My village can't be like this

Chapter 559 Picked up a little squirrel
After Zhang An and his family finished dinner, it was only around six o'clock in the afternoon, and the heavy rain outside had been going on for nearly two hours.

On normal days, you can go out and walk around, enjoy the cool breeze and watch the sunset.

But now as the weather changes, it's no different than seven or eight o'clock outside.

Fortunately, the rain had lightened up a bit by now, and the sky, which had been dark all afternoon, became a little brighter.

After eating for a while, Zhang An found the raincoat and bamboo hat at home, and was ready to go out to see his fish pond, vegetable garden, and the medicine garden behind him.

The rain was a bit too heavy, and a deep layer of rainwater had accumulated on the road outside. It was estimated that it could reach about half of a person's lower leg.

It was even more obvious in the big river. Everyone could see that the water level before the rain had already risen a lot.

Especially the fish pond at home and the opening upstream of the aqueduct. Because of the drought during this period, the water outlet has not been blocked.

After the rain today, the water level in the river has risen a lot. At this time, the water diversion channel at home is already rolling with water, and it has even spread to Goubang.

Such a large flow of water flowed in. Except for the spilled water that flowed into the paddy fields and vegetable gardens near the diversion canal, most of the other river water was poured directly into the fish ponds.

So Zhang An needs to check the situation of the fish pond. If it doesn't work, he can only open all the flood valves.

There was no need to worry about their livestock pen, because Zhang Jianguo would check around from time to time to see if there was any leakage.

Zhang An is even more direct. Every one or two years, he will spend a day or two inspecting and repairing the enclosure at home.

Especially since there has been heavy rain for so long last year, it will be reassuring after renovating it.

Although today's rain was quite heavy, it was only a drop in the bucket compared to last year's heavy rain. It would naturally not have any impact on the recently renovated pen house.

While Zhang An was putting on his raincoat, little Siqi kept staring at his father with wide eyes.

When Zhang An was ready to go out, he quickly ran over and hugged Zhang An's legs.

That clearly told Zhang An that he had to take him with him.

Since the dark clouds covered the sun today, Wang Fang and Su Ying have kept him at home for most of the day.

At the beginning, it was not so boring to watch TV, but the rain stopped as soon as the power went off, and there was no need to watch TV. The little guy could only squat at home and stare at the little ones, which was already suffocating for him.

Seeing that his father was going out now, he naturally wanted to go out and play with him.

"Go to grandma's place quickly. It's raining too much outside. Why are you going out with me?"

Zhang An knelt down and pointed to Wang Fang and said to his son, if it was drizzling, it would be okay to take the little guy out for a spin, but it was raining so hard outside now, how could he coddle the little guy.

When Wang Fang saw this, she also came over to persuade him, but no matter what the two of them said, the little guy just wouldn't let go and insisted on following Zhang An out with his bullish temper.

"Are you obedient? It's fun outside. Now, I'll count one, two, three, and come here quickly, or I'll give you something nice to look at."

Su Ying happened to come down from upstairs and saw the little guy getting angry at home, so she said with a cold face.

In this family, if there is anyone who can scare the little guy, it may be Su Ying.

As grandparents, Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo doted on the little guy.

Although Zhang An occasionally made a louder voice, he never moved his hands, not even a slap on the butt. The little guy had been in this family for hundreds of days, so naturally he was not afraid of his father.

But for Su Ying, whenever the little guy loses his temper and makes a fuss and no one can calm him down, Su Ying doesn't tolerate him at all and directly teaches him the rules of the world.

If a son was disciplining his grandson, Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo would still say a few words.

But if Su Ying, the daughter-in-law, took action herself, the two of them could only watch without daring to speak.

So as time went by, Su Ying became the person the little guy was most afraid of in this house.

Didn't you see that Su Ying had just finished warning, and although the little guy hadn't let go yet, his little face had already pulled down.

"One...two..."

Su Ying still refused when she saw the little guy, so she walked over with a dark face.

Now the little guy knew he was scared, so he immediately let go of Zhang An, got into Wang Fang's arms, and started crying.

The cry was heartbreaking, and while crying, she secretly looked at Su Ying through the cracks.

