Chapter Seventy-Nine: Digging a Fish Pond and Raising Crayfish
"Raising crayfish requires skill."
Wu Juan couldn't get used to his deterioration, and poured a basin of cold water over him: "How can it be so easy to feed?" You don't know how to farm, and you can't feed you for a winter. ”
"Huh?"
Ye Jian stopped laughing, glanced at his daughter apologetically, and lowered his head silently.
"Dad, the Wang family in Daliushu Village has a fish pond."
Ye Xiuyan's smart black eyes rolled, and she secretly gave her father an idea: "They raise fish at home, and naturally they will also raise lobsters, so it is better for my father to visit Wang's house and ask them about the method of breeding." ”
"That's right, how did Dad forget this stubble."
When Ye Jian heard this, he instantly came to his senses again: "Cheng, my father and Lao Wang are still distant relatives, you dig some ponds in the afternoon, and my father will go to his house to inquire about the way to raise fish, if you don't raise lobsters, let's raise fish." ”
"Pick up a few chickens and ducks when you go."
Wu Juan glanced at the father and daughter, and told him with a straight face: "It's not good to come to the door empty-handed, he is willing to tell you that the breeding is successful, and then give him a thank you gift." ”
"Okay, I'll go."
The daughter-in-law spoke, Ye Jian was more confident, hurriedly took a few mouthfuls of rice in his mouth, put down the chopsticks and walked out.
"Hey, this guy."
Wu Juan smiled angrily: "I'm old, and my temperament is still so anxious, and I'm not stable at all." ”
"Hee-hee."
Ye Xiuyan smiled with her rice bowl, slipped back to her chair, and was very smart and did not answer.
The children were all eating with their heads down, no one answered, Wu Juan felt bored, took a chopstick dish, put it in Ye Xiuyan's bowl, and also picked up the bowl and continued to eat.
The family is interesting.
Women are strong and men are weak!
With such a strong mother, it's no wonder that she can raise such a clever daughter as Yan Yatou.
If the Xiliang Kingdom can follow the example of Fengqi Kingdom, improve the status of women, and equality between men and women, it would be good for every family to do so.
Ye Junlan silently ate with his rice bowl, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw all the conversations between the couple in his eyes, and a playful smile appeared on the corner of his lips.
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After noon, Lin Jingcheng personally went out and dug a fish pond by the well with a sword.
At the beginning of the separation, Ye Jian dug another well in his small courtyard.
Now that the two courtyards are open and combined, the Li family has two wells.
Lin Jingcheng solicited Wu Juan's opinion and dug a large earth pit two meters wide, three meters long, and about two meters deep next to the courtyard wall next to the well of the original small house.
Ye Junlan was in a good mood, sitting in a wheelchair, holding two puppies, basking in the warm autumn sun, watching the two sweat like rain with great interest, digging pits with hoes, and smiling from time to time to comment a few words.
Bean buns and beans are fun to watch, and they also join in the fun.
Doubao waved a small shovel to help decently, and Douding played with mud happily, and after a while, he rolled into mud and became a little clay man.
Wu Juan borrowed a wheelbarrow from his next-door neighbor's house, pushed the dug mud out of the yard, and loaded some rocks and mud from the riverbank.
Lin Jingcheng used stones to build a circle in the mud pit, planted aquatic plants at the bottom of the pit, and sprinkled a layer of mud and sand.
The eldest and second sisters went back and forth several times, brought back the river water with wooden barrels, poured it into the pit, and poured about a meter of water into it.
After the fish pond was completed, Ye Xiuyan threw the crayfish and earthworms into it with a smile, and watched the crayfish happily waving their big tongs, chasing each other for food, and smiling and bending her eyebrows.
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Ye Jian carried four chickens and ducks, drove the mule cart, went to Daliushu Village, and successfully found the gate of the Wang family.