walk with penguins

After returning to the village, Duan Jie bought another stone of cornmeal in the village, and then went to Tian Cheng, who raised the most chickens in the village, to buy ten chicks, eight females and two males, for [-] Wen.As soon as Duan Jie came home, he put the ten chickens on the farm. If they were left outside, the hens at home would bully the chicks to death.

Ten small yellow fluffy balls were chirping in the pasture. Duan Jie grabbed them and mixed millet and chopped grass and threw them on the ground.

It took Duan Jie nearly a month to plant all five buckets of grain.That is to say, this farm, if it is in a normal field outside, how can it be so leisurely.If he planted so little a day, by the time he finished planting the grain, the sorghum and corn planted at the beginning would have sprouted out.What makes Duan Jie most satisfied is that it will rain in this space every few days, which is very accurate and saves him a lot of watering effort.

After more than eight months, his body was already very heavy, and Duan Jie didn't dare to work in the field anymore.Every day, I feed the chickens, wash the clothes, and look around.He really wanted to find some fruit trees to transplant into the space. After planting all the crops he bought, more than half of the land in the space was empty, which was really a pity.How about planting some fruit trees and the like, it will be convenient to eat fruit in the future, and maybe it will be a way to make a fortune.

It was already winter, and everything was sluggish. Duan Jie couldn't tell which of the bare trees on the mountain were fruit trees, but he saw someone fishing by the river at the entrance of the village.Standing by the river and looking at it for a long time, Duan Jie found that all the fish those people caught were palm-sized fish.This river is next to the village, and the fish in it are basically caught before they grow big.Duan Jie stared at the little fish, and his mind was moved. There is a pond next to his farm, which can be used to raise fish, and maybe some shrimps and crabs can also be raised.However, I don't know where to buy the fish fry. If I just fish the fish in this river and let them reproduce naturally, I'm afraid I'll have to wait a few years before I can eat fat fish every day.

In the next few days, I saw Duan Jie guarding the river, spending more than ten yuan to hire two or three children to fish there.The children in the village play in this river all year round, and they are unambiguous when they pick up fish. Every day, they can fish out dozens of fish. Duan Jie takes those fish home in jars and puts them on the farm.There are too many fish in the jar, and some of them often die when they are brought home.These fish were cleaned up by Duan Jie and boiled into fish soup. After eating like this for seven or eight days, Duan Jie's face became much ruddy.

The cabbage and radishes in the field had already been harvested, and Duan Jie kept enough for himself, and entrusted Uncle Song and the others to sell the rest in the town.This is the season when cabbage is on the market. Although many people will buy some for storage, the price is not much higher, and the vegetables on the two acres of land are only sold for a few hundred yuan.

Duan Jie wanted to offer some reward to Uncle Song, but the other party immediately got angry and reprimanded him.In the end, Duan Jie didn't dare to mention the money again, he just wrote down this feeling in his heart and waited to repay it later.

In the winter in the countryside, there are basically no recreational things. The temperature is dropping every day. Duan Jie doesn’t want to go out anymore, so he just stays at home every day, relying on the techniques in his body’s memory to make clothes for the unborn little guy. .When the first padded jacket was sewn out, Duan Jie stayed there for a long time.Never thought that he would have a day to do needlework, and then there would be small shoes, small mattresses, and cotton trousers.

After more than a month of cultivation, Duan Jie's throat is finally able to speak.Probably because he was too lonely, when Duan Jie was working, he would tell the baby in his stomach some stories that he had only heard in modern times, or sing a few popular songs.At this time, the little guy in the stomach is extraordinarily quiet, as if listening attentively.Later, every day when Duan Jie was working, the little thing in his stomach would move a few times, reminding Duan Jie that it's time for you to tell a story.If Duan Jie didn't say anything or sing something at this time, the little guy would keep fussing until he heard the hoarse and soft voice.

Day by day, the date of delivery is getting closer and closer, now Duan Jie is able to face the fact that he is pregnant and giving birth.Half a month before he gave birth, he entrusted someone to buy a milk sheep that had just given birth, and then asked an aunt from the same village to come over to help, ten copper coins a day, and three meals a day.

Aunt Fang is very capable, and she took good care of Duan Jie's house when she came here, and Duan Jie's daily diet has also improved a lot, from eating fried shredded radish and Chinese cabbage every day to fried, stewed There are a series of cooking dishes such as radish and cabbage, seasoning, steaming, boiling, etc., and of course there is an unshakable egg for every meal.

With the aunt here, it is not as convenient for Duan Jie to go to the farm as before. He can only sneak into the farm every day at night to have a look.The sorghum and corn planted in the past two months are almost ripe, which means they can be harvested in another month.Duan Jie has never intervened since he planted the seeds of these crops. There are no pests, diseases, voles, or weeds that can't be burned by wildfires on this farm.The sun and rain are sufficient, and the soil is extremely fertile, so these crops can be said to grow gratifyingly.It's just that there are some troubles during the harvest, which coincides with his delivery date.But this is the penguin's farm, so these mature grains shouldn't rot in such a way.

