For ordinary people, it would be fine if they didn't know that cats and hamsters might have the habit of eating their babies. Once they knew, they would nervously think that the mother cat or mother hamster was going to eat the baby when they saw the mother hamster having intimate contact with the newborn baby. Many times, ignorance was bliss.
In fact, Zhang Zian saw it clearly. The mother hamster did bite the umbilical cord, but it was biting the umbilical cord, not the baby.
This time, even Little Celery, who always had a smile on her face, was angry. She pulled Wang Yaning back, suppressed her anger, and criticized, "Yaning, don't talk so loudly! You're scaring the mother hamster! "
The other students also felt that Wang Yaning was too impatient, but they didn't dare to say it out loud.
Wang Yaning was quite unconvinced. "But I clearly saw that it looked like it was going to eat the baby …"
"What do we do now?"
"Why don't we quickly take the little hamster out?"
The other children were also talking, and one child reached out to take the little hamster.
Zhang Zian slapped his hand away, interrupted their argument, and said, "Stop arguing. Do you have any disposable chopsticks here? Give me a pair! "
"Disposable chopsticks?"
The primary school students were stunned. One of the more naughty boys thought the wrong way. His face changed, and he said, "Are … are you going to eat 'zhi zhi'?"
"Zhi zhi?"
The other children were even more stunned. What was "zhi zhi"? Could it be eaten?
Zhang Zian knew what he was referring to. Of course, he was certainly not referring to Pi's cry, but an alternative recipe that was popular in some places. Live baby hamsters were dipped in soy sauce and vinegar, and then directly chewed in the mouth. The baby hamster screamed "zhi zhi" before it died, hence the name.
This method of eating could be said to be quite cruel, comparable to eating raw monkey brains. No wonder none of the other children had heard of it. This little boy didn't know where he had heard of it. When he heard that Zhang Zian was asking for disposable chopsticks, he thought that Zhang Zian saw that the baby hamster was not going to survive. Instead of being eaten by the mother hamster, it was better to eat it himself …
Zhang Zian certainly wouldn't explain to the children what "zhi zhi" was, or they would definitely have nightmares. He gave the little boy a look and said, "What zhi zhi ya ya? Do you have any disposable chopsticks? "
"Yes, I just bought some buns on the way here. They came with two pairs of disposable chopsticks, but I haven't used them yet. It's better to eat them with my hands …" Another little boy said as he handed over two pairs of disposable chopsticks.
Zhang Zian couldn't agree more. Eating buns with chopsticks was heresy.
"So unhygienic!" Wang Yaning looked disgusted.
The two pairs of disposable chopsticks were wrapped in plastic film and had not been opened. Zhang Zian tore open the plastic film on one of the pairs and rubbed the thinner end against the cardboard box to remove any remaining burrs. Then, he focused on the female hamster.
This was the female hamster's first time giving birth. It had been going well, but Wang Yaning's sharp and shrill voice scared the female hamster out of her wits. The newborn hamster was wriggling in the sawdust, but the female hamster didn't care. It just looked around with its small round eyes.
Most hamsters were very timid. Usually, they would tremble in fear at the slightest movement. If they were frightened during childbirth, they might eat the baby or run away with the baby to a place that they thought was safe.
Zhang Zian told the idle children to prepare an empty cardboard box and pour new clean sawdust into it. Then, he picked up the female hamster with disposable chopsticks and put it into the new cardboard box to temporarily separate it from the baby.
He used the chopsticks to poke around in the old cardboard box and found a pile of wet sawdust in the corner. He used the chopsticks to pick up a few pieces and put them next to the female hamster in the new cardboard box.
"That's sawdust stained with rat urine," a little boy reminded him.
"It doesn't matter. That's what I want," Zhang Zian said.
In a completely new environment, in order to make the female hamster feel at ease, it was necessary to transfer the sawdust, paper, cotton, and other things that were stained with rat urine to the female hamster so that it would be less wary of the new environment.
Zhang Zian picked up the sawdust stained with rat urine and rubbed it on the baby, rubbing the smell of the female hamster on it. Then, he picked it up more carefully and put it next to the female hamster in the new cardboard box.
The children stared at the transfer process nervously.
"From now on, don't touch the baby hamster with your hands for three weeks. Don't let the smell of humans get on them. When you need to clean the cardboard box, use disposable chopsticks like this," Zhang Zian explained softly.
One of the children asked, "What about three weeks later?"
"After three weeks? After three weeks, the baby will have grown up and can leave the mother's cage. At that time, it will be able to directly grab it with its hands, "Zhang Zian answered.
"I can't use chopsticks well. Can I wear gloves to hold the baby? Or use a spoon? "a little boy asked, embarrassed.
The other children snickered.
"It's best not to. It's easy for the baby to fall if you use a spoon. When you need to transfer it, let someone who is good with chopsticks do it." Zhang Zian didn't laugh at him. Many children were not very good at using chopsticks, especially those who were spoiled by their parents. Some children even needed to be fed by their parents when they were seven or eight years old.
In fact, it was okay to wear gloves, but the premise was that the gloves had to be disposable and not stained with the smell of humans. Also, the process of wearing gloves had to be followed, otherwise, it would be useless. These requirements were too difficult for primary school students. It was easier and more convenient to use disposable chopsticks.
The female hamster sniffed the baby and smelled her own scent on the baby, which made her instinctively think that it was her child. So, she pulled the baby to her side. The new environment also made her feel more at ease.
After a while, the second baby was successfully born.
Then the third, the fourth …
The children were stunned and murmured, "It's really good at giving birth …"
The female hamster gave birth to a total of eight babies. Only then did her swollen abdomen slightly flatten out. Exhausted, she pressed her body against the babies to keep them warm, and at the same time, looked around with her round eyes.
"I told you to prepare the homemade cotton paper in advance. Are you ready?" Zhang Zian asked.
"Ready."
Little Celery took a bag of homemade cotton paper and handed it to him.
After he opened the bag, he grabbed an appropriate amount of cotton paper and sprinkled it on the other corner of the cardboard box.
"What's homemade cotton paper for?" the children asked curiously. They had always been curious about what to do with these wide strips of cotton paper.
Zhang Zian didn't answer. He motioned for them to take a closer look.
The female hamster quickly noticed the pile of cotton paper. Leaving the baby hamsters who were waiting to be fed, she quickly ran to the cotton paper and opened her mouth to eat.
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