Chapter 57 Buckle the Sparrow
After the heavy snowfall, there is a thick layer of snow everywhere you look, but there is still a lot to do for playful children.
Building a snowman is considered to be played by children and girls, and boys are generally reluctant to do it. They prefer snowball fights with a group of people or a big mess.
Snow-white and soft snow, grab a handful of balls a few times, form a snowball, and if you hold the ball in your hand for a long time, you can form a puck!
The lethality of this ice hockey is not comparable to that of a snowball, and it is not good to smash it on the body, especially if it is smashed on the head, and it is necessary to smash the smashed boy and cry.
That's a real pain!
So generally speaking, as long as it's not a rush, no one will do that. It's all thrown out with two hits. Even if it hits the face, it doesn't have much damage.
The most uncomfortable thing is that after being smashed, the snow runs down the neck collar, and the originally hot body suddenly encounters cold and biting snowflakes, which is really painful and happy!
The general screams of ghosts crying wolves and howling sounded from time to time, and most of them were like this.
What's especially excessive is that some bastards cooperate with each other to directly hug one person and prevent him from moving, and then the other person directly stuffs a snowball into his clothes, and even more miserable ones directly into the crotch of his pants, that kind of taste! Gee! Who knows!
Of course, there is more to the countryside after the snow than just snowball fights. There is also a very popular project, that is, the Buckle Sparrow!
It is a very traditional activity, usually the father teaches the son, and the son is teaching the grandson the method that has been passed down in this way.
It took advantage of the heavy snowfall and the sparrows had nowhere to forage for food, and used a small wooden stick tied to the rope to support a large rural sieve, as long as a sparrow got in, as soon as the rope was pulled down and the wooden stick was brought down, the sieve would fall, and the greedy sparrows inside would be wiped out.
"Brother, hurry, hurry, Brother Cuicui has caught several of them, can you go and catch a few for me?"
Wang Liang ran into the house with sweat on his head, and pulled Wang Yong, who was watching TV while pondering what brand to change and how big the color TV should be, and walked out without saying anything.
"Let go! Let go! Isn't it just catching a few sparrows? Don't you just do this kind of trivial thing yourself, where do you still use your brother and me, a big master! ”
Wang Yong is a little impatient, watching TV by himself, what kind of mess? Anyway, this movie is really good today, the old film "Sea Eagle".
This is a film that reflects the combat life of our navy in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, although it has been filmed for a long time, but it does not affect the excitement of this movie at all.
"No, everyone Cuicui's brother catches the house finch for Cuicui, you are my brother, you have to catch the house finch for me!"
What kind of truth is this? Wang Yong was defeated by his younger brother's innocence, but Wang Yong, who had no patience, was still very reluctant to let him concentrate on waiting for most of the day to catch a few house sparrows alive.
"Otherwise, I'll give you a few **, okay?"
"No way!" Wang Liang pouted angrily, his eyes were slightly red, and he glared at Wang Yong very aggrievedly, "You, you are not a good brother, I'll tell my mother that you bullied me!" ”
"Again!"
Wang Yong patted his head, very speechless. I have to say that this move directly hit Wang Yong's vital point, so that he had to come to the yard reluctantly, who loved his younger brother very much.
"Go and bring the big sieve at home, and by the way, grab a handful of cob kernels (corn kernels, local dialect). Bring them all to me, go quickly! ”
"Yes!"
Wang Liang, who burst into tears and laughed, straightened his small chest, opened his calves like a little bear, and ran into the West Wing. After a while, he was covered in dust and dragged a large sieve with a diameter of one meter.
"I've got the sieve."
"And the sticks?"
"Yes!"
The little one ran into the hall again, and this time, after three minutes, he came running with a scoop of sticks and a smile on his face.
"Brother, the stick grains are here! Let's start detaining the house, shall we? ”
"You're looking for a fight, aren't you? I'll just let you grab a handful, why are you serving so much? If your parents come back and see it, it's strange to see your ass bloom if they don't beat it? ”
"It's okay, I'm not afraid!"
Looking at the small chest and the heroic and fearless appearance of the heroes and martyrs in the face of the enemy, Wang Yong complained in his heart: You are not afraid, I am afraid!
"Alright, alright."
Wang Yong said as he grabbed a handful of sticks and put them in his pocket, and then continued: "Where do you get the rest, you don't need so much." ”
"Oh!"
Wang Liang ran away again, this kid doesn't look young, but it's like he doesn't know how tired, he runs outside all day long, crazy, much better than his own spirit.
While his younger brother was returning to the house to deliver the sticks, Wang Yong got up and came to the west wing, rummaged through it, and found a rope three meters long and carried it out.
