Chapter 678: Borrowing Fish

Crackling!

Boom!

Crash!

Hearing the sound of firecrackers and the opening and closing of the shutter door, Femas yawned and woke up.

Has Zhang Zian finally returned? It was firing before, and it is firing now, so it should have been a few minutes, and it just took a nap... Thinking so, it opened its eyes.

Huh?

At some point, the sky had already brightened, and the elves were all awakened by the sound of firecrackers, each stretching and yawning.

Footsteps sounded on the stairs, and Femas followed the sound towards the door of the bedroom.

Zhang Zian came back with two panda eyes, his face was full of exhaustion, with an expression of being extremely sleepy and unlovable.

Fina followed not far behind him, yawning one after another.

"You... just came back?" Femas asked in surprise, "Could it be that you spent the night next door?"

"What do you think?" Zhang Zian sat up heavily on the bed, "My good fellow, when it was almost dawn, the first cat gave birth to 5 kittens, and we were about to go back to sleep, but another cat was about to give birth. A total of 11 kittens were born from just one cat... In Cathy's breeding manual, there is no reminder not to let two cats get pregnant at the same time... It's really fatal!"

Fina didn't say anything, she almost jumped into its princess bed with her eyes closed, hooked the light gauze curtain with her tail, and fell asleep instantly.

God knows how they tossed this night, delivering the two female cats, and checking on the condition of the newborn kittens, because the female cats have already exhausted all their strength just by giving birth, and their lives are over. Just fell asleep, letting the little milk cats rush to drink milk in his arms.

The birth times of the kittens are similar, but there is not a small difference in size and strength, especially the third cub born to the first female cat, which is bigger than its brothers and sisters and exclusively occupies the breasts of the female cat. The best position, but the fifth cub was the thinnest, and his eyes were not opened. After squeezing for a long time, he couldn't find a place to drink milk, but was squeezed aside. Zhang Zian had no choice but to pick it up and put it back on the female cat's chest.

After the second female cat gave birth, Zhang Zian and Fei Na thought it was finally over, but who would have expected that after the first female cat woke up, she would prefer the third strong cub, and the fifth cub It often behaves indifferently, although it does not refuse to drink milk, but it does not deliberately pull it to the chest. This is the nature of wild animals. In a litter of children, only the strongest one has a living The greatest chance of going down, so it will be more favored by the mother.

The second female cat wasn't entirely reassuring, either. She treated her six litters equally, and the problem was that she didn't seem to have enough milk to feed so many cubs.

Fortunately, Zhang Zian prepared goat milk powder in advance, brewed it with warm water, mixed it with a small amount of glucose, picked up the cubs who were not full in turn, and dripped them on their tongues with a dropper.

Female cats also need to pay more attention to the fact that they cannot take care of their cubs in light, because female cats are weak after giving birth. In order to replenish their physical strength as soon as possible, the food intake needs to increase to two or three times the usual amount.

Zhang Zian prepared canned cat food in advance, opened it, shook it around their mouths, and then poured it into their usual food bowl in the corner, letting them leave the cardboard box to eat in the corner, and he took this opportunity to put the cat food in the cardboard box. Replace the old newspapers that were spread out, put the blood-stained old newspapers into garbage bags, and prepare to throw them out later.

But artificial feeding alone is not enough, feeding every two to three hours, 11 cubs will be exhausted, and it will not cure the symptoms. In addition, some female cats with strong motherhood like to monopolize their cubs. If humans interfere too much, they may hide their cubs in their mouths... Although there is Feina around, there is no need to worry about this, but the female cats are always worried. not too good.

He was thinking about buying a few crucian carp to make soup today. This thing can produce milk, and it is suitable for both cats and people. As long as there is enough milk, there is no need to worry about the thin cubs not being able to eat milk.

The problem is... Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the vendors selling vegetables in the vegetable market should not have their stalls, and there may not be crucian carp in the supermarket.

After all the tossing and tossing was over, his legs were almost weak, and seeing that it was already bright outside, he opened the curtains of the delivery room to let the morning sun shine into the room. After giving birth, female cats no longer need a dark environment. On the contrary, they need the sun most now, because postpartum female cats are prone to calcium deficiency, and the consequences of calcium deficiency are very serious.

Sunbathing has many benefits, the first is ultraviolet sterilization, and the second is a lesser-known benefit, that is, the cat’s hair will produce vitamin D when it is exposed to the sun, and then when the cat licks its own fur or licks its cubs, it will produce vitamin D. Vitamin D is eaten into the stomach, and vitamin D is recognized as helping the absorption of calcium.

After everything was settled, he saw that the female cat and the kittens were basking in the sun and fell asleep peacefully again. He finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the drowsiness also struck fiercely.

"Thank you, let's go back first." He beckoned to Fina, who was already unconscious, and left together.

