Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 503: Rhubarb gives birth (please vote for more updates)

The gossip that Hu Yinchen said completely eliminated Gao Shufang's fantasy about Zhu Yongjie. Although she had never been attracted to Zhu Yongjie, she still had a good impression of him because he was good-looking and could talk.

Now, this last bit of goodwill is gone!

When Zhu Yongjie came to talk to her again, Gao Shufang became a little indifferent.

Zhu Yongjie was also a good man, so he saw Gao Shufang's intention, so the number of visits gradually became less and less, which made Gao Shufang relieved.

Gao Mingcheng, who is far away in the village, doesn't know what's going on here. Otherwise, he would have to add a chicken drumstick to Hu Yinchen!
But now Gao Mingcheng has been staring at Dahuang for several minutes.

When he woke up in the morning, he noticed something was wrong with Rhubarb. Rhubarb, which usually had a good appetite and was particularly active in eating, suddenly lost its appetite. Seeing it fidgeting, walking around or scratching the floor with its claws, Gao Mingcheng felt in his heart. There is already a vague guess.

He said to Duomei: "The rhubarb may be giving birth!"

Many beauties became interested and immediately stared at Rhubarb.

In the past few years, due to the lack of food, it was rare to see dogs in the village. Many Americans had never raised dogs before, and naturally they had not observed what happens when dogs are about to give birth to puppies.

Many beautiful people asked curiously: "When will it be born? Do you need help? I don't know how to help! Mingcheng, are you still going into the mountains to collect herbs today?"

She asked several questions in succession, and it was obvious that she was a little panicked.

Gao Mingcheng said with a smile: "Dogs are similar to people. They usually give birth in the middle of the night or early in the morning. As for the things to be prepared, I had asked Uncle Chen to prepare them before. He made a large wooden frame and filled it with clean straw. I also laid out an old piece of clothing for the pups to use when the time comes.”

"As for help, it probably won't be necessary. When it attacks, I'll just stay with it."

After Gao Mingcheng had breakfast, he went into the mountains with his bag, but this time neither Black Tiger nor Elf followed him happily, but stayed at home.

Maybe they also sensed that Rhubarb was about to give birth, so they stayed with Rhubarb all the time.

As Gao Mingcheng said, Rhubarb was not in good condition throughout the day, but it did not give birth to cubs during the day, and even at night, there was no movement.

Finally, when Duomei coaxed Xiao Xuxu to sleep, they fell asleep together.

But in the middle of the night, Gao Mingcheng woke up from his dream.

He got out of bed quietly, opened the door, and went to the main room.

The three dogs were placed there. Black Tiger and Elf were also awake at this time, and they were all anxiously hovering around Dahuang.

Dahuang was lying on the straw, looking a little uneasy, breathing rapidly, and making tiny sounds in his throat. It was these sounds that woke up Gao Mingcheng.

He squatted beside Dahuang, stretched out his hand, stroked Dahuang's body, and soothed its anxious mood.

"Don't be afraid, relax, take your time." Gao Mingcheng comforted in a low voice. Rhubarb is a medium-sized dog, and usually there are four to seven pups in a litter. Of course, this is not absolute, and there may be only one pup.

However, there is a folk saying: it is abnormal for a dog to give birth to a litter, which will affect the family fortune.

Some people believe this so strongly that after a dog gives birth to a puppy, he will kill the puppy.

Gao Mingcheng is a reborn person and knows that this is a superstitious statement. The number of puppies is related to many factors, but it has nothing to do with family luck!
Therefore, even if Dahuang only gave birth to a puppy, he would choose to raise it instead of killing it.

After about a few minutes, Dahuang's body suddenly shook, and then a puppy wrapped in fetal membranes was born!
After the first pup came out, Dahuang quickly licked the afterbirth with his tongue, cleaned the pup's body, and bit off the umbilical cord.

After a while, another puppy was born. Dahuang continued to lick the afterbirth, clean the puppy's body, and then bit off the umbilical cord.

Gao Mingcheng looked at the two black pups and thought, the pup in Rhubarb's belly is indeed the black tiger's!
Look at the hair, it’s unmistakable!
Newborn puppies have their eyes closed, so the two little black dumplings can only rely on instinct to find breast milk.

Seeing their little heads moving slowly, Gao Mingcheng was not in a hurry to do anything to help, but continued to wait for Rhubarb to give birth.As a result, after waiting for a long time, no third puppy was born.

So Gao Mingcheng tried to touch Da Huang's belly and found that it was quite empty. Looking at the size of the two little black dumplings, he knew that Da Huang only had two pups in this litter.

Now that the birth was over, Gao Mingcheng quickly wiped Dahuang's body with an old towel, and then moved Dahuang and the pups to a clean nest.

Rhubarb was very weak after giving birth, so Gao Mingcheng brought it water. After it drank the water, the two little black dumplings had found the source of breast milk and were sucking the first meal of their lives.

Seeing that mother and son were safe, Gao Mingcheng didn't stay much and went back to the house to sleep.

Female dogs will guard their pups just after giving birth, so it is necessary to provide a quiet environment for Rhubarb.

In addition, strangers should not be allowed to touch the puppies to avoid stimulating Rhubarb's emotions and causing him to swallow the puppies and bite people.

This is not only true for dogs, but also for many other animals, such as cats, rabbits, etc.

So after they give birth, the owner doesn't have to stay with them all the time.

However, Gao Mingcheng secretly decided to give Rhubarb extra food tomorrow!
Just like people, if you want to produce milk, you have to drink crucian carp soup and pig's trotter soup!

The pig's trotters will be gone for a while, but the crucian carp can still handle it!

So during the next day, Gao Mingcheng rarely went into the mountains to collect herbs. Instead, he went to fish in the largest reservoir in the village.

The reservoir here is small. Every winter, if the weather is dry, the reservoir will dry up. Therefore, there are not many wild fish, but there are still a lot of popular commodities such as crucian carp. Every spring flood, when the water rises, people all over the village will go there. When catching fish in reservoirs and ditches, nine out of ten fish will be crucian carp.

During the spring flood this year, Gao Mingcheng was in the county and did not rush back to participate in the fish-catching ceremony.

But the regrets at that time are enough to make up for it now!

Because Gao Mingcheng spent a whole morning and caught more than [-] kilograms of fish!

Most of these fish are crucian carp, but there are also some unknown wild fish, as well as a few palm-sized male fish and catfish.

These fish were good, but too small, so Gao Mingcheng changed their living environment and moved them to his own pond!

When they grow up, they will be a delicious meal!

Seeing that Gao Mingcheng had brought back so many fish, many beauties also smiled and said happily: "I haven't eaten fish for a long time! I will choose some big ones later and stew fish soup for little Xuxu to drink! But there is no fish at home." The ginger is fresh, I have to ask someone to buy some."

If you eat fish without ginger, the taste will be very fishy, ​​so many beauties left in a hurry.

Gao Mingcheng put Xiao Xuxu on the small bamboo chair with the backrest and watched him kill the fish.

To kill this small crucian carp, you don’t even need to use a knife. Use your thumb to pinch a little bit below the fish’s head and it will break. If you squeeze it again, the internal organs in the belly will be squeezed out.

Swing it twice in the water and the fish will be clean and ready to be thrown into the dustpan.

Xiao Xuxu pointed at the fish still swimming in the water and screamed again.

"This is fish, fish!" Gao Mingcheng patiently taught Xiao Xuxu how to speak. After teaching for a long time, Xiao Xuxu still couldn't explain clearly.

Okay, who told you to be still young?
Let’s learn slowly!

(End of this chapter)