Chapter 8: Picking up a puppy
"Brother, it's time for us to go back. ”
Yuyan glanced at the other side.
"Well, go back. ”
Zheng Qilin nodded.
The two went out of the courtyard and returned the way they had come, and in a short time came to the river.
"Brother, you see there's a fish!"
Yuyan's eyes lit up and she stared straight ahead.
"There's really one. ”
Zheng Qilin's gaze fell on the small puddle surrounded by several large rocks that were exposed to the water in front of him, and a finger-long loach stayed leisurely in it.
Because their river is too small, the source is on the mountain behind their village, and there is a waterfall with a large drop in front of the water, so there are no other fish except the loach, which they call snake fish here.
"Don't speak, brother will give it to you. ”
Zheng Qilin motioned to Yuyan not to speak, bent over, his hands did not enter the water, and walked cautiously, just when he just walked to the small pool, the snake fish had already noticed it, and was about to flee with a whoosh, Zheng Qilin's eyes were quick and he pressed it accurately.
The thumb-thick loach was caught in his hand.
"Haha, grab it!"
Zheng Qilin bent down and shouted proudly.
"Brother, you are so powerful, you can catch it like this, and you will be blessed again after a while. ”
Yuyan said happily.
"Wait a while, and when you have time, get a net and catch a bucket of snakefish. ”
Zheng Qilin said.
"What do you want so much to do? Wangcai can't eat it all at once. ”
Yuyan was curious.
"It must be our people who have eaten it, this snake fish is called loach in Dong'an, and this pure wild loach is forty or fifty yuan a catty. ”
Zheng Qilin sighed in his heart, in fact, many remote and poor rural areas are full of treasures, but they don't know the value of these things, and the most important thing is that they can't supply this kind of things to the demand market.
For example, the loaches in this small river have grown up in such pure and pollution-free mountain spring water since childhood, and the taste and quality can be imagined.
Greenhouse vegetables are his first plan, and aquaculture will definitely be launched in the future.
"Really? This snake fish is really edible, and it's so expensive?"
Yuyan was surprised.
"Of course, my brother can't lie to you. Let's go. ”
Zheng Qilin grabbed the loach with one hand and took Yuyan's hand with the other hand and walked towards the shore, and as soon as he walked ashore, he heard a squeaky sound from the lush aquatic grass forest in front of him.
"What sound?"
Yuyan also heard the voice......
"Uh......h Woowoo woo ......"
Another staccato sound came.
"Looks like a puppy barking?"
Zheng Qilin analyzed.
"It's in the grass forest in front of us, let's go and have a look. ”
Yuyan proposed.
"Okay. ”
Zheng Qilin took Yuyan's hand and walked over cautiously.
When I walked to the front, I finally saw clearly, in the aquatic grass forest by the river, a little guy with black and white fur, the size of a palm, and soaked all over his body was holding a few aquatic plants and soaking in it.
Judging from its appearance, it should be a puppy that has just reached the full moon.
I don't know if I ran away and fell into the river, or if I was abandoned and thrown by the river.
"What a poor puppy, save it back!"
Yuyan sympathizes.
"Hmm. ”
Zheng Qilin leaned over, stretched out his hand, and fished out the little guy in the river.
The little guy was a little timid at first and wanted to dodge, but his body couldn't bear it, he trembled all over, and kept shivering, so he had to let Zheng Qilin hold it in his hand, and his dark and bright eyes were full of tears, which was very pitiful.
Yuyan hurriedly took out a tissue from her pocket and wiped it.
"Looking at it like this, I don't know if it's alive or not. ”
Yuyan was worried.
"With my brother here, there shouldn't be a problem. Hurry back. ”
Zheng Qilin urged.
The brother and sister went ashore and returned home in a short time. When he entered the gate, he threw the loach in his hand to Wangcai, who ate it in one bite, and the aftertaste remained, so he hurriedly wagged his tail to please and see if he could have another one......
"Mom and Dad, we're back, let's see what my brother and I caught and come back......"
Yuyan shouted as soon as he walked to the door.
"What did you catch? pheasant, or rabbit?"
Mother Qi Xiaolian asked with a smile.
"It's a puppy!"
After Zheng Qilin and Yuyan walked into the house, Yuyan proudly took the puppy from Zheng Qilin's hand and showed it to her mother.
"When we came back, we found it in the grass and forest by the river, and Yuyan saw that it was pitiful, so she rescued it. ”
Zheng Qilin explained.
"You two children are really, you can't tell whose family threw it out, there is something wrong with your body, and you can't live. ”
Zheng Dashan, his father, who was sitting on a stool over there to remove the rust from the hoe, said.
"Ah...... So what to do?"
Yuyan was anxious.
"It's okay, dry it first, and then feed it some food, and raise it if it can live, it's its life if it can't survive." You both did your best. ”
Mother Qi Xiaolian said.
"Well, Mother is right, let's do our best. ”
Zheng Qilin nodded.
"By the way, Qi Lin, you went out to catch centipedes today?"
The father looked up at Zheng Qilin.
"No......"
Zheng Qilin replied, put the puppy into an instant noodle carton at the door, Yuyan had already found a discarded rotten dry towel, and the two took care of the puppy seriously.
"Then where did the centipedes in the plastic cylinders in our firewood room come from?"
The father then asked.
"Oh, you said the inside of the plastic bucket was caught by me when I went out in the morning to release those little centipedes. ”
Zheng Qilin replied casually.
"You can catch fifty or sixty at will? Lao Tzu can't catch that many in one night, right...... You've got to go out and catch it all day, aren't you going to have a good rest at home?"
Father Zheng Dashan glared at Zheng Qilin.
"Fifty or sixty?"
Zheng Qilin, who was wiping the fur of the puppy, stopped what he was doing and looked back at his father suspiciously.
"Yes, at least there are fifty or sixty, and they are all super big, fortunately Lao Tzu saw it early, otherwise a few almost crawled out, you kid must remember that this centipede will be scalded to death with warm water first, otherwise it will be troublesome to accidentally bite someone into the firewood room." ”
Father Zheng Dashan advised.
"Oh, where are those centipedes now?"
Zheng Qilin stood up with a bone, he recalled that when he left at noon, there were two centipedes with some small white dots on their bodies, if there was no accident, those white dots were the eggs laid by centipedes, and after half a day, these eggs actually hatched and grew into big centipedes. It is only this possibility that can explain why there are fifty or sixty articles in it.
"On the planks of the firewood room, bamboo strips have been stuffed and ready to dry. What's the matter, are you still reluctant, are you going to keep a few litters of little centipedes?"
Zheng Dashan joked with a smile.
Zheng Qilin didn't speak again, he rushed out of the door directly, rushed into the firewood room, and the moment he entered the firewood room, he saw the empty plastic tubes, and fifty or sixty large centipedes with a length of more than ten centimeters densely placed on the wooden board where centipedes are usually dried, three of which are particularly conspicuous, enough to be eighteen or ninety-twenty centimeters, and the rest are about ten centimeters.
According to the development speed observed in the morning, from noon to now, these newborn little centipedes will grow to this size at the earliest, and if they are placed tomorrow morning, they may be able to double to a terrifying eighteen or nineteen centimeters!
After a whole day of development, the three small centipedes became fifty or sixty large centipedes......
It's against the sky!
After blowing a breath of fairy air, it not only has an effect on the mother's body, but also on the eggs born?
Zheng Qilin's eyes flashed, and he seemed to see a golden way to make a fortune.