Chapter 7, Pig Farming

The uncle waited for Li Ya and the three of them to leave before announcing: "Speed up, there will be rabbit meat to eat at noon." As soon as they heard that there was meat to eat, not only the children were so excited that they jumped up and cheered, but even the adults also cracked their mouths and laughed, and their enthusiasm was instantly high, and they were resurrected with full blood, and the efficiency of their work was greatly improved.

Before it was time to eat, I smelled a strong aroma wafting from the direction of cooking from a distance, and I swallowed saliva one by one. The children kept turning their heads to look at the cooking area, and they were less attentive to their work.

When eating, adults always put the meat in their own bowls into their children's bowls, and the children stuff them straight into their mouths. Looking at the appearance of their children stuffing meat, adults are full of joy and fill their stomachs with broth. From ancient times to the present, the people at the bottom of China have lived like this for generations, and when there are good things, they think about their children first.

A large pot of meat basically entered the children's mouths, and the food was also eaten, and the uncle said happily: "Everyone is working hard, it is the time to rush the farm, and there is meat to eat these days." ”

The power of the masses is infinite, and in previous years, the seeds were not finished in ten days, but this year it ended in seven days. The uncle looked at the advance a few days and said happily: "I will go up the mountain to pick tea leaves tomorrow." ”

The Simingshan production team has several tea mountains, all of which were reclaimed and planted by the ancestors of the Li family from generation to generation. The oldest group is more than 300 years old, and it was planted with tea brought by the fleeing ancestors, and there are still more than 30 surviving trees, which look like small trees from a distance. In previous years, I couldn't catch up with the trip, and I could only pick less than half of the area every year, but this year the uncle plans to pick it all.

Li Ya has only recently learned about the family's heritage, the well-known medical skills, these tea mountains, the process of roasting tea, and the pool of winemaking. Medical skills Li Ya is learning, these tea mountains are Longjing tea, and they can be regarded as ancient tea trees in the future, and the skills of roasting tea are also very good, the tea of Siming Mountain has been very famous in the surrounding cities before liberation, and even now, the price of tea in Siming Mountain is higher than that of other teas. In comparison, the winemaking technique is not good, but with four 300-year-old fermentation tanks there, this wine is not bad. As long as there is an opportunity, with the heritage of Siming Mountain, you will soon be rich.

The third uncle walked up to the uncle and asked, "Will you release the pigs tomorrow?"

Uncle said: "Put it away, there is no pigweed to feed it when it is closed." I'm afraid I won't be able to leave, and none of the Ming Hai family will be driven out and released. ”

Sanbo said: "You don't know, the pigs of the Ming Hai family are very fat, and they are thinner when they are driven out." You say, how the hell is he fed?"

Uncle smiled: "Then ask him." He called Dad Li again, "Ming Hai, Ming Hai, come and ask you something." ”

Dad Li came over and asked, "Big brother, what's it?"

Uncle asked, "Mingshan said that your pig is very fat, how did you feed it?"

Dad Li said with a smile: "I picked up a lot of insects in the past few days when I sent the manure to the field, and you know that my pigs are fed to insects." Put the worms in the water for a day to spit out the dirt, boil the water and scald it to death, cut it down and cook it with pigweed, it's okay, you can feed the pigs and chickens. I'm going to wait for the results to be obvious in a few days. ”

Uncle said: "It's good, why are there so many insects!"

Dad Li smiled: "The insects are very easy to raise, and the two pools I raised are now in Wuyang and Wuyang, and each family gets two pools to raise, which is enough for their own pigs and chickens to eat." ”

The third uncle asked, "Where did you learn the method?"

Dad Li said proudly: "I saw it in a book when I was in the third year of junior high school, so I thought about giving it a try, and I actually got it." ”

Uncle said, "Then go to your house and have a look." He raised his voice again and shouted loudly: "Pay attention, the family sent a person to Ming Hai's house to see how he fed the pigs." ”

Li Ya and a few young brothers were bragging behind them, when they heard the uncle's voice, Li Yuanjing asked, "Why did you feed your pigs?" ”

Li Ya said: "Add earthworms to feed." You'll know what's going on when you go and see it. ”

An older one said, "I have to go and see, and I have to wait to sell pigs and marry my daughter-in-law." Go all the way, save enough money to marry a daughter-in-law early. ”

Although it is only asked to send one family, it is a matter of their own income, and two adults in the family came, and the children also came to join in the fun.

