My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 228 Waiting for labor

There are few idle months in the farmhouse, and people are busy in May. The sun in the fifth month of the lunar calendar is already hot, and it is the mid-year wheat harvest season. Even in the hospital, it seems that you can smell the aroma of wheat and wormwood blown by the southeast wind. Fragrant.

In the ward, Wang Susu was half lying on the bed, holding a big bright red peach and nibbling it bit by bit, while Wang Zhenzhen was dangling his feet on the chair beside the bed, peeling the rice dumplings to eat, and the two sisters chatting while eating. .

  Chen Ling was fanning listlessly beside him, his face filled with thoughts.

   "What's wrong with you brother-in-law? Have you suffered from heat stroke?"

  Wang Zhenzhen finished eating a zongzi, and when he saw his appearance, he waved his small hand in front of his eyes.

   "You just got heatstroke."

  Chen Ling pushed her away and looked at Wang Susu: "It's already the end of the month, why haven't you responded yet?"

"I do not know either."

  Wang Susu pursed her lips dejectedly.

   After all, she will be pregnant for ten months by the end of the month, and her belly is also very swollen. She looks like she is about to give birth at any time, but there is no reaction on her body.

   makes her not dare to use too much force when going to the toilet now.

   She is like this, and Chen Ling is not much better.

The days are approaching, the child is about to be born, and he is no longer calm as before, nervousness, anticipation, excitement, and various inexplicable emotions intertwined, churning up and down in his heart, making him restless .

   And these two nights I dreamed that the child was crawling on the body, but when I woke up, it was empty, there was nothing, and the child still hadn't been born.

   Gao Xiulan was fetching water with a thermos. When she came back, she couldn't hold back her joy when she saw Chen Ling's appearance.

   "Hey, don't hang around here, go out for a walk, or go back and bring the eggs to sell. There's no way to do such a thing. You can only be in a hurry when you stay here."

   It's not that she has a big heart for being a mother, but that the doctor has said that it is 100% no problem to have a baby with a girl's physique. The key is to see when it will be born.

   At least let the little guy in Wang Susu's belly stay enough and come up with it.

   "Okay, I'll go home and see Dad, really, will you come back with me?"

  Chen Ling thinks about it too, he can only stay here more and more anxious, mainly because his mood is not right, and he will also be affected by his wife and family.

   It’s not good to make everyone nervous, so it’s better to go out for a walk.

   "No, I want to accompany my sister."

   The little girl shook her head, picked up another zongzi, and ate it.

   "That's fine, I'll go home, you can call the doctor if you have anything."

   "I know, brother-in-law, let's go, why are you more long-winded than your mother these two days."

  Chen Ling smiled and gave her a brain break.

   Then we returned to the small courtyard, put on an ox cart and headed back to the village.

   He started at 10:00 in the morning and arrived at the village at 12:00 noon. When the villagers met on the way, they all asked him why his daughter-in-law had not given birth yet.

   The guys rarely saw his depressed appearance, and they all started laughing at him, "You are rich and noble today, just wait, there will be more when the baby grows up and you will be annoying."

  Chen Ling smiled and replied a few words, and finally asked them to go home to drink after a while.

   Back home, he simply drank two sips of water, and Chen Ling went to feed the pigeons.

   The pigeons in the family have not moved to the farm. Now the number is small and it does not occupy space and is not in a hurry.

  The three pairs of pigeons in the family have also been successfully paired, and they have each laid eggs. After about 20 days of incubation, some time ago, the little pigeons broke their shells one after another.

  There are two young pigeons in each nest, a total of six pigeons. Chen Ling fed the other pigeons and added water. The three pairs of adult pigeons in these three nests also came out to eat and drink.

   After eating, he walked back to the edge of the pigeon den. In the den, all the little bare pigeons screamed and stretched their necks, constantly hitting the big pigeons with their mouths and necks.

   When the big pigeons saw this, they opened their mouths to cover the mouths of the little pigeons, and fed food into the mouths of the little pigeons, and the little pigeons twitched their necks and swallowed for a while.

   This is pigeon feeding.

   Speaking of which, it’s still a bit magical.

