Hard work

Chapter 166 Pig Raising
After the beginning of spring, the piglets in the next village also came down.

Lan Hua'er had already made an agreement with other families in the village, and she also made an agreement with the opposite side to the village. When the piglets over there were born, they would be brought to their homes to be raised.

She has already prepared a pigsty at home, and it has been built for half a year, and it is often repaired, so that the pigs can be raised directly.She even turned over the pigsty every few days to lay some hay, thinking about when a big fat pig would be raised there.

After the piglet came from the next village, Lan Hua'er directly put the piggy in the pigpen to raise it.

In the beginning of spring, although there is much less fresh food outside, there is no way to go to the mountains to harvest pigweed to feed the pigs, but because we have agreed to feed the pigs earlier, Lan Huaer is also prepared at home. Food for pigs.In addition to bean dregs, there are also wild vegetables that she specially cut before.

The Zhao family has more land now, and there is no shortage of vegetables grown in the house. Not to mention that they can’t eat them all year round, and they keep a batch at home, and they can sell another batch, so the family is now There is no shortage of food to eat.If it wasn't for feeding Piggy in the spring, Lan Hua'er would not have gone to the mountains to cut wild vegetables, and then took the trouble to dry the wild vegetables for later use.

In addition to these, there are poles of Baogu, which were also tied up by orchids and hung on the eaves. They were dried in the sun, and they were ground into fine powder by Zang Lang, and mixed in pig food, which was regarded as a feed for piglets. Some protein.

Because this is the first time to raise pigs, Lan Huaer didn't dare to bring too many pigs back from the outside at once. This time, I only got one. I want to see if I can raise it well, and then decide whether to have more. Get a few at home.She had never raised pigs before, so she wasn't afraid of failing to raise them, but she was afraid that the food at home would not be enough, and she would not be able to raise them in the end, which would be a joke.

The pigs were brought to the village by donkey carts.It was not because of the distance between the two villages, but because there were ten piggies sent over this time. Although they were all small, when the number increased, they still looked fat and crowded. Even in the donkey cart, he was very restless.

Lan Hua'er doesn't know how to look at the appearance, so she can only go there with everyone, and then took away the leftover one that everyone picked.This is her first time raising pigs, and she is the youngest, so she can only be the last one to choose.But that little pig looks pink and tender, with a moist nose, bright eyes, lively and noisy, at least it is healthy, and it is not a bad thing.

Zang Lang watched from a distance outside, and when Lan Hua'er carried the pig out, he went over and put the piggy in a basket, and carried it home.

The piggy was probably just weaned, so he left the sow suddenly, and was carried away from his brother. The warmth around him was gone, and he could not stop whining along the way, as if he was calling for something. like something.

Before going out, I reckoned that the pig seller had washed his body. The little pig didn’t have any peculiar smell, but was very pink and tender, like a baby. It looks soft, but it makes people feel a little cute.

Along the way, some people in the village heard the cry of the pig, and couldn't help but smile and stretch out their heads to say hello to Lan Huaer:
"From the Zhao family, you just bought a piglet and want to go home and feed it?"

Lan Huaer led Zang Lang to walk ahead, smiling and agreeing with them all the way, the people in the village couldn't help feeling that the life of the Zhao family was getting better and better.Even in Aozi Village, not many families can afford to feed pigs.People who feed pigs are often in very good conditions.Especially because the story of Liaozhai in Aozi Village was circulated in the town before, so that the people who raised pigs made a small fortune last year.If Lan Hua'er hadn't greeted the neighboring village in advance, it probably wouldn't be her turn to feed the little pig this year.

The pigsty is ready-made, and the inside is also covered with ulagrass, which is specially used for pigs to make a nest for sleeping.Originally, there should have been mud puddles in the pigsty, but it was not yet summer, and Lan Huaer thought that the mud puddles would stink easily.She would rather pick up two extra buckets of water to wipe the pig's body every day than the stench in the pigsty.

The first pig food was boiled bean dregs mixed with cornmeal and stick powder, and there were dried leaves of wild vegetables in it.While cooking, Lan Hua'er thought, when she first traveled here, she didn't eat as well as this pig.

The little pig made a lot of noise in the pigsty for a while, and then gradually calmed down.Looking at it like that, it seemed that he was still a little panicked, not knowing where he had entered.It is still young, and after a hungry meal, it does not eat much pig food. It just wanders back and forth in the pigsty, rubs against the corner of the wall, and buries its body in the Ula haystack for a long time.

Lan Hua'er took Zang Lang and looked at it for a long time, and finally felt that he was not interested.

This piggy will have to raise him for half a year, so he is not in a hurry to get acquainted with him in this day and a half.

