"On the way, I met Li Zheng, and I gave him a basket of horses' hooves. We can't finish this basket ourselves, Ji Kang will pass by in a while, you let him take some. ”

Cui Jikang chops firewood in the mountains every day at this point, and sometimes picks wild fruits, and will leave a handful when passing by her house.

There are comings and goings, and Xu Yin often asks him to take something back.

Comrade Xiao Jin's brothers and sisters in this life, after a year of fighting, the little brother-in-law Cui Jikang can move around often.

The sister-in-law is the heroine, Xu Yin is worried that she is the cannon fodder and the heroine who are close and will be easily pulled back to the plot, so it is better to have less contact.

Cui Er is clever, but he is also really smart, in order to marry the daughter of the shopkeeper of the paper shop, I heard the uncle say that the wages saved, every time I go home, I have to count it, for fear that their mother will use it.

is like this to his own mother, not to mention his brothers and sisters, in his heart, he can't compete with the little lady of the paper shop he wants to marry.

However, when Comrade Xiao Jin's leg was injured, he came to visit him with something, although it was only half a catty of mung bean cake, but Xu Yin accepted this favor, and when he gave his mother-in-law a regular gift a few years ago, he gave him two catties of duck eggs.

"Has your second brother's family matter been decided? How many gifts will we give at that time? ”

Xu Yin washed the horse's hooves and sat under the eaves to peel the skin.

The first stubble of water chestnuts is tender and sweet, and I plan to eat a horseshoe banquet at noon today: fried water chestnuts with black fungus, steamed meat cakes with water chestnuts and mushrooms, and radish and horseshoe keel soup.

The meat and bones were bought by the man who went to town early in the morning.

In the past six months, seeing that she was getting thinner and thinner day by day, I thought she had some disease, so I took her to the hospital to see a doctor, and the doctor said that she was in good health, so he was relieved, but he still tried to nourish her.

There are meat, vegetarian and soup, perfect!

The staple food is to make horseshoe multigrain cakes, and then a bowl of white fungus red dates and horseshoe sweet soup after the meal, which is greasy and nourishing.

Cui Mengjin sawed the last bamboo, arranged the bamboo strips and tied them together, and then went to build a fence in the afternoon.

After cleaning up the yard, he washed his hands and came over to help peel the horseshoe.

"It's up to you to make up your mind. Listening to the third child, the shopkeeper of the paper shop wants to recruit his daughter, but the mother does not agree with the second brother to join the family, I am afraid that there will be trouble in this matter. ”

"Mother agreed!"

It was Cui Jikang who answered.

He came back from the mountain, carrying a bundle of dismantling on his shoulder, carrying a bamboo basket in his hand, seeing Xu Yin, he excitedly raised the bamboo basket, and his tone was full of excitement:

"Sister-in-law, I found the little thorn ball you wanted! Isn't it this? ”

He heard from the dog that his sister-in-law had been looking for a small ball of thorns that were covered in thorns and easy to get on her clothes and hair.

Little thorn balls?

Xu Yin didn't think about it for a while.

Until you see what's in the basket, ah! Castor bean!

Her eyes lit up instantly: "Where did you find it?" ”

"Next to the mountain stream and ravine, there is a big bush, but there are thorns growing outside, and you can't see it at first glance. I found it after chasing a hare. Speaking of this, Cui Jikang lowered his little face, "It's a pity that the hare slipped too fast and didn't catch it." ”

"Hahaha! It's okay, it's okay, next time my sister-in-law catches a hare, make up for you! ”

Xu Yin praised him, and wanted to keep him for dinner, but he insisted on going back and didn't force him to stay.

poured out the castor beans in the bamboo basket, and filled him with three or four catties of horseshoe, six salted duck eggs on top of the horseshoe, and a paper bag of chopped pork ribs.

