Chapter 79: Raising Chickens and Feeding Pigs (Pink 10 Plus Update)
After signing a contract with the money shopkeeper to make tea and sell tea, with the silver in her hand, Cui'er's heart was unprecedentedly steady, and she went to the cave every three days to pick tea, take care of the newly transplanted tea saplings, and spend the rest of her time at home to take care of Lian Qingshan and the children.
After breakfast was eaten that day, after Cui'er took the girl to clean up the house and kitchen, she saw Lian Qingshan coming into the house from outside with beads of sweat.
"Cui'er, you said that the matter of expanding the chicken pen has been done, go back to the backyard and take a look, is such a big chicken pen enough." Lian Qingshan said while wiping his sweat with his sleeve.
"Where are you in such a hurry, I told you last night that you finished it today." Cui'er looked at Lian Qingshan's appearance, said quite distressedly, hurriedly threw a towel, and handed it to Lian Qingshan to wipe his sweat.
"It's okay at home anyway, it's just a little bit of effort." Since Lian Qingshan's legs and feet have healed, it seems that he wants to make up for all the work that he has left behind, and he has been finding things to do for himself all day long.
Even Qingshan often gets up early in the morning, sweeps the front yard with a broom without breakfast, and then goes to the vegetable garden in the backyard to pull weeds and water them, tending to the vegetables in the vegetable garden, or cleaning the chicken manure in the chicken pen and the like, all of which are gathered outside the wall to pile up manure.
By the time Cui'er asked Lian Qingshan to eat, he had already cleaned up the front yard and the backyard, accompanied Cui'er to the mountain to pick tea, transplant tea seedlings or something, and when he came back, he didn't forget to beat some willow branches, and make things up after cleaning.
"Rest for a while, I got so many bundles of wicker back yesterday, I'm really afraid you're tired." Cui'er scooped a bowl of water for Lian Qingshan, looked at his face red from the sun, and couldn't help but persuade.
"Okay, it's okay now, I'll stay in the house for a while, you can rest for a while. The sun is shining outside. Lian Qingshan nodded in response, took the cold boiled water in Cui'er's hand, and drank it cleanly.
"Okay, I'll finish feeding the chickens. I came back to rest, and when it was hot, I changed my old clothes and made you two summer shirts. As she spoke, Cui'er took out a basin from the edge of the stove, which was full of chopped vegetable leaves, and some chicken food mixed with rice and chaff husks.
Cui'er walked to the backyard with a chicken food basin, and the big girl followed with great interest, with two pigtails on her head, following her bouncing movements. The pigtails are curled and curled, lively and cute tight.
Cui'er came to the backyard and saw Lian Qingshan's newly built chicken pen at a glance, which was about the size of a house and twice as big as before. Where the chicken pen is close to the walls on both sides. There are two rows of chicken cages, about one zhang long and half a zhang wide, enough for sixty chickens to live in.
The chicken coop is about a foot high from the ground, and the suspended part is made of wooden planks to form a small slope, and at this time, the chickens in the chicken pen are walking up and down the small slope, clucking and clucking. There are even more daring chickens, somehow fluttering to the top of the chicken pen, and they are standing proudly on top, like a general of Desheng.
"Mother, mother...... Let me feed the chickens, let me feed the chickens! The big girl kept following Cui'er to the backyard. Seeing Daddy's newly built chicken pen, his eyes widened with curiosity, and he asked to work lively.
"Okay, let you feed the chickens!" Cui'er put the chicken food pot outside the chicken pen and watched Lian Qingshan put two big stones here. It's all smooth and steady, just one piece of the chicken food pot, and the other piece for the big girl to step on, scooping the chicken food with a scoop to feed the chickens.
"Coo-coo......" Cui'er cooed into the chicken pen, looking at the chickens that had grown bigger than her palm, they all ran over when they heard the sound, and smiled and asked the big girl to scoop the chickens and feed the chickens.
In fact, why she cooed when feeding the chickens, Cui'er didn't know, but when she was a child at her grandmother's house, her grandmother fed the chickens like this, so Cui'er didn't think much about why she kept doing it. Now it has become a habit to see your own chickens, as long as they coo, they will run over, Cui'er thinks this method is very effective, at least if the chickens accidentally run out in the future, as long as they call like this, they will come back.
The big girl stood on the stone, carefully poured the chicken food into the chicken food trough with a scoop, and watched the chickens that had grown up a lot compete for food, and giggled happily, "Mother, when do you say these chickens will grow up and lay eggs?" ”
"Well, they're too young to lay eggs yet, and when they're that big, they should be able to start laying eggs." Cui'er measured the size of an adult hen with her hand and said to the big girl.
"It's so big...... the big girl stood on tiptoe and approached Cui'er's hand, measured the size of the egg that was said to be able to lay eggs, and then looked at the size of the chick in front of her, frowning slightly, "It looks like it's going to be a long time." ”
Cui'er saw that the big girl was a little discouraged, smiled at her and said, "Don't worry, big girl, think about how long it has been since the chicks came to our house, they have grown from such a little bit to such a big now, and it won't take until the autumn to make our chicks lay eggs!" Cui'er first compared the size of the egg with her hand, and then compared it, and now the size of the chicken in the house, and said to the big girl.
"Well, that's true!" The girl's eyes lit up when she heard this, she remembered what the chicken cub looked like when she was a child, and then looked at it and saw that it was now the size of her father's palm, and this chick had really grown up a lot! The big girl's heart relaxed, happily fed the chickens, and then muttered to the chickens that she didn't know what to say, and she giggled and laughed non-stop.