"Shut up now. If you keep crying, let me see if I can slap you."

Su Ying didn't agree with him and glared at him again.

The little guy just stopped using his magical powers because he knew that if his mother really wanted to take action, even grandma wouldn't be able to protect him.

But although the little guy stopped crying, he was still twitching in Wang Fang's arms.

Zhang An didn't care about the scene between the two of them as a loving mother and a filial son. In this family, there must be someone who can control the little guy, otherwise he will become lawless when he grows up.

When we came to the edge of the fish pond, sure enough, the water inside had overflowed, and many fish had jumped out of the water and landed on the ground.

In the separated frog pond, we could see that the water was densely covered with frog heads.

Zhang An quickly walked to the corner of the fish pond and opened all the flood valves to let the water flow out.

Then he walked around the edge of the fish pond and kicked those restless guys who jumped out of the water back into the fish pond one by one.

The vegetable garden behind the fish pond is okay. Several drainage lines have been dug in it, and Wang Fang goes there to clean it every day, so although the rain is heavy, it does not overflow the ditches and drown the vegetables in the ground.

Seeing that after putting water in the fish pond for a long time, it still didn't help, Zhang An had to go home, carry a hoe, and go upstream to block the water outlet of the aqueduct.

Otherwise, what is released is not as big as what is flowing in, and it will always be flooded no matter what.

The water outlet upstream of the aqueduct is a water hole made of stones. It is useless to block it from the inside because it will be washed away by the water flow in the river, so it can only be blocked from the outside.

It's just that the people in the river were rushing very fast at the moment, and Zhang An didn't dare to take risks.

So I found two larger rocks, picked up some weeds washed up by the river, and stuffed them into the water hole.

This will definitely not be able to block the water, and there will still be a lot of water flowing into the aqueduct.

However, Zhang An saw that the water flowing in was no longer as large as the water released by the flood valve, so he simply stopped fussing and quickly got up and left the river.

After walking for a long time, Zhang An felt his ears become quiet. The scene of the rolling water by the river just now left only the rumbling sound in his ears.

When we arrived at the medicine garden halfway up the mountain, the scene was simply terrible.

Although when the location of the medicine garden was selected at that time, for the sake of drainage, it was chosen on this half slope.

But now the rainwater from the mountains has washed down, and the low-lying areas are still flooded. Compared with the vegetable garden at home, this land has many more weeds, which were brought down by the rain from the mountain behind. Now they have blocked the fence of the medicine garden and accumulated water.

Zhang An quickly took a hoe and started cleaning up, because many medicinal materials in the medicine garden did not like waterlogging.

If it is slightly submerged for a long time, it may be drowned.

It's probably Zhang An's own fault for being too lazy. If he usually came here to take care of things, it would definitely not be so serious.

Soon, the weeds attached to the fence were cleared away, and the water that was still submerged just now was drained into the nest below.

Zhang An took the hoe again and unclogged a few drainage ditches. Anyway, it was done easily.

Just when Zhang An was about to go home, he unexpectedly found a squirrel in a puddle on the ground. It had been wet and slightly bloated.

Looking at the motionless look, Zhang An felt that the squirrel had died in the heavy rain.

Out of humanitarian love, Zhang An picked it up and prepared to give it a feng shui treasure.

Otherwise, if you keep soaking in this puddle and bask in the sun after the rain stops, it will immediately become smelly.

But when Zhang An picked it up, he clearly felt that there was a heartbeat in the little thing.

"Good guy, you haven't drowned yet, and your life is quite long. Forget it, they say that if you survive a disaster, you will have good luck in the future, so I will save your little life."

Zhang An looked at the little thing in his hand and decided to save its life. After all, it was his fate to meet it.

Besides, except for a few big dogs, there was nothing for his son to play with at home.

Because Hui Qiu's family is a night owl, the cat always stays in the nest to catch up on its naps during the day. They don't wake up until little Siqi falls asleep, so they basically can't see each other.

The Huatou family is arrogant and usually only acts coquettishly towards Zhang An. In front of other people, they have always been very aloof and never lowered their eyebrows.

