Time ｜ Xu Yu: Holding chicken

Text/Xu Yu

Incubation chicks did not have such an elegant title in Daba Mountain in Northeast Sichuan, but called holding chickens. There is a kind of egg holding chicken. The hometown is commonly known as the chicken egg. Of course, the chicken can not give birth to the egg.

In the spring season, her mother moved out a half -new basket, and she knocked carefully on the dust on it with a wooden stick. Then, put his father from the back of the pine forest behind the house and put it in, which was almost the same as the basket. The mother took out a cotton gown and paved on the pine needle, and the nest nest used to hatch was built.

Whenever a spring arrives, his father and mother use the same method to complete this immortal masterpiece together. The basket nest of the pine needle was carried by his father and mother into the room where they slept. In the later days, his father and mother would treat it as their children and take care of them wholeheartedly, worried that there will be unexpected situations after staying away.

There is such a saying in Daba Mountain -holding chickens like fortune telling. When he encountered a certain year when he couldn't hold the chicken, his father and mother were very tangled, worried about this fear of that, and the cautious life tied their bold entrepreneurial hands and feet.

In the process of holding the chicken, there is one of the most critical characters -the mother who chooses the chick. The hen of the wake -woowe is not possible. Only when the hens who are being hugged (sleeping) can complete the task of holding the chicken with duty. Father and mother will inspect the nest hen at home, and finally determine who is to be this mother.

I remember that one year, there was no hen at home, and the mother forcibly pressed a hen in the nest. I do n’t know, this hen does not recognize the "egg doll" under his life. As soon as the hen was put into the nest, he pushed up the lid with a force, "giggling", and the hens sang all the way. The hens ran away, and the eggs in the nest were dry aside, which was anxious to break his father and mother.

Only the emergency immediately is urgent. The father and mother went to the hen around the old house to contact the hen who could hold the nest and took the initiative to give the other party the conditions. After the chick was hatched, he would pay for a pair of chickens. Although it is resolved, "borrowing mother" is not a good way, almost turning a nest of chicken eggs into widow eggs. Unexpectedly, his father and mother had to bring their own chickens to completely reduce the risk of bad guys.

The mother put 14 chicken eggs into the nest. When she puts eggs, she likes to use a big tungzi wooden scoop to install chicken eggs, saying that when the chicken grows up, she will look like a big scoop, with a large head and a shape. Put the pointed eggs down and sneak down under the hen's buttocks, so that all the eggs are hidden in the stomach and buttocks of the chicken hen.

By eighteen or nine days, the mother brought a pot of warm water to put the hugged eggs in warm water. People in the mountains are called turning water, which actually keeps the egg shells a certain humidity. At this time, the eggs will continue to shake on the water, proves that this is a chick that is about to hold successfully. It will break out of the shell after two or three days.

Spring is beautiful. Parents in the year of ，, whenever a spring arrives, still does not forget to hold a nest of chicks to enrich the life of his old age. With the interlinity of chickens, you will not be lonely, not lonely, and will be vigorous.

Spring is graceful. The little chicken just held out, with thin physical strength, pine -like thin legs, fell step by step, a weak look. But after they fell, they stubbornly stood up. The careful father and mother looked in their eyes, anxious. Feng Kan'er and Yuer'er, use a wide wooden board to take a flat bridge to carefully care for them to prevent them from falling.

Forty days later, the chicks flew around the chicken mother, and at the same time learned to protect themselves and prevent the goshawk hovering in the sky. Whenever they hear the warning from the chicken mother, they quickly hide or drill into the arms of the chicken mother.

They look like one day to make the whole spring plump. Father and mother no longer care for them, and from time to time, they bombarded them out with sticks. The father scolded loudly: "I am lazy every day, and I only know that staying at the side of the nest.

When we were young, our father reprimanded us like this.

【About the Author】

Xu Yu, Sichuan Pakistan. In "Youth Literature", "Haiyan Middle Short Story Monthly", "Youth Prose Family", "West China Metropolis Daily", "China Building Materials News", "China Urban and Rural Financial News", "China Tax News", "People's Public Security News", "China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary News", "China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary News" The Sichuan Rural Daily "" Language News "," South South Economic Daily "," Sichuan Science and Technology "," Foshan Daily "," Pearl River Literature and Art "," Jiangmen Literature and Art "," South China Daily "," National Defense Times ", Sichuan Taxation News" Sichuan Daily, "Nanchong Daily", "Bazhong Evening News", "Dazhou Evening News", "Snow Lotus Literature", "Bashan Literature", "Bazhong Literature", "Guangyuan Literature", "Future Writers", "Big Wind Literature", "Pakistani today", "Guangwu Mountain" Literature, Xinjiang Yili People's Publishing House's "Sunshine Children's Language" series, modern publishing houses and other newspapers and publishing houses published more than 500 works, prose, and miscellaneous works.

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