Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

Zhang Xiuhua carried the fox back home, put it in a box, and built a nest for it.

She used the old rabbit nest and made it wider and higher. A few years ago, her family raised a lot of rabbits, but when Baolin and Yaoyao entered junior high school and Jilin also had to take exams, she stopped raising rabbits.

This nest has been idle for a long time, and now it is finally put to use.

After she built the nest, she covered it with a net to prevent the chicken from coming out casually, because foxes would eat the chickens.

She didn't kill all the chickens at home. She wanted to wait for Li Jianguo to come back and work with her. Killing all those chickens and geese was a bit of a task.

After the two children finished school, some fed the chickens and some fed the pigs.

After Zhuzhu finished feeding the chickens, she suddenly found that the rabbit's nest had become taller and bigger, and there was white fluff inside. She thought her mother had raised a rabbit again. She reached out to hug the rabbit, but when she put her hand in, the rabbit didn't move and refused to come out. She rushed into the house, "Mom! Mom! Is there a rabbit at home again?"

"It's not a rabbit, it's a fox." Zhang Xiuhua was flipping through books in the room. In her previous life, she had never raised a fox. She only knew that foxes eat chickens, but she didn't know anything else. She couldn't feed the fox chicken every meal, otherwise it would go bankrupt. These books were from a list compiled by Li Xingjia and bought by Li Jianguo from the capital.

She searched for a long time before she found the introduction of the fox on one of the pages.

"Foxes are carnivorous animals. They mainly feed on rodents, fish, frogs, clams, shrimps, crabs, earthworms, birds and their eggs, insects, and the corpses of healthy animals." Zhang Xiuhua read this line and smacked her lips. Where could she get these things?

Zhuzhu ran in, and Zhang Xiuhua looked up at her and said, "It's not a rabbit, it's a fox. Mom caught it in the woods."

Zhuzhu's eyes lit up, "Fox? Is it that spirit fox?"

"No, it's a white fox!" Zhang Xiuhua continued to look for the next book. Zhuzhu had already run out.

After Jilin finished feeding the pigs, he saw that his sister did not come into the house, but yelled, "What's wrong?"

"Brother! Come over and see, Mom caught a white fox in the woods." Zhuzhu pulled Jilin over.

Ji Lin's eyes lit up and he followed Zhu Zhu. The two of them lay down at the door of the rabbit nest and saw a ball of white fluff inside. Zhu Zhu thought it was a rabbit just now, but now after a closer look, she realized that the fur was much longer than that of a rabbit and much harder.

"Brother, I want to hug it!" Zhuzhu looked at Jilin expectantly, "But I just fiddled with it for a long time and it ignored me."

Jilin thought for a moment and said, "If you feed it, it will let you hold it!"

He looked around and said, "How about we get some food to feed it."

"What does it eat?" Zhuzhu thought his idea was great, so she looked at him expectantly.

Jilin really didn't know, "Feed it some cabbage leaves first? Maybe it will eat them?!"

Zhuzhu thought about it and it made sense. Rabbits like to eat it, so there is no reason why foxes wouldn’t like it.

So she followed Jilin to the warehouse, picked up a cabbage, tore off a leaf and threw it at the door. The fox, which was curled up in the den, moved and stretched its head toward the door. The two little ones looked at it expectantly, excited and happy, "Wow, it moved!"

Jilin also stared at it closely, "It ate it!"

The fox chewed the cabbage quickly and vigorously. It soon finished a leaf. Zhuzhu immediately tore off the second leaf, and this time she threw it a little further away from the nest. The fox really poked its head out. Zhuzhu threw the leaf to it and touched its head. She was so excited that her face turned red, "Wow! So soft!"

Jilin also broke off a leaf, threw it on the ground like her, and touched it as well. This fox was not shy and would accept anyone's touch.

Zhang Xiuhua in the room finally turned to a page about foxes. Foxes are easy to keep and eat everything. Foxes can easily reduce their body odor by eating dog food!

Huh? Zhang Xiuhua found the trick and put down the book immediately.

