Chapter 288 The lamb is in trouble, convenient electrical appliances
"Mom, why are you here?"
Lin Heng opened the door to let his mother in and asked curiously.
Mother Lin took out a triangular talisman made of indigo cloth and said, "I went to the Guanyin Laomu Temple to ask for a peace talisman for Xiulan."
Not only did she pray, she also sewed amulet out of cloth.
"Thank you, Mom!" Xiulan just woke up at this time, came out and said with a smile.
Mother Lin handed the amulet to Xiulan and took out a pin and said, "Just pin it on your clothes."
"Okay." Xiulan nodded with a smile and pinned the thing on her clothes.
"Grandma, come and see the chicks." Xiaoxia ran over and pulled Lin's mother into the house.
Mother Lin was surprised and asked, "The chicks have hatched?"
"Yes, there are ten of them now, grandma. I gave them names." Xiaoxia said with a smile.
Mother Lin walked into the house and said happily, "It's really possible to hatch chicks like this. That's great. We don't have to buy chicks anymore. We can even sell them."
The chirping little chicks in the box are really adorable.
"Then I will teach you how to hatch in a few days. You can hatch a batch in Red Maple Mountain." Lin Heng said. He knew his mother was interested in this and was going to teach her.
Mother Lin said happily, "That's great. Tell me what you need and I'll go back and prepare it. We'll start hatching tomorrow. I've picked up a lot of eggs recently and haven't eaten them yet."
"You don't need anything, just prepare a box, I have everything else." Lin Heng said.
"Then I just need to free up the box for clothes." Mother Lin said happily, and wanted to go back to prepare.
Xiulan pulled her out and gave her a lot of strawberries: "Mom, don't worry, eat some strawberries before going back."
Mother Lin ate one and said, "I've tried this before, it's really delicious. But I'll only eat two, and leave the rest for Xiaoxia."
"Mom, take these back and share them with my dad. There are still a lot more in the field." Lin Heng said. Now only the strawberries in his garden are red. The ones planted outside by his elder brother and father are just beginning to bear fruit due to the low temperature.
"That's fine." Lin's mother didn't refuse. She put the things down and played here for a while, eating a few strawberries.
After a while, Caiyun pushed open the door and came in. She found her mother there and immediately asked curiously, "Mom, you are here too."
"Why can't I be here? Are you not welcome?" Lin's mother asked with a smile.
"No, no, how could I dare? I just think it's strange." Caiyun smiled and waved her hands.
Xiulan waved at her and said, "Come here and have some strawberries."
"Thank you, sister-in-law." Caiyun said happily.
Lin Heng looked at Caiyun and asked, "When will you have a holiday?"
Caiyun ate a strawberry and said, "That will probably take another month. We won't have holiday until early July."
"I understand." Lin Heng nodded. When Caiyun is on vacation, she can help take care of Xiulan, and he can do other things.
"Aunt, look at the chicks that my dad and I hatched." Xiaoxia pulled Caiyun into the house again. She wanted to show off every time she met someone.
Caiyun played with her for a while, and then went back to Hongfeng Mountain with her mother at dusk.
Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and asked, "What do you want to eat tonight, honey?"
Xiulan thought for a moment and said, "I want to eat sour noodle soup. I feel so hungry but I dare not eat it."
"I'll eat the spicy and sour cabbage and sweet and sour shrimp first, and cook later." She thought for a moment and said again.
"Okay, I'll heat it up for you." Lin Heng nodded and went to heat up the food he had made in the afternoon.
Xiulan still dared not eat more and had to wait for a while before eating again, otherwise she would vomit easily. She didn't know why she vomited so severely during this pregnancy.
Lin Heng waited for an hour and then brought out the sour noodle soup. Xiulan took two bites and went back to her room to rest.
After Lin Heng washed and undressed Xiaoxia, he continued to tell her Journey to the West. He coaxed her to sleep and then turned to bed.
Xiulan wanted to hug him but didn't dare to, for fear of upsetting him and making him uncomfortable.
"Just hug me if you want." Lin Heng held her in his arms.
Xiulan leaned against Lin Heng's chest and whispered, "Aren't you uncomfortable?"
"No, it's good this way. Life is not all about that." Lin Heng smiled.
The weather was a little hot, so Xiulan lay down for a while and then lay down next to him.
"Do you want to eat something else?" Lin Heng turned his head and looked at her and asked.
"No thanks, I'm not very hungry now." Xiulan shook her head.
Lin Heng stood up and said, "You want to eat, I'll get you some strawberries and the last bit of spicy and sour cabbage."
Without waiting for Xiulan to say anything, he went out, washed the strawberries, then heated the cold cabbage to warm temperature and brought it in to Xiulan.
"Thank you, husband."
Looking at the food Lin Heng brought in, Xiulan smiled and picked up her chopsticks to eat, feeling warm in her heart. While eating, she thought to herself that when she was no longer nauseous, she would satisfy her husband's wish for her to take a bite and make him feel comfortable.
She had wanted to try to satisfy him in the next two days, but she suddenly started having morning sickness and there was nothing she could do.
