Chapter 541: Bear children at this time have to be cleaned up

After the sky darkened, Li Long and Li Jianguo, who had finished dinner, smeared wind oil essence on their bodies to smoke mosquitoes. The night in August was already cool, both of them wore jackets, and then walked towards the melon field.

The tractor made too much noise at night, and riding a bicycle couldn't see the road clearly, so it was better to walk.

Originally Li Qing Xia wanted to come over, but Li Long persuaded him. In the middle of the night, he couldn't see the road clearly, so it would be troublesome if he stepped on empty or fell.

So Li Jianguo and Li Long agreed to let him stay at home and watch the house. Besides, school hadn't started yet, there was a color TV in Li Qing Xia's room, many dolls followed adults to the room to watch TV, it really wouldn't work without someone watching.

Without the owner watching, those dolls really dared to twist the TV channel, after all, bear children are everywhere at any time. At this time, poking hornet nests and digging bird eggs are much more than in later generations. Basically, sparrow nests that appear in the field of vision are hard to escape, Li Qiang has dug several sparrow nests.

There are even children who are bear enough to destroy swallow nests—of course, the result is being beaten by their parents.

Swallows entering the house is a happy omen, some families build new houses, specifically opening windows to let swallows in.

There are no street lights in the village at this time, when the sky is dark, you can't see anything from far away, so Li Jianguo and Li Long go to the field with a flashlight after dark, and others can't find it.

Li Long judged that they wouldn't stay in the field for too long. Bear children steal melons at most around eleven or twelve o'clock at night, and can't be later. After all, it's unlikely for them to get up in the middle of the night, and once the family finds that people are missing in the middle of the night, they really have to mobilize neighbors to find them, no matter what they are doing, finding them and beating them first is inevitable.

So children can only run to the melon field before going to sleep.

"For several days in a row, there are melon melons that have been cut every day, so this kid will definitely come tonight." Li Jianguo judged, "After we catch him, don't move, see clearly whose family it is, let him go back and tell his family himself, then the adult should understand what's going on."

Li Jianguo said this, and Li Long understood.

No one wants their child to be educated by others. Even if the mistake is big, compensation should be compensated, and apology should be apologized, but they cannot be bullied by others.

Most parents have this psychology, so Li Jianguo would say so.

"Older brother, don't worry, at most catch and confirm who it is." Li Long said, actually he also knew that if it was really confirmed, as long as the parents were reasonable, then cleaning up the child would be more ruthless than outsiders.

After all, everyone wants their child to grow, and cannot grow crooked. This matter of destroying crops is a big mistake in any farmer's family.

"Okay, you are at the head of the field, I will go inside. Our land is diagonally opposite to the old village, if it is someone from that side, we can see it at a glance."

"I will also go forward, if someone really comes today, we will catch them after they enter the field."

"Okay." Li Jianguo walked into the field.

One side of the land for planting melon is wheat land, which has been harvested and plowed, and one side is corn land, the corn stalks are relatively high, the trouble is here. When people drill into the corn land, it is really not easy to find.

However, Li Long and the others are also easy to hide, drill into the corn land, and the melon thieves can't see them at all.

After entering the corn land for two minutes, Li Long drilled out, it was cool outside, no mosquitoes, because the corn land was not breathable, the temperature was relatively high, and there were quite a few mosquitoes, he was surrounded by mosquitoes as soon as he drilled in.

The melon land is covered with melon melons on the ridges, according to Professor Wu's guidance, one mu of land has about two or three thousand seedlings, two or three melon melons on each seedling, one mu of land is about four or five thousand melons.

Melon is not like watermelon, which grows round, it only has one kind, that is round, but the pulp is different, yellow pulp, pink, and light green. The taste is not as sweet as watermelon, and it feels a little slippery in the hand.

The melon is not ripe yet, so Li Long didn't have any ideas about them. Seeing that the older brother was already hiding in the field, he turned and entered the corn land, found a corn stalk that didn't have a cob and was relatively thin, broke it from the root and took it out.

Li Long peeled off the skin of the corn stalk, removed the tassel, and then found a place where the grass was relatively high on the ridge between the two pieces of land, sat down, and chewed the corn stalk like chewing sugarcane.

The snacks that can be eaten in rural areas at this time are pitifully few. Watermelon is one kind, and it is impossible to eat it every meal, corn stalks are one kind, but you have to find a relatively sweet one.

