Chapter 131 Farming and Raising Pigs
"Sister-in-law, Deng Yong said that this year's fruit trees have grown well, and the loquat saplings transplanted in the spring have also taken root. Presumably this year is a bumper harvest. Along the way, Li Mingli happily told Zhao Yunlan about the changes on the mountain.
Zhao Yunlan responded: "Well, these trees were just transplanted last year, and it is thanks to Deng Yong that they can bear so many fruits, and the fruit trees have grown well under Deng Yong's careful care this year." Deng Yong does have a hand. ”
"Sister-in-law, the peach blossom soap we just released during this time is better than the one we sold last year! This is also thanks to my sister-in-law, who also changed the mold of peach blossom soap to a peach blossom style. Li Mingmei also happily reported the progress of the soap.
Zhao Yunlan looked at Li Mingmei with a smile, "Little sister, you are doing a good job!" ”
Li Mingmei, who was praised, wanted to run forward happily, but was grabbed by Zhao Yunlan: "Tomorrow you will learn the rules from Mama Cui at home." ”
"Ah~ sister-in-law." Li Mingmei's face collapsed instantly, and Zhao Yunlan continued: "It's useless for you to call me, this is what my mother told me, otherwise I will go all the way to invite Mama Cui back." ”
Li Mingli stepped forward and patted Li Mingmei's shoulder, and said with deep sympathy: "Cherish today's time!" ”
Zhao Yunlan couldn't help laughing, and saw that Li Mingmei was even more depressed, so she had to comfort: "You should also be glad that Mama Cui chose to follow me, otherwise you will be more bearable to stay with you every day and let you learn the rules." ”
When Li Mingmei heard Zhao Yunlan's words, she thought about it, but fortunately, she had a sister-in-law to help share the firepower, and now she was inexplicably grateful to Zhao Yunlan, holding Zhao Yunlan's hand, and jumping: "Go, sister-in-law, let's ignore the third brother." ”
Zhao Yunlan smiled helplessly, sure enough, she was still a child, and her emotions were just to go.
Several people went up the mountain and came to Deng Yong's house, only to watch Deng Yong's mother feeding the chickens in the yard.
"Aunt Chen, can Deng Yong be at home?" Zhao Yunlan sighed that Mother Deng can now help the family with her bones.
"Ouch, it's Zhao Dongjia! You're back from Fucheng! When did you come back? Chen warmly greeted him and asked Zhao Yunlan and a few people to sit in the house.
"Eh, Aunt Chen, I arrived home last night, we won't sit, I'm here today."
"Eh, Deng Yong took Heru and Da Zhuang to the peach forest." As she spoke, she heard a milk doll crying in the house, and Mother Deng hurriedly said: "Zhao Dongjia, forgive me for being rude, the hospitality is not good, I have to take care of the little strong man when he wakes up." So he went into the house.
Time flies! When Deng Yong's family moved to Lijia Village, this milk doll was still in Zhang Heru's belly, and now she is almost a year old.
Zhao Yunlan took a few people to the peach forest, this peach forest is not big at present, and Zhao Yunlan and a few people saw Deng Yong's family of three after they went in for a while.
"Brother Deng, why did you let Da Zhuang come together?" Li Mingli shouted from behind.
Deng Yong was okay, Zhang Heru was taken aback by this sudden sentence, and could only say that Zhang Heru was too serious about his work.
"Third brother, look at what you scared Sister-in-law Zhang." Li Mingmei elbowed Li Mingli's arm.
"Out of the way!" Zhang Heru smiled and relieved.
Deng Yong: "Zhao Dongjia! ”
Zhao Yunlan: "Well, Brother Deng bothered. This year's peach blossoms are blooming more than usual. ”
Deng Yong: "It's all what I should do, Zhao Dongjia, why don't we go to the loquat forest to have a look?" ”
Zhao Yunlan nodded, and a few people followed Deng Yong to the loquat forest.
"This year's loquat turns out to be a little bigger than last year's, I remember it wasn't that big at this time last year!" Li Mingli looked at the loquat fruit on the tree.