The next day, Lin Heng got up early, prepared food, and called his wife and children to eat, just like yesterday.
With yesterday's experience, Xiulan chose to eat small meals frequently and her condition improved. Xiaoxia wanted to bring her friends to see the chicks. She wanted to let everyone she knew know that she had a group of chicks.
After dinner, Lin Heng rode Hongzao to Hongfeng Mountain to check on the green shrimps and musk deer. The condition of the musk deer had improved compared to yesterday, and it should be fine if he continued to take the medicine.
However, another unexpected situation occurred. One of the lambs suddenly had diarrhea, and the situation was quite serious.
"Look, son, I don't know how the water started flowing down its butt." Mother Lin grabbed the lamb and showed it to Lin Heng.
This is a young ewe. The lamb has loose feces flowing down its buttocks. The situation is so serious that it can't even stand up on its hind legs.
"I fed him a tablet of oxytetracycline this morning but it didn't seem to work," said Lin's father.
"In this situation, we can't just take tetracycline. Where can we find Guanyin soil in our village?" Lin Heng asked.
Montmorillonite powder used for acute diarrhea is made of Guanyin soil. If you find it and make it into water and give it to lambs to drink, it can relieve this acute diarrhea.
"We have it in our old house. It's a folk remedy. I have it stored." Father Lin said.
"Then Dad, you go back and get it." Lin Heng said.
"Okay." Father Lin nodded in agreement and turned back to look for it.
Lin Heng locked the lamb aside and looked at his mother and said, "Mom, have you prepared the box? I'll teach you how to hatch eggs."
"It's done. Take a look at this new wooden box your father made recently." Mother Lin nodded and took Lin Heng back to see the wooden box.
This is a square box with a side length of 40 cm and is made of pine wood.
"This is good." Lin Heng nodded.
Then I started to wire the modification, installed the tungsten light bulb, and tested the temperature. After that, I put 20 eggs that I had recently collected in it, and then told my mother how to hatch the eggs and the relevant precautions.
He finished his work, and Father Lin also came back with two round pieces of Guanyin soil. He handed them to Lin Heng and asked, "How about this? Is this okay?"
Lin Heng took it and took a look. This thing was grayish white and had a special smell. Its main ingredient was montmorillonite, which could be used for lambs.
"Can."
Lin Heng nodded, knocked off a portion, crushed it, mixed it with water and fed it to the lamb.
He left the red dates for his father to use to pull sand and gravel to the cowshed, and he took some male prawns back to prepare sweet and sour shrimps for Xiulan.
Xiulan was happy to see him coming back, and said, "Just focus on your work over there. I'm fine here. It's just normal morning sickness."
"Let's wait another day. I'll go over there to work tomorrow." Lin Heng said.
Xiulan had already finished eating yesterday's shrimp, so he went to make some sweet and sour shrimp and spicy and sour cabbage.
While Xiulan was eating, Xiaoxia ran over and pulled Lin Heng to ask, "Dad, where are those unhatched chicks from yesterday? Are they really dead?"
"Why do you ask that?" Lin Heng asked curiously. He peeled the eggs early this morning and found that they were all dead and had been dealt with. He was just about to make an excuse when Xiaoxia asked directly.
Xiaoxia said with some sadness: "Because Yang Qing said that those who can't hatch are dead and will never hatch again."
Lin Heng thought for a moment and nodded, "That's right, they are dead."
"Wuwuwu..." Xiaoxia burst into tears and cried sadly while hugging Lin Heng. Lin Heng's words shattered her last bit of fantasy.
Lin Heng held her in his arms for a while and began to tell her fairy tales.
"Dad, will we die too?" Xiaoxia asked a more pointed question after she stopped crying.
Lin Heng simply answered directly and nodded, "Yes, everyone will grow old and die, including mom, dad and you. This is the law of nature, and that's why being alive is precious. Don't give up on life at any time and love yourself well."
Xiaoxia cried even more sadly: "Wuwuwu... I don't want my parents to die, I don't want anyone to die..."
This time she cried so hard that no one could comfort her. Even Xiulan’s efforts to comfort her were useless.
"Why did you tell her this?" Xiulan said helplessly.
Lin Heng pursed his lips and said, "We'll know sooner or later. It's not good to lie to her. When the children in the village tell her, it will be even more difficult to deal with her if she finds out that we're lying."
"Mom and Dad are here. They won't die and will always be with you." Xiulan hugged her and rocked her.
Lin Heng tried to tell her stories and truths, but she just kept crying. She had experienced death before and often watched Lin Heng kill fish and chickens, but this was the first time she understood the meaning of it.
Finally, she cried herself to sleep, and when she woke up, she held Lin Heng and Xiulan tightly. Through stories, Lin Heng gradually made her understand that people and chickens are different, and they would not leave her for a very long time.
After a day of observation, Lin Heng basically understood Xiulan's condition. It was not a big problem, but she vomited a lot. Eating small meals frequently could only alleviate the problem, and sometimes she would still vomit unconsciously.
