Chapter 20: The Bamboo Rats and Wild Boars Fall into the Urn

  Song Wen carried two buckets of hot water back to the backyard, and saw a newborn calf lying on the ground, looking around blankly, struggling to get up. Next to him, his father Song Yuanshui was holding a sharpened bamboo tube to feed something to the big water buffalo.

  Generally, after calving, cows should be fed warm saline water and bran soup in a timely manner. Because during childbirth, the cow's physical strength is greatly consumed, and the loss of salt and water in the body is also relatively large, so it is necessary to supplement saltwater and sugar in a timely manner to restore the cow's spirit and promote lactation. For example, 1500g-2000g of bran, 50-100g of edible salt, and 500-1000g of brown sugar are added to an appropriate amount of warm water and mixed for the cow to drink. At the same time, high-quality hay and juicy feed are fed, and the manure in the cowshed is removed in a timely manner to create a comfortable growth environment for the cow.

  Waiting for his father to finish feeding the mother cow, Song Wen hurriedly handed over the hot water and asked him to clean up the newly born calf. He himself walked over to the side of the little calf and took a look.

  The newly born life looks so tender, the innocent eyes seem to melt people's hearts. No matter who, at this moment, seeing the calf's eyes, will feel their own insignificance.

  It sniffed carefully, as if it had smelled something, and immediately stumbled towards the big water buffalo, came to the belly of the big water buffalo, and sucked on its nipple.

  Song Yuanshui watched from the side, smiling slightly, and the mottled wrinkles on his face seemed to be shining with brilliant light.

  After a while, Song Wen felt that there was nothing else he could do, so he carelessly ran back to sleep. His father continued to guard the place.

  It's said that having an old man at home is like having a treasure, and indeed it's true. If Song Wen himself were to do this, he would probably be bewildered and confused, and wouldn't even know how to help the water buffalo give birth.

  The sun rises, all things wake up, and the world is full of vitality.

  The originally quiet forest suddenly became lively, birds chirped happily, leaves rustled, and insects started eating the leaves with a crunching sound.

  In the bamboo forest, it was still dark, and a hot air current in the air made the bamboo mouse peek out of its hole, looking around cautiously with its head raised, then quickly moving around in the forest.

  Suddenly, a stout bamboo rat discovered that not far from its burrow entrance, there was a tender and delicious bamboo shoot in the cage. Unaware of any trickery, it quickly ran over, darted into the cage, and started eating with its head buried. Who would have thought that after just a few bites, a "click" sound came from behind, and the cage door closed. The bamboo rat instantly became anxious and let out a series of "squeaks", frantically running around in the cage, trying every way to open it, but unfortunately, no matter how hard it tried, it couldn't be opened. Such things were also happening elsewhere.

  Today the weather is fine, a family of wild boars leisurely walked out from the depths of the dense forest, planning to go back to the bamboo forest again to find some bamboo shoots to improve their lives.

  As they walked, several small wild boars suddenly discovered a heap of tender and enticing bamboo shoots by the roadside. They were immediately tempted, their mouths watering profusely, and quickly ran over to start eating with relishing "hums".

  The wild boar couple looked around cautiously, finding nothing unusual, before walking over. As they approached the little wild boar, the leading male suddenly felt the ground give way beneath him and, without knowing what was happening, fell down together with the little one. The female behind saw that something was amiss and tried to retreat, but half of her body had already fallen into the trap, and before she could take a few steps back, her entire body followed suit.

  Suddenly, a shrill and mournful howl came from the trap.

  The next morning, Song Wenyu got up early and ran to the backyard without even brushing his teeth.

  The calf is buried under the big water buffalo, leisurely sucking milk, while the mother cow is drinking the concentrated feed given by Song Yuan in the feeding trough, and there are also some sugar cane leaves on the side, which can be used as a dessert after meals.

  Recently, villagers and nearby villages have been cutting down bamboo shoots. He and Song Hu went to transport a lot back, and it's estimated that this winter, the big water buffalo won't have to worry about not eating enough bamboo shoots.

  Song Wen turned his head and looked around, finding that his father was not there, he took some spring water from the Ruyi fan and put it into the cow's trough.

  It turns out that the spring water in Rikyu's fan indeed has some unbelievable effects.

  After drinking the spring water, his body's functions improved significantly. The puppy and hedgehog also became stronger after drinking the water, seeming to become more intelligent and able to understand human language. He then tried putting the spring water from the Ruyi fan into the kitchen water tank, adding it to the mountain spring water for his family to drink. Although his father seemed unaffected after drinking it, he still carefully noticed that his father's sleep became sweeter and he stopped snoring.

  Song Wen put down the water, and the big water buffalo seemed to feel something, suddenly eating quickly.

  In a short while, it finished eating the feed in the trough and lifted its head to beg for more, sticking out its large tongue to lick Song Wen. Song Wen hastily pressed down on its massive cow head - this guy, didn't it know that its tongue was like a brush? And yet it still came up with this move.

