Wang family small peasant girl

Chapter 48

Five days after the spring plowing day, uncle Zhou Min borrowed the villager's ox cart, packed the captured piglets in the ox cart, and brought them over.

When Zhou Min came over, all the grandparents of the Zhang family had already gone to the ground, and only Mrs. Zhou and Zhang Yun were left at home. Hearing Zhou Min's call outside the courtyard, Mrs. Zhou ran out of the kitchen, and Zhang Yun was cleaning up in the backyard. The vegetable field ran over after hearing that.

"A Fen, I brought the three little piggies here." Zhou Min jumped off the bullock cart, turned around and hugged the little piggies into his arms, and shouted, "Where is the pigsty?"

Mrs. Zhou hurriedly ran over with a smile, and also went to the ox cart to pick up a little piglet, and immediately took the lead and walked, smiling: "It's on the corner of the yard, and I'll take you there." Little Pig, followed Zhou into the yard.

The two went straight to the newly built pigsty. Zhang Yun, who ran out from the backyard, bumped into them and said with a smile, "There is still a little piggy, I'll go and hug it."

"Don't mind, don't look at them small, they must weigh more than 20 catties. Your small arms may not be able to hold them. Let me carry them." Noise to stop her, fearing that the little piglet would be too heavy and would crush Zhang Yun.

"Uncle, how can I be so weak, don't treat me like a little chicken, we can still carry more than 20 catties." Zhang Yun laughed, feeling that Uncle underestimated her strength, and immediately went to The ox cart parked outside the fence yard ran to it, and when we got there, we saw a pink and white baby pig lying on the ox cart.

Zhang Yun climbed into the bullock cart excitedly, and saw the little piggy squinting his eyes, his hands and feet were tied with hemp rope. Although the smell from his body was not very pleasant, but he looked dazed, and there was a hint of cuteness, so He squatted down and reached out to hold the little piggy in his arms.

The little piggy was curled up like sleeping, but as soon as Zhang Yun hugged it, its whole body writhed, making squeaking noises. Its body was round, and the skin was still covered with fine fluff, which was quite slippery. Hand, there is really nowhere to grab it. After such a struggle, Zhang Yun couldn't hold it anymore.

Seeing that he was about to break free from her arms.Zhou Min hurried back, stepped onto the bullock cart, reached out to take it, and said with a smile, "Let me tell you, this is not easy to hug, let uncle do it." After trying it personally, Zhang Yun didn't dare Exaggerating, let Zhou Min hug him obediently, and jumped out of the car with him.

After a while, the three little piglets were all locked in the big pigsty. Zhou also pointed out the little piggy to Zhou Min and told him that the sows were going to be locked up there.

"It's not bad. Let's set it up together so that we don't have to turn our hands over next time and ask for helpers. Although they are all acquaintances in the village and don't need wages, they can hire people to do the work. They have to take care of the food. If the table is too bad, they can't get it." It will cost a lot of money to eat it in a day." Zhou Min nodded quickly after seeing it, and said that it is so good.

"That's the reason, and the father-in-law and Youqing also meant the same, so they simply set up together. Anyway, if the boar is caught, the sow will definitely be caught in the future, and it won't be in vain to keep it." Zhou led Zhou After looking at the two pigpens, Min smiled and took him to the main room.

But Zhang Yun ran to the backyard early, since the last time grandma came over and talked about catching the little piglet, Zhang Youqing and Zhang Zhang spent two nights digging out all the ghost ginger that had been buried in the winter. Now they are all kept in the thatched hut in the backyard.

Picked up some ghost ginger from the basket, hugged it in his arms and ran into the kitchen. These were not cleaned up, and the big pigs could be fed directly, but the small pigs would be too big to feed directly, so Zhang Yun put Put the ghost ginger in my arms into the wooden basin, scoop water and roughly wash it, wash off the thick soil, cut it in half with a knife, cut out half of the wooden basin, mix some wheat bran, and take it I went to the pigsty, poured it into the wooden trough, filled some water, and poured it into the other half of the wooden trough that was separated.

