In the past, the amount of rainfall accumulated throughout the year, and the large ditches and small ditches in the vicinity could be filled.

At that time, the irrigation of each family was not worried, let alone raising chickens to drink water.

However, with the implementation of the "South-to-North Water Diversion Project", rural villages in southern regions like theirs often feel that there is not enough water.

Many of the small ponds in the vicinity have dried up, and the amount of water in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River tributaries has been greatly reduced.

As the water becomes scarcer, so does the problem of water use, and many reservoirs are privately contracted, so you can sigh at the water during the dry season.

Many of the families who used to grow a lot of rice later switched to dry land because of the lack of water supply, and planted some rape or wheat.

The half of the mountain contracted by Zhou Heng's family is basically harvested by the sky, and the water consumption depends on rain.

However, the price of local contracting is also cheap, and when the time comes, depending on the situation of hanging fruits, there should be some income.

Now raising some local chickens can be regarded as making the best use of the soil and adding some value. But the chickens have to feed themselves water.

Zhou Heng replaced more than a dozen basins with clean water and earned some experience points.

After doing this bit of work, he was not tired, but Zhou Heng still found a stone to sit down and rest.

When he used to be in elementary school, he liked to sit on the mountain, blow the wind, and look at the blue sky and white clouds overhead.

Especially when the white clouds are blown away by the wind, they keep changing their shapes, which is very reverie.

It is very comfortable to sit on the mountain and blow the wind.

Sit high and see far.

More than 500 native chickens, scattered on half of the mountain, completely inconspicuous, and there is a lot of spare space. Therefore, it is no problem to expand the farming.

A little farther away was his home, the white, flat-roofed house.

Zhou Heng recalled that it was built when he was just in junior high school, and when the house was built, the family had no place to live, so they lived in a canopy not far away.

I've lived for nearly half a year.

Although it was hard at the time, he was still happy to be able to live in a new house.

In this flash, more than ten years have passed, and the house is already very old, with cracks in some places and some leaks - when it was built, the family did not have much money, so the quality was not good.

Well, after the expansion of local chicken breeding and the money is made, the house should be rebuilt so that the parents can live more comfortably.

Look, I haven't seen the prospect of breeding, Zhou Heng is already thinking about how to spend that money.

The mountain breeze blows slightly, and people want to squint their eyes and sleep well here.

Wang Siqi carried the basket and searched diligently in the mountains, and when he saw an egg in a chicken coop, he screamed for a while like seeing a baby.

It was so frightened that the chickens around it made a "cooing" sound.

And this kind of frightened "cooing" sound is contagious, and the rooster in the distance doesn't understand what's going on here, but it also begins to crow with the "cooing", which seems to be very vigilant.

The rooster crows are actually very rich, and you can still hear emotions.

This is not like some people think, the chicken will only "cluck".

Wang Siqi found an egg, showed it to Zhou Heng as if offering a treasure, and said proudly: "Uncle, look, I picked up another one." ”

Zhou Heng gave her a thumbs up and praised her: "Well, Xiao Qi Qi is great!"

Children just like to be praised, and then happily rush to the next chicken coop to create the next chaos.

She grew up in the city, and it was very rare for her to come to her grandmother's house in the countryside.

And what makes Zhou Heng happy is that picking up eggs can also get experience points!

He was a little curious about what kind of gift package he would draw after reaching 100 XP.

At this moment, the big yellow dog who came from home suddenly discovered something and ran in one direction, startling the chickens for a while.

The answer was soon revealed - the big yellow dog came back with a gray object in his mouth, fluffy, and his legs were stretched from time to time.

Zhou Heng laughed, it turned out to be a fat hare!

It was a bonus, something he hadn't expected.

The mountains here are stronger than the barren mountains, but they are far from the beautiful mountains and rivers, so the products are not very rich, and these wild things are extinct in the early years.

Even pheasants are nowhere to be seen.

I didn't expect to be able to eat a hare when I came back this time!

So, today's lunch has one more dish than usual, braised hare. Mom's cooking skills really don't have to be said.

Rabbits are fat, they are very fragrant to eat, and the meat is very tender, but hares are different.

Zhou Heng ate with a mouth full of oil, and said with emotion: "I really didn't expect there to be hares to eat, didn't there be none before?"

Dad replied to him, "Now there are more hares, and I saw pheasants flying a few days ago." That day, the old Xu family dug trees, and also dug a nest of wild hedgehogs, more than a dozen large and small, very fat. ”

Zhou Heng still ate hedgehog meat when he was a child, and he hasn't eaten it for many years.

Hearing this, I was very greedy.

He asked, "Why didn't all these things come from before?"

"Where did it come from? Now there are no young people in the village, and the old people can't move, isn't it slowly increasing?" said the old mother as she ate.

