Chapter 3 Raising Chickens

"No problem, sister-in-law, son. I can do it! The young man put the money in his pocket and respectfully called Sister-in-law Lu Xiaohong, although he didn't know him before. He said, "I can sleep while I am processing wheat, and you two are spinning in a row!" As long as you can hold on, I don't have any problems, let's go! Going directly to Nanzhang Village? ”

"Nanzhang Village." Lu Canhong said.

"Why don't you go home and see?"

"Not back."

When processing, while people were not paying attention, Lu Xiaohong was taken into the space, let her rest, and stared at it herself.

For three days and three nights, the wheels kept turning, and people didn't stop moving their hands and feet. Early in the morning of the fourth day, they sold out the flour and bought food for the little driver in the small restaurant as usual, Lu Xiaohong made an exception and stuffed him with 20 yuan, and the little driver unceremoniously stuffed it into his pocket and said, "Thank you, sister-in-law!" I'll send you home! ”

The barley shook his head and said, "No." to Mulberry Town. And he drove on the way to Mulberry without looking back. Qing Barley sat in the small drag, looked at the little driver's head full of yellow dust, and thought to herself, she gave him money and told him to drive wherever he wanted. He drove the tractor of the production team in Beizhang Village, and the team gave him a work score, and there was a subsidy for one dollar a day, and even the value of the work was not more than two yuan, they gave him ten yuan, and finally gave twenty yuan this time, he could naturally calculate which one was more and which was less, he helped them sell noodles, and called her mother and sister-in-law. Looking at her mother's spirit, which was still very good, she fell asleep in a daze holding on to the railing on the trailer.

Soon Mulberry Town arrived. Qing Barley and Lu Xiaohong stored the processed wheat drum skins in the warehouse of the flour processing factory, which amounted to more than 2,000 catties, and she called the commune dairy farm and sold it to the dairy farm at the official price. The director of the dairy farm came on a bicycle for a long time, completed the transfer procedures, handed over the money to Lu Xiaohong, and went to pick up the goods. Lu Xiaohong also stuffed the money into a canvas bag, immediately jumped on the tractor, and said to the little driver: "Now drive to your Beizhang Village, pay the fare to the team, and the formalities are all over." ”

It was dark, and the two returned to the village. On the radio, there is a meeting of people, and it is about rehabilitating someone. The two turned around tiredly and walked directly home.

The mother and daughter who didn't go home for three days made Lu Dazhi's father and daughter worry for three days.

"Why did you go for so long to do the corn business."?

"Dad, don't ask, let me sleep with my mother for a while"

Lu Xiaohong threw the bag containing the money directly to her husband. "You count" Then, crawling on the kang, he fell asleep.

Lu Dazhi opened the canvas bag, ran to the edge of the kang in fright, pulled Lu Xiaohong up suddenly, and hugged her shoulders: "You brought the child to rob someone?" Lu Xiaohong smiled faintly, pushed his hand away, and lay down.

Wang Dazhi and Gu Zi counted the money, stacked the large and small tickets, and locked them in the box. Take off the shoes and clothes of the daughter and daughter-in-law, help take them off, and cover the quilt"

This sleep, the mother and mother slept so well!

I slept until dawn the next day.

After a whole day of rest, the mother and wife came to their senses and started again, wanting to set up a chicken farm.

"How much money do you make raising chickens? Those chicks that have just come out of the shell, you can't survive one of ten if you buy them, you can just ask the aunt and sister-in-law of the neighbor next door. "Lu Dazhi is opposed to raising chickens.

Because, the famine at home is over, and he doesn't want to, the two of them are so tired, and now, their family, because of the extra acre of barley, the whole family not only solves the problem of food and clothing, but also has surplus food. He didn't want his daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law to be so tired, besides, the policy changes back and forth, which also worried her. Perhaps because of the happiness of life, Wang Dazhi has changed back to a small personality.