  After comforting the water buffalo who was eager to please and flatter but failed, seeing that his father was not around, he let out the small dog and small hedgehog still in the fan.

  The little hedgehog ran into the hole in the wall corner as soon as it came out. The little dog seemed to have smelled something and trotted towards the big water buffalo. When it arrived under the big water buffalo, it saw the little calf lazily closing its eyes and sucking milk, and suddenly let out a "giggle". Song Wen guessed that this little guy was hungry, seeing the little water buffalo sucking milk, it also wanted to suck. However, this little guy had a big appetite, and didn't know if the big water buffalo's milk would be enough, but when it saw the big water buffalo's full udder, it dispelled this doubt.

  He walked over, picked up the puppy and placed it under the cow's belly, and the puppy immediately hugged the cow's udder and sucked happily.

  The water buffalo looked back and mooed, then lowered its head to eat the sugarcane leaves placed beside it, seemingly not resisting the little dog's drinking of milk.

  The little dog's originally flat belly began to swell up bit by bit like a balloon being inflated.

  Song Wen saw that it was almost done and wanted to take it away, but the little guy still tightly hugged the water buffalo's udder, sucking happily.

  No choice, Song Wen had to let it be.

  When this little guy was full, his belly had swollen like a balloon. Song Wenhad no idea what to say about this greedy little thing, and it wasn't as if he hadn't drunk milk before, so why was it like this? Irritated, he pinched the greedy little thing hard and put it on the ground, letting it move around freely.

  Looking at the little guy with his belly stuck to the ground, like a ball, still wanting to run and chase after the chicks and ducks, Song Wen couldn't help but burst out laughing. It was only then that he remembered he hadn't even brushed his teeth or washed his face yet.

  After brushing his teeth and washing his face, he came to the front room. His father was already eating. Song Wen glanced at the table and saw that the dishes were radish dry and yesterday's leftover tu kill.

  In the morning, he drank porridge and ate something simple. He didn't cook anymore, just roughly made do with what he had.

  After finishing his meal, he suddenly remembered that the large pile of wild vegetables he had picked yesterday was still in the Ruyi fan and hadn't been planted yet. He also hadn't gone to check on the mouse traps he had set up yesterday, and didn't know if he had caught any bamboo rats or wild boars. Immediately, he grabbed a few snake skin bags, brought his machete and several ropes, and rushed up the mountain.

  Arriving at the bamboo forest where he had set mouse traps yesterday, Song Wen was delighted to find that several of them had caught bamboo rats. He burst out laughing with joy, it seemed like they would have a good meal today.

  Bamboo rat is all lean meat, no fat at all. The soup made from bamboo rat meat is extremely delicious and leaves a lasting aftertaste. He put the bamboo rat and the trap together into a snake skin bag and took it back to deal with. Generally, the trap needs to be washed once after use, otherwise it's hard to catch another bamboo rat again because they are very sensitive to smells and can detect problems at once.

  He inspected the mouse traps he had set and caught eight bamboo rats in total, making him so happy that his mouth almost split open. This also shows that there are indeed many bamboo rats in the bamboo forest.

  After checking the mouse cage, he ran to check the traps for catching wild boars and checked several of them in a row. None of them had fallen into the trap, and he couldn't help but feel a bit downhearted.

  Until he came to the last trap near the forest, a wild boar's cry suddenly echoed in his ears, and he was shocked, rushing over quickly.

  After arriving at the place, he was surprised to find that the trap was full of wild boars. There were seven in total, two big ones and five small ones. It seemed like a whole family had been caught.

  Now he's worried, doesn't know what to do, so many wild boars how to catch, and it's such a deep hole, what to do? Looks like need to find someone to help.

  Thinking of it, he picked up the phone and started dialing.

  There is a signal tower in the village, so the signal is still available on this side of the bamboo forest. If you go into the forest behind the bamboo forest, there will be no signal.

  "Ah Hu, where is he?"

  "In bed."

  Song Hu closed his eyes and replied vaguely.

  Song Wen listened and really wanted to kick him down. It's really the same people, different fates, looking at this guy, from a young age he was idle, when he grew up he still idled around, but he married a kind wife and had an adorable child. He, on the other hand, is still alone. How can you say that he is slightly more handsome than him, slightly harder working, slightly more honest, but in reality, everything is slightly worse than him, it's really frustrating to compare with others.

  "Hurry up and come help me catch wild boars."

  "Wild boar, where?"

  Song Hu heard this and immediately woke up, staring with his eyes open and asked.

  "On this side of the bamboo forest, pick up a big hemp sack on your way here and buy a few more hemp ropes, hurry."

  After finishing speaking, Song Wen hung up the phone.

  Song Hu didn't dare to slack off, quickly got out of bed and brushed his teeth, grabbed a bun bought by his wife and took a bite, then ran to buy rope, and then went back home to grab a big hemp sack, before driving up the mountain.

  P.S: The following is a picture of bamboo rat

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