Usually, the one that bears a big cob is not sweet, and this kind of corn stalk that didn't bear a cob and grew relatively late and tender is relatively sweet.

After breaking the corn, cutting the stalks and pulling them back home to burn, there will be children in winter who will find those stalks that are not completely dry from the corn stalk pile and take them to chew.

As long as the stalks are still green at this time, they all have a little sweetness.

Winter, there are even fewer snacks, this thing to be honest is not delicious, and the skin is easy to cut the mouth.

But having it is better than not having it, right?

There are people who eat the choking sand dates, let alone this?

A corn stalk, Li Long followed two sections, and heard the sound of sand in the corn land, which is the sound of people rubbing against the leaves when passing through the corn land.

He threw the stalk on the ground and looked in the direction of the sound.

As long as this kid enters the melon land and prepares to act, Li Long is ready to rush out and educate this guy well!

A shadow that was not tall drilled out of the corn land, looked left and right, and was quite vigilant.

He was ten meters away from Li Long, but because the grass was blocking, his vision was limited, and he didn't find anything, and then he lowered his body and entered the melon land.

Hey, he even knows how to use tactical movements.

Li Long was just about to act, when he suddenly found that another one drilled out of the corn land.

Two!

No wonder so many melon melons were ruined, it turned out there was more than one!

The one who entered the field first was relatively short, beckoned to the back after entering the field, let the back hurry in, and then he touched the melon in the field, touched one, felt dissatisfied, and then went to touch another one.

The one behind was slightly taller, his movements were a little nervous, Li Long felt that this figure was a little familiar, the one in front was holding a knife and preparing to open a mouth, the one behind hadn't entered the field yet, Li Long was a little anxious.

"I opened twenty or thirty melon melons in front, and none of them were delicious. I don't believe it, I really can't find a delicious melon?"

The one in front said while opening a mouth for the melon, and didn't forget to greet the person behind:

"Tie Tou, hurry up! Dawdling, if you are like this, we will be scolded again when we go back!"

Hey! The one behind is actually Lu Tie Tou! The one opposite Li Jianguo's house!

Li Long almost laughed, this time he didn't even need to catch, just go to the Lu family to find someone.

The one in front's voice was a little unfamiliar, but it didn't matter, the one in front was the mastermind, the one behind was an accomplice, even if he couldn't catch it today, he knew the head of it.

Li Long watched Lu Tie Tou squat down nervously, found a melon at random, took a knife and prepared to cut, stood up fiercely, and roared:

"What are you doing? Stop!"

When roaring, Li Long had already rushed out, his goal was the short one, wanting to press this guy down to see who it was.

Lu Tie Tou came over for the first time, felt guilty as a thief, and was scared white by Li Long's roar, sitting directly on the ground.

The short one was an old hand, hearing Li Long shout here, not only didn't stop, but put away the knife, turned his head and rushed towards the corn land.

Li Long didn't expect this kid to react so fast, he immediately turned and ran towards the corn land, but the short one moved fast and had already drilled in and disappeared.

Li Long followed, and heard the corn leaves rustling, the corn stalks were relatively dense, and it was the middle of the night, he couldn't see the other party at all, only chasing by the sound.

This piece of corn land is twenty mu. This strip of land is about four hundred and fifty meters long, twenty mu of land is about thirty meters wide, Li Long listened to the sound, that short one didn't run directly out of the land, but walked through the corn land, wanting to pull away from himself.

Li Long understood his idea, after pulling away, just nest in the corn land, it wouldn't be easy for others to find.

Can't cut down all the stalks, how to find them in the dark?

Li Long wasn't very anxious, even if he couldn't find them, with Lu Tie Tou here, he could find this guy.

He slowed down and listened carefully to the other party's position. Li Long's hearing was stronger than ordinary people, and he quickly locked the other party on his right front, and the speed was not slow.

This is also normal, after all, the other party is short, the gap in this corn land is small, the other party can easily pass, Li Long has to squeeze over.

Li Long took a shortcut and rushed towards the other party, the movement was quite big. That kid originally wanted to keep the movement small, and then hide in the corn land, at this time hearing Li Long rush directly towards him, knowing he was discovered, immediately ran out!

Outside the corn land is a piece of unplowed wheat land, and on the other side is a piece of oil sunflower land, the oil sunflower hasn't been harvested yet, although the stalks are not as high as corn, it is not easy to find hiding in it.

This kid's idea is this—Li Long heard the movement in front empty, knowing that this kid drilled out, and immediately accelerated.

"Ouch!"

