"From feeding the piglets now, to next summer, the piglets that can grow into half a size can also harvest a lot." Xiang Xi calculated an account, it was definitely earned, there was no grass in the back mountains of the village in winter, and there was still hay, which could still be fed to pigs. ”

"The rest of the problem is to buy piglets, we hang them at the door, ask the guests who come and go, who has it in the village, come and tell us."

"Xianggong, what do you think of this?"

"Then you have to determine who in the village wants to raise pigs." ”

"Let's go to the relatives of the Gao family first."

After Xiang Xi told Goldman Sachs, he patted his head and said with great interest, "I want to raise some chickens and ducks, isn't there a bamboo forest at home, the most suitable place over there, just build a shed in the cold in winter, keep warm, and don't worry about freezing chickens." ”

Xiang Xi returned to the village in the afternoon of the same day and told the village chief and the elders of the senior family.

Aunt Gao was a little moved when she heard this, "Xiaoxi, can you really buy a piglet?" ”

It turned out that they had long wanted to raise some livestock, there were many children at home, and they were idle in the winter, so they had time to go out to hunt pigweed, and it was no problem to feed just one pig.

It's just that most of the time it's the beginning of spring to buy piglets.

Now I'm afraid it's hard to buy.

Xiang Xi took this matter over, "I'll go to inquire about the news, and if there is a piglet, I'll tell the eldest aunt." ”

"Wouldn't that be too much of a hassle for you." The eldest aunt was a little embarrassed.

Xiang Xi smiled and waved his hand, "It's okay, it just so happens that I want to buy it at home." ”

The eldest aunt pulled her to stay for dinner, and Xiang Xi had to go back to clean up the bamboo forest in the backyard and get out the chickens.

Xiang Xi said to do it.

As soon as I got home, I went to the backyard.

Pick up a broom and clean up.

Gao's mother learned the reason and went over to help clean up.

Gao's mother asked her how many she wanted to raise.

Xiang Xi snapped his fingers and discussed, "Let's raise one or two hundred?" ”

"Multi-...... How much? ”

"Too little?" Xiang Xi touched his chin and said matter-of-factly, "That's right, it's really too little, the shop can sell hundreds of eggs every day, and raising one or two hundred is not enough." ”

"It's just that this bamboo forest is too small, so I have to buy the wasteland next to it, and when the time comes, I will surround it on both sides, and I won't worry about the chickens running out, and I can also find small insects and earthworms in the woods to eat."

"Wait...... Xiaoxi, more than 200 is too much, we can't raise them, as soon as there are too many poultry, it is easy to get sick, if there is chicken plague, the livestock in the whole village cannot be saved. Gao's mother was startled and interrupted her repeatedly.

Xiang Xi glared and asked, "Mother, don't we have medical books in our family?" ”

"It says how to keep it clean and tidy to avoid chicken plague."

"Is there any?" Gao's mother recalled with a puzzled face, but she didn't think about it.

Xiang Xi looked innocent, "Yes, it's written on it, or who wrote it by hand." ”

Xiang Xi asked Gao's mother to find out the medical book, and found some shredded notes inside, but some of the handwriting was unclear, and a word was missing from time to time.

"Really." Gao's mother was taken aback and hurriedly said, "Let's go find the boss and take a look." ”

Goldman Sachs is collecting firewood in the back mountains, and the closer it is to winter, the more firewood it has to reserve for heating.

When the two came to find it, when they heard the intention, Goldman Sachs took the paper and looked at it, and he was a little impressed, he had seen it when he was a child.

Xiang Xi leaned next to him and pointed to the rightmost position on the paper that was old, and asked curiously, "Xianggong, look, is there a plague word written here, there is a word missing on it, there is only one word in front of the trace, and several herbs used in the back are ordinary, among which wormwood is the most, and finally said to clean it up......"

"There is also a chicken word here, I think it should be to solve chicken plague."

Goldman Sachs followed Xiang Xi's guidance to look, and the thoughts that he originally felt vague gradually had a clue, "I'll go back and study it at night in a while." ”

"Mother, why are you suddenly looking at this?"

Gao's mother told Xiang Xi about feeding more than 200 chickens.

There are still some crying and laughing, "Xiaoxi is really an artist, not to mention how much forage so many chickens have to eat, then you have to buy so many chickens, the temperature is low in winter, and it can't hatch at all." ”

Goldman Sachs was a little surprised, and when he met Shang Xiangxi's confident and sparkling eyes, he couldn't be firm.

"Mother, I calculated, even if you really feed so many chickens, you can't eat much coarse grain, this year's coarse grain is not expensive, it is cheaper than in previous years, plus there is a shop in addition to eggs, you also need chicken, chicken is not easy to buy, a lot of food can not be done, simply raise it yourself, it is so many chickens, it is tiring to raise."

"A few days ago, I heard the second sister-in-law of my aunt's family ask if the shop collects winter bamboo shoots, and if she wants, she will go to the back mountain to dig them up and send them to the shop."

"Xiaoxi said that you can make sour bamboo shoots, whether it is fried meat or directly as pickles appetizing, it is very good, but the winter bamboo shoots are a little bitter, and you have to deal with them when the time comes."

"You mean, you want to ask your second sister-in-law to raise you alone?" Gao's mother thought of the situation of Gao's second sister-in-law, a nephew and daughter-in-law, the man in the family had been taken away by conscription more than ten years ago, and never came back.

She happened to be pregnant with a posthumous son back then, and she has been raising her since she was born, and she has not remarried, plus Uncle Gao has not separated the family, and the remaining brothers and sisters take care of the second family, but in the end, there are many children, and the Gao family is not rich, so life is not easy.

Gao's mother agreed.

"So how do you solve the chicken? Going to shop around? ”

"Buy it first, if you can't buy it, we will hatch it ourselves, the hen can hatch chicks, then I will also warm the eggs, and it should be able to hatch too." Anyway, it's about controlling the temperature, she has read it in miscellaneous books before, and she has a rough impression, that is, there is no thermometer, and the temperature is not easy to control, so she can only rely on the feel.

Xiang Xi and Goldman Sachs are both temperaments that do what they say.

Goldman Sachs studied for a few nights to complete the fragments on the paper, and in order to verify it, he went up to the town shop to open a shop, and in the afternoon he went to consult a family who was good at raising livestock in ten miles and eight towns to ask how to prevent chicken plague.

He even went to the county clinic to ask the doctor.

As for why he didn't go to the town's medical hall, it was naturally the town's medical hall that was opened by the person who stole the Gao family's medical book, and there was a grudge, and the Gao family usually didn't go there even if they were sick.

Xiang Xi is not idle in the village, Gao Quan is not very old, but he is flexible, and he can completely replace her in the shop.

Xiang Xi went to every household in the village to collect eggs, took a cotton jacket, and set up an egg hatching soil box in the house.

Xiang Xi tossed like this.

Even the tall aunt and the women in the village came to see the novelty.

"Xiaoxi, can this be done?"

"Is it possible that a hen can hatch chicks because it is warm enough?" Some people sincerely wondered.