My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 174 Morning Bull Stomach

  The night wind in the early morning is blowing, and countless bright stars are scattered in the night sky. The faint starlight sprinkled on the trees and wood stacks, like a hazy thin layer of frost.

  Chen Ling put on his coat and went out, followed the two brothers Chen Ze and went out to the fourth grandma's house in the north of the village.

  The fourth grandmother is from the grandfather's house in the new year.

   is the Chen Gannian who got his life back from the wolf's mouth.

   is also the mother-in-law of Wang Xiuhua, the leader of the women's team in the village.

  The two old people used to be very good at treating the younger generation.

   is just exhausted by the heavy physical work.

  The fourth grandmother has inconvenient legs and feet, and has been unable to get out of bed for two years.

  Chen Gannian also had mental problems before.

   Therefore, the children and grandchildren don’t let them go out very often on weekdays, and they deliver three meals a day to the old house.

  I didn’t expect that it would be over in just a few years.

   All belong to the old Chen family.

   Weddings, weddings and weddings cannot be absent.

   The old house where the fourth grandmother lived is adjacent to Chen Sangui's house. Behind the house is an earthy hillside, with jujube thorns and other miscellaneous trees growing. After the flood, the old house has been repaired, but the courtyard wall and courtyard dam have not been repaired.

   After the three of them arrived, the yard was brightly lit, and many people came. They stayed in front of the old house together and whispered something. The eldest son, Chen Yongsheng, was still crying with tears streaming down his face, and the air filled with a sad atmosphere.

   "My mother, she was fine yesterday afternoon, and she even ate a big bowl of noodles. If you say no, then you can't do it..."

   "But I dreamed a few days ago that Lord Yama came to call her."

   "I've been getting confused for a while these days. I'm just talking about my childhood."

   "It was a pleasure to repair it, and I didn't suffer."

  Obviously, at this time, the Fourth Grandma had already left.

   Wang Xiuhua, the eldest daughter-in-law, wiped her tears and walked out to prepare for the funeral.

  Wang Xiuhua was timid and was born afraid of ghosts.

  Since the fourth grandmother fell out of bed, she has been attentive and considerate, for fear that the fourth grandmother will think about her in her heart and become a ghost and come back to find her after her death.

   Since then, everyone in the village will say she is virtuous.

   Now she has taken out the pre-prepared shroud and went into the house to put it on while her mother-in-law still has body temperature.

  Her husband, Chen Yongsheng, the eldest son of the fourth grandmother, was still kneeling beside his mother, taking the fire paper that his uncle handed to him, and burning them one by one while crying.

   "Mother, it's dark at night, slow down on your way."

   After the fire paper is burned, it costs nine catties and four taels, and it is also prepared in advance.

  Because only this jin liang can be taken away by the deceased, this is called road money, and it is not allowed to be careless.

After the    fire paper was burnt, the cannons were fired.

   Three cannons rang out in the middle of the night, announcing to the villagers that someone had died.

  Chen Ling and the rest of the younger generation basically do this.

  Some of them went to the courtyard to shoot guns, while others went to be the Eight Immortals.

  The Eight Immortals are eight young and strong men. Four of them cleaned the inside and outside of the coffin, and the other four carried people into the coffin.

   However, according to local customs, it is not allowed to enter the coffin when entering the coffin, that is, after twelve o'clock at night, the coffin cannot be entered, and the coffin can be entered until the third day.

   And it's already past two in the morning, so the Eight Immortals put the fourth grandmother on the coffin, and it's done.

  Chen Ling and Chen Ze are many grandchildren.

  The grandchildren didn't need much help on the first night, and the Eight Immortals couldn't get on them, that is, put the second kick, help tidy up the house, clean up the sundries in the main room and living room, and set it up as a mourning hall.

   But Chen Ling is still a little different from other grandchildren.

   His performance in the past six months has been recognized by the villagers. He feels that he has the ability, and is willing to ask him to help share more.

   In the eyes of many elders, this is a manifestation of attention.

   So after the cannon was fired, Chen Dazhi called him to find a tailor to buy filial attire.

  Others went to call the paper maker in the village to bring paper money, paper flowers, hanging hangings and other items.

   After a busy job, everything was ready at four in the morning.

  There is a hanging hanging outside the courtyard, that is, hanging paper banners.

   The cannons of "dong", "dong", "dong" sounded again.

