take a wife to support the family

Chapter 67

On the second day after returning from Lily's natal family, Song Haonian went to work in the Liufu Zhuangzi as usual. Lily walked the mountain road all day yesterday, and her legs and feet were a little sore, so she didn't pick raspberries. Hoe and weed.

These days, there are people who specialize in raising chickens, ducks, piglets, and piglets to sell in the town, and every household wants to buy some back.Lily went to the market to watch it once, and they are all good seedlings with good spirits. At first glance, they are fat and edible, and they will be easy to feed in the future.

While weeding the vegetable field when she came back, she was thinking about what to buy.In the evening, I discussed with Song Haonian, "I want to buy some baby chickens, ducks, and piglets to raise. Now I have a way, so I don't have to worry about raising them badly."

Why did the big girl lose her life?Isn't it because the piglets raised were stolen?

Song Haonian said: "It's all right to raise another one, let's not raise piglets, if you want to eat meat, just buy it from Brother Da Gui."

"It's too expensive to buy meat. We are not waiting for rich people. Doing so would make people call it frivolous." People in the countryside raise pigs and chickens if they have enough meat or want to eat fresh meat It is rare to buy meat like his family.

Song Haonian said: "Even if your man can't do anything, he won't be able to starve you. Raising pigs is too boring. How long will it take for you to recover? I'm really worried."

He was right in thinking, but Lily really wanted to raise pigs, so she analyzed the pros and cons with him: "Raising pigs is tiring, but I don't have to farm. These days I have to go to the mountains to pick raspberries and kill some pigs." Grass is just a matter of convenience, and it won't tire me."

"Besides, we always have some leftovers at home. People don't like to eat them, so we can't give them all to the black tiger. It can't eat that much. If we raise a pig, we don't have to worry about food waste, and we can kill the meat in winter. How good it is to eat!"

Seeing that Song Haonian was about to persuade her, he suddenly thought of something: "If you buy piglets, where can you raise them?"

Lily froze for a moment.In the past, the eldest girl raised pigs directly at home. She looked at the piglets like eyeballs, and they could run around in any house except the kitchen.

But Lily can't, she's a bit of a clean freak, and it's too dirty to let the piglets run around at home.If you want to keep it outside, how can you rest assured?
After thinking about it for a while, there was really no room for her to raise pigs at home, so she could only rest her head on Song Haonian's shoulder and sigh.

Song Haonian patted her: "Don't be in a hurry right now, let's build a house next year and build a pigsty, and then you can raise as many pigs as you want!"

When he said this, Lily became excited again, and she also had the idea of ​​rebuilding the house a long time ago. She was afraid that she didn't have enough money, and Song Haonian also talked about it, so she asked: "In theory, our hut is leaking today and tomorrow." The windy one should be rebuilt, but I am afraid that the money will not come together, so I dare not mention this."

Song Haonian knew in his heart: "I'm not in a hurry at this moment, I will go out with my elder brother again in autumn, and when I come back, I can almost save enough money in my hand. If someone borrows some, you will never be asked to live in such a shabby house."

He was willing to think this way, even if he stayed in the dilapidated house for two more years, Lily would only be sweet-hearted, and the two of them had another harmonious night.

For the next market, Lily took the money to buy some chicks and ducks as agreed between the two of them. She was afraid that she would not be able to see the male and female, so she specially recruited Li Caifeng.

The chicks and ducklings are packed in several large baskets made of moso bamboo. They are fluffy, crowded together and chattering, with bright yellow beaks.In the larger cages next to it are chubby piglets.

Li Caifeng taught her: "Ducks look at their buttocks and spread their tails. If there are no white spots on the buttocks, they are female ducks."

Hold the base of the duckling's wings with your hands, put it in the palm of your hand, turn it over to look at the buttocks, the male and female are obviously different.The same is true for judging the sex of chicks, but it is even more difficult to distinguish, and sometimes we have to rely on experience and intuition.

Chickens and ducklings feel warm to the touch, and you can clearly feel their heart beating in the palm of your hand. The beak is still very tender, and it doesn't feel painful to peck people, but they think they are cute.

Baihe herself lacks experience, so it is up to Li Caifeng to pick her up.I picked seven or eight ducks, but I don't need too many chickens, she still has a few at home.

Li Caifeng also bought two geese and a chubby piglet herself, and asked Lily if she would buy them. Lily said: "There is no place to raise pigs at home, so I will raise them next year. But this goose has a big temper and stinky feces. What do you think?" Are you raising geese?"

Geese are so fierce that even dogs are afraid of them, and they are fierce at pecking people. Although the goose eggs are large, they have a fishy smell. Most people don't like to raise them.

"You don't know, last year during the dog days, a snake came into the house. It was a big cauliflower snake. Xing'er wanted to hold it to play with it. It scared me out of my wits! I heard people say that keeping geese at home can prevent snakes , Try raising two first."

Lily nodded: "That's true. If you want to prevent snakes, it's good to sprinkle some realgar at home during the Dragon Boat Festival."

"Why didn't I spread it! It's just that it didn't work. It's just these two geese this year!" Li Caifeng smiled and handed the money to the stall owner. There is also a piglet that keeps squatting in it.

