After leaving Zhou Lan's house, Zhang An went for a stroll in the town, but there were no people from the street to the end of the street. Except for a few open shops, there were not many people on the street.
It's not like when you go to the market on weekends, there are so many people.
As I was walking, I came across a stall where a maid was selling jelly.
Zhang An came up and took a look.
"Hey, what are you selling?"
When a customer came to the door, the waitress who set up the stall responded enthusiastically: "There are jelly noodles, fried potatoes, and ice noodles. What kind do you want to eat?"
"Hey, there is ice powder. I want a bowl of ice powder, and a bowl of fried potatoes too."
There was a price list next to the stall, and it looked like it was written by a child of the family. She was about the same age as Zhang An’s mother, Wang Fang, in her forties.
Ice powder costs one yuan a bowl, and potato costs fifty cents a bowl.
Zhang An likes to eat ice powder very much, especially the current handmade ice powder.
Ice powder is a local summer snack. It tastes cold, sweet, tender and refreshing. It can stimulate body fluids and relieve heat, and is refreshing and reduces heat. It is a rare summer heat-relieving product.
In later generations, a small portion was sold for more than ten yuan, although more condiments were added.
Soon, the ice powder was ready. Zhang An originally wanted to take it away and eat it slowly on the road, but now there is no habit of packing it in the stalls. They only use their own bowls and chopsticks, not plastic bowls.
Zhang An, who had come back to his senses, was also sitting on a small table facing the sun, eating a refreshing ice powder. There were not many condiments in it, including chopped peanuts, chopped hawthorns, rock sugar, and a layer of brown sugar water.
After spending some time, Zhang An finished eating what was on the table, paid the money and then went home.
Walking on the country road, Zhang An looked at the excavator working not far away. The work was in full swing over there.
August is coming to an end, and Zhang An will soon be nineteen years old. Children in the countryside go to school late, but Zhang An is relatively early.
There are various wild berries, prickly pears, rice seedlings, etc. growing on the road.
Zhang An looked at the black and purple seedlings and picked a lot of them to eat.
All kinds of plants grow very well beside the mountain road, because livestock often walk around, leaving behind their excrement.
In order not to disturb other people walking, the owner collected the animal excrement into the grass on the roadside.
So these flowers and plants are growing very well.
We are no longer the generation of Zhang Jianguo. At that time, people had to go home to use the toilet. When animals pooped outside, they had to pick it up and carry it home. There were also people who went to the road to pick up feces.
The purpose is to apply more fertilizer to my crops, because my family does not have money to buy chemical fertilizers. Even if I have the money, I will naturally save what I can.
Zhang An walked to the entrance of the village and was about to enter the village when he heard a whining sound.
Zhang An followed the sound and found an earthen cave hidden by grass under the road ridge in the distance.
This hole must have been left after the tree was cut down and the roots were dug back for a fire.
This hole is not very deep, less than one meter, and it is covered with a thick layer of corn grass.
There were three little guys that had just grown sparse hair lying inside.
It looks like a puppy just a few days old, and you can still see the tender fleshy skin.
The whining sound just now must have been due to hunger. In fact, the sound was not loud, and someone else might not be able to hear it.
But Zhang An's hearing and vision are now very good, so he heard it.
When Zhang An was about to reach out and touch it, a barking sound came from behind.
“Woof woof woof~~~”
Looking back, I saw a gray-yellow native dog, its barking full of urgency. This might be the mother of several little ones.
It may be worried that Zhang An will hurt its cubs, so it is anxious and grins at Zhang An.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt them. Come and feed them quickly." Zhang An said and moved away.
The big gray dog ran to the den, and a few little ones got up and rushed to eat milk. Maybe they were too hungry.
But one of them had a hard time getting up, and even his cry was very weak.
The female dog also noticed the strangeness of the puppy, stretched out her tongue to lick it, and let out a series of sad sounds from her mouth.
Zhang An wanted to go up and have a look, but as soon as he came closer, the bitch in the den would grin at him.
"Let me take a look. I won't hurt your child. Let me see if there is any way to help you."
I don't know if he understood Zhang An's words, but the big gray dog retracted his bared fangs.
Zhang An slowly stretched his hand towards the small dog, and then held it up with one hand. As expected, the big dog didn't show any sign of hostility.
This child looks much smaller than the other two, and the heartbeat rate on his chest is a little weak.
It may be a congenital problem. How about trying space spring water?
When the idea came up, Zhang An decided to bring the dogs into the space to see if the space spring water was useful to them. After all, he drank it for a while and it also played a role in strengthening his body.
When the big dog wasn't paying attention, he took the big dog and the three puppies into the space.
The big dog was a little frightened when he first arrived in a strange place. He kept looking around with his head stretched out.
Until I saw the three puppies there and the two-legged beast standing in front of me, I slowly felt at ease.
Zhang An clearly felt that after entering the space, the puppy, whose heartbeat and breathing were weak just now, is now in much better condition.
Immediately, I walked to the pond, found a large grass leaf, scooped up water and fed it to it.
The puppy also slowly stretched out its tongue and licked the spring water. After licking, Zhang An put the puppy next to the big dog.
Zhang An observed quietly. A long time passed. Zhang An didn't have a sense of time and didn't know exactly how long it had passed, but it was definitely not short.
I saw that the originally weak puppy actually stood up and walked towards Zhang An.
Sure enough, it works. It seems that space spring water has some help to animals.
Zhang An squatted down and stretched out his palms. The puppy stuck out its tongue and licked Zhang An's fingers, which were fleshy. Since it was useful, Zhang An sent Buddha to the west, and also fed some to the big dog and the other two little ones.
spring.
Then Zhang An looked into the space and saw a group of chicks in the grass in the distance.
Damn it, could it be that the silver chicken you put in laid its own eggs and hatched them?
Considering the constant temperature conditions of the space and the fact that it was a hen, it was possible that it had been fertilized before being caught by Zhang Tie.
A hen can lay about five to ten eggs once fertilized.
When Zhang An approached, the hens were not afraid. Instead, they came close to Zhang An. The chickens also looked around Zhang An, somewhat curious about the two-legged beast in front of them.
When I went into space to pick fruit trees, I didn't even notice that the chicken was actually hatching eggs.
However, in the space of more than ten acres, this chicken found a place in the grass to squat down and hatch its eggs. Zhang An might not be able to see it unless he looked for it.
After leaving the space, Zhang An let the big dog and the three puppies out and put them in the kennel.
He did not take these puppies home. Although he could feed them, this big dog must belong to someone in the village.
I just gave birth to the cub outside. After Zhang An put it away, he went home. From now on, he can just come and visit him every few days. Meeting each other is fate.
But Zhang An didn't know that when he went home, the big dog followed him from a distance.
It wasn't until Zhang An entered the yard that the big dog turned around and went back.
Zhang An checked that his father was not at home. He might have gone to see the fields.