Chapter 12 Buying Chickens
Usually more savvy than the average person, the shopkeeper grinds the noodles and soon opens a market in the town. When everyone fell in love with this mouth-watering noodle, the shopkeeper began to recommend millet seeds to the farmers who came to the store to sell grain, for four cents a catty. The peasants who were active and energetic saw that the green millet noodles in the store were still in short supply for four cents a catty, so they had the courage to buy a lot of seeds.
The people who bought the seeds thought that they heard from those who bought noodles that this thing was a good thing, and even if it could not be sold, it would be good to eat it at home. I never thought that the green millet, which could only be burned and fed to animals, was so delicious, and it was really buried over the years.
Although the current farmers are not rich, each family still has money to spare, even if the season is delayed, there will be no major event, if you can sell it at this price, or even if it is a little lower, it will not be a loss, not to mention that you can enjoy it yourself.
There are also those who think that four cents a pound is too expensive, so they went to buy the seeds that have always grown green millet people, which can be cheaper than half the price, but the grains are not as full as in the store, and there are a lot of sundries. However, those who grow green millet find that the green millet noodles are delicious, and the green millet seedlings that were originally harvested at the harvest time are not harvested, so they simply let them grow and mature, and maybe they can earn more than the green millet seedlings.
Sun Siyuan knew about it, and smiled, the shopkeeper has an idea, this is good, profit-driven is the most effective, even if the green millet is mature and cannot be sold at the current price, it is definitely profitable.
However, if there is no scientific planting method, the yield may not go up. So she specially asked someone to tell the owner of the planting method, and she didn't care whether everyone would adopt such a method.
The village chief found Sun Siyuan and told her that the price negotiated above was five taels of silver per mu, a one-time buyout, which was cheaper than building a single house, but if the scale of raising chickens was large, it might have to pay taxes.
Sun Siyuan circled 20 acres of wasteland and asked for 100 taels of silver, but Sun Siyuan had no cash on hand, so he discussed with the village chief to pay 20 taels first. It is said that this will definitely not work, but the village chief has some relationship with the people in the town, and he actually got the title deed.
Sun Siyuan didn't thank the village chief much, so she could only send a lot of vegetables to the village chief's family, and said that in the future, the chickens would grow up to be the first to carry two fats to the village chief's family.
In this world, there is no special business for hatching chicks to make money, and generally everyone hatches their old hens, or exchanges between neighbors. Usually the old hen holds the nest by herself, and she has to be cleaned up.
Sun Siyuan could only publicize it in the village, and agreed that the chicks would be purchased in large quantities for a penny. The people in the village saved up eggs for two pennies, and they knew that Sun Siyuan wanted chickens, and they were willing to help, so they reported the number, saying that they had a few hens and how many chicks they could hatch.
Sun Siyuan fell in love with a kind of stinging tree on the mountain, which is thorny and two or three meters high, which is very suitable for hedges for chicken farms. So he hired people in the village, dug up the sage trees from the mountains, and planted them around his twenty acres of wasteland.
The thorns on the thorns of the tree are very fine and dense, and everyone wraps their hands in cloth handles to work, because there are many people who come, and it is completed in one day. The stinging trees on the mountain have been plundered, but they are still sparse because they are planted too much. However, the tree multiplies quickly, and it won't be long before it grows dense and impermeable.
The wasteland was planned by Sun Siyuan, and then sprinkled a lot of seeds of small green vegetables, cabbage and radish, these seeds were collected by Sun Siyuan from the space, mixed with the seeds bought with money from the village to hide people's eyes, the survival rate should be guaranteed, these are all food prepared for chickens.
Heavy stubble is not conducive to the growth of crops, so although green millet seeds were left, Sun Siyuan did not want to plant green millet, but prepared rice seeds in advance. She dug pits in the courtyard and hoarded water to raise rice seedlings, and also took several families in the village to raise them together. When the land was finished and filled with water, the villagers were not surprised, and they said that they would do the same.
Although Zhao Youqian is busy with farming these days, he has not pulled down his reading and literacy, especially after Sun Siyuan gave him a copy of "Planting Encyclopedia" and stunned him, he really wanted to learn.
Sun Siyuan said that her skills were all read from books, she was enlightened by the gods, and she knew these words, and the gods told her that she could only use the knowledge in the books when she got married, which was a secret, and he had to keep it secret for him.
Zhao Youqian didn't expect his wife to have such an opportunity, so he redoubled his efforts to study, because he felt more and more that he was not worthy of Sun Siyuan, who had been enlightened by the gods.
Sun Siyuan didn't expect this half of the lie to coax Zhao Youqian, and her heart was a little complicated, after all, the truth of the matter was too bizarre, even if Zhao Youqian was her father-in-law, she didn't want to say it now.
Sun Siyuan also found a lot of books about martial arts from Shushan and handed them to Zhao Youqian, after all, which man doesn't have a dream of being a hero in his heart, and women, don't they all love chivalry. However, Sun Siyuan didn't expect Zhao Youqian to become the number one in the world, as long as he could defend himself-although with his brute strength, Zhao Youqian had already beaten the invincible opponents in the whole village.
Approaching the maturity of soybeans, Zhao Youqian's land has become the focus of everyone's attention again, everyone is planted according to Zhao Youqian's method, which is indeed much better than in previous years, but at a glance, you can know that Zhao Youqian's soybeans grow the best. Even the village chief praised Zhao for being rich and diligent, after all, he often went to water soybeans, and everyone knew it. Although the weather is hot, everyone's hearts are sweet.
Sun Siyuan didn't have time to take care of the affairs in the field, and the family had already collected more than 500 chicks, all of which were locked up in a big house. Every day, Sun Siyuan picks cabbage from the yard, chops it, and feeds it to the chicks with wheat bran. The chicks were happy in the house during the day, and at night they were grabbed by Sun Siyuan one by one and put in the cage, and after collecting the chicks, Sun Siyuan washed the dirty things in the room with water. Sun Siyuan was worried, the little chick was fine, but he couldn't do this when he grew up, otherwise he wouldn't be able to stand the alone.
Zhao Youqian spent a lot of effort to build a threshing field on his wasteland. Speaking of his family's wasteland is no longer a wasteland, except for the place where he plans to build a house, only sparse weeds grow, and the other places where the seeds are sprinkled have grown greens, cabbage and radishes, although it is a wasteland, the ground strength is insufficient, but it is still very gratifying at a glance.
And this thing, not afraid of diligent people, only lazy people, as long as it is cleaned up, it will only get better and better. You must know that the fertile land in the village is also slowly cultivated from the wasteland.