Xiulan plans to exercise more, thinking that the situation may be better.
On the third day, Lin Heng prepared breakfast for Xiaoxia and Xiulan, then drove them to the city and met with the owner of the abandoned factory to discuss the purchase.
But the price was still not right, so Lin Heng was not in a hurry. He didn't know the purpose of going to the city today, but to buy an electric rice cooker, some glucose and vitamins, and some meat and pork liver.
Electric rice cookers were not cheap in this era. The cheapest one cost fifty or sixty yuan. Lin Heng bought a good quality one for a hundred yuan.
In addition, I bought two electric fans, spending fifty yuan.
When they got home, Lin Heng excitedly said to Xiulan, "I have an electric rice cooker. You can use this to heat up food in the future. You don't have to keep making fire or burning charcoal. You can also use this to cook rice."
"This thing is not cheap." Xiulan looked at the sea blue rice cooker in Lin Heng's hand, which looked very high-end.
Lin Heng waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's only a hundred yuan here."
In those days, because domestic industry was underdeveloped, electrical appliances were not cheap. One hundred yuan would require a normal person to work for half a year.
"This is not expensive." Xiulan was helpless, but she still came over to learn, after all, she had already bought it.
It was just before lunch, so Lin Heng showed Xiulan how to cook rice. Just put the rice in the pot and add water, and it will be ready in ten minutes.
"No wonder it's so expensive, it's really convenient." Xiulan nodded.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "The advantage of this is that it will never burn. If you want to heat up food, just put it in the small steamer. If you want to cook porridge, add more water. When it's done, just turn off the power."
"I understand." Xiulan smiled and nodded.
After the rice was cooked, Lin Heng went to fry some vegetables. It was even cooler when he turned on the electric fan while eating.
"It's so cool!" Xiaoxia was so happy standing in front of the fan.
"It's good to have money, it's so enjoyable." Xiulan also said with emotion.
Lin Heng smiled and said: "The purpose of making money is to enjoy it. If you don't enjoy it, the money is just a piece of waste paper."
After dinner, he reminded Xiulan about electrical safety, then took the fan and pork liver to Red Maple Mountain.
"Mom and Dad, is this comfortable to use?" Lin Heng said with a smile after turning on the electric fan.
The brick houses here are much hotter than the earthen walls at home, especially in the summer. It is impossible to sleep without an electric fan.
"It's good, but it's not cheap, is it?" Father Lin asked curiously.
Lin Heng said: "This one is cheaper, twenty-five yuan each."
"This is still cheap." Lin's mother opened her eyes wide.
Father Lin nodded: "This price is okay, I can accept it."
"Mom, this pork liver is for you. You can use it to nourish your anemia." Lin Heng handed the pork liver to his mother and said that he originally wanted to give it to Xiulan as a nourishment, but she easily felt nauseous after eating it.
"I feel much better after taking the medicine." Lin's mother took it and said helplessly.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Just take good care of yourself. I don't want you to be in poor health."
"I understand." Lin's mother nodded. She couldn't refuse what her son said.
After enjoying the fan for a while, Lin Heng went to check on the lamb that had severe diarrhea yesterday. Fortunately, after his treatment, the condition had been initially alleviated and the diarrhea symptoms had been alleviated a lot.
After the sun set in the afternoon, they began to build the cowshed. The eldest brother Lin Yue was busy picking honeysuckle and selfheal these two days and did not come to help.
While herding cattle, Lin's mother was also busy picking honeysuckle, after all, this thing is still quite valuable. This year, Lin Heng and Xiulan picked some for themselves to drink. Xiulan wanted to go, but Lin Heng was worried and didn't let her go.
After Lin Heng and his father finished the concrete, they began to lay bricks. This job was not difficult but time-consuming. The two chatted while working.
"Dad, after the cowshed and sheep pen are built, let's dig a hole. I plan to try to build a biogas digester." Lin Heng said while laying bricks.
Today he saw a spherical biogas digester with a revolving door in the city. He bought one and dug a hole to bury it, poured in feces and fermented it. He planned to try it out here to see the effect.
"Biogas tank?" Father Lin still didn't quite understand what this thing was.
"You'll know when I finish building it." Lin Heng said with a smile. Regardless of whether the biogas digester was built or not, he had to find a place to store cow and sheep manure.
"Okay then." Father Lin nodded, knowing that there were many new things he didn't understand.
For the next half month, in addition to taking care of Xiulan, Lin Heng also built cattle and sheep pens with his father on Hongfeng Mountain and took care of the hatched shrimp seedlings.
Apart from being busy with things here when it rains, raising cattle and sheep is not a simple matter of building houses. Lin Heng also studied how to make it ventilated and easy to clean, which took a lot of time.
In the blink of an eye, it was June 22nd, and they finally completed the construction of the cattle and sheep pen. That morning they began the final work of capping the roof of the cattle and sheep pen.
But this time it is a little different from the past, as ceramic tiles are no longer used.
PS: Friends, you must learn to love yourself.
(End of this chapter)
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