"You don't care about this, I and Kezi have read a book of 'chicken knowledge' to memorize, we raise chickens according to scientific methods, and my aunt and sister-in-law will only ...... old-fashioned methods."

This debate has been going on all the time. Until the Chinese New Year.

This year's New Year. , is the happiest New Year of the Wang family, a family of five eating meat-stuffed dumplings and wearing new clothes; Seeing that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has passed, and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has passed, and it has been a whole year since the barley came to this other world.

On this day, Qing Barley entered the space as before, but she saw her daughter Ling'er together.

"Mother, how are you doing this year?"

Barley nodded.

Ling'er listened and looked at her a little sadly

"Mom, because you have changed the fate of the Wang family with this Nuwa Lingtian, the aura of this Lingtian is becoming more and more scarce, so that it cannot be supported, and the reincarnation of your changed fate will be re-staged."

Ling'er's words made Qingliang's heart follow the Gaddeng in his heart for a long time, to reflect, "What do you mean, my mother, my sister, will still die, Maizi, will still be trafficked, will millet still give it to you?" ”

Ling'er nodded.

"No, this is not acceptable, girl, you must, there is a way, is there? You must have a way, right? ”

Looking at the heartbroken barley, Ling'er nodded in embarrassment.

"Mother, you and them can't live in the same world together, in the previous life, you lived, they died, in this life, I want them to live, unless you die, otherwise, it is the aura of this Nuwa Lingtian, which will be more sufficient, in order to ensure that the fate of your changing people can continue."

The barley has grasped a life-saving straw

"How can we fill the spiritual energy in the Lingtian space?"

"But that's really dangerous, almost nine deaths, in order to change your fate, mother, I really don't want you to take that risk, and a little bit will be scattered, and you will never be able to live forever, then, even if it is me, I can't save you, mother,"

Qing barley, know, this thing must be difficult, otherwise her daughter will not appear to see her, but can she accept the departure of her relatives? Well, she would rather die herself.

"Mom, you want to die by yourself, don't you? But if you die now, then in the future, there will be no me, and I will be ......scattered," Ling'er said.

The barley wanted to sacrifice his heart, but suddenly he was shaken again.

God, are you kidding me? Why do you want to play with me like this? It gave me hope, and it made me so desperate. Barley made it to the ground powerlessly.

After a long time, Qingli asked Ling'er, "Why is it difficult to increase the aura of this Nuwa space, I want to try"

Ling'er knew that it was difficult for her mother to give up her mother, and it was even more difficult to give up on her, so she thought of the only possible reason for her coexistence.

"In the chaotic world, there are four divine beasts on the Lord of Nuwa, which are the Eastern Green Dragon, the Western White Tiger, the Southern Vermilion Bird, and the Northern Xuanwu. Each of these four divine beasts has a spirit bead on its body, which is clearly a green dragon spirit bead, a white tiger spirit bead, a vermilion bird spirit bead, and a basalt bead. As long as you find one of them, you can fill the aura of the space.

This divine beast, thousands of years, rare to see, of course, is not easy to find, followed by the wind avoidance beads of the 10,000-year-old black widow, the poison-avoidance beads of the 10,000-year snake demon, the lightning protection beads of the 10,000-year-old centipede, and the fire avoidance beads of the 10,000-year-old scorpion. Ten thousand years of bright people, no matter how much water droplets, as long as there is one, it can also maintain the aura of the space for a year. It can also ensure that the one-year cycle of fate will not be changed.

The barley listened and took out the water-repellent beads that he had obtained at the bottom of the lake.

Ling'er took a look. Immediately threw the spirit bead into the space, and immediately there was another star in the sky in the space, making the originally dim star light up again for a while.

Lin Xiaofan has another year

This year, the land was subcontracted to households. Every family felt that they had land, and their faces were full of hope and joy.

Yes, how can serving one's own land be like serving the public's land, the land is the life of the people, and the peasants who have land feel that they have a foundation and hope

In rural areas, land is divided according to households and people, and one is divided into seven lands. Wang Dazhi's family was divided into three and a half acres of land.

