My village can't be like this

Chapter 199 Qiuxiang Gives Birth
Now no one has come to build a house at the entrance of the village, so there are only Zhang An's family and Li Hongbin's family here.

The surroundings of the house are either mountains or field dams. There must be many kinds of snakes, insects, rats and ants in such places.

Zhang An didn't expect much from Gray Ball, not to mention getting rid of the rats in this area.

Just take down the mountain mice that come into the house, and let the house be quiet for a while.

I used to live in an old house, and in the middle of the night, I could still hear rats making noise on the beams. Zhang An really didn't want to continue listening.

Be sure to let these mountain mice around know that there is a killing god called Gray Ball in your home.

As long as they dare to come in, they have to explain here.

Otherwise, these guys would come here every day to harm their own food.

After Zhang Jianguo changed his shoes, he came out with the shovel at home.

Prepare to deal with these dead mice, these things can't be thrown around casually.

It's a hot day, and it won't take long for such a dead mouse to start rotting.

At that time, the surrounding area will be very smelly, and there will be bacteria spreading.

With so many animals in the house, they must not be thrown around.

So this thing is really annoying, I hope it will be gone soon when I am alive.

After being killed, you still have to find a good feng shui place to bury it, which is really annoying.

Early in the morning, a flower magpie flew into the yard and began to chirp on the tree.

But the cry didn't last long, and it was scared away by the flower heads that got up and flew out of the nest.

This is Huatou's daily habit. She wakes up on time in the morning and goes to the mountains to look for food.

After Gray Ball took the credit, the family returned to normal and performed their duties.

Wang Fang started picking up the family's breakfast in the kitchen, and Zhang Jianguo took out the pile of dead mice in the yard and dug a hole to bury them.

After Zhang An washed himself, he went to the pen room and opened the back door.

Let all the animals in the house go out, let them go to the orchard in the back mountain, and breathe the free air.

The same goes for the sheep at home. Zhang Jianguo has not continued to herd sheep since planting seedlings.

Seeing the animals at home going out one by one, Zhang An seemed like a guard.

Let it go out during the day and come back at night.

But when all the animals had gone out, Zhang An felt that something was missing.

After walking around the circle, I found that Qiuxiang was still in the circle and refused to come out.

Qiuxiang and Bohu are the names of the two fragrant deer in the family, and they were given by Su Ying.

Knowing that the musk deer is the forest musk deer that can produce musk, Teacher Xiao Su liked them very much.

Few girls can refuse such a scented thing.

At that time, Teacher Xiao Su had just watched Zhou Xingxing's "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance".

So for a while, my thoughts scattered, so I gave them both this name.

Qiuxiang is a little bit out of sorts today, but the scumbag Bohu has already gone to the mountains.

Seeing Qiu Xiang like this, Zhang An already knew what was going on.

At this moment, Qiuxiang might be preparing to give birth, so Zhang An roughly calculated the time in his heart.

It has been half a year since she was conceived, and the birth of Xiao Xiangxiang or Xiao Bohu may be today.

Zhang An is already very familiar with such a situation.

After all, Zhang An himself, from the past to the present, has experienced the delivery of many animals in his family.

Except for the accident when the ewe gave birth to the third child, everything else went very smoothly.

Before the parents at home knew about it, Zhang An brought Qiu Xiang into the space.

Because Zhang An had observed in the space before, those animals in the space gave birth very easily.

Especially those musk deer, after giving birth to their babies, they can run and jump within a few minutes.

And those cubs born in the space are all in good shape.

Sure enough, Qiuxiang was brought into the space just now, and it was very uncomfortable just now, but now there is nothing unusual.

It didn't take much time for a cub to be born smoothly.

During the whole process, Zhang An didn't see Qiu Xiang showing any discomfort.

If this is outside, it is estimated that it will take an hour or two.

The newly born musk deer cubs are covered with mucus and fetal membranes, and Qiuxiang licks the cubs earnestly.

Clean up all the mucus and fetal membranes on it.

It may be that she gave birth in space, so Qiuxiang didn't expend much energy.

After licking the newborn cub clean, Qiuxiang started to exert her strength again.

Zhang An thought there was only one cub, but Qiu Xiang gave birth to another cub shortly afterwards.

Because in normal times, Zhang An had observed Qiuxiang's stomach.

