For the sake of Lian Shouren's affairs, Lian's family was very happy and lively for a few days. Everyone is looking forward to the beautiful changes that this event will bring to their lives in the future, and they are looking forward to the greater good news coming soon.

The silver sent by Song Hailong was collected by the Zhou family. All the money and money collected from Lian Shouren's house that day were left in the hands of the Zhou family, and only the clothes and rulers were taken back by the Gu family.

Even the old man and the Zhou family learned the lessons of the past, and planned to control the entry and exit of the silver money in their own hands, and they also controlled Lian Shouren, Lian Jizu, Gu and Jiang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law very strictly.

Naturally, some people are dissatisfied, but they can't change anything, and even most people in the family are satisfied and happy.

These have little impact on Lian Man'er's family. The early shop earned a lot of 339 chapters a month, and they began to build their own manor little by little.

In the first step, they dug a canal from the bank of the river and diverted water into their estate. The canal was cut and covered with bluestone after the construction was completed. The canal first passes through the vegetable garden, then through a newly dug cistern, then through the house, then winds its way over their estate, and finally into the river.

At the inlet of the riverbank, a sluice gate was built to control the amount of water during the flood season. The main purpose of this aqueduct was to irrigate the vegetable gardens and the huā grass and trees on the estate, and also to draw a pool of living water to the house to be built. The cistern in the vegetable garden also serves as a sedimentation tank, and the water that flows into the house after sedimentation will be clearer.

The blueprint of the manor was drawn with the help of Mr. Lu, who fused the ideas of Lian Man'er's family together. Coupled with his knowledge of Feng Shui, everyone discussed and decided together. The plan made in the end even made Lian Man'er a little overjoyed.

The core building of the manor is, of course, the residence, which is in front of the vegetable garden, and through the vegetable garden you go directly to the backyard of the breakfast shop. Around the dwelling, there will be a wide range of trees, including miscellaneous forests along the river. Fruit trees will continue to be planted at the back of the house.

The main courtyard is still basically the structure of the farmhouse compound in Chapter 339, and there are two cross-courtyards in the east and west, where threshing floors, livestock sheds, pigsties, chicken pens, and duck pens will be built. Vegetable cellars, sauerkraut workshops, etc.

It has entered the early season, the weather is getting hotter and hotter day by day, and every day when you open your eyes, you can hear the sound of knowing outside the window. It doesn't stop until nightfall. In the past few days, Lian Shouxin is leading people to build a canal. Zhang's and Lian Man'er's mother and daughter are very busy.

Her chickens and ducks are well fed, and as soon as they are ambushed, these chicks and ducklings begin to lay eggs.

Lian Man'er's chickens are still raised in the old house, and most of the eggs are in the chicken pen, and Lian Zhi'er generally looks after the house at home, and picks them up with the stream. As for the ducks, they lay their eggs in the woods by the river, where Gorou and Kochi laid out comfortable grass nests for them. The work of picking up duck eggs was contracted by Xiao Qi, and the first thing he did when he came back from private school every day. It is to carry a small basket to the woods to pick up duck eggs. The more duck eggs, the happier Xiao Qi laughed.

The first eggs laid by these hens and ducklings are relatively small. Lian Man'er was very worried at first, but after the second and third eggs grew larger, she was relieved.

Zhang's love for those little eggs.

"Don't look at this head smile, this is the first egg that a chicken lays. This egg is the most complementary. "In the farmer's house, the chickens start to lay eggs and call it the opening, just like when a new business starts.

The Zhang family divided these small eggs into several parts, one for Wang Youheng and one for Wu Jiaxing's family, all of which were taken by Wulang and Xiaoqi when they went to school in the town.

The last one is reserved for one's own family. Mr. Lu has worked hard in teaching. Wulang and Xiaoqi are exhausted from studying, and they are even tired of keeping their faith every day to look at the shop and lead people to dig ditches, and Lian Zhi'er and Lian Man'er are growing up and need to eat.

When she got up that morning, Lian Man'er got a bowl of poached eggs, which were the first eggs laid by the hen. Don't look at the small size of the egg, but the yolk is not small, and the color is golden. Zhang also added sugar to the water. The eggs are delicious in your mouth.

"Delicious, right?" Zhang saw that Lian Man'er was eating well, so he asked with a smile.

"It's delicious." Lian Man'er nodded.

"I don't plan to sell the eggs laid by our chickens and ducks this year, so let's keep them for our own food." Zhang said. Farmers raise chickens and lay eggs, generally reluctant to eat themselves, a few eggs to the market to sell, can be exchanged for the oil and salt needed at home, eggs saved more, but also pull back a few feet of huā cloth, to add a piece of clothing to the family.

However, this year, Lian Man'er's family is no longer short of a few pennies for selling eggs and duck eggs. In the past, when there were no chickens and ducks, they had to buy eggs to eat.

"Okay." Lian Man'er nodded, "Mother, in the future, everyone in our family will eat at least one egg a day, and let's marinate the duck eggs." The pickled duck eggs are delicious. ”

"This open chicken and duck, you don't need one a day, one egg every other day, we are six people, plus Mr. Lu, this egg is really enough for us to eat every day." Zhang smiled.

