Wen Jin had already thought about it, the second uncle was at home, let's work, he was not energetic enough, but he had to count when he spoke. Wen Jin doesn't have to think about it to know that a pedantic person like Qian Xiancheng can make reasonable decisions? Don't take the whole family into a ditch and can't climb out.

Without him, Wen Jin could do whatever he wanted.

After sending off the second uncle, Wen Jin started the first major thing of entrepreneurship - farming. On the edge of the puddle of the Yang family, there are still more than two acres that have not been flooded, or the water has receded, revealing this part. Wen Jin asked Wang Jishan for help, bought dozens of catties of rice seeds, and began to raise seedlings according to the book.

The ancient sages, there are still a lot of articles on how to grow rice, Wen Han took the book, explained to Wen Jin word by word, and then invited the craftsmen in the village to refer to it on the side, and actually made a seedling bed. Wen Jin suddenly figured it out and couldn't help laughing: Isn't this the kang? At least it's the same as the principle of the kang.

Wen Jin lit a fire in the seedling bed every night, covered the flame with wheat clothes, let it burn slowly, curled white smoke, along the flue of the masonry, in the seedling bed, discharged from the chimney at the other end, the whole seedling bed reached the right temperature, the seeds were soaked and then sterilized with plant ash and arsenic water, and the fertile soil made by decaying together in the fluffy soil and leaves gradually sprouted and grown.

Wen Han came to take a look every day, sometimes holding the book to see if Wen Jin's operation was correct, and at the same time, he also sighed: "The book is shallow, and I never know that this matter must be done." ”

The success of this experiment also made Webster absolutely convinced that Wen Jin was written in the book at every turn: "No wonder it is said that Xiucai does not go out, he is aware of the world's affairs, and what he says in the book is not false." ”

"I'm not a talent yet, when my brother reads more, we will know more."

"yes, yes." Merriam-Webster's attitude towards Wenhan's reading is even more supportive.

Wen Jin began the second step of the plan. She carefully inquired that if pigs were raised outside the house, no one would steal them except for the fear of wolves, bears and other scourges, so she relieved herself and built three pigsties on the wasteland by the pond. There are small houses for pigs to sleep in the circle at night, as well as an open air for outdoor activities during the day, and stone walls to prevent pigs from collapsing the circle wall. Next, Wen Jin is going to buy piglets, of course she doesn't have this kind of business, Da Shanbo volunteered to help, at the beginning, Wen Jin didn't dare to be greedy, so he bought three, try it first.

Wei saw that Wen Jin was very good at arranging, but he gladly accepted the task of raising pigs.

The ice in the pond has completely melted, but what about the ducks? Although there are duck eggs sold here, because there are few breeders, there are few duck sellers, which stumped Wen Jin.

"Wen Jin, won't you let the old hen hold the nest and hatch the ducks?" After all, Wei is still a rural person, and he is not a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world at all, she suggested to Wen Jin.

"Oh, yes, why didn't I think of that?" Wen Jin slapped his head, "The chicken is a stupid egg, he doesn't know his own eggs, he will hatch whatever he gives him, I forgot about this stubble." ”

She happily went out and ran around the town, where there were chickens for sale, but not for the nests.

It turns out that instead of giving the chicken a few eggs, it will hold the nest, and the chicken needs to heat up. After being busy for a long time, Wen Jin walked back dejectedly, just outside Shanwo Village, the old lady who recognized her as a woman was carrying a basket with an old hen in it, walking up the edge of the stream, looking like she was ready to bathe the chicken.

"Hey, auntie, wait, wait a minute, what are you doing here?"

"Ah, it's you. Brother Qian, my chicken, I don't like to lay eggs, just hold the nest, I want to soak it in cold water, it is not hot, so I don't hold the nest. It's easy to get warm, and I wanted it to lay eggs in exchange for some pocket money, and voila, this slacker. ”

"Auntie, I was thinking about the chicken that hatched the eggs, why don't you make a price and sell it to me?"

"This ......"

"Otherwise, I'll give you some money, and you can rent this chicken to me for a few months, and then pay you back when it holds a nest of ducks for me."

"Hahaha, hugging a duck? This kid really knows how to tell jokes. ”

"Auntie, I'm not joking, you see, this pond is my family's land, if you don't raise some ducks, will it be so empty?"

The eldest lady turned her head to look at it, her face became serious, and she paused slightly and said, "This baby, what kind of money do you give, you can take it and hatch the eggs." ”

"This is not good, auntie, look, what about this chicken, press twenty eggs a month, two pennies for an egg, that is, forty pennies, I don't need you to feed it during this time, is it feasible?"

The old lady was embarrassed, but she thought about it very seriously and nodded: "Okay!" ”

Wen Jin simply borrowed the basket and carried it home.

There are only forty or fifty households in Shanwo Village, and in less than two days, some people knew that Wen Jin took money to rent the old hen in the nest, some people laughed at her behind her back, and some people came to the door: "Brother Qian, I also have a nest chicken at home, do you rent it?" ”

"Rent, rent!" Wen Jin happily agreed, and when the news came out, he quickly rented five chickens.

