"If there can be eighty percent, any more will depend on the sky." Wang Fugui replied uncertainly.

Wang Manyin didn't know how the advanced egg incubators in later generations were, but the soil kang could have a hatching rate of 80%, which was already very good, so he could consider giving it a try.

After thinking about it, he was concerned about the starting price again: "How much is a chicken going to sell?" ”

"If you pay on credit, the hen will be two cents and fifty hairs, and the little rooster will be two cents, and it will be five cents cheaper for one cash. But if you give it to our village members, it must be cheaper. Wang Fugui obviously had detailed consideration in his heart, and he calculated the accounts very clearly.

Based on the calculation of incubating 300 eggs at a time, you can earn forty or fifty yuan. Excluding the cost, there can be thirty yuan, which is not low.

Just like Wang Lianshun said, several communes around the Spring Festival are making chicken plague, and more than half of the local chickens in many villages have died, and this market will be very large.

Not to mention hatching 300 chicks, even 3,000 can be sold.

Chicken ass bank, it's not just talk. In Jar Village, because of the soil keel cut once in the spring, every family has some spare money in their hands.

And some families in other villages don't even have money to eat salt.

So making money is for sure, but there are other circumstances to consider.

Wang Manyin said with some concern: "Uncle Lian Shun, this must be a good thing, but I don't know if the commune allows it?" ”

Truth be told, he's conflicted about having a side hustle right now. On the one hand, I hope that the village can have more ways to get money, and the members can have a few living money in their pockets. Especially after visiting Liujiawan, this idea is even stronger.

On the other hand, I don't want anything to happen to the people in the village.

Now the wind direction in the former West County is sometimes loose and sometimes tight, and the staff of the Shibijie Commune have the same different opinions. Some are stricter, while others turn a blind eye.

"I'm afraid of it, in previous years, those who gave money to the chickens, no one cared. Besides, this is a side hustle of the production team, and the money has not fallen into personal pockets......"

Wang Lianshun showed a bit of pride.

He led the members of the second team to build an earthen dam successfully, and obtained more than ten acres of paddy fields, and now he has more ideas in his heart. Of course, on the other hand, they are also in a hurry to repay the loan of several thousand yuan.

"You just have a score in mind, let's take our time, don't make too much noise." Seeing that the other party had made up his mind, Wang Manyin didn't say anything more.

The predecessor ran around blindly all year round, and had too little contact with the members of the village every day, thinking that Wang Lianshun was a good man, who was well-behaved and didn't like to toss.

Now Wang Manyin's view has completely changed: it's not that people don't want to toss, they just don't want to toss. It's still very bold to identify the right things.

In addition, Wang Lianshun is right, you can't do nothing because you are afraid.

Now the second team of Jar Village is regarded as a typical propaganda by the commune, which should be regarded as an extra layer of protection. In addition, the commune also issued the task of having local chickens and eggs every year, and there are no eggs for chickens.

Seeing that the matter of eggs was confirmed, Wang Lianshun said again: "Manyin, find you a good job, and follow Yanqiang and them to show the production team how about the vigil?" Five minutes a night. ”

There are too many members who are short of food.

When there was nothing to eat, many people moved their minds and waited for the crops to be ripe, and then quietly went to the fields at night to steal grain.

Therefore, every year before the harvest of crops, each village will arrange people to be responsible for watching the green vigil.

Of course, they generally choose to be able to calm things, ingredients and perform well.

Keeping watch for more than ten days and nights, I can earn nearly 100 more points, which is also a lot of income for the members. After all, this work is not tiring, just stay up for a while, so many people rush to do it.

Wang Lianshun arranged the errand on his head, apparently to compensate for the purchase of sheep.

Knowing that the other party had good intentions, Wang Manyin still shook his head: "Uncle Lian Shun, forget it, I usually sleep more dead at night, you can find someone else." ”

Hunger has been the case since ancient times.

It's definitely not right to steal the food of the production team, but seeing a family of children lying on the kang screaming and screaming hungry, and there is no other way, what can I do.

To put it bluntly, it's still poor.

belongs to the same production team, Wang Manyin really encountered such a situation, ignore it or ignore it?

I'm not short of that bit of work, so I'd better leave it to others to worry about. With this kung fu, it is more fragrant to hug your daughter-in-law.

After chatting about business, the three returned to the breeding room compound.

After Wang Manyin found the knife in the walk-behind tractor, he was not in a hurry to go home.

Instead, like everyone else, stand by the pot and wait. When I plan to divide the meat, I go back with a bowl directly, so I don't have to run back and forth.

When it comes to eating meat, the men, women and children of the village are very enthusiastic.

Wang Shouchang began to be busy after eating in the morning, and at this time, the yellow mutton was already stewed. The smell of incense permeated the compound, causing many people's throats to move.

The yellow sheep weighed almost fifty catties, and according to the sheep meat rate, one catty produced six taels of meat, which was only thirty catties.

A household can almost divide three taels of meat.

This is already a lot, enough for many people to eat a delicious meal, even more sumptuous than the New Year.

However, he was afraid that the meat would not be enough, so Wang Shouchang poured a large basket of old salt vegetables into the cauldron and stirred it back and forth with a big shovel.

The so-called old salt cabbage is sun-dried pickled cabbage.

The pickles in the jar village are generally developed in late autumn and can be eaten until before the Qingming Festival.

After Qingming, the weather gets warmer, and the sauerkraut is easy to taste.

People will put the uneaten sauerkraut in a pot and steam it, and then dry it and store it, which is the old salt cabbage.

