At noon, the weather was fine, and Wang Manyin carried all the two large vitex baskets and eggs that he had newly harvested in the past few days.

Then, he and Wang Fugui began to select eggs.

The selection method is very simple, bend the fingers of one hand into a cylinder and aim it at the sun in the sky. Then place the egg vertically on the mouth of the tube and look at the other end.

If you find a round black spot on the inside of the egg by the sun, it means that the egg has been pressed by the rooster and can hatch chicks.

Nowadays, chickens are generally fed in rural areas. After eating, the idle roosters like to be angry with the hens, and they press on them when they have the opportunity.

These guys also fight fiercely with each other for a mate.

Both sides blew their wings, craned their necks, and clucked.

Once you fight, you don't stop fighting.

They often fight in the dark, and their heads are bleeding. Until one side is defeated and flees in disgrace. At this time, the broken babies in the village are also the most excited, and they will come over to watch and cheer.

The rooster on the winning side has the exclusive right to lay eggs for the hen.

The two of them were very fast, but in half an hour, they picked more than 300 eggs. Overall, the quality of this batch of eggs was very good, and more than 270 eggs were selected from them.

After counting twice to confirm, Wang Fugui began to use the abacus to settle the accounts again.

Public is public, private is private.

To do things for the production team, there can be no mistakes, and there is no erasure.

At present, in order to prevent the production team from making two books of accounts or concealing the property for private purposes, the commune often sends a team to check the accounts below. Once there is a mistake, Wang Fugui, as the accountant of the second team, will definitely cause a lot of trouble.

After the two of them settled the accounts, Orchid walked out and said, "Brother Fugui, the family meal is ready, stay and eat?"

"No, I'm going back to get the kang ready. Hatch one day earlier, produce chicks one day earlier." Wang Fugui answered, and hurriedly left with a big basket.

The black nest nest, the corn is paste, and the vegetables are soft mixed with garlic seedlings in a cool tone.

In order not to attract attention, Wang Manyin's family has always had a simple meal in the morning and noon. But for many families in the village, it is actually a good meal.

After eating, while the orchids were brushing the dishes and pots, Wang Manyin was not idle, and took a shovel to the dung heap.

Under the continuous watering of the space spring, the earthworms in the dung heap grew very quickly, one after another.

Of course, this is also related to the method of accumulation of fertilizer adopted by Wang Manyin.

It takes at least half a year to ferment with the usual manure pile, and after he wraps a layer of plastic sheeting around the manure pile, a lot of heat is generated in the manure.

However, in more than a month, it can be turned into good cooked manure, which is used to breed earthworms, and the effect is very good.

Two dung heaps can provide a small half catty of earthworms every day.

With protein supplementation, the piglets are almost every other week. It's only been more than three months, and it has grown to fifty pounds, and its body shape is round, and it looks very pleasing.

Of course, compared with the scientific breeding of later generations, the growth rate of Wang Manyin's flower pig is a little slow. People grow 100 pounds in three months, and they can be slaughtered in half a year.

But in the current environment, it's quite amazing.

Nowadays, the dung heap of Wang Manyin's house has become an Internet celebrity attraction in Jar Village, and people from the village often come to visit and study.

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Even his old father-in-law made a special inquiry after he learned about it.

The method of raising earthworms in soil manure is very simple: just spread more grass into the manure, and then pour two buckets of water every day to keep it moist.

As far as Wang Manyin knows, many people have already begun to do this. Of course, it remains to be seen how effective the cultivation will be, after all, they do not have the space for spring water to base upon.

After feeding the pigs, watching the sun was still very spicy, the two did not rush to catch scorpions, but honestly stayed at home and read books.

After saying that in a few months, Wang Manyin completely got rid of his impetuousness, and the whole person was completely silent.

The existing books at home have been turned over by him several times, and even some words can be recited fluently.

In particular, several of Mr. Lu Xun's books have new insights every time I read them.

In addition to reading, Wang Manyin also specially bought a calligraphy book last time he went to the county seat and began to practice calligraphy.

In later generations, Wang Manyin had few opportunities to write. I go to work in front of the computer, and I play more with my phone after work. His hard pen writing is very ordinary, and he can only say that others know him after reading it.

As for the brush word...... I don't know anything about how to move a pen.

Now there is so much to spare, just enough to recharge.

I have been practicing the brush for more than a month, and I can barely put down the pen without shaking, and I am still far from getting started. However, Wang Manyin was not in a hurry, for Wang Manyin, there was time to pass.

As for the orchid, the learning momentum is even greater. As long as I have free time, I will read and write.

