Kang Li's father was a hard-working man, working all day, feeding pigs and chickens and ducks, but the family was very poor. A pig was fattened and sold, and he was reluctant to pay for piglets.
He spent some time in the cornfield all day. There must have been there, because people often complained that the crops were damaged by the pig arch.
The fields are so vast that there will be everything in them, and of course there will be small wild boars. However, it is necessary to be patient with pigs and not too hasty. Kang Li's father couldn't stop his heart when he got up, and he ran to the ground when he had nothing to do. He prepared a bird-catching net, and if he found a target, he would set up the net and blast it from one direction.
Pigs are pigs after all and are not so easy to get. More than a month has passed, and Kang Li's father has still not fulfilled his wish. However, he paid great attention to the marks on the ground, and more than once found traces of being arched by pigs. One day he heard a whirring in the cornfield, groped closer, and really saw a shiny little piglet. What a good little pig, the piggy's mouth is also black and shiny.
His face blossomed with a smile, and for a moment he forgot how to catch it. He thought it was almost his own. He thought about it and climbed forward for a while, and he saw that he was about to grab the cute little pig's leg. He jerked his hand, and the piglet ran away violently, emitting a "grunt" and gasping for breath, and there was no shadow.
He did feel the piglet's hot skin. But this opportunity was lost. But he was even more determined, believing that he could catch what he needed in the cornfield! He went to the field even more energetically, morning and night, as long as he did not work, he would always go in, pulling grass and searching.
About another ten days had passed before he finally found it.
This time he summed up the lesson, first opened the net, and then carefully moved closer, everything could not be done any more cautiously. Of course, in the end he was caught. The piggy cried out lifelessly, he slapped it, kissed it, and said, "Don't cry, don't cry, having a home is better than not having a home, let's go home!" He almost took the piglet back in one breath and began to feed it carefully.
This piglet caught in the field grows very well. Because of its body color and satisfactory appearance in all aspects, it was not willing to castrate into a fat pig in the end, but fed into a good breeding pig.
■ Text/Adapted from "The Voice - A Selection of Short Stories by Zhang Wei" (published by Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House by Zhang Wei), the original title is "Drilling corn fields"
■The pictures are illustrated except for the book cover
■ Editor / Jia Lifang
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