Zhang Taiping didn't sleep all night. But it didn't affect the spirit in the slightest.

After feeding the goats, the east side was already white, and Zhang Taiping did not enter the house again, for fear of disturbing Cai Yazhi's rest, this is the lightest time for people to sleep, and the slightest abnormal movement will wake people up.

Standing on the edge of the lake to practice knife skills, although knife skills are no longer used in this era, Zhang Taiping regards this as a cultural inheritance, a part of the essence of the nation, and it is a pity to lose it. When the time comes, it would be best to find a passer to pass on by word of mouth.

When Zhang Taiping finished his work, Cai Yazhi had already gotten up and was grabbing a handful of wheat and scattering it on the ground to feed the chickens. Although it is a free-range chicken, it is best to feed one or two handfuls of wheat or corn every day, and the rest of the time they are shaved outside, so that the hens can lay eggs that are not only large but also have high nutritional value, and can even lay eggs with double yolks. People in the countryside don't know what nutrition is not nutritious, but the double yellow beaten eggs are real, so feeding chickens like this has become a tradition.

After pecking at the wheat grains on the ground, a handful of little hens led by the big rooster with their heads held high went to the foot of the mountain. They also don't run too far, they are nearby, and they will run back at night or when the hen lays eggs and jump into the nest automatically.

The ducks can already be put into the water, indicating that the environmental climate for raising ducks and chickens has arrived, and it is time to buy chickens and ducks. Today there happened to be a big market in the town, and Zhang Taiping was going to buy chickens.

So Zhang Taiping didn't ask Cai Yazhi to cook it for breakfast, but just steamed a bowl of egg custard in boiling water for everyone. Now the situation in the house is very different from before, Cai Yazhi doesn't have to praise the eggs one by one and sell them in the village outside for money, save for a day, and no one can share an egg.

The method of egg custard is simple, you only need to break the eggs in an enamel bowl, put some salt and some water in it, stir well, and then put two drops of clear oil on top and put it in the water to steam. When the water in the pot is boiling, turn off the heat and wait for a while. Bringing out the enamel bowl doesn't require any other extra seasoning, just pour a little soy sauce on top. It tastes tender and delicious, and it is extremely delicious, and it is a rare breakfast.

After no one had eaten egg custard for one night, Cai Yazhi explained to Xingrushui and asked her to cook lunch for lunch. Xingrushui has also lived in Zhang's house for so long, she is familiar with everything, and she is the one who cooks when Cai Yazhi is busy or absent. Her craftsmanship is not only not the usual bad craftsmanship of the eldest ladies, but it is very good, and it is even better than Cai Yazhi.

Fan Ming also wanted to follow, but it was impossible, during this time, the old man was giving her acupuncture and pharmacological treatment for strange diseases, and she couldn't stay away or contact too many different people.

When the two of them rode on the motorcycle, the big market had already started to be lively. Of course, this liveliness must not be compared with the big set in the wax moon.

The crowd on the street was not as hurried as it was then, and they were all leisurely looking at this and that.

Zhang Taiping and Cai Yazhi left their motorcycles at a bicycle and motorcycle storage place, and they also roamed the streets on a limited basis.

Zhang Taiping took Cai Yazhi's hand, Cai Yazhi struggled slightly, but Zhang Taiping knew that she would have this reaction, and grabbed it very tightly. If you don't break free, you will accept your fate, and Zhang Taiping will pull you. It's just that I feel like I'm not an old husband and wife, my heartbeat is a little faster, and I always feel that passers-by on the street are looking at me, and I'm about to bury my head in my chest.

"It's okay, don't you see someone holding hands over there?" Seeing that she could be ashamed to be like this when she held a hand on the street, Zhang Taiping gave her an example to dispel her inner discomfort and divert her attention at the same time.

Sure enough, Cai Yazhi raised her head when she heard the words and looked in the direction pointed by Zhang Taiping, a couple walked on the street hand in hand, and she didn't see any unusual opinions from the people on the street, so she relaxed a little.

The two of them did not rush into the street where the poultry were sold, but walked slowly through the street, it was still early, enjoying the intimacy of the public like their first love.

Cai Yazhi used to have no extra money to buy things, and she didn't develop the habit of spending lavishly; Now I have money, but the quality of thrift can't be changed for a while, and after walking around the street for so long, I just see more and buy less, at most I buy some cheap things.

Zhang Taiping did not force her to spend money, thrift is not a bad habit, it is not easy for a person to maintain the previous thrift under the strong contrast of being extremely poor in the early stage and extremely rich in the later period. Zhang Taiping doesn't want to change anything, but hopes that she can always maintain the way she is now, kind and know how to run a family.

Spring is also the time when all kinds of saplings and flowers are sold, and the two of them first came to the neighborhood where these things were sold.

The whole street is stuffed with all kinds of saplings and flowers. Zhang Taiping and the two just walked by here and took a casual look, and they didn't pay for anything.

Zhang Taiping had other plans in mind, the space needed a variety of different species to flood the natural system. Expand the area of the land, but you can't buy it at this time, otherwise it will be difficult to explain where the things you bought have gone, and you can only buy it yourself.

