Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 287 Annoying thing, chick hatching
"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Xiaoxia ran over curiously.

"Don't bother your mother."

After saying that, Lin Heng quickly brought a glass of water, some toilet paper, and patted her on the back.

"It's okay." Xiulan waved her hand, took the water, rinsed her mouth, and wiped her mouth again.

Lin Heng shoveled some plant ash and covered Xiulan's vomit.

"Mom!" Xiaoxia looked at Xiulan nervously and hugged her thigh.

"Mom is fine, you will vomit during pregnancy." Xiulan touched her daughter's head.

"When you're fine, just eat some more. Don't go hungry." Lin Heng said out loud that he could only take care of this kind of thing and couldn't suffer for her.

"I'll drink it after a while." Xiulan shook her head and said, her stomach felt uncomfortable.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, first took care of Xiaoxia to eat, then peeled the eggs and fed them to Xiulan.

Lin Heng was also surprised and said: "As long as you can drink a little, let's drink a little first. Do you want something sour? Try a strawberry?"

Lin Heng nodded: "Yes, look what happened. You have to tell me next time this happens."

"This female forest musk deer has diarrhea!" Lin Heng was speechless.

He went to Hongfeng Mountain to see the shrimp seedlings. He didn't tell his parents about Xiulan's severe morning sickness. If they knew about it, they could only worry, or run over to care about her or make some home remedies, which might be counterproductive.

Xiulan drank some water and shook her head: "I don't know either. I feel like it wasn't this serious the last time I was pregnant with Xiaoxia."

"Let's go back to get medicine. Just feed hay these two days, don't feed fresh grass." Lin Heng reminded. He didn't blame anyone. It was normal for Lin She to get sick.

"I want to go out and bask in the sun." Xiulan said.

He went to get the cushions Xiulan made himself and put them under the bench and on the backrest.

After Xiulan recovered, she shook her head and said, "I can't eat it. I feel like vomiting when I eat it."

"I don't want to eat anything, just eat quickly." Xiulan shook her head.

She opened her mouth and took a bite, the sour feeling made her happy.

Lin Heng quickly went to change to a large Taishi chair and put a cushion on it.

"Then I'll move you out."

Lin Heng once again brought her water and paper to pat her back, and watched with distress as she vomited up what she had just eaten.

After finishing it, he took the time to look at the forest musk deer. After a closer look, he discovered the problem. There was a lot of mushy feces on the ground. The forest musk deer pooped in granular form.

"Diarrhea?" Lin's father asked doubtfully.

Xiulan sat down, patted his hand and said with a smile: "Go and eat quickly. Eat the eggs I didn't eat. I don't want to eat them."

Lin Heng put his shoes back on and took his father to the warehouse to get medicine. Because he was worried about the livestock getting sick, he bought a lot of medicine at the veterinary station in Ancheng when he went to Ancheng, and he just needed it now.

"Dad, come here and help me. Bring your water shoes," he shouted.

"Why is it so serious? I can't eat anything." Lin Heng said distressedly.

"But it's okay, I have prepared some medicine." Lin Heng shook his head. The two young forest musk deer were caught and isolated in a nearby compartment, and then the feces in the forest musk deer pen was shoveled out with a shovel, and finally a layer of quicklime was sprinkled for disinfection.

Lin Heng sighed and said, "Then you can rest on the chair for a while and eat later."

Lin Heng told Xiulan that he would go to Hongfeng Mountain, and he did not dare to drive for fear that the smell of gasoline would make her nauseous.

"Do you want to eat dried venison?" Lin Heng asked again.

Father Lin said while helping: "That may have happened just last night. Your mother didn't pay attention when feeding grass in the morning."

Lin Heng took the water shoes and put them on and said, "Lin Shek has diarrhea. Please help me isolate these two little ones."

After a while, Father Lin came over with water shoes and curiously asked: "What's wrong?"

He didn't even think about taking Xiulan to the hospital, because this was considered a normal situation. It’s hard to detect anything even if you go there. The current medical level in China is so bad.

"It seems the sourness is okay, but I don't dare to eat more, it's a bit nauseating." Xiulan shook her head and put the rest in a bowl.

Lin Heng doesn't have an answer to this question. Everyone's situation is different. He took the strawberry honey milk and said, "Then try drinking some milk first. It won't work if you don't eat it at all."

After Lin Heng finished eating, he looked at Xiaoxia and said, "Xiaoxia, take care of your mother. I'll go to Hongfeng Mountain and be back soon."

He had to go over there and take a look. Shrimp farming was a technical job. Only he could see some shrimp problems in advance, so he could only run in both directions.

Xiaoxia quickly brought the biggest strawberry to Xiulan: "Mom, I'll give you a big strawberry. It's so hard to have a younger brother."

"I'll give it a try." Xiulan nodded, drank half a glass, and then sat there waiting.

