I don't know when I sleep in spring, and I smell birds everywhere.

When it comes to startling, you can hear the crickets chirping at night, and even the birds get up very early, especially the magpies, which start to make noise almost every day before dawn.

Some people may say, "When a magpie crows, there will be guests", but hundreds of magpies call together, which is comparable to a tweeter. In fact, the peasants do not like magpies very much, because magpies are the most talented thieves, and they especially like to steal eggs to eat.

Liu Zhangwan's house usually sits on the back facing south, the kitchen is in the east, and next to the kitchen is the pigsty; There are generally cowsheds, chicken coops and the like in the west, the chicken coop is generally two layers, the lower layer is given to the chickens to rest at night, and the upper layer is paved with wheat straw to make a nest for the chickens to give birth to chickens, if there are many magpies nearby, the owners who go to collect eggs in the evening are probably going to have a headache and feel distressed, because they see several peck open eggshells blatantly thrown on the ground, and the chicken nest has long been empty.

Magpies love to nest in tall poplar trees, and they start to make noise very early in the morning, and the noise is so loud that it can still be noisy for half a mile.

In Liu Zhangwan, it is common to see people holding ladders and dismantling magpies' nests. However, as an "unlucky bird", the crow is widely circulated in nursery rhymes.

When Wang Jing was young, Zhang often hummed this nursery rhyme to lull her to sleep.

The old eagle in the mountain, black and swarthy, went to my grandmother's house and lived in autumn. Grandma saw that she really liked it, and the concubine rolled her eyes when she saw it. Don't look at it, let's go when the peas bloom, let's go when the peas bloom, let's come back when the peas are white, and we will live until we chop firewood. Where to go? Hit the mountain and walk, there are stones on the mountain. Hit the river and walk, there are loaches in the river. The big ones can't be caught, and the small ones are fluttering. Sneak to the south field and meet a candy seller. Sell Sugar, Sell Sugar, What Sugar Sells? Beat the sugar. Open the master and try it! Stick to the master's mouth and pour saliva on the master. Stick to the old man's teeth and pour tea for the old man. Sell candy, sell sugar, you go, my mother has no good words when she comes out. High heels, peony flowers, one kick to hit you with an inverted swing fork.

When Wang Jing heard the magpie noisy, she could have another dream, and then it would be dawn. There are usually a lot of sparrows parked on the osmanthus tree in the yard, chirping non-stop, stealing a few bites of food to eat while feeding the chickens. They don't fly away until the wheat is almost ripe, when there are more bugs in the field.

In the bright spring of Liu Zhangwan, in addition to sparrows and magpies, the most common are orioles and swallows,

'A few early warblers compete for warm trees, whose new swallows peck the spring mud' This is the poet's feelings.

There is a bird's nest in Wang Jing's house, and the worst thing is that the milk swallow often stands in the nest and poops downward.

But Zhang wouldn't let her poke the bird's nest. Because the older generation said that the house where the swallow is willing to build a nest has good feng shui.

When the swallow learns to fly, the cuckoo should come, singing "cutting wheat and planting crops" all day long.

In the wheat field, the cries of pheasants began to be heard.

However, Wang Jing's favorite orioles and woodpeckers.

The former's singing voice is tactful and melodious, and the latter looks like a miniature version of the peacock screen when it takes off.

If a baby doesn't want to get dressed in the morning, an adult will point to the oriole and tease him, "Look, the birds are laughing at you. Stock-yo-yo'. Although the woodpecker has a beautiful tail, it is the most ruthless.

There was a pair of woodpeckers living in the wall hole in the aisle of Wang Jing's house, and every morning when she got up, she would see the big bird feeding the chicks, but when she got up this morning, she found two dead chicks next to the osmanthus tree, so she was so anxious that she ran to the kitchen and asked Zhang, "Mother, why did you drop the little bird to death?" ”

Zhang shook his head, "It's so high, I can't reach it, it fell on its own, I don't believe you look at it again." ”

"How do you know it fell on its own? Maybe it was when I was practicing flying, and I fell it. "It's shocking to fall to death the child you've worked so hard to feed, isn't it?