  Other birds will feed them after hatching.

   And pigeons are fed pigeon milk.

   Pigeon milk, that is, pigeon milk, pigeon milk.

   Pigeons have milk, it does not mean that they also have milk mills, their milk is still different from mammal milk.

   Pigeon milk is secreted by the pigeon's crop during the brooding period. It is similar in color to soy milk, but if you look closely, it will be more yellowish.

  Because it is used to feed young pigeons, and it is very similar to milk, it is called pigeon milk and pigeon milk.

   When not mating, not laying eggs, not brooding.

  There is no pigeon milk secreted in their crop.

   That is to say, just like people, milk will not be secreted until the birth of a child...

   But compared to humans, and different from mammals: male pigeons also secrete pigeon milk.

  The male and the female will keep the house together, brood the young together, and build their own beautiful home.

Chen Ling stood by and watched for a while, and wanted to take a closer look, but the big pigeons swelled their crops and blew their feathered wings. Pigeon.

   "Look at your stingy, forget it, I'll wait for them to come out of the nest and see, okay?"

  Chen Ling shook his hands, added two scoops to them to relieve the heat, and then put some water in the lotus pond.

   Now in the lotus pond at home, there are only a few red eels and some small fry left in it.

  Red eels basically do not go upstream except when they are eating, and they are usually invisible to outsiders.

   The last time the lynx came here, I specifically told him that the two red eels bought from him produced eel seedlings this year, which were bred by Han Ninggui and others. Those eel seedlings were all red.

   Therefore, Professor Han now suspects that the color of this thing can be passed on to future generations. It should not be a genetic mutation caused by accidental changes in the environment. Under the current situation, it can be regarded as a new branch of eel.

   Lynx also said that even if there is no research value, after these eel fry were raised, they spent a lot of money to buy them back last year, not only did they not lose money, but they could make a fortune.

   This is also the fun for him to search for strange things everywhere. There is fun to find, there are strange things to see, and many times, he can find out.

When    left, he instructed Chen Ling to take care of those Qinling fine-scale salmon, and if he could get the scale up, he would find a buyer at that time.

   "Qinling salmon, rouge, don't worry, especially rouge, wait a few more years, the value is beyond imagination."

  Chen Ling plucked off the two lotus leaves that had been gnawed out of the holes by the insects, got up and caught up with the ox cart to go out of the village.

  After the Dragon Boat Festival, the village was busy for ten days and a half, and all the wheat was harvested. When I left the village, as far as I could see, the farmland was bare, with only a short layer of wheat stubble sticking to the ground.

  The threshing field has also built new straw piles and built new shacks.

When Chen Ling drove the ox cart to pass by, many villagers were drying the wheat. At noon, in the hot sun, they spread the wheat on the wheat field, and then went back and forth on the wheat with bare feet, wading the wheat. Make shallow grooves to make it easier to dry.

   Seeing Chen Ling passing by, these people stopped and smiled.

   "Fugui is back? Has Susu gave birth? When can you drink your baby's full moon wine?"

   "It's almost time, I'll call you at that time."

   Knowing that his family will have a child, everyone is very enthusiastic. After Chen Ling met, they all responded patiently.

  …

   "Our wheat and rapeseed are about to be harvested."

Outside the orchards of the farm, the old man stretched out his hand and dragged a few ears of wheat, put them in his hands and rubbed them, and the full, raw wheat grains appeared in his hands, and then blew away the wheat awns and husks on the grains, and just a handful. Throw it in your mouth and chew hard.

  Chen Ling also rubbed two ears of wheat and threw the raw wheat into his mouth to taste.

  The raw wheat grains are a little rustic. After a little chewing, the mouth is full of wheat fragrance. The wheat grains are still soft and juicy.

   "Now is the time to eat it raw, and a few more southeasterly winds won't work."

Wang Cunye glanced at him, then walked over to the rapeseed field and dragged two rapeseed pods, "There are very few green rapeseed pods, so if it doesn't give birth in a few days, let's find some people in the village to come over. Help me to collect the rapeseed first, the wheat can wait a little longer, the rapeseed is cooked fast, so I can't wait any longer, and it has to be drenched on the ground when it rains."

