For Wang Manyin, the performance of rhubarb is also an unexpected joy. It means that for a long time to come, the family will be able to have a fair and honest source of income.

In fact, he doesn't care, the key is to make Orchid no longer worry about money.

Of course, this kind of thing also has to carry some people.

After thinking about it, he told again, "When we come out in the afternoon, we will bring a crockpot and get some blades of grass in it to cover it. So that other people have encountered it, and they can't see how many scorpions they have caught."

For her husband's decision, Orchid naturally agreed.

At this time, the rhubarb in front of him suddenly arched his body and pressed his limbs down.

Wang Manyin immediately made a silent gesture to prevent his mother-in-law from continuing to step forward.

The next moment, there were several rapid chirps from the barren grass next to him, and an earth-gray figure suddenly flapped its wings and flew out, fleeing quickly into the distance.

Quail?!

Wang Manyin immediately saw the appearance of the prey clearly, his face was a little disappointed, and he originally thought it was a rabbit.

Quail is also one of the most common birds on the Loess Plateau, flying south in late autumn to spend the winter and returning in spring when the flowers are in full bloom.

They like to incubate their eggs in wheat fields or bushes, and their nests are as simple as digging a shallow hole in the ground and spreading some fine grass and leaves.

Because of this, they are often devoured and hunted by snakes, weasels and other animals.

When people harvest wheat, they can also encounter quails. If you're lucky, you might even pick up a nest of quail eggs that haven't yet come out of the shell. In many cases, two or three nests can be found in a field.

In addition, due to their size, these guys have poor flight ability, and are better at using complex environments to escape from predator pursuits.

Under Wang Manyin's gaze, the quail flew twenty or thirty meters away, and suddenly fell into the grass and disappeared.

If you change to an ordinary earth dog, it is estimated that you have given up at this time. But when it comes to rhubarb, it can only be regarded as this guy's bad luck.

Seeing the prey fall, the earth dog continued to rush closer. Within two seconds, the other party was startled again.

Flying twice in a row, the quail's speed slowed down significantly.

After falling for the second time, he could only keep running through the grass.

On the ground, it is no match for rhubarb.

The earth dog pounced a few times, and easily caught the prey and took it back.

Then the rhubarb let out a low roar at the grass. Wang Manyin and Orchid hurriedly stepped forward and found a quail nest in the grassroots hideaway, with a few earthy brown speckled quail eggs lying inside.

Seeing that the quail was not completely dead, Wang Manyin twisted his neck.

In his case, it's just a lump of meat.

However, when the predecessor ran to the other side of the Yellow River to do business a few years ago, he had seen quails and gamble.

Just like the people of the Loess Plateau like to buckle the treasure, the locals also play tricks with fighting quails. Many idlers would rather go hungry than raise a quail to fight.

A good quail costs even more than a local chicken.

After packing up the quail eggs, they continue to follow Rhubarb in search of the scorpion's nest.

In one morning, I caught almost 200 scorpions, two quails, and more than a dozen quail eggs, which was definitely a full harvest.

Orchid enjoyed the feeling of picking up money, watching noon, but not feeling hot at all.

It was still under Wang Manyin's constant urging that he was very reluctant to return. ….

When I got home, there were already more than a dozen broken babies waiting under the field with clay pots and small baskets.

"Uncle Man Yin, this is what you caught in the morning, it's too much, right?" After seeing the canned bottle in Wang Manyin's hand, Mao Dan immediately let out an exclamation.

"No, I caught a lot of scorpions yesterday, and I kept them in cans and bottles, and I forgot to pour them ......out," Wang Manyin responded calmly, easily deceiving these broken babies who were still urinating.

Well, most of the children nowadays are malnourished, and it is normal for them to urinate on the kang in their teens.

There was a funny story in the commune next door, someone got married and wet the bed...... Now that he is a father, his mother-in-law has made his aunt call the father and son to wake up every night.

Orchid comes into the house to cook

, Wang Manyin began to weigh the things brought by the broken babies.

Peach kernels, almonds, scorpions, and various herbs are scattered in large quantities. The highest sale has more than three yuan, and the less one goes out.

This is obviously not earned by the children, it should be the result of the busy adults in the family.

Afraid that they would not be able to tell it clearly when they went home, Wang Manyin made a list of accounts with a note and handed over the money together.

After sending a dozen or so people away, Wang Manyin relaxed.

While his mother-in-law was still cooking, he quickly selected more than a dozen relatively large scorpions from the vat, dodged into the space, and placed them in the scorpion pond to raise.

The scorpion pond was made early, about hundreds of square meters in size. In order to simulate the natural environment as much as possible, Wang Manyin deliberately piled up several stone walls more than half a person high in it for these guys to hide in.

The remaining open space is planted with more than 30 sweet potato seedlings, which are now growing very luxuriantly. There are a lot of locusts that can be seen among them, which is just enough to provide enough food for the scorpions.

In addition, in order to prevent the scorpions from escaping, he also dug a deep ditch around the perimeter.

After pouring more than a dozen scorpions into it, Wang Manyin hurriedly returned to the outside world.

According to the plan, he will continue to put it in.

Theoretically, it is certainly not a problem to raise hundreds of breeding scorpions in such a large area.