Although they did not reject their little masters, they could not behave in a flattering manner. After being teased a few times, little Siqi gradually lost interest and now no longer favors them.

Only the few big dogs at home have to make excuses for being like cows and horses in front of their little masters every day.

If someone accidentally made the little guy unhappy, he would be scolded by Wang Fang.

This squirrel appeared just in time. Take it home and resuscitate it, and raise it in the future to share the pressure on the tiger cubs.

Moreover, squirrels are naturally clever animals, and the man in the family will definitely like them.

After returning home, Zhang An immediately found a dry rag and wiped the water off the little thing.

"Hey, where did you get the tree mouse?"

Zhang Jianguo looked at the squirrel in Zhang An's hand and came over to take a look.

Here, squirrels are called tree mice because they have the word "rat" in their name and they get this name because they live in trees.

Zhang Jianguo is no stranger to this stuff. When he was at the forest farm, this stuff was very common in the mountains.

Because they like to dig holes in trees, people in the forest farm will take action against them when they see them.

Not many people eat the meat. It is usually fed to dogs because no one here eats rat meat.

It's just that the fur on their bodies is different. It's a treasure. There are special people in the city who collect it. Zhang Jianguo has sold squirrel skins several times before.

"When I came back just now, the ones I encountered on the road were probably due to too much rain. They were knocked to the ground and washed down. They were almost drowned."

After the water on the little thing was wiped dry, it was still a little stiff from the cold. After all, the temperature outside was a bit low now.

Zhang An poured some hot water and prepared to put a basin on it to warm it back up to its body temperature.

"No need to blanch, no need to blanch, just peel off the skin with a knife. The meat on this thing is not interesting, just leave the skin on."

Seeing Zhang An pouring hot water, Zhang Jianguo thought he was going to burn the squirrel and said quickly.

"No, I just want to see how long this little thing is alive. If I can save it, I'll raise it so that we can play with it together in the future."

Hearing this, Zhang An couldn't help but explain to his father that he didn't want to cut or peel the little thing.

"It must be okay, this thing has two front teeth, and it can bite people very hard. When we were in the forest farm, someone was bitten by this thing before, and there was a big gash on his finger. "

Zhang Jianguo didn't agree when his son said he wanted to save the tree mouse and raise it to play with his grandson.

"It's okay, dad. I'll keep it for two days and take a look. If it's not mature enough, I'll pry out its teeth."

Zhang An didn't worry about raising it well at all. He could raise a leopard that big, not to mention it was just a squirrel, so it wasn't difficult at all.

After hearing this, Zhang Jianguo said no more and just let Zhang An do whatever he wanted.

At this time, the little thing that took Zhang An a lot of effort also woke up.

But it was still very weak and could only open its eyes to show that it was still alive, but it still had no strength to move.

Zhang An found the bamboo cage that used to hold the thermos bottle at home from the side room, stuffed some hay into it to make a simple squirrel nest, put it in, and then threw it into the space, letting it slowly of recovery.

Back in the room, Su Ying was telling fairy tales to her son with a flashlight.

Zhang An lamented that the child's temper was really gone. His son, who had been so cruel by Su Ying that he cried just now, was now lying in Su Ying's arms very obediently.

He is not very angry and does not hold grudges, which are quite good advantages.

"My son can't speak yet. If you tell him this, will he understand?"

Seeing his daughter-in-law telling stories to his son very seriously, Zhang An couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Why can't I understand? Look, isn't he listening very seriously now? And telling him these things often can better help him practice his ability to listen to sounds and pronounce words, so that he can speak earlier."

Su Ying happened to be very engrossed in what she was talking about. After being interrupted by Zhang An, she glared at him impatiently and said.

The little guy was also very unhappy and shook his mother's arm to urge her. Zhang An had no choice but not to disturb the mother and son.

Strangely enough, Su Ying was telling the story of the Big Bad Wolf and the Seven Little Lambs.

Other children would be a little scared when they heard the word big bad wolf, but when my son heard the words big bad wolf, his eyes lit up.

I guess I'm used to playing with the tiger cubs at home, so I don't feel scared at all.

(End of this chapter)