The dolls raised their little heads and gathered around Wang Susu. Although their faces were dirty and their money items were as broken as the others, their eyes were all so bright and clean...

This scene made Wang Susu's heart feel hot and her nose felt sore. She was surprised and moved for a moment, but when she saw Du Juan walking out of the house at this time, she hurriedly wiped the corners of her eyes: "Auntie, it's okay. Please put the money away quickly."

Well, how can Auntie spend your money?"

Little kids, you looked at me, I looked at you, and then they all shook their heads at Wang Susu, stubbornly refusing to take it back.

Wang Susu had no choice but to squat down and patiently explain to them.

But he didn't notice that Du Juan had already taken out the camera from the house and took a picture of the scene. After taking the picture, he saw Chen Ling looking over, so he smiled at him, raised the camera and took another picture, but this time.

It took him in too.

Chen Ling also smiled at her when he saw this, and he could take pictures if he wanted to. In fact, let alone Wang Susu, he was quite touched by what happened just now. After all, his kindness to these monkeys was not in vain.

In fact, little babies are always the most innocent. As long as you are nice to them, they will naturally take you into consideration and be willing to share their best things with you.

So he walked up to Liu Nier and the others, pressed their little heads with both hands, and each of them pulled out a radish.

"Where did each of these monkeys get their money? The others probably stole it from home."

"That's not true. I earned this from selling scorpions and cicada shells last year."

Liu Nier immediately retorted with a pout on her lips.

"Mine too."

"Me too."

Chen Ling pretended to be exaggerated and opened his mouth wide: "Good guy, you can make a fortune catching scorpions. You can take me with you some other time."

"Okay, I can take you with me, but Uncle Fugui, you have to listen to me. I know where there are more scorpions."

When Liu Nier heard this, she immediately puffed up her chest: "I caught more than fifty miles one night last year. If Anda hadn't called me home, I would have caught a hundred."

"There are so many, okay, okay, I will follow you when the time comes and I will listen to you."

Chen Ling smiled and nodded.

Wang Susu looked on and couldn't help but smile.

In fact, here in their country, as soon as summer comes and the busy farming season is over, not only the children catch scorpions at night, but adults will also catch them.

It’s a hot day and I can’t sleep at home. Catching scorpions outside will not only keep cool in the mountain breeze, but I can also sell them for money, killing two birds with one stone. Besides, the price of scorpions at this time is pretty good. When they are expensive, they can be sold for two at a big market.

It costs a cent a piece. When it’s cheap, it’s sold regardless of size. It’s charged by the kilogram. A kilogram of scorpions costs about ten yuan. There are about twelve or three scorpions in a tael. That is, a hundred scorpions can be sold for about eight yuan.

Nine dollars.

In this day and age, that's really not a small amount, at least it can cut three kilograms of pork.

So in the fifth and sixth months of the lunar calendar, go and see. In and outside the village, and even on the mountains, there are all flashlights and torches at night. From a distance, that guy looks like a little devil entering the village.

However, catching scorpions also depends on the year. In some years, scorpions are crawling everywhere and can be seen in the cracks in the walls of your home. You can even get stung if you don't pay attention when you go to the toilet. But in other years, they are almost invisible.

Scorpion, turned over the piles of rocks in and outside the village, or some people went to the mountains to look for it, but they couldn't find it no matter how hard they looked.

Don't worry about it when you encounter this kind of situation. After two years, it will naturally increase again.

"Let's go and touch the shrimps. In order to let you take me to catch more scorpions in a few days, I decided to make prawns for you to eat today."

Chen Ling stood up and said hello to the little kids, then put his basket on his back and picked up his net bag to go to the reservoir to catch crayfish.

When the little kids heard this, their eyes widened one by one, and then they all burst into cheers. They felt that the surprise came too suddenly. Liu Nier was even more greedy for a long time, and even dreamed of eating it.