The ten chicks in the pasture have already grown to half-sized, and they don't consume much pasture every day. Duan Jie takes out one unit of pasture from the warehouse, which is enough to feed them for half a month.

As soon as he chopped the pasture in the trough, Duan Jie felt a throbbing pain in his stomach. He hurriedly supported the trough to wait for the pain to pass.Finally, the pain subsided slightly, Duan Jie poured out the feed in the trough, and his stomach ached again.Maybe it's about to give birth, Duan Jie cursed in a low voice, and returned to the house from the farm.

"Aunt Fang! Aunt Fang! I seem to be giving birth." Duan Jie shouted loudly in the room.Because it's been a few days, Aunt Fang slept very alertly, and when Duan Jie called, she woke up.

"Master Liang, don't panic, I'll call the doctor and Mrs. Wang over right away." Aunt Fang ran to the neighbor's house as she said.Woke up the neighbor and asked the neighbor to invite the doctor and midwife, while she ran back to the house, taking care of Duan Jie while making preparations, sprinkled a layer of plant ash under Duan Jie's body, and then spread another thick layer. Straw, so that the kang will not be stained with dirt in a while, and after it is done, I boil a pot of hot water, light the oil lamps, and check the windows and door gaps again to avoid drafts.

Later, when Duan Jie recalled, he found that he had almost no memory of what happened during the delivery.Apart from the pain and fatigue that go deep into the bone marrow, as well as all kinds of noisy sounds and smells in my ears, I can't remember anything else clearly.When his aching, paste-like head woke up, a small meat dumpling with a faint fishy smell had already been placed beside his pillow.

The little guy slept soundly with his eyes closed, and his little face was still a little red.Is this the little thing in his belly?That little thing who has learned to act like a baby in his stomach?Duan Jie couldn't help but reached out and touched the little guy's face, it was so soft and tender, so soft that he didn't dare to use any strength for fear that it would be damaged.

A child who sleeps is an angel, and a child who wakes is a demon.This sweet-faced little guy who was still asleep just now woke up and cried.Duan Jie panicked immediately, "Aunt Fang, he is crying, is he hungry?"

Aunt Fang came over to feed the little guy with a bowl of freshly warmed goat milk.After the little guy drank a few sips in Aunt Fang's arms, he curled his lips and started crying again.Duan Jie, who was just relieved, panicked again, why is this little thing crying again.Aunt Fang thought for a while and said, "You hold him, and I'll feed him."

Duan Jie took the little guy suspiciously, and just after he took over, the crying that had just made people panic stopped abruptly.Feelings are a little thing that recognizes people. Duan Jie hugged the little guy, humming an out-of-tune nursery rhyme, finally satisfied the little guy, and honestly ate the goat milk fed by Aunt Fang.

After a while, the little thing fell asleep, and the small sound of breathing made Duan Jie feel tenderness in his heart. This could be considered his child. Although it was taken over halfway, it was he who worked so hard to get it into the world. of.Now that I'm a father, Duan Jie will completely forget the cursing when he just gave birth, and completely immerse himself in the joy of being a father for the first time.

"You will be my precious son from now on." Duan Jie smiled and nodded the little guy's nose, the sense of loss and loneliness that had accumulated in his chest for a long time finally dissipated, and he could be regarded as a relative here.

Fortunately, Aunt Fang was invited to help. This is the most frequent emotion that flashed through Duan Jie's heart after just giving birth.If Aunt Fang wasn't here to help, the family might be in such a mess.

The little guy still insisted on eating in Duan Jie's arms. To be precise, it was not just breastfeeding.As long as this little thing is awake, he must be hugged by his father.I can't put it down, and I can't let others take over. Duan Jie's arms are almost broken.Small things don't weigh much, but they can't stand holding them every day.In the end, seeing that Xiaodong was almost finished eating, Duan Jie began to sing a lullaby to lull him to sleep, and he didn't need to hug him when he fell asleep.

In just one month, Duan Jie lost nearly ten catties, but the little guy's weight has already broken through the ten catties mark.There is no habit of weighing babies here, that is, Duan Jie, who said that he wants to record the growth process of his baby.I also specially bought paper for the little guy to print a handprint and footprint on it.

Duan Jie wrote on the paper with a charcoal pen, looking at the fat little things he was eating, that Tuantuan (the nickname of the little things, because they are fat like meat dumplings) is extremely edible and also very good at stretching.She has a sweet temper like a little girl, and she likes to hum like a pig when she leans on others.The weight gain is very fast, and now the wrist is no longer visible, only a circle of flesh. Today, I peed on the kang three times.

When the little guy grows up, this is something to make fun of him, Duan Jie put the paper away very satisfied.