chen Ling asked.

"North of the old stage, where Xuecheng built his new house, is inside the brick pile."

"We caught our birds over there too. And it's not just the birds that are easy to catch, there are also a lot of little footprints on the ground after it rained. I don't know what they are."

"Oh, it's from the housing construction area after graduation. That makes sense."

Chen Ling suddenly realized: "I'll go check on it after it clears up and dries a bit, otherwise it'll be difficult to deal with the badger's den if it rains."

Wang Xuecheng's new home is to be built north of the old stage.

However, his house construction was different from the kind of house construction that the Wang brothers, Lao Chou and Wang Lihua, did on a whim.

In those days, most families built their houses by "saving up" the money.

This year, we'll gather the 'foundation stones' first. Next year, we'll gather the 'timber'.

The year after next, we will collect 'sand and gravel', 'board materials', 'blue bricks', and 'roof tiles'.

Sometimes, they would put it aside after only collecting two small samples or a few stacks of 'blue bricks'.

Moreover, once it's put on hold, it won't be for just one or two years.

It will take several years to build a house.

Why not build the house all at once?

I have no money!

So sometimes, on many vacant plots of land inside and outside the village, there are only rows of brick stacks and leftover timber, just casually left there, untouched for years.

It's turned into something like a maze.

That was the place where the village children loved to play.

It is also the easiest place for wild things to hide.

"Uncle Fugui, my grandpa said that the wheat seedlings in our village are going to grow like crazy this winter. Have you come up with a plan? Can you tell us?"

“Yes, Uncle Fugui, we want to learn your skills from you, otherwise my father will say we are not learning well.”

These kids, besides being playful, also love to act like little adults.

Upon hearing this, Chen Ling laughed: "Perfect, Uncle really does have a task for you..."

Then they told him to make fake geese whenever they had nothing else to do.

The older children, including Liu Ni'er, brightened up: "Uncle, you're going to catch geese again? Are you going to raise a lot of geese in the future? Can we help you raise them?"

These days, the sight of Chen Ling herding geese with a whip on his back has made the kids extremely envious.

How novel it is to herd geese!

It's more fun than ducks and geese.

Moreover, compared to other things in Chen Ling's household, geese are easier to raise, catch, and tame.

"If you do a good job, I'll catch a few geese for you to raise, okay?" Chen Ling said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll say Uncle Fugui is the best."

"That's right, it would be great if Uncle Fugui could be my dad."

Chen Ling: "..."

Are you really not afraid of your dad beating you?

"Fugui, what are you doing? Trying to catch geese again..." Yu Qi'an was quite curious.

He felt that Chen Ling always had many wonderful ideas.

It looks like they're raising geese, but maybe they're raising geese for something else.

However, he guessed wrong this time.

Chen Ling's purpose this time was not to catch geese at all.

It was just to attract geese to eat the wheat seedlings.

“Qi’an, you don’t know the situation. Here’s what happened…” Chen Ling explained to him.

Yu Qi'an's eyes lit up as well.

He said that Fugui must have a lot of wonderful and fun ideas.

"Okay, okay, I want to join you in herding geese too."

"Alright, once the weather clears up, we'll try out all those methods for attracting geese one by one... Rui Rui is about to wake up, I'll go back and cook them some food, you take the kids to catch birds!"

……

It has to be said that this year is a very special year.

This is true for the country, and even more so for Chenwangzhuang, this small village nestled in the mountains.

Aside from the former residences of celebrities and historical sites, it's incredibly difficult for a small village to become famous in this era.

Chenwangzhuang did it.

Perhaps it's because winter has arrived and travel is inconvenient, or perhaps it's because everyone is busy with their own things during the three months of winter.

Although Chenwangzhuang is known through various channels, and local newspapers have featured it repeatedly.

But not many people have actually been attracted to this place lately.

Compared to the spectacular scene in the first half of the year, it could even be said that there were hardly any people coming.

This is strange.

Although there are few people, the recent visitors are still considered quite special and important by some.

For example, many of the friends from Hong Kong Island who come here because of their reputation are well-known celebrities.

They will receive attention from the city and will be required to accompany them.

For example, some of the elderly members of the delegation visiting Taiwan also had rather special backgrounds.

Of course, these two types of people may seem special in terms of their status, but in reality, they come here for no other purpose than to have fun. Adults and children alike come on a family trip.

First, the children were curious about the cartoon and clamored to watch Blackie and Little Gold. Later, when the tiger appeared and they saw the news reports about the tiger, the adults gradually became interested as well.

Now that their exchanges with the mainland are becoming more frequent, travel is much more convenient than before. They can come whenever they want without having to think so much as before.

It's probably because of the recent rain.

These two groups of people also met with two Japanese people in the city one after the other.

Let's leave Hong Kong Island aside for now.

Li Zhongyi and his companion were quite close to the people of Taiwan.

After meeting, they talked about some of their experiences and told them to be careful while playing there, and that it would be best to go to the water's edge to pray to the old turtle first.

There are terrifying monsters in those mountains, and many people have been possessed by evil spirits.

If you accidentally bump into them, you'll get entangled with them, and terrible things will happen.

In addition, if you want to eat well and have fun there, you have to spend more money and do more good deeds.

This made everyone on the island look at the two Japanese soldiers with strange expressions, and their gazes towards them changed. (End of Chapter)