My village can't be like this

Chapter 118
The courtyard of Wang Mingqian's family is indeed very large, a pen room has been built, and there is still a lot of room left.

When Zhang An walked in and took a look, he could tell that the enclosure built by their family was used to raise sheep.

Because Zhang An saw several sheep heads sticking out at the gate of the enclosure.

"Which one are you looking for?"

A woman in her 40s walked out of the main room. When she saw someone entering the courtyard, she asked Zhang An what they were doing here.

"Is this Wang Mingqian's house? We're here to look for his family to raise sheep."

Shangyang is a term for the local breed of sheep.

The woman on the opposite side heard Zhang Jianguo say that she was here for breeding, and she also saw the big black sheep that Zhang Jianguo was holding.

"That's right, it's our house, come and sit down." After passing a stool to Zhang An and his son, he shouted to the house.

"Mingqian, Mingqian, someone has come to our house to feed sheep, so hurry up and come out."

"Oh, here we come."

A man's voice came from inside the room.

Then came out a middle-aged man with a slightly shorter stature.

As soon as he came out, he greeted Zhang An and Zhang Jianguo with a smile.

"You guys come to feed the sheep. Where did the family come from? This sheep is well fed."

Zhang Jianguo took the cigarette passed by Zhang An and gave Wang Mingqian a cigarette.

"We are from Changqing Village. Speaking of which, this lamb was bought from your family."

Wang Mingqian took the cigarette and lit it up to smoke. When Zhang Jianguo said that the lamb was bought from their family, he didn't believe it at all.

He saw that the goat was big and fat. Although it was also a black goat, it was much bigger than his own.

Their family only sold one sheep, and it was a very thin ewe.

Compared with the one in front of me, it is completely different.

"Impossible, your sheep looks like it has been fed for a year or two, otherwise it wouldn't gain so much fat. Our family sold one to Mr. Huang in your village, but it wasn't that big."

Wang Mingqian shook his head while talking.

"Why am I lying to you? This sheep is the one that Huang Erye bought, and it was taken to our house the other day."

"Ah, it's true, but how did your family feed this sheep? How long have you been feeding it? It just changed its appearance."

After talking for a long time, Wang Mingqian finally believed that the sheep was bought from their family.

"I didn't feed it much, I just fed grass every day. I saw it barking all the time these days, and it was dishonest. I thought it was time to mate, so why don't you bring it here?"

Wang Mingqian didn't believe Zhang Jianguo said it was just feeding the grass. How could the grass grow so big?

The corn he feeds doesn't grow very much, but he can't keep asking if he doesn't want to say it.

If Zhang Jianguo knew that Wang Mingqian thought so, he would be very depressed.

My own family only feeds the grass, and I give corn from time to time, and sometimes he cuts it himself, why doesn't this person believe it.

Several people sat in the yard for a while before Wang Mingqian got up and walked to the sheepfold.

He opened the door of a small compartment and asked Zhang An to lead the ewes in.

Zhang An led the ewe over there, and saw a sheep inside.

This one should be a breeding sheep raised by Wang Mingqian's family, no wonder it has to be separated separately.

The advantage of raising breeding sheep in this way is that there is no need to troublesome when breeding sheep.

If he was locked up with other ewes, he would have lost his energy.

When others come to mate, they are listless and empty. Who wants to mate such a stud sheep.

To be honest, this ram really doesn't grow as big as our own big black sheep.

My big black sheep was really in heat, and not long after it was brought in, it smelled each other with the ram.

They didn't even need Wang Ming's money to guide them, and the two sheep started playing by themselves.

This is also the first time Wang Mingqian has seen such a situation. Even if his own breeding sheep have been locked up for a long time, they would not be like this.

Those sitting here may not know that in the world of sheep, it is also a world of looking at faces.

The ewes of Zhang An's family are doing very well, and they seem to be doing well recently.

So now, in the eyes of Wang Mingqian's breeder sheep, this ewe is Bai Fumei.

Since the man is affectionate and the concubine is interested, then what are you waiting for.

It took a total of ten minutes from the beginning to the end, and it was considered done.

In the end, the little ram rested for a while, and then he still had something to say.

Seeing its movements, I thought about pulling Zhang An's family's big black sheep again, but in the end it was ruthlessly pulled away by Wang Mingqian.

This meant that the breeding was successful. Zhang Jianguo took out ten yuan and handed it over.

"We haven't raised sheep before, so we don't know what the market is for breeding sheep. With this little money, you can buy a pack of cigarettes to smoke."

