The day after returning from Lily's mother's house, Song Haonian went to Liufu Zhuangzi to work as usual, Lily walked a day on the mountain road yesterday, and his legs and feet were a little sore, so he didn't go to pick raspberries, and planned to go to the market to shop, and then come back to hoe and hoe grass in the vegetable field.

These days, there are people who specialize in raising chickens, ducks, and piglets in the town, and every family has to buy some back. Lily went to the set to see it once, and they were all good seedlings of spirit, and at first glance, they were fat and edible, and they would be easy to feed in the future.

When she came back to hoe the vegetable patch, she wondered what to buy. In the evening, I discussed with Song Haonian, "I want to buy some chicken babies, ducks, and piglets to raise, and now I have some way, so I don't have to worry about raising them." ”

Why did the big girl lose her life? Isn't it because the piglets she raised were stolen by someone?

Song Haonian said: "It's just a matter of raising another one, don't raise piglets, when you want to eat meat, just buy it from the eldest brother." ”

"It's too expensive to buy meat from day to day, we are not such rich people, so this is called frivolous. "People in the countryside who have the conditions will raise their own pigs and chickens, and they will buy meat when they don't have enough meat or want to eat fresh meat.

Song Haonian said: "Your man just can't do it anymore, and he can't starve you, raising pigs is too lacking, how long will your body get better, I really don't worry." ”

He was right, but Lily really wanted to raise pigs, and analyzed the pros and cons with him with his fingers: "Raising pigs is tiring, but I don't have to farm, these days I have to go up the mountain to pick raspberries, and it is just a convenient thing to beat some pigweed, and I am not tired." ”

"Besides, there will always be some leftovers at home, people don't like to eat them, so we can't give them all to the black tiger, and it can't eat that many miles. If you raise a pig, you don't have to worry about spending food, and you can still kill meat and eat it in winter, how good!"

Song Haonian saw that he was going to move her, and suddenly remembered something: "If you buy piglets, where can you keep them?"

Lily was stunned for a moment. In the past, the eldest girl raised pigs, which were raised directly at home, and she regarded the piglets as if they were eyeballs, except for the kitchen and did not call it in, which house it could run around.

But Lily can't, she's a bit of a cleanliness fetish, and it's too dirty to leave the piglets running around at home. If you want to say that you are kept outside, where can you rest assured?

She thought about it for a while, there was really no place to raise pigs for her at home, so she had to lean her head on Song Haonian's shoulder and sigh.

Song Haonian patted her: "Don't be in a hurry at this time, let's build a house in the coming year, build a pigsty, and raise as many as you want when the time comes!" As soon as he said this, Lily rose again, and she had already had the idea of building a house again, but she was afraid that the money at hand was not enough, Song Haonian also talked about it, and she asked: "Reasoning, our thatched hut is leaking rain today and windy tomorrow, and it should be rebuilt, but I am afraid that the money will not be made, so I dare not mention this stubble."

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Song Haonian knew in his heart: "I'm not in a hurry at this time, I will go out with my eldest brother again in the autumn, and when I come back, I will almost be able to save enough money in my hand." Even if you don't have enough savings, you can borrow some from someone first, and you can't live in such a dilapidated house again. ”

He was willing to think like this, that is, if he lived in a broken house for two more years, Lily would only have a sweet heart, and the two of them had a harmonious night.

In the next market, Lily agreed with the two of them, and brought money to buy some chicken and duck seedlings, she was afraid that she would not be able to see the male and female, so she specially pulled Li Caifeng.

Chickens and ducks are packed in several large baskets made of bamboo, fluffy, crowded together in one place, and their mouths are tender and yellow. Next to a few of the larger cages was a round piglet.

Li Caifeng taught her: "The duck looks at the buttocks, the tail is spread out, and the one who does not have a small white spot on the buttocks is the female duck." ”

Pinch the base of the duckling's wings with your hand, put it in the palm of your hand, and turn it over to look at the buttocks, the male and female are obviously different. The gender of the chick is almost the same, but it is not easy to tell, and sometimes it has to rely on experience and intuition.

The chick and duckling are warm to the touch, and you can clearly feel its heart beating in the palm of your hand, and its beak is still very tender, and it doesn't hurt when pecking, but thinks they are cute.

Lily herself is inexperienced, and it all depends on Li Caifeng to pick her out. I picked seven or eight ducks, but there weren't too many chickens, and she still had a few at home.

Li Caifeng also bought two geese and a round piglet, and asked Lily if she would buy it, and Lily said: "There is no place to raise pigs at home, so I will raise them again next year." But this goose has a big temper and smelly feces, why do you want to raise a goose?"

Geese are fierce and even dogs are afraid of them, pecking manpower is big, although the goose eggs are big but have a fishy smell, most people don't love to raise it.

"You don't know, last year, when Futian was in the sky, there was a snake in the house, a big cauliflower snake, and the apricot still had to pinch it to play, which almost scared my soul away! I heard people say that raising geese at home can prevent snakes, so try to raise two first. ”

Lily nodded: "That's just as well." If you want to prevent snakes, sprinkle some realgar at home during the Dragon Boat Festival. ”

"Why didn't I sprinkle it! It's just that it doesn't work, I rely on these two geese this year!" Li Caifeng smiled and handed the money to the stall owner, and walked back with a cage of chickens, ducks and goose seedlings with Lily, and the sack he carried in his right hand was filled with a piglet that kept arching randomly.

