Chapter 663 Qiqi’s New Partner
On the other side, the newly born lambs are very curious about the world.
They don’t know how to eat grass yet, and they even learned how to drink water when they drank milk just now.
After just taking a few sips of the space spring water, I started to raise my head and look around.
It is said that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers and are very courageous. It seems that the newborn calves are not much different. When they see the tiger cubs, they are not only not afraid, but also move closer to them.
Zhang An shook his head, that is, at home, if he encountered green wolves in the mountains, he would probably take them back as snacks.
Xiaohu and the others are considered elders in this family, and they are already accustomed to this kind of thing.
After all, they used to live in the same pen as the sheep. In the past few years, every time the lambs were born, they were very curious about them and always wanted to harass them.
Although they wanted to teach these ignorant little guys a lesson, they later discovered that if they couldn’t lower their teeth, no matter how hard they tried to scare them, it was useless, so they simply ignored it.
This actually had some effect. The little lambs wandered around a few big dogs for a long time, but found that they didn't pay attention to them at all. After feeling bored, they could only return to their mother in despair.
Zhang An squatted on the ground and reached out to stroke them one by one.
After the baptism of space, the little guys are no longer as wet as when they first came out of their mother's belly.
The down on them feels very comfortable now, much better than the wool of the adult sheep at home.
While Zhang An was teasing the lambs, Zhang Jianguo had already come to the pen.
Sure enough, he guessed it right. Even if dad didn't come over at night, he still felt uneasy.
No, I got up before dawn.
Fortunately, the few sheep just now were lucky and finished giving birth before Dad got up.
If it had been about twenty minutes just at night, he would not have been able to bring them into the space.
If that were the case, the ewe with quintuplets just now might have lost six lives.
“Hey, did it rain so much last night? How many ewes did it rain?”
When Zhang An saw the large group of lambs in front of him, he couldn't help but asked in surprise.
“A total of seven ewes gave birth, and the noise only occurred in the middle of the night, but fortunately, there were no accidents. As for the remaining ewes, it seems that it will take some time. ."
Zhang An stood up and stretched, and then spoke slowly to his father.
"Seven heads? Did you kill so many cubs with only seven heads?"
When Zhang Jianguo heard Zhang An's words, his eyes suddenly widened.
He couldn't believe that there were so many lambs in front of him, but only seven ewes gave birth to them.
After careful counting, there were actually eighteen of them. On average, one ewe could almost give birth to three. This was something that had never happened before.
"Yes, there are seven. In fact, most of them are fine. They basically have two cubs. One of them gave birth to three. Only the one over there is the most incredible. It gave birth to a whole child. There were five cubs, and the first one was in a wrong fetal position, almost all of them were blocked in its belly."
Zhang An told his father the situation of all the ewes, and finally pointed. The mother of the quintuplets.
"Hey, five? And the fetus is in an abnormal position? How on earth did this happen."
Zhang Jianguo couldn't help but take a breath when he heard this.
Since their family has been raising sheep, they have never encountered a situation where one wife gave birth to so many babies, and there was also an accident of dystocia.
If it weren't for the five cubs and the ewe who were still leisurely in front of him, he wouldn't have believed it was true. Normally in this situation, the ewe would basically die.
“If I hadn’t learned the technique of correcting the fetus from my godfather, not to mention these cubs, even the ewe would have died.”
Zhang An said with a smile. , as if he didn’t take it seriously.
In fact, although he said it lightly, if he didn't have the space to give birth outside normally, there would basically be no hope for the ewe and her five babies.
"This is really a blessing from God. If you survive a disaster, you will be lucky. These babies should grow up well in the future."
Although Zhang An did not elaborate on the birth. The process, but Zhang Jianguo knew that it was definitely not that simple.
But he didn’t ask in detail. Anyway, he was safe now.
"Okay, you probably didn't even sleep a wink last night. Go back to bed quickly. It's going to be daytime soon. I'm here to watch. Nothing will happen."
