Chapter 3

Chen Ju's adoptive parents did not separate from his grandparents. His grandparents had four sons and three daughters, and all three daughters were married to other villages.

Among the four sons, Chen Wensen, Chen Ju's adoptive father, is the eldest. Chen Ju and her four brothers and sisters, her eldest brother and second brother are in the front, followed by Chen Ju and her younger sister, Chen Fei.

There are also two sons and two daughters on the second room, four boys on the third room, and one woman and three men on the fourth room. The population is still very large.

Especially after Chen Ju and her brothers got married and had children one after another, the population increased. According to grandparents, it is almost possible to separate the family.

After all, the population is really too large, and living together without separating families is a big problem just for cooking, and living together is also very annoying.

After she greeted Mrs. Huang and Mrs. Wang, she went to the pigsty in the backyard to feed the pigs with the pig grass she had harvested on her back.

The Chen family has a large population, and there are still people who harvest pigweed, so there are about three pigs raised in the family, and they can be sold for a good year when the Chinese New Year comes.

Chen Ju looked at the black pigs in the pigsty. After four or five months of raising, they only weighed more than six to seventy catties, and they were less than a hundred catties.The technique of raising pigs in the Yong Dynasty is definitely not as good as that of the later generations. It is impossible to raise two to three hundred catties.

Generally speaking, a pig can be considered a big fat pig if it can grow to more than 100 catties, and it can be sold at this time.

Moreover, pig raising in this era does not know how to pigtail, so there should be no such technology?
In fact, she knows that the technology of pigtailing should have started from the Shang Dynasty, and there are records of this technology in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty.

But in ancient times, technology was kept hidden and would never be announced.So even if someone knows a certain technology, they will not let outsiders know.

Anyway, Chen Bing did not see the technology of gelding pigs in the Yong Dynasty. Perhaps it was because the nobles felt that pork was cheap and unpalatable, so they would not consider promoting the technology of gelding pigs, or raising pigs was a good job.

The aristocrats of the aristocratic families thought that meat such as mutton and venison was high-grade meat, and meat such as pork was lowly, and ordinary people and untouchables could eat it, but noble people like them would not eat it.

Chen Ting sighed, pork is actually delicious—although she has never eaten delicious pork, but she followed the hosts and watched them eat all kinds of braised pork, Dongpo elbow, Sixi meatballs, steamed pork, etc. , but they are all made of pork.

In the 21st century, pork is a very common meat, and the price of pork is not cheap anymore. Sometimes when the price of pork rises, a catty of pork ribs costs more than 40 yuan.

Of course, the price of pork would have been very cheap in ancient times. Chen Ju remembered that when her parents bought pork, it cost more than ten yuan per catty, and it was still lean meat.

In ancient times, lean meat was cheaper than fatty meat, because everyone was a farmer who did manual work, and only with oil and water could he have strength, and fat meat could also be boiled with oil, so the price was more expensive than lean meat.

The bones and the like are basically sold after the butcher has cleaned them up. It is not the same as the flesh and blood with large pieces of meat in later generations. The bones here are basically cleaned of the meat, leaving only the bare bones. Feed the bones to the dogs or what.

Of course, even if it is bone meat, it is also a good dish for farmers who seldom eat meat. Occasionally, they will spend a few pennies to buy it back for stewing soup. Even if there is not much oil and water, at least it has a meaty taste.

As for the internal organs, they won't be wasted. Even if they don't have a proper way to clean the internal organs, they are still meat after all, so they won't miss them.

Farmers in ancient times were not that rich, and they had no chance to eat meat, so even if it was offal or offal, they would not waste it, and they had to clean it up and eat it when they bought it.

Whether it tastes good or not is secondary, at least you can taste the meat and eat the meat.

Chen Ju threw the pigweed he had plucked into the pigsty, and then looked at the chicken and duck pens next to the pigsty to see how they were doing.

While Chen Ju was busy working, two carriages and several people on horseback entered Chenjia Village, attracting the attention of many people.

People in Chenjia Village basically wear clothes made of linen and Gebu. Even if they are worn out, they are at least covered with clothes. Because they have clothes to wear, they can go to see the excitement after seeing people entering the village in carriages and carriages.

The people of Chenjia Village quickly saw clearly the sign on the cover hanging beside the carriage, which was the sign of Pingyang Hou Mansion.

"Is it the carriage of Lord Hou's family? Has someone come over?" A villager asked curiously after recognizing the sign on the carriage.

"Now is not the time to worship the ancestors, why are the people from the Hou Mansion back?" another villager also asked curiously.

Every year when the ancestors are worshipped, the Pingyang Houfu will send people back to worship the ancestors, so everyone is still very clear about the logo of the Houfu.

But it is the beginning of August, and it is not yet time to worship the ancestors.

"It's almost the Mid-Autumn Festival. Could it be that people from the Hou Mansion have come back to give gifts?" A villager boldly guessed.

Chenjia Village is only two days away from Chang'an, the capital city, so the Pingyang Hou Mansion and Chenjia Village are in frequent contact.

The Marquis of Pingyang will not make people think that he is a person who forgets his ancestors, so after he develops, he will give back to the clan from time to time, and will also give things to the clan during the festivals.

The villagers guessed that because the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, there is still a basis for Pingyanghoufu to give gifts to the clan, but it is a pity that Pingyanghoufu did not come back to give festival gifts this time.

The people in Pingyang Hou's Mansion ignored the villagers. Even though many villagers followed their carriage all the way to Chen Wensen's house, they still ignored the other villagers.

Chen Wensen's house.

After understanding the purpose of Pingyang Hou Mansion's visit, not to mention Chen Wensen and Huang's, the entire Chen family was stunned.

They really don't understand why the daughter who has been raised for 16 years is not a child of their family?Obviously Chen Ju looks a lot like the Chen family, and she is somewhat similar to her cousins, why isn't she a child of their family?

But Chen Wensen and the others also knew very well that Chen Ju and her cousins ​​looked alike because Pingyang Marquis Chen Feng was also from Chen Family Village, and was a cousin of the same generation as Chen Shu's grandfather, Chen Shou.

The relationship between Chen Feng and Chen Shouzheng has not been released yet, so it is understandable that the granddaughter looks somewhat similar.

Nanny Zhou looked at Chen Shouzheng arrogantly, "What kind of family is our Hou's Mansion? Can the girl live well after going to the Hou's Mansion?"

"What? You don't want to send your children back to the Hou's Mansion? You are ordinary farmers, are you comparable to the Hou's Mansion?"

"Young lady is the daughter of the Hou Mansion, you ordinary peasants with mud legs, are you still planning to rob the Hou Mansion of your child?" Nanny Zhou said contemptuously.

"Being the daughter of the Marquis Mansion, or being a village girl with mud legs, I think the girl should know how to choose."

(End of this chapter)

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