Chapter 151: A New Atmosphere
Feng Jiachong now has a new atmosphere, the old man sitting under the big honey locust tree in the mouth of the old man doing needlework, the gossip is no longer how much grain is harvested in the field, nor where the children are working, but whose family went to which city, calling back to report the good news to Lao Tzu Niang, how much money they have earned in a month.
Feng Yiping didn't know about these situations yet, if he knew, he would definitely laugh out loud.
If such an atmosphere is really formed, these people who rushed out of the Feng family would rather do small businesses such as setting up a shoe repair stall, riding a rickshaw, and walking the streets and alleys to collect waste products, rather than thinking about working on the factory site, which is very gratifying!
If such a consciousness is really awakened, then Feng Jiachong's future must be very promising! The people of Wenzhou, known as the "Jews of the East," have inherited such a concept and have finally taken root and grown all over the world.
After the big waves washed the sand, Feng Jiachong, among the people who put down their hoes and walked out, who said that they would not show a few pieces of real gold!
Of course, in the gossip of these old people, they are still very concerned about one harvest, that is, the chestnut harvest, which is now a big deal.
For chestnut, a fruit tree that allows many people in the park to gain a foothold outside, everyone is no longer as careless as before, and allows it to grow freely.
After harvesting the chestnuts, these people at home are busy pruning the branches, and then fetching water from the wells in the mounds and ponds in the mountains, irrigating the trees one by one, and then removing the weeds under the trees, spreading a few loads of farm manure under the canopy, and after the beginning of the year, they are busy grafting, and they have to spend money to buy borax, apply some to each tree, and they are also busy during the flowering period, they have to spray the borax solution again, and they also have to thin the male flower .......
Anyway, the old people in the mound said with a smile that this is the most attentive crop they serve, and this careful energy can catch up with those filial sons serving their parents.
But there are comfortable times, not to mention those who go to the city to make money from this, when collecting chestnuts, watching those chestnut dealers carrying scales around the village, door-to-door smiling faces and saying good things, calling for more sales, but in the end, they can only receive those uneven small ones, they all have a feeling of raising their eyebrows.
You know, a few years ago, but they followed behind these dealers, and they tobacco, made tea, and said good things with a smile, hoping that a pound could be a few cents more expensive, and when weighing, the scale could be flatter, not too high, and the grade could be raised, but now, it has completely dropped!
Feng Yiping's three aunts are now the central figures under the big honey locust tree, and as long as they have time to sit there, there will definitely be a circle of people around.
However, such leisure days are much less than before, except for the housework and farm work, they spend most of their time on the mountain they have contracted down.
The mountain was not high, only some low shrubs and thatch, and some sparse pine trees, and their brothers partnered to contract this mountain from the village, and surrounded it with a circle of nets, in which some local breeds of chickens were raised, and the number of chickens was only more than 300, and the average range of activities of each chicken was very large.
It is really free-range, except for sprinkling millet once a day in the morning, noon and evening, and at other times they forage for their own food, and when it gets dark, they go back to the chicken coop built with bamboo and thatch on the mountain.
Their main busy task is to go to the mountains every day to clean up chicken manure, and then look everywhere for the eggs that the disobedient hens "hide" everywhere, which their grandchildren like to do the most, and run up the mountain after school, looking for the grass and under the bushes.
These eggs are not worried about sales, and some of them are sent to the province, and the rest is all wrapped up by the third daughter-in-law and brothers, and they buy egg noodles.
Lao San Zhenchang said that this is just the beginning, and after the demand is large in the future, he will either contract more hills, or build chicken coops and chicken farms.
The second aunt had a rare leisure today, and after eating lunch and tidying up the house, she took a small bench and a sewing basket and went to sit under the big honey locust tree.
As soon as they sat down, everyone immediately asked, "How many eggs did you collect yesterday?"
"I didn't count it, more than a hundred!"
"Tsk," the old man sighed, "in the early days, this was a rare thing, except for the guests and the family to cook a few on the day of their lives, who is willing to eat, either take it to change the oil and salt, or take it to change the needle and thread, all year round, I am afraid that a small jar is not satisfied, sometimes, to hatch a litter of chickens, you have to find other families to borrow a few, you look at now, your family this day to harvest, I am afraid that a big basket can not fit it." ”
But isn't it, when Feng Yiping was young, on his birthday, he could eat a bowl of egg noodles, plus two boiled eggs, and the rest, that is, when the guests came, they would scramble an egg and beat an egg soup, but most of them didn't have their share.
"Yes, it's changed a lot in the past few years!" the second aunt also had some feelings.
"I heard that Uncle Zhenchang told you to grow more glutinous grains next year?" another old man asked.
"Yes, the third child said that he wanted to make glutinous rice chicken, and he would use a lot of glutinous rice a year, except for the family's rations, the rest of the fields told us to plant glutinous grain. ”
"Uncle Zhenchang is amazing now, I heard my second daughter-in-law say that they bought another shop in the province this year, but they spent a lot of money. "Speaking of this, a daughter-in-law is helping in the provincial store.
"The third child doesn't have so much money, doesn't he have a brother-in-law who opened a company in the provincial capital and helped him a little, and the rest, even the house he just bought last year was also loaned, and we also helped to make up a little, which is barely enough. ”
This is Mei Qiuping specially called back to tell them, although the money she makes now sometimes makes Mei Qiuping feel a little unreal, but she is still very cautious, for fear that the people in the village will say that their family is rich.
"That's amazing, they are not sure to earn it back, how can they make such a big investment, the shops in the province, how expensive it is!"
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Zhang Yan's house in the next county, Zhang Yan after school, tied a thick braid on the back of his head, carried a basket of freshly picked vegetables from the vegetable garden, and greeted people on the road from time to time.
The younger brother Zhang Hong followed behind, naughtily pressed on the basket from time to time, Zhang Yan turned around to chase after him, and he ran away with a smile.
Zhang Yan scared him, "Wait until the evening to tell you that you are powerful!"
When the two sisters and brothers returned home, they found that the second uncle and the third uncle were here, the second uncle was fine, the third uncle who was an accountant in the village, used to be idle and didn't come to the door, what kind of wind is blowing today?
Not only came, but also brought gifts, and when they entered the house, the third uncle in a Mao suit greeted Zhang Hong, "Come on, the big apple in Shandong that my uncle bought!"
Ps: Woo, no one rewarded me today, so good!