Chapter 18: The Well

Yan'er is newly married, the two of them are kind and I love, although the life is a little poor, but they also have a good life. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoGu Nanyan is an ordinary farmer's daughter, not only good at housework, but also considerate of her own men, Rabbit Gang has such a hostess, and it is also full of vitality again, even the old black locust trees behind the house look greener than the previous two years...... Sure enough, it was the road of endless heaven, and the sun finally shone into the dark corner, and the loneliness and despair that Liu Zixuan had been entrenched in his heart for a long time were gradually disappearing with the arrival of Gu Nanyan, and that cold heart slowly regained its warmth.

The sun and moon in the mountains are mostly idle, and when they are boring, they must find something to do so as not to be bored. There was hope for the days, Liu Zixuan's body regained his strength, regained his spirits, and he was busy in front of the house and behind the house again. A few days after getting married, Liu Zixuan cut a large number of straight branches from the nearby bushes, repaired the fence walls around the vegetable garden, and planted melons on the vegetable furrows, planted beans, and watered them...... A vegetable garden that is almost deserted now looks very much like it again. Watching the fruits and vegetables grow day by day, he has more expectations for the future, even if he does more work and sweats more, he doesn't feel tired.

Gu Nanyan first arrived, except for buying three meals a day, in addition to feeding the chickens and sprinkling and sweeping, there was no more to do, a few days later, all the things that should be washed were washed, all the things that should be dried were dried, and the inside and outside were all well organized.

After breakfast on this day, Gu Nanyan looked at the two pheasants in the yard and said to Liu Zixuan: "Look at these two pheasants, they are stocked in the yard like this, and there is no place to live. ”

Liu Zixuan didn't agree, and said, "Okay, I'll go find some stones nearby and build a nest for them." ”

After listening to Liu Zixuan's words, Gu Nanyan shook his head again and again and said, "How can you use stones to build a chicken coop?" It is necessary to use adobe, which is not too hot in the summer and not breathable in the winter. ”

Liu Zixuan's face was embarrassed: "It's good, but where to get so many adobes?" ”

Gu Nanyan smiled and said, "You can do what I say." ”

According to Gu Nanyan's instructions, Liu Zixuan found two long and two short wooden boards of equal width, and nailed the wooden boards together from end to end to form a rectangular mold the size of a brick. After the mold was made, the two of them brought a large pile of dry soil from the grass near Rabbit Hill and piled it in the courtyard, and then brought stream water to mix the dry soil into thin mud, and then filled the mud into the mold on the ground.

Looking at the adobe on the ground, Liu Zixuan was happy in his heart, and said with a smile: "I really can't see it, a person who pinchs needles and threads still understands these masonry work, where did you learn this?" ”

Gu Nanyan replied with a smile while working: "I learned from Xiuzhi." ”

"Hidee? Who is Hidee? Liu Zixuan asked.

Gu Nanyan glanced up at Liu Zixuan, thought about it again, and then said, "I won't tell you for the time being, and I'll tell you later." ”

Seeing that Gu Nanyan was reluctant to reveal, Liu Zixuan was inconvenient to ask again, so he only continued to work.

After half a day's work, more than 40 adobes of the same size were neatly arranged in the small courtyard. Looking at the fruits of his labor, Gu Nanyanzhi was full of pride: "After two or three days, when these adobes are dry, they can be used to build a chicken nest!" ”

Seeing that Gu Nanyan was happy, Liu Zixuan was even more overjoyed.

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After more than half a month of leisurely days, early in the morning, Gu Nanyan got up early as usual, when she walked to the chicken nest under the courtyard wall, she was stunned by the scene in front of her - only to see that the door of the chicken nest was wide open, the two bait chickens had disappeared, the ground in front of the door was stained with blood, the inside of the chicken nest was even more messy, and the bloody pheasant feathers were sticking to the inner wall......

Where had Gu Nanyan seen such a scene, she was so frightened that she screamed and ran into the house.

