Chapter 287 Annoying things, chicks hatched
"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Xiaoxia ran over curiously.
"Don't bother your mother."
After Lin Heng finished speaking, he quickly brought over a glass of water and 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.
Lin Heng shoveled some wood ash to cover up what Xiulan vomited.
"Mom!" Xiaoxia looked at Xiulan nervously, hugging her thighs.
"Mom, it's okay. You will vomit when you are pregnant." Xiulan touched her daughter's head.
"If you're okay, eat a little more. You can't be hungry." Lin Heng said. In this kind of thing, he could only take care of her by her side and couldn't suffer for her.
"I'll rest for a while before drinking." Xiulan shook her head. Her stomach was feeling uncomfortable.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, took care of Xiaoxia's meal first and then peeled the egg and fed it to Xiulan.
Xiulan had just finished eating the eggs and was about to drink some strawberry honey milk tea when she suddenly ran to the door again: "Um..."
Lin Heng brought her water and paper and patted her back again, and looked at her with heartache as she vomited up what she had just eaten.
Xiulan recovered and shook her head, "I can't eat anymore. I feel like vomiting if I eat."
"How can it be so serious? I can't eat anything." Lin Heng said with concern.
Xiulan took a sip of water and shook her head, "I don't know either. I feel like it wasn't this serious last time I was pregnant with Xiaoxia."
Lin Heng had no answer to this question, as everyone's situation was different. He took the strawberry honey milk and said, "Then try drinking some milk first. You can't just not drink any."
He didn't think of taking Xiulan to the hospital, because this was still a normal situation. It would be difficult to find out anything even if she went there, as the medical level in China is too poor.
"I'll try." Xiulan nodded, drank a little half a cup, and then sat there waiting.
"This seems to work. I don't feel like vomiting so much." Xiulan said with a little surprise. The more she vomited, the hungrier she became. It was too uncomfortable not to be able to eat.
Lin Heng was also surprised and said: "It's okay if you can drink a little. Let's drink a little first. Do you want to eat something sour? Try a strawberry?"
Xiaoxia quickly took the biggest strawberry and gave it to Xiulan: "Mom, I'm giving you a big strawberry. It's so hard to be pregnant with your little brother."
Xiulan was a little touched. She usually always rushed to eat it, but today she actually gave it to herself. Her good daughter was so thoughtful.
She opened her mouth and took a bite. The sour feeling made her happy.
"It seems sour but I dare not eat too much. It makes me feel a little sick." Xiulan shook her head and put the rest in the bowl.
Lin Heng sighed and said, "Then you can rest on the chair for a while and eat later."
He went to get the cushion that Xiulan had made herself and put it under the bench and on the backrest.
"I want to go out and bask in the sun," Xiulan said.
"Then I'll move out for you."
Lin Heng quickly changed to a wide armchair and put a cushion on it.
Xiulan sat down, patted his hands and said with a smile: "Go eat quickly. You can eat the eggs I didn't eat. I don't want to eat them."
"Do you want to eat venison?" Lin Heng asked again.
"I don't want to eat anything. Just eat quickly." Xiulan shook her head.
"Okay then." Lin Heng nodded and ate his breakfast in two bites.
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."
"I will take good care of my mom's dad." Xiaoxia said, clenching her fists.
Lin Heng told Xiulan that he was going to Hongfeng Mountain and he didn't dare drive for fear that the smell of gasoline would make her feel nauseous.
He had to go over there and take a look. Raising shrimps was a technical job, and he was the only one who could see some problems with the shrimps in advance, so he had to run back and forth.
He went to Hongfeng Mountain to see the shrimp fry. He did not tell his parents about Xiulan's severe morning sickness. If they knew, they could only worry. Whether they went over to care about her or tried some folk remedies, it might backfire.
After checking the shrimps, he discovered that the water in the pond was a little turbid, so he quickly added thirty centimeters of water.
After finishing the work, he took some time to check on the musk deer. After a closer look, he discovered the problem. There was a lot of paste-like feces on the ground, but musk deer excrete granular feces.
"This female musk deer has diarrhea!" Lin Heng was speechless.
"Dad, come and help me, and bring my waders." He shouted.
After a while, Father Lin came over with his waders and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
Lin Heng took the water shoes and put them on and said, "The musk deer has diarrhea. Please help me isolate the two little ones."
"Diarrhea?" Father Lin asked doubtfully.
Lin Heng nodded: "Yes, look at what has happened. You must tell me if this happens next time."
