Chapter 13 Puppies in the Wild
After leaving Zhou Lan’s house, Zhang An went for a walk in the town, but there were no people from the street to the end of the street, except for a few open shops. Not many people.
It’s not like when you go to the market on weekends, there are so many people.
While walking, I came across a stall where a maid was selling jelly.
Zhang An came up and took a look.
"Ma'am, what are you selling?"
A customer came to the door, and the maid who set up the stall responded enthusiastically: "There are jelly, fried potatoes, and ice powder. What do you want to eat?”
“Hey, there’s ice powder. Let’s have a bowl of ice powder and a bowl of fried potatoes.”
There is a price list next to the stall. It was written by a child at home. Nanny is about the same age as Zhang An’s mother, Wang Fang, in her forties.
Ice powder costs one yuan a bowl, and potato costs five cents a bowl.
Zhang An likes to eat ice powder very much, especially the current handmade ice powder.
Ice powder is a local summer snack. It tastes cold and sweet, tender and refreshing. It can stimulate body fluids and relieve heat, and is cool and reduce heat. It is a rare summer heat-relieving product.
In later generations, a small portion was sold for more than ten yuan, although more condiments were added.
Soon, the ice powder was ready. Zhang An originally wanted to take it away and eat it slowly on the road, but now there is no habit of packing it in the stalls. They all use their own bowls and chopsticks, not plastic bowls.
Zhang An, who had come back to his senses, was also sitting on a small table with the back of the sun, eating delicious ice powder. There were not many condiments in it, including chopped peanuts, chopped hawthorn, rock sugar, and a sprinkle of it. Brown sugar water.
After taking some time, Zhang An finished eating what was on the table, paid the money and then went home.
Walking on the country road, Zhang An looked at the excavator working continuously not far away. The work was in full swing over there.
August is coming to an end, and Zhang An will soon be nineteen years old. Children in the countryside go to school late, but Zhang An is relatively early.
There are various wild berries, prickly pears, rice seedlings, etc. growing on the road.
Zhang An looked at the black and purple rice seedlings and picked a lot to eat.
All kinds of plants grow very well beside the mountain road, because there are livestock that often walk around, so they leave behind their excrement.
In order not to disturb others walking, the owner collected the animal excrement into the grass on the roadside.
So these flowers and plants are growing very well.
Now we are no longer the generation of Zhang Jianguo. At that time, people had to go home to use the toilet. When animals pooped outside, they had to pick it up and carry it home. There were also people who went to the road to pick up feces. .
The purpose is to apply more fertilizer to my crops, because my family does not have money to buy chemical fertilizers. Even if I have the money, I will naturally save what I can.
Zhang An walked to the entrance of the village and was about to enter the village when he heard a whining sound.
Zhang An followed the sound and found a soil cave hidden by grass under the road ridge in the distance.
This hole should have been left when the tree was cut down and the roots were dug back for a fire.
This hole is not very deep, less than one meter, and it is covered with a thick layer of corn grass.
There were three little guys that had just grown sparse hair lying inside.
It looked like a puppy that was just a few days old, and the pink flesh could still be seen.
The whining sound just now must be due to hunger. In fact, the sound is not loud, and someone else may not be able to hear it.
But Zhang An’s hearing and vision are very good now, so he heard it.
When Zhang An was about to reach out and touch it, there was a burst of barking from behind.
“Woof woof woof~~~”
Looking back, I saw a gray-yellow native dog. The barking was full of urgency. This may be the mother of several little ones.
It may be worried that Zhang An will hurt its cubs, so it is anxious and grins at Zhang An. "Don't worry, I won't hurt them. Come and feed them quickly." After Zhang An said this, he moved away.
The big gray dog ran to the den, and a few little ones got up and rushed to eat milk. Maybe they were too hungry.
But one of them had a hard time getting up, and even his cry was very weak.
The female dog also noticed the strangeness of the puppy, stretched out her tongue and licked it, and let out a series of sad sounds from her mouth.
Zhang An wanted to go up and have a look, but as soon as he came closer, the bitch in the den would grin at him.
"Let me take a look. I won't hurt your child. Let me see if there is any way to help you."
I don't know if I understood what Zhang An said. The big gray dog retracted his bared fangs.
Zhang An slowly reached out to the small dog, and then held it up with one hand. Sure enough, the big dog didn't look hostile.
This child looks much smaller than the other two, and the heartbeat rate on his chest is a little weak.
It may be a congenital problem. How about trying space spring water?
When the idea came up, Zhang An decided to bring the dogs into space to see if the space spring water was useful to them. After all, he drank it for a while and it also played a role in strengthening his body.
While the big dog was not paying attention, he took the big dog and the three puppies into the space.
The big dog was a little frightened when he first arrived in a strange place. He kept looking around with his head stretched out.
It wasn't until I saw the three puppies there and the two-legged beast standing in front of me that I slowly felt at ease.
Zhang An clearly felt that after entering the space, the puppy, whose heartbeat and breathing were weak just now, is now in much better condition.
I immediately walked to the pond, found a large grass leaf, scooped up water and fed it to it.
The puppy also slowly stretched out its tongue and licked the spring water. After licking, Zhang An put the puppy next to the big dog.
Zhang An observed quietly. After a long time, Zhang An didn't have a sense of time and didn't know exactly how long it had passed, but it was definitely not short.
The originally very weak Gouzi stood up and walked towards Zhang An.
It is indeed useful. It seems that space spring water is helpful to animals.
Zhang An squatted down and stretched out his palms. The puppy stuck out its tongue and licked Zhang An's fingers, which were meaty. Since it was useful, Zhang An sent Buddha to the west, and also fed the big dog and the other two little ones some spring water.
Then Zhang An looked into the space and saw a group of chicks in the grass in the distance.
Damn it, could it be that the silver chicken you put in laid its own eggs and hatched them?
Considering the constant temperature conditions of the space, and that it was a hen, it was possible that it had been fertilized before being caught by Zhang Tie.
A hen can lay about five to ten eggs once fertilized.
When Zhang An approached, the hens were not afraid. Instead, they came close to Zhang An. The chickens also looked around Zhang An, somewhat curious about the two-legged beast in front of them.
When I went into space to pick fruit trees, I didn’t notice that the chicken was actually hatching eggs.
However, in the space of more than ten acres, this chicken found a place in the grass to squat down and hatch its eggs. Zhang An might not be able to see it unless he looked for it.
After leaving the space, Zhang An let the big dog and three puppies out and put them in the kennel.
He did not take these puppies home. Although he could feed them, this big dog must belong to someone in the village.
I just gave birth outside. After Zhang An put it away, he went home and just came to visit every few days. It was fate to meet him.
But Zhang An didn’t know that when he went home, the big dog followed him from a distance.
It wasn't until Zhang An entered the yard that the big dog turned around and went back.
Zhang An checked that his father was not at home. He might have gone to see the fields.
Only my mother is collecting shoe soles in the yard.
(End of this chapter)