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, the average rural man and woman have not yet cheered up from the drunkenness and laziness of the New Year, and the joyful atmosphere has not yet dissipated from the streets and alleys of the countryside.

Barley and millet provided mud to his father. His father carried a brick knife to build a firekang, he was a clever and ingenious man, as long as the barley said about the purpose of the kang and the purpose he wanted to achieve, he could reasonably arrange the fire mouth and chimney, and can adjust the temperature of the fire. Looking at the kang that had begun to take shape, Qingli was very satisfied with her father's work...... She used a shovel to dig up the mud and sent it to his men. He needed a piece of rubble to stabilize the adobe, and the grain was handed to him at once.

Lu Xiaohong, with two small ones, was rubbing budding rice, thinking that last year, the whole family was so hungry that they had no food to eat, but this year, there was surplus food and money, which gave the whole family hope.

After the second day of February, Lu Xiaohong bought back 500 chickens at a time, which alarmed the men and women of Qingshan Village. The women here, although they raise chickens at most, are only about a dozen at most, all of them are hatched by old hens in the spring, and the chicks gradually grow up with the warm wings of the old hens, and no one is sure that the chicks that are hatched by the machine will grow up. People all poured into her yard, crowded into her gatehouse, stretched out their hands to touch the wall of the kang, and looked at the chicks crowded on the kang, in and out, in the small courtyard, in the dirt field outside the gate, there was a lot of discussion.

Of the three gatehouses, only one was left as a land for food, and both were turned into chicken coops, and three large fires occupied the feet of the two gatehouses, leaving only a small corridor in the middle. Five hundred chicks squeaked and quarreled, and soon the smell of appeared in the house.

The elm money on the elm tree in front of the door is green and dry, and the corn in the river is green and tall, and it grows rice. After harvesting the potatoes, when the scorching heat gave the croppers time to seek shade, the women came to Lu Xiaohong's house, and they all shouted in surprise.

How cute! In the chicken pen surrounded by bamboo sticks, a piece of white lattice of snow-like feathers is competing for food, chasing and playing, and the big rooster with a high neck and red crown is chasing the beautiful hen, not avoiding many people, and jumping on the back of the hen without shame. The entire courtyard is fenced with bamboo sticks, leaving only a small open space.

Lu Xiaohong warmly received the aunts and sisters-in-law who came to watch, patiently answering their inquiries, not caring about the jealous look in the eyes of a narrow-minded woman. The joy and pride that success itself brings are enough to make people tolerant and tolerant of the world.

Just after the eighth lunar month, a shocking hen's cry sounded from the backyard, and the barley opened the fence gate and ran into the chicken pen, so frightened that the hen ran away like the wind. She ran to the chicken coop, and there was a white and shiny egg in the nest, and when she grabbed it in her hand, she saw that there was a trace of blood on the pink and white eggshell. Her eyes were blurred by overflowing tears, and an irrepressible voice echoed in her heart: It's time to give birth! It's in production!

In less than half a month, three hundred and eighty hens began to lay eggs one after another, and from morning to night, the hens reported to her that the cries of laying eggs were heard one after another. Every day, the barley pulls pots of mixed feed into the trough and walks out of the fence with baskets and baskets of eggs. Because her mother sometimes had to go to work, she didn't dare to leave the house for a while, she was so busy. The most urgent thing is that eggs can't be sold, and they can't be piled up at home! Relying only on Li Xiulan's family, it is nothing at all.

All the work in the field was given to Wang Dazhi alone, the whole family, three acres of land, but Wang Dazhi was alone, and he was also busy. This barley and Lu Xiaohonghuan put all their energy into raising chickens.

This year, as long as Millet and Maizi are out of school, they will carry baskets and dig wild vegetables for chickens. When I went home, I helped my mother chop vegetables and feed the chickens.