  Chen’s younger generation, male and female, are all dressed in burlap and filial piety.

   lined up in a long line according to seniority, followed behind the old man who sent the soul, and took advantage of the night to walk to the west of the village while crying.

The old man who sent the soul carried a bamboo basket, scissors, fire paper, incense candles, and cannon sticks. He led the team out of the village to the vicinity of the Temple of the Earth. cry.

   This is called "feeding paper", also known as "paper temple".

   But in many villages, even on the source of this tradition.

   is most often called "pressed paper".

  I cry when the paper press goes, but I don't cry when I come back.

   Don't cry when you peel off the paper, but cry when you come back.

   According to legend, in the early Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, used the world as his home to treat the poor, and he would bring people back to life.

   In order to prevent the people from going back and forth to find him, he said to the patient: "Don't look for me everywhere, just write the patient's name and address on a piece of paper and put it at the crossroads. When I pass by and see it, I will go home and heal."

  Everyone did as the King of Medicine said, and sure enough, many patients were healed.

  People are generally distraught when they go to press the paper, and they feel hopeful when they come back;

   Since it embodies the impermanence of life and death, it has gradually evolved into the custom of funerals in the countryside.

   After this trip is over.

   Brothers Chen Ling and Chen Ze took off their white filial hats and returned home.

  Tomorrow dawns, and the mother-in-law will come to mourning, and will also distribute different styles of things.

  It is also important to do funerals and filial piety in rural areas.

   For example, the style of the filial hat, the length of the filial scarf and the filial belt are also different according to the seniority of children, cousins, sisters, married girls, and daughters-in-law.

  Some owners are often ill-considered, and for a little filial piety, there are often noisy things on the spot.

  There is a saying in the township: "filial piety is poor".

   Easy to make jokes.

   The next day.

  Chen Ling and other Wang Susu and the old Chen family's daughter-in-law went home from the funeral, they marked the tableware, table and stool, and helped carry them over.

After   , I got on my bicycle and left the village.

  This time, the fourth grandmother is of a great seniority, and Chen Sangui from the family is in charge. Wang Laishun and Chen Guoping also help me keep the gift list.

   And Chen Ling originally made him a cook.

   He didn't like it.

   This red and white thing is specially done by someone in the cook village, and he can get a lot of benefits. What is he doing when he has nothing to do with other people's work?

   This work is tiring, and it offends people for no reason.

   In the end, Chen Sangui had to let him go to report the funeral of relatives in various places.

   This is not bad, you don't have to tie it in front of you.

   Facing the autumn wind, Chen Ling rode his bicycle all the way over the mountain ridge, crossed the water bridge, and arrived at Kinmen Village first.

   Kinmen Village is built on the mountain, but there are only two or three hundred households.

  Chen Ling biked into the village from the bridge, and just a few steps away, he met the young couple Ernier.

   The two were digging a sweet potato well outside the courtyard. When they saw Chen Ling, they stopped what they were doing and smiled.

   "Uncle Fugui, I haven't seen you for a long time. If you're not busy, just sit at home and have a drink."

   Ernier's husband, Liu Hongxing, came up from the sweet potato well and walked to the front of the car.

   Ernier also followed her to the house.

   "No, I won't enter the house anymore. Our fourth grandmother in the village is gone. I'm here to report the funeral."

  Chen Ling shook his head and said.

   Then he took out a list from his breast pocket and asked, "Which is Liu Guangjun's family? This is the eldest nephew of the fourth grandmother, I have to hurry up and let me know."

   Jinmen Village is dominated by the second surname of Jin and Liu. Most of the surnames along the Jinshui River are surnamed Jin, and the rest are surnamed Liu.

   So we have to walk a little further into the village.

   After the two pointed out Chen Ling's location, he went to the door.

  The elderly must come and go quickly when they go to the door to report the mourning. If they don’t enter the door of the house, they can only shout loudly outside the door. After reporting the mourning, they should ask for a mouthful of water and rinse their mouth to dispel the unknown, and then return immediately without staying for a moment.

   But it is not so strict now.

   As long as you don't enter the door, the rest is no taboo.

   "Guangjun's family, which village does this descendant come from? Have you married yet? Tell my daughter if you haven't married, look this is clean and beautiful, and it is just right for my daughter..."

   "You can pull down my sister-in-law. This is from our aunt's village in Guangjun, the descendant of the old Chen family. They have already married a daughter-in-law."