The sound of that kid screaming came from outside, Li Long was a little surprised, did he fall?

He drilled out of the corn land, and then smiled.

Older brother Li Jianguo stood in the wheat land, and that kid fell on the wheat stubble.

Although the wheat stubble is not hard, it is easy to scratch the skin if you fall directly like this.

"I didn't move him, he was startled when he saw me, and fell."

"Whose family is this?" Li Long still didn't recognize it.

"Ma Yinbao's son Ma Ming." Li Jianguo knew.

Ma Yinbao, Ma Jinbao's younger brother.

This family is considered relatively strange, lazy, dishonest, Ma Yinbao is slightly better. His brother herds sheep and doesn't do the work in the field, he is honest in farming, but because the family has always been relatively poor, his son mixed with Ma Jinbao's family and became a slippery head.

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Junior high school wasn't finished and he was expelled, thirteen or fourteen years old is the time when people hate dogs, the family can't manage, and outsiders can't manage.

Developing for two more years, he became a scourge in the village, petty theft is a common occurrence, until one time someone came to the door to complain, Ma Yinbao beat him fiercely, beat him to howl, and then took him by his side to do farm work, not letting him go out to mix, this was considered

"Ma Yinbao's son, Ma Ming." Li Jianguo knew him.

Ma Yinbao, ah, Ma Jinbao's younger brother.

This whole family could be considered quite eccentric; they were gluttonous and lazy, lacked integrity, though Ma Yinbao was slightly better. His brother herded sheep and didn't do farm work, while he was actually honest about farming, but because the family had always been relatively poor, his son hung around Ma Jinbao's family and became a slippery character.

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He was expelled before finishing middle school; at thirteen or fourteen, he was at that age where people and dogs alike detested him. His family couldn't control him, and outsiders couldn't possibly manage him either.

After developing for another two years, he became a menace in the village; petty theft was a common occurrence, until one time when someone came to complain at their door, and Ma Yinbao gave him a fierce beating, the kind that makes one howl like a ghost, and then kept him by his side to do farm work, not letting him go out to mess around, which was how he finally changed.

After all, a hoodlum also needs soil to be a hoodlum in; how do you mess around in the fields? By rolling in the dirt?

Looking at Ma Long, Li Long smiled; this guy had the same name as him, so he was caught.

He turned his head and shouted into the cornfield:

"Tie Tou!"

Lu Tie Tou crawled out of the cornfield, trembling, bowing his head and not daring to look at the two of them.

"Go back and tell your dad yourself," Li Long said, "Go on back."

Tie Tou had a mournful face; if he went home and told his old man, he would get thrashed.

But if he didn't say anything, and the Li family told them, then he might get thrashed by both parents!

It was all this Ma Long's fault; if he hadn't instigated him to come over and taste the seed melons, he would be sleeping at home right now.

How could such a thing happen!

Ma Long was still thinking of a countermeasure at this time.

If the Li family let him run back and tell his dad himself, he absolutely wouldn't say a word; he'd go back, sleep, and run away first thing tomorrow morning. Even if the Li family told his dad, they wouldn't be able to find him by then.

Ma Long had a good plan, but unfortunately, Li Long said to Li Jianguo:

"This kid from the Ma family is very cunning; we can't let him go back by himself, we have to take him to find Ma Yinbao."

Li Jianguo nodded, still a bit strange; Li Long hadn't even recognized who this kid was, so how did he know he was quite cunning?

But this Ma Long was truly cunning, used to being a hoodlum.

When Ma Long heard this, his face grew longer than Tie Tou's. He looked left and right, and Li Long, seeing his thoughts, sneered and said:

"You can try running. If you run off and I catch you again, I'll beat you up first! When you go back, your dad will definitely beat you up again! Tell me, how many times have you been here? How many seed melons did you cut? Are there any accomplices? Speak!"

"Just this one day in total..."

"Looking for a beating, are you? Seeing how practiced you are, I'll go check with Lu Tie Tou..."

"Two days... no, three days... alright, a week, I came over a week ago... I didn't open many melons in total, they weren't tasty..."

Ma Long was glib and still wanted to deny it, but when Li Long raised his hand as if to strike, he immediately revealed his true colors and confessed.

One week, coming almost every day, and he had brought two other people; the previous one was a kid from the Third Team, and that kid didn't dare to come again after one time.

Li Long let Li Jianguo go back first, but Li Jianguo refused and went with Li Long to escort Ma Long to Ma Yinbao's house.

