Aunt Chunhua sat back in front of the stove, put the firewood into the stove piece by piece, and said to her daughter gently: "A-Niang knows that you have been looking forward to this chicken for a long time, but Changning and their family do not have a pillar now, your Aunt Yun is a woman, not only to feed two children, but now there is one in the belly, and in the future, the four mouths will have to rely on her to feed, it is really not easy, plus your Aunt Yun and A-Niang have always been good friends, A-Niang also wants to help a little bit." ”

"But, but, ......" Xing'er was still a little unhappy, her voice was pressed in her throat, and she could faintly hear a little crying.

"Okay, okay, A-Niang hasn't forgotten you and your brother, don't look at A-Niang's muscles, in fact, most of them are bone-in-one, you look in the pot, are the ones left with more meat?" Xing'er is still young, although she is one year older than Gu Changning, she is still a child, and the children are all protective of food, Aunt Chunhua saw that she was about to cry angrily, so she had to explain to her in a soft voice.

Xing'er glanced at A-Niang suspiciously, glanced into the pot, and found that it was indeed chicken nuggets with more meat, and the unhappiness in her heart slowly dissipated.

"What A-Niang said is that Ning Ning's family situation is worse now than before, and our family should give her some chicken nuggets." Knowing that A-Niang didn't pick up the large pieces of chicken, Xing'er only had the heart to think about her words after she calmed down, "A-Niang, you don't know, these days Ning Ning goes up the mountain every day to pick up firewood, although she said that it is not for hoarding to sell in winter, but I have discussed it with Shuang'er and Xiaojin, and I still feel that if it is not for hoarding firewood, there is no need to start preparing so much firewood now, we think, it may be that she can't pull it down, so she didn't admit it." ”

Xing'er said and spoke, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said, "By the way, when I went to cut pigweed last time, Ning Ning also went up the mountain with a woodcutter to chop firewood, I thought it was a little strange at the time, there are so many dead branches on the ground, just pick up a few are enough to cook on the fire, where do you need to cut firewood, now think about it, it should be for the winter to hoard firewood!" ”

Aunt Chunhua listened to her daughter's story, sat in front of the stove, and sighed while moving the firewood not to pile too densely in the stove, "It's not surprising, there is no pillar in the family, isn't it that even an eight-year-old child has to find a way to earn money to supplement the family?" ”

"Hmm." Apricot nodded approvingly and did not speak.

"It's good to raise some chickens, and the eggs can be sold for dozens of dollars." Aunt Chunhua thought about Gu Changning's sudden move to raise chickens and said.

The hen that can lay the most eggs can only lay one egg a day, most of them only lay an egg every few days, according to the eggs Gu Changning took from her, it is conservatively estimated that about ten chicks can hatch, even if half of these ten are hens, there are five.

Hens usually have to be raised for half a year to lay eggs, if calculated according to the time of laying eggs every three days, a hen can lay ten eggs a month, which is ten yuan, and five is about fifty yuan.

And the two old hens of the Gu family are still very stable in laying eggs, and each one can have almost twenty eggs in a month, and the two add up to forty, which is equal to forty dollars.

In this way, raising chickens can almost have a penny of silver a month.

Aunt Chunhua's algorithm is similar to what Gu Changning thought, she also estimated that she could have a penny of silver for a month on the way home, although it is not much, it can be regarded as a way to make money, which is much better than not being able to get in and out.

The more Gu Changning thought about it, the more energetic he became, and he walked in the direction of home with the wind under his feet.

When she came home with the bowl of chicken, Gu Huai'an had just returned, she just walked into the yard and saw Gu Huai'an's back disappearing behind the south house, although she was a little strange how he came back half an hour later than usual, but she was in a hurry to tell A-Niang, so she went directly to the kitchen with the chicken, covered it with a bowl, and hurried to A-Niang's house to talk about it.

Yang Huiyun's hand that was threading the needle stopped, sat silently on the couch, and did not answer for a long time.

Seeing this, Gu Changning felt a little uneasy in his heart, and his eyes looked at A-Niang's face carefully, wanting to see something from her face.

After a long time, Yang Huiyun nodded slightly, raised the needle in her hand again, and said, "Since it is Chunhua's kindness, then accept it, and if you have a chance in the future, you will definitely return it." ”

"Got it, A-Niang." Gu Changning answered obediently.

After talking to A-Niang about it, Gu Changning went to the kitchen to cook.

When passing by the courtyard, he suddenly remembered that Gu Huai'an came back half an hour late today, his steps froze, he turned sideways and tilted his head to look at his brother's room, after thinking about it, he still decided not to ask why he returned late, and went directly to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

It's just that her brows are slightly furrowed, and a solemn look is on her soft little face.

She didn't know what her brother's relationship was with those classmates in the school, but from the last time she saw it, it was still more subtle, and her brother shouldn't stay in the school after school, so what was the reason why he came back so late?