Having given birth to so many lambs last night, plus the difficulty in delivering quintuplets, Zhang Jianguo subconsciously thought that Zhang An had been busy all night.
Looking at him yawning one after another, I asked him to go back and catch up on his nap.
"Okay, dad, you can watch it, but in my opinion, nothing will happen during the day. The earliest estimate is that it will have to wait until the evening."
Although Zhang An had slept for half the night last night, so it didn't matter if she didn't need to catch up on her nap today.
However, there is nothing to be busy with at home, and he is a person who will not treat himself badly, so he is going to listen to his father and go back to his room to catch up on his morning nap.
Before leaving, Zhang An told the general situation he estimated, so that his father would not worry about his sheep today, so he would keep guarding them here.
"Yeah, yeah, I know, go back quickly."
Hearing this, Zhang Jianguo nodded to show that he understood, and waved his hand to indicate that he could leave.
When I got home, it was still early and no one had gotten up except my father.
Zhang An came upstairs and took off all his clothes.
Although the smell in their sheep pen is not strong, after staying there for a night, you can still smell some sheep odor.
After taking a bath, Zhang An got into bed.
Su Ying's drowsiness was relatively light. She seemed to feel his movements and opened her eyes in a daze.
“Are you back?”
Seeing that it was Zhang An and it was still dark outside the window, she turned over slightly, lay in Zhang An’s arms and continued to close her eyes. sleep.
Zhang An did the same. He hugged his wife into his arms, closed his eyes, and fell asleep soon after.
Although he had slept for half the night last night, he was sleeping on a recliner in the sheepfold, which was not as comfortable as a bed.
And don’t look at it. Within a few hours in the middle of the night, all seven ewes had given birth.
But if you include the time in space, it is more than just a few hours. If you leave it outside, it will probably take a whole night.
It is said that the day is full of thoughts and the night is full of dreams. Zhang An fell asleep and slowly fell into sleep.
In his dream, he found himself guarding a large group of ewes that were about to give birth, more than all the sheep they raised.
As for those ewes, the calving was like a relay. Before one of the ewes gave birth, the other had already started giving birth, and he was too busy at all. He didn't know how much time had passed, but by the time he reacted, he was already surrounded by a large number of lambs.
Just when he felt that the harvest was full and raised a harvest smile, the lambs around him all opened their mouths and called him daddy.
Now those cute little lambs suddenly became frightening, scaring him quite a bit.
When he came to his senses again, he had already opened his eyes and woke up, with a lot of sweat on his forehead.
When he thought of the scene in the dream, Zhang Ande's face looked as if he had eaten something, and then he quickly shook his head to get this absurd dream out of his mind.
I reached out to pick up my phone from the bedside table and saw that it was already past ten in the morning.
Su Ying beside him had already gotten up and was probably giving lessons to the students at the moment.
After getting up and going downstairs, my mother had picked some green peppers from the vegetable garden and was cleaning them in the yard.
These peppers are not meant to be sold. Now their family no longer needs to go out to sell vegetables. Anyway, the tenants of Dongli Courtyard and the teachers in the school will come by themselves every day or two.
The green peppers picked by Wang Fang are going to be chopped into chili sauce.
Zhang Anjia’s chili sauce is divided into three types, one is made with green peppers, the other is made with red peppers, and the last one is made with dried peppers.
Chili sauce made of green peppers, usually also called roasted chili sauce, is usually used with rice, noodles or rice noodles. It is very appetizing and refreshing to eat directly.
The red pepper is called sour pepper, also called chopped pepper. This kind is used for cooking. It is sour and spicy, which is very suitable for the local hot and sour taste.
As for the last one, it actually has no characteristics, because it is just oil chili pepper.
Although it is said to be made of dried chili peppers, when pounding it, you have to add some water to it to make glutinous rice cake chili peppers.
This kind of glutinous rice cake and pepper is considered a local specialty. Except for the surrounding area, this method is not found in other places.
The oil chili made from glutinous rice cake chili is very delicious. Not only does it taste good, but it is not dry. It can usually be used for cooking, or it can be directly mixed with rice and used as sauteed noodles.