In the village, it usually costs ten yuan to match a pig or a cow, so Zhang Jianguo also took ten yuan.

But Wang Mingqian waved his hand and pushed it back.

"What kind of money do you want? You sheep came out of our house. If you tell me what others think of me when you take your money, it's okay or not. If you come next time, I'll take your money. Not this time."

Anyway, Wang Mingqian said that he would collect money next time.

"How about this, if the ewe in your family is mated, if you raise a breeding sheep in the future, you will also help me mat it for free."

After talking about this, Zhang Jianguo collected the money.

Now in the courtyard of Wang Mingqian's family, the two began to exchange how to raise sheep again.

After all, Zhang Jianguo was raising this thing for the first time, and when the ewe became pregnant, he had to ask about everything he needed to pay attention to.

As for Wang Mingqian's faltering, what did Zhang Jianguo think was the reason.

In the end, I found out that it was because I didn't tell him just now how my family raised the sheep, so he was a little uncomfortable talking at the moment.

Zhang Jianguo can only say that his family is really useless, so he can ask the people in the village if he feels that it is not possible.

If it doesn't work, you can go and see it in person. My family is really herding sheep.

In the end, Wang Mingqian accepted Zhang Jianguo's statement in his heart.

Because if it was him, if he really had a way to raise a good sheep, he would not be able to just raise a sheep.

So in the end, I also told Zhang An and his son some precautions for raising sheep.

Including what is the performance of ewes with cubs, what to pay attention to, and how many days the cubs are born.

Since the family's big black sheep was mated, Zhang An spent several days observing it carefully, for fear of any accidents.

After several days of observation, the change of the big black sheep is obvious.

He no longer neighs at every turn, and is honest in the circle, but his appetite has been a little bit bad recently.

Fortunately, the final result is that they are matched. If you raise them well, you only need to wait five or six months before a lamb will be born.

The mutton of the black goat is a must in Zhang An's place.

Zhang An of later generations often saw bloggers with flocks of sheep at home on the grasslands in short videos.

Every time Zhang An watched people say that this sheep dares to eat grass today, but it will dare to eat people tomorrow, so take it back and roast it.

Either the other sheep didn't dare to eat it, but this sheep tasted so delicious, so it was brought back to roast.

They roast mutton every day, and Zhang An was envious when he saw it.

If there is a chance in this life, Zhang An will have to realize the freedom of mutton sooner or later.

At that time, roast whole lamb, lamb skewers, stewed lamb, etc. will all come again.

Mustache, work hard, try to be the same as Rhubarb, and get two directly in one child.

Zhang An patted the head of the big black sheep and fed it with a handful of grass.

Zhang An takes such good care of the big black sheep, you want to ask if the big black sheep is moved?
That big black sheep must not dare to move.I have sold myself to Zhang An's house for so long, and I have never enjoyed this kind of treatment.

If things go wrong, there must be demons, if people are abnormal, there must be knives, and if words are not sincere, there must be ghosts.

The big black sheep looked at the owner in front of him who had nothing to do and was so courteous, and he had a bad feeling, and the whole sheep was trembling now.

Sheep, I am so scared now.

Time flies, and July 26 will arrive soon.

Zhang An's family is going to move to a new house today, but it's just a formality.

In the new house, it will be fine to pay homage to the Bodhisattva of Heaven and Earth and the Kitchen God.

Because the whole family still lives in the old house when there is nothing to do.

Only Zhang An will live in the new house, because this morning, Zhang An has brought all the animals in the family to the new home by the river.

Although there are several dogs at home, they still need someone to look after them.

The countryside is not so clean now, no one knows if someone will be eyeing your house.

Zhang An didn't rush over to Zhang An's family's three big black pigs and eight small wild boars.

Because Wang Fang said that it is more convenient to feed them in the old house.

Now the big black pig has been fed for almost half a year, and it grows strong and fat.

Once this pig is killed, it must have a lot of fat. Zhang An doesn't like to eat fat.

I always thought about letting them out for a run, exercising, and accumulating more lean meat on my body.

As soon as Wang Fang heard it, he said that he was not sensible, and it was a good thing that the pigs raised at home were fat and strong, and no one would dislike their pigs being too fat.

The other eight young wild boars grew a little slowly. It had been a long time, but they had grown in size, but it was not obvious.

That is to say, they were not given corn, or else they would not grow after eating the corn at home, then Wang Fang would have a problem with them.

