Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 275 The Wang family’s calving ewe

"Xiaoxia has to work hard if she wants to tell a good story." Tian Yan touched her face and said with a smile.

Xiaoxia nodded confidently: "I will."

Praise is the best source of motivation for children. Unfortunately, most parents don't know this and will only treat their children with endless belittling and criticism.

After all, you don’t need a certificate to give birth to a child.

"Let's go back to the house to change your clothes." Xiulan said, holding her daughter's hand.

Several people returned to the yard. Xiulan changed Xiaoxia's clothes. Tian Yan wanted to teach her paper cutting, but Xiaoxia shook her head and said, "Teacher, I want to read."

Tian Yan smiled: "Okay, I'll teach you how to read."

Someone was looking after Xiaoxia. Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said, "Then I'll drive to a shrimp trap under the Huangtan River."

Xiulan nodded: "Go ahead and be careful about snakes."

"Yes." Lin Heng said while pouring the wheat bran.

After finishing dinner slowly and taking advantage of the cool weather for a while, it was time to go back to the house and sleep. After washing, Lin Heng coaxed Xiaoxia to rest, and then went to Xiulan to vent his anger and discuss the plan to create a human being.

"You're so shameless." Tian Yan said with a smile.

Lin Heng said casually: "Two, it can't be three."

"Coming, coming." Lin Heng responded, quickly getting dressed and getting up.

"You don't call it a meal, you call it a face reward." Lin Heng said with a smile, and the dishes were already served after washing his hands.

Sheep usually have two to three babies. The belly of this sheep was not small before, so he estimated that there were two.

"Have the sheep finished laying?" Lin Heng looked at his mother and asked.

He didn't say much, and listened to Xiulan and Tian Yan while eating.

"Mom, I need to pee." Xiaoxia also woke up rubbing her eyes and said drowsily.

Finding a place with gentle water flow and abundant aquatic plants, Lin Heng put the shrimp pot filled with baited peanut cakes into it. After making sure that there was no problem, he turned around and left.

"You go and open the door for Mom, and I'll help Xiaoxia get dressed."

"Hurry and wash your hands and eat. Tian Yan is eating with us today." Lin Heng entered the room and Xiulan looked at him and said.

"Boom boom boom!"

"Has the ewe given birth?" Lin Heng opened his eyes in a daze and said.

The sky was dim and the breeze was pleasant. Lin Heng returned home humming a ditty.

"okay."

Early the next morning, just after dawn at six o'clock, there was a violent knock on the door in the backyard.

Lin Heng also said excitedly: "That's it. Mom, wait a moment and I'll get some food for the ewe."

"Then get up and go take a look." Xiulan yawned and sat up, looking for the underwear she had thrown away last night and getting dressed.

Xiulan put on her black underwear, lifted the quilt and said.

"There are indeed three, but one is not in good health and can't stand up yet." Mother Lin said with a smile.

Along with the knock on the door, Mother Lin's voice followed closely.

Mother Lin smiled brightly: "There are three of them. Our family is very lucky this year. This sheep gave birth to three babies in the first litter."

The taste of venison is very good. Recently, he feels that his yang energy is a bit too strong after eating it every day. He feels hot all over even wearing autumn clothes at night.

"The ewe gave birth to three babies?" Xiulan asked in surprise.

It felt good to drive alone in the wind in the evening. He stopped at Baima Village without going to town. The Huangtan River here was already seven or eight meters wide, enough for freshwater shrimps to survive and grow.

"Really three heads?" Lin Heng's eyes widened. Generally speaking, goats usually have two first litters. If you are unlucky, there will be one. Three goats are definitely lucky.

"I guess it was in the middle of the night last night. When I came over to milk the cows in the morning, I found that the placenta had fallen off."

Lin Heng first picked up a piece of venison with coriander and some chopsticks, then ate some tripe. He also picked up some pieces of deer liver for Xiulan and tasted a piece himself.

"Son, please open the door quickly, the ewe is giving birth."

After several hard fights, the two fell asleep.

Tian Yan was shocked when she saw this: "Xiulan, you are too polite. It's all meat, and it's still venison."

There are still mostly braised pork on the table, as well as stir-fried venison with coriander and stir-fried bacon with Chinese toon.

Mother Lin nodded and said with a smile, "How many did you guess?"

"Then I have to help." Tian Yan picked up the chopsticks with a smile, "This food is so good, it really makes you appetite."

Xiulan smiled and said: "If you don't eat it, it will go bad. Please help me."

After saying that, he went back to the house to prepare things.

Lin Heng nodded, put two shrimp pots and some peanut cakes in the car, and drove to Huangtan Town.

This peanut cake was a small amount that Xiulan and I bought when we asked about the price, and it was specially used to make bait.

Lin Heng went out and opened the back door of the backyard. His mother got up very early every day.

Xiulan heard this and said happily: "Fortunately, I didn't kill the sheep for meat last year. This sheep is really prosperous."