The chicken laid eggs, and the whole family laughed happily.

Because the chickens lay eggs, they must be picked up in time, otherwise they may be crushed, and the chicken coop should also be cleaned from time to time, so as not to make the chickens sick. Although Zhang Suzhen has helped Lu Xiaohong feed chickens and bring millet this year over the years, she can't come from time to time after all.

And the day of leaving is getting closer and closer, she also has to press the row, all of them must be arranged well, so that she can leave with confidence, maybe, she can't come back, can't go back to this home, she wants to do what she can, as much as possible, she wants to make her mother, father, and sisters live better in the second half of their lives......

Lu Xiaohong agreed with the sisters-in-law that the old lady used to help her, but the old lady couldn't help in vain, because she only helped her family, and she couldn't help the eldest brother's family.

In this way, Lu Xiaohong gave the old lady five yuan every month, and in addition, gave the eldest brother's family three yuan a month, plus thirty eggs.

Hearing three yuan and thirty eggs, Zhao Guihua finally showed a smile

Because, the old lady is old, and she can't do much work in the field, the second child, give the old lady five yuan a month, and the five yuan is not branded in their house, and at the moment, they also agreed.

Barley began to teach her grandmother how to cook for the chickens. How to get to the coop is to step on the lime pile before going to the coop. Disinfect your feet. Sanitation and epidemic prevention dare not be sloppy. Let the old lady remember that every time she enters the chicken pen, whether it is feeding or collecting eggs, she must rub the soles of her shoes in the lime pile. ”

With the help of the old lady, Lu Xiaohong suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

In addition to going to Li Guizhen's to sell eggs. I went to the south construction site to sell eggs. This south construction site, in fact, is an arsenal, at the beginning of construction, is the south construction site of the construction company, after the completion of the factory, the construction workers have long been withdrawn, the local villagers are still not used to calling the name of the arsenal No. xx mailbox, still called the south construction site. Last year, when the barley was selling eggs, they never dared to patronize the family courtyard of this arsenal, preferring to travel more than 20 miles to the workers' settlements in the eastern suburbs, where people were unfamiliar. There are guards at the gate of the south construction site, and there are often cadres sent by the supply and marketing cooperatives at the door of the family home, who are specially guarded there to catch people who dare to steal eggs...... Now, in a year's time, both sides of the cement road outside the gate of the south construction site are full of farmers selling agricultural and sideline products in neighboring villages, all kinds of seasonal vegetables, melons and fruits, fresh meat and fresh eggs, one stall after another, spread along the road. Some people build small houses on the side of the road and sell daily necessities; Restaurants, barber shops, and pubs also opened. The barley came here to sell eggs, and there was no need to worry about the cadres of the supply and marketing cooperatives coming to confiscate the eggs.

She came to sell eggs every other day or at most every two days, which was too time-consuming, and put all the heavy labor of the chicken farm on the shoulders of her mother and grandmother. She met the purchaser of the staff canteen at the south construction site and reached an agreement to send 30 catties of eggs to the canteen every day, and the price per catty rises and falls with the market price, which is generally lower than a dime in the market. The canteen tried to save trouble, picked up the cheap, and guaranteed to eat the freshest eggs, and the barley also saved the trouble of sitting there all day waiting for the buyer, and the two sides were satisfied, she sent eggs to the south construction site in the future, and she could take care of the chicken farm in the morning and noon, and also let the mother and grandmother rest down. In order to ensure the longevity of this relationship, Kazuko Qingli filled a box with thirty or fifty eggs and gave them to the purchaser.

In the old days of the Wang family, outsiders were blushing, but of course the most popular were her sister-in-law and two sisters-in-law, and then Lu Shanghong's mother.

Lu Xiaohong's mother, it can be said that it is not like in the past, a few books, every once in a while, she will ask Lu Xiaohong for money, crying poor, either to buy cookies or sugar, I can't wait to scrape all the money of Lu Xiaohong's family into her pocket.

