Chapter 86: Auntie's Troubles
Wang Dameng looks like a fierce Zhang Fei, but his personality is very delicate. After he was told by Ye Yuan, he immediately went back to the village and explained door to door, what did he explain? The feed can only be fed separately for two or three hens, and other chickens, so that the effect can be seen. At that time, the rural hen was considered a major asset, so he agreed to it as soon as he explained it, after all, everyone wanted the hen to lay a few more eggs, didn't he?
There were a total of twenty-five tenants, and at this time, there were not usually three or five people in the households, and the rule at that time was that the parents were there, and there was no separation of families. As a result, some households are as high as one or twenty people, and there are more chickens naturally raised by more people, but the feed given by the owner is limited! If you can eat a group of chickens, I'm afraid that you will eat them in two days, where can you see any effect.
This is where Yunxi they have no experience, they didn't expect this problem at all, fortunately, this Wang Dameng is more reliable, otherwise Yunxi's breeding industry will be stranded for a while.
There is no doubt about the effect of earthworm feeding chickens, and when the tenants soon found out, the hens, who were lazy in winter, proudly raised their voices again and sang cackling, which made their doubts immediately put down, this thing really works.
The village was about to explode, the daughters-in-law of each family got together to exchange information about their chickens, and the men also talked about it, although raising chickens has always been the business of the elderly and children in the family, but if the benefits are considerable, they don't mind going into battle in person.
Therefore, from time to time, someone came to Ye's house to inquire about chicken feed, and Ye Fu Yelu took the trouble to explain to people that chicken feed can be owed on credit first, and when the chicken grows up and lays eggs, it is not too late to settle. He led them to see their chickens and eggs, the chickens of the Ye family have eaten feed for a long time, and naturally their feathers are bright and chubby, and even the eggs are not small.
Although the Ye family's livestock and people live in a different yard, there are still many more people visiting the house. Yunkai Yunxiao couldn't read in the front yard, so he simply took the books and ran to the backyard Yunjin's house early in the morning, this is really, I am worried when no one is visiting the door, and it is also a worry when there are many people in this door.
This year, when the Zhang family left, they specially explained that they would not let the Lin family go back to their parents' house, they had lived in the county seat for fifteen and came to live, and the aunt who lived in Youzhou City also sent someone to say that the mother-in-law was not in good health and wanted to serve the sick, and she would not come back, so this year, the Ye family did not need to go to relatives, nor did they have relatives to come. As for the elegant thing of visiting friends, there is nothing to do with Yunxi, so she has a good year beautifully and leisurely, and she has grown a few catties of meat.
Another thing worth mentioning during the Chinese New Year is the storage of ice, which should have been done before the year, but the unlucky things before the year were the same as those discussed in advance, one after another. Yunxi sometimes wondered if his arrival had flapped some butterfly wings, which made the Ye family so unlucky, and the money accumulated over the years was gone for a few days. If you don't hurry up and make money, my sister's dowry will be worried in the future!
Now that the Chinese New Year is over, the bad things have come to an end, and he also handed over the collected evidence to General Yang, and he also agreed, so Ye Yuan finally had the mood to think about the matter of storing ice, plus it was just summer when the Lin family was confinement, in order to prevent his daughter-in-law and children from getting heated, Ye Yuan shook his spirits and found a large group of people to help store ice.
In the years when there is no air conditioning, in the scorching summer, Tibetan ice is the most important means for the ancients to cool off, there is no one, a good place such as a summer resort can not be done with money, but also have to have leisure, so Tibetan ice is the king.
As the name suggests, ice storage is the storage of natural ice cubes in the winter for use in the following summer.
In ancient times, there was no refrigeration equipment, so ice cellars could only be used to store ice. To dig an ice cellar, you have to dig about 10 meters underground. In winter, when the ice freezes three feet, go to the river to pick up the ice, cut it into pieces like square bricks, and then transport all the ice to the ice cellar, layer by layer neatly and neatly, and cover the middle of each layer with wheat straw, so that it is more convenient to take the ice in the next year. Finally, in addition to the wheat straw, it should be covered with soil, which is compacted to preserve and seal. Until the summer, take the ice out of it and use it.
This is a very labor-intensive thing, but fortunately, the Ye family is by the river, and the labor at this time is precisely the least valuable, so it is not bad.
Those whose homes are not near the river are more troublesome, and they need to use ox carts and horse-drawn carts to pull the ice, which costs a lot, but the owners who can afford to dig cellars more than ten meters deep don't care about these freight.
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When the Ye family was happy to celebrate the New Year, Yunxi's aunt who was far away in Youzhou was worried.
The so-called mother-in-law is just an excuse for her, but in fact it is because her mother-in-law, Li Zhiyuan's grandmother, actually wants to help her grandson get married. The family she chose will naturally not be her daughter-in-law's maiden niece, but the niece of her eldest daughter-in-law, Wang Ying, whose father is a member of the Ministry of Labor.
Wang Ying originally came back to visit her mother, and she didn't want to stay at Lin's house for a few days, which coincided with Li Zhiyuan's high school Xie Yuan banquet. Li Zhiyuan, who was in the limelight, attracted her attention at that time, and after she went back, she was in a trance and suffered from lovesickness.
And her aunt, who is Li Zhiyuan's eldest aunt, naturally knows what her niece means, because this itself is her intentional arrangement. There is a solution in the fourth room, it is certain that he will be admitted to the Jinshi and become an official in the future, he is already at odds with the Ye family, if he lets Li Zhiyuan marry his uncle's cousin, then it will not be difficult for him to get rid of it in the future? But if he marries his niece, it will be different, although Wang Ying's mother and her are not from the same belly, but they are also a father, relatives, relatives, just kiss when you go, it's better than that Ye Yunjin.
In this way, she went to her mother-in-law and told her mother-in-law how good her niece was and how her father was a big official. The old lady who came and went was naturally tempted, so she asked Old Man Lin to find a matchmaker to go to Wang's house to propose marriage, but the old man was unwilling, and the old couple made trouble twice, which made Aunt Ye hear the news. If it weren't for the fact that the Wang family was far away in the capital, it is estimated that the old lady would have asked the matchmaker herself to get things done.
It stands to reason that Wang Ying has a good appearance, and she is also generous and polite, her father is still an official, and her family background and appearance are worthy of Li Zhiyuan, who was born in a business. However, Aunt Ye had long planned to marry her younger brother, and she had already passed her anger verbally, and now if she hires a little lady from another family, this sister-brother relationship may also come to an end.
Moreover, Aunt Ye has an unspeakable reason, that is, Wang Ying is her sister-in-law's niece, and her sister-in-law has been pressing her for one or two decades, and finally World War II is promising, so Aunt Ye raised her eyebrows, but if she hires her niece, won't she have no sister-in-law to press? Take Wang Ying from the family of the eunuchs, can she still move her mother-in-law's score?
Therefore, she was strongly opposed, but fortunately, her husband was still with her, thinking that she could not be treacherous and act as a villain. Parents are all against it, and it is naturally difficult for grandma to insist, so she has to give up. However, Aunt Ye's greetings have increased, and the number of times she has been called has also increased, so she said that she was sick and couldn't go out when she was depressed. said that she couldn't go back to her parents' house when she was sick, but she was afraid that Ye Yuan would come to see her in the cold, so she simply said that her mother-in-law was sick, and this little trick made her happy for a few minutes.