Zhou Ying also interjected at this time: "Don't you see, now there are more birds in front of the village and behind the village, unlike before, these are all clean, and you can't see a single one." ”

Zhou Heng sighed, it's really true!

Even on a few trees in their yard, there is now the sound of birds' wings fluttering from time to time, and they are all lively to listen to.

In the past, young people liked to dig birds' nests and beat rabbits, and they were almost desperate when they came and went.

At that time, the living conditions were not good, so I pointed to these things to taste some meat. On the other hand, those people are idle anyway, and they are not strictly controlled, so why don't they do it?

But then they all went out to work, and the young people were not at home, and no one did this, and it really started to recover again.

Pretty good.

The topic at the dinner table was slowly opened, and when it came to cutting wheat in the next two days, Zhou Ying simply didn't go back, and helped at her parents' house.

When her son has a weekend holiday, let him also come to his grandmother's house to play for two days.

Zhou Heng felt guilty, he went to school, graduated, and went to work outside, basically he didn't help much at home, and his sister helped at home like a man.

This should have been his responsibility.

Although he said that he imagined that when he was able, he would buy a house outside and take his parents over for retirement.

But although the idea is good, it is not easy to implement, not to mention that he doesn't know when he will be able to afford a house, it is also very difficult for his parents to leave their hometown to adapt to life outside at this age.

The language is different, the customs are different, and there are no familiar people, for them, that kind of day is not a pension, it should be regarded as a torment.

In the past, when I was not at home, I didn't think much about it, but now I have it in front of me.

Now, Zhou Heng is seriously thinking about doing breeding at home.

Their rural area, like most rural areas in China, is not poor to the end and will not starve to death, but at the same time, there is no economic poverty alleviation project on the way.

It belongs to the kind of village that has not been paid attention to for 10,000 years and has figured out its own way.

Far away from the provincial capital, there are no economic projects that can be stained, and there is no export of local characteristic products, and the economic aspect is about a pool of stagnant water.

Thanks to the blessing of the times, young people have gone to work outside, showing their powers, and if they have the ability, they can live a good life, and if they don't have the ability, they will guard a little field at home.

And the theme of going home to start a business is probably only the road of planting or breeding.

After eating, tidying up the dishes and chopsticks, my father called the harvester to see what time he could arrange.

Now mechanized farming saves a lot of trouble, and people are not as tired as they were back then.

After hanging up the phone, Li Yunlian asked her wife: "How much do we get for the wheat we planted this year?"

"It's not something to give. Zhou Faqiang replied.

Zhou Heng hurriedly said: "Parents, don't feel sorry for those two money, just relax." I have money in hand, and I'll give Ming'er's money. ”

Although the harvester saves trouble, my parents are always worried about money, and they always calculate the cost of removing seeds and fertilizers from an acre of land, and now they have to hire machinery to harvest, and they have to spend money.

I'm always talking about it, I don't have much income in the first place, and if I subtract this and that, I really won't have a few dollars left.

However, they are really old, and they can't bear it.

This money should be spent, so that the parents don't have to work so hard, especially the father, who has just returned from the hospital.

In the future, when life is good, they should be allowed to enjoy some blessings.

After the wheat was cut, Zhou Heng's experience was enough, and he got a big gift package.

This is good - it is really a way to breed local chickens.

The black technology is advanced, starting from the chicken's diet, to the nutritional ratio, to some detailed precautions, the details of the principle, there is nothing to say, very meticulous.

It can be said that even Zhou Heng, a farming novice, can see it clearly.

There are a lot of farming techniques on the Internet, but they are all incomplete and can easily be misleading - for example, when you search for a question, you will often give three or four different answers on the Internet, which makes people not know which is right.

Zhou Heng was very excited and hurriedly started the preparation of the first batch of feed.

The feed mentioned here is not to buy the finished product back, but to prepare the grain in proportion according to what the APP says.

Native chickens eat bugs and grass seeds in the mountains during the day, but they still have to supplement some food in the morning and evening, such as corn, rice, and so on.

According to ordinary people raising local chickens, this is enough, very good local chickens, and the food has caught up with humans.

However, the APP gave a very detailed explanation that the nutritional intake of local chickens is unbalanced, resulting in insufficient nutrition of adult chickens - just like human partial eating, it is always bad for the body.

The feed formula given by APP, the proportion of corn, the proportion of rice, and some other substances.

Most of them are readily available at home, and a small number need to be bought on the street, but they are not a big problem, and they are all whole grains.

Zhou Heng set out to prepare the first batch of feed and waited for the results with confidence.

Mother Li Yunlian watched him busy with this, and asked in surprise, "Xiao Heng, what are you doing?"