When I was nine years old, I dropped out of school because of my mother's death and other reasons.
Remember that it was an early winter when the leaves were withered by frost, the ewe of Uncle Xin's family gave birth to two lambs, the health of the first birth, the weakness of the second birth (commonly known as the mat nest), this mat nest could not even stand up, a little bit of strength to eat milk, plus it coincided with the poor harvest year, Uncle Xin did not have extra grain to add to the mother lamb, the milk of the mother lamb could not be supplied to the two lambs to eat, the owner of the lamb, Uncle Xin, threw the mat nest that he thought could not survive on the side of the river, and I felt that the lamb was really pitiful and went forward to hug it. Looking up, Uncle Xin stood on the edge of the river and said: This lamb can't feed, it can't feed itself, and its mother doesn't have enough milk to supply it, and the lamb can't feed without milk!
I rarely carried the dying lamb home, and after my father saw it, she also took a breath with Uncle Xin: ~ The lamb can't feed if she can't eat milk! My little heart suddenly gave birth to an indignant anger: Why did the head have milk to eat? The second born should starve to death?!
Did not listen to Daddy's heartfelt advice, stubbornly I wrapped up the lamb with one of my old cotton jackets, and when Daddy was asleep at night, I crept up the lamb and pulled open the wooden door latch, and by means of the winding moonlight, I walked to the fence of the mother lamb ~ I identified a sentence from the adults: ~ Eat the milk lamb may be able to feed!
When I arrived at my destination, I took the hook of the fence door, pushed open the fence door and found the mother lamb curled up in the corner, the first lamb snuggled up next to the mother sheep and fell asleep, I put my lamb next to the mother sheep, the mother sheep took the initiative to turn over, revealing a breast that was not plump ~ it had recognized its secondary child! I lifted the lamb's mouth with one hand, and with the other hand I held the mother sheep's nipple and helped it suck on the colostrum of the mother sheep, because the milk was limited, I replaced the lamb with another nipple...
The morning after eating the colostrum, the lamb miraculously stood up! When My father saw it, she was just like me, both shocked and surprised! As everyone knows, I have the secret of working underground!
As always, a few days later, My Father discovered my secret, and My Mother said: What I did was criminal, and I must confess my guilt! Dad's point of view, I am a sin of good faith and must be corrected!
I went to Uncle Xin's house and confessed my mistake! The kind Uncle Xin said happily: It's all right, the first lamb has survived healthily, and the second lamb is yours, go back and feed it well!
The lambs survived the winter under my careful feeding with rice paste, ushered in the spring of wild grasses everywhere, Dad put a rope around the neck of the lamb, I led the lamb every day to follow the members of the farm work down the mountain, let the lamb walk all over the hillside, eat its favorite herbs!
The lamb began to fatten up, the hair also became shiny, the manure egg was also a grain of small particles of six-flavored yellow pills, that play we friends have paid, that is a tradition, the ancestors have said that the sheep dung egg is not dirty, because the sheep eat hundreds of grasses, the grass in the mountains is almost all Chinese herbal medicine, and even some people say that sheep dung eggs are good medicine for treating all diseases. Yes, it smells of herbs, a little shy, but not smelly!
I gave the lamb a nickname: "Baba" is a ram, Dad said that the ram needs to be "castrated", and said to me the method, I asked Dad: Does it hurt? Dad's answer was yes, and I said: Then I don't want to castrate! Daddy knew my stubbornness, and he pretended to agree to me.
A few days later, I inadvertently touched the root of my life, and two bird-egg-like balls fell! ~ It turned out that Dad secretly performed castration surgery on Baba (using a wooden trolley to reel the old valve wire, tied to the root of the lamb's testicles) When I asked Dad, Dad said that the bottom fell off, and after some time it would grow above the head, I heard it and touched the top of Baba's head every day, hoping that it would grow out a day earlier, and sure enough, the bones on the top of Baba's head grew bigger and bigger, and finally I unexpectedly grew a pair of majestic horns...
Because the children of the same age are all in school, Baba has no choice but to become my ear-to-ear, intimate playmate...