The movement in the yard woke Dahei up.
Dahei waggled his tail and ran out with Xiaohei, then ran back with a flutter, dug in the ground and dug out a dirty piece of rabbit meat.
Cheng Wanwan: "..."
It seemed like the meat that Sidan dropped on the floor during dinner. I was going to pick it up and wash it before eating it, but as soon as I bent down, it disappeared and was picked up by Dahei.
Da Hei, a bitch like him, could hold back even if he could hide the meat and not eat it. But now he was so generous and ran out with the meat in his mouth and handed it to the she-wolf.
When the female wolf saw Da Hei for the first time, she crawled and was about to attack, but Xiao Hei stopped her. The wolves whimpered non-stop, not knowing what they were communicating with.
After waiting for a while, Dahei successfully blended into the pack of wolves, and the female wolf even gave Dahei a bath with her tongue.
The piece of meat was swallowed whole by the she-wolf, then she raised her head and stared at Cheng Wanwan.
Cheng Wanwan understood this look very well. When Sidan was going crazy with hunger, he would look at her with this look.
Okay, the rabbit meat at home was originally brought here by these wolves, so it’s not impossible to return it to them.
Cheng Wanwan took off the two rabbits hanging under the eaves and threw them out. Several wolves sniffed them, kicked them aside in disgust, and continued to stare at her.
Dahei rushed in, biting Cheng's curved skirt and walked into the kitchen.
She finally understood that these wolves wanted to eat cooked food.
There is still half a chicken in the kitchen, which is reserved for Wu Huiniang to drink tomorrow.
But this chicken was also sent by wild wolves. If these wolves wanted to eat it, could she refuse?
Cheng Wanwan took out half of the chicken and threw it against the courtyard wall. The female wolf held the chicken down with her front feet, bit off a piece of meat and put it in front of Xiao Hei. She then bit off a piece and gave it to Da Hei. Then one of the four wolves took a bite. Swallowed the chicken into his belly.
The food of the four wild wolves was dripping down, obviously they didn't eat enough.
Cheng Wanwan chuckled: "No more, not even a bite of meat."
The four wolves licked the two cubs again and again, and left reluctantly.
The two little guys returned to the yard, dragged back the two dried rabbits, and kept acting coquettishly around Cheng Wanwan.
She picked up Xiao Hei with a headache: "Next time, tell your mother not to scare anyone again at night. My heart disease will be scared out."
"Woooooooo..."
Xiao Hei licked her fingers and rubbed his head on her palm.
When I got up the next morning, Cheng Wanwan was still lying on the bed. Zhao Dashan's voice rang out in the yard: "Mom, there are many pheasants in front of our house, seven or eight pheasants. They should have been sent by the wolves again..."
Cheng Wanwan jumped up from the bed and walked to the door of the courtyard. Seven or eight pheasants had their throats bitten and were covered in blood.
She pressed her temples with a headache. Why did she feel that these seven or eight pheasants were the supper prepared by the wild wolves for themselves?
She had a hunch that the four wild wolves would come again tonight.
What else can we do? Let's stew the chicken soup first. Four wild wolves, one wolf and one chicken will be given to a Hui Niang. Three more can be left to hang under the eaves.
The yard was busy.
In the morning, Zhao Ergou and Zhao Sanniu went to deliver goods, Zhao Dashan went down to the fields to pull weeds and fertilize, Zhao Sidan went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables to feed the chickens and ducks, and Cheng Wanwan and Wu Huiniang were left to take care of the household matters.
After Cheng Wanwan finished disinfecting the chicken coop and duck shed, he went to Li Zheng's house.
All the adults in Li Zheng's family have gone to the fields. The ducks in the yard are quacking, and Li Zheng's wife is chopping wild vegetables and feeding them to the little ducks.
Seeing Cheng Wanwan come in, Li Zheng's wife smiled happily: "Dashan Niang, why are you here?"
Cheng Wanwan smiled and said, "I came to see Uncle Li Zheng for something. Is Uncle Li Zheng here?"