When she got home, Lily opened the coop and drove the chickens into the vegetable patch so that they could peck at the insects and use their manure to fertilize the ground.

The black tiger looked back and forth at the edge of the vegetable patch, and when he saw a hen pecking at the vegetable seedlings, he pounced on him and pushed them away, allowing them to peck only stones and insects. Lily touched the coop, and there were three or four hot eggs.

Chickens and ducklings should not be kept together with the grown chickens at first, so they should be kept in the house on the west side where the farm tools are kept, and then put together when they are older.

At this time, the chickens and ducks have only a layer of tender fluff on their bodies, and they will gradually fall off after raising them for more than a month, and grow feathers of various colors. Most of the local chickens in the countryside are Luhua chickens, with black, brown and white feathers, and some solid chickens. Even if the coat color is similar, the chicken keeper can recognize his chicken at a glance, and there will be no confusion, and some people can still tell which of their chicken's combs is crooked to the side

A chicken has a variegated feather under its wings.

There are also some people who deliberately drive other people's chickens into their own chicken coops, then there is a quarrel, the person who loses the chicken is right, and finally holds his own chicken in triumph, and the person who made the mistake has a sneering face, and he can't raise his head for several days.

Chickens and ducks are particularly afraid of cold when they only have fluff, and a rain and a wind are easy to make them frightened to death, so Lily closes the door and does not let them run out, she goes in every day to change the water and food, clean up the feces, and then release it when the feathers are changed.

In the following days, Lily lived a regular life, picking raspberries every day, doing housework, raising chickens and ducks, and tending to vegetable seedlings, and lived a very fulfilling life.

Song Haonian is also diligent and diligent in the grange, willing to spend his strength, and does not stab with the steward, Liu Sheng also praised him twice with Aunt Tongsheng: "He is a down-to-earth and hard-working, I see, the big girl you said has a blessing." ”

A few days later, Li Mingjiang really brought some baskets, backpacks, bamboo plaques and other things that he had woven to the town, and also brought plum and green pine.

If it was according to Li Mingjiang's meaning, he would have only brought three girls, but Zhu didn't agree: "Three girls will go to the town to get benefits, and my Qingsong will play at home?"

Li Mingjiang saw that Qingsong was also a half-grown child, and he should know something, and it was rare for Zhu Shiken to release all the children at the same time, so he took his little daughter and youngest son and went to the town to find their eldest sister together.

They walked dozens of miles to the town, wanting to go to the market to find a vacant stall, Lamela asked her father: "Let's find the eldest sister first." ”

Lamei vaguely heard that whoever is in the set is particular about where the stall is placed, her father is an outsider, if there is no eldest sister to guide him, it is easy to ask others to come out.

Qing Song's flexible eyes were sharp, and he was the first to find Lily: "The eldest sister is over there!"

Lily was carrying a basket of raspberries to sell, and when she saw her father and her younger siblings coming, she smiled and asked them, "Have you had breakfast?"

Qing Song shook his head before Li Mingjiang and Lamei: "I ate a steamed bun in the morning and left, I'm hungry now!"

Lily took three people to eat, and there were those who sold oil tea, steamed buns, and Yangchun noodles in the market, and some people didn't eat breakfast on the market day, just in order to rush to the market to eat the rice sold outside.

Yangchun noodles are actually white skin noodles, add two green vegetables, and drop a little sesame oil, because they are made of white noodles, many people still eat them rarely.

Lily called three bowls of Yangchun noodles, afraid that it would not taste good, and one person added two pieces of braised tofu, which cost only twelve yuan, Li Mingjiang was speechless: "Just buy a steamed bun and eat it, where can you afford such an expense?"

Lily smiled and said, "You old man, eat quickly, since I bought it, I can afford to eat it." ”

If she hadn't been able to leave today, she would have wanted to go home and cook for her father and sister-in-law.

Seeing that the three of them finished eating, Lily took them to find the person in charge of the market, and paid three cents first, and saw that Li Mingjiang had a pain again: "Why do you have to pay money for this stall!"

Lily said: "After paying the money, if you go to set up a stall again, no one will dare to make trouble, if someone wants to make trouble, just come to the person in charge." ”

There is an operating fee in the market, she herself does not sell raspberries in the market, she has not paid this money, the baskets and bamboo plaques made by Li Mingjiang are mainly sold to the villagers, and it is better to have a stall in the market.

"Dad, this is the first time you have come back, look back, if it sells well, you will come back once a month, and I will pay you a full year's money. ”

If you set up a stall in the bazaar, it is three yuan a day, and if you pay it once a month and once every twelve months, it will only cost twenty yuan.

Li Mingjiang didn't dare to agree to his daughter, he had to try to see if he could sell it first.

Lily pulled Qingsong and handed him a large number of words, Qingsong has a flexible brain, and he will learn all of them quickly, and he can add some words to it himself, which is better than what Lily taught. As soon as Lamei arrived in a crowded place, she was uncomfortable, and Lily didn't dare to look down at people when she saw her, and she didn't force her, but only asked her to go shopping by herself to familiarize herself with the atmosphere on the set.