Chapter 13: Castration of chickens
With his own grain drying field, it is also a lot easier for Zhao to have money to harvest soybeans, and the people in the village help each other, which is still very fast.
Sun Siyuan made some soup at home to relieve fatigue and relieve the heat, put it in a vat, and asked Zhao Youqian to bring it over to drink with everyone. There is no need to keep the rice, and the people in the village go back to their homes to eat, but after the soybeans are all taken care of and returned home, Sun Siyuan still made a good meal at home and asked someone to help.
In more than ten days, the chicks have grown new feathers one after another, and there are obvious differences in size, Sun Siyuan has divided the chicks into two large rooms for safety, opening the windows for ventilation every day, feeding at fixed points, and adding water to the sink from time to time.
The weather was warm in June, and Sun Siyuan had changed from washing the room at night at the beginning to flushing it with well water once every half an hour. Fortunately, the chicks are already big and don't need to be grabbed one by one, and they are used to the daily "washed claws".
Zhao Youqian once helped Sun Siyuan catch chickens, but later pinched one to death, and Sun Siyuan never let him touch the chicks again. Now it's hot, Sun Siyuan feels sorry for him, and would rather not plant than let him go to the ground, Zhao has money and can only stay at home and read, Sun Siyuan recently gave him a "Modern Chinese Dictionary", giving him a lot of help.
The chickens have enough food and grow fast, Sun Siyuan feels that the chicken coop should be built as soon as possible, otherwise it will be a headache if it is left at home for a long time.
told Zhao Youqian about this, and Zhao Youqian couldn't wait to go out on the spot to find someone to build a house. Sun Siyuan hurriedly stopped him and told him about his plans.
There are brick kiln factories in this world, but they are expensive, and they are only bought by large families who build houses, like his own yard, only half of them are green brick houses, and the rest are adobe houses. Sun Siyuan has no money in his hand, and he won't build more than a dozen blue brick and tile houses for the chickens to live in, but he must also plan carefully.
There is a brick kiln factory in the town, and Sun Siyuan asked Zhao Youqian to copy a copy of "The Secret Book of Brick Kilns" and asked him to take it to the town to talk about business with the people of the brick kiln factory.
The brick production rate of the brick kiln factory is not high, and there are many waste bricks that have not been burned, piled up in the yard, and they are all asked back by Zhao Youqian, and they also get ten taels of silver. Speaking of which, the price is really a loss, but Sun Siyuan doesn't care, she just wants people to think that she just got the book by accident, and she doesn't know the true value.
The reason why waste bricks are wasted is because the shape is not up to standard, but if you build a chicken coop, you don't have to consider the beauty, so you don't need to care.
Sun Siyuan took out a tael of silver and invited someone to go up the mountain to cut wood, the pine wood was soaked in the river, and the rest of the sun was directly exposed to the sun.
She wanted to build a compound chicken coop, including a brick house, an adobe house, and a wooden pavilion, but before she could do that, she had to dig a well. This is not difficult, but the head of the household needs to register, Sun Siyuan laughed, I didn't expect that there would be control of water resources in this era.
It is not difficult to dig a well, but it is tiring, Zhao Youqian and the three men were busy for three or four days before the water came out, and it took another day to clean up the water before the water came out.
Sun Siyuan felt sorry for Zhao Youqian, and left a few people in his green brick house at noon every day, full of wine and food, mung bean soup and sour plum soup, but he was not allowed to go out, and he had to wait until he felt that the sky was not so hot before letting people out and continue to be busy.
After the well was built, he began to build a house, Sun Siyuan's family provided breakfast, and he started to do it before dawn in the morning, the adobe house was the most tiring, Zhao Youqian always did the most tiring work, and he was happy to do it with a group of men who were older than him. Speaking of which, the people in the village don't know Zhao Youqian's real age.
At noon, Sun Siyuan was also unhappy that Zhao Youqian went out, and wanted to control him, but Aunt Gu persuaded her that the adobe house was not suitable for building in the hot season, and it was even worse to interrupt it so often, who in the countryside has not suffered from the sin of hot weather. In addition, the person who built the house joked with Zhao Youqian about this, Sun Siyuan simply didn't mention it, but the meals became more and more attentive.
When he was felling, he cut a lot of bamboo from the mountain, and Sun Siyuan couldn't help but scold himself for being stupid when he saw it, he had already said that he wanted to get a bamboo mat, but he actually forgot about it. Now Zhao Youqian sleeps on a straw mat at night and only covers a blanket, which is too hot and panicked, and it will be better if he changes the bamboo mat. Big places can't help him, and they can only take care of him in these subtleties.
Writing down a few key points of weaving bamboo mats, Sun Siyuan took a basket of vegetables and two catties of meat and went to Zhu's house. The Zhu family is used to weaving straw mats, so they naturally have some experience, and after listening to Sun Siyuan's pointers, they agreed to help get it, and they refused to accept the things brought by Sun Siyuan.
Sun Siyuan laughed at the second aunt of the Zhu family, "Second aunt, I don't have any money left in my hand, you don't want this thing, isn't it because you look down on me, if you care, make up more bamboo mats and sell them, and make a fortune and send two catties of meat back to me to eat, I must be happy." The Zhu family accepted the dishes brought by Sun Siyuan, and they had a plan in their hearts.
Sun Siyuan is just joking, it is impossible for the Zhu family to make a fortune on bamboo mats, but it is certain that bamboo mats will be launched this summer to earn more than straw mats.
The next day, the Zhu family sent two bamboo mats over, saying that they were made up and sent over, and the family decided to save a few bamboo mats and send them to the grocery store that the town cooperated with. Sun Siyuan only smiled and said a few words of Wishing you prosperity, and the second aunt smiled when she heard it.
I wish the family to be real, the two bamboo mats woven are generous and honest with cloth strips, and there is only one bed at home, so Sun Siyuan sent one to Aunt Gu.
Aunt Gu went back to sleep, and praised everyone when she met people, everyone knew that it was the bamboo mat of the Zhu family, anyway, there was no shortage of these two money in their hands, and they all ordered bamboo mats in the Zhu family, the price was slightly more expensive than the straw mat, but the comfort of the summer was the most important thing, and no one cared about spending a few pennies more.
It took more than ten days to build the house, and finally settled the completion money, and Sun Siyuan had five taels of silver left in his hand. I can't help but sigh in my heart, money is the hardest to earn and the easiest to spend!
The chickens at home have been able to separate the male and female, Sun Siyuan brought out two hundred roosters, asked someone to castrate, and divided them in an independent big house, just waiting for all of them to be sent to the built chicken coop, and the taste of the family is getting stronger and stronger these days.
Aunt Gu said that Sun Siyuan finally planted the four acres of land, and the crops grew fast and well in the hot season, so she couldn't delay the good day, and she had to pay taxes in August.
Four acres of land are planted with green millet, I heard that those who have planted green millet are growing very well, the county lord tasted green millet porridge, and praised those who planted green millet.
Sun Siyuan laughed secretly in her heart, people in this world still only use green corn noodles to make porridge, but there are so many ways to eat real "corn". Now the number of green millet noodles is small, and everyone can't try it, and after waiting for more, there should be more ways to eat it.