Chapter 234 Sensible Little Girls

The first person I saw when I opened my eyes was Chen Weidong. Although this could save me a lot of effort, at least I didn’t have to go through the step of keeping the eagle awake.

Training a golden eagle is also very troublesome and complicated, but these are not what Chen Weidong needs to consider for the time being.

The first step he takes now is to teach the golden eagle to fly.

As for using an eagle whistle to call far away, there is no need to worry. The golden eagles have already gotten used to the small nest built for them by Chen Weidong. Even if they have learned to fly, they will return to this nest again.

In fact, the so-called “far” means “back”.

After the golden eagle flies away, use the eagle whistle to call the golden eagle back.

After learning to fly, the golden eagle can slowly get used to the eagle whistle calling for a long distance.

At that time, as soon as the golden eagle hears the falconer’s call, it will know that the falconer is calling it.

However, this process takes a long time and is a test of one’s patience and the level of tacit understanding in “communication” with the golden eagle.

After letting the golden eagle rest for a whole morning, Chen Weidong trained for another two hours in the afternoon. Finally, Chen Weidong completely gave up the current flight training plan.

The two golden eagles have adapted to the current height. They know in their hearts that they will not be killed. Therefore, without the determination to break the boat, it is naturally difficult to learn to fly.

Of course, it’s not absolutely impossible, but it may take longer.

After throwing two pheasants to the two golden eagles and letting them eat, Chen Weidong ended today’s training.

Back in the front yard, Da Ni and Er Ni were doing their homework. Chen Weidong played with the four little ones for a while, then got up and left the yard, preparing to clean up the vegetable garden.

The vegetable garden needs to be cleaned regularly during this season, otherwise it is easy for weeds to grow. In this weather, weeds grow faster than vegetables.

Liu Xueting hadn’t cleaned the weeds in the vegetable garden for two days, and some of the weeds had grown very tall.

Chen Weidong didn’t feel too much and picked up the hoe to start weeding.

After weeding, Chen Weidong returned to the yard, picked up the shoulder pole and bucket, and prepared to fetch water to irrigate the fields.

As soon as he got out of the yard, he saw a bunch of people outside, not far from the door of his house.

Most of them are naughty children, and there are also some old ladies, young wives and big girls.

In this case, you don’t have to go and look to know that the salesman must be here.

A peddler is a small vendor who carries a load on his shoulder or pushes a cart, selling daily necessities from door to door. Some of them may also sell some mountain products.

In this era, the circulation of goods in rural areas basically depends on walking, not to mention in the remote Jiuqu Village, where people have little money in their pockets and it is far to go to the market.
Basically, you can see peddlers carrying goods every once in a while. Of course, this is not just the case in Jiuqutun, but also in several villages throughout Laoheishan.

There are people who come to the village with loads on their shoulders to sharpen knives, people who sell tofu, people who exchange chicken feathers for sugar, and so on!

Moreover, since the past two years, the chances of peddlers coming to Jiuqutun have increased a lot compared to before.

What caught my eye was a little old man in his sixties or seventies, carrying a load on one hand and shaking a rattle with the other.
As soon as the rattle sounded, everyone knew that the salesman was coming.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, salesmen were the most popular among rural children.

Every time the peddler came, a group of children would gather around him and exchange their one or two cents for candy from the peddler.

However, Jiuqutun is relatively poor, so most of the naughty kids don’t have much money and just watch and join in the fun.

“Uncle Weidong!” A naughty kid saw Chen Weidong and shouted happily.

This naughty kid still had a candy ball in his mouth and a happy smile on his face.

“You bought candies secretly again. Be careful when you get home, or your mother will beat you!” Chen Weidong reminded with a smile.

“Uncle Weidong! Go fetch some water!”

Chen Xiaoniu, a naughty kid in the village, was in a group of naughty kids. When he saw Chen Weidong, he immediately ran over and shouted.

Jiuqu Village is not that big, and Chen Weidong knows all the children in the village. Chen Xiaoniu’s father Chen Fashu often goes to Chen Weidong’s house to work.

It’s just that when he runs, he limps a little.

“Xiao Niu, what’s wrong with you? Why are you still limping?” Chen Weidong asked with a smile.

“Uncle Weidong, my father is unreasonable. I told him to help me sell the two pheasants I caught, but after he heard it, he hit me with a stick.”

Chen Xiaoniu rubbed his butt as he spoke.

“Ah? Your father is so cruel that he beat you with a stick? Wasn’t your mother not at home and couldn’t stop him?”

Chen Weidong asked with a smile.

“My mother was shouting from the side, ‘Hit me harder! Hit me harder!'”

Chen Xiaoniu’s aggrieved look made the old women and young wives around him laugh.

“Then you won’t run!”

“I wanted to run, but my mother was blocking me and I couldn’t run!”

Everyone laughed louder.

“Little Calf, you didn’t deserve to be beaten enough. Who told you to run to the valley over the pine forest? There are wolves over there. Aren’t you afraid of being taken away by them?”

A young wife said to the calf while laughing.

