Chapter 199 Qiuxiang gave birth
No one has come to build a house at the entrance of the village, so there are only two families here, Zhang An’s family and Li Hongbin.
The house is surrounded by either mountains or fields. There must be a lot of snakes, insects, rats, and ants in such a place.
Zhang An didn't have much expectations for Hui Qiu, not to mention getting rid of the rats in this area.
As long as he catches the mountain mice that run into the house, the house will be a little quieter.
I used to live in an old house, and I could hear mice making noises on the beams in the middle of the night. Zhang An really didn’t want to continue listening.
Be sure to let the mountain rats around you know that there is the god of death, Gray Ball, in your home.
As long as they dare to come in, they have to explain themselves here.
Otherwise these guys would come over every day to harm their own food.
After Zhang Jianguo changed his shoes, he came out carrying the shovel from home.
Prepare to deal with all these dead mice. These things cannot be thrown around casually.
It's a hot day now, and it won't take long for such a dead mouse to start rotting.
The area around here will be very smelly by then, and bacteria will spread.
With so many animals at home, we definitely can’t just throw them around.
So this thing is really annoying. I hope it disappears as soon as possible.
After it is killed, you still have to find a feng shui treasured place to bury it properly, which is really unpleasant.
Early in the morning, a flower magpie flew into the yard and started chirping on the tree.
However, the cry didn’t last long before the flower got up and flew out of the nest, scaring it away.
This is Huatou’s daily habit. He will get up on time in the morning and go to the mountains to look for food.
After Gray Ball took the credit, the family returned to normal and each performed their duties.
Wang Fang started to pick up the family's breakfast in the kitchen, while Zhang Jianguo took out the pile of dead mice in the yard and dug holes to bury them.
After Zhang An washed himself, he went to the pen house and opened the back door.
Let all the animals out of the house and let them go to the orchard in the back mountain to breathe free air.
The same goes for the sheep at home. Since planting the rice, Zhang Jianguo has not continued to go out to herd the sheep.
Watching the animals at home going out one by one, Zhang An seemed to be like a guard.
Let him go out during the day and come back at night.
But when all the animals went out, Zhang An felt that something was missing.
I walked around the circle and found that Qiuxiang was still in the circle and refused to come out.
Qiuxiang and Bohu are the names of the two fragrant deer at home, and they were given by Su Ying.
After learning that these fragrant deer were forest musk deer that could produce musk, Teacher Xiao Su liked them very much.
Not many girls can refuse something that smells like this.
At that time, Teacher Xiao Su had just watched Zhou Xingxing’s Tang Bo Hu Dian Qiuxiang.
So in a flash of thought, I gave them this name.
Today Qiuxiang feels a little off, but the scumbag Bohu has already wandered to the mountains.
Seeing Qiuxiang like this, Zhang An already knew what was going on.
Qiu Xiang was probably preparing to give birth at this moment, so Zhang An roughly calculated the time in his mind.
It has been half a year since I was conceived, and Xiao Xiangxiang or Xiao Bohu may be born today.
Zhang An is already very familiar with this situation.
After all, Zhang An himself has experienced the births of many animals in his family from the past to the present.
Except for the near miss when the ewe gave birth to her third child, everything else went very smoothly.
Before the parents at home knew about it, Zhang An brought Qiuxiang into the space.
Because Zhang An had observed in space before that the animals in space gave birth very easily.
Especially those fragrant deer, after giving birth to the baby in their belly, they can run and jump in just a few minutes.
The cubs born in space are all in very good shape.
Sure enough, Qiuxiang was just brought into the space. It was very uncomfortable just now, but now there is nothing strange about it.
It didn’t take long before a cub was successfully born.
During the whole process, Zhang An did not see Qiuxiang showing any signs of discomfort.
If this was done outside, it would probably take an hour or two.
The newly born baby musk deer’s body is covered with mucus and fetal membranes. Qiuxiang licks the baby seriously.
Clean all the mucus and fetal membranes from its body.
Maybe she gave birth in space, so Qiuxiang didn't expend much energy.
After licking the newborn cub clean, Qiuxiang began to exert strength again.
Zhang An originally thought there was only one cub, but he didn’t expect Qiuxiang to be so awesome, and she gave birth to another cub right after.
Because Zhang An had observed Qiuxiang’s belly during normal times.
