Cross the ancient times with golden fingers to farm and raise cubs

Chapter 42 Figured it out
Yu Xiaoxiao continued: "This year we won't save money at home. This year's expenditure and expenditure are almost equal. The money in our respective money boxes is regarded as the capital. After the Chinese New Year next year, we will save money in it. , do you think so?"

Shen Ye nodded, although he felt that there should be no big place to spend money in the next year, but he still wanted to keep some money in his hand, and it was convenient to use, so he agreed.

Shen Qi looked at that he still had more than ten taels of silver, and tentatively said, "Mother, why don't you save some, I still have more than ten taels."

Yu Xiaoxiao shook her head and didn't agree: "No, we still have 1186 taels at home, and these haven't been touched, so you don't have to worry about it.

Besides, we are a family. If you put money in it, if your mother and your eldest brother don’t save it, we will feel uncomfortable in our hearts, you know? "

Shen Qi smiled embarrassedly: "Yeah, that little period is gone."

After Shen Qi finished speaking, he couldn't hold back his yawn. Now that there are more and more chickens, Shen Qi is busy from morning to night every day. Even during the few days of Chinese New Year, he can't rest. .

Yu Xiaoxiao and Shen Ye both had nothing to do early on, and now they go to help Shen Qi when they are free.

Looking at Shen Qi who was yawning tiredly, Yu Xiaoxiao wondered if it was time to ask someone to help her at home.

There is nothing wrong with myself and the elder son, but the younger son, Shen Qi, is only nine years old now, so the burden is a bit heavy.

Thinking of this, Yu Xiaoxiao said the idea without hiding it: "Ye'er, you and I can do the work by ourselves, but the more chickens we raise in the small period, the more we raise chickens, we can do it alone It's too busy at all, why don't we ask someone to help?"

Shen Ye also felt a little bit sorry for his younger brother. Hearing what his mother said, he immediately agreed: "Okay, my younger brother now earns more money than us and has more things to do. He can afford it if he asks someone to help. It can be easier, we don't have to rush to finish our own things every day, we have to help our brother, we don't have any free time."

Shen Qi's sleepy eyes were no longer sleepy now, and he nodded repeatedly, which showed how excited and agreed Shen Qi was.

"That's okay, do you have any suitable candidates? If so, let's talk about it ourselves. If not, tomorrow I will take Xiaoqi to Aunt Osmanthus to help find it."

Shen Qi has a great say in the selection of candidates. Almost as soon as Yu Xiaoxiao finished speaking, Shen Qi said: "Fifth Grandma and Li Grandma are both fine. When I was in a hurry, Fifth Grandma and Li Grandma often came over. Help, and now."

Shen Ye nodded and said: "Indeed, I often saw Fifth Grandma and Grandma Li helping Xiaoqi before, and both of them are close to our home."

"Okay, I'll take Xiao Qi to visit the two companies tomorrow. It's okay to invite both of them to help, but Xiao Qi, you will have to pay for the wages of the two grandmas yourself?"

Shen Qi nodded happily and said, "No problem."

"Since there is no problem, let's pack up and go to bed."

Yu Xiaoxiao said while packing the money.

The two children didn't write any ink, they quickly packed up the money and went back to their own room with the money box in their arms.

Now Yu Xiaoxiao lives in a room with a kang, and Shen Ye and Shen Qi live in a room.

One night without dreams, early the next morning, Yu Xiaoxiao and Shen Qi planned to go to Fifth Aunt's house, but before they could step out of the door, Yu Xiaoxiao suddenly realized that today was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and everyone was visiting relatives, Is it not good for my family to move up at this juncture?

In the end, Yu Xiaoxiao still didn't go, and planned to talk about this matter in a few days, since her family is a little tired these days, she will just let it go.

Yu Xiaoxiao also told her two sons about it, and both of them said it was nothing, so the matter was shelved.

Since we are not going to look for people, let’s cook and eat, let’s eat meat dumplings on the morning of the first day of the new year.

Of course it's lean meat dumplings, because Yu Xiaoxiao doesn't like fatty meat, and the tastes of the two children also follow Yu Xiaoxiao's. They don't like fatty meat dumplings much, so Yu Xiaoxiao only made lean meat dumplings for convenience. .

One person ate 18 dumplings, a big bowl full.

After eating, Yu Xiaoxiao took the extra dumplings out of the house and put them outside in the jar to freeze, then went back to nest in the house.

The temperature is still a bit low now, it's cold after staying outside for a long time.

Inside the room, Shen Ye sat cross-legged on the kang, copying books on a small table, Shen Qi was not in the room.

Yu Xiaoxiao knew that Shen Qi must be in the kitchen, mixing chicken food for the chickens raised in the next room, so she didn't bother the eldest son, and turned to help the younger son in the kitchen.

The two worked for a long time, mixed the chicken food, and each carried a bucket to the old house to feed the chickens.

It is cold in winter, and the chickens are unwilling to come out and run, and they all nest in the chicken coop.

Shen Qi filled the special wooden troughs in the chicken coop with chicken food one by one, and Yu Xiaoxiao went to the back to heat up the floor heater.

After everything was done, Yu Xiaoxiao and Shen Qi had to go to the river at the back of the mountain to fetch water, and when they came back, they poured it into the water tank in the chicken coop for the chickens to drink.

At noon, the three of them ordered some dumplings and ate them, so they went about their own business.

Shen Qi's workload is still due to the winter, the chickens don't go out, so they are much easier to feed, and the workload in the other three seasons is almost three times that of today.

After feeding the chickens, Shen Qi had to pick up the eggs from the chicken coops one by one. There was no way, if he went to pick up the eggs without preparing something for the chickens first, he would be easily pecked by the chickens.

After harvesting several baskets of eggs, Shen Qi had become dirty, so the two of them took the eggs home and put them away.

It was already in the evening, and there might be some reason why I was too busy today, but I was really tired.

After returning home, Shen Qi went to boil water for himself to take a bath, and Yu Xiaoxiao lay down on the kang after washing her hands, not wanting to weave today.

She was in a daze, but somehow her eyes fell on the two pairs of shoes on the side of the kang.

Yu Xiaoxiao seemed to realize something about the two pairs of shoes that had already been patched. She turned her head to look at the clothes on her eldest son, and then at her own clothes, remembering the three years of neglect by her.

In the past four years, except for the first year when I made clothes and shoes for the three of my family, the three of them have been wearing a few sets of clothes and shoes for the past few years.

If it is broken, just make a patch, and it will be fine if it is repaired, because the people in the village are basically like this, so Yu Xiaoxiao didn't care about it.

Now that I think about it, since I traveled here, in the past four years, I have been busy with my life and making money. I finally had some free time, either to go out to inquire about the news in the village, or to understand common sense that I don’t understand, and I still have a little spare time , the whole person can't think, I feel like I'm going to be tired, and I'm exhausted.

I don't have time to care about my image at all. Now that my family is not short of money, I don't need to be so eager to make money to live, and the pace of life can be slowed down.

After all, if the spirit collapses for a long time, it will also collapse. It is better to enjoy life slowly.

After figuring it out, Yu Xiaoxiao stopped slumping on the kang making salted fish, and got up to weave.

(End of this chapter)