The rural life of a peasant girl

Chapter 87: A Disturbance Caused by an Egg (1)
After deciding to raise pigs, the most important thing is to have a pigsty. Su Ling does not agree to raise pigs in her own yard. This is the only request she made when she heard that Su's mother wanted to raise pigs. You must know People in this era, the pigsty is made in a remote corner of the yard, Su Ling can't bear to be in the same yard with some livestock, although she doesn't dislike these livestock, but there are better choices, She won't stay with them. As early as when this yard was first built, Su Ling built a separate row of houses at the back of the house. This was also built in consideration of raising chickens and ducks. Now it is just right to catch the piglets and put them there. The row of houses is also downwind. There are several rows of trees and flowers.

In order to catch the little pig back this morning, Su's father took the servants and a few people to clean the pigsty. In fact, it didn't need much cleaning. Those are all new houses, but the little pig likes to dig into the soil. When the pigsty was built , Su Ling on the ground made people all live in blue bricks.

Su's father set up the flatbed truck, took the book with him, and went to Hewazi to dig soil.The so-called Hewazi is a beach along the river.The soil quality there is good, and some areas have fine sand.

After pushing two flatbed trucks of soil back, part of it was scattered in the pigsty to form a soft ground, on which pigs like to roll.The other part is to fill up the ground at a corner of the pigsty, compact the soil, and build a simple shed on top of it, which is for the pigs to rest and shelter from wind and rain.

At the fair in Qingshi Town the next day, Father Su bought two bags of wheat husks.By the way, I went to the rock breaker and bought a pig trough made of stone.

There is one household in Huaxi Village that raises pigs.This person's name is Zhang Gen, and he belongs to the same family as Zhang Sheng.

Zhang Gen's family lives in a large yard at the east end of the village. As soon as you enter the gate, you will be greeted by the smell of mule dung.Wang Shiliu's family has two big green mules, and the stable is built on the left side of the entrance.Different from other families in the village, apart from farming, Zhang Gen’s family raises sows every year, letting the sows give birth to piglets and sell them for money. In addition, they also rely on the two big green mules to make money.

Opposite the stable is the pigsty.But the sow and the piglets are not in the pen.Under the eaves of the upper house, Zhang Gen’s house has prepared a pigsty for the sow and the piglets separately, because the piglets need careful care.

Not everyone can raise a sow, let the sow give birth to piglets and survive.Zhang Gen's family can rely on this to make money, naturally there is a secret that cannot be passed on.

The pens for sows and young piglets were different from the stinking pens and stables below.very clean.

"These three heads are my sister-in-law's fancy, and we keep them all the time." Zhang Gen's daughter-in-law came out to welcome them.He drove up the sow and a few piglets resting in the thick grass nest with branches, and pointed to three of them.Su's mother came to pick pigs when she was about to start raising pigs, and asked Zhang Gen's daughter-in-law to keep them for her, fearing that other people would also come to buy pigs, so she had to make an early decision.

Su Ling probed inside and saw that one of the three little pigs picked by Su's mother was white.There is no miscellaneous hair, a gray spot the size of a child's palm on one buttocks, and two gray spots on the third neck.The sow is white, and there are two black pigs in the pen below.

Look at this, the gray spots on these piglets have grown up.It should turn black.Su Ling thought inexplicably.

"Father, what do you think?" Su's mother asked Su's father.

The piglets are not big, only a little over a foot long, and their hair is very short, so you can clearly see the tender skin under the hair.A few piglets were harassed by the branch in Zhang Gen's wife's hand.While running, he let out a cry from his mouth, looking very energetic.

"Bring some pig food." Zhang Gen said to his wife.

Zhang Gen's daughter-in-law turned and went back to the house.When he came back, he had a scoop of pig food in his hand.Pour into the pig trough.Then, he tapped the stone trough with an empty ladle, making a series of gurgling noises.Several piglets ran over, squeezed together by the trough and started grabbing food.

"Look how much fun it is to grab. The few heads my sister-in-law picked are all for food." Zhang Gen's daughter-in-law said.

really.Those three little pigs are very strong, not only occupying the good terrain, but also eating delicious food.Shangshi is their local language, which means to be able to eat.

To buy piglets is to buy healthy and edible ones.Generally, lambs are purchased through such an inspection, and the conditions of sows and boars must also be known.Zhang Gen's pigs are very fat, so his piglets are also popular.

Father Su jumped into the pigsty and grabbed the three little pigs one by one for a closer look.

"Success, let's buy these three heads." Father Su said.

Mother Su was very happy, and Zhang Gen and his wife were also happy.

Zhang Gen brought the big scales and weighed the three little pigs, then put the little pigs in baskets, helped Father Su to bring them home, and put them in the pigsty.

Three little piglets, a total of [-] catties with zero, calculated on the basis of [-] catties, [-] Wen per catty, a total of [-] Wen, Lian Maner took out three slings of money, and paid for the little pigs money.

Zhang Gen took the money and left happily. There were quite a few people who caught three little piglets at once, but not many people paid so happily.

Su Ho looked at the three cute little pigs and kept giggling.You have to touch it head to head before you give up.

"Mother, look, I can't help with any work at home. From now on, these little pigs will be called to me. I will take Qiuyue and Dongxue to cut a lot of pigweed for them, and feed them well." Fat." Suho said.In fact, Su Ho also knows that she doesn't have to do anything in the whole family, and the children in other families will help the family when they are her age, but she has parents, brothers and sisters who dote on her, so it can be said that she has never done anything She was alive, and she didn't want to be a lazy person, so she made this request.

Su Ling was also very pleased to see that Su Ho was so sensible. Although she could earn money and support a family, she didn't want her parents or brothers and sisters to be lazy, so she felt sorry for Su Ho's behavior. She is very supportive, and said that when she is free, she will go to cut pigweed with her.

Seeing that Su He wanted to do some work for the family, Su's mother agreed, but told the two little maids to take care of Su He when they cut pigweed. Of course, the three little pigs could not be handed over to Su He In He's hand, Aunt Liu usually boiled slush from wheat husks to feed them in the morning and evening. What Su Ho had to do was to cut pigweed back and feed them. Of course, there was no limit to how much to cut.

Although Su Ling didn't care much about the three little pigs, seeing these three little pigs meant that during the Chinese New Year, there would be three fat pigs, a lot of delicious boneless meat, which was wealth and surplus money.The most important thing is that this is raised at home, and it tastes particularly fulfilling and safe.

(End of this chapter)