Chapter 44: The water duck comes out of the shell
After lunch, they sat in the yard chatting. Pang Xu walked back and forth, constantly doing breast expansion exercises to digest food. After a while, his forehead was covered in sweat. He kept shouting: "I deserve to die, really, I just know that the dates are very delicious, but I don't know that no matter how delicious food is, I will accumulate food..."
Seeing his image of resentment than Xiang Lin Sao, several people were amused and laughed. Xu Xiaoli even shouted that she deserved it. If she was to eat like this, she would not want him.
"Chick..." When Pang Xu crossed to the chicken coop, he suddenly heard a few "chicken" calls.
He turned around and saw a few black "chicks" the size of children's fists kept shouting in the chicken cage.
"Little mouse, your hen hatched a chicken, come and see..." He shouted, immediately attracted several people, and each of them had an excitement in his eyes. Especially Zhang Qian, this was the first time she had seen such a scene.
"What's the look? Is this a duck good?" Liu Junhao knew that this foodie's understanding of birds was just chickens, ducks, geese, and pigeons. He didn't know anything else, so he refuted him mercilessly.
Calculate the day, the duck should hatch in these two days.
"Flower duck, you said this thing is a water duck," Pang Xu immediately squatted down and looked at these little guys at close range. At this moment, he completely ignored the hen staring at him, and saw that the hen's fur had completely exploded.
"Well, these duck eggs were picked up on the river beach a few days ago." Liu Junhao explained their origins slightly.
"Don't the hens of their own hatch? The ducks grow obviously differently from the chickens. Why don't the hens peck them to death when they see them?"
"So far, we have not encountered a hen as smart as you!" Liu Junhao's words caused everyone to laugh.
"I thought it was the day after tomorrow. Who knew that it would be shelled so early? It seems that the hatching time between wild ducks and domestic ducks is still different." Professor Zhao also looked at the furry little guys and said in surprise.
"Don't be arbitrary, okay? The weather is hot now and the hatching period is shortened. The domestic ducks hatch in at most twenty-five and six days."
"Wow, this thing is so cute, I want to raise one..." Xu Xiaoli squatted down and reached out to touch the duck that was chirping in the mouth of the chicken cage.
"Be careful..." Before Liu Junhao could shout out, she had already covered her hands, and tears were in her eyes.
"Let me see, I see, is it okay?" Pang Xu also hurriedly pulled her hand over, and saw a large piece of white and tender jade hand swollen. He hurriedly said, "It's okay, don't be afraid, it doesn't hurt!" That tone seemed to coax a child.
"If you say it doesn't hurt, it won't hurt. You can also reach out to try it." Xu Xiaoli said gritting her teeth. She looked more like a child when she acted coquettishly.
Zhang Qian burst out laughing out loud, "You couple should pay attention to your image, there are still people here."
After hearing what she said, Xu Xiaoli's face turned redder and she hurriedly broke free from her hands.
"It's okay," Liu Junhao just inserted his mouth at this time, "The hen is very protective of his cubs at this time. Of course, it will catch you if you catch its children. If you really want it, I will secretly catch two of them when I leave. It's just that this thing is too small and not easy to feed."
"No, this chicken is so hateful," Xu Xiaoli said depressedly, covering her painful arm.
At noon, only one of the dozen eggs was left. It seemed that the hatching rate of this duck was quite high.
These little guys who had just emerged from the shell were black and fluffy all over, and kept chirping around the old hen, probably because they were hungry.
At this time, the old hen no longer cared about the last egg. It crawled out of the nest and led the little guys out of the chicken cage and digged for food in the yard.
Professor Zhao had already thrown a large piece of steamed bun on the ground, and the hen pecked the steamed buns in a few bites so that the little guys could eat them.
"What should I do with this one?" Zhang Qian asked as she looked at the chicken coop with an egg left.
"This is a chicken that doesn't come out for twenty-one days - a bad guy, you can roast it and eat it, right?" Pang Xu is a foodie after all, and he can't do anything with food in three words. He is talking about the eggs sold at the barbecue stall on the side of the road. The thing looks dirty. Anyway, Liu Junhao has never eaten it before, and he always feels that the thing is unclean.