However, Gu Changning thought about it and felt that even if his brother was not very popular in the school, there were still two or three acquaintances, right? So it's normal to play with your classmates after school once in a while, right?

After thinking about it, she didn't care about it anymore, and began to wash rice and vegetables, ready to cook.

After making dinner, the family gathered at the dinner table, Yang Huiyun originally wanted to care about her son's situation in the past few days, but after seeing his tiredness, she was stunned, frowned slightly, and said with worry on her face: "But these days I have been copying books so badly, haven't I rested well?" ”

"No, why did A-Niang ask that?" Gu Huai'an looked at Yang Huiyun puzzled, and Gu Changning, who was also surprised, raised his head when he heard this, and looked at Yang Huiyun together.

"I saw that your face seemed a little haggard today, and I thought that you wanted to make more money, and you copied the book more ruthlessly, resulting in a reduction in rest time." Hearing that it wasn't because of copying books, Yang Huiyun asked even more curiously, "Since it's not because of this, how do you feel that you don't look energetic today." ”

Gu Changning's gaze fell on Gu Huai'an's face, and he also frowned slightly.

My brother's face doesn't seem to be as rosy as it used to be.

"It's nothing, A-Niang thinks I'm not in a good state because I'm worried about me." Gu Huaian said with a smile, "Actually, I'm the same as usual, nothing has changed." ”

Yang Huiyun paused and said, "Is that so......"

She felt that what her son said was reasonable, so she stopped thinking and didn't continue to care.

Gu Changning looked at Gu Huai'an suspiciously, with a look in his eyes.

Speaking of which, it seems that my brother has gone out a little earlier in the morning these days......

Gu Huai'an saw that his mother and sister seemed to have dispelled their doubts, and no longer explored the matter, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, picked up the bowl again, and ate quietly.

During this time, the new master was very targeted at him, so that he not only had to go to the school early in the morning to prepare all the things for the lesson, but also left him to clean the school and the yard after school, and in addition to arranging heavy homework for him, he had to check the recitation every day, and if he couldn't memorize it, he would stand and listen to the lecture, basically standing until the end of school.

In the past few days, his energy has not been able to keep up, and he is a little unbearable, so his face looks much dull and haggard, which makes Yang Huiyun see that something is wrong.

He didn't dare to tell his mother and sister about this, for fear that they would be worried, so he supported himself, and now that he was discovered by his mother, he could only prevaricate vaguely.

Because Gu Huai'an didn't study after the news of Gu Shan's death came in the previous life, so no such thing happened, Gu Changning didn't have any suspicions, plus that nest of eggs occupied most of her mind, it was even more difficult to notice Gu Huai'an's abnormality.

After dinner, Gu Huai'an helped clean up the kitchen, and then chatted with his sister for a while as usual before going back to the house to copy books, and Gu Changning also took advantage of this time to take care of the backyard, as well as the nest for the little flower to hatch.

After careful observation by Yang Huiyun, she felt that Xiaohua was more likely to have the spirit of holding the nest than Dahua, and after talking to Gu Changning, she decided that Xiaohua would complete the mission of hatching chicks.

The day passed in such a busy way, and when the first rooster in Xinghua Village began to crow, it was a sign that a new day was coming.

"Brother, why did you leave so early?" Gu Changning got up sleepily, and just as he was about to wash, he saw that Gu Huai'an had already carried his schoolbag, looking like he was going to go out now.

"Well, there is a new master in the school, and the requirements are strict......" Gu Huai'an explained with a smile, his expression was not unusual.

"Oh." Although Gu Changning felt a little strange, he didn't say anything, after all, this was requested by the master.

She stood at the door of her house and watched her brother's back disappear at the end of the village road, then she put her head back into the door, closed the courtyard door, and then moved the firewood stack in the courtyard into the firewood room.

The weather is good these days, every day is sunny and shining, there is no rain, the firewood in the yard is dried very fast, basically a batch of firewood is cut back to dry a batch, to the next chop firewood ready to be exposed to the sun when the previous ones can also be taken back, no matter what, the area of the firewood piled up in the front yard has always remained so much, there is no expansion at all.

After taking all the firewood back to the firewood room, Gu Changning took the seeds of eggplant, white radish and Chinese cabbage to the backyard to sow seeds.

The eggplant matures in about four months, and now it is planted, and it can be harvested around September.

Chinese cabbage is a common vegetable, and it appears on the dinner table almost as often as a staple food, and it is basically the kind of vegetable that is planted after eating in farmers' homes.

However, because Chinese cabbage cannot be cropped continuously, nor can it be rotated with certain vegetables, otherwise the probability of causing pests and diseases increases, so the land that has been harvested Chinese cabbage can only grow other vegetables.

For example, the eggplant seeds she just brought can be planted on the field where the Chinese cabbage has been harvested, while the Chinese cabbage she is ready to plant can only be planted in other ridges.

White radish can only be planted in other soil ridges, because white radish is one of the vegetables that cannot be rotated with Chinese cabbage.