"I want to see the sheep." Xiaoxia said, waving her hands.

"Mom, take you to have a look." Xiulan took Xiaoxia over first.

Lin Heng made wheat bran, added white sugar, brown sugar and a little salt, added water, stirred evenly and brought it to the back mountain.

The ewe has been taken out and raised alone. Two of the lambs are sucking milk from the little ewe, and the other one has weak legs and cannot stand up.

Lin Heng put something in front of the ewe, and the ewe sniffed it and opened its mouth to drink. He checked the condition of the ewe while it was eating, and was relieved to find that there was no inflammation of the birth orifice.

Mother Lin supported the lamb that fell to the ground and said, "Look, son, this little ram can't stand up. It's a little troublesome."

Xiaoxia also squatted down and asked curiously: "Dad, why doesn't this lamb drink milk?"

Lin Heng knelt down and looked at the lamb, and judged: "It's not a big problem. It's just that the ewe is pregnant with too much and doesn't have enough nutrition. Let's just use a bottle to feed milk. After a few days, there will be no problem." "

The little lamb would probably not survive in the natural environment, but with artificial intervention there would be no big problem.

"Then keep it alone to prevent it from being stepped on. I will feed it milk later." Mother Lin said.

Xiulan answered: "Mom, go and herd the cows. I'll feed them later."

"That's okay." Mother Lin nodded.

Isolating the little lamb alone, the three of them milked the cow first. Xiaoxia looked at the little lamb and then looked at her own melon seedlings. Then she turned around and asked her daily question, "When will the melon seedlings bear fruit?"

After patiently answering her daughter's questions, the three of them returned home. Lin Heng heated up the milk and Xiulan found a pacifier. After they finished drinking, she poured some of it into a bottle to feed the lambs.

Xiaoxia wanted to watch together, so Lin Heng had no choice but to take her and the three of them to the back mountain. Xiulan handed over the pacifier, and the lamb immediately started sucking it, looking hungry.

"Mom, I want to feed you." Xiaoxia hugged Xiulan's arm and said coquettishly.

"Come, let's go together." Xiulan pulled her over to feed the sheep together.

"Little sheep, little sheep, grow up quickly." Xiaoxia was so happy as she fed the sheep, with a smile on her face.

After feeding, Xiulan walked over to look at the mother forest musk deer and said with emotion: "Fortunately you planted three acres of pasture, otherwise it would be difficult to raise these animals at home. But how many animals can you raise with three acres of pasture? We have ten animals now, and after the cows and forest musk deer live, there will be more than a dozen.”

Lin Heng replied: "Generally, one acre of pasture can raise two cows and twelve sheep. My mother often grazes them. It is not a problem to raise fifty or sixty animals in three acres."

Xiulan nodded, and she probably understood it if she thought about it carefully.

I went back to the house and made breakfast. After eating, it was only seven o'clock, which was too early for Lin Heng.

After exhaling, he opened the door and walked towards Red Maple Mountain, picking up a slingshot on the way.

I went to Hongfeng Mountain to take a look and found that the water depth in the pond had reached 50 centimeters after leaving it overnight. Father Lin saw Lin Heng coming and said with a smile, "What do you think? Is the water depth okay?"

Lin Heng nodded: "Okay, when I go back and pull some manure, Dad, go dig some water peanuts from the dry land for me."

After hearing this, Father Lin was immediately confused: "Why are you pooping?"

"Spread it in the pond to cultivate fertilizer and water, so that you can raise shrimps later." Lin Heng said with a smile. Most people really can't understand the use of dung in shrimp farming.

Spreading fermented organic fertilizer into the pond can promote the growth of algae in the pond and provide food for the newly released shrimp seedlings.

Natural bait is very important. Now the water in the shrimp pond is crystal clear. The normal visibility for shrimp farming is 30 centimeters, but a veteran shrimp farmer like Lin Heng will control the visibility to about 15 centimeters.

In this way, the water is more fertile and there are more natural algae, and the investment cost is smaller. It just requires very mature technology, and it may lead to disaster if you are not careful.

Lin Heng explained it once, and Father Lin finally understood. He nodded and said, "As long as you are sure, I will dig out peanuts for you after dinner."

"Then I'm going back." Lin Heng turned around and walked back.

After returning to the house, he first went to the old house to take out the wooden cart, and then returned to the house to find the snakeskin bag.

In the yard, Xiaoxia and the little girl Yang Qing from the village were playing ball. Lin Heng took a look and went into the house to get the bag.

"What do you want to do?" Xiulan asked curiously.

"Dig manure to raise ponds." Lin Heng explained.

"Then let me help you."

Xiulan went back to the house and changed her clothes, then took two pairs of leather gloves and worked with Lin Heng.

Lin Heng didn't refuse. He liked to work with his wife, letting Xiulan open the bag while he shoveled manure.

Xiulan looked at the pile of fermented dung in the back mountain last winter and asked, "Is this enough?"

