During the Spring Festival this year, the young couple had a prosperous and lively life. The fourth sister made a new set of clothes and pants for her and Jianfeng, which were the most fashionable "polyester card" fabrics in the countryside at that time, not to mention the firstborn son. The abundance and generosity of wine, meat, clothing and food cannot hide the differences between the two young people, and the dispute continues from the beginning of the dispute when making dumplings on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and until the end of the small year, the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month. The fourth sister plans to set up a small family chicken farm, so that she can take care of the children, and she can avoid running around, and the income will not be wrong. Jianfeng advocated opening an electrical repair shop in Mulberry Town, and asked her to keep accounts, manage children, and cook for him, without raising any chickens and pigs.

"Let me be the proprietress of the house? Haha! I can't take this kind of heart! I pour you a urinal in the morning, cook for you three times a day, and count your money at night, this ...... It's comfortable, but I'm going to suffocate. ”

"How much money can you earn by raising chickens! Those chicks that have just come out of the shell, you can't survive one out of ten, just ask the aunt and sister-in-law of the neighbor next door. ”

"You don't care about it, I have read a book of 'chicken knowledge' to memorize, I raise chickens according to scientific methods, and my aunts and sisters-in-law will only ...... old-fashioned methods."

This debate has been going on all the time. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the two of them ate meat-filled dumplings, and each other wanted to persuade each other; the two of them held the child and carried gifts on the way to the second aunt to pay New Year's greetings, and they fought for seven highs and eight lows; Seeing that after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the last small ** of the New Year's festival had also passed, and no one could convince anyone; in the end, the two sides had to compromise with each other and be independent: Jianfeng went to Mulberry Town to run his electrical repair store, and the fourth sister founded her family chicken farm at home. She made two agreements with him: one was to help her build two ondols before he went to Mulberry Town, as a hotbed for raising chickens, and she couldn't do it alone. The second is that she asks him to come home and sleep every night. And he said, what about the rain and the snow? She said, and she had to come home when it rained and snowed. He said, "It's too much of a rule, isn't it?" Can it be a little more flexible? She said, "No, it's flexible." She has been married to him for several years, and she has quarreled and quarreled, and she has made awkward noise, and she always sleeps on a kang at night, which has become a habit, and if he doesn't come back, she will not be able to sleep steadily. He still wants one percent flexibility, or special circumstances. She simply said to death, one percent of the flexibility is not allowed, do you want to pull the wild woman?

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the average country man and woman have not yet cheered up from the drunkenness and laziness of the New Year, and the joyful atmosphere has not yet dissipated from the streets and alleys of the village, and the four sisters and Jianfeng have already sweated profusely.

She provided him with mud, and he carried a brick knife on the fire. He was a clever young man from the countryside, and as long as she told him about the purpose of the kang and the purpose she wanted to achieve, he could arrange the fire mouth and chimney reasonably, and adjust the temperature of the ondol. Looking at the fire kang that has begun to take shape, she is satisfied. She used a shovel to dig up the mud and sent it to his men. He needed a piece of rubble to stabilize the adobe, and she handed it to him at once. He helped her, and she seemed docile and attentive.

He took the piece of rubble she handed him and laid it under the adobe, and it was secure. He said, "It would be nice to hear that about Shunjiao at night! you, understand?"

She was caught off guard, and was preoccupied with what she was preoccupying on, but he talked about the evening. She slapped him in the face lovingly, wiped the mud off his face, and laughed out loud, laughing at the funny appearance of his five-flowered face.

The four sisters bought back 500 chickens at a time, which alarmed the men and women in Lujiabao. The women here, although they raise chickens, are only a dozen or so at most, all of which are hatched in the spring with old hens, and the chicks gradually grow up with the warm wings of the old hens, and no one is sure that the chicks that are hatched by the machine will grow up. People all flocked into her yard, squeezed into her house, stretched out their hands to touch the wall of the kang, looked at the chicks crowded on the kang, in and out, in the small courtyard, in the dirt field outside the gate, there were many discussions.

Of the three houses, only one was left as a place for her and Jianfeng to sleep and live, and both were turned into chicken coops. Three large fire kangs occupy the foot of the two houses, leaving only a small corridor in the middle. Five hundred chicks squeaked and quarreled, and soon the smell of appeared in the house.

The elms in the elm trees in front of the door were green and dry, and the wheat in the rivers was green and yellow. As soon as the tense summer harvest was over, and the scorching heat gave the croppers time to seek shade, the women came to the house of the four sisters, and they all shouted in amazement.

How cute! In the chicken pen surrounded by bamboo sticks, a white grid of snow-like feathers is competing for food, chasing and playing, and the big rooster with a high neck and red crown is chasing the beautiful hen, not avoiding many people, and jumping on the back of the hen to copulate without shame. The entire courtyard is fenced with bamboo sticks, leaving only a small open space.

