Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 35 Brass Lock
After the chick was brought home, Yu took out the millet that he was reluctant to eat, boiled two more eggs, took out the egg yolk and mixed it with the millet to feed the chick.It turns out that the gastrointestinal tract of the chicks is very weak at this time, and it takes a few days to carefully raise them before adding some chopped vegetables, and then they can eat rice bran wild vegetables and the like.

At night, Yu was afraid that the chickens would be too cold in the coop, so she put them all in her house and covered them with a wicker cage at home, because she remembered to say to her husband: "I bought a lot of chickens this year. If you weave another cage, the chicks will grow up in a few days and cannot fit in one cage.”

Lying under the quilt, he planned to say: "The old sow in the second room of Lao Yu's house is about to give birth, bring the money and order two tomorrow, no, order three!" pig.Strong piglets are easy to feed and fatten in the future.If you have money in hand, you can do things easily.

Ning Liang also nodded, "It's good to feed an extra pig this year. Recently, I bought a lot of white noodles, and I often buy buns and other food. In addition, after a while, Qing'er will lose one person when she gets married, so there will be more sorghum. Some, enough to feed the pigs. When the Chinese New Year comes, the family will keep one for themselves, and give some to the eldest sister and Xianer, and the rest will be salted pork and can be eaten until next year’s Dragon Boat Festival.”

The family business hasn't started yet, but both Ning Liang and Mrs. Yu have a new feeling, that is, they are more confident. They actually thought about keeping a pig for their own food, which was something they had never done before.

In the west room, Ning Qing was angry with Ning Wan. It turned out that there were two kang cabinets in the house where their sisters lived. After Ning Xian got married, Ning Qing and Ning Wan always had one each.The kang cabinet has been around for a few years, and it is made of pine wood from the mountain. It was painted red in the early years, but now it is a little mottled. Clothes, bedding, gadgets and other sundries have always been placed in the cabinet, and it has never been locked. .

At home, only one cabinet in Yu's house has a lock, while the rest of the cabinets not only have no locks, but also no chain buckles.When Ning Wan bought the lock, she bought it with the lock buckle and iron nails. Now she nails the lock buckle with a hammer, and then hangs the copper lock on the lock. Weaved a rope and hung it around his neck.

Ning Qing's face sank, "Are you guarding against thieves?"

In fact, Ning Wan didn't believe that Ning Qing would steal her things. She was only a little selfish, but her character was not that bad. When she liked Ning Wan's things, she would at most ask for them, but never stole them.

In the entire Sanjia Village, Guo Xiaoyan was the only one who stole things, which is really despicable.Since the matter of the bones, except for Guo Xiazhu, everyone in the village has been far away from her. Who would want to associate with a thief?No matter which house Guo Xiaoyan went to, the family members became nervous and stared at her closely, fearing that she would steal things away by taking advantage of others.

That's why Ning Wan didn't lock the cabinet when she got her things before, and she didn't rush to lock up the silver she just exchanged when she got home yesterday. Today, she rearranged the cabinet when it was empty, and then nailed the lock.

Ning Wan understood Ning Qing's unhappiness. The two of them locked the cabinets by themselves, so she would naturally feel that she was protecting her, so she bought two locks when she bought the locks, and now she gave one to Ning Wan. Qing, "I'm not here to guard against you, but if you have books and money in the future, you should always lock them up. You should also install this lock, so don't worry about it."

Ning Qing was about to get married, and she didn't have much time at home, so Ning Wan unknowingly let down her dislike for her. After she got married, she became the water poured out by the Ning family according to what she said. In the future, if you come home again, you will be just a guest.In the last few days, she didn't want to be angry with Ning Qing anymore.

Ning Qing didn't want Ning Wan to buy her a lock anymore. The sisters had always been at odds, and they had confronted each other a few times recently, and Ning Qing also felt that although Ning Wan was small, she had firmly dominated her, so He didn't dare to quarrel with her.It's just that she really couldn't swallow the matter of the lock. Although she was jealous that Ning Wan got the Lu family's things, she would never steal it no matter how much she liked it.

Now I feel a little embarrassed after picking up the lock. I took the hammer and measured it to nail it on, but put it down again, "Forget it, I don't need to lock the cabinet at home. I'll keep this lock for later use." Wrap the lock, the buckle and the nails in cloth, and put them in a small box on the other side of the kang.

That box was made by Ning Liang for her last year, it was also made of pine wood, it was newly painted red, but it was much smaller than the box at home, it was just a small box that Ning Qing carried with him, and now it contained some of Ning Qing's most valuable things: Silver jewelry, bride price, and private money.When she gets married, she will hold this small box in person, and the rest of the dowry, such as bedding, clothes, etc., will be packed into two bright red packages as the dowry and brought to the Liu family by the sender.

And on this small box, there is already a brand new set of small copper locks. When Ning Qing arrives at the Liu family, he can lock the small box and put it in the big box of the Liu family. It is also impossible.

