happy daughter-in-law

Chapter 4

Shen Yunfang's house is a typical northeastern rural house. There are only three rooms in total. Once you enter the house, it is the main room and the kitchen. There are two rooms on the left and right sides.

Shen Feiyang lived in the east room yesterday, in addition to a big kang and two mahogany boxes, there is also a four-corner table and two stools with uneven legs.

There is also a kerosene lamp on the table.Yes, Gaijiatun was not connected to electricity at this time, and every family relied on kerosene lamps for lighting at night.And the kerosene lamps in Shen Yunfang's house had run out of kerosene for a long time, so for a long time, she was in the dark at night.

She pushed open the door of the west room opposite and looked in. It was not much different from the room she lived in, except that this room was darker.Shen Feiyang looked at the window, it was smaller than the one in the east room, and the windows were all pasted with newspapers.

Below the window is a big kang, the kang is smooth, there is not even a kang mat, and there are several wicker baskets stacked on the ground in the whole room, with an empty dustpan on top.Beside him stood a hoe and a shovel.There is also a vegetable mound that has been used for many years on the ground.

Shen Feiyang walked over, didn't dislike the big dust, and rummaged through the basket, and there must be nothing good. In the box, there was a roll of plastic cloth, a few thicker wires, I don't know what they were for, and a pair of Cotton gloves, a few rags.

Wandering around, I made sure to check everything in the room, and finally picked up the vegetable pile on the ground, and walked out unsteadily.

Gaijiatun is located in a mountainous area, at the foot of the mountain.

When Shen Feiyang came out of the house, he saw that his yard was quite big, but there were chicken droppings everywhere, and there were four old hens running around in the yard with their heads upright.When they saw someone coming out of the room, they all enthusiastically rushed over and started cooing.

It is estimated that no one has fed them for more than a day, they are hungry.

The first thought in Shen Feiyang's head when he saw them was that he actually raised four chickens. Isn't it time to cut the tail of capitalism?
She froze there and thought about it hard, um, it seems that this remote mountain village has not been greatly affected by the era of corruption, and basically no one has come to them these years.Even the educated youth and so on, none of them came to the village.

So even during the two years when the government was the most stringent, the villagers in Gaijiatun still had to do whatever they wanted to do, whether they should raise chickens or raise chickens, it didn't make much difference.

The year before last, a new order was suddenly issued from above, saying that in response to the call of the country, every household must vigorously develop pig farming and support national construction. No matter how many chickens and ducks can be raised, there is no requirement, but pigs must be raised. Each household must sell a qualified fat pig to the state every year. The qualified standard is more than 130 five catties, and it will be sold to the communal meat station.

Of course, if you raise too much, you are not allowed to buy and sell casually, you can only sell it to the state.

However, although every family raises chickens and pigs, it is difficult for every family, because Shen Feiyang remembered that since Shen Yunfang was sensible, the Gaijiatun production team had very little money until the end of the year. It would be nice to get 40 yuan a year. If you are lazy, you can get 50 yuan a year for your family. And this money has to be spent from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, clothes, shoes and socks. You need money for everything, and it would be good if the money can be used by Baba for a year.

As for earning more money, they can only rely on the old hens and big fat pigs raised at home.Basically, every family takes the saved eggs to the supply and marketing cooperatives and sells them directly to the state, or directly exchanges them for things in the supply and marketing cooperatives.

Eggs are hard currency in this era.Take the eggs and spend them directly as money.

Then some people would think, if this is the case, wouldn’t it be over to raise a few more chickens at home, if not, wouldn’t it be rich to sell the fat pigs at the end of the year?But, people in this day and age can't get enough to eat, and it's not easy to raise chickens and pigs.

If chickens want to lay eggs and lay eggs frequently, they also need to be fed with food. If they want to eat not only vegetable leaves, chickens can't stand it.Raising pigs is even more important. They eat more food than humans. Most people don’t have so much food to feed them. So after a year, the pigs are still skinny, and the purchase price of the country is also low. how much money

But for Shen Feiyang, who had been engaged in farming in her previous life, these were not a problem. She looked at the old hens at her feet with green eyes, feeling as if she had hope in life.

For my own happy life in the future, these chickens must be raised well.Shen Feiyang pulled himself together, picked up the big broom behind the door and began to sweep the yard.

The Shen family is divided into a front yard and a back yard. The front yard is mainly used to raise chickens, and the back yard is a private plot for growing some usual vegetables.

The front yard is about [-] to [-] square meters, and there is some firewood piled up on the left, which are all branches. Shen Feiyang knows that these are picked up by Shen Yunfang when he usually went to the mountains to herd sheep, and kept them for cooking and burning. There is also a big pile of firewood outside, every family puts it like this, piled up high, and save it for fire in winter.On the right is a chicken coop half a person's height, and there is a small yard tied with branches next to it. This is where the four old hens usually move around. For some reason, the chickens can now take a walk in the yard.The courtyard wall is a stone wall, which was made when Shen Yunfang's father was still there, and the Shen family brothers went up the mountain to get stones, so the walls of the Shen family brothers are all stone walls.

Shen Feiyang is still very satisfied with this one-meter-high fence. The first is safety. She will live here as a girl in the future. With such a strong and tall fence, there is a sense of security in my heart.What's more, it can cut off the sight of some people, so that if you do something at home in the future, you can't let people see through it at a glance.

Now the week of the stone wall has been planted with melon seedlings. This month, the leaves have fallen off, and only a few green-skinned melons are left on the ground.

She swept up the chicken manure in the yard, then found a broken dustpan behind the door, rubbed all the chicken manure into it, and took it to the backyard.

Shen Yunfang's house is really located at the foot of the mountain. The entire village, her house is at the northernmost end of the village, close to the mountain, and it takes less than 10 minutes to walk into the mountain along the path in her backyard.

Of course, there is also a road leading to the mountain in front of her house, but from that road, the first place is a small hillside, where she often goes to herd sheep.

Because there is a mountain behind and there are no other houses, the backyard of Shen Yunfang's house is larger than ordinary houses.

The whole backyard is a large vegetable field, along the direction of the house, there are two small dirt roads vertically and horizontally.

Shen Feiyang took the dustpan in his hand and walked along a small dirt road to the backyard.

It's mid-to-late October now, and the fields have been shut down, and only a few vegetables left for planting are still hanging on the branches.

Shen Feiyang walked straight in, and at the end was a thatched hut, like all thatched huts in the countryside, with three panels and one curtain, allowing ventilation on all sides.

She put all the chicken manure in the dustpan into a cesspit next to the hut, which is used for composting.Shen Yunfang's family does not have a pigsty, because her family has a small population and does not have the labor force to raise pigs.

　I heard this from my father-in-law. He said that when he was young (that is, in the early 70s), the village could distribute 480 catties of grain every year, and the family had to eat rare food every day. No one cared about raising chickens. However, the team only requires every family to raise pigs.

　　What my mother said is similar to this. Chickens can be raised freely, and there has never been a restriction, but there is no task for pigs. Pigs are all raised casually. My mother is from Shandong.

　　
　
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