It's not that big at all, it doesn't look like it's pregnant with two cubs.

Zhang An, who originally thought there was only one cub, now saw two cubs.

Human psychology is sometimes insatiable. At the beginning, Zhang An thought that having a cub would be enough.

But Qiuxiang added another one, and now Zhang An was still staring at Qiuxiang's abdomen.

What I was thinking in my mind was whether it would be like the big black sheep at home, giving birth to three in one litter.

But things backfired. After Qiuxiang gave birth to her second cub, she began to devour the placenta and membranes.

This is an instinct of animals, but it also shows that this delivery is over here, and there will be no third one.

The two cubs, which were licked clean by Qiuxiang, have already started to learn to stand up tremblingly.

Qiuxiang didn't care about them, let them learn by themselves, and buried their heads in the grass to cook.

For it, it is hard to get into heaven once, so it must take this opportunity to have a big meal.

Wait until the two young musk deer are able to stand firmly and walk freely.

Zhang An took them all out, because he was worried that if he stayed in the space for a long time, his parents would look for him later.

Qiu Xiang, who ate a full meal in the space, is now satisfied.

After she came out, she began to breastfeed her two newborn children.

Zhang An didn't care about them, and started cleaning the various compartments in the enclosure with tools.

Maybe the two little Xiangxiang are full, and now Qiuxiang is going to take them out to see the outside world.

"Xiao An, why haven't you finished it yet, come over for dinner."

For Zhang An in the old days, it didn't take much time to clean the enclosure.

Today Wang Fang cooked breakfast, and seeing that Zhang An hadn't come out, she yelled twice at the door.

"Come on, it will be ready soon."

At this time, Zhang An has basically finished cleaning.

In the whole pen, the sheep pen is the most difficult to clean, after all, Zhang An's family has the most sheep.

Originally there were ten black goats, big and small, but after killing one, there were still nine left.

However, the young male sheep bought from Wang Mingqian's family is more powerful. Over the past few months, three or four ewes in Zhang An's family have become pregnant again.

By the end of the year, Zhang An's family had at least a dozen sheep.

This sheep dung is a very high-quality farmyard manure.

But this thing cannot directly fertilize crops or fruit trees.

If you apply fertilizer directly, it is easy to burn the crops to death.

This is like human urine, which contains a lot of urate.

In the past, there was a family in Changqing, and their children woke up at night.

Because it was too dark outside, no one dared to go to the toilet alone, so he urinated directly under the tree in the yard.

After a long time, the apricot tree that his grandfather planted in the yard was burned to death.

Therefore, they need to be collected and piled up for fermentation before they can be used as farmyard manure.

In order to fertilize, Zhang An also built a fertilizing place on the back mountain.

After cleaning the enclosure, Zhang An went home, changed his clothes, and washed himself.

Today Wang Fang didn't cook noodles, but baked pancakes with potato flour and chives.

"Why is mom thinking about pancakes today?"

Usually, Zhang An's breakfast is either boiled noodles or noodles.

Because these two things are very convenient to pack and save time.

Pancakes baked with potato flour are more delicious, unlike those baked with glutinous rice flour, they are not greasy.

Coupled with this tender and fragrant shallot, it tastes quite appetizing.

"I cook noodles for you two every day, and you're tired of eating them. Now that you're not busy, I'll get you something else to eat."

Farmers are like this, just get something to deal with when the farming is busy.

When the farm is slack, I will use my existing conditions to give myself some delicious food.

Zhang An liked to eat it when he was young, but at that time the family didn't make so much potato flour.

So at that time, Wang Fang didn't make it often, and it would be good to eat it a few times a year.

But it's different now. Last year, Zhang An chopped hundreds of catties of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

There are tens of catties of sun-dried potato flour at home, and you can make it anytime you want.

It's just that this thing is a bit troublesome to make, and it will take a little more time.

"By the way, Mom and Dad, our sweet deer just gave birth to two little deer."

Zhang An ate the potato cake in his hand, and told his parents about Qiu Xiang's birth just now.

"No wonder you stayed in that circle for so long, I thought it was difficult to clean up today."

As for Zhang An's cleaning of the pen room, Wang Fang also told Zhang An that cleaning once a day or two is enough, and there is no need to clean it every day.

