Chapter 91: The Problem of Pig Breeding
As for the truant child Ding Erni... Yes, she is no longer tired of school, but has evolved into a truant. However, the school management in this era was not strict, and many families were in difficulty, especially girls, it was impossible to have more than ten girls in a class of forty or fifty children.
Therefore, Erni often doesn't go to class, Ding Yu used to go to school to ask the teacher for leave, and then when she was in the second grade, she simply didn't go to class and the teacher didn't care about her, as long as she went to the final exam, and then the tuition fee was paid as usual.
In addition, at this time, the teachers at the school did not dare to control the students, and Ding Yu didn't care about her, as long as her grades were not too ugly, she could be admitted to the university when she recovered.
Since Chen Shenzhong came up with a recipe to poison the rooster, although the recipe was used after the scourge killed a few roosters and experimented with the appropriate dose. The final result is not that he can't make a sound at all, and the hoarse ones still bark, but the voice is quiet, and he doesn't always bark, but he has raised a few roosters this year.
However, the valley is not completely safe, and weasels often steal chickens, and snakes will also be used, and not only spraying but also sulfur will not always be eradicated.
"I specially left two buns to take to Aunt Fang tomorrow to taste, pork is more fragrant than chicken and rabbit."
The climate in the valley is warm in winter and cool in summer, and in the past two years, Fang's originally haggard body has recovered a lot, although it has not recovered to her before because of labor, but it is also healthy, and even the big guy who was always expressionless and gloomy has become cheerful and has the appearance of a child.
Hearing that the tench specially left it for his mother, he pursed his mouth, the light in his eyes flashed, and he nodded reservedly.
The tench he looks at is funny, although the child has been going in and out with them for the past two years, eating and working together, but the tench can see that he has just been grateful to them, rushing to do any work, Erni sometimes deliberately embarrass him and he doesn't let him silently, but he always feels a layer apart.
It wasn't until last year that the chickens, rabbits and pigs raised in the valley began to make a lot of profits, and there were visible returns to the naked eye, and they had saved a lot of money on either the tench side or the Fang family's side before he felt relieved, as if the burden on his body was unloaded, and they all began to worry about Erni, and secretly made the stumbling block make Erni suffer a loss The tench found out that this kid had been holding his breath!
Sometimes the tench can't control the comparison, the big guy is so smart when she is seven or eight years old, what was she doing when she was seven or eight years old?
It seems to follow a group of children in the nearby neighborhood to hide and seek, play sandbags after school all day, and then go home dirty and scolded by her mother... Can't compare, can't compare, when I compare, I feel like I was a fool when I was a child!
I turned my head and saw Erni who was making single clothes for Sanni... Yes, she can't even compare to Erni!
The next day, except for my uncle, everyone else went to the valley, and before I got to the valley, I met Uncle Meng halfway. He was marking the mountain in the middle with the heads they had placed in the hot spring cave.
Turning around, the tench said hello, "Uncle Meng, it's early, this place hasn't been melted yet, isn't it early." ”
In the past two years, they have only planted in the valley, although the grain they grow is not enough, but because they feed too many poultry, they are busy either cooking pig food or digging wild vegetables every day, and in the autumn they have to cut the grass this morning and dry it to store the grass to be fed throughout the winter, so it can be said that there is no idle time. The long-planned search for a place to grow more food has also been put on hold.
But this year, I plan to raise more chickens and rabbits, and the food is even more urgent, just from the outside to transport grain in they don't know that there is space for the tench, they carry an empty basket from the outside, and when they enter the valley, they put the grain in, and they see the tench carrying it into the mountains one by one, and they all unanimously decided to open up more land to grow grain.
"Well, let's not open the ground first, find stones, and surround this side. Although the water flowing here is from the hot springs, it smells, but the food planted will definitely not be able to stop these animals in the mountains, and the birds in the sky alone can spoil a lot of food every year, hey, I can't find a good place like in the valley! ”
Today's yield per mu is not later chemical fertilizers, pesticides, hormones, thousands of catties per acre, or good fertile land, and the most suitable sweet potatoes are six or seven or eight catties, not to mention that this is a thin land that has just opened in the mountains.
They do not have the scourge of wild boars and rabbits in the valley, and they rarely attract birds and finches, and they can only harvest three or four hundred catties per acre. This reminds me that in ancient times, there would be hunger even if there was land to plant, and there would be refugees everywhere when there was a natural disaster. It's purely that the yield per mu is too pitiful, so it's better in modern society, although the food is raised by chemical fertilizers and hormones, you don't have to worry about being hungry.
Thinking of rabbit chops, wild boar arches... Come on, let's fence before planting!
Every day, there are more and more chickens and rabbits in the valley that need to be cooked, digging wild vegetables to feed, and unconsciously walking in the footsteps of the non-stop busy spring.
This year, Chen Shenzhong and Erni are both eight years old, and at such an age, they must work in the field when they reach the spring planting. Erni goes to school, the village requirements are not strict, and the uncle is on top when the tench is not busy farming, so that the tench has more time to run in and out of the mountains.
When Chen Shenzhong is older, he has to participate from beginning to end, and he usually has to go to work, so this year, when they plant all the land, it is almost summer.
And in the summer, the smell in the valley is not very good as the chickens are raised. Although they were diligent in cleaning, they couldn't clean even if they wanted to eat and drink in just a few places, more than a thousand chickens, three or four hundred rabbits, and five pigs.
"Isn't this the way to go? Otherwise, we won't raise pigs next year! ”
The sun was shining outside, and the people couldn't stand it, so after lunch, several people gathered in the second house to rest. The tench suggested as he smelled the unpleasant smell in the air.
Over time, for convenience, they lived in a house in front, and then the second house in the back was cleaned up and the weather was warm and they were here to cook, eat, and save the place to sleep was too hot and crowded.
"No, if you don't raise pigs, it's not convenient to eat pork at the beginning and end of the year, at least you have to raise two heads to keep for killing and eating meat." The first to speak out against it was the Fang clan.
In the past two years, they raised their own pigs, sometimes raising seven or eight pigs, and they had to kill two or three of them for meat a year, and the rest could also kill the meat, leaving pig offal and pig feet, and sell other things to the black market for money and daily necessities.
It can be said that it is precisely because they raise pigs that they do not lack meat to eat, and if they do not raise them, they just rely on buying them outside. First, they don't have meat tickets, and second, they don't necessarily get meat if they have meat tickets. Therefore, Fang felt that he still had to raise two ends to eat meat by himself.