Woken up by Gu Nanyan, Liu Zixuan went out of the house and saw the bloodstains on the ground, and immediately thought of foxes and weasels, only these two animals dared to take advantage of the darkness to go to human territory to eat. Checking around the chicken coop, he found no suspicious traces, and pinched out a feather from the chicken coop and put it under his nose, a strong smell of obscenity made him immediately frown, smelling the familiar smell, Liu Zixuan's eyes immediately turned from doubt to anger - this kind of irritating and coquecy is the unique body odor of weasels!

Weasel again! Thinking of the reddish-brown weasel with the mantis arm as a car, and looking at the cruel scene created by the weasel in front of him, Liu Zixuan's hands couldn't help but clench into fists - since his father moved the family to this small hill, it was the first time that such a thing had happened, this family that had built all its livelihoods on the life of a weasel was now stolen by a weasel! Thinking of this, Liu Zixuan's anger did not come to one place.

In a fit of rage, Liu Zixuan immediately turned around and entered the house, took out a handful of iron, he couldn't wait to find a weasel cave in the forest immediately, even if he dug three feet into the ground, he had to dig a few weasels out, and then execute them with his own hands to vent his anger! He knew that this was not the season to hunt weasels, and he couldn't hunt them according to the rules, but the situation in front of him had made him unbearable, and he had to kill them if he didn't kill them! Just to give weasels a warning, just to tell them not to do whatever they want anymore!

Liu Zixuan walked out of the courtyard with an iron pull, and just after leaving the courtyard gate, his father's words sounded in his ears: To become a good hunter, you must not only rely on impulse and enthusiasm, the most important thing is to learn to be calm and learn to be patient!

Liu Zixuan thought about it, spring and early summer are the breeding period of weasels, if a male weasel is killed at this time, the other female is likely to affect fertility because of the lack of mating; If a female weasel is killed in the meantime, she will leave a litter of young that starve to death because of lack of food. Liu Zixuan thought about it calmly, if his father was still alive, he would never agree to him using the method of digging a burrow to kill weasels at this time.

Thinking of his father's words, Liu Zixuan stopped, and sweat was already oozing from the palm of the hand holding the iron, but he still held back his anger. Endure! This breath must be swallowed now until winter comes, until the weasel pups are able to feed on their own, and until they have a thick layer of fluff......

Liu Zixuan was gritting his teeth and looking at the mountains and forests, but Gu Nanyan's exclamation came from behind him: "Zixuan, come and see, pheasant!" ”

Turning back to the courtyard, Liu Zixuan saw Gu Nanyan taking a bait chicken out of the corner. Putting down the shovel in his hand, he took the bait chicken and looked at it, only to see that the bait chicken was trembling all over, his eyes were dull, and there were still a few blood stains on his wings.

These are the two bait chickens domesticated by Zi Xuan's father a year before his death, and they have been raised in the yard for more than four years today, and even Zi Xuanniang was reluctant to slaughter the pheasant when she wanted to eat it before she died, but now she was bitten to death by a weasel......

Gu Nanyan said: "It must be the wolf, it has begun to come back for revenge!" ”

Liu Zixuan said indignantly: "It's not a wolf, it's a yellow skin!" ”

"Huang-" As soon as she heard that it was a weasel who killed her own chicken, Gu Nanyan's face immediately turned pale, and her breathing became short.

Seeing that Gu Nanyan was worried, Liu Zixuan immediately said: "Probably because the food in the forest is not enough to eat, and Huangpizi is hungry and comes to steal bait chickens, otherwise they will never dare to come to the post to steal chickens." Since my father died, no one has killed the yellow-skinned people in the forest, and they have become more and more bold. ”

"But I closed the door of this chicken coop last night, how can it get in? Does it know how to open the door? ”

"The yellow skin is so soft that it can even get in and out of a mouse's hole, and it must have gotten through the cracks in the bottom of the chicken coop, biting a pheasant to death, pushing the door open from the inside, and then taking the pheasant away."

"Why didn't you hear them bark last night? They usually scream so loudly that if they do, we can hear them even when we are asleep. ”

"Don't look at the pheasant that cries so loudly during the day, and at night it doesn't dare to make any sound. They are timid by nature, and once they meet a yellow skin, it is like a sheep encountering a wolf, and they dare not say a word even if their throat is bitten off, let alone in such a small chicken coop. ”

"So, that thing is too elf!" Gu Nanyan still had palpitations.