"Eh, yes, this year's fruit is bigger." Deng Yong responded. "There are freshly transplanted saplings, and they are still growing, and there are no dead seedlings. I was going to look for a few more cherry trees this year, but I haven't found a suitable one. ”
Zhao Yunlan nodded, "Next time I'll go to Fucheng to see if there's a suitable one." He turned his head to Li Mingli and said, "Let's go, go and see the peppers planted over there." ”
This year's pepper has been handed over to Li Mingli to be responsible, except that at the beginning, Zhao Yunlan helped raise a seedling together, and then Li Mingli made it himself. Li Mingli and the old man Li worked together for a few days before planting all those pepper seedlings into the ground.
"Third brother! I heard that you and your dad have been working together for days! Zhao Yunlan asked as she walked.
Li Mingli: "Well, fortunately, there is the help of Brother Deng and Sister-in-law Zhang. ”
Zhao Yunlan: "Third brother, it's not that I want to say you, you have to ask someone to do it when you should invite someone, it's not that the more labor money you save, it's good, do you know that in addition to planting your own crops, you also have to learn to manage the crops." Fortunately, the weather is good this year, so you can do the work yourself. ”
Li Mingli also knew that he was at a loss, after all, this crop work was just a race against God! God is in a good mood, give a good year, if you are in a bad mood, a heavy rain or a scorching sun, then you will not have time to deal with it. Li Mingli responded obediently: "Well, yes, sister-in-law I know." ”
Zhao Yunlan didn't want to blame Li Mingli, but this should be paid attention to still be raised. Li Mingli is more good at growing crops, but now the Li family wants to develop in an all-round way, and now since Li Mingli is in charge of the family's crop work, Li Mingli not only has to plant crops in the ground, but also has to learn to control and grow crops efficiently.
When several people came to this pepper field, Zhao Yunlan looked at the green oil dotted with some small white flowers, and couldn't help but be happy.
"This pepper grows well, third brother, the work in this house is hard for you."
Li Mingli was originally still a little annoyed, but when he heard this compliment, he instantly cleared the clouds and saw a sunny day.
Zhao Yunlan continued to walk around the mountain, came to the soap workshop, and watched the workers making soap.
Now the women in the village are rushing to Zhao Yunlan's side to work, and seeing Zhao Yunlan is as happy as seeing the God of Wealth, everyone put down their work and came to Zhao Yunlan's side.
Zhao Yunlan also had sore feet, so she simply sat down and chatted with these aunts and sisters-in-law.
"Don't worry, I will give priority to hiring people from the village when there is work in the future." Zhao Yunlan responded to the words of her aunts. Nowadays, under the influence of Zhao Yunlan, most of the women in the village come out to work, and the men are also jealous that their daughters-in-law and old women can have an income. And this income is not low, everyone knows that Zhao Yunlan takes care of the people in the village.
The women who got the words felt a lot more relieved, otherwise the old men in the family urged every day to ask when the Li family still had work to do, and as soon as they heard Zhao Yunlan say this, they probably understood that there would be work to be done soon.
"Okay, I'll go first, you guys go ahead." Zhao Yunlan has rested enough, and plans to go to the pig shed and chicken shed to have a look.
"Yunlan, you go slowly, come and see us when you have time!" Several old ladies saw off Zhao Yunlan and the others.
Li Mingli was also in charge of the pig shed and chicken shed, but he hired a long-term worker here to feed the pigs and chickens.
"Mingli, I plan to raise another twenty pigs, thirty chickens, twenty ducks, and fifteen sheep, this is up to you, you must make a good arrangement for the residence of these livestock and poultry, and don't cross each other with some diseases. These livestock and poultry will then be used as a material guarantee for the restaurant in Fucheng. ”
"Well, sister-in-law, don't worry, I will do it." Li Mingli responded.
Zhao Yunlan: "The vacant land over there is used to grow sweet potatoes, and if you raise more, you will consume a lot of sweet potato leaves." ”