   "Ah? I got married at such a young age. I look like I'm not yet twenty years old."

   "It's less than twenty, that's because people work less and have tender skin, so they look young. It's different from those of us who are exposed to the wind and the sun."

   "Speaking of this descendant, you must also know that he was a messenger in the past. His name was Chen Juncai. He was really handsome and tall, and he had a very good appearance."

   "Ah, I know, the lazy boy of Chen Wangzhuang and Chen Juncai's family, no one dares to say that matchmaker."

   "Isn't it white that you are so white that you are too lazy to play and don't do any work?"

   "Can you get a daughter-in-law with just this baby?"

  Chen Ling was riding the bike with his head down, and he could hear the muttering of two mothers-in-law behind him, which made him laugh for a while.

   Then, continue to go to the next village to inquire, come to the door.

  In this way, from Jinmen Village and Taoshugou, going south to east, there are more than a dozen villages back and forth.

   Only informed the fourth grandmother's siblings, nephews and nieces, nephews and nieces.

   There is no way to do that.

  In the past, there were many children, and there were a lot of relatives, and close relatives and distant relatives had to be known.

   There are also those who are not at home.

   After telling this to his family.

   avoids the matter of going to the door for the funeral ceremony.

   As the saying goes: "It's not strange when people are gifted with red things, and people are not accepted when they are gifted with white things".

  The white gift money cannot be given by family members instead.

   Insincere and unlucky.

   And Chen Ling's pocket was also stuffed with cigarettes.

   Now I come to the door to report the funeral, although I don’t drink water and rinse my mouth.

   But there is a lot of smoke.

   Some give one, and some give one box directly.

This is what    pays attention to.

   Don't hesitate to decline.

   Seeing that it was almost noon, Chen Ling put the cigarettes into the cave, and prepared to notify the last family, so he went to Huangni Town for a meal.

   Today's mourning is going southeast, and it is farther and farther away from Changle Township, but it is getting closer and closer to Huangni Town.

   Huangni Town is not big, but there is a lot to eat.

  Roasted chicken, beef soup, pot helmet, steamed buns, mutton roasted…

  Chen Ling smelled the fragrance from afar.

  When I got to town, I ordered a big bowl of mutton pie.

  This is what he craved most when he was in school.

   But usually I can't eat it at all.

   There is no such condition at home.

   was very anxious.

  The mutton glutinous rice is baked on the table.

  Lamb sashimi, red spicy oil soup, and blue-grey fried noodles are steaming and fragrant.

   Sucks and slips into your mouth, which is extremely enjoyable.

  Chen Ling, one bowl is not enough, another bowl.

   While eating the second bowl, he suddenly heard someone call him...

   "Brother Ling, why did you come to Huangni Town?"

   looked up and saw that girl Jiang Xiaoqing, Han Chuang's object, was looking at him in surprise.

   "Ah, I'm here to do something, you won't go to the unit today."

   "I'm not busy today, but my mother said that I had something to do in my hometown and asked me to go back to see it, so I sneaked back."

   "Brother Ling, do you have enough to eat? I know that you have a big appetite, and I will add some noodles to you. This is my restaurant, you can eat whatever you want."

   "Your restaurant..."

   "Enough to eat, enough to eat, the amount is very large, and the glutinous rice is also delicious, much better than the county seat."

  Chen Ling responded quickly.

   I thought it was a coincidence that I didn’t go out much before.

   Today, I came out and went around a lot, and I always meet acquaintances.

  Jiang Xiaoqing thought he was being polite, so he went inside and called her father out, and added a new bowl of mutton, which was oily and full of large pieces.

   This guy made Chen Ling feel embarrassed.

"I'm a classmate with Chuangzi, so I'm not an outsider. Eat with peace of mind. Later, I know that this is our own restaurant. When I go to town and feel hungry, I'll come over. Uncle has no other skills. It's okay to have a full meal. "

   Jiang's father is not tall, a lean and stocky man with a pitted face and a pair of triangle eyes.

   Later, Jiang Xiaoqing also brought out the bowls and chopsticks.

   It was just noon, and there was no one to eat during the festival today, so the three of them sat down and ate together.

   said a lot.

  Chen Ling also slowly let go.

   Chatting with Jiang Xiaoqing's father and daughter, he realized that Jiang Xiaoqing was called back because his grandfather's cow fell ill.

   She was working as a technician in the county agricultural bureau, and her family wanted her to ask an acquaintance to ask and find a veterinarian, but to no avail.