Father Lin helped and said, "That might have happened last night. Your mother didn't pay attention when she was feeding the grass this morning."
"But it's okay, I have prepared medicine." Lin Heng shook his head. He caught the two young musk deer and isolated them in a compartment next to it. Then he used a shovel to shovel out the feces in the musk deer pen, and finally sprinkled quicklime for disinfection.
"Let's go back and get the medicine. Just feed hay for the next two days, don't feed fresh grass." Lin Heng reminded. He didn't blame anyone, it was normal for the musk deer to get sick.
"I understand." Father Lin nodded.
Lin Heng changed his shoes and took his father to the warehouse to get medicine. He was worried that the livestock at home would get sick, so he bought a lot of medicine at the veterinary station in Ancheng, and now he needed it.
"Dad, cook some corn paste and let it cool down. Then grind three oxytetracycline tablets and mix them in the paste and feed them to the babies. Throw one tablet into the water when feeding the other two." Lin Heng took out a bottle of oxytetracycline and handed it to his father.
"I understand. Don't worry." Father Lin agreed.
After giving the medicine to his father, Lin Heng went to look at the silage that had been sealed before. As soon as he took out the snakeskin bag outside, he saw the silage inside. The color looked darker than before, but the good news was that there was no sign of decay.
"It seems that this is going to work, Dad. Let's get some more grass to make silage later." Lin Heng said happily. If this works, there is no need to buy a vacuum cleaner to extract the air. That thing costs thousands of dollars and is too expensive.
It seems that as long as it is sealed well, even a little air inside will not affect the fermentation of lactic acid bacteria.
"Then the grass will be ready for harvest in a few days. We can store it for silage." Father Lin nodded in agreement. The grass in the field had only been harvested for more than ten days and was now growing again at such a high speed that no fertilizer was needed.
"That's it, Dad. I'll go back first. Use the red dates to pull the bricks, sand and gravel up to the cowshed and sheep pen. I'll come to build the wall in a couple of days. Xiulan is feeling a little unwell and I need to take care of her." Lin Heng nodded. He probably wouldn't have time to do these things in the next two days.
"Is it nothing serious?" Father Lin asked quickly.
"No, it's just a normal pregnancy reaction." Lin Heng waved his hand and said.
After the chat, he went to get some male shrimps from the pond and hurried back. When he got back to the village, he first ran to an apricot tree and picked some unripe green apricots, which were only the size of a mineral water bottle cap.
After picking the apricots, he asked who had cabbages. He wanted to buy some but was given two large ones instead.
After returning home, Xiulan leaned back in the armchair to bask in the sun. It was very comfortable to bask in the sun as the sun had just come out.
"What are you doing with the cabbage and shrimp?" Xiulan asked puzzledly.
"I'll make you something to eat." Lin Heng said with a smile. He put the dish on the stone table and washed the green apricots and handed them to her: "Would you like to try some?"
Xiulan took one to try, then ate it happily: "It's delicious, give me another one."
Lin Heng felt his teeth sour and shook his head, "It's not good to eat too much, so I'll just help you satisfy your craving."
As he said that, he went into the house, washed the cabbage and made a spicy and sour hand-shredded cabbage, processed the green prawns into shrimp meat and made a sweet and sour shrimp meat. Finally, he took out a pickled bamboo shoot and a pickled radish and put them on a plate.
Just as they were putting everything together and preparing to serve it to Xiulan to taste, they noticed Xiaoxia standing in front of the incubator in the study in a daze.
"What are you doing, Xiaoxia?" Lin Heng looked at her and shouted, asking why he didn't see her at this moment.
Xiaoxia turned her head and shouted, "Dad, it seems the chicks are born!"
"What? The chicks have hatched?" Xiulan in the yard exclaimed first, then got up and ran into the study.
Lin Heng placed the dishes on the table and walked over to take a look. He saw that a hole had been pecked open in an egg in the incubator, and the chick's wet yellow hair was clearly visible inside.
"It's really hatched!" Xiulan patted Lin Heng in surprise.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "It's been twenty days already, it's 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 saw chicks hatch, she was stunned and shocked by the magic of life.
"No, this isn't possible. The chicken has to do this on its own and 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 chick pecks through the eggshell to train itself to become stronger, so that it will not be eaten by other animals. If you help it, it will not become stronger 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 very much. She was not a child who would do anything unruly.
After saying that, he turned his head and looked at Xiulan: "Come out first and try the dishes I made for you and see which flavor you like best."
