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Chapter 230 New Year’s Eve
She felt happier when she thought that the food was getting better day by day and that in the near future she would be able to eat the delicious food she made secretly.

As grandma dressed up and went out, she saw Qi Ya sitting at her door. Almost the moment she saw her, she guessed what she was here for. After all, this child was a greedy girl and she was thinking about getting food in various ways all day long.

Whenever she comes to block her, she either wants eggs or meat. I wonder what she wants to eat today?
I don’t know why Diandian is so greedy, even though she is a grown-up. It’s okay that she is greedy, but in the end she couldn’t eat much.

Zhang Chengyuan hugged grandma's thighs again, looked up at her with a smile, and his voice became several shades sweeter: "Grandma, the chicks are hatched. Can we eat the hen this morning?"

Grandma was not surprised to hear this, but the chicks had hatched? Then she had to go and check them out. She would have to ask the kids to bring back more pig grass in the future. If there were more chicks, it would be a lot.

Thinking of this, she picked up Qi Ya, the troublemaker, and went to check on the chicks. Sure enough, the hen had already hatched most of the eggs. She grabbed the hen's wings and lifted her up, then checked the remaining seven or eight eggs.

After making sure that they were not smelly, she put the hen back down and let it continue incubating. As long as the eggs were not smelly, there was still a chance they would hatch.

Zhang Chengyuan took the opportunity to bring up the old topic again: "Grandma, let's eat the hen today, okay?"

Grandma ignored her, but Zhang Chengyuan was unwilling to give up the opportunity to continue to improve the food, so she trotted after her grandma, nagging her constantly.

Grandma could only reluctantly say, "Eat, eat, eat. All you do is eat in one day. You are small, but your heart is big. You can't eat much, but you are still thinking about it every day. I don't know what you are doing? If you wait another half a month to eat, I don't know if you can raise these chicks."

Zhang Chengyuan was a little disappointed, but the person in charge of the family had already spoken, and she couldn't argue anymore. It would be bad if the promised thing went down the drain.

She pretended to be extremely disappointed and walked away, then sat back on her own little stool and sighed.

Not much changed in the next few days. She still got up in the morning to collect sorghum with her older brothers and sisters, and went to collect food with Liu Ya and the others in the afternoon.

The busyness extended to peeling corn, so she changed her job this time and started tearing corn leaves at home.

The peeled corn leaves should be kept and dried before being used as firewood.

The corn leaves have not been peeled yet, and the first batch of corn has already dried, so she has to follow Liu Ya and the others to peel the corn.

At this time, there was actually a tool to help threshing. It was a tool consisting of a wooden handle and a small flat-headed iron stick that was half the length of a little finger, and it looked a bit like a flat-head screwdriver.

Just hold the wooden handle and pry off a few corn kernels with the other end. Then you can hold the thick end of the corn with one hand and use a screwdriver to easily push off that row from the tail. Then push off every two or three rows, and the rest can be handed over to the next person.

The person only needs a corn cob to easily peel off the kernels.

Time passed quickly in the busy schedule, and Zhang Chengyuan temporarily forgot about eating chicken.

When I remembered it again, the corn had already been threshed and packed into the big cabinet.

She ran to her grandmother with resentment and expressed her dissatisfaction in a very aggrieved manner. That night she ate the chicken she had been waiting for for a long time.

That very night, she secretly had a big meal to make up for what she had missed the previous night.

There was no choice but to eat less meat and let others eat more since there were so many people.

Of course, one of the reasons was that the chicken was not tasty, but more importantly, the chicken was really old and tough, without much tenderness.

After the corn harvest, everyone rested for only two days before they started to work again, turning the soil, watering and planting soybeans. During this period when the adults were busy, Daya sister started to lead everyone to dig wild vegetables, cut pig grass and collect firewood.

Zhang Chengyuan would smuggle out some pheasant eggs and injured pheasants and rabbits from time to time. With no natural enemies, they reproduced in waves in the garden. Even though she often slaughtered them in large numbers, she was unable to effectively curb the flow of them.

She was so exhausted that she had to add a new rule to the garden: no more than one birth was allowed. But even so, there were still many pheasants and rabbits infesting the garden.

Taking them out could not only improve the food, but also solve some of the problems. Sometimes she would release a batch into the mountains, which made her action of taking out pheasants and rabbits no longer prominent.

Because people often catch pheasants and rabbits, and everyone can catch them, so she is not noticeable.

After a period of nourishment, the Miao people not only did not become darker and thinner due to fatigue, but they even gained weight and looked more energetic.

The soybeans matured in more than two months, and they had a bumper harvest. The vegetables grown at home were also harvested in batches during this period.

The more they ate, the fatter their stomachs became, and the deficiencies in their bodies were slowly filled, making their bodies much stronger.

After the soybeans are harvested, they still have to work hard to plow the soil and weed in preparation for planting wheat. This is probably in the north, so everyone grows winter wheat.

Zhang Chengyuan also has things to do every day, and the New Year is coming to an end in the blink of an eye.

Everyone has been staying at home during the winter, and now everything is getting lively as the New Year is around the corner.

The Miao family raised three pigs. They planned to keep one sow for giving birth and kill the remaining two to sell.

In addition, the eighteen chickens in the family have grown up, so I plan to keep one rooster and sell the rest. The hens will continue to lay eggs, but the eggs can be sold.

Nineteen hens can lay eggs at least fifteen eggs a day. Two cents can buy three eggs, and there are at least 450 eggs in a month, which is one hundred and fifty cents.

We also have rabbits, and now the number has increased to eight. However, we are not planning to sell the rabbits this year because there are still too few rabbits.

After the two pigs were killed, most of the pig blood was distributed to the villagers and relatives, and except for the 80 kilograms of pork that they kept for themselves, the rest was sold for more than eight taels of silver.

After selling all the stock at home, it’s time to prepare New Year’s goods, including various fried snacks and ingredients for tomorrow’s New Year’s Eve dinner.

Zhang Chengyuan took it upon herself to add a dish of "Abundance Every Year" to the family's New Year's Eve dinner. While no one was paying attention, she ran to break the ice, smuggled out two fish, and returned home happily.

What greeted her was her mother's worry and criticism. She had anticipated this and endured it silently. Finally, the fish was served on the table.

The festive atmosphere is particularly strong on the day of the New Year. People burn incense to worship their ancestors, put up couplets, visit every household to wish each other a happy new year, set off firecrackers while eating New Year's Eve dinner, and children seek happiness everywhere.

After the New Year’s Eve dinner, everyone will stay up all night without any prior arrangement.

On the day of the Spring Festival, both adults and children will dress up and eat dumplings, and then start visiting relatives and friends in the afternoon.

This is also the time that children look forward to the most. During these days of visiting relatives, they can eat delicious food without having to work, and occasionally get some New Year's money.