It took Lan Yi's two hens a full twenty-one days to hatch thirty chicks. Because the hens were tightly guarded, Lan Yi's family did not see the exciting scene of the chicks breaking their shells, and when the hens led the chicks out for a walk, the three of them saw the cute little hairballs chirping clearly.

Thirty eggs, two bad eggs, a total of twenty-eight chickens, of which there are twenty domestic chickens, the remaining eight are small pheasants, and they can't see the male and female, so the mother and son squatted next to the chickens, intending to pick out ten hens, and then sell the remaining chicks to the market. After all, there are already more than a dozen chickens from last year at home, and it is not a lot to leave ten. What's more, the peony garden is already stocked with a hundred ducks, and no matter how many living creatures there are, they can't be busy.

"I think this is a rooster, you see how big its head is, and how small the hen's head is." Yu'er pointed to a chicken in the basket and said, then grabbed it out and put it in another basket.

The baby was on his knees with his chubby hands, eager to lie on the basket, staring at the chick that his brother had caught with big eyes, he also stretched out his hand and pointed to a chick, and said, "This." ”

Lan Yi grabbed the chick, looked at it carefully, and came to the conclusion: "Not bad." This is a small pheasant, you see that the feathers under its fluff are a little bit, it must be a beautiful male pheasant, it can't lay eggs. ”

Yu'er felt that it made sense, and quickly picked up the little pheasants, and the mother and son each picked out the eighteen chicks that they thought would not lay eggs based on their feelings, and the remaining ten were grabbed and put on the ground, and the two hens were so anxious that they clucked and called their chicks over.

But he saw ten chicks in two groups, and nine of them ran to the hen and hid under her wings for comfort. The other chick ran to the other hen alone and hid beside her. Lan Yi looked at the mother hen who had only one chick left, and couldn't help but wonder how the hen recognized which chicks were hatched by herself, it should be based on the smell.

"Mother, the hens must know which chicks are female, but they can't speak." Yu'er looked at the chick and said pitifully, "If only I could see it at a glance." ”

Lan Yi thought about it, as if this kind of technology already existed in modern times. The chicks hatched in the breeder farm can be guaranteed to be female, and there are few mistakes.

Eighteen chicks, sold for more than sixty wen in the market of Zhoujia Village, are much higher than the price of eggs.

Originally, the chickens were four pennies each, but six of the eighteen chicks Lan Yi brought were smaller pheasants, and she thought that she could sell them for a good price, but she didn't expect them to be cheaper than other chicks.

The two male geese in the family also caught one and sold it, because the two of them fought every day and tossed very hard. The male goose was large and sold for forty wen. Lan Yi gave the copper money from selling chickens to Yu'er and Baobao, and the two of them happily put the money in their small satchels and covered it with their hands, and the two brothers smiled like a smile, which made Lan Yi look very cute.

Lan Yi and the others are now frequent visitors to the market, and they only bought the daily oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc., so the three of them had no interest in hanging out, and led the little donkey back to Beigou Village.

The whole family loved this little donkey. After it grew to Lan Yi's shoulder height, or it was fed up with Lan Yi's white eyes and resentment, it actually stopped growing taller, which made Lan Yi very satisfied.

After returning home, Lan Yi found out all the money in the house and counted it. All the silver tickets were used up, and she now had only one hundred and twenty taels of silver and eight hundred and fifty copper coins left. She didn't touch Yu'er and the baby's copper coins, and only let them hold them by themselves.

One hundred taels, not too much, no less, if you encounter something, it is still not enough to spend.

She has been thinking about what to do with goat milk to eat and sell these days, now the two sheep can squeeze out forty or fifty catties of goat milk every day, after the five lambs are taken away, the goat milk produced at home is only consumed by the three of them, and there is still a lot left after drinking, Lan Yi sometimes uses some goat milk to take a bath, honeysuckle goat milk bath is a very strange combination, but Lan Yi is still very happy, this is all good things.