When I served the prawns cooked by Chen Ling, I couldn't hold back at this moment. I opened my legs and rushed out with full power. After exiting the courtyard, I excitedly ran towards the reservoir, waving the wine box in my hand, shouting as I ran:

"Touch the shrimps, touch the shrimps, Uncle Fugui is going to make prawns for us."

"Liu Nier, Liu Nier, don't run so fast. Put your money down before you go."

Wang Susu saw that the kid was just running out. There was still some change in the wine box and she didn't know how to put it down, so she swung her arms and rushed out.

After shouting quickly and slowly, I finally called the kid back, and then asked the other little kids to put the money in the yard and lay it out. Then I went to the reservoir to fish out a basket of crayfish and came back.

"Huh? Du Juan is gone?"

"I'm leaving. I wanted to keep him here for dinner. He said he was inspired and wants to go back to paint. I can't force him to stay."

"Okay, I'll make the shrimps later and you can send them over."

"Ok, I know."

…

Next, Chen Ling cleaned the crayfish, and the little kids took some water from Wang Susu's laundry, mixed some soap, and while watching Chen Ling cook, they blew bubbles in the yard, but they blew bubbles

It's not stable either, because the two guys Heiwa and Xiaojin have never seen this thing before, so they are very curious. Often when the little baby finally blows a big bubble, it will be bitten by them, even if it floats, it will not

If you use it, they will chase it around the yard and bite it into their mouths. Naturally, they will not bite anything.

This made the two dogs tilt their heads and look at each other in depression, unable to figure out what was going on. They just barked anxiously and circled around Liu Nier, making the little dolls giggle.

The bubbles were blown more vigorously.

However, not long after the play, the smell of crayfish began to come out. Now the little kids had no intention of playing around. They just gathered around the kitchen and swallowed eagerly. Even Heiwa Xiaojin didn't

I went to investigate the strange bubbles, huddled on the edge, wagging their tails and moaning.

"Okay, uncle Fugui, if I don't get out of the pot, I feel like the smell has turned into insects and they're going to make holes in my stomach."

"Wait another two minutes and count to a hundred silently."

Waiting and waiting, waiting and waiting, after counting silently to a hundred, the crayfish is finally out of the pot. The little kids have been salivating for a long time. They don't care whether it is hot or not, they are scrambling to get it.

Inhaling the heat, he started to gnaw, even forgetting Chen Ling's instructions on how to eat crayfish in advance. The red soup and fragrant meat made the guy eat it so well that he wished he could eat the shrimp shells with it.

Eat all the pliers.

However, the little kid's appetite was still too small. After devouring three or four of them, he couldn't eat any more. Chen Ling picked some lotus leaves and packed some for them to take back.

As for Wang Susu, just let Wang Susu deliver the rest to Du Juan. The couple has been getting tired of eating meat recently, so they will make do with two bowls of noodles later.

…

In the blink of an eye, it was the 20th day of the fifth lunar month, and nearly ten days had passed since the thief broke out at Chen Ling's house. Chen Erzhu had not done anything, but Sun Yanhong showed up and paid a visit to Chen Wangzhuang to pay off the half-month wages that Chen Erzhu owed the villagers.

, maybe this woman also knew that Chen Erzhu had a bad reputation in the village, so without saying anything else, she gave the money to Wang Laishun and asked him to distribute it to the villagers on his behalf, and then left.

What no one expected was that this woman actually came to Chen Ling's house quietly that night. Knowing that the red eel was not for sale, she directly raised the price to 5,000 yuan. Unfortunately, Chen Ling did not change her face about the price and directly paid the price.

She bombarded her outside the house, but Sun Yanhong had no choice but to grit her teeth and sell it to 8,000. If she didn't sell the 8,000, she sold it to 10,000, which was almost the same as Shanmao's price.

However, Chen Ling still refused, forcing Sun Yanhong to beg him with all kinds of soft and kind words, and even almost knelt down before him. In the end, he had no intention of letting go. In desperation, Sun Yanhong could only leave in the dark of night.