"I understand." Father Lin nodded.

Xiulan had just finished eating the eggs and was about to drink strawberry honey milk tea when she suddenly ran to the door again: "Well..."

"I will take good care of mom and dad." Xiaoxia said, clenching her little fists.

After looking at the situation of the shrimp, he found that the water in the pool was a little turbid, so he quickly added 30 centimeters of water.

"This seems to be working. I don't feel like vomiting too much." Xiulan said with slight surprise. The more she vomited, the hungrier she became. It was too uncomfortable not to be able to eat.

Xiulan was a little touched. She usually rushed to eat, but today she took the initiative to give it to herself. Her good daughter was so considerate.

"Okay then." Lin Heng nodded and finished his breakfast in two bites.

"Dad, you boil some corn paste and let it cool, then grind three oxytetracycline tablets in one meal and mix them in and feed them. When feeding the other two with water, also throw one in." Lin Heng took out an oxytetracycline bottle. Hand it to father.

"I understand, don't worry." Father Lin agreed.

After giving the medicine to his father, Lin Heng went to look at the previously packaged Qingzhu. As soon as he took out the snakeskin bag outside, he saw the green grain inside. It looked darker than before. The good news was that there was no sign of rot.

"It seems like this is okay, dad. Let's go back and get some more grass to make green storage." Lin Heng said happily. If this works, you don't have to buy a vacuum cleaner to pump out the air. That thing costs thousands of dollars, which is too expensive.

It seems that as long as it is sealed well, even a slight amount of air inside will not affect the fermentation of lactic acid bacteria.

"Then it will happen that the grass can be cut again in a few days, and we will turn it into green reserves then." Father Lin nodded in agreement. The pasture that had been cut for more than ten days is now growing again, so fast that there is no need for fertilizer.

"That's it, I'll go back to dad first. Over at the cow pen and sheep pen, you first use red dates to pull up the bricks and gravel. I'll build the wall in two days. Xiulan is a little unwell and I have to take care of her." Lin Heng nodded. He said that he probably wouldn't have time to do these things in the past two days.

"Is it nothing serious?" Lin's father asked quickly.

"No, it's just a normal pregnancy reaction." Lin Heng waved his hand and said.

After chatting, he went to get some male prawns kept in the pond and hurried back. After returning to the village, he ran to an apricot tree and picked some unripe green apricots, which were only the size of mineral water bottle caps. .

After picking the apricots, he asked who had cabbage. He wanted to buy it but was given two large ones as a gift.

When she got home, Xiulan was still leaning on the Taishi chair to bask in the sun. It was very comfortable to bask in the sun as soon as it came out. "What did you do with the cabbage and shrimp?" Xiulan asked doubtfully.

"I'll make you something to eat." Lin Heng said with a smile. He put the dish on the stone table, washed the green apricots and handed them to her: "Would you like to try them?"

Xiulan took one and tasted it, and then ate it happily: "It's delicious. Give me another one."

Lin Heng felt his teeth were sore, shook his head and said, "It's not good to eat too much, so I'll satisfy your craving."

After saying that, he went into the house, washed the cabbage and made a hot and sour hand-shredded cabbage, and processed the green shrimp into shrimp and made a sweet and sour shrimp. Finally, I took out a soaked bamboo shoot and pickled radish and put them on a plate.

They put it together and were about to take it out to Xiulan to try, when they found Xiaoxia standing in a daze in front of the incubator in the study.

"What are you doing, Xiaoxia?" Lin Heng looked at her and shouted, wondering why he didn't see her right now.

Xiaoxia turned her head and shouted: "Dad, the chick seems to be born!"

"What? The chicken has hatched?" Xiulan in the yard exclaimed first, got up and ran into the study.

Lin Heng put the dishes on the table and walked over to take a look. He saw that a hole had been pecked out of an egg in the incubator, and some of the wet yellow hair of the chick inside was clearly visible.

"It's really hatched!" Xiulan patted Lin Heng in surprise.

Lin Heng said with a smile: "It has been twenty days, it is indeed time to hatch."

Xiaoxia raised her head and said, "Dad, should we help it? It has been pecking for a long time."

The first time she watched a chick hatch, she was stunned and shocked by the magic of life.

"No, this kind of thing must be done by the chicken himself and he must work hard to overcome difficulties in order to survive." Lin Heng shook his head.

"Why?" Xiaoxia tilted her head in confusion.

Lin Heng explained: "Because the chicken will strengthen itself by pecking the eggshell, so that it will not be eaten by other animals. If you help it, it will not be strong and will be eaten by the eagle."

Xiaoxia still didn't quite understand, but she was afraid that the chicks would be eaten by the eagle, so she nodded and said, "Then I'll just watch them come out on their own."

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded. He still believed in Xiaoxia. She was not a random child.