   "Okay, I know Dad, did you have lunch?"

  Chen Ling looked not far behind the old man, the old man was just taking the little yellow dog to herd the sheep.

   "I've eaten it. It's easy for me to eat alone. Our family eats so much. Are you still afraid that I'll be hungry?"

Wang Cunye smiled, then pointed to the small river channel at the foot of the mountain: "By the way, there are a few wild peach trees over there, as well as wild loquat trees, the fruit is sweet, and the watermelon is ripe, you will come back later. Pick two more when you go to the county seat."

  Chen Ling took a look. He planted it last year. After pouring the spirit water, the tree has grown full of fruit this year.

   As for the watermelon, the light is not enough, and it is a little late to ripen, but it does not mean that it is not delicious. Wang Cunye tried one and said it was very sweet and tasted very good.

   "Wang Wang Wang..."

At this time, Heiwa and Xiaojin ran down the mountain. They had not seen Chen Ling for many days. They also missed Chen Ling very much. They circled in front of him, shaking their heads and waving their tails vigorously. All snapped.

   "Okay, okay, don't make trouble, let's go pick up the eggs."

   Weng’s husband and his wife brought their dogs and sheep to pick up eggs in the orchards.

   After picking up the eggs and loading them up, Chen Ling simply ate something for lunch and returned to the county town in the afternoon.

  Eggs don’t have to wait for the market to sell them after they live in the county. They can usually deliver some to the supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores when they are free, or they can sell them at the entrance of the hospital, so that the sales will not be much slower than going to the market.

   If you are lucky on a certain day, you can drive an ox cart around the county town in the morning and you will be sold out.

  …

   This day is the first day of the sixth month, and there are still three days before the county fair.

  Although we don’t meet each other, but today is one of the lucky ones.

   He pulled the eggs from the house yesterday afternoon. Just as he was about to go out for a drink in the morning, a few people came to the door, led by the old lady who had bought his eggs several times in a row.

   Every time he passed by the door, as long as he opened his mouth to drink, he would definitely come out to buy eggs.

   I didn’t buy much, just enough for the whole family to eat for ten days and a half.

I came here today and brought several wives with me, one of them was carrying his little grandson, and when he walked to the door, he pointed at him and shouted: "I know you, you are the offspring who set up a stall here to sell vegetables last year. I bought five catties of leeks from you, and you won't give me a penny if you don't give me a penny."

  Good guy, I also met an old customer.

  Chen Ling smiled awkwardly, "This time the eggs are cheaper for you."

  The old lady laughed immediately: "It didn't open for most of last year, why are you selling eggs this year?"

   "Hi, it's nothing, the price of eggs this year is more expensive than in previous years, I will sell whatever the price is good."

   "Good guy, you are really clever."

   Speaking, the old ladies were busy picking eggs around the ox cart. This time everyone bought a lot of eggs, ranging from seven to eight catties, nine to ten catties.

   After asking a few more questions, I found out that it was after the Dragon Boat Festival that I went to my daughter's house to celebrate the festival.

   "Oh, yes, after the Dragon Boat Festival, after the busy farming season, and I have time to catch up with the festival, I have to take the eggs around today."

   Chen Ling had an idea when he heard this. After the old ladies bought the eggs and left, he locked the courtyard door and set off.

   Just after getting on the ox cart, the little white ox stopped and couldn't walk away, kicking its hooves in place, and screaming restlessly.

   "What's wrong, Xiaobai, are you thirsty?"

  Chen Ling thought for a while, and turned over and got out of the car before drinking the cow.

   At the same time, he secretly blamed himself for selling eggs and forgot to feed the cows. Recently, he has been a little careless in every aspect.

   He took out the key and walked back to open the door.

   Before reaching the door, a small figure in the distance ran over, waving and shouting at him as he ran.

   "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, sister is about to give birth."

   "Go to the hospital, my sister is going to give birth."

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   To avoid affecting reading, the previous single chapter has been deleted. In addition, the group number is in the introduction.

   (end of this chapter)