Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 282 Hatching chicks and precautions for pregnancy
As soon as Lin Heng put down the bucket and prepared to go out, his elder brother Lin Yue came in with a shotgun on his back and two pheasants in his hands.

Lin Yue said excitedly: "Brother, I'm great today. I shot two pheasants with one shot."

This was the first time he had gained something while hunting alone, but he was extremely excited.

"Awesome!" Lin Heng gave a thumbs up and asked, "Brother, where did you hit it?"

Lin Yue grinned and said: "There were three or four pheasants looking for food in a bush on the other side of Sanyegou. I shot two of them."

"It seems that brother, you can hunt independently in the future." Lin Heng said with a smile.

His eldest brother has been trying to hunt these days. After spending a lot of money to buy a shotgun, he naturally wants to make some good harvests.

Lin Hengze didn't have time to spend time with his elder brother because he had to raise shrimps. He didn't expect that he would harvest so quickly.

Lin Yue smiled happily and handed the male pheasant to Lin Heng: "Brother, I heard from mom that Xiulan is pregnant. You can use this to replenish Xiulan."

Before Lin Heng could say anything, he added: "Don't be polite, I'm not polite even if you give me something."

"Okay, thank you, brother." Lin Heng laughed and took it.

"Then I'll go back first." After giving the pheasant to Lin Heng, Lin Yue turned and left with a smile.

Lin Heng looked at the male pheasant, placed it on the stone table, and then went to the back mountain to pick up some sheep manure to fertilize the vegetables.

After applying the sheep manure, Lin Heng sprinkled some plant ash containing phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, which can effectively promote flowers and fruits.

Now the strawberries have basically begun to bear fruit, and they will gradually mature in another week. Even the largest cucumbers can be picked and eaten.

After applying fertilizer, Lin Heng watered them again.

"What's for dinner tonight?"

Two dogs, Xiongba and Fengshou, got in first, then Xiulan walked in with Xiaoxia, looked at Lin Heng and asked with a smile.

"Brother just gave me a pheasant. Do you want to eat it tonight?" Lin Heng said, pointing to the pheasant on the stone table.

"Brother's beating was amazing." Xiulan was surprised at first, then nodded and said, "Then let's eat pheasant. You kill me and fry it, and we eat rice."

"it is good"

Lin Heng nodded. After pouring the water, he picked the big water cucumber and washed it briefly, dividing it into three sections for each person.

"The taste is not bad." Xiulan tasted it and nodded. This was the first time for her to eat this kind of long water cucumber.

While eating a completely pollution-free green organic cucumber, Lin Heng pointed at the strawberry and said, "This will be ripe soon, and it will be more delicious than cucumbers."

"With so many knots, is it really delicious?" Xiulan became more and more suspicious as she looked at the strawberries that looked like snake berries.

"I promise you'll still want to eat it when the time comes." Lin Heng nodded and affirmed.

Xiulan knelt down and looked at it, then picked seven or eight more green chili peppers and said, "I'm going to cut some hot and sour peppers. When you kill the chicken, remember to pluck out some of the dry hair. The chicken feather blanket is still a little hairy."

"Okay." Lin Heng agreed.

"Dad, have you watered the pumpkins in the back mountain?" Xiaoxia looked at Lin Heng, thinking about the fruits she had grown.

"Let's water the water together tomorrow morning." Lin Heng touched her little face and said.

"I want to grow big winter melons and big pumpkins, one for my father, one for my mother, and one for my grandparents..." Xiaoxia waved her little hands.

Lin Heng found a bag and chatted with his daughter while plucking chicken feathers. Xiaoxia had a great time teasing the big cat Jinbao with the beautiful pheasant tail feathers.

Lin Heng plucked the feathers from the chicken and scalded it. He chopped the chicken's internal organs and handed them to Xiulan. Then he tied the feathers to the feather duster.

Soon a colorful and beautiful feather duster was ready, showing brilliant colors under the light.

After finishing the feather duster, Lin Heng used other feathers to make two cat teasing sticks for Xiaoxia, and giggled as he watched her teasing Jinbao.

"It's time to eat." Xiulan came out of the kitchen and shouted after a while.

"I'm here." Lin Heng stood up and went into the room to help serve the food.

Xiulan cooked three dishes in the evening, one dish of pheasant and offal, one dish of garlic pea wedges, and a stir-fried pumpkin tip.

There was no soup, but rice wine was brewed.