"No matter how elf it is, it's an animal, don't be afraid of it. When my dad was around, he could catch dozens of yellow skins in one winter. When winter comes, I'll go into the forest and grab a few skins, and get a few skins for your mother to cure her old cold legs, it will work! ”

Gu Nanyan listened and said: "My mother is not rare, I heard the old people say, that thing is very evil, just steal a chicken, you still don't mess with them, I'm scared when I see me!" ”

After Gu Nanyan finished speaking, she went to work on her own business.

Putting the bait chicken on the ground, Liu Zixuan grabbed a handful of corn kernels from the house and put them in front of it. At this time, this bait chicken, its feathers are like a male pheasant that has been defeated in courtship, and it is messy, probably frightened in the battle last night, and there is still a look of fear in its eyes, and it is also very interested in the corn kernels brought by Liu Zixuan, and after hesitating for a moment, it slowly lowered its head to peck a few corns, and from time to time it raised its head vigilantly to look around, to ensure that there was no danger, and then lowered its head and pecked a few mouthfuls on the ground.

If pheasants can also dream, then weasels are undoubtedly their worst nightmare. Looking at the trembling bait chicken in front of him, Liu Zixuan felt guilty, he didn't take good care of the bait chicken, he was ashamed of his father, and even more ashamed of his mother's deathbed confession. was taking pity on the miserable plight of the bait chicken, but he heard Gu Nanyan's exclamation from outside the courtyard gate again.

After Liu Zixuan heard the sound, he immediately got up and ran outside the courtyard.

Seeing Liu Zixuan coming, Gu Nanyan said eagerly: "Pheasant! Another pheasant died in the well! ”

Liu Zixuan hurriedly ran to the well, and when he looked into the well, he saw another bait chicken that had been bitten to death floating on the water, and the bucket that Gu Nanyan used to draw water was slowly sinking.

Seeing this scene, Liu Zixuan was disturbed by the weasel's strange avoidance behavior for the second time, and his brows furrowed tightly. Why does the weasel bite the bait chicken to death and not eat it, but throw it into the well? In this way, the previous inference cannot be established, and it is clear that they did not come to the post to kill the pheasants because of a shortage of food. Squatting down on the edge of the well, Liu Zixuan fell into thought.

Gu Nanyan, who was standing next to him, said: "It must be the one that provoked the day the monument was erected, and now it has come to take revenge!" Didn't my dad tell you that there is revenge on that thing! ”

Hearing Gu Nanyan say this, Liu Zixuan didn't speak, he didn't think it was just an act of revenge.

Liu Zixuan leaned over on the edge of the well, reached down and fished out the carcass of the bait chicken floating on the water, and the dispelled bucket had sunk to the bottom of the well. I was about to take the pheasant to the grass east of the gang to bury it, and just walked to the edge of the vegetable garden, but I saw an even more incredible scene, only to see that on the fence that had just been repaired half a month ago, the heads of five or six animals were hanging in a staggered manner! There were rats, birds, snakes, and lizards, some of which had been dried and hardened, and some of which were stained with blood! The fence wall in front of him is now like a legendary sacrificial scene, and Liu Zixuan can't help but stand on end.

Where do you get so many animal heads on this fence? And it's all hanging on a few branches that he patches up behind! After pondering for a moment, Liu Zixuan quickly thought of the weasel again, aren't the animals in front of him exactly the weasel's daily recipes? But what is their intention in hanging the heads of these animals on this fence?

Standing at the edge of the vegetable garden with a bait chicken, Liu Zixuan turned to look at the Niutoupo in the south, and his eyes became cold: Could it be that the weasel really wants to drive the humans away from the rabbit hill? Are they desperate to regain lost territory and expand their territory? If that's what one might expect, then their ambitions are overkill.

Liu Zixuan thought as he plucked the animal heads off the fence and threw them into the stream to the south.

(To be continued)