My 1995 Small Farm.

The closer it gets to the end of the year, the faster time goes by.

Finally it was the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, the day when work would stop.

Chen Ling's deer farm has been preliminarily completed.

After eating Chen Ling’s pork head and pork ribs hotpot, the villagers happily returned to the village to prepare for the New Year.

There was nothing to do at the construction site, so my father-in-law and mother-in-law were sent back.

Chen Ling also had some free time to prepare food for the New Year.

Their family has already prepared the New Year's goods, and now all they lack is the traditional food.

For example, rice cake.

Even if Chen Ling had eaten all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas.

When this season comes, I can't help drooling when I think of the sweet and sticky taste.

There are two kinds of rice cakes: white rice cakes made from glutinous rice and yellow rice cakes made from millet flour.

All are delicious.

In addition to this, you also need to beat the potato starch quickly.

There are machines for making potato starch in the county and the villages.

People who fluff cotton, grind rice and grind flour are the busiest at the end of the year.

Chen Ling came to the southern suburbs of the county town to queue up early in the morning on the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month.

This sweet potato flour machine is located on the river bank near the sand mining site.

People use backpacks, snakeskin bags, bamboo baskets and other tools to carry the sweet potatoes and thresh them.

Then filter it with gauze to precipitate it into powder, leaving the vermicelli for stewing meat.

There are also some capable people who steam and mash the poor quality sweet potatoes, put them in a gauze bag, and squeeze out the water inside.

Add malt and saccharify for three hours, then filter it into a pot and boil while stirring until it becomes brown syrup that can be eaten and used for fun.

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"A Ling, do you know what I dreamed about last night?"

When Chen Ling finished beating potato starch and went home to make lunch, Wang Susu was holding the two little kids in front of the kitchen door, basking in the sun, and said with a smile.

"What dream?"

Chen Ling turned around and said, "You didn't tell me about your dream this evening in the morning, but only at noon."

"I didn't think of it this morning. I only remembered it when I saw the small vegetable garden in the backyard."

Wang Susu said.

"Oh, so you dreamed about growing vegetables?"

"No, I'm not growing vegetables, I'm growing flowers."

Wang Susu was very excited when she said this: "I dreamed of the hill behind us. The hillside was full of flowers. It was so beautiful."

Women always like these things.

"I was thinking, we won't raise chickens and ducks here anymore in the future, and even if we do, we won't raise as many as before. Can we really plant more beautiful flowers and plants around like in my dream?"

"Sure, I'm thinking of clearing out the fruit trees next year."

Chen Ling nodded and said.

"Ah? Clearing out the fruit trees? Not planting anymore?"

Wang Susu was really surprised this time.

She had been busy for so long before, and now she was reluctant to stop farming.

"It's not that we won't plant anymore. We're just clearing some of them and transplanting them to the slope. Aren't Uncle Zhao and his family also planting trees on the slope? After we finish planting on the slope, we'll also plant some on the deer farm.

Anyway, these fruit trees won’t be wasted.”

Chen Ling said: "We should renovate the orchard here and only keep a few fruit trees. We can leave the miscellaneous trees and bamboo bushes around the wall as needed.

Don’t want anything else.

Having too many fruit trees is too troublesome, mainly because they attract all kinds of insects.

Now we no longer rely on fruit trees to support our families and make money. Our previous thinking was too simple, so we should just throw them away now.

Otherwise, when the two kids grow up, they will run around outside with Ruirui, and it will be bad if there are bugs everywhere."

"What you said makes sense. If we don't plant trees, will we plant flowers in the future?"

Wang Susu asked quickly.

She likes to fiddle with flowers and plants, and she planted a lot of them when she lived in the village.

When I got here and had a child, I couldn’t take care of it anymore. “Okay, you can plant whatever you want.”

Chen Ling smiled. Since his wife liked flowers, it would be nice for him to get some fresh flowers that bloom all year round.

The flowers all over the mountains blooming in different seasons are definitely a beautiful sight.

In fact, fruit trees are also very beautiful when they bloom in spring.

It just can’t be open all the time.

I only watch it once a year.

While the couple was chatting, Chen Ling prepared lunch.

White rice with fried meat and mushrooms is very delicious.

Before they finished eating, Bobcat drove into the yard on a motorcycle.

There was also a bamboo cage on the motorcycle.

Inside are two eagles.

After the two eagles were released, there was another eagle cry in the sky, and Er Tuzi, whose body had grown twice in size, circled and landed.

Following closely behind Er Tuzi was a group of wild geese. They folded their wings and landed beside the farm's canal with a loud splash, cackling and drinking water with their heads down.

"What's wrong? Why are these two locked in the cage again?"

Chen Ling asked curiously: "Are you injured?"

"Nothing. I was attacked by a flock of wild geese and my wing got a little injured."

The mountain cat grinned and said, "These two eagles are pretty good. Although they don't recognize humans, they recognize Er Tuzi very much. I don't know whether they regard Er Tuzi as their mother or the king of the mountain.

I saw them falling down injured and wanted to apply medicine to them, but they not only refused to appreciate it, but also cried loudly and tried to peck me.

It was only after Er Tuzi called them that they became obedient. "

After he said this, Chen Ling suddenly understood something.

"Was he beaten by those geese outside?"

"Yes, if you ask me, you should clip the wings of the geese you raise at home, otherwise the geese outside will be abducted with a little temptation."

Bobcat walked to the door of the living room, pulled a stool, and sat in the warm sun.

"Really? Didn't you say you and Lao Yu had trained them well? Are you still afraid of being seduced?"

After Chen Ling finished three bowls of rice, he poured hot water over the bowl of leftover rice and drank it to moisten his slightly greasy throat.

This was the time when their family was playing in the city.

Shanmao and Yu Qian'an were not idle at home either.

In addition to daily chores, and searching for puppies with the bobcat.

They also urged Er Tuzi, who had recovered from his injuries, to take a group of geese with fully grown wings for a test flight in the sky.

The two of them are quite free.

Plus patience.

Chen Ling had previously planned to use eagles to herd wild geese.

They actually completed it.

It was the group of geese outside the village that did not fly away in the winter and often harassed their flocks.

I just started flying and I haven’t had enough fun yet.

He was just making some noises down there, trying to seduce her down.

Today, Er Tuzi couldn't help himself and rushed into the flock of geese and beat them up.

The baldy who had completed his evolution was extremely ferocious.

Like a lightning bomber, it comes and goes freely, causing harm to the geese, but the geese cannot do anything about it.

But unfortunately, its two younger brothers are not strong enough.

Got beaten up.

Er Tuzi was dragged down like this.

If the bobcat hadn't carried a gun and fired a few shots, it would have scared away the geese.

The injuries to those two eagles were not as simple as just wing injuries.

"Alas, isn't this too short a time? If it's longer, it'll be like a sheepdog and its sheep. It was OK then, but it's not quite there now, mainly because these geese are too smart."

The mountain cat said helplessly: "If it weren't for the good food at your house, they would have eaten well and drank well, and wouldn't have been hungry or cold. I'm afraid they would have followed you and flown away without the geese calling. So you still have to find a way." (End of this chapter)