After the dishes were served, Lin Heng picked up his chopsticks and rummaged through the chicken basin, and found chicken liver and heart, which he gave to Xiulan.

"Eat this, my darling, it's supplemented with iron and folic acid. Folic acid can promote children's neurological development." Lin Heng was afraid that Xiulan wouldn't want to eat it, so he said disgusting words.

Pregnant women are prone to anemia and folic acid deficiency, so they need to take regular supplements and eat foods rich in folic acid and iron.

"Okay, it's up to you." Xiulan's face turned red and she ate it.

"There are also pea wedges, which are also rich in folic acid." Lin Heng added.

Xiulan nodded. Although she didn't know what folic acid Lin Heng was talking about, she believed him unconditionally.

"Dad, what is folic acid?" Xiaoxia asked doubtfully.

"Eat food that can make you smart. Xiaoxia can also eat more." Lin Heng smiled and gave her two pea wedges.

"Xiaoxia loves to eat pea wedges." Xiaoxia nodded and said while eating.

The pheasant meat tastes good. The pheasant in this season is very fat. The chicken tastes very chewy and has a unique flavor.

"In a few days, I will feed you black-bone chicken to supplement your nutrition." Lin Heng took a sip of rice wine and said with a smile.

Xiulan shook her head and said: "Those black-bone chickens are willing to lay eggs, so keep them. The food now is nutritious enough."

Lin Heng patted her hand and said: "Don't worry, I will hatch a batch of chickens for you in the next few days, and they will be able to lay eggs again in a few months."

"You hatched it yourself?" Xiulan wondered.

Lin Heng explained with a smile: "It uses light bulbs to provide heat for incubation. The number of hatchings at one time is more than that of hens. I will teach you how to hatch them tomorrow, just in case you get bored at home."

The tungsten filament bulbs used in this era are very hot, so they are very suitable for hatching chicks, and the process is very simple.

Hearing Lin Heng's words, Xiulan became interested and nodded: "Okay, let me see how you hatched it."

"And chicken won't make you fat, so it's just right for you to eat." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Xiulan nodded and asked curiously: "Ducks and geese can be hatched in this way, right?"

"Yes, as long as eggs can hatch, I will teach you once and you will definitely be able to do it." Lin Heng nodded.

After saying that, he got up and went to scoop out the rice. Xiulan was now cooking very accurately, just enough for the three of them. Both the chicken and the pumpkin tips were delicious. Xiulan had eaten too much vegetables and left some rice for Lin Heng. Lin Heng just took the vegetables and ate them all in two bites.

After eating, they soaked their bowls and ate outside in the cool air for a while before washing and going to bed.

Now they have put on summer quilts, and in a few days they will lay out their mats. After telling stories to lull Xiaoxia to sleep, Lin Heng took a deep breath and went to bed and lay down.

Xiulan's pregnancy was a great joy for him, but it also meant that he wouldn't be able to have sex for a long time, especially during the early stages of pregnancy.

"What do you think we will do if we give birth to a daughter this time?" Xiulan hugged Lin Heng out of habit and asked anxiously.

Lin Heng turned his head and touched her little face and said with a smile: "Don't worry about whether these are available or not. I love both men and women, so don't be anxious."

Xiulan gave him two children in his previous life, and the second one was his son. But this is not necessarily the case in this life. Not to mention that the pregnancy time is different, even if the time is the same, the birth will not be the same as in the previous life.

Of course, he hoped in his heart to have both children, but it didn't matter if he didn't give birth to a son. He could still have children.

What he loves more in his heart is his wife Xiulan, and their children are just the fruit of their love. He would not beat or scold a woman just because she gave birth to a daughter like those men in the village. The birth of a son or daughter actually depends entirely on the man's luck and has little to do with the woman.

Xiulan leaned on Lin Heng's chest and said, "But I want to give you a son."

"Don't be anxious. Even if this baby is a girl, we can just have another baby." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Then he explained the B-ultrasound technology to Xiulan. Anseong Hospital will definitely have the corresponding machine in two or three years, and then she can just pay someone to look after the boy or girl she is pregnant with.

If all the boys are happy, the girl can just abort and get pregnant again.

"Are you at ease now?" Lin Heng said.

"Reassured." Xiulan nodded softly.

"Then let's rest." Lin Heng nodded and said, taking a few deep breaths and falling asleep peacefully.

The next morning, Lin Heng got up early and read the pregnancy information in the Barefoot Doctor's Handbook again.