Now the animals at home are not used to the new home, because there are no cherry trees outside where they can graze and walk.

Right now, half of the wasteland behind the enclosure belongs to Zhang An's family, and beyond that, there is a barren slope.

There is no grass on it now, and there is no place to play after letting them out.

After Zhang An planted some trees and some grass in the back in a few days, he could let them out.

While eating at night, the sky began to change, and it began to rain heavily.

This made Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang very worried, because the millet in their fields could be harvested in the past two days.

I was planning to find time to start harvesting these two days, but it started to rain heavily today.

One autumn rain and one cold, the earth that was still scorched by the autumn tiger at noon felt a little cold now.

Many people have now found their coats and put them on.

After dinner, Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang got up from time to time and went to the door to see how long the rain would last.

When it was dark, the rain in the sky stopped.

Zhang Jianguo picked up the flashlight at home and went to Tianba.

He was going to see how the millet in the field was doing. If it was knocked down by the rain, then half a year's hard work would be in vain.

I don't know why this year, but the millet matured much earlier than in previous years.

Everyone in Changqing this year is also planting the rice seeds of previous years, and there is no mention of replacing early-maturing and late-maturing varieties.

In the past few years, the millet in the field generally did not start to bloom until the middle of August to the end of August.

As a result, it was many days earlier this year, and the flowers began to bloom one by one in early August.

Therefore, this year's rice matures earlier than in previous years.

Maybe before the National Day, the rice in the fields will be harvested.

And Zhang An's is a few days earlier than other people's.

It wasn't until Zhang Jianguo looked around in the field that he felt relieved.

Because of the rain that just fell, the millet on the ears of rice was not knocked down.

At this time, many people went to the fields, and everyone was worried about their own millet.

"Jianguo, how is the millet in your field? I think your millet is ready to be harvested. Have you been knocked down?"

"It's okay, it's okay, just a few fell, and I have to collect them quickly tomorrow, or there will be another shower, and they will probably be gone. How is your field?"

"Ours isn't too yellow, there's nothing wrong with it, your family is going to harvest rice tomorrow, right, so I'll come and have a meal tomorrow."

Hearing that Zhang Jianguo said that he would be cut tomorrow, several people offered to come and help.

This is also because Zhang Jianguo's family usually helps others a lot.

Early the next morning, Zhang An got up to sharpen his sickle in the yard.

Not only the second uncle and third uncle's family came, but several people who said they wanted to help harvest the millet also came to help with sickles.

Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang are not too polite, anyway, when other people's harvest is harvested, it's good to help them out.

After it rained last night, the temperature came back up.

Although the sun has been shining for a while in the morning, there is still a lot of dew hanging on the ears of rice.

So in the morning, everyone just cut the millet and put it in the field to dry.

When I went home at noon and had lunch, and came back again, the dew had already dried up.

At this time, everyone carried the buckets to the field and started to smash the millet.

Because there were too many people, one bucket was not enough, so I borrowed the bucket from the old uncle's house.

At the beginning of spring this year, my uncle organized everyone to dig and clear the road in Tianba.

The place that should be dug has been dug, so now you can drive the carriage to Tianbali.

Zhang An drove the big black at home and ran back and forth three or four times before pulling back all the millet in the field.

In the next week, Zhang An's family finished harvesting the crops in the field.

But this is not the end, you have to pay back the favor. If someone came to help you before, you have to pay it back.

However, Zhang An's family has a lot of labor, and when others come to help, they usually come one by one.

So when he was busy, Zhang An's family could repay the favors of the three families in a day, which was not considered a big black horse.

Because most people come to help, just to borrow a big black horse.

"Mom, you and my dad usually eat this yellow essence as a snack. It's good for your health. You don't need to eat too much, just follow what the second grandpa said."

Zhang An washed a bunch of sealwort by himself yesterday and steamed it, and is going to dry it today.

Zhang An always asked his parents to eat the sealwort that was dried last time, but they always forgot to eat it.

In fact, it's not forgetting to eat, it's reluctance to eat and want to keep it for money.

This idea is not acceptable, Zhang An originally dug it for his own food.

Now the family is not what it used to be, thinking about selling everything for money.

As for sealwort, everyone knows that it is a treasure, and many people will buy it to eat. After all, medicine and food come from the same source.

But the most critical point is how to eat, how much to eat, and the effect will be good if you eat right.

This Zhang An is not worried, as long as he eats according to the portion his second grandfather said.

Zhang An also sent some to his fourth grandfather, asking him to eat some too.

(End of this chapter)