Especially when paired with glutinous rice, it tastes so addictive that no one can resist a pile of glutinous rice wrapped in red oil and chili.
Of course, glutinous rice cake pepper is not only used for this purpose, it can also be used for cooking.
For example, when making any hot pot, the aroma and taste of the bottom of the pot fried with other chili peppers will be much different from those made with this thing.
Many people from outside the province, after coming here to eat local hot pot, want to learn the methods here to make it themselves when they return home.
But in the end they discovered that no matter how they learned it, even if the process steps were exactly the same, the fried bottom was completely different.
The most important thing is that the chili pepper used is not glutinous rice cake chili pepper.
However, this thing has a disadvantage. If it is only used at home, it cannot do too much at one time.
Because if they are not eaten in a short time, it will only take two or three days for them to become moldy and bad, and even grow long pili.
When we came to the yard, little Siqi was playing in the yard, while his father Zhang Jianguo was watching.
The only difference from usual is that Xiao Siqi did not play with the car by himself today, nor did he play with Xiaohu and the others. Instead, he took a newborn lamb to play in the yard.
Looking at it, he seems to have found a new friend, no, it should be said to be a new toy.
At this moment, he was teasing the little lamb, running here and there.
Although the little lamb was panting, it seemed to be very close to little Siqi. No matter where little Siqi was, it would keep chasing him with its four short legs.
"Okay, okay, don't run away, come here and have a rest."
Zhang An reached out and called Xiao Siqi to him.
He was not worried about his son being tired. With Xiao Siqi's physical fitness, even running a few laps in the yard would have no effect.
What he was really worried about was the little lamb following little Siqi. After all, this little guy had just come out of his mother's womb and could not withstand such a torment.
Zhang An recognized this lamb. It was relatively thin and it was one of the quintuplets.
Because among the lambs born last night, their five siblings were the thinnest.
It’s just that Zhang An couldn’t remember where it ranked. At that time, he was focused on paying attention to the condition of the ewe and didn’t have the energy to remember it.
When Xiao Siqi heard Zhang An calling him, he stopped running around and walked towards this side.
And that little lamb was really close to little Siqi. Even if it stopped running, it would still follow little Siqi every step of the way.
"The sheep is still young, how can you take it out to play? It has to go to its mother to drink milk."
Zhang An held his son on his lap, and then Asked.
Although he will try his best to give his son what he wants, he does not want his son to be too willful.
For example, this little lamb, which was less than a day old, was taken out to play.
“It’s not that Qi Qi wanted it, but this little guy insisted on coming to Qi Qi’s side without taking it out, and kept barking in the circle. Qi Qi happened to like it, so I gave it to him. "Bring it out."
As soon as Zhang An finished speaking, Zhang Jianguo next to him started to explain.
When he was separating the lambs and ewes in the sheepfold in the morning, little Siqi also ran in.
I don’t know why, but instead of following the ewe, the little lamb came to find little Siqi.
“Dad, it’s so funny, it will lick my hand.”
Little Siqi also bent down and stretched out his hand towards the little lamb.
Sure enough, the little lamb would stick out its tongue and lick the palm of his hand.
"Oh? It seems like this little guy still has some intelligence. Since Qi Qi likes it, let's keep him as a pet."
Hearing what his father said, Zhang An I couldn't help but take a few more glances at this thin little lamb.
But considering that they were born in space, it is not surprising that among so many sheep, there is a little smart and spiritual little guy.
Seeing his son laughing so much at the little lamb, Zhang An thought about raising it as his son's playmate.
After all, although there are many animals in the house, and they are all very close to little Siqi, none of them have been watched by little Siqi.
This is just right. The lamb has just been born anyway, so little Siqi can watch him grow up.
The little lamb who was still playing with little Siqi at this moment didn’t know that Zhang An’s words meant that it would not be in danger of being slaughtered for meat like other companions when it grew up.
Little Siqi, who was having so much fun, didn't even realize that he had a new partner without even realizing it.
(End of this chapter)