In order to buy fresh duck eggs, Mingshan took Wen Jin and ran to the neighbors of his aunt's aunt. The family has eight ducks, and one male? Ducks, Wen Jin bought a hundred at a slightly higher price than the market. The condition is that it must be fresh and, moreover, allow her to pick. Duck eggs begin to develop in the belly of the female duck, and when the light is good, you can see whether there are embryos inside.

The female duck is not fertilized, and can lay eggs as well, and it is no problem to eat, but if the eggs are hatched, they can only turn into a rotten egg in the end, resulting in waste.

Watching Wen Jin build a chicken nest in the backyard and let the five old hens hatch twenty duck eggs each, Wei and Wen Han were curious and funny, Wen Jin didn't care what their attitude was, feeding and watering the hens every day, cleaning the chicken nest, there was an old hen who was a new hand, Wen Jin also grabbed its claws, let it learn to stir in the eggs regularly, so that the duck eggs were heated evenly.

Wen Jin burned the grass on the wasteland, and asked someone to turn over the ground and sprinkle alfalfa seeds. This is a high-quality pasture with high protein content but relatively low land requirements, and Wen Jin sincerely hopes that there will be a good harvest in the field, so that her subsequent breeding plan can be successfully completed.

The mountain is a treasure, people can go into the mountain to pick in autumn, and in spring there is not without contribution, the biggest one is the mountain wild vegetables.

Wen Jin and Wen Han are busy in front of the mountain early every morning, and they don't need to go up the mountain, you can pick a big back basket, in addition to picking out what people eat, the rest is fed to pigs and chickens, with the powder and cornmeal ground from the mountain rat jerky stored in Wen Jin in winter, the three little pigs grew fast, more than twice as fast as the pigs bought in the same period.

In her spare time, Wen Jin's energy is invested in the pond. The duck has not hatched yet, the pig manure is put in first, which is called raising water, the water and fertilizer in the water, the microorganisms are easy to grow, and the duck hatches out to eat.

In addition to this, Wen Jin also excavated a large number of bracken, the bracken root was washed, ground into a paste, added water to filter out the slag, precipitation, and the brown starch below can be made into bracken root powder, whether it is cold or soup, it is a nutritious and delicious food. The slag and filtrate, after boiling with alkaline soil, add cornmeal, bean skin, and bran, which can be used as pig food.

She made this trick, and even Wei Shi felt funny: "Wen Jin, where did you learn it?" ”

"Second aunt, I heard that there was a big flood in the Jin River that year, and everyone hid in the mountains for refuge, and they were so hungry that they couldn't do it, so they didn't boil the fern roots and eat the leaves? Since fern roots can feed people, why don't we take advantage of them? Besides, if you pull out the front foot, it will grow again, and you will not be afraid to finish digging. ”

"This kid, the trees and grass on the mountain, when is it finished?" Wei Shi glanced at Wen Jin distressedly, "The weather is getting warmer, take a stick and knock it first when you walk, be careful that there are big insects in the grass." ”

"Hey! Got it. ”

In the blink of an eye, the duck eggs hatched for more than half a month, although Wen Jin heard that the eggs took twenty-one days, and the duck eggs needed twenty-eight days, but she was still very anxious, and she couldn't wait for a group of ducklings to appear immediately. On this day, she and Wen Han dug a basket of wild vegetables, and as soon as she walked to the door, she saw a boy crying while walking, coming towards her.

When the lady next door saw Wen Jin, she nodded as a reply, and then shook her head at the little boy and sighed.

"Auntie, what's wrong with him?"

"Alas, it's a hard life, his mother is long gone, and his father and grandfather make tofu and sell tofu for a day, who wants his father to go to winter and get typhoid fever, and he also went, last night he and grandfather grinded tofu, the old man fell, his leg was broken, he went to ask a doctor."

"Alas, it's really a ship-breaking headwind." Wen Jin sighed, the happy smile just now disappeared, and silently took the back basket back to the house.

"Wen Jin, how did you make the shepherd's cabbage dumplings you said?" Webster asked, still busy weaving, without looking up.

"Second aunt, Brother Han and I will do it, you just have to finish weaving this cloth today." Wen Jin put away the sadness in her heart and tried her best to speak in a cheerful tone.

The night before, Webster was very happy to announce that her piece of cloth would be completed today, and Wen Jin smiled and said, "Then let's eat dumplings to celebrate?" ”

"What kind of dumplings are you going to make, kid."

"Second aunt, don't worry about this, you just need to promise me to touch your wheat noodles."

"Okay, okay, okay, let you move." Although they came to Shanwo Village, Wen Jin and Wen Han were feeding pigs and preparing to raise ducks, Wei Shi concentrated on spinning and weaving cloth every day, she was a good hand at doing this, in addition to being able to support herself, there was also a balance, and her confidence in her future life made Wei Shi feel big, Wen Jin occasionally improved the food, and she agreed with a smile.

There is surplus money in the pocket, and there is surplus grain in the hoard, such a day is already very satisfying for Webster, who has no ambition.

Pick the shepherd's cabbage, clean it, then blanch the raw flavor, drain the water, scramble an egg, chop it with the vegetables, add oil, salt, pepper powder and other seasonings, and you can start wrapping.