She is now very careful to take care of herself, although there is no facial cleanser and moisturizer and the like, but she washes her hands and face with rice water every day, and often makes a cucumber mask, and the food is also pure natural and pure green pollution-free, coupled with sufficient sleep and exercise, she and the baby are white and tender, and their height is also growing taller.

In the end, the extra goat milk made her boiled into milk powder, which was trouble-free and easy to store. Now there are twelve small cans and five large cans of milk powder at home, each with four catties of small jars and five catties of large jars, and the jars are all used up. She is not good at making zuò dairy products, and she can only eat yogurt or other cheeses, so she doesn't pay much attention to it.

Lan Yi went to the county seat with the milk powder on a donkey, and talked with the shopkeepers of several dim sum shops about the value and easy storage of milk powder, and also made some for them to try the taste.

"This goat milk powder is the most suitable for those who like to stay up late to read and make supper. It's not a hassle, and it also makes up for the brain. Lan Yi promoted her milk powder like this, and when she boiled the milk powder, she added dried flowers to remove the fishy smell, so the taste of the milk powder was still good, and there was a faint aroma of milk tea.

Lan Yi avoided the dim sum shop of the slender and tall king shopkeeper in the county seat, and she really didn't have a good impression of this king shopkeeper.

In the end, Lan Yi's was sold to several dim sum shops at a price of 100 wen per catty of milk powder. This price sounds high, but every pound of milk powder needs at least ten pounds of fresh milk, plus labor, which is reasonable, and the small cans are sold at a discount. In the end, there was a small jar of milk powder left, Lan Yi deposited the donkey at the gate of Zài City, and carried the small jar to the Xia Mansion to visit Mrs. Qin.

When Yu'er and the baby were sick, although Lan Yi did not go to Xia Chongxiao, later Mrs. Qin and Xia Chongxiao also learned about the two children's illnesses from Xia Shun, so Xia Shun brought a lot of symptomatic medicinal materials and tonic things to Lan Yi's house.

When Lan Yi saw Mrs. Qin, the topic of conversation between the two was naturally the child, Xia Wan's little Jinbao. When Mrs. Qin talked about her little golden grandson, she was full of smiles: "Wan'er wrote back and said that the little golden treasure has grown, and it is more like his uncle, and his eyebrows and eyes are very similar." ”

Lan Yi nodded: "Auntie, don't you say that your nephew can't leave the door of your grandmother's house." Xiao Jinbao not only looks like Brother Xia, but also has a similar temperament, and he will definitely be able to play with Wang'er when he comes back. ”

Wang'er is Xia Chongxiao's youngest son, who just turned three years old this year, and is Mrs. Qin's eyeball.

Everyone likes to listen to others praise their children, Mrs. Qin squinted her eyes and smiled: "Baby and Yu'er are so good, you have to take them to the house to play, Wang'er always thinks that no one plays with him." ”

"Auntie, I'll bring them over when I have time. But now it's April, the peonies on the hillside are blooming, and the grass in the wheat field has to be removed. Lan Yi responded with a smile, Wang'er was squeamish, and Xia Chongxiao's wife Zheng was not generous. Yu'er and the baby are used to being wild in the countryside, and children will inevitably bump and bump when they play together, Lan Yi doesn't want her two children to come here to be wronged.

Mrs. Qin listened, looked at Lan Yi and asked with a smile: "It's not a way for you to always take two children like this, tell your aunt what you like, and if your aunt finds a good family for you, it's good to have a home." ”

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Qin still had a hobby of protecting media, Lan Yi lowered her head and said embarrassedly: "Auntie, I don't want to wronged my two children, it's good to live like this." ”

Mrs. Qin shook her head and sighed when she heard this: "The best age for a woman is only a few years, and if you miss it, you will never have it again." In a few years, Yu'er and the baby will grow up, and they will always have a family, can they still accompany you for a lifetime? ”

Lan Yi was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but think that people here got married early, and Yu'er should get married in another ten years, so doesn't that mean that she will become a grandmother at the age of twenty-five or sixteen! When she thought about that scene, how awkward she thought!