Regarding this matter, Chen Ling actually had never figured out why this woman was so obsessed with her own eels. Until a few days later, when Wang Jusheng came to play with the big head in his arms, he told him a piece of gossip that Sun Yanhong’s brother

Erzhu has fallen. Erzhu has done a lot of bad things over the years. I'm afraid he will have to live there for a long time if he is imprisoned this time. I heard that even the sand quarries in the county have changed a group of people. Chen Ling gradually came to his senses.

Come.

"This guy, is it possible that this thing is a gift for officials?"

Surrounded by the red eel tank, Chen Ling murmured in his heart. Although it sounded ridiculous, the more he thought about it, the more he thought it was possible. After all, don't officials do many weird things? Otherwise, why would Sun Yanhong see her?

After getting two strange red eels from his house, he came all the way here and paid a "sky-high" price of two thousand yuan for the first time he came. Later, he refused to sell Chen Erzhu and came to steal them twice, for such a fee.

Dali Qiang definitely didn’t want to take it back and keep it for fun. This is not for future generations. Taking it back and raising it as a rare species has some ornamental value.

"But this woman can come over and help Erzhu's son pay off his wages, so she has some conscience."

Chen Erzhu's reputation was not good to begin with. Ever since the last time he was made miserable by Chen Ling and everyone in the village knew about it, it has become even more stinky. The scandalous things he did back then were also implicated.

I picked it up and chanted it back and forth.

No, Qin Dongmei was so frightened that she didn't dare to go out for half a month. She kept the door closed every day. Even when she came out to drink swill, she did it secretly in the dead of night, for fear that outsiders would know what she had with Chen Erzhu. After all, she could still make do with her life behind closed doors.

However, if anyone really found out, let alone Chen Wangzhuang, my parents would not be able to return home if they couldn’t stay there any longer.

Fortunately, she didn't go out much before. She relied on Qin Qiumei and Wang Chunyuan's abilities all day long and didn't pay attention to the villagers. Otherwise, the gossip would have spread long ago. Even if she didn't know about her, she would have

It’s impossible to tell the story of Wang Chunyuan’s upbringing several times.

There is no way, there is a shortage of everything in the countryside, except for women who talk a lot.

Shaking his head, Chen Ling no longer thought about these miscellaneous things, but took advantage of Wang Susu's absence at home to take the two red eels into the cave.

These two red eels were first brought back from the reservoir. Within a month, they had grown to more than 40 centimeters, and even produced seedlings. But now they have been left for nearly a month, but they have barely grown, only about half a meter long.

I don't know if the tank is too small, which limits their growth, or if they can only grow so big.

In fact, according to Chen Ling's own guess, it should be because the water tank is too small, because the eel fry in Dongtian have grown to about 40 centimeters in length, and they have produced a lot of roe in the past two days, but they are left outside

There were nearly a hundred fry but they stopped growing when they reached just over ten centimeters. The main reason for this was that the tank was too small and there were too many fish.

So Chen Ling took the first two red eels he caught into the cave, dug out several channels more than 20 centimeters wide behind the hut, and put them in. Anyway, the eel seedlings released in the cave also grew.

It was done, and they all produced fish roe, so he fished out two fish of about the same length and replaced these two. Deep in his heart, he was not prepared to sell these two strange fish.

He was a little reluctant to give up. Secondly, he always felt that there was something wrong with these two fishes. They seemed to be more special than the red eels that grew from the eel fry later.

After all, the eel fry in Dongtian produced fish roe when they grew up, and a lot of foam was obvious. He really didn't notice any signs of these two strange fish laying fish roe. He had searched many of them over and over again.

Everywhere, there was no trace of fish roe in the water tank. It was as if the fry were born overnight. It was indeed strange to think about it, so I might as well just keep it.
To be continued...