"Xiao Rui, come here and count, are there two more chickens missing?" When my mother saw Fang Rui coming, she hurriedly shouted.
"Let me count them." Fang Rui saw the anxiety on his mother's face and knew that rural people still have feelings for the poultry raised at home, even though they have to be slaughtered to eat or exchange for some money. Fang Rui felt a little ashamed.
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The chickens were put into the cage again. Fang Rui pretended to count them twice, and then told his mother that there were indeed two chickens missing.
"There are two more missing chickens. How can this go on...Xiao Rui, look again and see where the loophole is?" My mother was quite distressed. In fact, Yu Yinghong still took a relatively light view of the missing chickens.
After all, the loss is not much. What she is worried about is that if the number of chickens continues to decrease, it will dampen her son's enthusiasm for breeding.
"Okay, I'll go look for it." Fang Rui first went straight to the hole that was blocked yesterday. Could it be that it had been dug out again? When he went over to take a look, it was not dug out. So what exactly is the problem?
?Fang Rui began to search all over the forest. This time he searched more carefully and attentively than last time. However, he searched like a carpet and found no clues at all. Not to mention holes, even a bunch of chicken feathers were not found.
Fang Rui was at his wits' end now, so he leaned against a piece of bamboo and wondered, could someone come in and steal two of them? When he mentioned this question to his mother, she frowned and shook her head, saying,
"No, the atmosphere in our village is very good, and everyone gets along very harmoniously. Your mother and I have been here for more than 20 years, and I have never heard of anyone losing needles or thread... let alone this chicken
How old are you, who wouldn’t be so boring?”
After hearing what his mother said, Fang Rui ruled out the suspicion, but why did the chicken get lost inexplicably?
"If the reason is not found out, the chickens will continue to be thrown away. Otherwise, let's let Xiao Hei go into the forest to guard him." Mom saw that Fang Rui was also frowning, and was afraid of worrying him, so she hurriedly came up with a plan.
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"That's all we can do for the time being, but Xiao Hei is here and there every day, and I don't know what he's up to... When it comes back, I'll catch it in the bamboo forest... By the way, Mom, Lao Bian
They are coming over for lunch, so I’m going to cook.”
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I returned to the stove, opened the fire door, checked that the fire in the stove was no longer very strong, and replaced it with briquettes.
Put the pot on the fire, wait for the pot to heat up, shovel the lard into the pot, wait until the oil boils, pour the eel fillets into it, there will be a chissing sound, and a burst of white mist and a stream of meat will come out of the pot.
The fragrance hits your nose.
Children in rural areas, especially in relatively remote villages like Xiaotai'er Village, start their own family early. Generally speaking, they can make soy sauce at the age of three, wash rice and cook rice at the age of four or five, and start learning to cut vegetables and cook at the age of six or seven.
It's delicious. It sounds exaggerated, but actually it's normal.
Under Yu Yinghong's conscious cultivation, Fang Rui was able to handle a kitchen knife and a spatula at the age of five. His cooking skills were really impressive as his mother had taught him, and his mother was very pleased and praised him for being better than his master.
As soon as the vegetables were cooked, they heard the roar of a motor coming from outside the house. Fang Rui washed the cooking pot, wiped his hands and went out to take a look. Lao Bian came with Lin Fangfang.
After lunch, Fang Rui was a little tired, so he said hello to Lao Bian and went to take a nap.
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He slept until about two o'clock when he got up, washed up, and walked out of the house to the pond to see how the water was pumping. At this time, he found Lin Fangfang and Xiaohua, the granddaughter of Grandma Wang's house next door, squatting by the pond. One big and one small.
I don't know when the two girls got to know each other very well. The two of them kept shouting into the pond like crazy women, and both of them looked very happy.
"Fat man, there's a big grass carp behind you, catch him out quickly."
"Uncle Fatty, that red golden carp swam in front of you, why don't you catch it?"….
"Fat man, why are you as stupid as a pig? You can't even catch a fish."
"Uncle Fatty, you are really stupid, look at that golden carp running away again."
Fang Rui listened to the two women pointing and cursing, and realized that Lao Bian must have gone down to the pond to catch fish in order to express himself. As a result, he couldn't catch any fish and was in a mess.
Fang Rui picked up a bucket and took a closer look. He saw that the water in the pond was very shallow, and the backs of several larger fish could be seen. Lao Bian was busy running around in the pond, and he was chasing after it endlessly.
He was chasing this fish to chase that fish, but the fish didn't urinate at all.
When Xiaohua saw Fang Rui coming, she hurriedly said, "Uncle Xiao Rui, go down and catch it quickly. That fat uncle is too stupid. He spent a long time fighting in the muddy water in the pond, and now he has just caught a small crucian carp.
." After the little flower ghost elf finished speaking, he pointed to a bucket next to him. The bucket was half filled with clean water. Sure enough, a small fish was swimming around in the water.
Looking at this small fish that seemed to have just evolved from fish eggs, Fang Rui suddenly felt ashamed for Lao Bian. He had the nerve to catch such a small fish and put it in such a big bucket of water. It was really shameful. Fortunately, the villagers still
I didn't come to join in the fun. If they saw me, they might laugh their teeth out.
