"Cousin, now that my brother and cousin have gone to study at the school, shouldn't we start working on our affairs?" Ma Yingchun met Yu Xin in the courtyard and asked her. "Cousin, what's the matter, I'm preparing to go to the sweet potato field now, and the sweet potatoes have grown very well in the past two days. I just launched a new dish in my store. To use sweet potato vines. Yu Xin led Guo Yu and Guo Cui out.

"Miss Cousin, Miss is very busy today, can you come back if there is anything you can talk about?" Guo Yu asked Ma Yingchun, who was about to step forward and grab Yuxin, who was about to go out.

"Cousin, I'll go with you, let's talk while we walk on the road."

Yu Xin made a gesture of please as she walked out.

"Cousin, you said you want to use this sweet potato vine to cook, and this leaf can also be eaten. You're also planning to sell it at Yipinxuan. Does anyone buy it? ”

"Cousin, please don't doubt my ability, I have already taught my mother how to cook this dish, and you can eat it at noon today."

"Cousin, the sweet potato vine is not like you to pull down the whole vine, to you that sweet potato must not be torn to death by you, to pick the stem of the leaf next to the trunk like this, when you eat the leaves, this leaf can be fed to chickens, can also be fed to other animals. Peel off the strong skin and stir-fry it with the white ** inside, which is extremely fragrant. Yu Xin said with a look on her face.

"Cousin, you said that this sweet potato leaf can also feed chickens, isn't this what I was about to tell you about raising chickens? My brother and they have been in school for so long, and it is time for us to raise chickens on the agenda. The Yunying chicken we discussed at that time, should we raise it? I heard from my mother that we should go back in the next two days. ”

"Well, it's time to put it on the agenda, otherwise, let's buy a hundred chickens first, and raise them slowly! Remember that when it is difficult to distinguish the rooster and the hen, you must separate them as soon as possible, otherwise the Yunying chicken is not Yunying chicken, and the nutrition is not good, and the earthworm that feeds the chicken, it must be chopped and cooked before it can be fed, otherwise it will make you feel upset, but it is troublesome, and the chicken coop must be cleaned. Why don't we buy a hundred chicks and try to raise them at my house first, if you are lazy, you won't stay for a few more days, I will teach you, and then you will go home and raise them. ”

"Cousin, aren't you going to town in a moment? So let's go buy chicken now? Let's start raising it today, and let my uncle and I go to us a big chicken coop. ”

"Cousin, why are you in such a hurry, and you won't be on the spot today, tomorrow the town will be a market, tomorrow let your mother and my mother go together, Changsha 200 chickens, let's, buy them back and feed them, today you are at home, go outside to dig some earthworms in the field, and then let your aunt get some rotten leaves, rotten grass and black soil mixed up in a dark corner of the backlight, and raise earthworms. I'll talk about other things when I come back, I'm very busy now, cousin, please let me go first, and when we're done, we'll talk about it in detail slowly, okay? ”

"Mother, my cousin said, let you go to town with your aunt tomorrow to buy two hundred chicks and come back. This afternoon, we're going to have to feed the earthworms first. Dad, you and your uncle will build a chicken coop in the backyard for us this afternoon, build a bigger one, there are 200 chickens! As soon as Yingchun walked into the courtyard gate, he shouted loudly into the courtyard.

"You're a big girl, what are you bluffing? You can't talk well. Did your cousin tell you how to feed the earthworms? “

"My cousin has already told me that I am using dead leaves and dry branches, mixing some soil, and putting them together, in the shade, so that the soil in the pit can be kept moist, and I am catching some earthworms to raise it."

"You little girl, what are you doing? The service is not reliable, this buy 200 chickens, where is the use to buy in the market, there is not a chicken breeder in Xiaowangzhuang next door, let's go to his house to catch it now? It takes so much effort to run so far. Ma Yulan walked out of the door, answering Ma Yingchun's questions as she walked.

"In charge, his aunt and I are going to catch the little chicken. You and my brother, build the chicken coop in the backyard, remember that the chicken coop has to be separated from the pigsty, don't get one, it's so difficult to serve the yard and there is a big smell, our yard is big, a little farther away from each other. Just put it in the same row, so that the manure can also be collected in one piece, so as not to make a mess all over the yard. There is also our ox cart, Yu Xin has taken it away, you go to the village chief's house to borrow it, and return it to him when it is used up. ”

"I see, I'll borrow an ox cart from the mayor's house for you. Go ahead, be careful on the road. Liu Caogen responded, and hurriedly went out to the village chief's house.

"Slow down, girl, I'll go with you, that chicken baby, you don't have experience, it's better for me to go. Daughter-in-law, you cook at home, and I'll go for you. Your sister, he's also a careless one. I'm relieved when I go, after all, it's two hundred chickens playing, and that's a lot of silver! Mrs. Wang shook the apron in her hand, handed it to her daughter-in-law beside her, and walked out.