"Don't throw it away, I guess there will be no chance if I don't come out now," Liu Junhao said.
"Oh?" Zhang Qian reached out to the chicken coop and took out the last egg, then shouted in surprise: "This is not a bad guy, it is still moving... I can feel it..."
"Really, I'll touch it?" Liu Junhao reached out to take it over. Sure enough, he felt that there was a small life inside. He only heard a faint "da da da" sound from inside. It seemed that the duck was pecking at the shell inside. "This egg is bigger than the others. It probably has the shell too thick, so the duck couldn't peck at the shell. He had to make a small gap in the egg, otherwise it would be suffocated to death after a while."
"I'll do it, I'll do it." Zhang Qian was also very curious about this kind of thing, so she reached out and snatched it over, and then looked at Liu Junhao with a little embarrassed look. She didn't know what to do.
"It's okay, have you seen that crack? Just use your fingernails to gently press a small hole. Be careful and don't try too hard." Seeing the cautious look of the girl in the city, Liu Junhao only found it funny.
He lived in the countryside since he was a child, so he was no longer surprised by hen hatching eggs, but Zhang Qian was different. This was the first time he had come into contact with such things, so his heart was filled with the desire to care for his little life in his palms.
She carefully broke a small gap, and the duck's tender mouth immediately revealed. The little guy breathed fresh air and immediately made a faint "chubby" cry.
Pang Xu was also very interested at first, but after watching for a long time, he didn't see the duck hatching. He suddenly felt a little bored and stood up and said, "I looked sore, so I'd just peel the shell open. It's so simple."
"This thing can only survive by breaking its shell by itself." Professor Zhao corrected later.
However, Zhang Qian turned a blind eye to the matter outside the window, squatting there and looking at the egg in her hand with all her attention. Xu Xiaoli was still with her at first, but after a while he lost her patience: "I'd better stop looking, it's too tiring to squat."
For several minutes, the small hole became bigger and bigger. In a short while, a wet little head was difficult to drill out of the eggshell. Zhang Qian then breathed a sigh of relief and shouted with excitement, "Come and see, this little guy is out!"
Everyone came over again and saw a weak duck in her palm, without even having her hair, and her tender black mouth kept pecking on her hands, which looked particularly interesting.
"Touch it for me," Xu Xiaoli also became interested. Girls like small animals, and she is of course no exception.
"Then be careful, don't fall to the ground." Zhang Qian was still a little reluctant.
But the duck seemed to be particularly disrespectful to Xu Xiaoli. As soon as it reached her palm, she pulled a pool of shit, which made everyone laugh again. Xu Xiaoli gritted her teeth with hatred, and blushed and handed the little guy back to Zhang Qian's hand again.
The little guy's hair fucked quickly and kept calling at Zhang Qian, obviously hungry. Zhang Qian hurriedly made a small piece of steamed bun, crushed it in her hand, and sprinkled it in her palm for it to peck.
Seeing that she was having fun teasing the duck in her hand, Liu Junhao hurriedly persuaded her: "Don't play for too long, this thing has only been released from the shell. It has very weak resistance. If you have too long luck, you will not be able to bear it. It's better to send it to the hen."
After hearing this, Zhang Qian squatted down and put the duck on the ground, pushed it and said, "Go, go back to your mother's place."
But something shocking happened. As soon as she took a step back, the little duck followed her with a chirping chirping, and she took several steps back in a row.
Although the hen was one meter away, the little guy still followed Zhang Qian and the little guy followed him wherever she went.
"This is Yin Sui," Professor Zhao explained, "A important form of learning new animals. This duck opens its eyes and sees you, so it treats you as your 'mom'. This is a good thing, haha."
Zhang Qian was naturally very happy when she heard this, and kept throwing the steamed buns in front of the little duck for it to eat. The little guy was probably full and didn't look at the food on the ground. Instead, he pecked Zhang Qian's fingers intimately.
This made Xu Xiaoli, who was watching on the side, very jealous. She pulled Pang Xu and asked him to find a duck egg for herself.
Chapter completed!