In half a year, the basic conventional words have been learned. For many articles, she can read through them smoothly even without looking through the dictionary.

Sometimes, Orchid has an indescribable gratitude to her husband in addition to love.

If she hadn't studied and studied, she felt that she might never have known that there were more exciting places and more magical things in this world besides the Shibi Festival and Yuanxi County.

These...... It's unimaginable for the mother-in-law and aunts who have been around the pot all their lives.

She finally understood why her husband taught her to read and write.

In the same way, it is definitely not because I dislike myself for being uneducated, but also because of love.

Her husband was like a guide, injecting something new into her life.

Orchid can feel that her whole person is changing, and she has an indescribable consciousness in the haze. It is this change that makes her look at things in the village with a little more indifference and thinking.

Sometimes, orchids even want to write down their thoughts. But after thinking about it, I still didn't dare.

In this way, the two stayed at home and waited quietly.

It wasn't until the sun turned west that he set off with the rhubarb. Unexpectedly, the two cats also followed, running back and forth, left and right, looking extremely excited. The two guys are already big cats, and some time ago they even learned to catch mice without a teacher.

Like rhubarb, when they catch a mouse, they immediately run to their owners to ask for credit.

Outcome...... Rats are buried deep in the dung heap.

It is natural for cats to eat mice, but Wang Manyin is a little helpless here.

Again, in order to prevent the animals at home from eating poisoned mice, it is best to eliminate them from the source. Fortunately, there are fish and shrimp in the space. When Orchid is not at home, he occasionally feeds the cats a few loaches to ensure nutrition.

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There is a cheating device called rhubarb, and the process of catching scorpions between the two of them seems to be very easy, as long as they really have their hands.

However, in two or three hours, nearly 200 more were caught.

After all, these days, just catching scorpions has sold more than 20 yuan, which is higher than Shao'an's monthly salary.

When he got home, put the newly caught scorpion away, Wang Manyin moved a chair and sat on the side of his head to enjoy the coolness.

After a while, I saw two beams of light coming from the opposite side of the deep ditch.

Soon, Liu Xiangyang and several educated youths appeared together. Among them, Wang Manyin also saw Shang Zhimin, who had disappeared for more than a month.

This man fought with Zhao Jianhai because of his poetry, and was finally sent to the commune to attend a study class.

I don't know when I came back, I don't have any information at all.

"Xiangyang, it's dark, what are you going to do?" Seeing everyone approaching, Wang Manyin hurriedly walked to the side of the field to say hello.

"Brother Wang, in the afternoon we went to the mountains to chop wood, and when we came back, we passed by the sheep's tail ditch, and saw a large group of rock pigeons in the cliff ditch, almost a hundred, and we might stay there at night, and we plan to catch some and come back to eat. Brother Wang, why don't you go together?"

After Shang Zhimin finished explaining, he invited again.

Now the educated youths are given a pound of meat tickets a month, but for these sixteen or seventeen-year-old young people, it is not enough to fight tooth sacrifices. When there is an opportunity to eat meat, they certainly won't miss it.

Seeing that the other party spoke, Wang Manyin asked with a smile, "Zhimin, when did you go back to the village?" It's all right."

"I just came back in the afternoon...... He said that he would start cutting wheat immediately, and let me receive labor education in the village." Speaking of this, Shang Zhimin was still indignant.

"It's good to come back"

Wang Manyin could only be comforted.

He hoped that after this incident, the other party would be able to change the problem of nonsense. Otherwise, you will definitely suffer in the future.

However, when he heard that a few people were going to the mountains to catch wild pigeons, he hurriedly persuaded him, "Don't go, you have all dug up earth keels in the sheep's tail ditch, and you know what the terrain is like over there." There is a pit in the cliff ditch, and you can't see the road clearly in the middle of the night. Besides, now is also the time for snakes, rats, insects and ants in the mountains to come out to feed. It's troublesome to be stung by a scorpion or bitten by a poisonous snake...... It's not worth it for a bite."

"Brother Wang, how can it be such a coincidence." Shang Zhimin spoke disapprerovingly.

"You forgot about the educated youth in the commune next door blocking the sheep?" Wang Manyin asked rhetorically.

Hearing this, several educated youths fell silent.

Not long ago, a young intellectuals from the commune next door went into the mountains to stop sheep and accidentally fell off the cliff. By the time he was discovered, he was completely silent...... "Why don't we go back?" Wang Licheng was the first to speak.

After falling into the pit once, Wang Licheng already had a psychological shadow.

