Several members of the Ye family happily watched the New Year in the main courtyard, and the subordinates of the Ye family also gathered happily in the small courtyard of the back room, but He Yunniang was secretly sad in the backyard alone.

At the beginning, the Lin family naturally kept her to keep the New Year together, but she didn't want to be an outsider to mix in other people's reunions, and then Yunjin Yunxi called again, but she was already crying and her eyes were red and embarrassed to go out.

At this moment, she turned off the lights and lay on the bed, imagining the Ye family sitting around, laughing and laughing, and her heart was mixed. At this time last year, she and her father, mother, sister-in-law and little nephew were also so happy, but this year it has become like this, the gambling debts have been paid off, and my brother should have gone home, right? I don't know if my father's health is good? And the little nephew doesn't know if there are any new clothes for the New Year?

After thinking about this, she thought about the Lin family and Lin Dongyang, and then she became happy, in her education, whether a woman is happy or not depends on two men, her father and her future husband, and these two people are good to themselves.

He Yunniang was happy for a while and sad for a while, until she heard the sound of Yunjin returning to the room, and fell asleep in a daze.

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Whether the world is happy or not, the new year is coming as scheduled.

Yunxi woke up to the sound of firecrackers, turned over and continued to sleep, until Yunjin directly folded her quilt, she got up helplessly, she thought it would not be a problem to stay up until twelve o'clock last night, but she didn't know when she fell asleep, but it was later than Yunkai, hehe, Yunxi smiled bitterly, the energy of this seven-year-old child seems to be only comparable to that of six-year-old Yunkai.

On this day, everyone in the Ye family must not sleep lazy, because early in the morning, someone came to pay New Year's greetings.

Because Ye Yuan has a gentle temper and has always been kind to children, the Ye family was very lonely when they first moved in, but after Yunjin was born, he could run, jump and make friends, and the children who occasionally came to pay New Year's greetings actually got 50 Wen New Year's money, you must know that this year, an adult does a day's work for 30 Wen, and even 20 Wen and 15 Wen have a lot of work. These children naturally want to go back to show off, and then other children are also bold to come to pay New Year's greetings, Ye Yuan has one count, and they all give 50 Wen New Year's money, and then, every year after that, the children and adults in the village basically have to come to visit, not for anything else, just because Ye Yuan is generous and has New Year's money.

Therefore, the people of the Ye family must not get up late on the first day of the Lunar New Year, otherwise they will not wait for you to get up. There are a bunch of New Year's greetings, which is very bad, and the reputation of laziness will spread if you are not careful. So Yunxi didn't dare to resist and got up obediently.

After washing his face with hot water, Yunxi still felt a little confused, but it was easy not to be confused, and he stood in the yard for a while and immediately sobered up.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, dry rice (the northern term for rice) is eaten, served with cold cabbage heart and vegetarian stir-fried radish strips. The morning of the first day of the new year is called the "Festival of the Gods", and all the gods will come out to pay their respects, so in order to show respect, you can't eat meat, you can only eat vegetarian.

As now, unless you have to take medicine for a serious illness, general supplements are very taboo, and it is best not to take them if you can. It is said that if you eat porridge this meal, you will become poor, so you must eat dry rice on the morning of the first day of the new year, so that the family will be rich all year round. In ancient times, the grain production was very low, and there was not much left after paying taxes, so being able to eat dry rice at a time was the most simple wish of the ancient people.

This year, the Ye family is more lively than in previous years, because not only do children have snacks to eat and New Year's money, but adults also get unexpected gifts - a bag of chicken feed. This is what Yunxi suggested last night, although this thing is small, it reproduces very quickly, the Ye family has more than a dozen cow dung, and there are a lot of cow dung every day, so there are more and more dry dragons, and now the Ye family has saved two or three hundred catties of dry ground dragon powder.

Although this thing is good to feed chickens, but because they don't want people to know what it is, it is a bit difficult to promote, so Yunxi suggests that each family send a few catties first, free, no money, and when they have tried it themselves, they should ask for more feed and more chickens.

"Boss, this is for us to feed the chickens?"

"Boss, what is this?"

"Owner, can this thing replace food?"

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The tenants were talking about all kinds of questions, and they couldn't believe that they could

Ye Yuan waved his hand, suppressed his voice, and said: "This is a special chicken feed, the cost is not high, equivalent to three points of grain, but the effect is better than feeding food, not only does it grow faster, but it also has more points." Speaking of this, Ye Yuan paused, and said: "My chickens have been eating for a while, and they are much more diligent in laying eggs in winter." But it's not up to me to decide whether this thing is good or not, so let's give each family five catties first, you go back and try it, if you think the effect is good, we can vigorously develop chicken breeding next year. ”

"Boss, this feed is cheaper than grain?"

Everyone's biggest concern is really the price, and this is the first thing to ask.

"What the owner said is true." Ye Fu stood up and said, "Let's take the cheapest grain as an example, corn coarse grain, a pound will cost eight or nine yuan, this feed, the cost is only three yuan, which is much more cost-effective than feeding grain." ”

"Really? Is there such a good thing? ”

"That is, it is cheaper than food and can grow faster than food, and lay more eggs?"

Many people are skeptical, but skepticism is skepticism, and they are still willing to go back and try things that don't need money.

"Let's go back and try it first, the chickens are short of something to eat, and I'm thinking about whether to kill them first and raise them in the spring." An aunt said she wanted to try it.

Those who came with her immediately responded, "Yes, try it first, it's good to save some food." ”

And just like that, everyone happily went back with their bags. Leave the children who are unwilling to go, eat and drink in the Ye family, usually they don't come much, not to mention that the children of the Ye family want to study and have no time to play, even themselves, it is rare to have free, the children of the poor are in charge early, the younger ones will feed the chickens and pigs, cut the grass and collect firewood, take the younger brothers and sisters, and the older ones will go to the field to weed and harvest, and they have to do any work. Even in winter, when there is no work, you can't go out to play every day, you are afraid of the cold, you must know that the ancient severe cold is not good to kill people. , playing with them is a luxury.

Ye Yuan left a burly man with a mighty appearance to speak, and Yunxi remembered that he was the same Wang Dameng who divided the wild boar last time. His prestige among the tenants was relatively high, and he was in the prime of life. Ye Yuan planned to ask him to help pay attention to the situation of the tenants raising chickens and prepare for large-scale chicken raising in the spring.

Although Wang Dameng was tall and rude, but his mind was delicate, he immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and patted his chest to promise that if the chicken feed was really good, he would definitely mobilize more people in the village to raise chickens.

Ye Yuan nodded and admonished. He is not worried that this feed will be bad at all, and the food is more nutritious than the benefits of insects to chickens? He was more worried that the tenants would kill all the chickens during the New Year, and that there would be no hens to hatch their chicks next year.

Ye Yuan felt a little headache when he thought that Yunxi wanted to raise three thousand chickens, he was not worried that he would not be able to buy chickens, he was afraid that too many chickens would give birth to chicken plague. He discussed it with Ye Fu, and he must go to Lang Zhong to prescribe some medicine for prevention, although it is a bit strange for chickens to take medicine, but it is also stronger than when chicken plague comes, and it is dead.

Ye Yuan and Ye Fu are busy here, Yunxi, who has given opinions, is very idle, and Yunkai Fu Junzhuo, as well as Li Sanjie in the village and other friends, eating small snacks, drinking chrysanthemum tea, roasting red tongtong charcoal fire, teasing puppy Qian Qian, saying some childish words, one word, beauty, two words, very beautiful, three words, beautiful.