The Pastoral Life of a Reborn Farmer

The ducks at home were gone, so Shen Ling went home to rest for a while, and then went to the wasteland he bought, and found that none of the ducklings that were originally kept in the earthen wall could be found.

Who stole it?Shen Ling narrowed her eyes and walked out without saying a word.

"Young master?" The young man who came back with him and sent a letter to Mu's house asking them to send more people to farm the land asked suspiciously, what happened?Didn't you mean to take them to see the place where the fruit saplings are planted?

"Don't call me son, I'm just a countryman, I can't afford it." Shen Ling was afraid that people would hear it and attract attention.

"Yes, what should the villain be called?" the young man said respectfully.

"My surname is Shen, the second child, and my courtesy name is Ling. Just call me Shen Er or Shen Ling."

"That villain should be called Little Brother! To avoid embarrassment, Young Master." The young man obviously understands Shen Ling's concerns. It is definitely inappropriate to call him by his name directly. It is better to call him Brother. People outside will show that they are younger than themselves. When you talk about someone you respect, you always call him little brother.

"Yes." Shen Ling nodded.

"Then, little brother, where are we going? Don't we mean planting fruit trees?"

Shen Ling paused, turned around and came back, "You guys plant first, it can be done here, I still have some things to do."

"Well, you're busy. I'll be in charge of the affairs here. My adults have said that I won't let you worry about it. I'll do the work beautifully for you." The young man smiled.

"Well, that's troublesome, by the way, what should I call you?"

"The villain is good at home, just call me Mu Wu." The young man smiled.

This is a prostitute who was given a surname by the master. He is probably born in the family and has followed the master's family for several generations of loyal servants.Shen Ling put a label on the person in front of him from the bottom of his heart, and nodded, "That's fine, Fifth Brother Mu."

"Don't dare."

After Shen Ling left, he was going to sit at Lizheng's house. There were thieves in the village, and Lizheng had to take care of it.But Shen Ling hadn't figured out what to say, and couldn't find a suspect. In fact, he went to Lizheng's house, and he was easily dismissed. If he said that he would investigate seriously, he didn't know when he could find out. .

Moreover, the person who stole the duck should be from the same village. The wasteland he bought was located at the foot of the mountain, which happened to be surrounded by their entire village. Unless people from other villages made a detour from the mountain, it was impossible not to disturb anyone in the village. He just stole his ducks, but he has only been out for a few days, and most of the people in the village know about buying ducks, so the possibility of outsiders is really unlikely.

Moreover, if people from other villages come to steal ducks, people come and go during the day, and there are villagers on the mountain collecting firewood and wild vegetables to hunt. Even dead ducks with a bunch of ducks are easy to be found, but if it is at night, it is the wild animals on the mountain that hunt At that time, very few villagers would spend the night on the mountain, let alone walk, so no matter how you think about it, you should be from the village. Even if it is not, it must have something to do with the people from the village.

"Second uncle."

Shen Ling staggered and almost tripped over the deep pit that suddenly appeared under his feet. Isn't this the main road?Shen Ling froze for a moment, raised his head, and saw several little boys in the village looking at him in fear. One boy was holding a shovel in his hand. He obviously dug the ditch in front of him. There is also a pile of big leaves scattered, and some mud that has just been combined.

"What are you digging ditches on the road for?" Shen Ling frowned. A boy of this age is really as skinny as a monkey, and he can't do without making trouble for a day.

"Hongzi said he would roast a bird for us and let us dig a hole to make a pot." Seeing Shen Ling's expression turned pale, the children next to him sold the boy with the shovel in a blink of an eye.

"Roast the bird?" Shen Ling raised his eyebrows, "Are you going to catch a sparrow? How do you plan to roast it?"

When the boy named Shen Hong heard his companion suing him face to face, he immediately became anxious, "That's not what you asked me to roast."

"Wait, Shen Hong, come here." Shen Ling raised his hand to signal for the boy with the shovel to come over. I heard that the word "Hong" was taken by his cheap third brother. It is said that when Shen Hong was born that year, he It was only when the parents came to the door with eggs and pork to ask Shen San to pick up his name, that's why he got this name.

Shen Ling raised his hand and pressed Shen Hong's shoulder, "Tell Uncle, how do you plan to roast? What are you digging for? Who taught you?"

Shen Hong was a little nervous, he felt that his second uncle looked different from before, the former second uncle would only smile foolishly, even if he was bullied by them, he would just scratch his head and ignore them, but now Second uncle, it feels a little strange and scary!

"It's nothing, just wrap it with leaves, paste it in mud, wrap it up and bake it." Shen Hong lowered his head.

"Who taught you then?" Shen Ling smiled softly.

"No one taught me, I figured it out by myself." Shen Hong raised his head.

"Lie to me! The other kids said it was cooking pots. Obviously they don't know how you roast sparrows, but you know that you need to dig a hole and make mud and leaves. I also know this method. Someone must have taught you, and It’s only been a short time since I taught you, otherwise, you should have roasted sparrows with a few other children, and they wouldn’t know what you were doing.”