"Okay, sister, you and your mother go to buy chicken babies together, I'll cook at noon at home today, you don't care, you drive the ox cart, go early and come back early, and wait for lunch at home." Be careful on the road. ”

"I know, brother and sister, you help cook, I'll go with my mother first. Oops, I forgot, my mother and I can't drive an ox cart, and Wa Ta's father has to give us an ox cart to take us there. The chrysanthemum will fight when we come back, and there is only one person in Yuzhu who can't be busy. ”

"Sister, let's go get busy first, there are two of us in the family, how to arrange for us to discuss it, you two don't care, you can't finish it, and when you come back, you'll be helping."

"Wait for me, I'll go buy a chicken baby too? This time, I followed and went to study hard with my grandmother. In the future, the more we raise chickens, the more I have to learn, otherwise, I will let my cousin compare with my cousin. I couldn't help but panic on my face. ”

"Okay, let's take you slowly, don't always be so angry, the girl's family must learn to be steady." Ma Yulan rarely said two words about her niece.

"You're always so hot and temperamental, you can't learn from your cousin, and your cousin, look at how stable people are like a big girl. If you are always like this, how will you find your in-laws in the future? ”

When Ma Yingchun heard his mother say this about her, her face was flushed with shame, she shook the big braid behind her, and ran to chase after her, Ma Yulan and they went.

"Is his aunt at home? I'm from Liu's shop, and I came to your house to buy chickens to play. Ma Yulan stood at the gate of the courtyard and shouted inside.

"Selling chicken babies, then please come in, I just hatched a few litters of chick babies, but it's not too big, you pick it yourself, how much do you need?" Look at the inside, whether it is enough for you to choose. The sister-in-law who sold the chicken baby came out of the door.

"I don't want too much, I want two hundred, you look at it and pick it for me, I want fewer roosters and more hens."

"That's okay, if you can trust me, I'll help you choose, four cents for a few nights, you want two hundred, a total of eight hundred dollars, do you want the rest?" After Aunt Wang finished speaking, she quickly began to provoke the chicken baby?

"No, you can pick me two hundred chicken babies."

Wang Sheng, who is from the outer department, can jump two hundred wows when he helps the horse, and enlarges the two large bamboo baskets, he adjusts it here, Yuxin's grandmother, over there and picks it up one by one, and thinks that she is quite honest in doing things, and she does her duty in business, so she didn't say anything in the end. gave Aunt Wang 800 yuan, and then took the chicken baby home.

After arriving home, the family was busy again, settling down for the little chick. I used to be busy with this as usual, and I went home for lunch.

"Mother, this is the little chicken baby I bought today, why did I buy it back so quickly, didn't I say that I would buy it in town tomorrow?" Yu Xin returned home and saw the little chicken babies in the backyard and asked her mother.

"This buy a chicken baby, that need to go to the town to buy, we have an aunt in Wangjiazhuang next door, and their family specializes in selling chicken babies. Isn't it much more convenient for us to drive the ox cart to his house than to go to the town. Ma Yulan answered her girl's question while mixing the freshly chopped wild vegetables and millet bran together and feeding the chicks.

"You want the pit where the earthworms are raised to be dug up, and the earthworms have been caught."

"The pit has been dug by your uncle, and it is at the foot of the courtyard wall on the west side, so you can go and see if it is suitable or not, what's wrong?" Hurry up and tell your uncle and ask your uncle to help you get it right. Your cousin will go and catch it, the earthworm is gone, and it is estimated that it will be back soon. ”

"Cousin, you're back, you see that I've played with so many earthworms, is it enough, it's not enough, I'll dig some more" After speaking, he handed a large clay pot in front of Yu Xin.

Yu Xin looked at the densely wriggling earthworms in front of her, and felt a nauseous panic in her heart. Hurriedly looked away from his cousin and said, "That's almost it, you just pour it into that, dig the earthworm pool, cover it with thin soil and rotten leaves, and sprinkle some water." And this just out of the nest of chicks is still a little small, wait for two days, and then feed him earthworms, remember to chop and cook before feeding, otherwise the chicks are easy to get sick. Of course, if a chick baby is born in the future, you want to supplement it with nutrients at the beginning, this kind of protein, you can also dry it, grind it into flour, and feed the chicken feed to the chicks.

"Cousin, what did you say? What is Nutrition? What is protein, you can make it clear. ”

"That's the feed for the chickens, the things for the chickens." Yu Xin replied vaguely, oh my God, I forgot about it when I said it, and I almost got the stuffing when I got the modern words here, but fortunately, my cousin's mind was not on this. It seems that you will really have to talk with brains in the future, and you can't be so reckless.

The two students who returned home in the evening were also very excited to see that the family had bought so many chicks and babies alive, and looked at the thriving scene at home, and the family was full of hope for the future life.