"Sister-in-law, are these little thorn balls enough? It's not enough, I'll go up the mountain and pick it up tomorrow. ”

Seeing that there were eggs and meat, the boy was a little embarrassed.

After the spring ploughing, there is relatively little work in the field, and he has time to go up the mountain every day, so it's a big deal to help his sister-in-law pick more thorn balls and come back.

"No, I'll go back and transplant the castor tree, saving myself from running back and forth."

"Then I'll take you there, that place is a bit out of the way."

"Okay."

Cui Jikang said hello to his eldest brother and went home in a hurry.

Cui Mengjin was so happy when she saw her surrounding a bunch of small thorn balls, and asked curiously, "Is this thing useful?" ”

"It's very useful!"

Castor beans itself is a Chinese herbal medicine that blindly reduces swelling and pulls out poison, and secondly, because of its high oil content, it is a good material for making base fertilizer.

However, before fertilization, the castor beans with the thorny shells removed need to be fried like melon seeds, let cool and ground into powder, and evenly spread in the soil like plant ash. Castor beans are used as base fertilizer, and the fertilizer effect is no worse than that of rapeseed cake residue.

After lunch, Cui Mengjin went to several dangerous embankments in the lotus pond to build fences, and Xu Yin spread out the castor beans in the yard, so that the skin was dry and cracked, and the seeds inside could be taken out without peeling hard.

I was busy, and I came over again.

He discussed it with the clan elders and decided to build a collective lotus pond.

"Daughter-in-law Meng Jin, I think what you said at noon is very reasonable, and we decided to follow what you said. Regarding the division of work, what kind of dividends are there, can you talk more specifically? ”

Xu Yin: "......"

Is she the collective economic consultant of Chengdawa Village?

"Sit down and talk." Xu Yin moved Comrade Xiao Jin's reclining chair out, sat for Li Zheng, and went to the kitchen to make a pot of dandelion tea, grabbed two handfuls of melon seeds and peanuts fried during the New Year, washed a plate of water chestnuts, peeled the skin and ate it as fruit, and then sat down and chatted with Li Zheng while drinking tea.

Li Zheng couldn't help but sigh: The whole village probably can't find a second person as particular as Meng Jin's daughter-in-law, just say a few words, tea and snacks, and let him lean on the recliner to relax his muscles and bones, comfortable!

Since Dawa Village really decided to build a collective lotus pond, Xu Yin listed all the projects related to lotus roots and ducks.

"But at the beginning, let's not spread it all out at once, first pick two safe ones, such as lotus root flour processing workshop, salted duck egg pickling workshop, and the rest can be added slowly later."

Li Zheng nodded while listening: "Yes, yes, it's still safe." ”

"It's just that it's late spring now, and I'm afraid it's too late to plant lotus root this year." Xu Yin muttered, "But you can raise ducks first, and the duck seedlings are bigger just in time to remove insects and weeds in the rice fields." This year, let's look at the harvest of my lotus pond, and if the harvest is good, I will leave some for the village to plant. In the spring of next year, we will first pick a lake to try planting, and the lotus root that will be planted, how to sell it, how to make lotus root flour will be handled again, and it will be ready to be done in a big way the year after that! ”

"Makes sense, it makes sense!"

"I think so, according to the type of work required roughly divided into positions, such as duck raising, there are ducks, duck house cleaning, duck feeding and drinking, and egg picking and other work, these jobs can be distributed to different people, everyone has a little bit, complete well to give full work, completed but the effect to discount, then depending on the situation, there is no work, if the duck is damaged because of slackness, you have to deduct the work. Unified settlement at the end of the year. ”

"The dividend is to wait for the end of the year, and the money earned after selling the duck or duck eggs will be settled to the big guy according to the amount of work."

"And ......"

Li Zheng memorized everything Xu Yin said in his mind, but he was worried that he would remember it today and forget it tomorrow, so when he got home, he took out the cherished four treasures of the study, and copied a copy while recalling.

(End of chapter)