Chapter 31: Buying a Breeder
Put the koji into the squeezed peach juice, stir the sealing jar, and wait for two months before opening and tasting.
Thinking of having to wait so long, Mo Jingchun's heart was a little impatient.
"Chun'er, tomorrow I will take you and Uncle Ming's donkey cart to the town to buy a few chicken seeds, and I will ask for a rooster and three hens."
Zhou learned to play a trick back, and by the way exchanged with Liu's experience in raising chickens, and rarely took the initiative to take out the money bag to ask Mo Jingchun and Mo Qinglin to buy a few breeding chickens tomorrow, and when they came back, they would give birth to more hens to lay eggs.
The chickens, ducks and geese originally raised by the old Mo family all belonged to the Zhou family, and she also took the initiative to give up more than half of the vegetable garden in order to compete for these treasures.
These days are free, it's time to build a new chicken shed, buy a few chickens and come back to keep the eggs to eat.
Mo Jingchun was happy to go to town again, and asked, "Grandma, why don't you go with us?" ”
Gao touched her head: "Grandma will go and turn over the ground tomorrow, and it will be good to plant wheat next month." ”
"Grandma, you wait for us to come back together, you can rest at home."
Mo Jingchun was afraid that it would be too hard for her to go to the ground alone.
She pulled Mo Qinglin and assured her: "Uncle Tongming will leave before dawn, and we will definitely be able to come back before noon." ”
Gao's heart was warm, so he had to agree: "Okay, well, when you come back, then grandma will be lazy and wait for you at home." ”
The three of them looked at each other and smiled.
Before dawn the next day, when the Mo family villagers were still having breakfast, Mo Tongming and the Liu family finished eating and came to find Mo Jingchun and Mo Qinglin.
Mo Jingchun finished the last bite of porridge at the bottom of the bowl and said vaguely: "Auntie, I'm fine, you wait for me to wipe my face and change my clothes." ”
Liu agreed with a sigh, leaning on the door of Lao Mo's house and gossiping with Gao and waiting for her: "To say... You and Chun'er have survived, and this kid is more cheerful than before. ”
Gao lost his son for a few months, and he also saw some changes in Mo Jingchun's eyes, and sighed: "You have to be sensible at a young age, and your sweet mouth is to make me feel sad, where can't I see it?" That's why I'm even more upset...
Not to mention anything else, I don't know when I learned this cooking skill, I really pity this child. ”
"Hey, Aunt Maojin, don't say that, it was your family's boss who saved Chun'er's life with a good heart, she is sweet and sensible because she feels sorry for you, God still has such a good granddaughter for you, don't hold everything in your heart every day."
After that, Liu smiled again: "I think Chun'er, this kid is smart, maybe he just keeps it in mind when he watches you cook every day, and he learns it, this is a talent, maybe he can be a chef in the future!" ”
Gao said modestly: "What's the matter, everyone's chefs are all men..."
"How is the Yuanlin family doing?"
Before Zhou got up, Liu leaned closer and asked in a low voice.
"That's it, I've been honest since I told me last time." mentioning the second son and the second daughter-in-law, Gao's smile faded a lot, "It's just that Mo Song doesn't know what he's busy with these days, he often doesn't see anyone, and he only comes back late every day." ”
"Hey, you have to tell his father and mother to watch closely, don't run around on the mountain and step on the trap laid by the Fang brothers, it's not good to get hurt."
Liu still cares about the child.
Gao smiled and nodded: "Okay, I'll talk to his father when I come back." Where's your Jiamin? What's the news lately? ”
Mo Minmin has been married to her husband's family for two years, and her stomach has not moved during the New Year, and the Liu family is a little anxious, but her husband's family doesn't care much, saying that it is not too late for Sister Min to raise her body and regenerate, anyway, the relationship between the young couple is good.
With such a good in-law, the Liu family is also satisfied behind his back.
When I saw that the man's family was a butcher who sold meat, I thought that my temper was not very good, but I didn't expect it to be a good marriage with high incense.
The smile on Liu's face became thicker: "I just asked someone to bring a message from my mother-in-law's house a few days ago, it's all good, my son-in-law said that I will bring her back to my parents' house for two days in a while." ”
The two talked for a while, and Mo Jingchun and Mo Qinglin were fine.
Sitting on Mo Tongming's donkey cart, Mo Jingchun pinned the purse that Bo Qingshan gave her to her in his waist, which contained the three hundred copper coins that the Gao family gave her yesterday.
Generally, the market price of a broiler is about 40 yuan, and the breeding chicken is slightly more expensive, between 50 yuan and 70 yuan.
Liu told them to go to an old man in an alley in the town to buy it, and his breeders were healthy and able to give birth, so they only asked for about 60 yuan for roosters and about 50 yuan for hens.
The money given by the Gao family was very sufficient, and if they couldn't come back at noon, they could buy a cake in the town to eat.
After entering the city, Liu asked Mo Tongming to go to the old place to set up a stall, and she took her two children to the family to buy chickens.
After going around several small streets, he finally arrived at the place where the family lived, and Mo Jingchun found that this street was full of people who raised chickens and ducks, and also sold breeding birds.
Unfortunately, the family went out today, and no one opened the door for a quarter of an hour.
When the Liu family was about to continue to wait here, a family next to him poked his head out: "Do you want to buy chicken?" Broiler or layer? ”
He had a reckless beard on his face, and Liu was a little scared when he saw it, and he wanted to leave with his two children in tow.
Mo Jingchun intuitively felt that the chickens he sold should be good, and responded: "I want to buy one rooster and three hens." ”
"Breeding, huh? Come in and have a look. ”
He opened the courtyard door, and he didn't bother to come out to greet the guests.
Although Liu was afraid, when he saw that Mo Jingchun's face was calm, he cheered up and walked in vigilantly with the two of them.
When I went in, I found a woman in her early twenties in the courtyard.
"Look at it, that's all there is to it."
The man casually pointed to the five that the woman was feeding.
There are exactly four males and four females, all of whom are energetic and have bright coats.
"You are..."Liu Shi glanced at it several times: "Cockfighting?" ”
"Yes, originally this Taolai was specially sold to Wu Erlang, a few days ago he was caught by the old man at home and discounted a leg, so he didn't ask for it, and he couldn't find a buyer for more than a month, so he simply sold it as a breeder."
The man pointed to the rooster, and he was quite sincere.
After that, I am not afraid that these people will be unlucky and will not buy chickens for gambling money.
"But these hens are pretty diligent in laying eggs." The woman was afraid that they would not buy it, so she made up for it.
She wore an apron, her hands were thin and white, and she didn't look like someone who often did rough work.
Liu believed them: "How much?" ”
"Eighty for roosters, fifty for hens." These hens were not originally fighting cocks, but although the price of this rooster was high, they were originally sold for several taels of silver.
Mo Jingchun was a little hesitant, she just wanted to buy an ordinary seed, there was no need to spend so much money.
The man saw her hesitation, and didn't know why he simply broke the jar and said, "If you can take all these ones away at once, I will sell the rooster to you for the money of the family next to me." This chicken has good physical strength and is big, and it will be enough to eat a few meals of meat after killing, and you won't lose money if you buy it back. ”