Six Hundred and Fortieth IX Hibernation Unaware of Dawn

Little Celery stopped crying when she heard that the hamsters might not be dead.

"Brother store manager, is it true? The hamsters are really alive?" Tears rolled in her eyes, and they might fall down her cheeks again at any moment.

"I think it's very possible, because unless it's poisoned, it's unlikely that they died at the same time. They should have entered a false hibernation state." Zhang Zian explained the reason.

"Great!" Little Celery was finally relieved, she trusted Zhang Zian's knowledge about pets.

But Zhang Zian's expression was still serious, because he knew that although those hamsters were not dead, the situation might still be very dangerous. False hibernation is the last resort for hamsters when their lives are threatened by harsh environments. It is a gamble they rely on their survival instincts to wake up after the false hibernation, and whether they will become real dead. Everything is ambiguous.

He glanced around. People who got up early in the morning were still looking for the cats and dogs that escaped from the farm. He guessed that there would be no business today, so he said, "Little Celery, I have nothing to do today, why don't I go and see with you?" How about those hamsters?"

"Yes!" Little Celery nodded emphatically, "We also want to ask the store manager's brother to give us some advice, because we don't know if the way to raise it is right..."

"But can I get into your school?" he asked, "Should it be very strict?"

Little Celery thought for a while, "I'll ask Yaning."

She took out a smartphone with a relatively small screen from her schoolbag and sent a few messages to Wang Yaning.

Soon, she put away her mobile phone and said, "Yaning said that she would tell the head teacher, and ask the head teacher to help you report...to the security guard or something..."

"I see, let's go then."

Without further ado, Zhang Zian went back to the shop and greeted Lu Yiyun, let them look at the shop, and followed Xiao Qincai to her elementary school.

His stride is large, and one step is equal to two steps for Little Celery, and Little Celery occasionally needs to run two steps to keep up with him.

On the way, Little Celery's worry was still written on her face, and she raised her head from time to time to ask Zhang Zian about the safety of the hamster. Zhang Zian thought that the hamsters were currently in a state of false hibernation, but he wasn't sure if they would wake up again. He didn't want to lie to her, so he could only tell her not to worry.

After the visit on Christmas Eve, this is Zhang Zian's second visit to Zhonghua Road Primary School, which was also his alma mater when he was a child.

At Christmas, because it is a school celebration, there are crowds of people inside and outside the primary school. Many parents come to watch their children's performances. Electric bicycles and cars almost fill up the street in front of the school. And today it was already winter vacation, the school gate was deserted, there was no one there, the electric fence gate was also closed, and only a side door in front of the security room was left for entry and exit.

Zhang Zian's temporary status is the breeding class instructor. Xiao Qincai and Wang Yaning's head teachers have already greeted the security guards to explain why the head teachers can trust a strange adult so much, because she was also Zhang Zian's head teacher before. Many primary school teachers of the older generation are like this. They stay in one school for a lifetime, watching each student go to the four directions and become the pillars of the motherland.

Little Celery led him to the back of the teaching building. He had thought they were keeping hamsters in the classroom, but it didn't seem like it was.

There is a row of bungalows behind the teaching building, and the surroundings of the bungalows are arranged like a small garden with swings swaying in the wind, grape trellises made of thin bamboo poles, and a row of low bamboo fences to isolate it from the teaching area. At that time, it must have been a pleasant pastoral scenery.

The bungalow used a lot of tempered glass, and the interior was well lit. Zhang Zian saw a few figures busy inside.

Little Celery knocked on the door, and soon, Wang Yaning, who was like an adult, ran over to open the door.

She looked at Zhang Zian suspiciously, and pouted inside, "Come in. Why do you think the hamster is not dead?"

"Well, it's literally." Zhang Zian looked at the students present, including Xiao Qincai and Wang Yaning, a total of 5 people, he had never seen the other three,

Probably all of Xiao Celery's classmates, male and female. Facing a strange adult like him, the other children were very cautious.

"Where's the hamster?" he asked.

"Over there." Little Celery pointed to a row of shelves by the window.

There are utensils of different sizes on the shelves. There are decent PVC hamster cages, which can be bought from the market or online. There are also small glass fish tanks with barbed wire as a cover on the top, and birdcages made of wire. These are used as hamster cages, and these should be brought by the students from their homes.

The container was covered with half wood chips and half urine sand. On the side of the wood chips lay a hamster, either Sanxian or Silver Fox, which Zhang Zian gave Xiao Celery and the others for trial raising.

"Do you have a thermometer here?"

He looked at the surrounding furnishings and asked. As soon as he came in, he felt that although the temperature inside was higher than outside, it was still quite cold.

"No, what do you need a thermometer for?" Wang Yaning shook her head and asked.

"It's useful. Hamsters are more sensitive to temperature changes." Zhang Zian explained.

Wang Yaning asked the others: "Do you have any?"

A little boy took out a pencil case from his schoolbag. After opening it, there was a small mercury thermometer inside the pencil case.

"Is this okay?" the little boy asked.

Zhang Zian took it over and looked at it. Don't expect the accuracy of this crude thermometer, but it's okay to use it together.

The red mercury column falls at about 17 degrees.

"The temperature is too low." He already understood the reason, and pointed to the scale for them to see.

"Is 17 degrees low? My house is less than 17 degrees!" Wang Yaning said, and other friends also echoed.

Zhang Zian walked to the container where the hamster was kept, leaned over to inspect it, and asked, "Why is half wood chips and half urine sand spread?"

"Because it's not easy to clean if you only put sawdust, it's too smelly!" Wang Yaning replied, "We thought of a way, half wood chips and half urine sand, so that hamsters go to the urine sand side when they urinate, and the sawdust side to sleep. "

Zhang Zian shook his head, "First of all, the temperature is too low. 17 degrees is suitable for humans, but hamsters are not used to such a low temperature. It is best to keep it above 20 degrees; Prepare pure wood chips to keep warm, half wood chips and half urine sand is the configuration in spring and autumn, and pure urine sand is needed in summer.”

"Brother store manager, you mean, the hamster fake...fake hibernation because it's too cold?" Little Celery asked.

"That's right." Zhang Zian rolled up his sleeves, "Now go and help me prepare some things, we're going to revive the hamsters!"