Chapter 59 A String of Small Ping Pong Balls
I searched around and around, but couldn't find it in several places.
I started to wonder if this kind of thing wouldn't grow around here.
Finally, we decided to try our luck on the flat land outside the small ravine.
That area is low-lying and has plenty of moisture, so it might be better for fungi to survive there.
Once inside, I saw a dense, dark mass beneath the sparse green leaves.
I squatted down and examined it closely, and sure enough, it was a sweet potato peel!
I knew this place was a geomantically auspicious location.
Carefully step on the open ground, trying to avoid stepping on the sweet potato peel.
Then gently pick them up little by little with your hands, trying to avoid touching too much dirt.
Sweet potato skins are very soft and easily get covered in dirt, making them troublesome to wash.
But it's so delicious that a little trouble doesn't matter, especially since it's free.
After picking for about ten minutes, I collected all of this small piece of sweet potato peel.
After returning home, I pumped water directly from the well and began to carefully wash each item one by one.
I felt a bit tired after washing for a while while bending over, so I even moved a small stool made of a tree stump to sit on while washing.
After washing them one by one, I rinsed them vigorously with water several times, and finally felt they were clean.
The cleaned sweet potato peel looks like a miniature wood ear mushroom.
However, its color is slightly greener than that of wood ear mushrooms; it's a dark green.
Moreover, unlike wood ear mushrooms, it's not firm and looks soft and limp.
After washing them clean, I will treat these hard-won ingredients with care.
Beat three eggs, heat oil in a pan, and scramble the eggs until cooked.
Add chopped green onions and sweet potato peel and stir-fry together.
During the process, add seasonings such as chicken essence, thirteen-spice powder, light soy sauce, and vinegar.
Stir-fry for a while and serve. A large plate of stir-fried sweet potato peel with eggs, with its black and yellow colors, looks quite appetizing.
I'm also planning to make a sweet potato skin dumpling soup.
First, pour flour into a bowl, then add water in very small amounts.
Stir vigorously until the flour forms small lumps.
First, sauté the meat in oil in a wok until fragrant. Add some sliced meat and chopped green onions and stir-fry until fragrant.
Then pour in an appropriate amount of warm water, and add various seasonings such as light soy sauce and chicken essence.
Once the water boils, add the small dough balls one by one, and then stir frequently.
When the dough is almost cooked, add a small handful of sweet potato peels and a small handful of green vegetable leaves.
When the noodle soup boils again, the dumpling soup is ready.
After it's done, drizzle two drops of sesame oil on top, and the aroma will immediately fill the air.
The thick dumpling soup, mixed with black sweet potato peels and small green vegetables, looks very tempting.
After a bowl of hot dumpling soup, take a couple of bites of scrambled eggs with sweet potato peel.
It's absolutely delicious.
After I finished eating, I mixed the remaining dumpling soup and eggs together in the pot.
First feed it to Xiaodi, who is in postpartum confinement, and then give the rest to Xiaogua.
Xiao Gua has been behaving quite well these past few days. He no longer plays around recklessly and occasionally peeks at the puppies from the doorway.
Seeing that he was slightly more agreeable, I decided not to treat him poorly anymore.
While Xiaodi was eating, I made some leftover goat milk powder for it.
I hope you drink more nutritious drinks, which are good for your health and can help with milk production, so the puppies can eat more.
The puppy is still dazed and confused, its eyes are not yet open, and it does nothing but eat and sleep, just like when it was little Di and Xiaogua.
But they will be happier in the future.
Unlike Xiaodi and Xiaogua, who were trapped in the house all day long for two years.
After feeding the little melons, I went out to feed the chickens.
Influenced by the small-scale production of puppies, I unconsciously began to observe the hens incubating their eggs.
It was only upon this observation that they discovered that the hen had quietly hatched several chicks sometime earlier.
There seemed to be seven or eight of them, like a string of small ping-pong balls, following behind their mother hen.
When the mother hen comes to eat, the other hens come running over in a row.
The other chickens were also quite friendly and didn't bully the chicks.
Life is truly amazing. Just a few days ago, these were cold eggs, and now they have turned into bright yellow, vibrant lives.
This caught me off guard, but it was also a pleasant surprise.
I plan to separate the hen and the chicks.
When I first started raising chicks, I fed them millet for a while.
So I plan to feed these newly hatched chicks some millet separately.
Building a separate chicken coop would be too much trouble, so we plan to let them roam freely.
Take the old henhouse used for hatching chicks directly out of the henhouse and place it in a corner next to the windshield.
At night, the mother hen stays here with her chicks.
During the day, the mother hen can take her chicks out for a stroll to eat insects and wild vegetables.
My maternal grandmother's house used to be like this.
When I visited my maternal grandmother's house, I often saw a large hen with a small bunch of chicks running around.
Following my grandmother's example is probably the right thing to do.
So for the next few days, I kept seeing a speckled hen leading a bunch of little ping-pong balls around the yard.
Sometimes they peck at ants at the base of the wall, and sometimes they eat the grass growing between the bricks.
No matter where Mother goes, you can always see little yellow balls moving quickly following her.
Little Gua was too scared to go inside to see the puppies, but he dared to look at the chicks.
They always like to paw at the chicks when their mothers aren't looking.
The chicks are too small; they trip and fall over if you touch them.
When the chick tripped and fell, the little melon was overjoyed and jumped around on the spot.
However, he usually doesn't stay happy for long at this point.
The mother hen always notices quickly that her chicks are being bullied.
Then, with its wings spread and the feathers on its neck standing on end, it lunged forward fiercely.
They chased after Zhang Xiaogua and gave him a good peck.
It's unclear whether Xiaogua was genuinely scared or simply didn't want to cause trouble.
As soon as the mother hen chased after it, it tucked its tail between its legs and ran away as fast as it could.
Whenever I see this, I sternly reprimand Xiaogua.
But Xiaogua didn't care about my scolding at all. After getting my forgiveness with a grin, he would do it again next time.
This makes me think that Xiaogua is a heartless idiot.
However, not long after, I suddenly changed my mind.
Since the end of the extreme cold, there are far fewer animals in nature.
Not only are flies and mosquitoes rarely seen, but even the chirping of birds is rarely heard.
In this situation, an uninvited guest arrived at the house one morning.
I was awakened by Xiaogua's barking.
Little Gua rarely barks. During the time he lived in the room during the extreme cold apocalypse, he hardly barked at all.
Today, however, it emitted a threatening howling sound.
I immediately snapped out of my drowsy state after waking up.
Pick up the baseball bat next to the pillow and carefully walk into the windshield to observe the outside.
The little melon crouched slightly, staring ahead, whimpering as if threatening something.
A bird about half the size of a small melon was standing in the middle of the yard, facing the chicken coop where the chicks had just hatched.
Little Gua stood between the chicken coop and the big bird, barking like a dog with its head facing the bird.
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