Jiajia stayed at home with her mother and didn't come to Pei Yao's house for a few days.

Pei Yao opened the chicken coop in the morning and released the chickens that had grown up again, as well as the goose that Aunt Chen helped her change.

The goose is only about a week old, there are a total of nine sons, the whole body is pale yellow fluffy, two slender wings and a big body together, plus a twisted pointed buttocks, it looks stupid, it is really cute!

Looking at more and more poultry, Pei Yao is also very satisfied, and she will not worry about running out of eggs to eat in the future.

From the wild eggs that Pei Yao picked up on the mountain became chickens, she didn't pick up wild eggs to eat anymore, the eggs were all small pheasants to hatch, they couldn't be eaten and wasted, how good it would be to eat them when they grew up.

In the past few days, she has gone up the mountain alone to harvest the small piece of wild sweet potato, and the little cabbage is also old, and the cabbage seeds grow up, which are also put away by her, and keep the small cabbage planted in the spring to eat.

There is also the cassia grass that leaves the seeds, because the seeds do not mature all at once, but slowly mature from bottom to top, so Pei Yao went to harvest a stubble in two days, and it was almost harvested.

As for the remaining sun-dried cassia grass, when Pei Yao went to the county hospital to ask the doctor to return to his godfather, she took them all over and sold them, and all of them were pulled together for more than 9 catties of dried herbs, and sold them for more than 11 taels of silver.

In addition to Pei Yao's big expenses for buying pots, rice, quilt covers and clothes, she also saved 25 taels of silver in her hand.

Although she has a small deposit from a poor and white to now, she is not happy at all, because she has inquired with her godfather, and if she wants to cover such dozens or hundreds of acres of land, she will pay 2 taels of silver according to the tax of 2 taels of silver per acre of wasteland, and it will cost almost 200 taels of silver, which is only the area of the gently sloping mountain and the mountain col, and she has no intention of covering Beishan, she can cover this half of the valley and block the door at the mouth of the valley.

Ordinary peasants do not go to the yamen to report the wasteland, but to register with the village head, whoever registers the land, that land is theirs, and if someone expropriates it, only a small amount of money is given.

And the good land that normally went to the yamen to report and pay taxes was almost 8 taels and 1 mu, and there were good 10 taels and one mu.

Therefore, which farmer has a few acres of fertile land, it is a large household, it is real estate, and whoever has a girl to choose a father-in-law, this kind of family is the first choice.

But the herbs that I have the most money on hand have been harvested, that is, I will slowly plant them every year, and it will take four years to grow into a round, and at that time, there will be a fixed income every year, but it will take four years at the earliest.

Now that there is no money, it is difficult to save enough 200 taels.

Alas, I can only drag it first, and try to be careful not to be found in this mountain forest.

In fact, Pei Yao is also a little worried too much, no one has found this mountain forest for many years, which is enough to show its concealment, and as long as she doesn't say what she took out, everyone thinks that she picked it in which mountain, there are so many mountains and forests, and there are still mountains that want to find more game, that is, she has a ghost in her heart, and others are worried about her treasure.

However, if you can catch such a good place with such a rich species, and it is hidden and safe, and it is not a deep mountain and old forest, but a good place near the edge of the town, if you can catch them all, it is also the right idea!

There was already a frost last night, and the temperature dropped sharply, Pei Yao slept on the kang before the Chen family's brother left, and the previous 'bedroom' became a granary.

Pei Yao asked the elder brother of the Chen family to move all the food that was originally placed under the shelf to the vacant 'bedroom', so that it could prevent moisture and rats.

The two straw curtains on the bed were used by her as door curtains, and the straw curtains could not be used on the kang, because it was easy to catch fire when the temperature was high.

She spread a kang mat made of thin bamboo strips on the kang surface of the yellow mud, a bit like a modern mat, this kind of mat is the kind of kang mat used when she was a child in her hometown, which is more abrasive, and the side of the mattress sticking to the kang is easy to rot.

There is also because it is made of bamboo, if the meat is rubbed on it, it will be pricked if you are not careful, and she slept with her grandmother before she was ten years old when she was a child, so she knows it very well.

Jiajia didn't dislike it, and accompanied Pei Yao to sleep on it loosely and hotly for two days, and she didn't want to leave if she liked it, so she asked Pei Yao to promise her that if she had the conditions at home to build a kang, let Pei Yao also help build one. Of course, Pei Yao agreed, and it was not a big deal.

It was already frosty, so Pei Yao collected all the vegetables in the yard, and most of the cucumbers and radishes were pickled with pickled cucumber radish.

Radish and cabbage are planted late, and they grow smaller than others, but because of the fertilizer, they are not much smaller.

I pickled a large jar of cabbage separately, and made a small jar of spicy cabbage, which I used to eat when I didn't like to cook vegetables in winter.

The sour bamboo shoots at home were opened and eaten by the Jiajia brothers and sisters when they came, and they all praised them for being delicious and refreshing, and they also gave a lot to Aunt Chen and her parents, and now there is still half a jar. She poured it into a small jar, went to the bamboo forest to dig bamboo shoots, and pickled a large jar of sour bamboo shoots.

Looking at the large and small jars in the cave, and the shelves full of fruits and vegetables, Pei Yao felt that the preparations before winter were almost complete.