The three little piggies who were lying down before ran over in a full circle, huddled together in the wooden trough and started to eat. Seeing that the little piggies loved to eat, Zhang Yun felt relieved and smiled on his face.

After watching the little piggies outside the pigsty for a while, Zhang Yun put the wooden basin back into the kitchen, went to the main room, and heard Zhou say as soon as he entered: "How can it be so cheap, big brother, you and mother don't know how to make money." Let's pay, I have agreed in advance, you post money, I can't accept the little piggy."

Zhou Min laughed and said, "No way, you said you discussed it with your mother, how could we do that, it's really the price given by our in-laws, and we haven't posted a single penny."

Mrs. Zhou saw that Zhou Min was so sure that she didn't seem to be lying to her, so she said: "How can my grandma do this? The Three Little Pigs only charge us a tael of silver. She doesn't have to lose money. Let's go to her to buy it. It must be a relative of your own, don’t worry if you buy it, you can’t let her lose money, or you don’t need to add a few more money, you take it back and let your mother send it over.”

"How can mother not understand this truth? When she went to hug her, she had already said that she would not let her in-laws lose money, but her in-laws said that the price is about the same in the market." Zhou Min said this, and Zhou couldn't help interjecting. He said, "I can't. Youqing went to inquire about it and said it would cost seven or eight hundred yuan a head."

Zhou Min nodded his head and said with a smile: "My grandma told my mother that the price of pork has risen a lot during the twelfth lunar month and the first lunar month, and the price of baby piglets has also risen accordingly. They can be sold for seven or eight hundred yuan, but that is an outsider. Seeing the high price, no one actually bought it. Everyone waited for the new year to pass and the price dropped before buying. The normal market price was only over 300 yuan a head, and selling it for [-] yuan would be the best. She The price we were told was about the same as the market price.”

After listening to Zhou Min's explanation, Mrs. Zhou finally felt relieved, and said with a smile, "That's good. They are all relatives' families. It's always bad to let them lose money, so I can accept it with peace of mind." Standing up, he went to the house to get a tael of silver, handed it to Zhou Min, and asked him to take it back to Mrs. Li.

The Zhang family originally planned to spend more than two taels of silver, but now it is more than half cheaper. Zhou and Zhang Yun were very happy, and they chatted with Zhou Min for a while, and he got up and said he was going back. .

Now that the spring plowing day has passed, the farmland is busy, and so is the Zhou family, so the Zhou family didn't keep him any longer, and sent Zhou Min out of the yard, and saw him boarding the ox cart, driving the old buffalo slowly with a whip. Go, until the figure was out of sight, Mrs. Zhou turned back to the courtyard.

When the grandparents of Zhang's family came home next night, as soon as they entered the yard, Mrs. Zhou ran out of the kitchen with a spatula in hand, and shouted with a smile, "Father, I have something good to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Zhang Youqing originally wanted to put the farm tools away, but when he saw Mrs. Zhou was so happy and smiling, he stopped walking, followed by Zhang Zhang and Zhang Xing.

"Brother brought the little piggies here today, and the three little piggies only cost one or two taels of silver, which is half of what we originally thought. Do you think it's a good thing?" Mrs. Zhou told the good news cheerfully. husband and son.

Zhang Youqing was surprised when he heard it, and asked anxiously, "Why is it so low? Is it because the mother-in-law gave us money, or because they took care of their relatives and took us less. If that's the case, it's not good." Zhang Yun, who ran out, couldn't help laughing when he heard his father's words. He said that he was not a family, and if he didn't enter the family, his father and mother really thought the same way.

"No, if that's the case, I won't accept it either. My elder brother said, our in-law's grandma gave me the market price, but after the new year, the price has dropped." Zhou explained to him with a busy smile. , Zhang Youqing frowned after hearing this, and laughed, "That's a good thing, so our family has an extra tael of silver savings."