"What are you looking at so early?" Xiulan asked curiously after waking up.

"You should read it too." Lin Heng handed the book to her. Because he had already read it once, he read it very quickly.

"Then let me study it slowly in a while." Xiulan nodded, got dressed and got up.

"You should stop wearing tight clothes from now on. Wearing looser clothes is good for your health." Lin Heng reminded again.

Xiulan agreed: "Okay."

After getting dressed and getting up, the two of them still exercised as usual. Even if they are pregnant, they still need to exercise properly. Lin Heng has now begun to teach Xiaoxia to exercise.

After the exercise, I brought a bowl of wheat bran and corn mush to the female forest musk deer, which was cooked yesterday.

"The little forest musk deer are so cute!" Xiaoxia wanted to reach out and touch them, but all the little forest musk deer shrank into the corner, a little afraid of people.

These guys look very agile and really cute. Lin Heng reached out and grabbed one and gave it to Xiaoxia to touch. The more they interacted, the more they became less afraid of people. Like the sheep next to them, they would come over when called.

After milking the cows, Lin Heng and Xiaoxia watered the pumpkins, winter melons and cucumbers. These melon vines are now full of small flowers. Two boxes of bees from Lin Heng's house are actively pollinating. I believe there will be more in a few days. Can't finish it.

After watering, I picked up three eggs.

When he got home, Lin Heng boiled two eggs. From then on, Xiulan and Xiaoxia had one each morning.

"You don't cook it yourself, there are a lot of eggs." Xiulan blamed.

"I like to eat potato pancakes." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"No, I won't cook in the morning anymore, I'll just eat eggs and milk." Xiulan shook her head and added another one.

"I really don't like it." Lin Heng was helpless.

After eating breakfast, Lin Heng and Xiulan began to count the eggs at home. They didn't know if they ordered some, and they were shocked if they didn't order them.

"We still have more than 80 eggs at home!" Xiulan said in shock.

The eggs at home are all buried in millet. I really don’t know how many there are until they are dug out. "It's indeed quite a lot." Lin Heng nodded. Although the chickens usually laid a lot, they also ate a lot.

In addition to Xiaoxia's daily consumption, they also often eat scrambled eggs and even bring some to their parents.

"Let's hatch twenty for the first time and see how things go. We can hatch them later." Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said.

"Okay." Xiulan nodded, Xiaoxia also looked at it curiously.

Lin Heng picked out the thirty eggs he had just picked up recently and took them back to the bedroom. Then he covered the three of them with sheets and looked at them with a flashlight.

"Look, these little black dots inside are fertilized eggs that can hatch into chicks." Lin Heng said while verifying each one.

In the end, only two were infertile eggs without black spots.

"Generally speaking, fertilized eggs can hatch within a month after being laid. It will be useless if it takes longer than that."

After putting the eggs in a basin for inspection, Lin Heng asked Xiulan to scrub the eggs with warm water while he prepared to connect the light bulb.

Lin Heng found a wooden box for clothes and began to modify it. He laid some thermal insulation fabric around it, and then made a small shelf out of bamboo to hold eggs.

After finishing these things, he found a wire switch and connected a light bulb to the box. After connecting it, he first connected a 25-watt light bulb for testing.

After the light bulb is powered on, put a teacup of cold water in the box, and then cover the box with a small quilt. After waiting for half an hour, I put the mercury thermometer in and measured it. The temperature was only 35 degrees, which was a bit low.

Then he changed to a 30-watt light bulb and waited for an hour before measuring again. The temperature reached 38 degrees, which was the right temperature.

"It's time to start hatching." Lin Heng said looking at Xiulan who was picking peas outside.

"I also want to hatch chicks." Xiaoxia ran in first.

Lin Heng touched her little head: "Just watch it. When you grow up, I will let you hatch the chicks with your own hands."

"Then I have to grow up quickly." Xiaoxia tilted her head and said.

Xiulan brought the eggs and asked curiously: "How to hatch them next?"

Lin Heng took a charcoal pencil and drew marks on the eggs. This was not superstitious, but just convenient to distinguish in case he forgot whether to turn the eggs or not.

"It's very simple, just put the eggs on the shelf at the bottom of the box, be careful not to let the water dry out, and then turn them three or four times a day. Now let's put the eggs in, and then turn them every six hours, three or four times a day. Now, turn it ninety degrees every time, and you won’t have to turn it again later.”

