Although they are all suspicious, but the brothers of the Wan family are not small experts in farming, they are really uncertain about this matter, and they set their eyes on the breeding area, Wan Niansong asked: "Now there are more than 400 pigs in the village, how can three big houses be enough?" ”

Huang Dalang also smiled and asked: "Dare to ask uncle, first the weather is cold, but the pigs are all raised in the village circle?" ”

"Exactly! Originally, there was only one circle, which could raise 100 heads, and later two more circles were added. Wan Nianzhu replied, still puzzled: "But the circle in the village, each one is much bigger than this big house." ”

Huang Dalang also said bluntly: "When the pigsty in the village also raises pigs and sows, and the breeding area is dedicated to raising piglets, this square space can raise 30 piglets in two months, 20 pigs in March, and 10 pigs in June. ”

"What about the sheep?" Wan Nianqing thought that Huang Dalang didn't mention the sheep, and it didn't seem to be marked on the map, so he naturally asked.

Huang Dalang pointed to an area in the northwest direction on the big map with his hand and said: "I won't raise it this year, but I will change the more than 500 acres of dry land here to alfalfa." ”

Subsequently, Huang Dalang also explained his original plan for Lianzhuang again.

The black-haired pork and Yangtze River fish in Huangzhou are actually within Huang Dalang's calculations, and he is not a person who is ambitious, so the earliest plan is quite conservative. According to his concept, in the first phase of Zhuangzi's project, there were 200 female pigs and 300 piglets, and 50 piglets could be slaughtered every month in a six-month feeding cycle.

The insufficient part naturally depends on the free-range breeding of the people, and besides, there has never been a shortage of pork near Huangzhou in the past few hundred years, right?

Let's talk about the Yangtze River fish cheap, now in addition to some gluttonous people like to eat real bream can also be sold for some price, the Yangtze River carp, crucian carp, pomfret and ordinary bream prices are very cheap, palm-sized bream is only a few pennies, three or four catties of fat crucian carp is only a dozen cents, so in order to cover the production of snow salt, it is reasonable to erect a fish bream workshop.

Moreover, although Wanjia Zhuangzi is more than 40 miles away from Huangzhou, it can be five miles to the east is to lift the water, and the fishermen on the river can directly drive the boat along the water to come upstream, and it is not troublesome to collect fish, and the production of fish bream about 10,000 catties a month should be easily guaranteed.

But these are all estimates, even if you can really slaughter 50 pigs and buy 10,000 catties of fresh fish every month, you must have enough cans to organize production, and nothing can be taken for granted.

It took half a day for Huang Dalang to talk to the three of Wanjia in detail about Zhuangzi's plan and many details, and then he took the carriage back to Huangzhou.

Along the way, the father-in-law and son-in-law closed their eyes and recuperated, and no one knew whether they were pregnant with a ghost fetus or had nothing to say.

At this time, up and down in Huangzhou, because of Yao Zheng and Yao Yu's up and down, the major murders that occurred in the wild forests outside the city were naturally suppressed, and now only Lord Cao of Zhizhou is scratching his head.

As for the reason for scratching his head, it is that the Privy Council envoy in front of him now has a direct collar and can freely enter and exit the forbidden waist card, since the head of the Ma Kuai Ban who played the government office got this thing from the corpse pile, Cao Zhizhou hid it as if he had obtained it, even if he went to Shouchun and Jiangling Mansion in the official document did not dare to mention this thing.

Although the severed hand and stump seized at the scene were kept as evidence in the workshop, the sleeves of the purple clothes on them had been sent to Bianliang, Tokyo overnight by Cao Zhizhou's servants, and the destination was the Cao family's backer's mansion.

"Alas! It's a blessing or a curse, it's a curse that can't be avoided! Cao Zhizhou looked at the waist card on the table with a bitter face, glanced at the scribe beside him, and asked, "Wenfu, how are you?" ”

The scribe was about forty years old, his appearance was simple and indescribable, his chin was covered with goat's beard, and after a pair of triangular squinting eyes widened slightly, he smiled and said in a pure and authentic Tokyo Bianliang accent: "Don't worry, Dong Weng, it's just a fairy fight!" The city gate is inherently in danger of fire, but it has nothing to do with Dong Weng! ”

"Oh? Why is that? Cao Zhizhou put on a straight face, come and see this Wenfu, his relatives are Bianliangzi, surnamed Zhao Mingchun Wenfu, more than 20 years ago when Cao Zhizhou went to Beijing to take the exam, he was accepted as a disciple, and now he is the steward of the Cao family's inner house and the master in the public house.

Zhao Chun said with a smile: "The perpetrator used a forbidden weapon, and he killed the forbidden army, and the reason why he chose to be outside the city was because he didn't want to embarrass Dong Weng." As for the danger of fire at the city gate, the way to rescue it is to be determined in the city! You might as well wait for the news of Bianliang before making plans! ”

Cao Zhizhou slapped his hands when he heard this, then swept the waist card into a pile of books on the table, and led Zhao Chun away with laughter.

In the following ten days, the Huainan Second Road Punishment Division, the Wuwei Army Detective Post, and the Shouchun Mansion came successively, but they all suppressed the news and acted, and the horses of Huangzhou Mansion were also sent out, searching everywhere for a person with a newly broken arm, and the catchers and archers in the city also increased their vigilance, increased the time for patrolling the city and strengthened the inspection of the people entering and leaving.

But in the undercurrent of all this, the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, diluting everything into invisibility.

In the blink of an eye, the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month is the small year of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In ancient China, there was no such festival as "Xiao Nian", but according to Xiao Nian's activities, the origin of this festival is related to the ancient festival of worshipping the god of the stove. The festival of sacrificing to the god of the stove has a long history, and it is also recorded in the Analects, and some historical sources believe that the god of the stove began to be sacrificed from the Xia Dynasty.

In ancient times, the date of worship to the god of the stove was on the day of the wax, according to the record of "Shuowen Jiezi", "after the winter solstice, the three days of the sacrifice to the gods." In other words, the date is the third day after the winter solstice. However, in the Southern Dynasty, the day of worship to the god of the stove was changed to December 8, which coincided with the Laba Festival.

By the Song Dynasty, there was already a prototype of the small year, which was called "Jiaonian" in the Northern Song Dynasty and "Xiaojie Night" in the Southern Song Dynasty.

"Tokyo Menghualu" records: "(December) 24th New Year", on this day, the people of Bianliang, Tokyo will invite the monks to recite the scriptures, prepare wine, fruits, dishes to send the gods, and will also go to burn the "family instead of money paper", the picture with the stove horse painted on the stove door, with sake lees to smear the stove door, this act is called "drunk Si Ming", and at night will also light the lamp under the bed, this act is called "light waste".

The customs of the people of Huangzhou in the early years naturally copied Bianliang at this time, but the Huang family and the Yao family had done everything well, but they did not dare to invite the monks to recite the scriptures. Although it is a small year, the old store and the food street are naturally normal business to make money, this morning Huang Dalang led Wan Chunnu and the family to clean up the old, near noon just ready to eat, but listened to the sound of festive gongs and drums outside the door, even if someone knocked on the door and said: "Congratulations to the Huang family Lang, Dong Yuanwai pounced out of the mixed Chun'er in Liuxian Juguan last night, and specially sent Zhou Niangzi to redeem himself and marry the Huang family!" ”