But Zhang An said that idleness is idleness, and he plans to keep the place where people live clean.

The pen room at home should not be left alone, it will be more difficult to clean if it is left for a few days.

So Wang Fang didn't talk anymore. Sometimes when Zhang An got up in the morning and wanted to go out, she would come to clean up.

"I just said that this morning, how could there be a flower magpie coming to the door to call for chirping? It turned out to be an announcement of good news."

At this time, Wang Fang thought of the flower magpie that came to the door in the morning.

There is a saying in the countryside that magpies come and chirp, and good things are coming.

So Wang Fang thought, the magpie that was scared away by the flower head today must have come to announce the good news.

Otherwise, not long after it came, the musk deer at home gave birth to two cubs.

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, and Wang Fang is always happy in whatever she does in the morning.

After breakfast, Zhang An and his father went to see the seedlings in the rice fields.

For some unknown reason this year, the bermudagrass and hollow grass in the paddy field have grown in abundance and size.

These things had been there before, but they were not very large and there were not many of them.

Such a few trees do not hinder the growth of rice, so everyone's eyes are on the barnyard grass.

After all, ordinary weeds are just grabbing fertilizer, but barnyardgrass may lead to a decrease in rice production, and in severe cases, the harvest may be wiped out.

Therefore, everyone has come to hate the barnyard grass.

The main reason is that this guy not only grabs fertilizer, but is also the host of rice planthoppers, large borers, iron beetles, rice stinkbugs, rice leafhoppers, rice sheath blight, rice blast, rice yellow dwarf and other diseases and insect pests.

So as long as everyone finds it, they will uproot it and throw it far away.

Why not feed the cattle?It is because the livestock may not be able to finish eating, and then there will still be this thing in the grass dung.

In the next year, put the grass manure in the circle into the field, and the guy will still grow the same.

So no one is willing to take it back to feed the livestock.

For weeds such as duck tongue grass and hollow grass, it can be ignored before.

But not this year, because there are too many, and the rice in the fields will be malnourished if left unattended.

In particular, what Zhang An's family planted this year is not a hybrid rice, but an ancient blood rice variety.

The yield is not very high. If these weeds are allowed to interfere, I don't know how much millet there will be in the future.

It is actually a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, which can be used to treat some diseases.

A series of diseases such as cold, fever, cough, enteritis and dysentery.

Not only that, but it can also be used to treat some non-fatal snake bites.

But this thing is everywhere, not only in the fields, but also in those ditches.

So when we met in the field, everyone dealt with it smoothly.

When he arrived in the field, Zhang An took off his shoes, stepped into the paddy field barefoot and started weeding.

If many people are afraid of leeches, they can put on water rubber shoes before going to the fields.

But Zhang An has been in this paddy field for so many years, and going to a mere leech is nothing.

It turns out that when hollow grasses and duck tongues were scarce, everyone stepped on the mud with their feet to fertilize the fields.

There are too many plants this year, and the plants are too big. Zhang An can only pull them up and carry them to the side of the road.

The vitality of these grasses is not as good as barnyard grass, as long as they are dehydrated, they will die in the sun for a while.

As soon as he was talking about barnyard grass, Zhang An found several large plants.

Damn, this dog grows better than Zhang An's rice.

Uncle can bear it, but aunt can't bear it.

I just pulled it out and threw it on the road. Now that the sun is shining, it won't kill anyone.

At this time, not only Zhang An and his son were weeding in Tianba, but many other families also went to the field to weed.

In the past two years, there have been many places selling herbicides in the town, but they have not been widely used.

Many people in the village have used medicine before, but they were given dichlorvos when there were a lot of insects on the seedlings.

There are not many people spraying herbicides in the village at the moment, just a few, but it is of no use.

After 2000 years later, the village began to use herbicides on a large scale.

Zhang An was working outside that year, and Zhang Jianguo asked him about it when he called him.

It is said that there is too much grass in the fields, and every household in the village is using it. Do you have to buy some at home to beat it?

When Zhang An heard it at that time, since everyone was fighting, he could follow suit.

This is not wrong, it doesn't mean that you are afraid of your hands and feet, but it is useless to fight just a few family members.

Other people didn't spray medicine, and when the medicine you sprayed fails, those insects will still come and harm the crops in your field.

(End of this chapter)