Lin Heng said to Xiulan while placing the eggs. He drew four drawbars on the eggs, marked one, two, three and four, and just flipped one drawbar up each time.

"Understood." Xiulan nodded, feeling very strange. She had heard people cover eggs under a quilt to hatch them before, but this was the first time she had seen them hatch like this.

Xiaoxia said happily: "I understand too."

"That Xiaoxia is really smart. She will definitely be able to hatch her own eggs when she grows up." Lin Heng touched her head and said.

They covered themselves with quilts and walked out of the study. It was just noon and it was still early today. Lin Heng took a sip of tea and rested for a while. He had nothing to do at noon and took out a book to read. At the same time, he answered some of Xiulan's questions from the Barefoot Doctor's Manual.

"Husband, let's postpone the physical examination for a few days. The book says that a physical examination after one week is most appropriate."

Xiulan finished reading the book and said to Lin Heng.

"No problem, we can go there in a few days." Lin Heng agreed,
Xiulan added: "Then let's go to the hospital and break bamboo shoots in the afternoon. I saw it was already coming out a few days ago."

"Okay." Lin Heng does not restrict Xiulan's freedom. If she can only stay in the house once she becomes pregnant, don't hold it back.

When the sun passed at four o'clock in the afternoon, the three of them carried baskets on their backs and went to dig bamboo shoots in their bamboo forest.

When they came to Shiban River, the three of them took a dip in the river water with their sandals on. The river water was very comfortable now and the sun was already very hot.

After playing for a while, they came to the bamboo forest. As soon as they entered the bamboo forest, Xiaoxia cheered: "Wow, there are so many bamboo shoots."

"It's already so high, it's too late." Xiulan shook her head.

"There is water in this place, so it will definitely grow faster than other places." Lin Heng said.

"Then you break it off, and I'll peel it." Xiulan said, broke off one of the bamboo shoots, and used a kitchen knife to peel off the shell.

Lin Heng took Xiaoxia to break off bamboo shoots nearby. Xiaoxia wanted to break them off but didn't have the strength to keep doing it. She could only wait for Lin Heng to break them off and carry them to her mother.

There are a lot of bamboo shoots in the bamboo garden, but Lin Heng only breaks off those that are less than half a meter long, and usually those that are twenty or thirty centimeters tallest.

When it was almost done, I helped peel the shells, and finally returned home with two baskets. Except for part of these bamboo shoots used to make pickled pepper bamboo shoots, the rest are all used to dry the bamboo shoots.

Lin Heng was helping to cut bamboo shoots when Caiyun and Lin's mother pushed open the unlocked door and came in.

"Congratulations, sister-in-law. I brought you cherries. I picked them in the town." Caiyun ran in with a bag of cherries and said.

"Auntie, I want to eat!" Before Xiulan could say anything, Xiaoxia rushed over and hugged Caiyun.

"Why did you go out and break bamboo shoots?" Mother Lin blamed Lin Heng.

"Are you okay?" Xiulan said with a smile.

"It's better to be careful, what if you fall?" Mother Lin came over and took the kitchen knife from Xiulan's hand to help cut the bamboo shoots, "I'll cut it, and you can go eat the cherries."

"Okay." Xiulan could only agree.

After cutting the bamboo shoots, Lin Mu directly put them in the pot to boil, then took them out and soaked them in cold water, and then took them out to dry in the sun tomorrow.

Then when Xiulan went to turn over the eggs, Lin's mother Caiyun became interested and curiously went over to watch, listening to Xiulan explain the egg hatching skills she had just learned from Lin Heng.

The next day, after getting up, Lin Heng first went to Hongfeng Mountain to look at the shrimps and then drove to the town. He first checked the situation at the purchasing station, and then bought a ton of cement and some sand and gravel.

He also looked specifically to see if there were any plastic bags containing green grains. But I searched around town and couldn't find anything suitable.

Although he couldn't find a suitable plastic bag, there were many cherries selling in the town. He picked the best ones and bought some back for Xiulan and Xiaoxia.

"Here, I bought some more cherries." Lin Heng drove home and handed the cherries to Xiulan.

Xiulan looked at the scale placed in the truck bed and said, "Why did you bring a scale back?"

"I'm measuring your weight. Recording this information can determine the condition of the fetus." Lin Heng explained with a smile.

"That's it, I understand." Xiulan nodded.

Lin Heng parked the car and returned to the house with the scale. It was an old-fashioned mechanical scale with weights on it. There were very few electronic scales in this era.