Scorpions have a litter a year, and each litter gives birth to about 20 litters. It is calculated that there can be at least two or three thousand young scorpions a year, and a steady income of forty or fifty yuan.

So for Wang Manyin, making money is really not a thing.

The key is that there is no place to spend money, buy a bicycle or something, he thought about it several times and gave up. Before Wang Manchu and others were not equipped with bicycles, he resolutely did not take this head.

After all, now the cadres of the commune go to the countryside, and they just ride bicycles.

However, after Orchid goes to the tailoring club to study, she can find a chance to get a sewing machine. Of course, this is also a preliminary plan, depending on the situation.

He was planning, and the orchid was already calling for dinner.

More than a dozen quail eggs are all boiled and placed in a mixed noodle bowl, which is very tempting. As for the two quails, they were roasted under the stove by the orchids, one was thrown to the hero, the rhubarb, and the other was divided into two halves and fed to the cat.

When the two were about to finish eating, they saw Shao'an appear on the dirt road on a bicycle.

Wang Manyin hurriedly greeted him with a big bowl: "Shao'an, why did you come at this time? Come in and sit down, and let your sister spread some egg pancakes."

Orchid also put down the dishes and chopsticks, ready to go back to the house to live a busy life.

Shao'an hurriedly stopped, "Sister, brother-in-law, don't be busy. I came here after dinner at the supply and marketing cooperative, and I specially sent you a photo, which Runye wrote back yesterday." ….

As he spoke, he pulled out an envelope from his yellow satchel.

"The photos we took in the county are out, show me what it looks like?" Orchid's face was full of excitement, and she hurriedly reached out to take it.

It's the first time she's been photographed when she's so big.

After Wang Manyin poured a glass of water for his brother-in-law, he asked again, "Have you really eaten it?"

"I've really eaten it," Sun Shaoan nodded. He was just afraid of trouble, so he specially ate to send photos.

Although Orchid is a little distressed about money, when she sees the photo at this moment, her heart is full of sweetness. The two of them in the photo, the man is tall and mighty, and the woman has a bright smile, which looks like a good match.

"I'll go home again in the afternoon, so that our mother and them can also take a look......" In Orchid's view, taking pictures is definitely a great thing, and she must share it with her family as soon as possible.

Wang Manyin leaned over and looked at it twice, and couldn't help but praise her aunt a few more words.

Orchids are inherently beautiful, and black-and-white photographs magnify this beauty. suddenly looks like a female star in the pictorial of the 80s.

After seeing the photo, he cared about his brother-in-law again: "Shao'an, the promotion of fungus fertilizer in various villages has been going smoothly recently, right?"

Since making a name for himself in the second team of Jar Village, Sun Shaoan has completely become a busy man. In recent times, he has been running back and forth from village to village.

"After looking at the test fields here in Jar Village, the villages are okay

Comparative support. According to the commune's mission, our two technicians should try to finish all the dozen villages before the wheat harvest."

When it comes to what he is doing now, Shao'an is a little more energetic in his words.

After running outside for a few months, his temperament is constantly changing.

"By the way, brother-in-law, I heard Director Guo mention that except for our Shibi Festival Commune, the promotion of fungus fertilizer in other places is not going well. The county supply and marketing cooperatives plan to convene a meeting with other technicians in the near future and let me make a report on my promotion experience."

"This is a good thing, it means that you also have an impression in the county supply and marketing cooperative." Wang Manyin is very proud of his brother-in-law. After going down this way, it is estimated that it will soon turn positive.

Shao'an had other things to do, and after staying for half an hour, he hurriedly rode away.

After the orchid brushed the bowl, I was anxious to take the photo back to my parents' house.

Wang Manyin still thinks that the sun is too poisonous, so he can persuade her to come down.

At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the two locked the door and left.

This time, Wang Manyin took rhubarb and chose another cliff ditch to catch scorpions.

The harvest was still very good, and when it got dark, there were more than 200 more scorpions.

It's about the same as orchids, and in one day, you can earn five yuan properly.

***

Corn sorghum nest, cold shallot as a dish, plus a bowl of corn paste porridge...... This is Wang Manyin's breakfast, it is simple, but he stands on the sideline and eats very deliciously.

When the two cats saw their owners holding rice bowls, they rushed to the front to ask for food.

Wang Manyin didn't drive away several times, so he simply twisted two nests and threw them over, before sending the two little guys away. Blessed are they, at least they haven't been hungry in their own homes.

The flower pig next to him saw the owner and also hummed and chirped.

But in just over a month, this guy has grown by one-third of his size, and he has at least twenty pounds of meat.

This growth rate made many mothers-in-law and aunts in the village envious, and they kept asking them for pig breeding experience, and planned to try to breed earthworms with soil manure in the next step.

For this situation, Wang Manyin was happy to hear about it, answered all questions, and specially explained that the earthworms should be cooked before feeding. After all, there are a lot of parasites in this thing, and fat pigs may have problems eating them raw.

However, he has some concerns in his heart, these earthworms raised by his own family have space for spring water to cheat, and both the growth rate and nutritional value should be higher than ordinary earthworms in the outside world.

So it remains to be seen how well the rest of the people feed the pigs.

Of course, if this model can really succeed, it will definitely leave a strong mark on the pig breeding business in Jar Village.

Mountain farmer