On the contrary, Zang Lang squatted beside the pigsty and looked at it for a long time in his spare time, and then told Lan Huaer that he had seen too much, and that he might find the wild boar's nest next time.

Lan Huaer let out an "oh", thinking that this person wanted to observe the living habits of the pigs, so he let him go.

The job of cleaning the pigsty every day also falls on Zang Lang.Lan Hua'er originally wanted to do this by herself, but one day she took advantage of Zang Lang's absence to clean the pigsty first.But since that time, Zang Lang has been very diligent, cleaning the pigsty every morning before going out.Orchid sweeps it again every evening, but the inside is actually very clean, there is nothing to clean.

After feeding the pig for a few days, it gradually got used to the new environment.Every day at noon and evening, when Lanhuaer carried the food bucket to the pigsty to feed it, it would rush to the side of the trough screaming, looking up at Lanhuaer and screaming.

At the beginning, Lanhuaer couldn't control the amount of food to be fed. Sometimes the piglets were not fed enough, and they would call in the direction of the kitchen, praying for food with a pitiful look.

Sometimes after feeding too much, Lan Hua'er went out to look at it later, and she could see the little pig lying in the corner of the pigpen basking in the sun, looking full of food.Seeing the orchid flower coming out, she just called out in a low voice, moved her hind feet, and was completely unwilling to stand up.

Later, the orchids became more mature, and gradually grasped the portion, and there was no such situation of not eating enough or being full.

When Gaihua came from the town, Lan Huaer took the opportunity to let him taste the ready-made fermented bean curd.

Judging from Zang Lang's reaction, Lan Hua'er knew that there should be no such thing as fermented bean curd in Dayin Dynasty, at least there is no such food that has been spread in the capital.The people in the village have never eaten it, which proves that there should be no such thing as fermented bean curd in the ten villages and eight miles nearby.

Sure enough, Gaihua also said that she had never eaten this kind of food.

He took a small jar into town with him, to give it to his employer.If his boss is interested, he will ask Lan Huaer to make more.He also asked about the recipe of fermented bean curd. Lan Huaer struggled for a while, and simply said that the sauce was made with tofu and chili. Fortunately, Gaihua didn't ask in detail.

Lan Hua'er was a little worried, and worried that Gaihua's boss would ask about the method of fermented bean curd in the future, and told Gaihua carefully:

"Brother, this thing is not difficult to make, but it is ingenious. There are not many materials, but it took a lot of thought and time. But this is a thing that sells money, so don't tell the outside world about the method."

Although Gaihua is not a businessman, he is not stupid either. He still has some common sense, so he nodded and agreed.

Zang Lang showed a strange expression at the side, and Lan Huaer was still hiding behind Gaihua, and said carefully to Zang Lang:
"Don't talk nonsense to my elder brother. No matter how it is made, isn't that delicious? Don't you like to eat very much yourself? I don't see you eating bad stomachs. Don't scare everyone. Yes. I did this, after all, it’s a job to earn money, and they don’t care how I do it.”

Zang Lang scratched his head beside him, smiled Hanhan, but didn't say anything.Probably because he remembered that when the fermented bean curd was first made, he himself was vigilant, and he ate it happily in the end.

Now sometimes when he is working in the field, when Lan Huaer brings him meals, he only asks Lan Huaer to bring fermented bean curd, and he can eat a few big bowls at once.But Lan Hua'er felt sorry for him, so she didn't want to mistreat him like that, so she brought him food as usual, but put some fermented bean curd on top of the meal.

Because everyone in the family loves to eat it very much, Gaihua brought a small can for his boss to taste, and brought another can for himself, saying that he wanted to go to the town to eat by himself, so the fermented bean curd at home is a little bit Most of the children are gone.

At the beginning, Lan Huaer didn't make a lot at one time. After Changhua went back to town this time, she had to cut a new batch of tofu cubes and put them aside for making fermented bean curd.

With the previous experience, Lan Hua'er can be regarded as confident.So he directed Zang Lang to make several new jars with wood, and took out more than half of the peppers at home, chopped them up and put them in the jars, and prepared to make a large batch of them at once.Even if the town can't sell it, she can still eat it by herself.Some people in the village are also thinking about the taste of this fermented bean curd, and often ask her for it.It's just that she doesn't have much at home, so she can't give away more.

She had already thought about it, if the fermented bean curd made this time could not be sold in the town, she would exchange some other seasonings or vegetables with the big guys in the village.

But she really didn't believe that this fermented bean curd would not be sold.The previous method of cooking with kudzu powder can still be sold for a small amount of money. Isn’t this fermented bean curd even more exotic than kudzu powder?

(End of this chapter)