Before that, he never really watched the year until dawn, smelling the smell of gunpowder smoke mixed in the cold breeze, watching the children in new clothes holding the hands of their parents on the street in the early morning, happily going to relatives to get red envelopes, He felt very relieved in his heart, successfully making all 11 cubs born to two female cats who gave birth for the first time survive, which gave him a great sense of accomplishment.

However, the sense of accomplishment can't replace sleep. He returned to the store with a heavy foot and a shallow foot, briefly explained what happened last night, prepared breakfast for the elves, and immediately pulled the quilt over and fell asleep.

This sleep did not wake up until noon, and he did not wake up naturally, but was awakened by the sound of knocking on the rolling shutter door downstairs.

"Mr. Store Manager, Happy New Year..."

Lu Yiyun stood outside the store, wearing a brand new overcoat, and came to work on the first day of the new year, but Zhang Zian clearly asked her to wait until the second day of the new year to come to work. But that's okay, he just happened to be a little too busy.

"Happy New Year." Zhang Zian scratched his messy hair like a chicken coop and replied.

"Uh... did something happen?" Lu Yiyun asked in surprise, because Zhang Zian had already opened the store at this time, and she noticed that the store hadn't been cleaned yet, and he looked like he had just woken up .

"No... no, it's the Abyssinian cat who gave birth to a kitten. It was just last night that I didn't sleep all night." Zhang Zian yawned and explained briefly, "Come in, you will be in public later. Send a post on the account to tell everyone the good news.”

"Ah! Really?" Lu Yiyun was pleasantly surprised when she heard the words, "Many people are very concerned about this matter! I'll go and see! Isn't the little milk cat so cute? How many are there?"

As she said that, she didn't have time to put down her things, so she was in a hurry to go to the shoe store to see the little milk cat.

"Wait, don't take Jasmine with you!" Zhang Zian called to stop her.

"Oh!" Lu Yiyun took off her backpack and let Jasmine play in the store. Then she ran to the shoe store with her mobile phone and took pictures of the cute little milk cats drinking milk around their mother.

"It's amazing! I counted them, and there are 11 in total?" After returning, she said excitedly, "You, the store manager, delivered them all by yourself?"

"That's right."

Zhang Zian said casually, it cannot be said that Fei Na helped him deliver the baby. He had just boiled water and was about to drink tea to refresh himself. Although he was very sleepy, he couldn't sleep anymore. There was still a lot of work in the store.

"It's a pity..." she said regretfully, "I also want to see what it looks like when I give birth to a kitten..."

"It's okay, there will be more opportunities in the future, I guarantee you will get bored." Zhang Zian rubbed his temples, "By the way, do you know where I can buy crucian carp today?"

"Crucian carp?" she repeated, "Mr. Store Manager wants to eat crucian carp?"

"I didn't eat it, it was the two female cats who ate it for milking." Zhang Zian corrected, "But there is no one selling vegetables in the vegetable market today, so I don't know where I can buy crucian carp, and I don't know if there are any in the nearby supermarkets. No... Even if you buy fresh food online from an e-commerce company, it is impossible to deliver it today."

"Uh... this... I'm really sorry, I don't know..." She was very embarrassed and answered in a low voice in embarrassment.

In fact, he asked the wrong person when he asked Lu Yiyun. After all, Lu Yiyun is a super home girl. She rents out houses and pet shops every day. She doesn’t even know the way when she leaves this street. How could she know where to buy it? Crucian carp?

"Forget it, I'll think of a way." Zhang Zian also had a lot of hope, sighed and said: "But I must get crucian carp today, and I will go out and visit the nearby supermarkets later to see which one sells crucian carp .”

Lu Yiyun couldn't help, and felt uneasy. Zhang Zian didn't sleep all night, but had to go out for a while, which made her feel useless.

She sat down and turned on the computer, started editing the official account, created a new group message, and inserted the photos of the Abyssinian cat cubs into the article. She was still thinking about the problem just now, trying to come up with a solution.

She is in charge of this work every day, and she is already familiar with it. She quickly edited the article with pictures and texts. After that, she browsed the comments in the official account, answered some customers' questions, and asked Zhang Zian for advice when she encountered something that she didn't understand. Zhang Zian didn't understand either, so he went to check the information and then told her.

Suddenly, she had an idea and suggested: "Mr. Store Manager, why don't you post an announcement on the official account and ask everyone to borrow a few crucian carp?"

"Borrowing fish?" Zhang Zian's mind was not fully clear yet, and he didn't understand what she meant.

"Yeah, there are so many people, so maybe someone has crucian carp!" She said, "We can borrow if we can, buy if we can, and reimburse the round-trip fare. Someone will be willing to lend a helping hand."

Zhang Zian thought about it, and felt that this proposal was feasible, and it was also the most reliable method at present. It was much better than looking for crucian carp everywhere like a headless chicken, and it would save a lot of trouble. So he slapped his thigh and said: "This idea is great! Just do it like this. People borrow arrows from straw boats, and we borrow fish from straw boats!"