Everyone went into the pigsty to see the pigs, and with convincing power, the uncle asked: "Is this pig fed well?

When everyone heard that there was no need to feed food, they were enthusiastic and noisy. Uncle said: "Minghai's pigs only grew so fat after eating insects, and the big guys followed Minghai to learn to raise insects and feed pigs." ”

Li Ma showed how to feed the pigs with insects in a timely manner, although everyone felt troublesome, but as long as the pigs grew well, what trouble were they afraid of?

Dad Li took the crowd to the earthworm pond again, and said how to raise earthworms, and after speaking, he didn't write down much one by one, so he said: "It doesn't matter if you don't remember, just copy what I remember." Just find a place to dig one and just do it. ”

Everyone painted the tiger according to the cat, and before it was dark, they all built a pond for raising earthworms, and waited for the earthworms to be released in a few days.

The next day, Li Ya drove the pig out and also came back to pick tea, of course, Li Ya picked it for his own use.

Li Ya picked and saw someone climbing the tea tree, hurriedly shouted down, and said: "These old tea trees are reluctant to be picked and sold, and it is okay to pick some at home and keep them to eat, it is not easy to grow to such an old tea tree, and you can only pick a little." If this is exported, it will cost hundreds of yuan per catty. ”

The guy who came down from the tea tree muttered: "It's not tea yet, it's still a few hundred pounds, bragging." ”

Li Ya said disdainfully: "This is not a simple tea, this is the precipitation of history and culture, and what you taste is history and culture." And scarcity is expensive, even if it is bud grain, if it is a few catties, some people will buy it at a high price. These old tea trees will be an important source of income for us in the future. ”

Brother Yuanjing smiled: "Now it is also an important source of income, three or four hundred big tea trees, you can also pick some tea leaves every year, but in the past few years, the small tea trees have not been picked all, who is still impatient to climb these old tea trees?"

Li Yuanjing saw Li Yadong picking a little bit and picking a little west, and said, "What are you doing here, just watching the flowers." ”

Li Ya replied: "I picked it from home, of course, I have to pick it according to the good one." He sent the bamboo basket in his hand to Li Yuanjing and said, "Let's see, isn't this very good-looking, big and full, such a Ming Qian Longjing is a good tea." ”

Li Yuanjing didn't care and said: "It's not the same, it's just that the technology of roasting tea is good, and the price of our tea will be higher." ”

Li Ya was puzzled: "This is Longjing tea, the famous Longjing tea in the whole country, there should be very few in other places in the province, right? Besides, the skill of roasting tea is also very good, why is the price so low, didn't you tell the purchasing station that this is Longjing tea when you sell tea?"

Li Yuanjing said: "Why didn't you say it? But they can only buy it at the price set by the county." The county also knows the reputation of our tea, so it deliberately has a higher price than others. ”

Li Ya couldn't help it when he heard it, after all, this is the era of unified purchase and sales, and everything is done according to plan.

After another three days, it was the Qingming Festival, but Qingming did not dare to blatantly worship the ancestors, otherwise it would be criticized if it was passed out, so he could only quietly offer rice (to worship the ancestors), and he didn't even dare to burn the paper money. This is the most deserted Qingming Festival since Li Ya remembered (being able to remember things, almost seven or eight years old).

After Qingming, it rained, and Li Ya hid in the space to avoid the rain, only to find that he hadn't paid attention to the space for a long time, and the corn and so on planted in it had grown. Li Ya saw that it was growing well, the rice could barely be planted, and the sweet potatoes could also be cutting. Anyway, it's not much, Li Ya planted the rice first, and then the sweet potato.

After finishing "looking" outside, it was still raining, so he picked up the book and read, Li Ya suddenly felt very stupid, there was no light outside at night, you could go into the space to read, you have wasted so many days. And I actually forgot about the space, if I didn't have to take shelter from the rain today, I might not be able to think about it in a month or two.

Li Ya read the book for a while, then put down and relaxed, looked around the space to adjust his eyes, and suddenly found that the original forty or fifty acres of space was a small circle larger, and there were five or six acres of land. What makes a space bigger?