Chapter 122: Another Harvest
During the harvest season in August, Shen Yunfang still started to get busy again according to last year's practice. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
First of all, at home, she picked all the ripe vegetables in the backyard, dried some of the vegetables that didn't look good, and kept them for winter stews.
The bud rice is tender and also broke dozens of ears, put it in the space for storage, last winter, she often took out a few or boiled or relied on to eat, that fragrant, so today she broke a lot.
Then there is to dig a pit and bury the wine she brewed, since she learned to make wine in the past two years, she will basically brew a jar every month, and then dig a pit in the backyard and bury it, this year is more, how can there be nearly twenty jars of wine in the backyard, if she continues to brew like this, there is no place to bury it at home.
She also didn't forget the wild fruits in the mountains, this year she learned to climb the tree, so the round jujube tree was targeted by her, this summer, she picked twenty or thirty pounds. Round dates are like a miniature version of kiwifruit, and they are very delicious to eat.
There are also mountain grapes, which she cut a lot last year, and this year's small patch is even larger. She picked purple picks, and later saw that there were really a lot, so she took out two stalls and made grape juice for jars, and of course wasted a lot of sugar.
Another thing to be happy about is this year's pine nut harvest. Pine nuts are not harvested every year, generally a big harvest in five years, a small harvest in three years, just in time to catch up with the big harvest this year, even if you don't go to the tree to hit Songda, the ground has fallen more than last year. Shen Yunfang is not polite at all, as long as he sees it, he picks it up, and in the end, the amount stored in the space is very objective.
What delights her the most is the harvest on the hillside.
Let's talk about the pigs first, the first eight to buy back have been killed, the meat is now stored in her space, and then the pigs that were bought back one after another have also been raised, the big one looks like it has been over 100 catties, she believes that when the first snow falls in the mountains, these pigs will also be slaughtered.
Besides, sheep, one sheep, but three ewes and seven rams were bought, and now it has been determined that all three ewes are pregnant. As for the ram, Shen Yunfang plans to wait for the snow to fall, and then slaughter them, next year she is catching lambs to raise, because it is not cost-effective for sheep to grow, this year it can reach 90 catties, and next year it may be 100 catties, so it is better to kill it and raise it again next year.
Then there are the crops in the field, which is larger than the family's own land and the backyard, so you can imagine how objective this year's harvest is.
Moreover, this land is fertile enough, and Shen Yunfang has also put a lot of effort into serving, the outermost sunflowers are more than two meters high, and the sunflower plate is bigger than the basin.
Shen Yunfang successively harvested soybeans, bud rice, sweet potatoes, peanuts, carrots and sunflower seeds, and of course, leftover watermelons and melons.
After such a circle, the time has reached the middle of October.
The autumn harvest in the village has also passed, and after distributing the grain according to the custom, he thought of killing and selling his two pigs. Of course, this time you can't use last year's method, or the people in the village should be suspicious, why are other people's pigs fine, but she will be sick as soon as she raises pigs, so this time she is playing a double reed with the big bolt, so that everyone thinks that she sold to the supply and marketing cooperatives in the city, which is far away from Gaijiatun, even if some people suspect that it is difficult enough to go once, and there is no need to register to sell pork, and there is no problem to find out.
In this way, this year, she earned nearly 300 yuan from the two pigs in the family, which is a huge profit, and of course Shen Yunfang's harvest year has just begun. She still has a lot of eggs, vegetables, and mushrooms in her space, just waiting for a chance to sell them.
"Juan, tell my aunt, is fried quail delicious?" Shen Yunfang sat on the kang, holding the fried quail with his hands full of oil.
Xiaojuan next to her also did the same, just like her unobtrusive Aunt Yunfang, her hands were full of oily happiness.
"Well, it's delicious. Xiaojuan nodded firmly, in her little heart, she already knew that there must be something delicious to follow Aunt Yunfang.
"Ahh......hh
The daughter-in-law sat next to her, holding a milk doll in her arms, and the milk doll watched the people next to her eat happily, and grabbed it like a quail with one hand, and stuffed it into a fist with the other hand into the small mouth, and made an ah-ah sound from time to time to attract the attention of others.
The daughter-in-law gently patted her son's buttocks, and then reluctantly pulled a small strip of shredded meat from the fried quail in her hand and stuffed it into his mouth to make him shudder.
"Oh, there's a little gluttonous cat here, the baby is growing up, and when you have all your teeth, Aunt Fang will also give you fried quail to eat." Shen Yunfang didn't keep it, and the food in his hand was all children.
"You're not serious, this quail is laying eggs, what are you slaughtering. The daughter-in-law couldn't help but say a few words, mainly because she was distressed.
Since Shen Yunfang brought it back from outside at the beginning of the year, the quail has been repeating the process of laying eggs and incubating eggs and then laying eggs, and in the past few months, the number of quails in both families has increased dramatically, and there are more than 110 in each family.
But now there are only a hundred left in Shen Yunfang's house, and the extra ten or so are on the table.
"These are the first batches, the quail doesn't last long, it lays eggs for a year, I just don't kill it, and it won't lay eggs in a few days. Shen Yunfang spoke as he spoke.
Now the daughter-in-law can't eat it, "What do you mean, don't lay eggs, it's only been a few days." She couldn't accept it, you know, chickens can lay eggs for three or four years.
So Shen Yunfang nibbled on quails while popularizing the basic knowledge of quail breeding to the daughter-in-law of the big bolt.
"So the quail has a limited lifespan, and even if I don't slaughter it, it has to be eliminated, so that when it finishes laying eggs, I fry it and eat meat, and the use value is the highest. Shen Yunfang made excuses for her gluttony.
"That's too early, didn't you say it could lay eggs for a year, it's only been seven months. The daughter-in-law pulled her fingers and calculated.
"Seven months is about the same, and the peak of egg production has passed. Shen Yunfang reached out and quickly grabbed another one after eating, "Let's not talk about that, sister-in-law, when you say it, how does this quail taste?"
"Needless to say, this is meat, and besides, you also used that old oil to fry, can it be delicious? The daughter-in-law muttered, and was reminded by her to start eating the quail in her hand.
"Hehe, that's why I said that quails have high economic value, hatch quickly, lay eggs quickly, and the meat is so delicious when they can't lay eggs. Shen Yunfang thought in her heart, this is better than a sparrow, and it is not difficult to raise it, and she should increase her breeding efforts next year.
"Well, I think so too, so I haven't let Xiaojuan eat it for the past few days, I hatched all the quail eggs I saved, and my family has also built a plastic shed, and I can raise it in winter. The daughter-in-law said happily.
The moment of incubation is the responsibility of the daughter-in-law of the big bolt, and no matter how much hatches each time, the two families are divided equally.
"Come, happy cooperation. Shen Yunfang stretched out the oil-stained Maha's hand to the eyes of the big bolt daughter-in-law, wanting to shake hands with her friendly.
"Go aside, clean up foreign affairs. "The daughter-in-law of the big bolt is not fooled.
"Ha, if you don't come, I'll find the baby, come and give Aunt Fang a face, let's shake hands." (To be continued.) )