Ning Wan also knew that the final result must be like this. Ning Qing really cared too much about her small family, and only regarded Shopkeeper Liu as a family. As for the parents of her natal family and her parents-in-law, she actually didn't care about them.Therefore, Ning Wan thought for a while and said to Ning Qing: "Second sister, you may think that once you marry Shopkeeper Liu, you will always be a family with him, but in fact, sometimes men are unreliable."

Ning Qing didn't want the little girl to say such a thing, she was a little dazed for a while, but she didn't believe it, it was just because Ning Wan just gave her a new copper lock, and it was not easy to dismiss her immediately, so she smiled and said: "You I'm still young and don't know anything."

Ning Wan knew that she couldn't be persuaded. At that time, her father's illness became like that, and Ning Qing was still only thinking about her own little life. Now that the matter has not come out, she will never believe that Merchant Liu will become a ruthless person in the future .

But maybe, that was the retribution Ning Qing deserved.

Ning Wan went to bed early, and tomorrow morning, she was going to go to the mountains to pick wild goods. After so many days of planning, her small business was about to officially start.

It was another early morning, Ning Wan and her father both changed into old clothes, and wrapped their legs from shoes up to knees with old cloth strips, and went into the mountain with a sickle on their backs and a basket on their backs.

Ningjia Village is located in the mountains, but only in the middle of the mountains. This piece of flat land has long been reclaimed and turned into fertile fields, so they have to go to the mountains to collect mountain products, and their clothes are designed to prevent snakes and insects.

The mountain is a huge treasure house, and there are many good things in it, such as high-quality wood, various birds and animals, wild fruits and vegetables, but they are also dangerous.The more precious things are, the rarer they are. Some people in the village once encountered wild boars and venomous snakes when they went into the mountains, but everyone gathered some wild vegetables near the mountains and set up a few hares and pheasants. It would not be too scary, just be prepared.

The father and daughter of the Ning family devoted themselves to picking wild vegetables, and walked all the way to the moist and fertile sunny slopes of the mountains, and soon found patches of cat's claw vegetables among clumps of wild vegetables.At this time, the cat's claw has just grown, the blue-purple stem is less than a foot long, and there is a layer of thin white hairs on it, and the top tender leaves are still curled up, just like a kitten's. Claws, that's why people call it cat's claws, and people in Hutai County call it bracken.

Now the cat's claw is the most fresh and smooth to eat. After a month, the cat's claw grows to three or four feet high, the stem becomes hard and sticky, the hair on it disappears, and the leaves unfold , can not eat.

Ning Wan looked at the pieces of cat's claw vegetables, and immediately felt that her eyes were full of copper coins. When she was in Hutai County, she had already inquired clearly that the freshest cat's claw vegetables were sold in restaurants for two yuan a catty, while Those who collect mountain goods are to be dried in the sun, depending on the size, it costs about [-] yuan a catty.It takes ten catties of vegetables to dry one catty of dried cat's claw vegetables, so it is cost-effective to sell fresh vegetables first.

Ning Liang is the most practical. He has already put down his basket and took out a sickle to cut. When harvesting the cat's claw vegetables, he should try his best to keep close to the ground, and cut off all the fresh and tender stems, because the longer the stems, the more expensive the cat's claw vegetables will be.

After Ning Wan calculated a large account in her heart, she bent down and cut it up. The father and daughter cut off a lot of cat's claw vegetables in a short time, and mixed them in the cat's claws. The weeds in the vegetables were picked up and put into baskets. Ning Liang carried a big basket, and Ning Wan carried a small basket and walked down the mountain.

As Ning Wan expected, the most tiring part of picking cat's claw vegetables is transportation.

It was not easy to walk up the mountain with a large basket of vegetables. Ning Liang was a man, and it was better to do farm work all the time. Although Ning Wan grew up in a farm, she still After all, she was still young, and it was the first time she did such a tiring job, and she was out of breath after a while.

Along the way, Ning Liang kept taking some wild vegetables from Ning Wan's basket and put them in his own basket, filling up his own basket so much that he couldn't pile any more.Seeing her daughter bowing her body with sweat all over her face, she said, "Wan'er, you should take out some of the ferns in the basket and throw them away. They were picked from the mountains anyway, and they didn't cost any money. Daddy has already memorized enough." gone."

Ning Wan usually laughs at her parents for being stingy, but now it can be seen that she is the real daughter of her parents, and she is reluctant to take off the bracken that has been cut. After all, now that she carries an extra catty home, she will Sell ​​it for a few bucks.He just gritted his teeth and said, "We just need to rest for a while."

The father and daughter rested again, and suddenly saw a colorful pheasant jumping in front of them, father got up to catch it, but Ning Wan didn't want to move anymore, she just leaned against a big tree and panted heavily.After a while, Dad came back empty-handed, "The pheasant seemed to be flying very low, but it still let it run away."

Ning Wan comforted him, "Where is it easy to hunt prey? I see a few members of the Guo family go hunting in the mountains and often go back empty-handed. After all, we are not hunters."

Of course Dad knew that people in Sanjia Village mainly farmed, and hunting was just a leisure time for young people, and it was not a serious business, so he laughed, "I wanted to make a pot of pheasant soup."

(End of this chapter)