After saying that, he turned to look at Xiulan: "You come out first and try the dishes I prepared for you, and see which taste you like best."

"Okay." Xiulan nodded. Although she didn't really want to eat now, she still went with Lin Heng.

"It smells so good, with a sour taste." Xiulan said happily while smelling the dishes on the table.

Lin Heng smiled and said: "Then try it quickly. Whichever one you like best, I will make it for you often in the future."

Xiulan tasted the cabbage first and said in surprise: "This spicy and sour cabbage is delicious, very appetizing."

As she said that, she ate two more chopsticks, then picked up another sweet and sour shrimp, and nodded again and again: "This one is delicious too. I like both of them."

She also took two bites of the sour radish and just tasted it. What she liked the most was the spicy and sour cabbage and the sweet and sour shrimp. One was spicy and the other was sweet and sour, both of which suited her taste.

"Well……"

Suddenly she dropped her chopsticks and ran out again to vomit.

Lin Heng reluctantly brought her water and paper. Xiulan rinsed her mouth and said angrily, "It's so annoying. I vomited out everything I just ate."

She didn't want to throw up at all, but her body didn't listen to her at all.

Lin Heng felt helpless after all this, so he could only say: "You should be fine if you eat less, and then eat more every hour or two."

"I don't believe it anymore, try eating it again." Xiulan gritted her teeth and went back to continue.

Although he spoke harshly, he only dared to take two bites this time before putting it down and sitting aside obediently.

She originally thought that she could eat the sour ones, but now it seems that even if they are sour, she can only eat a little bit.

"Let's go see the chickens." Xiulan reluctantly stopped looking at the food and said.

"You go first." Lin Heng nodded. He went to burn charcoal and put it in the pottery stove. Xiulan can heat the food anytime she wants.

Then she went to watch the chicks hatch out with Xiulan Xiaoxia. After watching for a while, Xiulan leaned on Lin Heng a little sleepily. After a while, Lin Heng took her to the bedroom to rest.

Lin Heng first went to cover Xiulan's vomiting with plant ash, then dumped it into the vegetable garden, and then accompanied Xiaoxia there to watch the chicks hatch.

"Dad, three more chicks have come out." Xiaoxia raised her head and said happily.

"That's great. I'll let Xiaoxia feed her when they all come out, okay?" Lin Heng touched her little face. He felt that Xiaoxia's concentration seemed to be much stronger than that of ordinary children. She could see so much when watching a chick hatch. Long.

"Okay." Xiulan's big happy eyes turned into crescent moons.

Lin Heng sat down and hugged her to watch together. This was indeed a very interesting thing. In the end, only 16 eggs were left here. Now four eggs have been hatched, and eggs have not been hatched.

He looked carefully and saw that six of the 12 were also moving, and soon they all started pecking at the eggshells.

After more than forty minutes, all six of them came out of their shells one after another, but there was no movement on the remaining ones.

Lin Heng found a new box, connected the twenty-five-watt tungsten light bulb, poured the boiling water that had been dried until it was warm, and poured it into a small saucer for Xiaoxia to put in it.

Then catch the chicks and put them here, let them drink water to expel the meconium in their bodies. Listening to the chirping of the chickens, Xiaoxia felt happy. She lay beside the box and watched them drink water.

She had watched these chicks since they were eggs, so she felt a sense of accomplishment and pride.

"Dad, why are there still chicks that haven't hatched yet? Are they asleep?" Xiaoxia looked at the remaining six eggs and asked curiously.

Lin Heng took a look at the six eggs. There was a high probability that they were all dead. Even perfectly fertilized eggs were not 100% able to develop into chicks. There were various dangers and difficulties along the way.

"Yes, maybe he will hatch out tomorrow." Lin Heng said with a smile, not wanting to tell his daughter such a cruel thing yet.

Let’s wait until she is older to teach her these things.

"Come on, let's cook for the chicken." Lin Heng pulled her and said.

Upon hearing this, Xiaoxia jumped up and down happily: "Okay, let's cook for the chicken."

The rice for the chickens is very simple, just fine cornmeal and some fine sand. The reason why fine sand is added is because newborn chicks do not have the ability to digest, and fine sand helps digestion.

"Chicken coo coo coo, eat quickly, eat quickly!" Xiaoxia put down the wooden plate with food and watched the chicken eat with wide eyes.

The chicks' hair has long since dried, nine of them have fluffy goose-yellow hair, and one has black hair. They are all black-bone chickens, with their paws and beaks all black.

"This is Xiao Hei, this is Xiao Huang, here is Xiao Huang..."

Xiaoxia looked at the chicks eating and named them. These furry little guys were so cute and she liked them so much.

"Dong Dong Dong!!"

They were feeding the chickens when suddenly there was a knock on the door outside.

(End of this chapter)