   And Huangni Town is too small. Many people here are like Han Chuangjia, who set up factories and do business, such as paper mills, cannery factories, coal factories, etc., all rushing to make money.

   The animal husbandry station can’t make any money again, and it’s long gone.

   So finding a vet is not easy.

  Someone who knows something is to buy medicine to feed the cows, and he doesn't want to go to the countryside, feeling troublesome.

   If the sick cow cannot be cured well, if you want to sell it, the price will be greatly reduced.

   And if it is not cured all the time, he will lose weight and lose a lot of pounds.

   It’s not going to go on like this.

   "Have you found a veterinarian? If not, I'll take a look."

   "Brother Ling, you..."

   "I am now a veterinarian at the animal husbandry station in our village. Except for serious illnesses that require this medicine or another to use a knife, I can take care of general minor problems."

"Oh, isn't this just a coincidence? My Da family's cows are not a big problem, they are just diarrhea. They have been pulling for almost two months. At first, they were fed some herbs and they didn't care about it. As a result, they are getting more and more I’m thin, I don’t want to lie down when I’m sleeping, and I don’t move the cows on weekdays, so I’m skinny and skinny.”

  Old Jiangchou sighed: "I originally raised beef cattle, how can this work? Tell me..."

Chen Ling said: "No, but the problem of diarrhea is big or small, whether it is pigs, horses, cattle and sheep, or chickens, ducks and geese, diarrhea is often caused by illness, some diarrhea can be cured, and some are serious problems, let's take a look first What the **** is going on?"

"Is it far?"

   "Not far, it's in the pigeon camp, but it won't delay your work, Brother Ling."

   "It's done, let's go to the pigeon camp. I happened to be returning home from the county seat on the way. Let's go."

   Anyway, after the funeral is over, there is nothing to worry about.

   "If I can't cure it, I'll find you an old veterinarian. I know two or three in our township. The nearest one is not far from the county seat, but they usually have other jobs..."

   "That's alright, thanks for meeting you today."

  ...At two o'clock in the afternoon, I arrived at the pigeon camp, the house of Grandpa Jiang Xiaoqing.

  This is a small farmyard surrounded by earthen houses and low walls of rubble. In the cowshed outside the courtyard, there are three old cattle.

   One bull and two cows.

  Among the two cows, there was a cow with yellow and white flowers standing in the corner of the cowshed with its **** facing out. It was very sick. Compared with the other cows, it was obviously much thinner.

   "Da, mother, Xiaoqing and I found a veterinarian to come back."

   Lao Jiang shouted when he entered the door.

   Then he saw two thin elderly couples in light blue rough clothes coming out. After talking to their father and daughter, they looked at Chen Ling in surprise, probably because they felt young and a little unconvinced.

   But there was no contempt on his face, so he took them to the cowshed to see.

   Entering the bullpen, Chen Ling walked around the sick cow.

   Touch the stomach, look at the teeth, check the cow dung…

   After getting down, he thought for a while, and said to Lao Jiang, "Uncle, do you have a magnet at home? Find me a piece."

   "A magnet?"

   Everyone was puzzled, but they were still big and small, so they found two or three dollars for him.

   After Chen Ling got it in his hand, he picked a piece with strong magnetic force and tried it back and forth near the belly of the cow.

   After trying it, I found that the magnetite reacted on the left side of the stomach.

   "Come and see, the magnet has a reaction. It's obviously iron in the stomach. It is estimated that it has hurt the stomach."

  Chen Ling pointed and asked the old man and the old lady, as well as Jiang Xiaoqing's father and daughter to try it.

   found it to be so.

   were surprised.

   "There are two times in the future, I really can see what the problem is."

   "Master, milk, how can this cow still eat iron in its stomach, can it chew and swallow?"

  Jiang Xiaoqing couldn't figure it out.

   "Well, this cow is not like us. It chews and swallows slowly when eating. When the tongue rolls, it swallows it whole. They don't know if there is iron."

  The old man said, and asked Chen Ling: "Lady, this cow has iron in its belly, so it has diarrhea, right? Can you think of a way to use some medicine to make it pull the iron out?"

Chen Ling shook his head when he heard the words: "Iron is in the rumen. When the cud is chewed, the forage becomes soft. If the iron foam is not soft, it will not go up to the rumen. It can only be sucked out with a magnet."