"Your uncle Lizheng was invited over by people from Lijiagou early in the morning." Lizheng's wife said with a smile, "I don't know how the news about locust extermination in our village spread to the other side of Lijiagou. Lijiagou Li Zheng heard that there were no locusts in our rice fields, so he wanted to ask your Uncle Li Zheng what we could do. Your Uncle Li Zheng is a warm-hearted man, so he went there with lantana."
Cheng Wanwan nodded.
The locust plague is not a small-scale matter. It usually affects a county or even a province, and the most serious ones affect half of the country. It is useless even if they eliminate them all here. There will be locusts flying over from other villages, and everyone will focus on one place. , Only in this way can the losses in the rice fields be truly controlled to a minimum.
While she was thinking about it, there was a sound of Li Zheng's curses coming from behind her.
"Those people in Lijiagou are so unreasonable." Li Zheng walked in with his hands behind his back, his beard standing up in anger, and after gulping down a glass of water, he said, "Li Lizheng is also acquainted with me, so I kindly told him what to do." He didn’t hear anything else about killing locusts, but he heard that Qi moxa can drive away locusts. There were so many qi moxa in their village that they grew like crazy. Someone tried it on the spot. No, the ground was buzzing and flying. The locusts were indeed driven away.”
Li Zheng's wife said in confusion: "It's a good thing to drive away the locusts..."
"What a good thing!" Li Zheng slapped the table, "Next door to Lijiagou is Wangjiatun. The locusts all flew to Wangjiatun. People coming from there almost had a fight with Lijiagou. Wangjiatun also started to smoke Qi moxa. People from the two villages The locusts flew to the nearest village... Qi moi can only drive away the locusts. Locusts are just flying around in our villages, always destroying crops. Why should we kill them when there are obviously ways to kill them? Rush to another village?"
Li Zheng's wife understood. She was a woman with limited resources. The first thing she thought about was whether these locusts would fly to Dahe Village. They finally controlled the locusts, and then there were so many locusts flying in from other villages. The whole village has been working in vain for so long.
"I'm furious!"
He was swaying around in anger, his face full of worry.
Cheng Wanwan said slowly: "Uncle Li Zheng, it seems that we can only go to the county magistrate."
Li Zheng's eyes lit up: "Yes, go find the county magistrate. There is no way the magistrate will ignore this matter. I will go now."
"Take Cheng Zhao with you." Cheng Wanwan continued, "Cheng Zhao recorded the efficacy and use of lantana. In the past few days, the locust extermination in Dahe Village was written down by Cheng Zhao. On paper, the magistrate can understand it at a glance."
Li Zheng nodded like a fool: "Cheng Zhao is a scholar, he speaks in an organized manner, and the county magistrate will believe whatever he says, so let him come with me."
Cheng Wanwan went back and asked Cheng Zhao to change clothes and follow Li Zheng to Ping'an Town.
Cheng Zhao took out the pile of paper he had recorded and was about to leave when Cheng Wanwan told him: "This is an opportunity, you should seize it."
Cheng Zhao was stunned.
He finally understood why his second aunt asked him to record the entire process of eradicating locusts and write them word by word on paper for future reference.
He thought that the second aunt recorded it so that he could read it to other people in the village, or save it for next year to use the same method to kill the locusts.
It turned out that it was to pave the way for him.
There was a locust plague last year and there was no harvest in the fields. If there is another locust plague this year, I don’t know how many people will be displaced.
Dealing with the locusts would be a great merit... This was indeed his best chance at the moment.
It was obviously the second aunt who came up with the idea, but the second aunt pressed him on the head.
"Er Aunt, I can't go!" Cheng Zhao said firmly, "I know Er Gou wants to do business in the future. Let him have more contact with the county magistrate. It will be more convenient for him to do business in the town in the future."
"Go if you are told. Where did you kid come up with all this nonsense?" Cheng Wanwan said deliberately with a straight face, "Whether the county magistrate is willing to help you depends on your ability. Okay, hurry up and leave. Come on, don’t delay important things.”
She pushed Cheng Zhao out.
Cheng Zhao's face was complicated, and there was a flash of light in the depths of his eyes.
