Chapter 559: Picking up a little squirrel
After Zhang An’s family finished dinner, it was only around six o’clock in the afternoon, and the heavy rain outside had been going on for nearly two hours.
On normal days, you can go out and walk around, enjoy the cool breeze and watch the sunset.
But now as the weather changes, it’s no different than seven or eight o’clock outside.
Fortunately, the rain has subsided a little now, and the sky, which has been dark all afternoon, has become a little brighter.
After eating for a while, Zhang An found the raincoat and bamboo hat at home, and was ready to go out to see his fish pond, vegetable garden, and the medicine garden behind.
The rain is a bit too heavy. A deep layer of rainwater has accumulated on the road outside. It is estimated that it can reach about half of a person's lower leg.
It is even more obvious in the big river. Everyone can see that the water level before the rain has risen a lot now.
Especially the fish pond at home and the opening upstream of the aqueduct. Because of the drought during this period, the water outlet has not been blocked.
After the rain today, the water level in the river has risen a lot. At this time, the water diversion channel at home is already rolling with river water, and it has even spread to Goubang.
Such a large flow of water flowed in. Except for the spilled water that flowed into the paddy fields and vegetable gardens near the diversion canal, most of the other river water was poured directly into the fish ponds.
So Zhang An needs to check the situation of the fish pond. If it doesn't work, he can only open all the flood valves.
There is no need to worry about their livestock pen, because Zhang Jianguo will check around from time to time to see if there is any leakage.
Zhang An is even more direct. Every one or two years, he will spend a day or two inspecting the enclosure at home.
Especially since there was heavy rain for so long last year, it will be reassuring after it is renovated.
Although today's rain is quite heavy, compared with last year's heavy rainstorm, it can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket. It will naturally not have any impact on the pen house that has just been renovated not long ago.
While Zhang An was putting on his raincoat, little Siqi kept staring at his father with wide eyes.
When Zhang An was ready to go out, he quickly ran over and hugged Zhang An's legs.
That way he clearly told Zhang An that he had to take him with him.
Since the dark clouds covered the sun today, Wang Fang and Su Ying have kept him at home for most of the day.
At the beginning, it was not so boring to watch TV, but the rain stopped as soon as the power went off, and there was no need to watch TV. The little guy could only squat at home and stare at the little ones, which was already suffocating for him.
Seeing that his father was going out now, he naturally wanted to go out and play with him.
"Go to grandma's place quickly. It's raining too much outside. Why are you going out with me?"
Zhang An knelt down and pointed to Wang Fang and said to his son, if it is It was drizzling, so it was okay to take the little guy out for a spin, but now it was raining so hard outside, how could he coddle the little guy?
Seeing this, Wang Fang also came over to persuade him, but no matter what the two of them said, the little guy just wouldn't let go, and had a stubborn temper and wanted to go out with Zhang An.
"Are you obedient? It's fun outside. Now, I'll count one, two, three, and come here quickly, or I'll give you something nice to look at."
Just in time Su Ying came from upstairs. When I came down, I saw the little guy was getting angry at home, so he said with a cold face.
In this family, if there is anyone who can scare the little guy, it may be Su Ying.
As grandparents, Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo doted on the little guy.
Although Zhang An occasionally made a louder voice, he never moved his hands, not even a slap on the butt. The little guy has been in this family for hundreds of days, so naturally he is not afraid of his father.
But for Su Ying, whenever the little guy loses his temper and makes a fuss and no one can calm him down, Su Ying doesn't tolerate him at all and directly teaches him the rules of the world.
If a son was disciplining his grandson, Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo would still say a few words.
But if Su Ying, the daughter-in-law, took action herself, the two of them could only watch without daring to speak.
As time went by, Su Ying became the person the little guy was most afraid of in this family.
Don’t you see, Su Ying has just finished warning. Although the little guy hasn’t let go, his little face has already pulled down.
"One...two..."
Su Ying still refused when she saw the little guy, so she walked over with a dark face.
Now that the little guy knew he was scared, he immediately let go of Zhang An, got into Wang Fang's arms, and started crying.
The cry sounded sad, and while crying, she secretly looked at Su Ying through the cracks.