It’s not that big at all, it doesn’t look like she’s pregnant with two babies.
Zhang An, who originally thought there was only one cub, now saw two.
Human psychology can sometimes be quite greedy. At first, Zhang An would be satisfied just thinking about having a cub.
But Qiuxiang added another one, and Zhang An was still staring at Qiuxiang's abdomen at this moment.
What I was thinking about was whether I would be like the big black sheep at home, giving birth to three in one litter.
However, it backfired. After Qiuxiang gave birth to her second cub, she began to devour the placenta and fetal membranes.
This is an instinct of animals, but it also shows that this birth ends here, and there will be no third one.
The two cubs that had been licked clean by Qiuxiang had begun to learn to stand up tremblingly.
Qiuxiang didn't care about them, letting them learn by themselves and working on the grass with their heads down.
For it, it’s hard to get into paradise once, so it must take this opportunity to have a big meal.
Wait until the two young musk deer can stand firmly and walk freely.
Zhang An took them all out because he was worried that if he stayed in the space for a long time, his parents would find him later.
Qiuxiang, who had a full meal in the space, is now satisfied.
After coming out, I started to nurse my two newborn children.
Zhang An didn't care about them. He took the tools and began to clean the various compartments in the circle room.
Maybe the two little Xiangxiangs have eaten enough, and now Qiuxiang is ready to take them out to see the outside world.
"Xiao An, why haven't you finished it yet? Come here for dinner."
In the past, Zhang An didn't spend much time cleaning the house.
Wang Fang cooked breakfast today. Seeing that Zhang An hadn’t come out yet, she shouted twice at the door.
"Here he is, he'll be ready soon."
At this time, Zhang An had basically finished cleaning up.
In the entire pen, the sheep pen is the most difficult to clean. After all, Zhang An’s family has the most sheep.
Originally there were ten black goats, big and small. After killing one before, nine were left.
But the little male sheep bought from Wang Mingqian's family is more powerful. In the past few months, three or four ewes from Zhang An's family have become pregnant again.
By the end of the year, Zhang An’s family had at least a dozen sheep.
This sheep excrement egg is a very high-quality farmyard manure. But this thing cannot directly fertilize crops or fruit trees.
If you apply fertilizer directly, it will easily burn the crops to death.
This is just like human urine, which contains a large amount of urate.
There used to be a family in Changqing, and their children would wake up at night.
Because it was too dark outside, no one dared to go to the toilet alone, so I peed directly under the tree in the yard.
After a long time, the apricot tree planted by his grandfather in the yard was burned to death.
So they need to be collected and fermented before they can be used as farmyard manure.
For the purpose of retting, Zhang An also built a retting place on the back mountain.
After cleaning the pen house, Zhang Ancai went home, changed his clothes, and washed himself.
Wang Fang did not cook noodles today, but baked pancakes with potato flour and chives.
"Why is mom thinking about making pancakes today?"
Everyday breakfast at Zhang An's house is either noodles or rice noodles.
Because these two things are very convenient to pack and save time.
The pancakes baked with potato flour are more delicious, different from those baked with glutinous rice flour, and not greasy.
Put it on the tender and fragrant green onions, and it tastes quite appetizing.
“I cook noodles for you two every day, and you are tired of eating them. Now that I am not busy, I will prepare you some other things to eat.”
Farmers are like this, they are busy with farming. When you are away, just pick up some and deal with it.
When there is slack time in farming, I will make use of my existing conditions to give myself something delicious.
Zhang An liked to eat potato flour when he was a child, but his family didn’t make so much potato flour at that time.
So Wang Fang didn’t make it often at that time. It would be good if he could eat it a few times a year.
But things are different now. Last year, Zhang An chopped hundreds of kilograms of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
We have dozens of kilograms of sun-dried potato flour at home, so we can make it anytime we want.
It’s just that it’s a little troublesome to make, and it will take a little more time.
“By the way, Mom and Dad, our fragrant deer just gave birth to two little ones.”
Zhang An ate the potato pancakes in his hands, swallowing the freshly fragrant deer. I told my parents about having a baby.
“No wonder you stayed in that pen for so long. I thought it was difficult to clean up today.”
Wang Fang also talked to Zhang An about Zhang An’s cleaning of the pen. As I said, cleaning once a day or two is enough, not every day.
