Sun's words were indeed true. Early the next morning, as soon as Yang Ruoqing got up, Baby Luo came in and grabbed her hand and dragged her to the door, wanting to take her to see her little swallow.
"Did it really hatch?" Yang Ruoqing asked in surprise.
Baby Luo was already so excited that he could walk with wind, "Come out, come out. I went to take a look early this morning and saw a hole in one of the eggs, and a little black head sticking out. But I haven’t opened my eyes yet!”
"Then have you told your eldest grandma?" Yang Ruoqing asked again.
Luo Baobao said: "Grandma saw it. She said that the little swallow is about to hatch out of its shell, and the other two are about to come out!"
The mother and daughter said excitedly, and soon arrived at the chicken coop in the backyard, where Wang Cuilian was already guarding.
Seeing them coming, Wang Cuilian also looked excited and said to Yang Ruoqing: "It's amazing that this little swallow can actually be hatched by an old hen. Come and see!"
In the chicken coop covered with soft straw, the old hen is not here at the moment. She must have gone out to wander around after getting tired of hatching eggs.
There was a row of eggs lying in the chicken coop, among which were three small swallow eggs.
But now, a swallow egg has been broken into several pieces from the middle, and a small black thing is curled up there.
The black fluff on its body was wet and stuck to its body. Its head was big, its neck was thin, and its belly was round.
The whole body looks a little strange, and there is no way to connect it with the light swallow passing by the willow tree...
"Mom, it's out, it's all out!" Baby Luo said excitedly.
As if he was afraid that his voice would scare it, Luo Baobao deliberately kept his voice very low and soft.
"Yes, it really hatched." Yang Ruoqing also echoed softly.
Baby Luo pointed at the little swallow's eyes and said, "Mom, its eyes are so big. The eyelids are so thin that I can see the blue-black eyeballs inside. It's a bit scary."
Yang Ruoqing smiled and gently rubbed the top of Baby Luo's soft hair: "This is what a newly hatched chick looks like. It will be fine when it grows up."
Baby Luo nodded and squatted in front of the chicken coop, resting his elbows on his knees and supporting his chin with the palms of his hands. He tilted his head and continued to look at the chick curiously.
Yang Ruoqing turned around and came to Wang Cuilian, "Auntie, where should I keep these little swallows after they hatch? The hen won't recognize that they are not its babies, will it trample them to death?"
Wang Cuilian thought for a moment and said: "It makes no sense. In the past, someone in our village put duck eggs in a chicken coop. When the ducklings hatched, the hens didn't trample them to death. Instead, they even played with them!"
Hearing this, Yang Ruoqing suddenly remembered the story of the ugly duckling.
But the problem is that in the story of the ugly duckling, the little duck was squeezed out by the mother chicken and the other chicks.
"The first one has come out, and I think the other two are coming soon. Let's put them together to hatch. Even if we want to move the nest, we have to wait until they grow up." Wang Cuilian said.
Yang Ruoqing nodded, "The bird's nest built by their swallow mother has been kept for them. Although they don't understand anything, haha, it can be regarded as a thought!"
Wang Cuilian smiled: "Is this what the baby meant too?"
Yang Ruoqing nodded. This girl looked carefree, but in fact she was often very delicate and warm.
"Grandma, where is the rice?" Luo Baobao suddenly stood up and asked Wang Cuilian behind him.
Wang Cuilian was stunned for a moment, "The rice is in the granary. What, what do you want the rice for?"
Luo Baobao said: "I want to feed the little swallow!"
Wang Cuilian laughed, and every wrinkle on her face was full of kindness: "Silly boy, little swallows can't feed shelled rice now. They are too tender, and the rice will scratch their mouths and intestines."
"Then what should we feed them? A hen is not a sow, so she cannot feed her children. Will the little swallows starve to death?" Luo Baobao asked nervously.
Regarding this issue, Yang Ruoqing is also very concerned about it, but unfortunately she knows what the chickens eat, but she is not familiar with the little swallows.
"I see that in the past, the male swallows and the female swallows picked up small insects from outside and fed them to the young swallows."
"If that doesn't work, I'll go find bugs and feed them," she said.
"Mom and I will catch bugs together!" Baby Luo raised his hands excitedly.
Yang Ruoqing smiled at her and acquiesced.
Wang Cuilian said with a smile: "It's already late autumn, unlike spring and summer, how can insects be so easy to catch?"
"How about this? I soak the rice grains in warm water and feed them first. This is how I fed the chicks in the past. You can also take care of the little swallows."
The matter was settled in this way, and in the next day or two, two other little swallows hatched.
Compared with other chicks, the three of them came to this colorful world first.
"Although your mother swallow is gone, you still have me. I will definitely take good care of you and raise you fat!" Baby Luo squatted in front of the chicken coop and made a solemn promise.
Someone suddenly came from Sunjiagou.
"That man claimed to be from Sunjiagou, but I didn't recognize him. We went to Sunjiagou together before, and I never saw that man once."
Xiaoduo took Feng'er to Sun's house to play before, and when he came back, he told Sun and Yang Ruoqing.
"Logically speaking, Sunjiagou is so big, and more than a dozen families can come to Sun's house. We should all recognize it. Why don't you recognize it?" asked Sun in surprise.
Xiaoduo shook his head again, "Looking at him, he seems to be in a hurry. He came to talk to Dagagong about Cui'er's family."
"I originally wanted to listen to a few words, but Feng'er made a fuss about coming back, so I had no choice but to come back."
"Dagagong has been living here for several months. None of Cui'er's family has ever gone out to look for him. This time, a person claiming to be a relative of Cui'er's family actually came to look for Dagagong. It's probably Cui'er's family. Something happened to your family!" Yang Ruoqing analyzed.
Something happened?
Could it be a lock...
"Your aunt will be here in a while, we just have to wait patiently," said Sun.
Sure enough, after a bowl of tea, Da Sun found an excuse and came over.
"Sister, are you in the house? Let me tell you something...ah, Qing'er is here too?"
"Auntie, we were talking about you just now, which relative came to Sunjiagou?" Yang Ruoqing asked with a smile.
The eldest Sun said: "What kind of relative? He's not from Sunjiagou at all. He's from Cui'er's mother-in-law. Cui'er's mother begged him to come over and run errands to talk about something."
"What's going on?" Yang Ruoqing asked again.
The eldest Sun said: "What a shame, Cui'er went to hook up with a young young man from Sunjiagou while she was pregnant. The two of them were doing such shameless things, but the young man's daughter-in-law took her with her. Several sister-in-laws from my daughter-in-law’s family were caught in the act, and they beat Cui’er randomly and fell, and the child was lost!”
. Nine Heavens God Emperor