It was past eleven o'clock, and most families had already rested—no choice, most families didn't have televisions and had no entertainment activities. Although there were electric lights, power outages happened from time to time, so they just went to sleep.

Li Jianguo and Li Long escorted Ma Long to Ma Yinbao's house, and sure enough, the lights were already out. It seemed Ma Yinbao's family was already used to Ma Long coming back late and didn't really manage him.

During the busy farming season, when one is too tired, one can't manage that much.

Arriving at the Ma family courtyard, the dog barked, and Ma Yinbao heard the commotion and climbed up, shouting from inside the room:

"Long Long, are you back?"

Li Long thought to himself, it's a good thing he's called Long Long and not Xiao Long, otherwise, what would happen if they got mixed up?

Ma Long said listlessly:

"Yes, Dad, get up."

"What's wrong? Anything to talk about tomor..."

Li Jianguo didn't speak, and Li Long was impatient, wanting to go back early, so he shouted:

"Ma Long is in trouble, get up."

The light turned on instantly.

Ten seconds later, Ma Yinbao opened the door and walked out of the room; seeing Li Jianguo and Li Long, he was somewhat surprised and even stunned for a moment.

Li Jianguo found it hard to speak, so Li Long said:

"Brother Yinbao, your Ma Long went to my seed melon field and wreaked havoc on dozens of seed melons; they were all cut with triangular openings and weren't even eaten. Right now, the seed melons aren't ripe yet, the seeds are still white, so these melons are ruined.

I came over to tell you; when the melons are ripe, feel free to come into the field and eat them, just leave the seeds behind. It'll be another ten days or so. Right now, it's probably not okay, so you should educate him."

After finishing, he nodded and went back with Li Jianguo.

"You damn brat, you don't go home in the middle of the night and instead run to someone else's field to wreak havoc on the crops? Are you sick in the head? Those crops belong to living people, can you just wreak havoc on them like that?"

Ma Yinbao's irritable voice rang out, accompanied by Ma Long's screams.

At this time, it was very normal to use physical punishment to educate unruly children. In this era, children who hadn't been beaten were rare, or rather, almost non-existent.

When Li Jianguo and Li Long returned to the courtyard, Lu Yingming was already at the courtyard gate with Lu Tie Tou.

Seeing Li Jianguo and Li Long coming over, Lu Yingming kicked Lu Tie Tou down, and the imitation military belt he was waving in his hand, the kind with an iron buckle, lashed fiercely onto Lu Tie Tou's back!

"Ah—!"

Lu Tie Tou let out a miserable scream.

If he hadn't screamed, Lu Yingming wouldn't have been particularly angry, but with him screaming like that, Lu Yingming's anger grew even more:

"You still have the nerve to scream? Don't you know that seed melons can't be eaten until they're ripe? And you followed others into the field to steal and eat seed melons? Don't you know the hardship of farming? Huh?"

"Smack!" Another lash of the belt, and Lu Tie Tou screamed miserably again; Li Long hurriedly went over and snatched the belt away.

"Stop beating him," Li Jianguo advised, "He was led there by others too; knowing he's wrong is enough. He's just a child, who hasn't made mistakes? Alright, alright, it's so late, two lashes are enough, go back."

Seeing Li Jianguo express his stance, Lu Yingming knew the matter was over, so he cursed a couple more times and turned to walk into the courtyard.

Li Long pulled Lu Tie Tou up and said:

"Alright, your dad's anger has subsided, go back. Just don't do this stupid thing again in the future."

Lu Tie Tou also knew this hurdle had been passed, but he was still somewhat dejected and his back hurt. Needless to say, there were bound to be two red welts on his back, and it might even have drawn blood.

Of course, compared to getting through it, this bit of pain didn't count for much.

Presumably, this matter would spread throughout the village tomorrow, and the unruly children of each family should know the seriousness of the matter and wouldn't engage in similar things again.

Li Long returned to his own courtyard with satisfaction. Over in the vacant room in the west wing, Chen Li Rong had already fallen asleep with the two children; Li Long entered the room lightly, simply not turning on the light, washed his face, and then collapsed onto the bed, falling asleep in a moment.

The biggest consequence of running back and forth these days was that his sleep quality was extremely good; apart from necessary activities with Gu Xiaoxia at the courtyard, he basically fell asleep the moment his head hit the pillow at other times.

Tired as he was, after sleeping for a night, he was full of spirit again the next day. (End of chapter)