198: Duck farming
There is a fish pond at home, which can almost be said to be empty, and the heart begins to think of other ways, it can't just be empty all the time, it would be too wasteful, if it has been empty like this, it is better to keep it and grow vegetables and sell it for some money.
I couldn't think of any good way for a while, so I could only think of raising ducks.
There are very few ducks in the village, only a few are raised by two families, and basically they are grazed in the river in the village.
Xin'er didn't think about anything else, mainly because he didn't want to empty the fish pond they had spent so many days digging up, and raising ducks just didn't waste it, and they could still lay eggs when they were raised, and the eggs could be eaten by themselves even if they weren't sold, and they could replenish their bodies.
She wasn't going to raise too much, their fish pond was so small, and she was crowded if she raised too much.
To put it bluntly, she just thinks that she can't make much money by raising more ducks, and no one buys duck eggs, they are too fishy, and the price is much worse than eggs.
Moreover, they have never raised ducks, and they don't know what to pay attention to, so it's best to take it slow at first.
Raising ducks is not a big deal, but she still has to discuss with her brother, this family is not her alone, no matter how big or small, he should have the right to know.
"Brother, there are only a few fish in our fish pond, space, I think it's a bit of a waste, I think about it, I'm going to buy a few ducks to raise back, so that the fish pond won't be empty."
Moreover, this duck can still lay eggs when it is raised, and even if we can't lay eggs, we can sell the ducks, or keep them for us to eat, what do you think? ”
After thinking about it, I went directly to Youyi and said.
"Okay, that's up to you."
Youyi didn't have any ideas, he didn't have much thought about these things.
"That's okay, brother, when you go to the county seat tomorrow, you can buy a few ducks and come back, I don't know if it's expensive?"
The last sentence is to ask myself, in the end, they have never raised ducks, and they don't know the price of ducklings.
"I don't know, but it shouldn't be too expensive, how many do you want to buy?"
Youyi thinks it shouldn't be too expensive, the price of the chicken is there, and it won't be expensive anymore.
"We haven't raised it either, the fish pond is not big, I don't want to raise too much, four or five are enough, and I can't swim in the fish pond if I have more, brother, what do you think?"
Since she was going to raise it, she naturally thought about it, and she told him as soon as she asked.
"Well, but I don't want to buy two more, if something happens along the way, it won't be too little."
"Okay, then brother, you can decide for yourself."
"Okay, then I'll see if I can meet it tomorrow."
"Hmm."
The next day, Xin'er got up in the middle of the night to send Youyi out, and before going out, she took fifty copper plates for him to bring.
The money in the family is basically collected by Xin'er, and Youyi himself has some, but most of the head is in Xin'er, and all he has is the pocket money that Xin'er gives every time and a small part of the family's money.
Both of them have pocket money, and it is calculated according to the monthly income, for example, if they sell a total of 100 wen this month, then the two of them can each get 5 or 10 wen pocket money this month, and the rest will be used for family expenses or savings.
This pocket money thing also started last year when they were selling vegetables, and they didn't have some so-called pocket money before.
And the reason for the source of this pocket money is also because of Feng Yuan, he takes pocket money every month, although he didn't tell her how much pocket money he has every month, but Xin'er knows about pocket money.
She is still young, it doesn't matter if she has pocket money or not, but her brother can't, his brother has to go to the county several times a month, he also has his friends, and the most important thing is that he is a man, the pillar of their family, how can he walk alone without money.
Moreover, his brother is not young, fourteen or fifteen years old, and there will always be some places where money is needed.
So, she brought it up to him, but her brother didn't accept that only she had this treatment, so in the end they both had pocket money.
Every time Youyi goes to the county seat to sell cabbage, she will give him money, but basically there is a fixed number, unless there is something she needs to buy, she will give more, such as buying ducks today.
They had agreed before, all the money for the family's expenses would be taken from her, and buying ducks belonged to the family, so naturally they had to take it from her.
Youyi's vegetables are as easy to sell as usual, and after selling the vegetables, he goes directly to the place where the livestock is sold, and the chickens and ducks are all domestic animals, and they are basically sold in a fixed place.
Bad luck, Youyi didn't find the duckling seller that day, so he could only go back empty-handed.
I didn't see the duckling, and Xin'er knew that I hadn't bought it, but I still asked casually, knowing that she hadn't met the duck seller, so she didn't say anything.
Two days later, Youyi went to the county seat to sell vegetables again, and then bought the ducklings back.
Youyi bought a total of six ducks back, and said that he only raised four or five, and Youyi wanted to buy two more for fear of accidents on the way, and later listened to the duck seller in the duck that said that raising ducks had to buy even numbers, saying that it was good to raise something.
In this way, it was six and eight, and he felt that eight was a bit too much, so he bought six and came back.
The ducks I bought back were very small, one duck was about the size of a fist, but the price was not very expensive, one of the three copper plates, and the six of them cost less than twenty copper plates.
After the rest of the money came back, Youyi returned it to Xin'er, which is also a habit in the past two years.
When the ducks were first bought, my heart called them a meticulous, I was afraid that if I didn't pay attention to them, they would be gone, although it didn't cost much to buy these ducks, but it was not money.
Their luck was good, they bought six ducks, and in the end one died, and the remaining five were all alive and well.
The ducks were raised at home before they were slowly released into the water, for fear that they would drown if they were not careful.
The ducklings grow very quickly, and they will be the same after two days, and they will be the same after two days.
When I first bought them, I fed them well, and I also gave them cornmeal every day, knowing that corn is also a staple food in their house, and it is also a good idea to feed them.
After knowing that the ducklings had grown up a little, she added some chopped and chopped vegetable leaves one after another, and when they could go into the water, she only fed them vegetable leaves, and occasionally added a little bran to mix, just like the chickens at home.
Looking at the ducklings that are slowly growing up, the brother and sister are very happy.
I don't know what's going on, but Xin'er always thinks that since the family bought ducks, after the ducks went into the water, the fish in the fish pond have grown a little faster.
However, she soon felt that she was thinking too much and her eyes were glazed.
The days went on slowly.
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