Yesterday, it wasn’t just Chen Xiaoniu who got beaten up. All the naughty kids with him were beaten up, including Chen Weidong’s eldest nephew Dafei.

The fact that they were beaten had long been spread in the village, and everyone agreed that if they should be beaten, they should be beaten lightly.

Although children in this era are free-range, they can have fun as long as they don’t go to school during the holidays.

However, the scope of their play is limited, that is, they must not enter the mountains.

This so-called entering the mountains is the place outside the crop fields.

You can do whatever you want within the area around the village, including the farmland, but you can’t go beyond the farmland. The valley beyond the pine forest has long been beyond this area, and even the women in the village rarely go there when they go to the mountains.

If the naughty children run over there, they must be beaten, hard, so that they will remember it.

“Uncle Weidong, I’ll help you fetch water!”

Chen Xiaoniu didn’t feel embarrassed because of everyone’s laughter, he just stared at Chen Weidong and said.

“Xiao Niu, you are limping, can you help me fetch water?” Chen Weidong asked with a helpless smile.

“Uncle Weidong, it’s okay, this little injury is nothing!” Chen Xiaoniu said nonchalantly.

This kind of injury is really nothing to the naughty kid.

There is only one naughty kid in this era, he is tough!

The day before yesterday, I was beaten so hard that I slept on my stomach. After a good nap, I still ran out to have fun.

“Forget it! I can do this job myself! Don’t get hurt. Your dad, come find me!”

Chen Weidong refused with a smile.

Hearing this, Chen Xiaoniu licked his lips, still feeling a little disappointed. It wasn’t that he liked to help others with work.

But Chen Xiaoniu knew that Uncle Weidong was a very good person. Last time, he and a few friends were playing near Chen Weidong’s new house. Uncle Weidong called them over to help move bricks.

Afterwards, everyone gave him three cents! He and a few friends ran away to buy candy, which tasted so sweet!
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“father!”

“father!”

When Chen Weidong heard the voice, he turned around and saw his six daughters running towards him panting, with excited faces.

They probably heard the rattle and ran out of the house.

The little ones came up to him and, like the other children in the village, focused their eyes on the peddler’s box.

On the cart were two wooden boxes with transparent glass inlaid on the top, drawers, and mercury mirrors. Inside were needles, thread, buttons, shoe uppers, flowers, powder, rouge, small mirrors, children’s toys, snacks, etc. It was a dazzling array of everything.

The six little girls opened their big eyes and stared at the things in the wooden box without blinking.

“Are these all your children?”

The old man looked at the six little girls who swarmed over and asked in amazement.

“Well, what happened?”

Chen Weidong looked at the old man. You know, these days, many human traffickers like to use this method to abduct and sell children. In this life, Chen Weidong cherishes it very much.
If he encounters a human trafficker who dares to attack his daughter, he will be happy to take them to experience the local customs and practices of the mountains.
“Nothing. I’ve traveled a lot and have seen many families with six daughters, but this is the first time I’ve seen a family that has raised all six daughters so well! The older ones are dressed neatly and beautifully, and the younger ones are chubby like New Year dolls!”

The old man praised.

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“Who of you can call mom to come over and see if there’s anything missing at home?”

Chen Weidong’s heart moved and he spoke to his daughters.

“I’m going! I’m going!”

As soon as Chen Weidong finished speaking, Si Ni immediately raised her hand.

“I am coming too!”

“Follower,” Xiaowu also called out in a baby voice.

The two little kids finished talking and ran home immediately without waiting for Chen Weidong to say anything.

Xiaoliu didn’t say anything, but followed him happily!

“Sister, wait for me!”

The short legs of this little milk ball, Si Ni!

The speed is really not bad.

“Big Ni, Second Ni, Third Ni, take a look at what you like and Dad will buy it for you.”

Seeing the little girls staring at the things in the wooden box and looking very interested in them, Chen Weidong asked with a smile.

When the old man heard the adults around the child say this, he agreed and said, “Little girl, I have a lot of fun and delicious things here. Let me open them and show you.”

“Look at this little hairpin. It’s very pretty! It suits you very well.”

“Grandpa, we have hairpins now. Dad, we bought little butterfly hairpins.”

Sanni refused in a baby voice, but couldn’t help showing off to the old salesman.

“Third sister is right, mom said we can’t spend money recklessly!”

“Grandpa, it will cost a lot of money to build a big house, and Dad has no money!”

“…”

“Grandpa, let’s take a look!”

The three daughters are so sensible! Although they don’t have much idea about money, they know how to save money for their dad.

The old man was a little disappointed when he saw this. These girls were too sensible. He had been picking goods for so many years. Usually, when he shook the rattle, most of the children would come running over.
Sometimes they would cry and make a fuss to ask the adults at home to buy them for them. At this age, there are not many girls as sensible as these three little girls.

Chen Weidong was also at a loss whether to laugh or cry. Fortunately, Si Ni and the two little guys were not there, otherwise, those little foodies would probably drool all over the floor.

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(End of this chapter)