I went to the side of my firewood pile and found a small wooden stick that could be one centimeter thick and less than half a meter long. Lean one end of the stick against the threshold, then raise your foot to the other end and kick it.
"Click-"
The wooden stick was easily kicked and broken, Wang Yong picked up the long section, which could be more than thirty centimeters, tied the rope to the middle of the wooden stick, and then carried the big sieve to the uncleaned snow in the yard.
Put down the big sieve, lift it aside, prop it up with the wooden stick tied with the rope, and then take out a dozen or so sticks from your pocket and throw them under the big sieve, and the preparation for buckling the bird is all completed.
"Yikes! Got it all done? Why don't there be house sparrows in there? Wang Liang came to Wang Yong's side lightly and asked in a low voice.
"Why don't you go and ask the house sparrow? Why don't you come in? I'm waiting to catch you! "Come on, come on, don't talk! Look, there's one! ”
Wang Liang tried hard to suppress the excitement in his heart, almost lying on Wang Yong's shoulder, and said happily in a voice that only the brothers could hear.
Wang Yong hurriedly looked up and saw that a silly finch was standing on the snow looking left and right, jumping a few times on the snow from time to time, and then pecking a few times on the snow with his beak, as if looking for food.
It snowed heavily since yesterday during the day, and it fell almost all night, so the snow was very thick. It is not easy for these small house finches to find food, I am afraid that they will already be hungry and crazy.
No, it didn't take long for Wang Yong and his brothers to wait, and this unlucky blind finch jumped into the enveloping range of the big sieve.
"Pull! Hurry up! Why don't you pull it yet, it will run away in a while! ”
Wang Liang's two small hands grabbed the clothes on Wang Yong's shoulders and shook them vigorously. At the same time, he also hurriedly urged Wang Yong to pull the rope quickly, so that he could detain the greedy house sparrow.
"Panic! Stay honest! You know a, huh? There's only one in there, and we'll have to wait for a few more to get in before we can pull the rope. Now it's just a scout sent out by a large army, you know? It's not cost-effective to pull the rope now! ”
The two brothers leaned against the doorframe, and they were all drowsy, and only four or five birds entered the big sieve, and except for a big magpie, the others were sparrows.
"Pull! Come on! There are several of them in there! ”
Wang Liang, who was impatient, began to urge again, and in desperation, Wang Yong pulled the rope in his hand violently, and the wooden stick supporting the big sieve immediately fell to the ground.
"Catch it! Catch it! ”
Wang Liang clapped his little hands and jumped and jumped in place, and after a while, he remembered to run over to see what kind of results he had achieved.
"Alright, go see for yourself. Be careful when you catch it, don't let the house finches peck you! If that guy really gives you a try, he can open a blood hole in your hand! ”
After scaring his younger brother, Wang Yong hurriedly ran into the east house, took off his shoes and climbed onto the kang, and continued to watch his old movies. And Wang Liang cheered, and his calves ran quickly towards the big sieve. In a few moments, his cheerful voice rang out again.
"Brother! Elder brother? Why don't you come and take a look? We've even caught a big magpie! ”
"Let the magpies go! Just catch the house sparrow! Wang Yong lay on the kang head and replied without raising his head, the magpie is auspicious in the countryside. It is considered by many people to be the Annunciation bird, that is, in later generations, almost all kinds of birds were eaten by humans, and even geese and swans were eaten, and I have never heard of anyone eating magpies.
There is often such a sentence in various stories and literary works: I said why did two magpies chirp non-stop in the tree at the door of the house early today, it turned out that there were distinguished guests coming to the door!
If a magpie calls in front of and behind the house, it means that the family is going to have a happy event. In contrast to the magpie's popularity and affection for humans, the crow and the owl, two ominous birds, are the other extreme. Owls, in particular, are used to coming out at night and can scare you if you're not careful.
It is precisely because of the beautiful meaning that the magpie represents that twenty years later, this bird is almost all a disaster, whether it is by the river, in the woods, in the yard, in the telephone pole, or in the field, you can see them pacing gracefully everywhere.
"Brother, look, you've caught four! Hurry up and pluck your hair, and let your mother fry it for us at noon! It's fragrant! After speaking, Wang Liang, who was carrying four house sparrows tied together by a thin thread, wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth with his free hand.
"Get it yourself!"
"Then you are not allowed to eat!"
"Don't eat! Leave it all to yourself! ”
"Hmph, I won't give you any to eat when it's fried, I'll kill you! I'm hungry for you! ”
After saying that, the little guy grabbed the rope and took the four house sparrows that kept flying up and down, not succumbing to fate, out of the house, and ran into the yard to continue to detain the house sparrows.
Obviously, these four sparrows were not enough for him to eat. In his careful eyes, he had to catch another ten or eight to barely eat enough.
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