"Shut up now, keep crying and see if I can slap you."
Su Ying didn't agree with him and glared at him again.
The little guy just stopped using his magical powers because he knew that if his mother really wanted to take action, even grandma would not be able to protect him.
Although the little guy stopped crying, he was still twitching in Wang Fang's arms.
Zhang An didn't care about the scene between their mother and son. In this family, there must be someone who can control the little guy, otherwise he will become lawless when he grows up. .
When we came to the edge of the fish pond, sure enough, the water inside had overflowed, and many fish had jumped out of the water and landed on the ground.
In the separated frog pond, I saw densely packed frog heads on the water.
Zhang An quickly walked to the corner of the fish pond and opened all the flood valves to let the water flow out.
Then he walked around the edge of the fish pond and kicked those restless guys who jumped out of the water back into the fish pond one by one.
The vegetable garden behind the fish pond is not bad. Several drainage lines have been dug in it, and Wang Fang goes there to clean it up every day. Therefore, although the rain is heavy, it does not overflow the ditches and flood the ground. vegetables.
Seeing that the fish pond had been filled with water for a long time, but to no avail, Zhang An had no choice but to go home, carry a hoe, and go upstream to block the water outlet of the diversion canal.
Otherwise, what is released is not as big as what is flowing in, and it will always be flooded no matter what.
The water outlet upstream of the diversion canal is a water hole made of stones. It is useless to block it from the inside side because it will be washed away by the water flow in the river, so it can only be blocked from the outside.
It’s just that the people in the river were rushing very fast at the moment, and Zhang An didn’t dare to take the risk.
So I found two larger rocks, picked up some weeds washed up by the river, and stuffed them into the water hole.
This will definitely not be able to block the water, and there will still be a lot of water flowing into the diversion canal.
However, Zhang An saw that the water flowing in was no longer as large as the water flow released by the flood valve, so he simply stopped fussing and quickly got up and left the river.
After walking for a long time, Zhang An felt his ears become quiet. The scene of the rolling water by the river just now left only the rumbling sound in his ears.
When we arrived at the medicine garden halfway up the mountain, the scene was simply terrible.
Although when the Yaoyuanzi was choosing a location, it was chosen on this half slope for the sake of drainage.
But now the rainwater from the mountains has washed down, and the low-lying areas are still flooded. Compared with the vegetable garden at home, there are many more weeds on this land, which were brought down by the rain from the mountain behind. Now they have blocked the fence of the medicine garden and accumulated water.
Zhang An quickly took a hoe and started cleaning up, because many medicinal materials in the medicine garden did not like waterlogging.
If you are slightly submerged for a long time, you may drown.
To put it bluntly, Zhang An himself is too lazy. If he usually came here to take care of things, it would definitely not be so serious.
Soon, the weeds attached to the fence were cleared away, and the water that was still submerged just now was drained into the nest below.
Zhang An took the hoe again and unclogged a few drainage ditches. Anyway, it was done, it was easy.
Just when Zhang An was about to go home, he unexpectedly found a squirrel in a puddle on the ground. It had been wet and slightly bloated.
Looking at the motionless look, Zhang An felt that the squirrel had died in the heavy rain.
Out of humanitarian love, Zhang An picked it up and prepared to give it a feng shui treasure.
Otherwise, if you keep soaking in this puddle and bask in the sun after the rain stops, it will immediately become smelly.
But when Zhang An picked it up, he clearly felt that there was a heartbeat in the little thing.
“Good guy, you didn’t drown even now, your life is pretty good. Forget it, they say you will be lucky if you survive a disaster, so I’ll save your little life.”
Zhang An looked at the little thing in his hand and decided to save its life. After all, it was his fate to meet it.
And apart from a few big dogs, there is nothing to play with my son at home.
Because Hui Qiu's family is a night owl, the cat always stays in the nest to catch up on its naps during the day. They don't wake up until little Siqi falls asleep, so they basically can't see each other.
The Huatou family is arrogant and usually only acts coquettishly towards Zhang An. In front of other people, they have always been very aloof and never lower their eyebrows.