Liu Xiangyang immediately nodded in agreement. Now that I think about it, I was really carried away by pigeon meat. This matter was proposed by him, and if something really happens, it will definitely not be able to get out of it.

"If you believe me, come over tomorrow morning, and bring some corn kernels as bait, and then we will catch the rock pigeon together." At this time, Wang Manyin spoke.

He was equally greedy for such a large flock of rock pigeons.

Although I have a lot of breeding in my space, I can't take it out and eat it often. Just take this opportunity to catch a few more and beat the tooth sacrifice.

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"Really...... What can you do?"

Hearing that there was a turning point, several educated youths became excited again.

"Keep it a secret for now, just bring the corn kernels tomorrow." In order to maintain a sense of mystery, Wang Manyin sold Guanzi.

"How much corn do you want, is two catties enough?" Wang Licheng asked.

"Half a pound is enough."

Wang Manyin responded speechlessly.

If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are...... This is also the reason why Wang Lianshun is helpless against the educated youths not working.

People receive more than 40 catties of food every month, plus various ticket subsidies. If you don't work, you have food, so why follow the members into the mountains to suffer.

"That's it, we'll come back tomorrow morning,"

After agreeing on a time, a few educated youths turned around and returned. They are not going in the same direction, Liu Xiangyang needs to go to the earthen dam to keep vigil.

***

After breakfast, Wang Manyin found a rope and began to make live buckles.

This is a method of catching birds that Wang Manyin learned from the foreign survival gods on the Internet, and the principle is similar to that of stilts. However, it is much simpler, requiring only a length of rope and a thin wooden stick.

What's more, the success rate is high.

It's a pity that after learning, all kinds of birds are three-have animals, so he has never found a chance to show it. But in this world, it has been successfully achieved.

By the time Liu Xiangyang and the others arrived, Wang Manyin had already made more than a dozen live buckles.

Next, everyone did not delay, and set off directly with tools, and there were a few more broken babies behind them to watch the excitement.

As for the rhubarb, it also followed.

As soon as he came to the mountain beam next to the sheep's tail ditch, Wang Manyin saw a group of gray-white fluttering edges flapping their wings, circling and flying in the direction of the wheat field.

But he didn't care, the wheat field was guarded. As soon as they see a flock of birds approaching, they will suddenly beat the gong.

It's hard for these guys to get food, and they're going to have to fly back eventually.

Under the command of Wang Manyin, several educated youths began to use sickles to dig holes in the mountain beams to make traps.

The shape of the hole is similar to that of a teacup, the wall of the hole is vertical, almost more than ten centimeters deep, and corn kernels are placed inside as bait. The snap is placed above the opening, on the other end of the joinery

The stick is nailed to the edge.

After it was done, Wang Manyin was afraid that the pigeons would fly back and not see the corn kernels in the trap, so he deliberately sprinkled some more in conspicuous places around.

Then, he led the people to the other side of the mountain beam and waited.

As soon as he walked into the cliff ditch, Mao Dan suddenly pointed to a pile of fine soil next to him, and said excitedly: "Uncle Man Yin, look, why are there so many mounds of soil here, is it a squirrel hole?"

"I'll go, so much, have we found the squiasl nest?" Liu Xiangyang also exclaimed when he saw the piles of fine loess.

As far as the eye can see, there are hundreds of mounds of earth large and small, which are obviously not naturally formed.

Wang Manyin took a few looks, then shook his head and said, "This is not a hole dug by a yellow squirrel, but a ground sheep."

"Ground sheep, what's that?" A young man asked curiously.

"This thing is also one of the pests of the Loess Plateau, also known as the blind mouse, which lives underground all year round and feeds mainly on the roots and stems of plants. Alfalfa, wheat, corn...... These guys eat any rhizome. And they are especially chicken thieves when they steal food, and they have been hiding in the ground, dragging their claws into the hole little by little. There are often large areas of crops that disappear inexplicably in the fields, and there is no abnormality to be seen from the outside, they are all done by these guys......

For the creature in front of him, Wang Manyin is quite familiar.

Blind rats are scientifically known as moles, and it is easy for unfamiliar people to mistake them for moles.

Although both animals burrow underground, they are very different animals. Moles are much larger than moles and are more destructive. If the caves are not removed in time, they can destroy half an acre of crops in two or three months at most.

So for this kind of thing, the croppers can say that they hate it to the core.

These guys are still proper burrowing strongmen, and at the end of the day, they can dig out burrows more than ten meters long and push out three or four piles of soil.

The hundreds of piles of soil in the ravine in front of me are the masterpiece of a mole rat.

Sorry, there is only one shift today.

Mountain farmer