Putting the scale on the wall, Lin Heng weighed it himself first. One hundred and thirty-five pounds was about the same for his height of 175cm, and he was neither too thin nor too fat.

"Dad, I want to weigh myself too." Xiaoxia stood up for the second time.

Lin Heng simply measured her height. Her weight was twenty-one pounds and her height was eighty-four, very healthy data.

Finally, there is Xiulan. She weighs 168 pounds, which looks a little thin compared to her height of cm.

"I have gained a lot of weight. I only weighed 98 pounds last year." Xiulan said.

"You weigh 120 and are not fat." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"That's too fat." Xiulan shook her head, refusing to accept being so heavy.

Lin Heng couldn't say anything, so he took a notebook to record the data, and then said: "From now on, just take the test once a week."

"I made fish noodles for lunch and it's ready to eat." Xiulan said.

"It's been a long time since I've eaten." Lin Heng said with a smile, and went to the kitchen to bring out the fish and whistle. The cold fish was very comfortable to eat.

After dinner, Lin Heng took three large plastic bags and walked toward Hongfeng Mountain. In the afternoon, people transporting cement and gravel would come.

Walking on the road, I saw that the village had started transplanting rice seedlings in the past two days, and the early rice seedlings planted by his family were all green, and he would be able to catch eels again in two days.

When he came to Hongfeng Mountain, he first looked at the fish pond. After the last fertilization and disinfection, the water that originally seemed clear gradually turned green.

He experimented and found that the visibility was about 40 centimeters, which was still lacking. However, it was still nearly a month before the shrimp seedlings were released, so it should be almost there by then.

After looking at the fish pond, Lin Heng came to the warehouse. His father had chopped all the grass today and spread it on the ground to dry.

At this time, Father Lin was sawing wood in the warehouse at noon. He saw Lin Heng coming over and said with a smile: "Son, we can build a roof for Lin's musk deer pen and pig pen this afternoon. We have enough wood."

"We'll start working on it in the afternoon. I'll go down in the morning and buy some more cement and gravel, and I'll bring them over in the afternoon."

Lin Heng said something, turned around and looked at the shrimp, then went to the pasture with a sickle to cut a few large bundles of grass and came back, smashed them with a grass chopper and put them in plastic bags.

"Son, what are you doing?" Lin's father asked in confusion.

"Making silage, feeding cattle and sheep is more nutritious than hay." Lin Heng explained to his father.

He is also experimenting now, because making silage requires isolation of oxygen, and lactic acid bacteria will ferment the silage so that the pH value drops so that it can be stored for a long time. Without a revolving door machine or a vacuum cleaner, he could only press the grass tightly manually.

The plastic bag used was originally used to hold biscuits. He took it back from the store, sealed it and stored it in the warehouse. As long as it does not rot after ten days, it is a success.

After finishing three bags of green pigs, Lin Heng went over to help his father. After three o'clock, the sun became a little lighter, and then he started to build the roof of the pig pen and Lin Shen's pen.

The pigsty is a semi-enclosed type and only needs to be built with a general roof. This side of the forest deer circle is completely enclosed, just like building a normal house.

The reason for doing this is to prevent Lin Shek from running out. The jumping ability of these things is very powerful, and they can jump out of a wall four to five meters high.

Lin Heng left the ventilation opening on the wall, which was the size of a brick. No matter how powerful these forest musk deer were, they would not be able to escape from here.

The two of them had just nailed the rafters, but before they had finished, the sound of a trumpet came from outside.

"The cargo guys are here, I'll let them unload the things." Lin Heng said, and got off the roof.

Asking his mother to help sweep aside the grass on the road, Lin Heng went out to open the gate and came in with the tractor.

"Hey, your breeding base is great, it's so beautiful." Every tractor driver comes in and is shocked.

"It's okay, just unload the goods at the end." Lin Heng pointed to the cement floor where the film paper had been laid.

"Don't worry, I promise to get it done for you." The driver grinned and backed up the car to move the goods.

The cement was unloaded in a short while, and Lin Heng and his father continued to build the roof. In the afternoon, sand and stones were also brought in, which cost Lin Heng another 400 yuan.

"It's finally done."

In the evening, Lin Heng looked at the roof and took a deep breath.

"The next step is to pick a day to move Lin Shek here." Father Lin nodded.

Mother Lin also asked: "Son, when are you going to buy piglets?"

(End of this chapter)