"Yeah, I bought the little piglet and saved money. Our family has encountered good things in the beginning of the new year. This year, we will surely have a smooth life." The year brings good luck.

"Daughter-in-law of Daqing, that's a good point. We ordinary people, don't we just want to live a smooth life." Zhang Liangen, who was listening to Mimi with a smile, couldn't help laughing and drinking after hearing this sentence, feeling very happy in his heart .

The whole family laughed happily, Zhou suddenly thought of something, and said, "Look at me, I'm just talking, there's still cooking in the pot, I'm afraid it's all mushy." As she spoke, she turned her head and ran to the kitchen. Everyone behind him laughed, and Zhang Yun followed into the kitchen as a helper.

After getting such a good thing, the whole family was in a good mood. At dinner, the family sat around the table and talked about raising the little piglets. They all hoped that they would grow fat quickly and be sold at the end of the year for a profit How much money, of course, what Zhang Xing cares more about is that when the little piggy grows up, he will be able to eat meat. Thinking of the smell of pork, he is so greedy that he swallows his mouth. The whole family makes fun of him, saying that he is inseparable food.

After a cheerful meal, after the meal, Zhang Yun helped Zhou's clean up, Zhang Youqing and Zhang Zhang packed up the farm tools, and Zhang Liangen sat on the threshold again, weaving baskets. If there were too many of these, they could be sold for a few dollars.

The whole family was busy with their own work, until it was dark, and the stars and the full moon hung in the sky, and then they took a rest on the kang. Farmers live a busy life on weekdays. A busy day.

After having the little piglet, Zhang Yun and Zhou are busier than before. Feeding pigs, chickens, tending vegetable fields, drying vegetables, cooking, washing, and carrying water, all have to be done in the same way. I still have to break corn kernels and grind corn flour. Although there are not many corn cobs at home, it will take a long time for two people to break them. Fortunately, there is no rush. Just take time to do it slowly and eat as much as you can.

After all the work, Zhang Yun didn't count, and his mind was busy again, thinking about the remaining water hyacinth seeds. The seeds of the old year couldn't germinate, and they didn't respond after being planted in the pond. It can be seen It was a failure, but she was not discouraged. Thinking of the cold weather in the old year, the water hyacinth lotus would go dormant in winter. It was estimated that the season for sowing was wrong, and it would be spring. She thought, wait until the weather improves again. It's warmer, and we have to try again to see if we can germinate and sow successfully.

Zhang Yun has made up his mind about the water hyacinth lotus, but this little piggy can't wait, he has to be fed some green fodder on weekdays, and eating devil ginger mixed with wheat bran, the nutrition is not balanced, it will definitely affect the growth of fat, Without water hyacinth, they could only hunt pigweed for them to eat. Therefore, Zhang Yun had another job of hunting pigweed.

Every day after the grandparents of Zhang’s family go out, Zhang Yun feeds the pigs and chickens. After tidying up, she goes out to hunt pigweed. Originally, she wanted to pull out water candles. Both pigs and chickens love to eat water candles. They all grow by the water. Zhang Yun ran around three or four ponds in the village, as well as the Qingling River, but only saw a few water candles sticking out. After a while, the water candles will grow and flourish.

Without water candles, Zhang Yun can only harvest pigweed by the Qingling River like other children. Fortunately, the aquatic plants in Qingling River are abundant. of.

Every morning, after delivering breakfast to the field, Zhang Yun followed Mrs. Zhou to the Qingling River. Mrs. Zhou carried water, while Zhang Yun hunted pigweed. Morning was considered the busiest time by the Qingling River. There will be many people gathered, there are children like Zhang Yun who beat pigweed, there are daughters-in-law who carry water like Zhou, and there are daughter-in-laws who bring wooden basins, mallets, and soap horns, and bring dirty clothes to wash by the river. Ladies and gentlemen, laughter and laughter arose everywhere along the river.

(End of this chapter)