After listening to Shen Ling's words, Shen Hong stared at Shen Ling with wide eyes in surprise, and was guessed.Shen Hong thought of something, quickly shut up, lowered his head and did not speak.

"Did you eat my duck?"

"No! Not at all!" Shen Hong felt like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, his hair furrowed in an instant.

"Sure enough, you ate it! Otherwise, you wouldn't only know how to roast sparrows, but not big chickens and ducks. Is it because my ducklings are about the same size as sparrows? You only know how to roast ducklings."

"I didn't!" Shen Hong shouted loudly, "You guessed it all, you falsely accused me, I want to tell mother!"

"Tell your mother, okay! What is this?!" Shen Ling raised his hand and took out a bunch of yellow and downy duck feathers from the clothes behind Shen Hong, "It's all stuck to the clothes and I want to be stupid, I'm going to Looking for your mother! I bought ducklings for nearly a tael of silver! I have to ask your mother to pay me back!"

"I'm not going! I'm not going! You lied to me, I've already changed my clothes, where did I come from!" After all, Shen Hong is a child, and a tael of silver is a huge sum of money in his eyes. If it's because he made his family lose money, He thought he could be beaten to death by his mother, and broke down crying for a while, "I didn't steal your duck, woo woo woo... no..."

Shen Ling let go of Shen Hong's arm amusedly, his expression still grim, "Okay! I knew it was you. I put the duck feather on purpose just now. I picked it up from the wasteland and didn't throw it away. You just picked it up from the wasteland. I tricked myself, you changed your clothes, where did you come from, it looks like you really stole my duck! Did you all hear that?" Shen Ling looked at the other children who had been frightened.

Everyone stared blankly at Shen Ling and said nothing, so Shen Ling just assumed they had heard it!

"You stole the ducklings!" Shen Ling said resolutely: "You stole my ducks to eat, and I have to make your family apologize and pay money."

"Woooooo..." Shen Hong cried with tears and snot mixed together.

Shen Ling continued: "But! I know you are a good boy, and you won't steal my things without someone leading you. If you tell me who led you to steal my things, I will go to him to pay for it, and I won't I'm looking for you."

Shen Hong was stunned for a moment, opened his eyes, his face was covered with tears and snot, and looked at Shen Ling sobbing, his eyes seemed a little tangled, he promised others not to say anything, and, indeed, he did not steal, he just ate At that time, I knew that it was just a duckling from Uncle Shen's family, and he was also taught by the other party to know how to bake.

"Hongzi, righteousness is one thing, but hiding and stealing for others is not what a man should do! You don't want your mother to know that you are a bad boy who steals and hides for the thief! And , you will lose money! Your father will beat you."

Shen Hong shrank his neck suddenly, "It's Brother Gouzi! I didn't steal it, I just saw him walking away with a bunch of ducks in his hands. I knew your family bought ducks, so I went over and asked, and Brother Gouzi said to bring ducks." Let me eat together, let me help him hide..."

"Shen Gouzi?" Shen Ling smiled, and it really was him. The road to enemies is narrow, and the villain takes revenge. Seizing opportunities is like a tarsal maggot, and it is difficult to get rid of.

"Do you know where he ate?"

"It's in the backyard of his house. He said he was afraid of being seen by the villagers." After Shen Hong said the beginning, he felt that it was okay to say the rest.

"Then, where did the duck bones and duck feathers go?"

"It seems to be buried, in the backyard where you eat, next to the vegetable garden."

"Who else but him?"

"There are also Chen Liuzi, a few people who usually play with Brother Gouzi."

"Well, let's go, go with me to Lizheng's house, and tell me what you just told me."

"I won't go!" Shen Hong cried bitterly, "My father will beat me to death!" In the countryside, stealing ducks and chickens bought from other people's homes is a 'felony', which offends the countryside. People's "taboo" will be cast aside by the whole village.

Shen Ling showed a chilling smile, "If you don't go, I guarantee that you will not only be beaten by your father, but also by your mother, and you will be beaten for several months, and I will pay for my duckling's money." .”

"Ah woo woo woo..." Shen Hong cried into a ball, and the children next to him huddled together silently, with their heads lowered like little quails one by one, without saying a word.

Second Uncle Shen was really terrifying, even a little overlord like Shen Hong could cry in fright, and he tidied up obediently.The children thought silently.

At Lizheng's house, Shen Ling had been here for a while, and had a lot of conversations with Lizheng, so Shen Hong was asked to talk.

After Li Zheng listened to Shen Hong's words, he suddenly jumped up, his face was gloomy, and Shen Hong was so frightened that he almost cried again, Shen Ling arched angrily and said: "Uncle, it's not that I have to be compensated, you know, I'm I still have a few coins in my hand, I don’t lack this, and I don’t want to argue with people of the same clan because of it, but, uncle, look, Shen Hong is a child! He is a good man in the future of our clan. Shen Gouzi learns to eat duck seedlings, and tomorrow he will learn to help conceal the theft, but will he be taught by Shen Gouzi to become an accomplice the day after tomorrow? This trend will not be eliminated, I am afraid that how many children in the clan will be led astray .”