Back home, Lily opened the chicken coop first, and drove the chickens into the vegetable field, so that they could eat worms and use their excrement to fertilize the field.

The black tiger looked back and forth by the vegetable field, and when he saw hens pecking at the vegetable seedlings, he rushed over and drove them away, only allowing them to peck at stones and insects.Lily touched the chicken coop, and there were three or four warm eggs.

The chickens and ducklings cannot be kept together with the grown chickens, so they are kept in the house where the farm tools are placed in the west, and they are raised together when they are bigger.

At this time, the chickens and ducks have only a layer of tender fluff on their bodies. It takes more than a month to raise the fluff to gradually fall off and grow feathers of various colors.

Most of the chickens in the country are reed chickens, with black, brown and white feathers on their bodies, and some chickens in solid colors.No matter how similar the coat color is, the chicken breeder can recognize the chicken from home at a glance, and there will be no confusion. Some people can tell which chicken has a crooked comb and which chicken has a variegated feather under its wing.

There are also some people who deliberately drive other people's chickens into their own chicken coops, and then there will be a quarrel. The person who lost the chicken speaks clearly and logically, and finally hugs his own chicken triumphantly. Can't hold my head up.

Chickens and ducks are especially afraid of the cold when they have only fluff. A rain or a wind can easily cause them to die in shock, so Lily closes the door to prevent them from running out. She goes in every day to change water and food, and clean up the excrement. Let it out when it's time to moult.

In the following days, Lily lived a regular life, picking raspberries, doing housework, raising chickens and ducks, and tending vegetable seedlings every day. She lived a very fulfilling life.

Song Haonian is also diligent and conscientious in the farm, willing to put in effort, and doesn't quarrel with the manager, Liu Sheng even praised him twice with Mrs. Sheng: "He is a down-to-earth and hard-working man, I see, the big man you mentioned Niu has good fortune."

After a few days, Carpenter Li really came to the town with baskets, bamboo plaques and other things weaved by himself, as well as wintersweet and green pine.

According to Carpenter Li's intention, he would only take San Niu with him, but Mrs. Zhu would not agree: "San Niu will go to the town to benefit, and I, Qingsong, will just play around at home?"

Carpenter Li saw that Qingsong was a young man who should know something, and it was rare that Mrs. Zhu was willing to let all the children out at the same time, so he took his little girl and son and went to the town to find their eldest sister.

They walked tens of miles of mountain roads to the town, and wanted to find a vacant place to set up a stall at the market. Lamei pulled her father: "Let's find the eldest sister first."

Lamei vaguely heard people say that the location of the stall in Jishang is particular about where it is placed. Her father is an outsider, and if there is no eldest sister to lead her, it is easy to be thrown out by others.

Qingsong has sharp eyes and is the first to find Lily: "The elder sister is over there!"

Lily was carrying a basket to sell raspberries. Seeing that her father and younger brothers and sisters had come, she smiled and asked them, "Have you had breakfast yet?"

Qingsong shook her head ahead of Carpenter Li and Lamei: "I ate a steamed bun early in the morning and left. I'm already hungry now!"

Lily took three of them to eat. There were sellers of camellia oleifera, steamed stuffed buns, and Yangchun noodles at the market. Some people skipped breakfast on market days just to rush to the market to eat the food sold outside.

Yangchun noodles are actually white noodles, with two green vegetables and a little sesame oil added. Because they are made of white noodles, many people still eat them as a rarity.

Lily called it three bowls of Yangchun noodles, afraid that it would taste bad, so she added two pieces of stewed tofu for one person, and it cost only twelve Wen. pin?"

Lily smiled and said, "You old man, eat quickly. Since I bought it, I can afford it."

If you ask her to say that the Yangchun noodles are not as good as hers, if she can't leave today, she wants to go home and cook for her father, sister and brothers.

Seeing the three people finished eating, Lily took them to find the person in charge of the market, and paid three Wen first, which made Li Bale Carpenter feel pain again: "Why do you need to pay for setting up a stall here!"

Lily said: "Pay the money, and if you go to set up a stall again, no one will dare to make trouble. If someone makes trouble, just come to the person in charge."

There is an operating fee in every market. She does not sell raspberries in the market herself, and she has never paid the money. The baskets and bamboo plaques made by Li Bamboo Carpenter are mainly sold to villagers in the village, and there is still a stall in the market. Better.

"Father, this is the first time you've come back, look back, if the sale is good, you come back once a month, and I'll pay you the full year's worth."

To set up a stall in the market, it costs three yuan a day, and if it is clear once a month and twelve months, it only costs twenty yuan.

Carpenter Li did not dare to agree to his daughter, he had to try to see if he could sell it.

Lily took Qingsong and handed him a large piece of selling speech. Qingsong had a quick mind and learned all of them very quickly, and could add some spices to it by himself, which was better than what Lily taught.

Lamei felt uncomfortable when she was in a crowded place. Seeing her lowering her head and not daring to look at people, Lily didn't force her. She just asked her to take a stroll by herself to get acquainted with the atmosphere of the market.

(End of this chapter)