   "Uncle Jiang, go buy two new ones, the ones with strong magnetic force."

   "Ah? It's not enough to find so many dollars? Do you want to buy a new one?"

  The old lady felt troubled after hearing that, the store was too far away.

Chen Ling was not surprised, and explained: "Iron has a salty taste, and cows like this taste. There are also many cows who eat iron in their stomachs, but if they become ill, their stomachs are not ordinary iron. They are probably nails. Seeds with spikes and thorns eat them."

   "For something like this, if a magnet with weak magnetic force is used, if it gets stuck in half, not only can it not be sucked out, it will fall back into the rumen, and it will also hurt the cow, which is easy to do bad things."

  The old lady now knew what was going on, and hurriedly took Jiang Xiaoqing to buy it.

   Leaving Lao Jiang and his son to help Chen Ling.

   "This has eaten a nail, isn't it hurt in the belly of the cow? Can you tell?"

   Lao Jiang asked.

   "Well, it can be seen that there are no other symptoms and no injuries."

  Chen Ling nodded.

  Cow has four stomachs, rumen, reticulum, double stomach and abomasum.

  Abomasum is the real stomach of cows, and it is the only stomach with digestive function.

  The cow is in a hurry to eat, and the food enters the rumen without chewing.

  Accidentally eaten iron is also in the rumen.

   After chewing the cud, other food enters the abomasum, digested and absorbed, and excreted.

   The iron in the rumen still cannot get out.

  It's not a sharp iron, it's actually fine.

   If it is as sharp as an iron nail, it will not work, and it will be very dangerous for a long time.

   In severe cases, gastric perforation and puncture of the rumen reticulum may occur.

  , or traumatic pericarditis, is the death of the heart.

   When this happens, there will be abnormal reactions such as swollen parts and varicose veins on the body of the cow.

  It was too late then...

   There is no need for treatment at all. If you kill the meat as soon as possible, you can sell more money.

   Now this cow is just inflamed in the stomach. It was discovered early, and there is nothing serious.

   Later, Jiang Xiaoqing bought the magnet back.

  Chen Ling asked them to prepare warm water and use iron nails.

  It is not difficult to get iron from the stomach of a cow.

  Tie a strong string to the magnet first, then feed the magnet with warm water to deliver the magnet from the cow's mouth.

   As long as the cow is willing to open its mouth, it will actually swallow it subconsciously.

   I kept feeding water because I was afraid that the magnet would get stuck in the esophagus.

   Grandpa Jiang Xiaoqing's family is a cow raised since childhood. He also wears a cow nose ring and is led by two old people. Even if he feels very uncomfortable, he will moo and swallow the magnet completely.

   After the magnet enters the rumen, it is not in a hurry to pull it out.

  Let the cow slip back and forth for a while.

  Walk uphill and downhill and go around.

   Let the iron in the rumen fully attach to the magnet.

   "Brother Ling, how long do you have to walk?"

   "Half an hour and twenty minutes is enough."

"okay."

   Soon, Jiang Xiaoqing came back from walking the cow and can go out.

   But when taking the magnet out, be careful not to hurt the stomach of the cow.

   Don’t be impatient or use too much force at this time.

   Just follow the natural reaction of the cow's stomach, like rumination and vomiting, and slowly pull it out.

   There is an interesting name for this process, called Morning Bull Stomach.

  Chen Ling asked the two old men to press the bull's head next to the pillar, fix it, and slowly pull it out. It took two or three minutes before he suddenly felt a lot easier in his hands.

   This is out of the rumen and into the esophagus.

   Then carefully pull the magnet out of the bull's mouth.

   pulled it out and put it in his hand, and sure enough, two crooked iron nails came out.

  In addition to the two iron nails, the magnet also attracted a small piece of iron dross.

   "My mother, there are really nails in the tripe."

   "Such a long nail has been in the stomach of the cow, no wonder the cow has been diarrhea and uncomfortable, it's scary just thinking about it..."

   Jiang Xiaoqing's family was both surprised and frightened.

   After regaining his senses, he kept expressing his gratitude to Chen Ling, "Good young life, really capable!"

   then enthusiastically pulled it to the house and entertained him with tea and cigarettes.

  The family thought about where the nails came from afterwards.

  It is estimated that the cows accidentally ate it while renovating the house after the flood.

   Congratulations to "Roasted Chicken Wings I like to eat" for becoming a Discipline Assistant in this book

   (end of this chapter)