But Zhang An said that idleness is also idle, and he plans to keep the place where people live clean.
The enclosure at home should not be left alone. It will be more difficult to clean if it is left for a few days.
So Wang Fang stopped talking later. Sometimes when Zhang An had to go out in the morning, she would come over to clean up.
"I just said this morning, why did a flower magpie come to the door to chirp? It turned out to be a good news."
Wang Fang only then thought of the flower magpie that came to the door in the morning.
There is a saying in rural areas that if a magpie comes to your door and chirps, something good will come.
So Wang Fang thought that the magpie that was scared away by the flowers today must have come to bring good news.
Otherwise, not long after she arrived, the fragrant deer at home would have given birth to two cubs.
People feel refreshed during happy events, and Wang Fang is always happy no matter what she does in the morning.
After breakfast, Zhang An and his father went to the rice fields to look at the seedlings.
For some unknown reason this year, the duckweed and hollow grass in the paddy fields have grown in abundance and size.
These things existed before, but they didn’t grow big and their numbers weren’t much.
The few trees do not hinder the growth of rice, so everyone’s attention is focused on the woolly barnyard grass.
After all, ordinary weeds only compete for fertilizer, but barnyard grass may cause a reduction in rice yields, and in serious cases, the harvest may be lost.
So everyone hates barnyard grass.
The main reason is that this guy not only competes for fertilizers, but also causes diseases and pests such as rice planthoppers, giant borers, iron beetles, rice bugs, rice leafhoppers, rice sheath blight, rice blast, and rice yellowing dwarf disease. 's host.
So as soon as everyone finds it, they will uproot it and throw it far away.
Why not feed the animals? It's because the livestock may not be able to finish eating it, and then there will still be this stuff in the grass manure.
The next year I put the grass manure in the circle into the field, and this thing still grows the same.
So no one is willing to take it back to feed the livestock.
In the past, weeds such as duckweed and hollow grass could be left alone.
But not this year, because there are too many, and the rice in the fields will be malnourished if left alone.
Especially because what Zhang An’s family is planting this year is not hybrid rice, but an ancient blood rice variety.
The yield is not very high to begin with. If these weeds are not allowed to interfere, I don’t know how much millet will be produced later.
Drygrass is actually a Chinese herbal medicine that can be used to treat some diseases.
A series of diseases such as cold, fever, cough, enteritis and dysentery, etc.
Not only that, it can also be used to treat some non-fatal snake bites.
But this thing is everywhere, not only in the fields, but also in the ditches.
So when we met in the fields, everyone dealt with it smoothly.
When he arrived at the field, Zhang An took off his shoes, stepped into the paddy field with bare feet and started weeding.
If many people are afraid of locusts, they can wear water-coated shoes before going to the fields.
But Zhang An has been in this paddy field for so many years, so it's nothing to go to the leeches.
It turns out that when there were few hollow grasses and duckweeds, everyone just stepped into the mud with their feet to fertilize the fields.
This year there were too many and the plants were too big. Zhang An could only pull them up and carry them to the roadside.
The vitality of these grasses is not as good as barnyard grass. As long as it is dehydrated and exposed to the sun for a while, it will die.
As soon as he was talking about barnyard grass, Zhang An found several big plants.
Damn it, this piece of shit grows better than Zhang An’s rice.
Uncle can bear it, but aunt cannot.
I just pulled it out and threw it on the road. The sun was in the sky right now, so it wouldn’t kill anyone.
At this time, it was not only Zhang An and his son who were weeding in the field, but many other people were also weeding in the fields.
In the past two years, there have been many places selling herbicides in town, but they have not been widely used.
Many people in the village have used pesticides before, but they only used dichlorvos when there were a lot of insects on the seedlings.
There are not many people spraying herbicides in the village at the moment, only a few, but it is of no use.
It was two thousand years later that the village began to use herbicides on a large scale.
Zhang An was working outside that year, and Zhang Jianguo asked him about this when he called him.
It is said that there is too much grass in the fields. Every household in the village is using it. Do you need to buy some for beating at home?
When Zhang An heard this at that time, since everyone was fighting, he could also follow suit.
This is true. It does not mean that we are afraid of hands and feet, but it is useless to fight with just a few families.
Others did not spray pesticides. When the pesticides you spray lose effectiveness, those insects will still come and harm the crops in your field.
(End of this chapter)