Poor family mother and son

Chapter 426
From time to time, he directed one or two children to see the situation of the ducks, and then said: "Now the grazing must pay attention to keeping the ducks in the shade, and the grazing should come out at Si o'clock in the morning and Shen o'clock in the afternoon, and the ducks should not be too hot. Add water for feeding at night. Use well water, well water is cool."

Chu Qing asked: "Have you put away all the duck feathers?"

The children rushed to answer: "Accepted! My family accepted it!"

"My family also took it. Didn't you say you can buy it with money?"

"My lord, do you really buy it?"

Chu Qing nodded and praised them for their ability, and promised to buy them.

When the locusts were cooked, Chu Qing asked the children to eat them. Originally, the children were only curious about seeing "Master Cotton" doing things, and didn't think they would actually eat them.

Locusts have nothing to eat, except that their wings are all legs, they have no meat, and they are so ugly.

But when the aroma of roasting came out, the children couldn't bear it anymore, and as soon as Chu Qing greeted them, pairs of little hands stretched out.

The children were happy to eat, and some younger girls would jump around behind their brothers. Chu Qing smiled when she saw it: "You want to jump when you eat delicious food, it's so simple to be happy."

The children ate fast, and Chu Qing couldn't keep up with their speed as he was so busy flipping and grilling on several stone slices.

"How is the situation in your rice fields?" Chu Qing asked.

The children just ate in silence, no one answered, and they all looked depressed.

Of course, the most important thing is to eat more, it's so delicious, it takes time to talk.

He didn’t get sick, so he opened his mouth. Anyway, this year his land was deserted, and he only planted an acre of vegetables: “It’s all white ears, most of them are empty!”

No wonder, the growth is not good, the adults are in a hurry, and the children also understand that this means being busy for nothing. After autumn, there will be no food harvest, and the stomach will be hungry.

When rice is in the heading stage, the field is too dry and the water supply is insufficient. If the rice ears cannot absorb enough water, the ears will become white.

This year's drought is so severe that we can't keep up with the speed of carrying water to irrigate the land.

Finally, it rained for a while, but it was just a drop in the bucket. Instead of raining much, the temperature rose immediately. These days are very hot, and the water evaporates quickly, which will definitely affect the earing.

Drought and heat have all caught up, and white and empty ears are also inevitable.

"How's your vegetable field?" Chu Qing asked.

"My house has a well," said Wubing, "watering the vegetable field is not a problem. My mother can also go to the field. Every time I can carry half a bucket of water, my sister and I can also carry half a bucket of water. Watering in buckets and half buckets, slow or slow, but not thirsty for vegetable fields."

Drilling wells is the biggest money spent by the sick family this year.He tried his best to persuade his mother to take the money to dig the well.

This year's drought, do you have the labor to farm the land? His mother thinks that the money from selling chicken and ducklings will be saved to buy food, but how much is too much?

They sold chickens and ducklings a lot, and saved a lot of money, more than a dozen taels. This is a big income for a farmer's family, and other people's families who work hard may not have this income from selling grain after autumn.

His mother even fantasized about buying paper and pens for her son and letting him study.

But the son opened his mouth and asked for money to dig a well, how could his mother agree?

So the two mothers spent three days "arguing", and finally the mother "defeated".

When it comes to drilling wells for Weibing, my friends are very envious. They are not qualified to argue with their parents, nor do they have the eloquence like Weibing.

What's more, their parents didn't dare to bully Wubing and his mother any more: they couldn't earn more money than their orphans and widowed mothers; they still had a well, and they expected to get water almost from his house.

The status of being healthy has also changed from the "power" brought by the "Steel Whistle" rewarded by "Master Cotton" to the surrender of their family's overall economic strength.

Didn’t you see it? Whoever was instructed by Wu Bing to take a look at the duck had to go, even if it was an older child who was a head taller than him.

The children only have two meals a day, this one in the afternoon, and they ate it before they came out to release the ducks, so their stomachs are already empty by now.

However, every family is like this, eat porridge every day, and can eat two meals a day, even if there is no break, it is worth saying that this family will live a good life.

Chu Qing checked that he was not sick. Among all the children, he seemed to have some flesh on his cheeks, and his complexion looked better than last month.

The reason for this is also simple. A mother who is not sick loves the child. Even if it is two meals a day, she will let the child eat dry food and deal with it casually.

However, at the insistence of the two children, the family of three steamed custard with two eggs every day, and the three of them shared it to increase nutrition.

Their family is the best family in the villages of the military household area, which runs the cycle of chicken and egg, and egg and chicken.

Chu Qing turned around and looked at the flock of ducks vying for aquatic plants and small fish and shrimps in the Hepaozi.

But the ducks are also smart, and those who don't want to compete with others, they use their big feet to press down on the grass on the bank, and the locusts in it flutter up, which is convenient for them to eat one by one.

From the eggs to the adults, the ducks are really more nutritious than humans in the past few months, and they are all fat and strong. Looking at it clearly from a distance, it seems to be seeing a roast duck walking.

During the day, I saw a flock of chickens grazing without disaster, and those chickens were also chubby and loud.When the neck stretches and shrinks, there are many locusts on the mouth.

"Now the locusts are hard," Wu Bing said, "Ducks prefer to eat locust gnats, which are tender and don't jump very high. My lord, tell me, why are there so many locusts when so many ducks eat every day?"

"Sigh, this is probably the species that people least expect 'more children, more happiness'!" Chu Qing replied vaguely.

There was a loud noise in the distance, and several people trotted over together, followed by the workers from Chuqing's lumber yard.

The children also saw it, and quickly stood up and shouted:
"Father, why are you here?"

"mother!"

"Grandma, we are here!"

The parents of these children stopped when they saw Xiangzi, because Xiangzi reached out to stop them from approaching.

The foreman of the lumber yard explained to Xiangzi angrily: "I heard that they were coming, so I asked what happened, but they didn't say anything. They just wanted to come, and we couldn't stop them!"

That's right, among these military households, there are three women among them, who can't be kissed, and the foreman can't stop them by force, and he has no position to stop them. They only say they are looking for children, and Hepaozi is not from Chuqing's family.

"What are you looking for?" Chu Qing asked, and at the same time told Xiangzi, "Let them come over."

There is no need to worry about safety issues, just these five or six people, Chu Qing dare not say that he is omnipotent, it is still possible to defeat three or four.

What's more, there are Xiangzi and his ten guards.

"My lord!" A man stepped forward to answer. He looked at the stone flakes in front of him several times and the unfinished roasted locusts on it, and said, "It's getting late, and the children haven't come home yet. The little ones have come out." Pick up."

Oh, that's right, the parents should be worried if the children don't come home by then, so Chu Qing nodded: "I'm sorry, chatting with the children and delaying their going home, please forgive me."

He also told the children: "Hurry up and gather the ducks and go back, and take these with you, as snacks."

(End of this chapter)