"How could the bird fall two feet away from the nest before it opened its feathers?" Zhang said lightly.

Wang Jing hurriedly ran out and took a closer look, the osmanthus tree was indeed so far away from the bird's nest, and the chick was indeed naked. And the old birds are still feeding their nests, which only shows a problem, there are still chicks in it.

She gently picked up the dead chicks, dug a small pit under the osmanthus tree with a branch, and buried them in it.

was washing her hands, and the third aunt Zhou came, "Sister Zhang, did those two rabbits run back again?" ”

Zhang pulled a stool and invited Zhou to sit, but he didn't answer her words, but Wang Jing couldn't help but speak, "Third uncle, your house is farther away from my house than on the street, how can a rabbit run back?" ”

Zhou looked helpless, "I don't know, I haven't seen it for two days." ”

Wang Jing glanced at her, "If you catch it back and don't put it in a cage, don't mow the grass for it, and don't make a nest for it, maybe it will be eaten by a weasel." ”

Zhou's face disagreed, "It's definitely not a weasel that eats it, maybe it's impossible for someone with a greedy mouth to eat it." ”

Wang Jing said secretly, I'm afraid that this third aunt came to find a rabbit is fake, and it is the truth to want rabbits again.

"My rabbit got back, my mother made a cage for it, fed the grass every day, and waited until it was going to give birth to a rabbit, and then re-nested it, and got up quickly at night when there was a slight noise, for fear that the weasel would steal the rabbit. If you catch it, you just wait for it to fend for itself, and it's normal if you can't feed it. She said.

Zhou's family was originally red-eyed Wang Jing's family raised rabbits to make money before they wanted to get a piece of the pie, but they didn't even see the rabbit fur when it was their turn to raise it for a few days, and they were taught a lesson by a little doll, the old face was red, and he frowned: "I didn't raise it if I knew it earlier, the yard is full of rabbit feces, and it's dirty!" ”

Wang Jing glanced at her with a smile, "My mother thought that my aunt wanted to raise rabbits, so I changed the kang chick......"

As soon as Zhou heard this, his heart was weak, afraid that Wang Jing would ask her for money from the two rabbits, so he hurriedly interrupted her, "Have you heard of it?" A new thing happened in Guiyan Temple, and the ears of those monks were all cut off. ”

The bald donkeys in Guiyan Temple deserve to be cut off even if their heads are cut!

It's definitely a great deal of joy, "When was it?" I've been busy with this chick lately, and I haven't been out yet. Zhang asked. Before Zhou said rabbits, she didn't want to talk about it at all.

"I heard that it was cut last night, and early in the morning, those monks had cloths wrapped around their heads and stood at the gate of the temple and scolded." Zhou gestured as he spoke, looking gloating.

Zhang thought about the scene at that time, and also smiled, "Do you know who did it?" ”

Zhou waved his hand, "How can this be said accurately!" There are too many people offended by the vulture donkeys. ”

She originally planned to follow a rabbit from Wang Jing's house again, but seeing that Zhang's did not answer, Wang Jing was a bad person, so she casually pulled a head and left.

Zhang regretted: "I knew that she couldn't raise her well, so I didn't give it to her, not to mention the two rabbits in vain, and it hurt our family to lose an income." ”

Wang Jing laughed, "Just raise ****, and when the Niangkang chicken is smooth, let's fight cocks, I heard that a fighting boy will be sold for several taels of silver." Rabbit meat tastes bad, too much but I'm afraid it won't sell. Last time I went to see a cockfight with my father, I went to Li Ji to see that their rabbit skin vest was twenty taels of silver. I inquired, and only a dozen of them were sold. I asked how to collect the tanned rabbit skin, and they said, '300 yuan a piece'. "This is the normal price, how many people are willing to buy fur? And the aristocracy had to wear mink to show their status.

While the two were talking, Liu Chengfang came in with a stranger.