If you want chickens and ducks to lay more eggs, the feed you eat must keep up. Those ducks don't have to worry about it, they soak in the river for more than half a day every day, and they eat very nutritious. However, the range of activities of those young hens is not large, and the feed to increase nutrition has to be artificially found.

Every day after school, Gorou and Xiaoqi would make a detour back from the field, digging a basket of wild vegetables or cutting a basket of grass to feed chickens, ducks, pigs and calves. Even Man'er will go down to the field to dig wild vegetables if he has time.

A bowl of poached eggs, and two small rolls with millet gruel and pickles, Lian Man'er looked outside, estimated that the dew in the field had fallen, so he carried the basket and took a knife to dig vegetables, and planned to go down to the field to dig wild vegetables.

"Man'er, wait a minute, I'll go with you after I'm done." Lian Zhi'er stopped Lian Man'er and said.

"Sister, don't go today." Lian Man'er waved her hand and said, "I'll dig a basket of vegetables and come back in a while, it's enough to eat, don't you still have those old needlework to do, you can do the work at home." ”

Lian Zhi'er's needlework is good, and now Zhang's is busy with things in the shop every day, and most of the needlework at home is handed over to Lian Zhi'er to do.

"That's okay, Man'er, don't go down by yourself, you find a companion to go with." Lian Zhi'er said.

"I'm looking for Ye'er." When Lian Man'er came out of the house, she looked for Lian Ye'er.

"Ye'er, will you go down to the ground to dig vegetables?" Lian Man'er asked Lian Ye'er.

It's still the old rule to go to the house, and the population of several rooms takes turns to take care of the housework, and today it's Lian Ye'er's turn to go out to dig wild vegetables.

"Go." Lian Ye'er agreed, also carried the basket, and came out with Lian Man'er.

The weather is still early, the dew in the field has just fallen, and the sun is not so scorching, the children of the general village will take advantage of this time to dig wild vegetables, and the people who take care of the crops in the field also choose this time, and when the sun is poisoned at noon, the big guys will all call it a day and go home.

In ambush, the scene in the field is different from that in spring. The green pole has grown to a height of one man, and the grass on the ground is quite luxuriant, and the red and yellow wild huā are blooming in clusters or clusters.

Lian Man'er didn't rush into the field to dig wild vegetables, she plucked a dog's tail grass in her hand, and while slowly walking through the grass on the side of the road, some grasshoppers were startled or jumped or flew up. Lian Man'er saw the location of the fat grasshopper that jumped up and fell down, approached lightly, leaned down, and quickly pounced with his hand, and pounced on the grasshopper.

Then, Lian Man'er pinched the grasshopper's body and used the grass path of the dog's tail grass to pass through the soft armor on the grasshopper's back neck. Lian Man'er has sharp eyes, light steps, and fast hands, and after a while, a whole string of grasshoppers is strung on the dog's tail grass. Lian Man'er tied a knot at one end of the grass path to prevent the grasshoppers from escaping, so he threw the string of grasshoppers into the basket, and pulled out a dog's tail grass to continue to catch the grasshoppers.

For hens, grasshoppers can be called high-protein, high-nutrition feed, and the most effective way to promote eggs. In the ambush, there are more grasshoppers in the grass, even the vines catch grasshoppers, specifically catch those green grasshoppers without wings, this kind of grasshopper has a lot of meat, although it can jump very much, but it has no wings, it can't fly, and it is easier to catch.

And that kind of gray body, with a pair of gray hard wings on its back, and a beautiful, translucent, bright red, or emerald green gauze wing grasshopper under the hard wings, can fly very fast and far at once, and it is not so easy to catch.

After catching three strings of grasshoppers, Lian Man'er and Lian Ye'er went into the field to dig wild vegetables. When they were about to fill a basket, they met Erya, Chunni, and Chunyan.

The little girls greeted each other and came out of the field together.

"It's still early, let's go home again." The second girl said.

The sun was not yet shining, there was a breeze blowing slowly, the fragrance of grass mixed with huā incense, even Man'er was not in a hurry to go home, a few little girls sat on the ground, chattering and talking.

"Man'er, Ye'er, why did you two come down to the field to dig wild vegetables? Isn't your uncle going to be an official? A little girl looked at Lian Man'er and Lian Ye'er and asked out loud.

Lian Man'er and Lian Ye'er glanced at each other.

"I don't understand what is an official or not. When you are an official, you don't eat or work? Besides, it's my uncle who wants to be an official, and we don't deserve it. Lian Man'er said.

"Man'er, even if your uncle is not an official, your family is rich now, and you still need to work in the fields?" Another little girl asked aloud.

Most of the children of the Zhuang family are straightforward and fast-talking.

"You have to work to make money." Lian Man'er smiled.

"Man'er, my mother said that I was lazy, and always asked me to learn from you, saying that you look at other people's Man'er, whether people have money in their families, and they don't do all kinds of work." Another little girl giggled.

"What money does my family have, there are many places where my family has money. My brother and my brother were both in school. Lian Man'er just said a word, and didn't say anything more. She knew that now in the eyes of the villagers, her family was rich.

"Studying is huā money." A little girl nodded.

"Man'er, has your aunt's matter been decided?" Er Ya leaned over Lian Man'er and asked in a low voice. !!