Spring is coming

Chapter 31 Buying breeder chickens

Put the koji into the squeezed peach juice, stir and seal the jar, wait for two months before unsealing and tasting.

Mo Jingchun felt impatient at the thought of waiting for so long.

"Chun'er, tomorrow you and Uncle Ming will take the donkey cart to the town to buy some chickens. I want one rooster and three hens."

Mrs. Zhou came back after learning how to tie chickens, and exchanged some tips on raising chickens with Mrs. Liu. It was rare that she took out her money bag and asked Mo Jingchun and Mo Qinglin to buy some breeder chickens tomorrow, so that they could give birth to more hens when they came back. The chickens were left to lay eggs.

The chickens, ducks and geese originally raised by Lao Mo's family all belonged to the Zhou family, and she even voluntarily gave up more than half of her vegetable garden to compete for these treasures.

I have been free for the past few days, so it’s time to build a chicken shed again, buy some chickens and keep the eggs to eat.

Mo Jingchun was happy to be able to go to town again, and asked again: "Grandma, aren't you going with us?"

Gao touched her head and said, "Grandma will plow the ground tomorrow so that we can plant wheat next month."

"Grandma, please wait until we come back together. You can rest at home."

Mo Jingchun was afraid that it would be too hard for her to go to the fields alone.

She pulled Mo Qinglin and assured her: "Uncle Tongming will leave before dawn. We will definitely be back before noon."

Mrs. Gao felt warm in her heart and could only agree: "Okay, okay, when you come back, grandma will be lazy for a while and wait for you at home."

The three looked at each other and smiled.

It was dark the next day, and while the Mo villagers were still having breakfast, Mo Tongming and Mr. Liu finished their meal and came to see Mo Jingchun and Mo Qinglin.

Mo Jingchun finished the last bite of porridge from the bottom of the bowl and said vaguely: "Aunt, I'm ready. You can wipe your face while I change clothes."

Ms. Liu agreed with a sigh, leaning against the door of Lao Mo's house and chatting with Mrs. Gao, waiting for her: "I have to say, you and Chun'er have survived. It seems that this child is more cheerful than before."

A few months after the death of her son, Gao also noticed some changes in Mo Jingchun and sighed: "You have to be sensible at a young age, and you are sweet-tongued just to amuse me and not make me sad. How can I not see it? This makes me feel even worse.
Apart from anything else, I don’t know when I learned this cooking skill. I really pity this kid. "

"Hey, Aunt Maojin, don't say that. It was the kindness of your eldest son who saved Chun'er's life. She was so sweet and sensible because she felt sorry for you. God has given you such a good granddaughter, so don't worry about everything every day. I’m holding it in my heart.”

After saying that, Mrs. Liu smiled again: "I think Chun'er is a smart kid. Maybe he just keeps it in mind when he watches you cooking every day and learns it. This is a talent. He might be a great chef in the future!"

Mrs. Gao said modestly: "What's the matter? All the chefs are men."

"How are the Yuanlin family doing lately?"

Before Mrs. Zhou got up, Mrs. Liu came closer and asked softly.

"That's it. After I told you last time, you became more honest." When mentioning her second son and second daughter-in-law, Mrs. Gao's smile faded a lot, "It's just that Mo Song doesn't know what he is busy with these days, and he often disappears. I come back late every day."

"Hey, you have to tell his parents to watch out. Don't run around in the mountains and step on the traps set by the Fang brothers. It will be bad if you get injured."

Mrs. Liu still cared about the child.

Mrs. Gao smiled and nodded: "Okay, I'll talk to his father when he gets back. Where is your Jia Min? Is there any news recently?"

Mo Minmin had been married to her husband's family for two years. During the Chinese New Year, her stomach still hadn't moved. Ms. Liu was a little anxious. On the contrary, her husband's family didn't care much, saying that it wouldn't be too late for Sister Min to recuperate and regenerate. Anyway, the young couple Feeling good.

Mrs. Liu was secretly satisfied with such a good in-laws.

When I first saw that the man's family was a butcher who sold meat, I thought he had a bad temper, but I didn't expect that it turned out to be a good marriage.

The smile on Ms. Liu's face grew thicker: "My son-in-law just sent someone to bring me a message from my husband's house. Everything is fine. My son-in-law said he would take her back to her parents' house for a couple of days later." The two chatted for a while, and Mo Mo Jingchun and Mo Qinglin are also well.

After getting on Mo Tongming's donkey cart, Mo Jingchun had the same purse Bo Qingshan had given her on her waist, which contained the three hundred copper coins given to her by Gao yesterday.

Generally, the market price of a broiler chicken is around forty cents, and breeder chickens are slightly more expensive, ranging from fifty to seventy cents.

Mrs. Liu told them to go to an old man in an alley in the town to buy them. His breeder chickens were healthy and fertile, and they only cost about sixty yuan for a rooster and about fifty yuan for a hen.

The money given by Mr. Gao was enough. If they couldn't come back in time at noon, they could just buy a cake in the town.

After entering the city, Mrs. Liu asked Mo Tongming to go to the old place to set up a stall, while she took her two children to that house to buy chickens.

After walking around several small streets, he finally arrived at the place where the family lived. Mo Jingchun discovered that this street was full of people who raised chickens and ducks, and also sold breeding poultry.

Unfortunately, this family went out today, and they knocked here for a quarter of an hour, but no one opened the door.

While Mrs. Liu was still waiting here, a family next to her popped her head out: "Do you want to buy chickens? Broilers or laying hens?"

There was a wild man's beard on his face. Mrs. Liu was a little scared when she saw it, so she pulled the two children and wanted to leave.

Mo Jingchun had a gut feeling that the chickens he sold should be good, so he responded: "I want to buy a rooster and three hens."

"Breeding, right? Come in and take a look."

He opened the courtyard door and didn't bother to come out to greet the guests.

Although Mrs. Liu was scared, seeing the calmness on Mo Jingchun's face, she cheered up and led them in vigilantly.

When I entered, I found a woman who looked to be in her early twenties in the courtyard.

"Let's take a look, these are the only ones."

The man pointed at the five that the woman was feeding.

There happened to be one male and four females, all of them were in high spirits and had bright coats.

"What are you doing?" Mrs. Liu glanced at him several times: "fighting cocks?"

"Yes, originally this Taolai was specially sold to Wu Erlang. A few days ago, he was caught by the old man in the family and had one of his legs discounted, so he didn't want it anymore. He couldn't find a buyer for more than a month, so he simply sold it as a breeder chicken. ."

The man pointed at the rooster, he was quite honest.

Then he said, "I'm not afraid that these people won't buy the chicken for gambling because they think it's unlucky."

"But these hens lay eggs very diligently." The woman added, fearing that they would not buy them.

She was wearing an apron, her hands were thin and white, and she didn't look like someone who often did menial work.

Mrs. Liu believed what they said: "How much?"

"Eighty cents for a rooster and fifty cents for a hen." These hens were not originally fighting cocks, but although the price of the roosters was high, they were originally sold for several taels of silver as fighting cocks.

Mo Jingchun was a little hesitant. She just wanted to buy an ordinary breeding male and there was no need to spend so much money.

The man saw her hesitation, and for some reason he just broke the jar and said, "If you can take all these away at once, I will sell the rooster to you for the price of the house next to you. This chicken It has good stamina and is big, and it will be enough to eat meat for several meals in the future, so you won’t lose money if you buy it back.”

(End of this chapter)