Soft and cute Zaizai wins in the era article

Chapter 52
There is no such awareness in rural areas of this era about whether to protect animals or not.

Among the dozen or so children, except for those whose parents shouted loudly to go back for dinner, the remaining seven or eight, including several brothers from the Guo family, moved to another place.

This is a small river ditch. The water is very shallow and clear. You can see the pebbles on the bottom of the water at a glance.

"There might be wild duck eggs in the grass over there."

Guo Chengan held her hand and pointed to the grass not far away.

In fact, there is another river in their village. There are more wild ducks on the beach of that river than here, but the water in that river is very deep, and the adults in the family never let children like them go to that river alone. Play or collect mallard eggs.

Because in that river, people drown almost every year, whether adults or children.

Wild duck eggs?
Manni raised her eyes and looked at the half-human tall grass in confusion. Could there be any snakes there?

"snake?"

"..."

Guo Chengan met Manni's doubtful eyes,

"During the winter, snakes hibernate."

Didn't anyone teach her this?
Doesn’t it mean that children in the city know a lot?

Manni blinked, yes, snakes can hibernate.

She curled her lips, forgiving her for really forgetting this.

At this moment, there was a sound of flapping wings in the grass, and then two children came out of the grass with their heads covered with grass clippings:
"Brother Cheng An, there are so many eggs."

There were indeed so many that the two children could no longer hold them in their hands. Looking at the pockets of their clothes, they were obviously full.

Guo Chengan took one from their hands and handed it to Manni. When Manni lowered her head to observe carefully, he waved to the two children:

"You guys take it back first."

The two children looked at each other, then each took one from their hands and handed it to Guo Chengan.
"For my aunt."

Then the two boys turned around and ran home quickly.

Manni was first attracted by the duck eggs in her hands. When she heard the two children saying that they wanted to give her eggs, she had already raised her head and was about to say thank you, but before she could say anything, the two boys ran away.

"Brother, come quickly."

They are Guo Chengan's three younger brothers. The three boys are over there in the grass, looking around from time to time like thieves.

Guo Chengan took Manni and walked over. Because of the large and small rocks on the river beach, he led her and walked very slowly, which made the three boys look anxious and urge her from time to time:

"Brother, sister-in-law, hurry up."

Manni didn't understand why they looked so mysterious, but Guo Chengan had a guess. After all, they had encountered them before.

"Brother, sister-in-law, there is a duck."

"Not one, but many."

This time not only Manni was surprised, but Guo Chengan was also surprised.

The two of them followed the three boys and walked more than 20 meters into the grass until they reached a large rock.
"In here."

In fact, they no longer needed to point their fingers, Manni and Guo Chengan had already heard the sound of the little duck quacking.

Guo Chengan stepped forward, first took a look at the grass that was as tall as a person, then looked at the sky and sighed:
"It's not dark yet." Manni's entire attention was on the big mallard duck that looked dead in the grass, and a group of about ten fluffy ducklings. Were these just hatched? ?

When I was thinking about what to do with so many little mallard ducks now that the big mallard duck was gone, I heard Guo Chengan's voice.

Whether it's dark or not, what does it have to do with these ducks?
Guo Cheng'an sighed and was about to say something when he saw his younger brother taking off his cotton-padded jacket and spreading it on the ground, then picking up more than a dozen little ducks on the cotton-padded jacket.

"Second brother, let's go back from the back mountain."

If you go around, you're not far from home, so there's no need to wait until dark.

If we really have to wait until dark, this half-dead big duck and these little ducks can still belong to their family?
"..."

When he didn't know that he could go back through the back mountain, Guo Cheng'an took a look at Manni and said, forget it, he should take Manni on the main road.

Manni didn't know that she was being disliked. At this time, she had already knelt down, stretched out her hand and carefully grabbed a little duck into her hand.

The fluffy, chirping sounds of the little ducks made her heart melt;
"What do they eat?"

She is so small, not much bigger than her hand, can she be fed?
This question really stumped the four brothers of the Guo family. They knew that the old hens and chicks in the house would eat some fine bran or vegetable leaves, but they really didn't know what such a small wild duck would eat. Know.

"Go back and ask for milk."

Manni blinked and then nodded, yes, her aunt must know how to feed the little duck.

"This is so hard to raise."

Besides, there are so many of them that their family can’t keep them!

Each household has enough chickens per capita. Even if they can feed this little wild duck, their family would not dare to raise it.

Manni didn't know this. When Wen Hehua talked about being difficult to raise, she felt particularly uncomfortable. "Difficult to raise" didn't mean that she couldn't be raised, just as hard to support as she was in her previous life?
She got up and walked into the house without looking at the little wild ducks again. Now she understood a little bit how her parents felt when they received the news that she was sick and would not live long.

Want it, but dare not ask for it, want to raise it, but dare not raise it...

Instead of being unable to bear the pain of separation when the relationship becomes deeper after growing up, it is better to stay out of it early and don't pay, so it won't be too painful.

Big drops of tears fell straight down, and she didn't know what she was feeling sad about. For those little wild ducks?

No, she was just hurting others.

Wen Hehua reacted immediately. After following Manni into the house, what she saw was Manni crying silently into tears.

"Manni, what's wrong? Are you hungry or do you feel uncomfortable somewhere?"

A rough big hand probed Manni's forehead. Wen Hehua's fingers fell in front of Manni's eyes and retracted. She took out a handkerchief from Manni's pocket and wiped Manni's tears:

"Manni, don't cry. Someone bullied you, right? Tell Auntie and she will take care of him!"

Her voice was very soft, and Manni looked at her with tearful eyes. For some reason, Wen Minghua's figure appeared in front of her eyes.

She remembered that she was now in the 70s, and she was not the sick bed number 27 before, but Yang Manni, who had a name and a surname and would turn seven years old after the New Year.

She reached out and wiped away her tears:
"Auntie, duck."

Wen Hehua finally understood. Was he feeling sorry for the big mallard duck and the little ducks who were going to be motherless?
She felt dumbfounded in her heart, but it didn't show on her face:

"We sent those little ducks to the village. There are old hens with chicks in the village who can feed them."

There was a smile in Manni's eyes, can this still be done?
(End of this chapter)