The four sisters warmly received all the aunts and sisters-in-law who came to watch, patiently answering their inquiries, and did not care about the jealous look in the eyes of a narrow-minded woman. The joy and pride that success itself brings are enough to make people tolerant and tolerant of all worldliness.

Just handed in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, a shocking hen's cry sounded from the backyard, and the four sisters opened the fence gate and ran into the chicken pen, so frightened that the hen ran away like the wind. She ran to the chicken coop, and there was a white and shiny egg in the nest, and when she grabbed it in her hand, she saw that there was a trace of blood on the pink and white eggshell. Her eyes were blurred with overflowing tears, and an irrepressible voice echoed in her heart: It's time to give birth!

In less than half a month, three hundred hens began to lay eggs one after another, and from morning to night, the hens reported to her that the cries of laying eggs began one after another. She sprinkled pots of mixed feed into the trough and walked out of the fence with baskets and baskets of eggs. She didn't dare to leave the courtyard for a moment, she was so busy. The most urgent thing is that eggs can't be sold, and they can't be piled up at home!

She finally discussed with Jianfeng and decided to ask her husband and mother-in-law to come over to help. Although her mother-in-law helped her bring the doll and collect eggs, it was not reliable after all. She had to have a formal conversation with the two old men, and she wanted them to come to her small courtyard to take care of the housekeeping, and she could go out and sell her eggs every day or two. She bought cakes, cigarettes, tea and wine at the consignment point in the village, a total of four gifts, and asked Jianfeng to wrap them in a satchel and walk into the familiar old man's house.

Early the next morning, the fourth sister came back with a load of water, and saw her husband squatting on the steps smoking dry tobacco, she hurriedly beckoned her husband to sit in the house, but the old man knocked off the cigarette ash and picked up the burden she had just put down to carry water. She said to him, "Dad, your legs and feet are inconvenient, let me pick them, you can mix the chickens!"

She told her husband about the formula ratio of grits, bran, fish meal, bone meal and several trace elements, but her husband said that he couldn't remember, so it was better to let him fetch water. She refused to let her and said, "Dad, if I go out to sell eggs, you still have to feed the chickens." Actually, it's not difficult, I'll write the recipe on the wall for you, and I'll remember it after mixing it once or twice. As she spoke, she demonstrated how to put all kinds of feed in the wooden jar in proportion, stirred well, and then asked her husband to bring the feed into the chicken pen. The old man was about to push open the fence door, but she hurriedly shouted, "Dad! ”

The old man turned around, confused: "What are you doing by stepping on lime?"

The fourth sister said, "Disinfection." ”

The old man was impatient, put down the basin full of feed, and simply walked back: "Think I'm poisonous?

The fourth sister smiled. My husband was sick in his heart. She smiled and explained, "Dad! I'll send it in, and I'm going to step on the lime too." Every time I enter the chicken pen, I have to go through this disinfection procedure. You are guilty of heart disease, this is an epidemic prevention requirement, and you dare not violate it. ”

The old man seemed to hear this, and went to the fence door of the chicken pen again, stepped on the lime heap, took up the basin, and went in.

The fourth sister walked out of the door with a bucket and couldn't help but laugh. God, she's telling her husband! He actually listened to her! He was one of the few shrewd and powerful croppers in Lujiabao, and he was always asked about him a lot, and in the village crop shop, there was no way to stop him in terms of life or skills. He is also a parent with a particularly strict family law...... However, he complied with the health and epidemic prevention system she told him to do.

The fourth sister picked up a load of water again. As soon as she entered the street, she heard her husband instruct the old woman in a loud and stern voice, "Step on the lime heap." Poison on the feet. Sanitation and epidemic prevention dare not be sloppy. Remember, every time I go into the chicken pen, whether it's feeding or collecting eggs, whether I'm in front of me or not, I have to rub the soles of my shoes in the lime pile. ”

The fourth sister smiled.

When my husband heard this, he turned his head, laughed embarrassedly, and said loudly, "You look at my old brain." I believe in science! That year, ** sent fertilizer, and no one dared to buy it. Many people said, "If we use a cart to deliver dung to the fields, the wheat will not grow well, and if we sprinkle so many catties of white flour and the same thing, can we still expect it to grow?" I bought it and used it, ho, that year, our wheat grew well! I believe it......."

After eating a little dry bun and drinking a few sips of boiling water, the four sisters tied two egg baskets with wheat straw to the bicycle, and said to the two old men: "Feed once at twelve o'clock, and feed again at five o'clock, according to the proportion." The eggs should be picked up in time, and if there are too many piles in the nest, it will be easy to crush. With that, she pushed the car out of the door, and her son clamored to go with her. The mother-in-law persuaded and persuaded her, so she pulled the crying boy away.

The four sisters stepped into the car, and the wind in the early morning was so cool!