And because of Lu Xiaohong's success in raising chickens, the two sisters-in-law also began to take care of them while they were jealous, after all, people have distant relatives in the mountains when they are rich, not to mention her two sisters-in-law.

For these ill-intentioned relatives, Qingli didn't have much to do, just told her mother to spend a little money and buy things, yes, if you want to borrow money, don't borrow it. She asked her mother to sew money for the New Year's festival and give money to the elderly, and there are a lot of filial piety to the elderly, but she borrowed money, only said that she built a house and bought chicken cubs, and the borrowed money has not been repaid

Over the past year, Lu Xiaohong's mother and two sisters-in-law, back and forth, have found various reasons to borrow money from Lu Xiaohong, and they all let Lu Xiaohong score with this excuse, she is not afraid that they will be unhappy, it will be easy to borrow money, it will be difficult to ask for money, she will not do it for 100% of the things, after all, it is not easy for their family to earn this money. She also has four children.

In the past six months or so, Qingli has instilled her parents to let her pay close attention to the children's learning, and the old couple is very convinced of what the second daughter said.

And millet and wheat are also competitive, and they are basically in the top three in the class.

This year, Qingli thought about everything he could think about and did everything he could.

Time is passing between fingers, and in a blink of an eye, it is the end of the year again.

Before the end of this year, Qingli sold all the herbs grown in the space and exchanged them for money, so that Lu Xiaohong could save them in the bank.

And he buried two boxes of calligraphy and paintings from the grave at the bottom of the lake in one night, under the right wall of his own courtyard.

She told Lu Xiaohong, "Mom, the things I buried are not worth much now, but after ten or twenty years, that thing is very valuable, so, this thing, don't take it out lightly."

Lu Xiaohong looked at the qiē made by the little girl, and couldn't help but be a little unremitting, "Girl, aren't these things safer to put in your space?" ”

Qing barley, afraid that her mother would be worried, immediately said, "Mom, my space came suddenly, one day, in case it won't be easy to use, so ah, just in case, it's better to be in the real world now."

Lu Xiaohong listened to her daughter's words and felt that it was not unreasonable.

Anyway, she felt that whatever her daughter said was right, this girl, let her raise chickens, but as a result, she didn't expect that raising chickens would make so much money.

Now, her family's life can be said to be getting better day by day. And this qiē, she feels that she is inseparable from her second daughter.

It's just that recently, she feels more and more that her daughter is relying on her more and more, or relying on her sister and her father.

This girl is too sensible, she has never fought for anything, and she has given her sisters and sisters everything. Recently, I hugged her at every turn.

This girl is getting more and more coquettish, which makes her like these two girls more and more.

For this year's Chinese New Year, the Wang family made dumplings with meatballs stuffed with pork. Not only did I buy new clothes for all four girls, but I also bought firecrackers, sweets, fried fritters and meatballs. The dishes of the New Year, there are chickens, fish, vegetables, and drinks, and her family's current life can be said to be prosperous and thriving.

Of course, there are also people with ulterior motives who say to Wang Dazhi that it is a pity that there will be no children to inherit such a family business in the future.

There are even people who give Lu Xiaohong an idea, saying that they will recognize a godson, and they all say that they will have a son soon.

said that there were many sons, Lu Xiaohong couldn't help but be moved, after all, she was only thirty-six, and there was still hope for giving birth to a child

As soon as the news that Lu Xiaohong wanted to admit her son, Zhao Guihua, the eldest sister-in-law, immediately came to the door with Guoqiang, saying that her nephew was her son, and immediately asked Wang Guoqiang to kneel down and kowtow to Lu Xiaohong and Wang Dazhi.

Obviously, this eldest lady wants her baby son to continue the property of her second uncle's family, but she wants to be beautiful.

Baozi glanced at the barley, the barley smiled, and immediately said to the eldest lady

"Auntie, I'm afraid that my country's strong brother's head will be knocked in vain" (to be continued.) )