The kitchen has not yet been built, and now it is a sleeping room, Xu Yin is not going to build a stove in the house, it is too smoky.

So when she was pasting the wall, she mixed more clay, built a baking kiln next to the house, and built a simple earthen stove.

Hurry up and build a rain shelter for the baking kiln and earthen stove, and the cooking is temporarily outside.

Chicken broth is boiled on the earthen stove, and sweet potatoes are roasted in the kiln.

After the chicken soup was cooked, she washed some rice in another crockpot, scooped two spoonfuls of chicken soup into it, put a handful of chopped diced shiitake mushrooms, and boiled a pot of shiitake mushroom and chicken-flavored porridge.

When the Erlang brothers and sisters came back, she washed their hands and drank a bowl of porridge for each person.

The delicious porridge made in chicken soup, with wild mushrooms and pheasant meat, was the most delicious meal the two children had in recent years.

Xu Yin watched them eat wolf, and while persuading them to eat slowly, she thought: Such a large wasteland, in fact, it is completely possible to raise some chickens.

It's just, where to get chicken?

Xu Yin pondered this question.

When Erlang was full, Xu Yin asked him to bring the half-crockpot chicken soup he had left aside to Shi Fengnian.

Unexpectedly, Shi Fengnian came back with him.

"Brother Hero, I didn't expect you to not only have great strength, smart brains, but also cook so deliciously! My wife has a bad appetite these days, and I drank your stewed chicken soup, hey, the appetite is back! ”

Xu Yin smiled, took a roasted sweet potato to him, and asked if there was a way to buy chicken. No chickens, eggs or freshly hatched chicks will do.

"Do you want to raise chickens? I want to raise it too! Where can you get chickens? Why don't I go to the village tomorrow and ask?" ”

Since she went to the village to ask, Xu Yin thought about it and took out a small jar of turmeric earth rock candy.

She had seen the sugar cubes here, which were darker in color than earth rock candy, but not as sweet as earth rock candy.

"You take it to exchange it for chickens or eggs, and you decide how much you change, and no matter how much you change, I will divide it into two percent."

It's kind of an errand fee for him.

Shi Fengnian was stunned: "This, this is sugar?" ”

"yes, you haven't seen it?"

"I've seen it, but I haven't tasted it in years."

Xu Yin: "......"

Broke a small piece for him: "Taste? ”

"No, no, no! It's too precious! It's so big that it might be able to change for a chicken. ”

Finally, he rubbed his index finger on the candy cube, and then put it in his mouth and smashed it: "It's sugar!" It's so sweet! ”

Xu Yin looked at it and wanted to sob.

Shi Fengnian hid the sugar jar in his sleeve and went home cautiously as if he had a gold ingot, and Xu Yin sighed like a little adult Erlang:

"Sister-in-law, you shouldn't take out the dowry again! My mother once said that the dowry can only be moved when a woman is forced to a dead end, and it is more precious than ginseng! ”

“……”

Having said that, the next day, when they saw the three hens and a group of chicken cubs that Shi Fengnian had brought over, Erlang and the third sister were crazy with joy.

"Wow! So many chickens, all of them are ours? ”

"Yes!" Shi Fengnian said happily, and said to Xu Yin, "Brother hero, sugar cubes are really more pleasing than silver, many women rushed to ask for them, so I picked the fattest ones and replaced them with three, and I didn't ask for them when I looked thin and weak." The chickens are also healthy, healthy and there is nothing wrong with them, you count, a total of eighteen chickens. ”

Xu Yin didn't expect such a small jar of candy to come back with so many chickens.

As soon as the hen touches it, she knows that it is a laying hen, and maybe there will be eggs to eat tomorrow.

She caught a hen and three chicks and gave them to Shi Fengnian: "I said that I would pay for the errands." ”

Shi Fengnian was flattered: "No, no, no! I can't ask for it! ”

"Take it! You went over and over the beaten track, and you deserved it! If you don't accept it, I won't ask you for help next time. ”

So, Shi Fengnian returned home with a hen and three chicks in vain.

His father learned that it was sent by Xu Yin, and beat his son: "How good a hero is to you!" You're still robbing him! It's better to be a beast! ”

Shi Fengnian couldn't say it because of his bitterness: "Didn't you know each other at that time?" Besides, I have sincerely repented, and the hero brothers have forgiven a few of us, why did you beat me up, Dad! ”

"If you don't beat you, you won't have a long memory!"

“……”

Xu Yin didn't know that she sent out a few chickens, and Shi Fengnian was beaten by his father, so she handed over the chickens to the two children to take care of and continued to bury her head in the wasteland.

There is an extra flock of chickens at home, and Erlang and the third sister have a job to do.

Wake up early every day to pick up eggs from the chicken coop, and then pick them up to peck at the grass and insects in the wasteland. The brother and sister pulled weeds and picked up stones by the way.

The stones picked up in the wasteland, Xu Yin asked them to pile them behind the house, and the kitchen could be used to press the foundation.

The brother and sister have picked up a lot of stones these days and come back. They were busy until the sun rose, and then they drove the chickens from the wasteland to the shade of the trees at the foot of the mountain, where there were many grass seeds that the chickens loved to eat.

Drive the flock home again in the evening.

As a reward, Xu Yin made them eggs every day, sometimes poached eggs, sometimes steamed egg custard, and sometimes fried wild vegetables.

Shi Fengnian, Shi Feng, and Chen Mancang would sometimes send some ingredients to her house.

The pheasant is not so good, but the birds, the eggs, and the little trash fish in the brook can be eaten once every three to five days.

When the food came up, Xu Yin found that the clothes of the two cubs were getting shorter and shorter.

Especially Erlang, it is estimated that he began to draw strips, and the long-sleeved and long-sleeved pants were like short clothes and five-point pants on him. It's okay to make do with the hot weather now, but how to wear it when the weather is cold.

You'll have to find a chance to go to the market and get some cloth from the beginning.

But she has been too busy recently, and the planned ten acres of wasteland have only opened less than two acres, and the herbal seeds have not had a chance to come out, so she can only plant some sweet potatoes first.

The cultivation cycle of medicinal materials is long, don't wait for the medicinal materials planted at that time There is no shadow, and the family will run out of food. So plant some sweet potatoes and stock up on some grain.

The sweet potatoes brought out by the family have already been eaten, and the seeds are the relief grains allocated by the imperial court, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and dried taro, all of which are coarse grains.

This has disappointed many of the victims.

Some people's daughters-in-law are babies born on the way to escape from the wilderness, and when the mother's nutrition is not enough to feed the milk, the big cat and the child have to follow the adults to eat coarse grains, how can they afford it.

Everyone was extremely looking forward to the imperial court being able to send some fine grains such as rice and noodles, but all the grains that came to hand were coarse grains, not to mention, they were all old and moldy.

This makes people's spirits that have finally risen up, and they are languishing again.

Xu Yin said to the big guy: "Which of you has more sweet potatoes and potatoes for me, I want to plant them, and I can exchange rice with everyone!" ”

Her family's wasteland has opened up a lot, and everyone doesn't think about it anywhere else.

As soon as they heard that coarse grains could be exchanged for rice, many men came to Xu Yin's house with bags.

Erlang kept giving her a look, and he was so anxious.

It's not that you don't have enough to eat, so why do you exchange the rice!

Xu Yin soothed a piece of candy into his mouth and asked him to take another one to the third sister.

The third sister has been guarding the chickens, for fear that they will run away.

The wasteland is too big to look at.

Seeing that she insisted on exchanging rice for coarse grains, Erlang was so angry that he stomped his feet and ran out.

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