When she left the house, she saw two little foxes picking cabbages to feed the fox. The fox was so happy to be able to eat fresh vegetables in the winter.

Zhang Xiuhua was a little amused. "You can't just let it eat cabbage. It won't satisfy hunger. It's better to feed it some corn porridge. Just feed it like a dog."

Jilin and Zhuzhu immediately went to the kitchen to cook porridge, and added some cabbage and soybean residue into it.

After cooking, the two of them put it in a basin and placed it in the nest.

The fox ate with gusto. Zhuzhu liked it more and more as she watched. She was no longer satisfied with just touching it. "Mom, can I hug it?"

Zhang Xiuhua thought for a moment, "It's wild, it might have fleas, why don't you give it a bath? You hold it again?!"

Zhuzhu nodded frantically, "Okay! I'll go boil some water now."

At this time, Li Jianguo came in with something in his hand. Seeing that they did not go into the house but stayed outside on a snowy day, he was a little curious, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Xiuhua asked him to look quickly, and Li Jianguo put his luggage at the door of the main room and walked over to take a look. It turned out to be a fox. It was white.

"Isn't this the species from our area?" Li Jianguo rarely sees white foxes, especially this one, which is small in size, with short and rounded earlobes, short legs, short and thick ears, and a round body shape. It looks like a larger rabbit with a tail. It's not their local species, "It might be an Arctic fox."

Ji Lin was very proud. "Uncle Li, this is what my mom caught in the woods. Isn't my mom awesome?!"

Li Jianguo looked at Zhang Xiuhua in surprise, "You actually know how to hunt?"

Even an experienced hunter like him couldn't catch a whole fox. Her skills were too good, weren't they?!

Zhang Xiuhua winked at him, and Li Jianguo was confused.

Zhang Xiuhua asked him, "Is this fox a good candidate for breeding?"

"It's all white, it's really good!" Li Jianguo nodded, "I've asked someone to buy it. I can't bring it here until after the Chinese New Year. If we raise those animals, we won't be able to raise chickens anymore."

This chicken is of course not a farmed chicken. Chickens on chicken farms are kept in iron cages, so foxes can't get in and eat them. But chickens raised at home are different.

"I've made up my mind. Next year I won't raise chickens. I won't even raise geese. I'll just raise those few! To gain experience." Zhang Xiuhua is a bit fickle, so she wants to raise something different. Then she can make more money.

Li Jianguo was relieved to see that she had made up her mind. He looked at the fox and said, "It doesn't look like a wild one, but more like a captive one."

Wild animals would not be so well-behaved. When Jilin touched it, it was not irritable or grimacing, but looked very docile.

Zhang Xiuhua pulled him into the house and secretly told him about the deal between her and Damao. She didn't tell the truth to the two children because she was afraid that they were too young to keep the secret.

Li Jianguo was stunned. "Why would Da Mao come here? Isn't there a border?"

"The river is frozen. I guess they are having a hard time. They always have to exchange food with Ergou." Zhang Xiuhua sighed.

Li Jianguo nodded, "That should be it! They put more emphasis on industry than agriculture. Many farmers can't get enough to eat."

Zhang Xiuhua asked Li Jianguo to teach her some simple Russian. "It was too hard for me to communicate with him. If we could communicate in the same language, it wouldn't be that difficult."

Li Jianguo didn't know whether to laugh or cry. There were only three transactions a year, yet she still took the trouble to learn Russian. She was really bored and was looking for trouble for herself.

Zhang Xiuhua looked at her straight, and Li Jianguo was frightened by her look. "Okay! I'll teach you! But I don't know much. I don't spend much time at home. If you really want to learn, I'll buy you a tape recorder and you can learn by following the tape."

"Okay!" Zhang Xiuhua told him not to forget to buy books.

Next year, she will not raise chickens, but only feed those animals. She will have plenty of time and can spend it learning a language. She does not have a high level of education because her father did not send her to school, not because of her poor grades. If she learns a language, it will be useful to her for the rest of her life.