"Okay." Xiulan nodded. Although she didn't feel like eating now, she still went with Lin Heng.
"It smells so good, even with a sour taste." Xiulan said happily as she smelled the dishes on the table.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Then try them 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 hot and sour cabbage is delicious and very appetizing."
As she spoke, she ate two more chopsticks, then picked up another sweet and sour shrimp, and nodded again and again: "This is delicious too, I like both of them."
She also ate two bites of the sour bamboo shoots and the sour radish just to taste them. Her favorites were the hot and sour cabbage and the sweet and sour shrimp, one hot and sour and the other sweet and sour, both of which suited her taste.
“Hmm…”
Suddenly she dropped her chopsticks and ran out to vomit.
Lin Heng reluctantly brought her some water and paper. Xiulan rinsed her mouth and said angrily, "It's so annoying. I vomited everything I just ate."
She didn't want to vomit at all, but her body didn't listen to her at all.
Lin Heng was helpless and could only say, "You should be fine if you eat less. Then eat a little more after one or two hours."
"I don't believe it. Let me try it again." Xiulan gritted her teeth and went back to continue.
Although he said fiercely, this time he only dared to eat two bites before putting it down and sitting aside obediently.
She thought she could eat as much sour food as she wanted, but now it seems that even sour food can only be eaten a little.
"Let's go look at the chicks." Xiulan said, reluctantly stopping looking at the food.
"You go first." Lin Heng nodded. He went to light charcoal and put it in the ceramic stove so that Xiulan could heat up the food anytime she wanted.
Then he went to watch the chicks hatch with Xiulan and Xiaoxia. After watching for a while, Xiulan felt a little sleepy and leaned on Lin Heng. After a while, Lin Heng took her to the bedroom to rest.
Lin Heng first covered what Xiulan vomited with wood ash, then poured it into the vegetable garden, and then accompanied Xiaoxia there to watch the chicks hatch.
"Dad, three more chicks have come out." Xiaoxia said happily, looking up.
"That's great. I'll let Xiaoxia feed them when they're all 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 watch a chick hatch for so long.
"Okay." Xiulan's big eyes curved into crescents with joy.
Lin Heng sat down and held her in his arms to watch together. This was indeed a very interesting thing. In the end, there were only 16 eggs left here. Now four eggs have hatched, and there are still twelve eggs that have not hatched.
He looked carefully and found that six of the 12 were still moving, and soon they all started pecking at the eggshells.
After more than forty minutes, the six hatched one after another, but there was no movement from the rest.
Lin Heng found another box, connected the 25-watt tungsten filament bulb, and poured some warm boiling water into a small dish for Xiaoxia to put in.
Then I caught the chicks and put them here, letting them drink some water to excrete the meconium in their bodies. Xiaoxia was very happy to hear the chirping of the chicks, and she lay beside the box to watch them drink water.
She has been watching these chicks hatch from the eggs, so she feels a sense of accomplishment and pride.
"Dad, why haven't some of the chicks hatched yet? Are they asleep?" After looking for a while, Xiaoxia turned her head to look at the remaining six eggs and asked curiously.
Lin Heng took a look at the six eggs. Most likely, they were dead eggs. Even perfectly fertilized eggs were not 100% likely to develop into chicks. There were all kinds of dangers and difficulties along the way.
"Yes, maybe it will hatch tomorrow." Lin Heng said with a smile. He didn't want to tell his daughter such a cruel thing for the time being.
It's better to wait until she is older before teaching her these things slowly.
"Come on, let's go cook for the chickens." Lin Heng said, pulling her.
Upon hearing this, Xiaoxia jumped up and down happily: "Okay, let's cook for the chickens."
The food for chicks is very simple, just fine corn kernels and some fine sand. The reason for adding fine sand is that newborn chicks have no digestive ability, and fine sand helps digestion.
"Little chickens, cluck, cluck, cluck, eat quickly!" Xiaoxia put down the wooden plate with food and watched the chicks eat with wide eyes.
The chicks' feathers had dried up by now, nine of them had fluffy yellow feathers, and one had black feathers. They were all black chickens, with jet-black claws and beaks.
"This one is called Xiao Hei, this one is called Xiao Huang, and this one is Xiao Xiao Huang..."
Xiaoxia named the chicks while watching them eat. These furry little guys were so cute and she loved them so much.
“Boom boom boom!!”
They were feeding the chickens when there was a knock on the door.
(End of this chapter)
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