Breakfast in the countryside is dry rice and stir-fried vegetables, but meat is rare. This is also almost the New Year, and Chen Xin brought their eldest grandson back for the New Year, so there is more meat on the Zhang family's dinner table.

Chen Xin and the eldest brother of the Zhang family saw each other a lot in the first year or two, but every time the eldest brother Zhang came and went in a hurry, most of the time he would leave in the living room for one night, and later saw that Chen Xin and Zhang Zhang's life was better, so they did not come again.

Knowing that she didn't have any practical experience in Dazao, and she wanted to talk to Brother Zhang alone, so after Chen Xin called hot water to wash, she turned around and went to the back slope to talk to Brother Zhang.

Originally, the chopping wood was done in the yard, but Brother Zhang was afraid of waking Chen Xin and them, so he moved to the back, and after chopping, he gathered together and moved back to the wall of the front yard. Except for the fact that Brother Zhang looks lame when he walks, he can't see much wrong standing there. Although he is not good at walking, he is still very energetic in doing things, and he and Uncle Zhang are doing the heavy work at home.

"Big brother, I want to ask you what your plans are in the future. Chen Xin didn't say how can I help you as soon as she came up, she has been in contact with Brother Zhang a few times, this honest country man actually has a strong self-esteem.

"I thought about it last night, what you told the village chief is good, I plan to try it with the village chief. Zhang Debing put down his axe and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

He didn't say that he had almost all night sleepless last night, he was just thinking about what Chen Xin said. Those were originally very simple things, but no one could have thought of going there before she said it, so the reader was really powerful.

"Big brother, I have a suggestion, you can listen to it, if you think it's not good, just talk to me casually. ”

Chen Xin organized the language, squatted on the edge of the door with her hands, and looked at the surrounding slopes: "When I came over just now, I also looked around the house, our house occupies a lot of land here, I think the bamboo forest behind here seems to be our family, right?"

"Well, there is no arable land in the mountains, so each family has more mountains and forests, but in the past two years, they are not allowed to cut down casually, so there is no income from occupying the mountains. ”

"There is a lot of bamboo here, I'm thinking, why don't you go and get a bamboo rat breeding, big brother?"

This bamboo rat breeding began in the early nineties, and now the breeding technology is also becoming mature, and the market value of bamboo rats is relatively high, which belongs to economic breeding. But breeding bamboo rats is not an easy task, first of all, technical problems need time to learn, so Chen Xin hopes that Brother Zhang can agree with her suggestion, go to Guangxi to find a bamboo rat breeding base to study, and then come back to do it yourself.

She thought last night that if the village chief's side went well, it would take at least a year for the road to be repaired, and this year the eldest brother could go to Guangxi to study, and when he came back next year, he could plan to build a bamboo rat breeding house by himself. The most important thing is that the money she has in hand this year is also about the same, and it is not impossible to get a breeding garden in place at one time, but the pressure is very high, especially if the eldest brother does not accumulate experience, he is likely to fall into the sand.

By next year, when her café is on the road, and with the money she earns as a translator and food writer, investing in a bamboo rat farm won't be too much of a problem.

She didn't directly tell Brother Zhang about the economic difficulties, but just carefully analyzed with him the possible consequences if he didn't go to study, and the process of bamboo rat breeding was very painstaking, if the construction movement was too big, it might also have an impact on bamboo rat breeding. There is another one, everyone is in a hurry, and when the time comes, they can't find someone to help, which is also a big trouble.

"Planning and then acting is the most suitable choice, eldest brother, you can think about it more, or wait for the second sister to come back, and you will discuss it with her?"

The second sister of the Zhang family married a widower in the next town for the sake of the family's livelihood when Chen Xin's brother-in-law was not a soldier in the early years.

The second brother-in-law is very good to people, but the family is also tight, plus his ex-wife died of illness and owes some debts, although it is the second sister who married after paying off, but when the two got married, the family was also poor and white.

However, the only consolation is that the children of the second brother-in-law and his ex-wife were not raised by them, and were directly taken away by the parents of the second brother-in-law's ex-wife. The old couple were teachers, and there was only one daughter in the family, and after losing their daughter in middle age, they had only one grandson in front of them.

The second sister and the second brother-in-law are not ruthless people, after the life is a little better, they will take care of the living expenses every month, and the brother-in-law will also go to see the children every Tuesday. There is also a second sister who has never had her own children before, just thinking about waiting for her husband's ex-wife's son to be older and sensible before thinking about it.

In the past few years, the child has been in the second year of junior high school, his grades are good, and he is also practical and sensible. His grandparents taught him very politely, and although he didn't call his second sister mother, he was still very affectionate with his aunt. Last year, the child took the initiative to find his father and said that they should quickly have another brother or sister, so this year the second sister plans to have a child, and I don't know if she is pregnant.

The second brother-in-law used to graduate from an agricultural school, and later worked in the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, doing research on seed cultivation.

Chen Xin didn't care about his other things, she just wanted to know what this cheap brother-in-law's ability was, and if she could, she could try to cooperate and cultivate something. In her previous life, she traveled all over the world for food, and she came into contact with many researchers, and she saw countless strange plants. A lot of things don't have real use value, but there are some things that work well, and that's the hen that lays the golden eggs.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, the second sister came back with the second brother-in-law.

They were originally going to visit the old man in the second brother-in-law's hometown, but after knowing that Chen Xin was going home with the child for the Chinese New Year, the second sister was always uneasy, and she was sure that she was pregnant, so the second brother-in-law simply discussed it with the old man in the family, and the two of them went back after Chen Xin and the others left.

The second brother-in-law's hometown is not far from where he works, and it takes more than two hours to get there by shuttle. Knowing that his son's life was also difficult, although the old man over there was a little unhappy, he was quite open-minded and agreed to let them go back to his father-in-law's house for the New Year.

When Second Sister Zhang came back, she saw her mother playing in the yard with Zhang Zhang, and the aunt next door was also talking.

"This is my eldest nephew, isn't it? What about his aunt? I brought some of our specialties there, and I don't know if she is used to eating them. ”

Second Sister Zhang was carrying a string of dried tofu skewered together with slivers, while her man was carrying a cloth bag full of New Year's goods sold in the town over there.

Xiaoxin was busy in the kitchen, I said I wouldn't let her do it, she was very unhappy, and said that she wanted to show her hand and let us try her skills. ”

Grandma Zhang Zhang is very happy, although she said it, but the smile on her face that has not been shown for a long time shows that she is in a very good mood now.

"That's not going to work, I'm going to have to help. Second Sister Zhang put down her things and walked to the kitchen, her husband wanted to say something but couldn't help but didn't say it, but his eyes kept staring at the second sister.