Chapter Twenty-Five: Placing the Chicks
Lin Zhu, who came back from the town, asked Lin Dazhu to help her deliver the cage containing the chickens to the gate of the courtyard. After thanking him, he watched Lin Dazhu leave, and then Lin Zhu took out the meat and stick bones in the space, as well as some rapeseed and put it in the back.
Before rushing to the market, Lin Zhu asked Aunt Li to come over and flip through the wolfberries when she was free, for fear that the secrets of the space would be exposed, so Lin Zhu took out the things he bought from the space first. Seeing that the courtyard door was open, he knew that Aunt Li was there, Lin Zhu entered the door and put down the back first, and then moved the cage containing the chickens into the courtyard, and was seen by Aunt Li who had just come out of the West Wing, seeing her reluctant appearance, Aunt Li took over and moved the cage into the courtyard.
"I bought so many chickens," Aunt Li counted the chickens in the cage, "Yes, they all look quite energetic, you picked them very well." "There are fifteen left, and the person gave it a little cheaper, so he bought them all back, auntie, you can help me take a look, where can I put it?" Lin Zhu found that the yard was too big, and it was okay to raise it free-range, but he was afraid that the chickens would eat all the vegetables planted.
"You can put it anywhere, that is, you have to fence the vegetable field first, or you can make a chicken coop in the corner, and then fence it up, and keep the chickens there, and save your little black beans from making trouble in the chickens." Aunt Li looked at Lin Zhu's yard, a large piece of land was deserted, "You can tidy up these empty places, plant some vegetables, you can't eat them all, you can take out the land and sell it, don't waste such a big land." ”
"You and I have been together, and today I also bought some vegetable seeds and prepared to plant them." Lin Zhu took out the cabbage and spinach seeds he bought back and showed them to Aunt Li. "Well, this cabbage and spinach can be planted now, and they can grow in winter." Aunt Li nodded, "Xiaozhu, you know a lot of Taoism, and you also know Taoism when you can grow vegetables at this time." "Actually, I don't know about it, I only found out about it when I asked the guys in the seed store. It's a shame that I'm looking at these places empty, too. ”
Lin Zhu took the back to the house and put it away, and went to the west wing with Aunt Li to see the situation of the wolfberry. Aunt Li went back first because of a lot of family affairs.
Lin Zhu, who was alone at home, washed the stick bones first, added most of the pot of water to the pot, put ginger slices and Sichuan pepper star anise, and cooked the soup directly. Gradually, the aroma of the bone broth boiled out, and the black beans that had been playing in the yard also ran to the kitchen door and shouted at Lin Zhu. For a long time, most of the black beans have bone broth in their food, but they were a little unaccustomed to eating it after a break two days ago, and now the fresh bone broth is boiling, and it is excitedly walking on its little short legs and circling around the kitchen door.
"Okay, I'll give you something to eat later." Lin Zhu smiled and drove the black beans away, but the black beans who were already drooling from the bone broth fragrance, how could it be so easy to leave, Lin Zhu had to let it sit on the side, not allowed to move, but I didn't expect it to be really obedient, sitting motionless at the kitchen door and waiting.
The bone broth boiled for a longer time and was delicious, about an hour later, the soup was ready, and the black beans were soaked in some leftovers in the morning, and Lin Zhu boiled a bowl of noodles with bone broth and added an egg. This solved the lunch of one person and one dog.
After lunch, Lin Zhu was ready to clean up the nest for the chickens. She first cleaned up the weeds in the east corner, found some old bamboo poles from the yard, circled a fence wall, and released the chicks out of the cage. Lin Zhu found a larger bowl from the kitchen, poured some water into it, and put it in the chicken pen. The chickens gathered around to drink, and she took some old cabbage leaves from the vegetable patch, chopped them up, and scattered them on the ground for them to eat.
Looking at the cheerful appearance of the chickens, Lin Zhu instantly felt that life was really beautiful. There is a big yard, a few houses, and a mountain, and if it is changed to modern times, she is a little rich woman. But in an unknown dynasty, you can't do any farmhouse, day trip to the countryside and the like, just imagine which rich and powerful person in ancient times didn't build his house like a garden, who didn't have a village in the countryside, not to mention anything else, the grain can always solve by itself.
Speaking of which, what Lin Zhu has is not as good as the village chief's family, just a number of small green mountains, but there is no valuable output on the mountain, so she finally found a wolfberry that can be sold for money, and in order to have a good relationship with the village chief's family, she also shared half of his family. Whether there is anything else that can be sold remains to be further explored by Lin Zhu.
Lin Zhu found some straw and put it in the corner of the chicken pen, as a place for the chickens to rest, and he was supposed to build a chicken coop, but Lin Zhu couldn't, so he could only make up for it first.
After solving the problem of chickens, Lin Zhu began to clean up the weeds in the yard, because it has been deserted, the weeds grow very high, and they are also very tough, and it is very difficult to dial it up, Lin Zhu used all his strength, and it took half a day to clean up a small half of the place, first pick out the wild vegetables that the chickens can eat, and then throw the remaining weeds and wild vegetables that do not know the way into the big pit behind the latrine in the backyard, saying that it is a big pit, in fact, it is a simple septic tank, the pit is not big, and it is covered with a straw curtain, and the taste is not very obvious. Since Lin Zhu found out about this, he threw some household garbage inside.
After tidying up for a while, Lin Zhu was really tired, so he had to stop first, and clean up the rest later. After resting for a while, I found a spade-like farm tool, turned over the ground, and the ground was full of clods, and some grass roots and the like, there was no good way, I could only use a spade to smash it a little bit, and then pick up the grass roots, this work was also very tiring, Lin Zhu's small body really couldn't stand it. Seeing that it was getting late, I cleaned up, went back to the house to change my clothes, and went to make dinner.
After dinner, Lin Zhu boiled some water for herself, took a bath, the hot water took away most of her day's fatigue, and used some bath beans she bought before, in Lin Zhu's opinion, although these have various functions as those used before, at least they are all natural, and they also exude a faint fragrance. Lin Zhu felt very satisfied.
After taking a shower, it was already late and it was all dark. In order to save, Lin Zhu didn't light candles, and there was no entertainment anyway, and she just wanted to sleep well after a tired day. After calming down the black beans, Lin Zhu lay on the bed and soon fell asleep. After a while, there was a thin snoring sound.
At this time, in a small county town two or three hundred miles away from Baihe Town, in a small inn, there was a female guest who was furious. "It was the blind thief who stole the old lady's silver." It was the Wang family who left Lin Zhu alone in Linjia Village. After five or six days on the road, Wang found that her bracelet and purse were gone, which made her extremely distressed, and she kept cursing the thief who stole her money in the inn, but she never dreamed that the money had already arrived in Lin Zhu's hands.