Walk through the block where the saplings are sold, and you will arrive at the place where the livestock and poultry are sold.

As soon as you enter here, the first thing you hear is the chirping of chirping chicks. There are more than 20 bamboo baskets placed in Yishun'er, and they are all chicken seedlings. In total, there are more than a dozen companies selling chicks, and only chicks will sell the fastest during this time, and the rest of the livestock are not in peak season during this time.

Zhang Taiping can't see the good or bad things of the chicks, and it is even more nonsense to use the space to sense. Chicks are no more intelligent than puppies and other intelligent animals, not to mention whether they can sense the surname of Ling, even if there is, it is still the same one, and today at his own request he wants to buy more than five hundred, one or two are completely useless. So he honestly followed Cai Yazhi and watched her carefully check and select in front of each chicken frame.

Shop around, this is the tradition of most rural people to buy things, and Cai Yazhi is no exception. She first looked at the chicken seedlings in the more than two dozen bamboo baskets, and then returned and stopped in front of the house to signal Zhang Taiping to negotiate the price.

The stall owner was a slightly older middle-aged man, and he was the only one who sat there without shouting or shouting, looking at the book in his hand, waiting for the buyer to come to the door. Seems to be confident in his chicks.

Zhang Taiping stood in front of the stall, covering the pipeline, and the middle-aged man raised his head and closed the book, Zhang Taiping saw that it was a copy of "Chicken and Duck Breeding Rules".

"Look at the chicks?" The middle-aged man put down the book and stood up and asked Zhang Taiping.

"Well, look at some chicks." Zhang Taiping looked at the tepid appearance of the middle-aged man and asked, "Why doesn't the boss shout?" Look at the stall owners next to you who are selling faster than you. ”

The stall owner also spoke at a high level: "Real gold is not afraid of fire, and the fragrance of wine is not afraid of deep alleys." Aren't you going to buy it? After saying that, he grinned.

Zhang Taiping looked at the middle-aged man a little bit and asked, "How many pieces of chicken seedlings do you have?" ”

"I'm sure you've seen a lot of it, so there's a comparison. It's not that I'm here to brag about it, my chick is one of the best, if not the best, on the street. Said that I set the price two cents higher. ”

The others are sold for four yuan a piece, Zhang Taiping asked, "Four yuan two?" ”

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Yes, of course, if you ask for more, the price can still be appropriately reduced." ”

Zhang Taiping pointed to the chicken box and asked, "Are you all about these or are there more?" ”

The middle-aged man realized that he might have met a big buyer, and replied, "There is a small part of this knowledge, and there is still a lot of it at home." And I'm sure the quality of the home is about the same as these. Don't know how much you need? ”

"Five hundred."

"Five hundred, then there are really not enough here, there are only a hundred here. Why don't you come with me to my place, and the price of 500 pieces will be the same as the price of one sold on the street, or four dollars? ”

Zhang Taiping said: "Okay." ”

The two parties discussed a meeting place, the middle-aged man began to clean up the stall, and Zhang Taiping and Cai Yazhi went to pick up the motorcycle. After meeting on the street, the middle-aged man rode a three-wheeled motorcycle with more than 100 chicken seedlings on which he had not yet sold, and Zhang Taiping rode a motorcycle to carry Cai Yazhi behind.

The middle-aged man's car stopped next to a yard in the wild, Zhang Taiping thought it was another forest garden, but after entering, he learned that it was an apple orchard of five acres of land, and at the same time raised a large number of chickens and ducks in it.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw two big white geese twisting towards the two of them. was dismissed by the middle-aged daughter-in-law, an authentic and simple rural woman.

The big white goose can not only lay eggs and eat meat, but also can take care of the house, and when a living person enters the yard, it will whip its wings and screw people with a flat beak. Don't look at them on the outside, they are docile and amiable, but the strength of the mouth that screws on a person is not small, and a twist is a piece of bruise.

Zhang Taiping was happy to see the hunt, and also wanted to buy some duck seedlings and goose seedlings to go back.

There are indeed a lot of chicken seedlings in the orchard, and Zhang Taiping probably estimates that there are more than 2,000. Duck and goose seedlings are relatively rare.

After ordering the chicken seedlings and putting them in the bamboo basket, Zhang Taiping did not rush to pay, but said: "How much is this duck seedling?" ”

The middle-aged man was even more happy when he saw that Zhang Taiping still wanted to buy duck seedlings, thought about it and said: "My duck seedlings are going to buy six yuan and five one on the street, and you came to the garden to buy it, so I will give you a cheaper, six yuan a piece." ”

Zhang Taiping asked again: "What about the goose seedlings?" ”

"Goose seedlings, goose seedlings are also six yuan a piece." The main reason is that there are few people who raise geese, and geese are relatively difficult to feed, so the price of this goose seedling is relatively cheap, and the price of ducks is the same.

"Then let's have a hundred duck seedlings and twenty goose seedlings." Zhang Taiping estimated the situation at home and reported this number.

After Cai Yazhi paid the money, she needed the middle-aged man to drive a small pickup truck to deliver it to her home in person.

ps: The third update is sent, and there is another one later!! Asking for flowers!!