This stuff is easy to store and can be eaten all year round.

When you are busy with work, grab a handful of dried salted vegetables and rinse them with boiling water, and then cut the garlic seedlings or add a small sharp pepper, which is a plate of food.

When many broken babies are hungry, they often eat salt vegetables as snacks.

When the old salt vegetables are boiled, the hot stewed yellow mutton is officially out of the pot.

Those broken babies immediately held the big bowls and rushed to the pot one by one. It was Wang Manjun who shouted a few times before they lined up.

Wang Manyin borrowed a bowl and also joined the team.

As a hero, he was clearly given preferential treatment. Wang Shouchang dropped two spoons, scooping at least half a catty of meat.

No one said anything about this.

When I arrived home with a large bowl, the door of the cave was still locked, and it was clear that the orchid had not returned.

Seeing that the time was not early, Wang Manyin had to cook by himself.

With a bowl of stew as a base, midday rice is easy to make. Boil half a pot of corn paste, beat two eggs in it, and make a few black nests.

When he was almost ready, he saw his mother-in-law returning with a crockpot.

Seeing her husband, Orchid immediately said with excitement on her face: "Guess how many scorpions I caught in the morning?" ”

"How much?" Wang Manyin asked very cooperatively.

Looking at the expression of the mother-in-law, you know that the harvest is not small.

"More than one hundred and thirty, all thanks to rhubarb......"

After listening, Wang Manyin was also a little surprised.

In the past few days, Orchid took Rhubarb to run more than a dozen cliffs and ditches and caught more than a thousand scorpions. Afraid that too many scorpions would get together to fight, she also deliberately packed up the empty jars at home.

Earning almost twenty dollars, no wonder I'm so excited.

However, looking at the sweat on her aunt's forehead, Wang Manyin was more distressed. I can only explain again, don't go too far, just look around the village.

Actually, you can't catch it for a few days...... The summer harvest will begin soon, and many mothers-in-law and aunts in the village will go to the fields to help. If the orchid takes rhubarb to catch scorpions, it will be a little out of place.

After the orchid rested for a while, the two began to eat the stew.

In the afternoon, Wang Manyin had nothing to do, and he also accompanied him to catch scorpions.

When it was almost dark, they both went home.

After eating, it was already pitch black outside.

The two did not rush back to the house to study, they each moved a chair and sat on the sidelines to enjoy the shade and chat.

The breeze caresses the early summer nights.

The stars overhead seem to be plucked out.

The two kittens ran back and forth around their owners, playing with each other.

On the other side of the deep ditch, the sound of broken babies chirping was heard from time to time. Farther afield, in the Dongla River, frogs chirp and disappear......

In such an environment, Wang Manyin felt that time had slowed down. The bustle and prosperity of the later generations are getting farther and farther away from themselves.

It wasn't until the whole village fell completely silent that they went back to sleep.

Little Bie is newlywed.

Last night was a special circumstance, and the two of them didn't have a good relationship with me, so now we will make up for it again.

After a day of recuperation, Wang Manyin's spirit was completely recovered, and it was naturally indispensable to hand in his homework.

***

Before the wheat was ripe, the lentils began to be harvested.

The Loess Plateau has nine droughts in ten years, but summer is an exception, with frequent flash floods and torrential rains. Therefore, people pay attention to risk diversification, and all kinds of crops have to be planted.

There are also sayings such as "seven flowers on the first floor, don't accept this one and that", "eighty kinds of millet, seventy kinds of grain" and so on.

The Loess Plateau not only has many varieties of millet grains, but also dozens of kinds of beans. Lentils, peas, black beans, mung beans, soybeans, red beans, ...... It can be planted in both spring and summer.

The summer harvest officially began, and Wang Manyin was naturally not idle.

Leaving orchids at home, he also followed the production team to work.

Burnt wheat fried beans.

Once the beans are ripe, they are not easy to harvest, and the seeds will fall off if they are touched slightly.

Without waiting for the lentil pods to turn black, Wang Lian took everyone to start busy in the field by the way. More than a dozen members lined up in a long line, each brandishing a sickle and cutting forward, a very hot scene.

Coupled with everyone's talk and laughter, this life seems to be relaxed, and the key is to tire the waist.

Lentil seedlings lack water and fertilizer and grow short, Wang Manyin is too tall, and it is particularly laborious to bend over.

Stretching his waist, he saw many mothers-in-law and aunts quietly pinch open the lentil pods with their hands when they cut the bean seedlings, and put the beans inside in their mouths to chew.

Wang Manyin understands their thoughts, eating half-born lentils can save a lot of food at noon.

However, this thing has a drawback, eating too much flatulence.

Hiccups at the top and farts at the bottom.

Not only the mothers-in-law and aunts did this, but also many laborers.

Of course, everyone still has eyes, they didn't go too far, and no one dared to secretly put it in their pockets. This is also a rule that everyone acquiesces to, you can eat something, and if you take it home, it will be stolen.

As for Wang Lianshun next to him, it was as if he hadn't seen it.

At this point, basically every family has run out of food...... The laborers must not have enough to eat at home. Eating some lentils can also give you a little more strength.

Wang Manyin had just been cutting for half an hour, and he felt that his waist was not like his own, so he hurriedly applied to Wang Lianshun for an au pair and helped carry the lentil bundle down the mountain.

The lentil fields are located on a mountain ridge, and walk-behind tractors and rack carts cannot enter the ground, so they can only be transported outward by hand.

This job is very suitable for Wang Manyin. He carried two bundles at a time, weighing almost a hundred pounds, and he seemed to be relaxed.