Chapter 23: The Four Animals of the Farm

The bus, which had been speeding on a dilapidated road, slowed down and stopped in front of a village. Xiaoyan and I got off the bus, and the driver shouted to us: "Go all the way!"

Because there were only two people on the bus just now, Xiao Yan and I, and this village is a little remote, not only this village is remote, but also the route of the bus is remote. So when I was bored, the driver talked to us, and it turned out that the driver was still the uncle who lived next door to Yanggang.

Finally back in Yangshui Village, Xiao Yan and I walked into the village and shuttled through the gaps in the flat-roofed houses in the village.

"Yo! The fight baby and the naughty girl are coming home from study. A white-haired man with an old smoking gun blew a breath and shouted angrily at me and Xiaoyan. Xiaoyan and I are now studying in the No. 1 Middle School of the city, which is also a good thing in the village, and everyone in the village knows it.

Naughty girl is naturally Xiaoyan's name, and as for the fight baby, I don't know who it is, anyway, no one recognizes it.

"Hey, Uncle Li is early!" Xiao Yan raised his hand to greet this Uncle Li.

It's 7 o'clock in the morning. Summer has just passed, the sun comes out relatively early, and the cool breath of autumn has not yet had time to report, and the morning is still hot. The houses in our village are built with large gaps, and the windows are relatively large, so the rooms in the house at this point in time are bright, and the villagers get up early.

Many people have cooking smoke coming out of their windows, but now everyone uses running water and gas stoves, and the smoke from the cigarette warehouse has long ceased to smoke, and smoke comes from the windows.

Xiao Yan and I walked until we reached the end of the village, looking at a two-story flat-roofed house, which looked a little dilapidated, the house was at the end of the village, only one side was adjacent to the house, and the other side was also surrounded by wooden fences with local chickens. And there is a tall longan tree in the wooden fence. This two-story flat-roofed house is my home!

Looking at the old cows tied under the banyan tree at the end of the village in the distance, on the other side are the pigs "purring" in the pigsty, and the chickens in the wooden fence next door to the house. The three kinds of animals, cows, pigs, chickens, and dogs, are common animals in the south, but the other dogs are not seen, because the dogs get up late. Although the times are advanced, the village still has some appearance of four farmers raising four animals.

The so-called farmhouse has four animals, namely: cows, pigs, chickens, and dogs. The cultivators raise cattle, the herders raise pigs, the planters raise chickens, and the merchants raise dogs.

The so-called cultivator raising cattle is best understood, but farming refers to farmers who grow farmland and large land, which need cattle to plough, so they need to raise cattle.

As for the herdsmen, they are farmers who rely on livestock for sale. That is, animal husbandry, we have a subtropical monsoon climate here, which is not suitable for grazing breeding, so captive form of pig breeding is more common.

The other planters refer to farmers who grow medicinal vegetables and fruits, but they are all seasonal, and the plants are insect-rich. Whether it is a bad crop or a found bug, it can be used as food for chickens, so that raising chickens is convenient and increases revenue. In general, the harvesting farmer can be summarized in a paragraph: picking medicine in spring, harvesting vegetables in summer, picking fruits in autumn, and picking eggs in winter.

And the merchant does not refer to the businessman, it refers to the person who helps contact the merchant when a farmer wants to sell agricultural products, and when he deals with the farmer and the merchant, we call it a merchant, in fact, we don't know whether this kind of existence exists elsewhere. As for raising dogs, it is because there are many agricultural business portals, but it is difficult to distinguish people from familiar ones, so it will be peeped at by thieves, and it is much more convenient to have a dog at home, because the dog will bark when it smells the smell of people.

Although the four farmers raise four livestock, the interesting thing is that whether the farmer raises cattle, the herder raises pigs, and the planter raises chickens, they can all kill the animals they raise. Only the merchant peasants could not kill dogs, but the merchant peasants ate more dog meat.

Interesting, the so-called businessmen don't kill dogs, and they don't kill dogs, but people like businessmen and farmers rely on relationships to eat. The so-called wine hurts the kidneys and stomach, and dog meat just warms the stomach and nourishes the kidneys, so dog meat is the favorite of merchants and farmers, but they can't kill dogs. Because the person who has killed the dog will have evil spirits himself, and if he raises a dog again, the dog will not recognize people, and will bite and bark when he sees people. Therefore, raising a dog is not a business, business is not benevolent, benevolence is not rich, wealth is not virtuous, and virtue is no queen.

When it comes to not killing dogs, it means that they can't kill dogs with their own hands, and they can't see the scene of killing dogs, but they can always eat dog meat. That's because farmers have the habit of collecting nine out of ten, and the farmers generally need to sell ninety percent of the products they harvest, otherwise the descendants will have no money to read and write. And the peasants who sell agricultural products do not mean that they can sell them, which requires finding merchants and farmers to find merchants in the town to buy them. However, there are three things necessary to meet merchants and farmers: wine, meat, and red envelopes. In the past, the purpose of bringing wine was to test whether the body of the merchant farmers could still drink water, dog meat was to warm their stomachs and kidneys, and red envelopes were sincerity.

The habit of raising four animals in this family has been passed down from the ancestors, but my father has never told me, and my grandfather has never seen it. What I know is what Uncle Li said next door, and I don't know if it's true, if it's true, that's right. If it's fake, that's right, because Uncle Li is from my grandfather's generation, that is, his ancestors! It's none of my business if it's wrong, go to him.

And my chicken-raiser is also half a farmer.

……

"Brother, what are you doing in a daze, don't you enter the house yet?"

Xiao Yan entered the house first, but I was in a daze for a while in front of the house with a smile.

"Oh, here we are. "I also hurried to follow up the house. At this time, the door of my house is open, and my mother should still be cooking breakfast at home.

"Mom, we're back!" shouted Xiao Yan and I at the same time as we entered the house.

"Come back, then go wash your face and have breakfast." "Mom's voice came from the kitchen.

"Okay!" Xiao Yan and I responded at the same time and went up to the second floor.

There is a room downstairs at home, which is where my mother lives, and there are two rooms upstairs, one for me and Xiaoyan. And there are bathrooms on the first and second floors. I went back to the room and put my backpack down and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face, and Xiao Yan is the same, the bathroom is not small, and I stand with Xiao Yan and I are not crowded.

Although my house is a flat-roofed house. It has two floors and covers an area of more than 70 square meters, but it was built 18 years ago when my mother and father got married, and it is a bit old. When I think about it, it didn't seem to cost much money to build this house, and it didn't cost much to get married, but when my mother and father got married, it seemed that it cost more than 70,000 yuan to build a house.

If you change to the present, get married and buy a house, don't even think about it if you don't have millions. It seems that I will not be able to get a wife in my life.

I hope Xiao Yan can get married. Hey, wouldn't my family be able to collect gift money if I married out slowly? If I wanted more, wouldn't I have the money to ask for a wife? After thinking about it, it was really feasible. Isn't it true that in today's society, if you marry a girl, you can ask for a gift of several million? When Xiao Yan marries out, my family will ask for 10 million! In this way, I still have the opportunity to marry a daughter-in-law!

After thinking about it, I opened my mouth: "Xiaoyan, discuss something with you." ”

"What's the matter?" Xiao Yan spat out a mouthful of toothpaste foam.

"Uh, that, you'll ...... in the future" I still didn't dare to say it after a while, "It's okay!"

Damn! Fortunately, I didn't say it, if I did, I believe Xiao Yan would have smashed the mouthwash cup in my face. And my mother will definitely scold me to death. Even my dad might jump out of nowhere and tell me.