Lizheng's expression became even more ugly, and he waved his hands and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely give you an explanation for this matter. If Shen Gouzi eats it, I will ask him to spit it out to compensate you, and then severely punish him. I will wrong you."

Shen Ling felt that the scene he was describing was a bit disgusting, but he didn't say anything, but said gratefully: "Then thank you uncle, but uncle, Shen Gouzi has always been idle, relying on his sister-in-law to make ends meet, even if he Losing money is all making my sister-in-law suffer, how can I bear it? So I don't want the money. In this way, if you really want Shen Gouzi to compensate me, you can drive him over to work for me for a few days, and use the wages to pay for it. Qian, on the one hand, can also watch him and let him do some serious work, so as not to sneak around all day and spoil the children of the clan, on the other hand, it can also make sister-in-law relax a little, so as not to burden her."

Lizheng looked up at Shen Ling, with a rare trace of complexity in his eyes, and suddenly sighed, "You think of your sister-in-law in your heart, she is a kind-hearted and kind-hearted man, we are all of the same family, it's good that you can think so. Just do as you said, if Shen Gouzi is disobedient, you come to me, if he doesn't want to work hard with you, I will send him to a labor camp and let him earn wages to compensate you! I, Shen The family cannot tolerate such rogue thieves!"

Lizheng suddenly burst into flames again, furious.

"Calm down, uncle, sit down, sit down." Shen Ling stood up, raised the teacup respectfully, and handed it to Li Zheng, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, with Li Zheng's words, he would not be afraid that Shen Gouzi would not work hard Oh, and, after all, Shen Gouzi is one of the gangsters, and it is more effective to use a thief to see a thief than how many people he invites to watch the scene.

In the future, with such a labor force as Shen Gouzi, coupled with the threat of what Li Zheng said, I am not afraid that Shen Gouzi will not do his best, and if other gangsters still care about their "brotherhood" with Shen Gouzi, He will be worried that he will be sent to labor, so he will not come to his idea of ​​the venue. It seems that he has to think of more ways to keep Shen Gouzi to work with him!

When Shen Ling led Shen Hong away from Lizheng's house, Lizheng's face hadn't calmed down yet, Shen Hong shrank his head and followed behind Shen Ling, and after waiting for a while, seeing that Shen Ling didn't speak, Shen Hong said in a low voice: " Do you still want to report to my house?"

"You want me to sue?" Shen Ling smiled.

"If you go to sue, I will... I..." Shen Honggang wanted to threaten a few words, say something harsh, saying that he stole ducklings from your house every day, but when he thought about Shen Ling going to Lizheng's house to file a lawsuit just now, Li Zheng would be right Brother Gouzi looked furious, and instantly became wilted again.

"How about you?"

Shen Hong lowered his head and did not speak, as if he had resigned himself to his fate, and followed Shen Ling pitifully. Shen Ling couldn't help but reached out and patted Shen Hong's head. He felt that Shen Hong at this time was inexplicably similar to Han Shi, so he couldn't help it. A little soft-hearted, "Come on, I won't go to your house to complain."

"Really!" Shen Hong suddenly raised his head and said in surprise.

"That's right! Isn't it because you are afraid that your parents will beat you! Am I righteous?"

"Fight for righteousness!" Shen Hong nodded his head, as excited as if he had won a big prize.

"Stinky boy." Shen Ling patted Shen Hong's shoulder with a wave of his hand, "In the future, I will see clearly with my eyes wide open, what is real righteousness, don't follow everyone else, I dare to eat ducklings, that is you Second Uncle, I have a kind heart, if I change someone else, I can make you skinny."

"Yes yes yes." Shen Hong kept nodding his head, what Shen Ling said was all, as long as he let him go.

"Come on, let's go." Shen Ling hurried back to buy new ducklings, and there were all kinds of things to do, just a few casual education, after all, he was not his own child, so he ignored it.

Standing at the same spot, Shen Hong saw that Shen Ling had really left, and he breathed a sigh of relief, pretending to shake his head, "Young master is really lucky!" He hurried home, but he didn't know that he was leading the clan When I was interrogating Shen Gouzi for stealing duck seedlings, his parents still found out about him, and they beat him up very well, and his parents were also very upset that Shen Ling didn't go to his house to ask for money to complain. I am grateful, I feel that Shen Ling is really a good person, if ordinary people knew that their son ate his ducklings, they would have called the door long ago to demand money and compensation.

Shen Hong couldn't get out of bed for a few days after being beaten, so he could only lie on the bed, his buttocks were swollen, and when he was extremely bored, Shen Hong suddenly had some insights into life, as the saying goes, he can't escape sooner or later, You have to accept your fate, fate...