Lin Heng shook his head: "It's definitely not enough. If we only throw away manure, one acre of pond will cost more than two hundred kilograms. The maximum here is two thousand kilograms of manure. But it doesn't matter if it's not enough. You can also spread urea and use inorganic fertilizer for the rest."

There are many ways to fatten a pond, and it doesn’t necessarily involve spreading manure.

"I understand." Xiulan nodded.

Lin Heng filled the bags and carried them to the wooden cart. After loading them, he took the dates over to pull the cart.

After the dung was pulled to Hongfeng Mountain, it could not be thrown directly into it, so it was poured on the edge of the pond. Lin Heng went to the warehouse to get quicklime and sprinkled it inside for disinfection.

After the disinfection is completed, the pond needs to be sprayed with poison again to kill all the plankton, small fish and the like, and then fertilization can be done to increase the algae in the water.

Although the water quality of the mountain stream is clear and clean, there are a lot of plankton, as well as the eggs of some fish and other insects. If the algae are not killed, the algae will be eaten, and it is difficult for the water to become fat.

In addition, it is possible to kill all the natural enemies of some shrimps in advance to avoid unnecessary losses.

Breeding depends on the details. Only if the details are done well can you ensure that you will not fail. These details are all accumulated bit by bit, so novices always cannot raise shrimps well.

After a busy morning, Lin Heng moved all the manure to Hongfeng Mountain. Each bag was almost 15 kilograms. He moved bags, which was kilograms.

We can only guarantee one hundred kilograms of organic fertilizer for one pond, which is a little bit for one acre of pond. We will need to add more inorganic fertilizer later.

"Son, I've dug up water peanuts for you." Father Lin pointed to the ground and said. There were many of them on the edge of the field. He dug five baskets.

"That's almost enough." Lin Heng nodded, and after a brief inspection, he threw the peanuts into the pond.

Terrestrial water peanuts have few insects. If you throw a few in each pond, they will soon grow into a large area. These water peanuts are mainly used to hide shrimps, and young leaf shrimps can also be used. Sprinkling the bait on the water peanut mountains for feeding is also convenient for the shrimps to eat.

You don’t need much of this thing, just one along the edge of the pond. If there are too many, it will easily cause the shrimp to become hypoxic.

Lin Heng dotted a little bit here and there, and it would grow into a large piece in less than ten days and a half.

Lin Heng finished planting peanuts with his father and asked again: "Dad, do you have any work to do this afternoon?"

Father Lin shook his head: "There is no work. The fields are all done and we are just waiting to plant the rice seedlings tomorrow."

Lin Heng said, "Then you can check on Xiaoxia in the afternoon. Xiulan and I will go catch shrimps in the river."

Father Lin smiled and said, "I was just thinking about taking Xiaoxia with me in the afternoon. I heard that the story she told the village children yesterday spread throughout the village. I also want to hear it."

He wanted to show off his granddaughter.

"She is ready to continue talking today." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After chatting for a while, Lin Heng went to turn on the water pump to discharge water into the four indoor incubation pools. It doesn't need to be too deep, just thirty centimeters, and it will be added slowly later.

After finishing it, Lin Heng pulled a cart of forage back, unloaded the horses, and fed the forage to the animals. By the way, I looked at Yangzizi and the female forest musk deer, for fear that something had gone wrong.

Seeing Lin Heng coming back, Xiulan said, "I'll come down when I get back. Let's eat fried noodles for lunch."

"Okay." Lin Heng said with a smile, and washed his face with a basin of water. Although it was cloudy today, the weather was not cool at all, but very hot.

However, Xiulan's shaved noodles are really good. After taking a sip, Lin Heng was surprised: "Agogo leaves are put in this garlic chili?"

"Yes." Xiulan nodded, she knew Lin Heng liked to eat this.

“It’s delicious, my favorite is the Patchouli Leaf Garlic Spicy.”

Lin Heng stirred it and took two deep breaths. The mixed aroma was so good that it was absolutely amazing to eat the noodles.

After eating, Xiulan took some newly bought plastic bags and said, "Help me transfer the dried venison."

This kind of plastic bag is like a sugar bag and can be sealed, so it is very suitable for storing dried meat.

"it is good."

Lin Heng nodded and ate a piece of dried meat first. The dried meat is now completely dry. When you tear it open with your hands, you can see the clear shreds of meat. It has a strong fragrance and makes people feel like they have swallowed it.

Put it in your mouth and chew it, and the more you chew it, the more delicious it becomes. After packing the dried meats, Xiulan put them in a large cabinet and kept them so that she could take them out and eat them whenever she wanted.

On a sweltering noon, except for feeding the little lamb, the three of them huddled in the room. Lin Heng took a book and read it, while Xiulan continued to read the book she had not finished before.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Father Lin came to pick up Xiaoxia and go out to play.

When Xiaoxia went out, Xiulan couldn't wait to say: "Let's go and catch shrimps."

(End of this chapter)