Wildfires burn inexhaustibly, and spring breezes blow and regenerate. The vitality of wild grass is the most tenacious, at this time it is the warm spring season, in front of the village and behind the village, up and down the mountain, the most important thing is all kinds of wild grass and wild vegetables. The half-grown children in the village can cut a basket soon after they go down the mountain.

The Yu family is not enough, but there are many idle children in the village! If the price of two baskets of pigweed is based on a penny, there should be many children who have a reason to earn money to buy snacks!

Yu Xiaocao analyzed it like this, and the Yu family also felt that raising more than 100 pigs didn't seem to be much of a problem. The three uncles still helped to go to the countryside to collect piglets. It didn't take long for the pig farm to be built, with tall and neat courtyard walls, rows of new and spacious pig sheds, and mountain springs that were drawn down from the mountains with bamboo tubes, gathered in a pool made of stones...... Everything is ready to stop.

The piglets were moved into their new homes, and each barn was filled with five fat piglets, and the twenty barns were half empty!

Xiaolian and her aunt and daughter withdrew from the dock. Last year's locust plague had a great impact on the business of the terminal. First of all, the business of braised vegetables could not continue, because the butchers could not receive pigs after the beginning of spring, and the pig-headed pigs could only be met once in the water occasionally.

Although her family is not short of food, but the family is eager to break a copper plate into two halves, where is the family willing to buy a bowl of noodles and sit down to enjoy?

Originally, the eldest aunt and cousin Liu Feiyan had already returned to Xishan Village, and they heard their man say that the Yu family was going to set up a pig farm and wanted her to help, so they had long been worried about it. No, as soon as the pig farm was built, she packed up her baggage and took her little daughter and lived in the house of the pig farm.

At present, the piglets are still small, the amount of food is not large, and the number is not too much. The eldest aunt, mother and daughter, Xiaocao sisters, and the more and more energetic old Yu Tou, with a sickle, carried a basket on their backs, and walked around the pig farm casually for one or two laps, and they could beat enough pigweed every day. What's more, there are three cousins of the Liu family who come to help from time to time, and the manpower is enough.

In order to ensure that the pigs grow fast, it is certainly not enough to feed the pigweed. The Yu family had stored coarse grain for a winter, and they didn't move much at all. With white rice and white noodles, who wants to eat coarse grains! The sweet potatoes harvested last year were all dried sweet potatoes.

There are still 1,000 catties of corn left after removing the seeds, all of which are ground into coarse corn ballast, and some of them are left to boil porridge to drink, and the rest are used to feed the pigs. If the old stubborn Hubu Shangshu knew that Yu Xiaocao fed the pigs with corn, he would definitely be so angry that he would die and come back to life!

There are also a lot of coarse grains such as bean flour and millet noodles, which are piled up in the warehouse. Lao Yutou felt sorry for the food, afraid that the food would grow insects in the summer, and sighed every day when he saw this.

Yu Xiaolian and her aunt and daughter are responsible for cooking pig food. In a corner of the pig farm, five stoves and five cauldrons work together in a row of bamboo sheds, and the three of them are used to doing kitchen work, cooking pig food for fifty or sixty piglets, which is difficult for them.

Yu Xiaocao came to help every day, and the main task was to add spirit stone water to the pool. Cook pig food with very light concentration of spirit stone, pigs love to eat, and they don't get sick, and they grow fast!

Zhu Junyang in Beijing learned about her pig farm, and asked people to send dozens of piglets, and a few carts of coarse grains such as rice bran, wheat bran, and millet noodles. The piglets on the pig farm have increased to one hundred and twenty by this time.

Yu Xiaocao calculated, if at the rate of selling one pig a day, when the first piglet is slaughtered, it will almost be sold until the New Year, so let the uncles stop collecting the piglets.

One hundred and twenty piglets is not a small amount of pigweed per day. Xiaolian and the eldest aunt, just cooking pig food is enough for them to be busy, they are really too busy, and they invited Liu Yan'er, who is already twelve, to come over to help.

The purchase of pigweed is on the agenda. Yu Xiaocao found Zhou Sankou, Qian Yafang and Liu. Huifang's three good sisters told them that the pig farm would need to collect pigweed for a penny and two baskets. The three little sisters, who had nothing to do, all expressed their willingness to help.

In the past, when conditions permitted, diligent people would catch one or two piglets in the spring and raise them, and when the New Year came out, they would be slaughtered or sold or killed to eat meat. The three little sisters had raised pigs in the family before, and it was too easy for them to beat pigweed, and it was no problem to beat four baskets in a day!

When it was learned that the Yu family had to harvest at least thirty baskets of pigweed every day, it might be even more in the future. The three little sisters discussed it, and the three of them did it first, they were too busy, didn't they still have brothers and sisters at home? Later, when the piglets grow up, the demand for hogweed increases, and it is not too late to find someone else.

Just do it, Zhou Corals a few days ago, so he received a bamboo basket of uniform size from the Yu family, took a sickle, and cut the grass at the foot of the West Mountain. Qian Yafang took the reluctant Qian Wu, Liu. Huifang brought her younger siblings with her. Only Zhou Shan is lonely, there is no way, her brother followed her father to sell goods in the streets and alleys, her sister got married, her mother had to serve a group of chicks, and she was an idler at home.