When Mrs. Qin saw her in a daze, she thought she had moved her mind: "You are only fifteen or sixteen years old, and you are living with two children like this, if your mother is still here, you must have been in a hurry." ”

Mrs. Qin also knew about Lan Yi's amnesia, and Mrs. Qin continued: "It's better to write a letter to Wan'er and ask your brother-in-law to send someone to help you find your family, as long as you look for it, you will definitely be able to find it." ”

Lan Yi shook her head: "Auntie, if I still have my dear family here, they won't even send it away, so let me take the child back to Huangxian alone, what can I do if I find it, it's just to add some sadness." ”

Mrs. Qin sighed, Xia Wan had also told her this, thinking about it, Lan Yi had suffered so many things at such a young age, and it was indeed not easy to laugh at life so positively.

"Good boy, if you don't look for it, you won't look for it. Isn't there an aunt here, tell your aunt what you like, and your aunt will make the decision for you. ”

The corners of Lan Yi's mouth twitched, why did this topic come back again?

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After the arrival of April, many of the peony buds have grown very big and are about to bloom, and Lan Yi is busy watering and pruning the peony.

Liu Yuxi in the Tang Dynasty has a poem that says: The peony demon in front of the court is unqualified, and the hibiscus on the pond is pure and affectionate. Only the peony is true to the national color, and the flowers move the capital when they bloom.

This poem describes the grand occasion when the peony blossoms bloom, and tens of thousands of people enjoy the flowers. Since the Tang Dynasty, peony because of the large flowers, color and color changeable, by the world's love, many flower farmers are even more life into the mountains to find new varieties of wild peony, breeding and grafting new varieties after selling at a high price, overnight rich.

Although Lan Yi only planted two common varieties, Purple Spot and Fengdan, but in these nearly 30 acres, a large area of peonies bloomed at the same time, and the large white peonies took advantage of the green branches and leaves, which were gorgeous and beautiful.

People from neighboring villages and even the county town came to see the flowers, and Lan Yi and they only used a fence made of bamboo more than one meter high to enclose peonies, and there were no courtyard walls, so they couldn't talk about charging to enter the park. What's more, Lan Yi raised a lot of ducks in their peony garden, although they have been encircled by them on the edge of the small pond for the past few days, but the three hundred ducks are also very poetic.

Most of the people who come to see the flowers are also walking around the edge of the peony garden, and then enjoying the surrounding mountains and waters, which is also pleasant.

Lan Yi saw that these people came and there was no place to stay, so she took a look and left. She simply instructed Chen and Liu to set up two bamboo sheds under the peony garden to sell some tea and snacks for tourists to rest.

In addition to the common black tea and green tea, Lan Yi added mint, bitter dice, chrysanthemum and honeysuckle, etc., so that Chen and Liu's tea were made and sold to female customers who came to see the flowers, and they also made a lot of money.

When the people in the village saw the crowd of people coming and going to see the flowers, they also greeted Uncle Wang, and sold some wontons, noodles and other snacks next to the peony garden, which was very lively for a month.

Zhao Lizheng also went to the edge of this garden every day, watching the flow of people so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. Beigou Village has always been relatively poor among the surrounding villages, otherwise there would not even be a market day, and the excitement of this period made him look back.

At the end of the peony flowering period, according to the instructions of Zhao Huajiang, Lan Yi and the others picked off the petals and dried them, bought them for medicinal herb shops, and each family also got ten taels of silver.

Chen's and Liu's two concubines' tea and dim sum stalls made silver, plus the money from selling petals, each family shared a total of fifteen taels of silver, and finally saw the money back to make the second uncle's family very happy, and Liu's even spoke a lot louder, and some landlords' wives were in a posture.

After picking the flowers, I was busy watering the peonies and fertilizing them. Peony likes fertilizer, in order to make peony flowers big and colorful, to avoid the phenomenon of "blooming every other year", you need to apply at least three times a year of decayed fertilizer: the first time after thawing in February; the second time after the flowers have fallen; Before the third winter. The main purpose of this fertilization is to make the plants produce more and better seeds, so everyone is very particular about fertility, and the fertilizer of the well-rotted crops is put in. R1152