"Ruizi, please don't make trouble. I have to catch these fish today." When Lao Bian saw Fang Rui carrying a bucket and getting ready to go down to the pond, he hurriedly shouted. Damn, once Ruizi takes action, what's going on with these fish?
The fish is not a turtle in a urn. Once he disturbs it, there is no way he can catch it.
"Uncle Fatty, you are so shameless. Uncle Xiaorui is so good at catching fish, but you are the one causing trouble." Xiaohua pouted and defended Fang Rui, making Lin Fangfang giggle.
"Well, that little flower girl, haven't you noticed that my uncle is just playing a hide-and-seek game with the fish?" Lao Bian said shamelessly.
"You're lying. I play hide-and-seek with Xiao Mingzhu and the others every day. Don't try to lie to me, huh!" Xiaohua put her hands on her hips and revealed Lao Bian's shameless mask mercilessly. Lin Fangfang laughed so hard that her stomach hurt.
"This... that..." Lao Bian felt so ashamed.
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Seeing Lao Bian's embarrassment, Fang Rui couldn't help laughing.
He stopped laughing, turned off the switch of the machine, stopped pumping water first, then went down to the pond to dig a big hole in the muddy water with a hoe, put the diving water in again, went up to the pond and turned on the switch, so that the water could be pumped out.
Smoking it even more dry.
Then Fang Rui, at Xiaohua's urging, picked up the bucket and went down.
"Ruizi, you're really here to catch me." Lao Bian said in a low voice.
"You catch him slowly, my brother won't cause trouble." Fang Rui said with a smile.
"Then what are you doing down here?" Lao Bian looked at Fang Rui doubtfully.
"Pick up snails." Fang Rui said, while bending down to pick up a few snails from the exposed mud surface. The water had just been drained, and the snails had not had time to return to the water. They were all exposed to the broad daylight, so
Very easy to pick up.
"Picking up snails? Haha, why didn't I notice it?" Lao Bian saw that there were snails everywhere on the mud around the pond, and the snails didn't have legs and couldn't swim. Aren't they picked to death? Hey
, this is easy and simple, we can do it too.
Lao Bian stopped catching fish and started his snail picking operation. The snails on the mud surface were really dead, so Lao Bian’s speed of picking up snails was not much slower than Fang Rui’s. This made doing such interesting things in the countryside
Lao Bian, who had been stepped on by Fang Rui, was quite proud. From time to time, he picked up a handful of snails and threw them into the bucket, making a clanging sound.
It's like a demonstration.
Fang Rui didn't even glance at him sideways. He just saw his hand inserted into the mud in front of him. When he pulled it out, there was a gray-black, fan-shaped thing in his hand. Fang Rui washed it in the water and took the fan-shaped thing.
He threw it into the bucket and a huge gray-black thing fell into the bucket, splashing out several snails...
Lao Bian followed the trajectory of the gray and black things, lowered his head and took a look into the bucket, and his eyes suddenly became round:
"This is a river mussel. Damn, Ruizi, you are lucky. Even if you pick up snails for a long time, it won't be as good as you picking up this piece of river mussel. No, I have to pick up a few pieces." Old Bian yelled angrily, looking around.
I scanned the mud surface back and forth, but I didn't see a single mussel. I scanned a few times and still couldn't find it. I felt depressed. Why couldn't I find the mussel?
"Yes, I have better luck than you... Look, I'm really lucky!" While speaking, Fang Rui took out another big river clam from the mud.
"Fuck, Ruizi, you are so unkind, you are fooling me... Come on, tell me what the secret is." Lao Bian is not stupid either. Fang Rui even picked up two pieces of river mussels and didn't even see a hair on his own. Isn't this obvious?
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"How did you find it? You found it by luck."
Fang Rui used Lao Bian's words to stop him, and while he was talking, he took out two more pieces of river mussels. Lin Fangfang and Xiao Hua were laughing on the bank. Listening to the laughter, Lao Bian became anxious, "Brother, just teach your brothers."
"Okay, for the sake of your sincerity, let me tell you... Look, there is one here." Seeing that Lao Bian lost his temper, Fang Rui pointed to a strip on the clay next to him that was one centimeter wide and six or seven centimeters long.
gap.
Lao Bian didn't believe it, "Is it that simple?"
Fang Rui said, "If you don't believe me, try it."
Lao Bian dug into the mud along the gap, and he pulled out a big river mussel. It turned out to be so easy. Lao Bian was so happy that he threw the big river mussel into the bucket. He rubbed his hands, and his eyes were on the surrounding mud.
After a quick glance, he soon found a few pieces of river mussels. This made Lao Bian even more energetic. He stopped picking up the snails and instead looked for gaps to dig out the river mussels.
Fang Rui looked at Lao Bian who was very happy, shook his head, and simply followed behind to pick up snails.
The two brothers walked around the pond. The buckets were piled up, and most of them were river mussels.