Cui'er didn't disturb the big girl's self-amusement, but stood on the edge of the wall, looked at the empty wall on the other side, and thought about whether to raise a pig or something, cut a place as big as a chicken pen in the corner of the wall, and then build a pigsty with stones on the mountain, and then build a pig food trough, and then catch two piglets...... When it is winter, there are chickens and pigs before it is called the New Year!
Cui'er was thinking about it, when she suddenly heard someone calling herself at the door, and the voice was very familiar, as if it was the sister-in-law of Yinhuan in the village.
"Big girl, go back to the house after feeding the chickens, and my mother will go to the door to take a look, it seems that your Aunt Yinhuan is here." Cui'er explained to the girl, and walked to the front yard, and before she reached the gate, she heard Yinhuan's loud voice.
"Cui'er, Cui'er, open the door quickly, there is something good!" Yinhuan said to Cui'er urgently, her temper is like this. When she thought of something, she was impatient, and when Cui'er opened the door, even Qingshan was shocked and walked out of the house.
"Sister-in-law of the Silver Ring is here!" Lian Qingshan is not good at dealing with women. He stood in front of the door and said hello, and there was no follow-up, but fortunately, Yinhuan was very arrogant, and he didn't go to his heart at all, and pulled Cui'er to speak.
"Sister Yinhuan, what's wrong with you, what's the good thing about this?" Cui'er looked at Yinhuan with an excited face, as if to say ask me, ask me, ask me, and asked with a smile.
"Let me tell you, the sow of the second dog's family next door to our house is holding the piglets. There are eight in total, they can't raise so much, they say they want to sell it, I plan to bring two back to feed, are you interested. Get two back, too? Their little piglets are strong, and they are screaming loudly. Yinhuan excitedly took Cui'er's hand and said.
"Little piglet?" As soon as Cui'er heard this, her eyes lit up, she still wanted to raise pigs just now, and she had little piglets to sell, which was really good.
"What's the matter, are you interested?" Silver Ring looked at Cui'er like this. knew that Cui'er wanted to raise it, so she hurriedly persuaded, "Let me tell you, when I was not married, I could raise seven or eight pigs a year, and when a pig was bought, it was a few hundred yuan." When you sell it in winter, you can sell it for three or four taels of silver, and you can still have a lot of pork blood sausage left in your house for the New Year, which is cost-effective. ”
"This thing...... I asked Qingshan...... "Cui'er didn't want to be the master herself, and thanked Yinhuan." He said that if he wanted to raise pigs, he would go to her house to find her.
"Okay, then I'll go back first, our family is building a pigsty at home, I have to go back to help!" After Yinhuan finished speaking, he ran away in a hurry.
Cui'er stood in place and turned her head to look at Lian Qingshan, "Qingshan, is it okay for us to raise pigs?" Cui'er's eyes were extremely bright, with a little expectation, so that even Qingshan's heart softened into a puddle of water.
"Good!" Lian Qingshan nodded subconsciously, but it just took a little more effort, Cui'er likes it, just do more work by herself, "If you like it, let's raise it, let's go to the backyard and take a look, let's build a pigsty." ”
"Aoyama, you're so nice!" For Lian Qingshan's unconditional promise, Cui'er's heart was very warm, she walked two steps quickly to Lian Qingshan's side, and went to the backyard side by side with him.
Because of the decision, the two of them were not slow, because they were going to raise at least three pigs, and even Qingshan was busy building a pigsty in the backyard, so he was going to make a big pigsty and a small pigsty. The small pigsty is used just now, and when the pigs are big, when they are divided into captives, they can be put a few into the big pen, so even Qingshan is ready to start the small pigsty first.
"Qingshan, why don't we go to Sister Yinhuan's house together, you can help them build the pigsty first, and then get our family when you come back?" Cui'er was about to go out to Yinhuan's house with a string of money, and when she saw Lian Qingshan measuring the place in the backyard, she said with a move in her heart.
"Okay, you wait for me for a while, I'll wash my face and we'll go over." Lian Qingshan heard Cui'er's words, nodded, went into the house to wash his face, and with Cui'er's help, cleaned up his body, and the husband and wife left the big girl at home to take care of Xiaohu and walked to Yinhuan's house.
Buying piglets is not like buying something else, it is a big cost and a big profit, the price of a piglet is a lot, you have to carefully pick if you buy it, if the breed is not good and can't grow fat, it will be a big loss.
Yinhuan was naturally very happy when she saw Cui'er coming, and while beckoning Cui'er to see the little piglets, she took out a plate of hairy food and handed it to Cui'er, "I planted it myself at home, I planted it early in the spring, and now I can eat it." ”
"When I come to your house, there is really something delicious!" Cui'er said with a smile while plucking hair from the sunflower's flower plate and eating it, and suddenly saw a little doll at the door, opened the door curtain and secretly looked there, and couldn't help beckoning to him, "Little Zhuangzhuang, come to Aunt Cui~" This little doll is the son of Yinhuan, who is three years old, and his name is Zhuangzi.
"You, if you like a child, give birth to one quickly!" Yinhuan looked at Cui'er holding Zhuang Zhuang and didn't let go, and said with a smile.
"Okay, okay, I know that your heart and liver are reluctant to give me a hug, don't talk about my eyes, I have a big girl and a little tiger, I can't go to the piglet!" Cui'er said as she pushed Zhuang Zhuang back into Yinhuan's arms, and got up to see the piglets.
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