On the first day, Zhou Shan earned three cents, Qian Yafang earned five cents, and Liu. The three Huifang sisters and brothers earned nine dollars. Purchase pigweed, settle the accounts on the spot, and if it is less than a penny, it will be settled together with the next day.

After a month, Liu. Huifang's sister and brother didn't expect that they could earn more than 300 yuan. Now, in order to earn some money to make ends meet, I don't know how many people are staring at the position of a gig worker, and when I meet an unscrupulous employer, I can't earn ten cents a day from working tirelessly.

So, when Liu. When Huifang handed over the money she had been holding for a month to her mother, the daughter-in-law of the pillar asked in surprise: "Huifang, where did you get so much money?" ”

In the past, more than 300 was not much. At low tide, dig the sea intestines for a day, and the lucky ones can earn almost this amount. But in the year of the disaster last year, the coast near Dongshan Village was crowded with people every day, and the tidal flats were almost turned upside down, and the sea intestines were about to be dug up and extinct.

After the girl helped with the housework every day, she took her younger siblings out to play. Every time she asked her, she said that she went to play with her good sister Yu Xiaocao, but the daughter-in-law didn't take it to heart. Unexpectedly, the girl quietly earned back more than 300 yuan.

Liu. Huifang told her about helping Yu's pig farm to collect pigweed. The daughter-in-law glared at her with disgust, and said, "Not to mention your relationship with Xiaocao, just with the relationship between your father and your Uncle Yu, we can't collect money from others if we help a little!" Let's go, my mother will take you to return the money to Xiaocao! ”

Liu. Huifang didn't feel sorry for the money, she said patiently: "Mother, you also know that Uncle Yu and Xiaocao are people, if we don't collect money, they will definitely not let us help." Instead of looking for others, it is better for us to stuff more pigweed in each basket and stuff the basket tightly, so that the grass will not pay for it and receive a small amount of pigweed. ”

Liu Xuanzhu, who was drying fishing nets in the courtyard, listened to his daughter's words and agreed: "The child is her mother, Huifang is reasonable." You also know that Brother Dahai is a person who doesn't like to take advantage of others, and he doesn't take money, maybe he will compensate us more in the future! ”

When the daughter-in-law heard this, she hesitated for a moment before she said, "Since you are in charge of the house, you also say so, so let's accept the money?" ”

Liu Xuanzhu, like Yu Hai, is a spoiled child: "Our family Huifang, Xiaoying and Tie Dan'er are all capable, and one person rewards them with ten cents as pocket money!" Buy a few more catties of white noodles, go to Brother Dahai's house to cut two catties of leeks, and let's eat vegetable boxes at night!! ”

When the three little ones heard this, they immediately jumped up and cheered. The daughter-in-law glared at the man with a smile: "You, are there any children like you?" Forget about making a vegetable box, what pocket money to give! If the child's hand is loose, he will be defeated in the blink of an eye!! ”

Liu. Huifang put ten copper plates into her embroidered purse, and said a little unconvinced: "Mother, I don't agree with what you say!" The grass girl is younger than me! She is in her hands with all the money in her hands, and I haven't heard that she spends a lot of money. There are also Xiaosha (Yu Hang's nickname) and Xiaolian, all the money they earn is saved by themselves, and even Xiaoshi has his own small treasury. Which of them spent money indiscriminately? ”

Yingzi also nodded and agreed: "Yes, yes!" The grass is amazing!! She said: Money is earned, not saved. You can earn money if you can spend money!! You see that the Xiaocao family spends money, and they are never soft, and whoever eats white rice and white noodles in the disaster year has meat ...... every meal."

The daughter-in-law pinched the girl's face and said, "Who of us can compare with Xiaocao's girl?" That girl is a golden-headed, and she can come up with a way to make money with a casual turn. Yingzi, if you can compare to half of her, our family will let you hold the money! ”

Yingzi thought about it for a while, and said a little discouraged: "My brain is not as good as Xiaocao, and I can't think of a way to make money......"

Liu. Huifang hesitated for a moment, pondered the thought she had been pondering for a long time, and said it for the adults to palm: "Dad, mother!" I want to catch some chicks and raise them! I heard Xiaocao say that they raised pigs to open a braised vegetable shop in Fucheng. I thought, can't you just buy braised pork, braised chicken and braised duck or something, you should also make some matching and sell, right? There aren't many chickens in our village, so if we raise chickens, we won't have to worry about selling them......"

Liu Xuanzhu stopped the work in his hand, thought carefully, and nodded slowly: "What the girl said makes sense!" ”

"Does that make sense? The child is whimsical, and you, the father, are also blindly mixed up! Who doesn't want to raise chickens? If you raise it, you can lay eggs and make money without selling it. But the key is, who has surplus food to afford that mouth!! "The daughter-in-law thinks that men and daughters are unreliable.

Liu Xuanzhu thought for a while and said, "If it doesn't work, I'll borrow Brother Dahai's carriage and go to a farther place to buy a cart of wheat bran and come back." With wild vegetables or something, with our family's conditions, it should still be possible to raise 180 chickens. ”

Liu Xuanzhu, who followed Yu Hai to hunt sharks a few times last year, turned his house over and encircled a big yard after he had money in his hand. Now one side of the yard is planted with vegetables or something, and on the other side there is a low wall with stones, and a few grass huts are built, which is a big chicken pen.