Although they do not reject their little masters, they cannot behave in a flattering manner. After being teased by little Siqi a few times, they gradually lost interest and now they no longer favor them.
Only the big dogs at home have to make excuses for being like cows and horses in front of their little masters every day.
If someone accidentally makes the little guy unhappy, he will be scolded by Wang Fang.
This squirrel appeared just in time, take it home and revive it, and raise it in the future to share the pressure on the tiger cubs.
Moreover, squirrels are naturally clever animals, and the man in the family will definitely like them.
After returning home, Zhang An immediately found a dry rag and wiped the water off the little thing.
"Hey, where did you get the tree mouse?"
Zhang Jianguo looked at the squirrel in Zhang An's hand and came over to take a look.
In their place, squirrels are called tree mice because this guy has the word rat in his name and he got this name because he lives in a tree.
Zhang Jianguo is no stranger to this stuff. When he was at the forest farm, this stuff was very common in the mountains.
Because they like to dig holes in trees, people in the forest farm will take action against them when they see them.
Not many people eat the meat. It is usually fed to dogs because few people here eat rat meat.
It's just that the fur on their bodies is different. It's a treasure. There are special people in the city who collect it. Zhang Jianguo has sold squirrel skins several times before.
“When I came back just now, the rain I encountered on the road was probably too heavy. Those who were knocked to the ground and washed down were almost drowned.”
After the water on the little thing was wiped dry, it was still a little stiff from the cold. After all, the temperature outside was a bit low now.
Zhang An poured some hot water and prepared to put a basin on it to warm it up and bring it back to its body temperature.
"No need to scald, no need to scald, just peel off the skin with a knife. The meat of this thing is not interesting, just leave the skin on."
Zhang Jianguo saw Zhang An pouring hot water and said Thinking that he was going to burn the squirrel, he said quickly.
"No, I just want to see how long this little thing is alive. If he can be saved, he will raise it, and we can play with him in the future."
Zhang An heard this , dumbfounded, he explained to his father that he was not going to cut or peel the little thing.
"It must work. This thing has two front teeth, and it can bite people very hard. When we were in the forest farm, someone was bitten by this thing before, and his fingers were bitten by it. It’s a big hole.”
When his son said that he wanted to save the tree mouse and raise it to play with his grandson, Zhang Jianguo didn’t agree.
"It's okay, Dad, I'll keep it for two days and see if it's not mature enough. I'll pry out its teeth if it's not mature enough."
Zhang An is not worried about whether it's mature enough. It's so big. Even leopards can be raised well, let alone just squirrels, so it is not difficult.
After hearing this, Zhang Jianguo said no more and just let Zhang An do whatever he wanted.
At this time, the little thing that took Zhang An a lot of effort also woke up.
But it is still very weak. It can only open its eyes to show that it is still alive, but it still has no strength to move.
Zhang An found the bamboo cage that used to contain the thermos bottle at home from the side room, stuffed some hay into it to make a simple squirrel nest, put it in, and then threw it into the space Inside, let it recover slowly.
Back in the room, Su Ying was telling fairy tales to her son with a flashlight.
Zhang An lamented that the child's temper was really gone. His son, who was so cruel by Su Ying that he cried just now, was now lying in Su Ying's arms very obediently.
He is not very angry and does not hold grudges, which are both very good advantages.
“My son can’t speak yet. If you tell him this, will he understand?”
Looking at his wife telling stories to her son very seriously, Zhang An couldn’t help but asked curiously.
“Why can’t I understand? Look, isn’t he listening very seriously now? I often tell him these things, which can better help him practice his ability to listen and pronounce words, and be able to speak earlier. .”
Su Ying happened to be very engrossed in what she was talking about. After being interrupted by Zhang An, she glared at him impatiently and said.
The little guy was also very unhappy. He shook his mother's arm and urged her. Zhang An had no choice but not to disturb the mother and son.
Oddly enough, Su Ying was telling the story of the big bad wolf and the seven little lambs.
Other children will be a little scared when they hear the word big bad wolf, but when my son hears the three words big bad wolf, his eyes light up.
I guess I’m used to playing with the tiger cubs at home, so I don’t feel scared at all.
(End of this chapter)