The Blessing of the Qi Nv of Transmigration

Chapter 2 Green Chicken Raising
The father of this family, Dahu, is about [-] years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a handsome appearance. This is where the name of Dahu comes from. He is diligent, sincere, and kind. Shen Shi also liked him back then, so he resisted The family thought that he was poor and had no property and refused to marry him, so they married him.

The family makes a living by farming, and originally depended on the mountains to eat the mountains, but the villagers here are mainly farming, and only one or two families make a living by hunting.After all, the risk of going up the mountain to find food is far greater than planing food in the soil. Besides, Hu’s father came from other places and never knew this craft. Da Hu was an only son since he was a child. The increase in population is just a few more acres of land and still farming.

Grandma Wang and mother Shen are both traditional and hardworking ancient rural women. In addition to helping with farming, they also have to do housework and raise their children. At the same time, Shen's originally young and beautiful appearance showed signs of decay. In just 30 years, gray hair was already visible in the dark cloud-like black hair.

During the slack season, Da Hu and his son went up the mountain to cut some wood and came back to make some benches and low chairs. The Wang family and the Shen family spun some hemp thread, and together they took it to the market for some change to help the family.

The eldest brother Hu Kang was enlightened at the age of six with Tang Xiucai, a teacher in the village school. A few words are enough, is it possible to still count on the number one in the exam?He dropped out of school by himself, and the adults in the family sighed and wept, but they had no choice but to let him and his grandfather and father learn to farm and inherit the ancestral business.

Xiu'er is often sick and stays in bed at home. When she is in good spirits, she practices the new characters she learned from Hu Kang. After a long time, she can recognize and memorize Hu Kang's several books of hundreds of surnames and thousands of characters. Hu Kang Seeing that her younger sister is smart and eager to learn, she simply borrowed some more advanced books for her to read. Xiu'er actually read them all, and even consciously taught her two twins when she had a little spare time.

Although planting ten acres of land would not feed a family, there is nothing left to starve, because Yuan Longping did not appear in this world, and the production of the fields cannot be compared with modern times. Sauce and vinegar, favors, and Xiu'er's medical expenses are only a little or two, and with some pumpkins and yams grown in ditches and fields and an acre of dry land, it is not easy to barely eat and clothe.

Three days after Yang Feier woke up, through the memory of the original owner, he understood the current situation he was in, which was similar to the environment in his grandmother's house in the countryside when he was a child. It was probably the same in the farming era. It has not completely got rid of the agricultural tools such as plows, rakes and waterwheels that have been passed down for thousands of years. It was only at the end of the last century that mechanical farming was gradually popularized in plain areas.

Thinking of being young and weak, with two young brothers at home, there is nothing else I can do to help, and it is within my ability to develop some sideline business, so I begged my parents to buy some chickens so that I can raise them at home. But she was still energetic, so she went to Jishang and spent ten renminbi to buy five chickens, and put a chicken cover over the barn, just to give her a comfort.

When Yang Feier saw it, he couldn't help but smile wryly in his heart, what is this called breeding, is this called keeping pets?

Understanding what Shen was thinking, she said: "Mother, I don't raise these playthings, but because I have always been weak and can't go to the fields to help you with farm work, I want to raise more chickens. I can collect eggs and sell them for money, and exchange some oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar. Second, when the chickens grow up, I can sell them to those restaurants in Jishang. Touching the screws is enough to feed them. There are a lot of these things in the mountains and rivers, and it doesn’t cost the family’s food. Mother, you can catch fifty of them and feed them to us. My twins and I are usually at home, except three times a day. Meals, tidying up, and cleaning are all idle, just to pick up a few more baskets of leaves and carry two buckets of screws."

After thinking for a while, he said, "However, I have to trouble Grandpa and Dad to help me build a chicken shed behind the house. The warehouse may not be able to accommodate so many chickens."

After listening to this, Shen did not answer what she said later, but wondered: "Can leaves be used to feed chickens?"

Yang Feier laughed and said: "Of course not all leaves can be fed to chickens. I read in the book my brother brought back that people ate elm leaves and even elm bark when there was a famine. I think People can eat it, and chickens must also be eaten. It happens that there is a large elm forest at the foot of our mountain. The leaves are not long now, and it is the freshest time. It can be used as rations for the chickens. When the chickens grow up When they grow up, other leaves such as edamame and melon can also be fed."

Seeing that her daughter said she was confident, Shen's mind was a little moved. Her daughter was never the kind of person who could speak empty words, so she discussed it with her in-laws and her husband. The whole family thought it was feasible, even if it was unsuccessful. Anyway, there will probably be a few left in the end, which can also protect the capital.

So it took two days to open a back door on the north gable wall of the barn, and built a one-person-high earthen chicken coop on the north gable wall next to it. At the request of my daughter, a layer of limestone floor was laid underneath, which was said to be disinfected. Moisture-proof, with doors and windows, very detailed, I bought another 45 chickens and put them together with the original five, yellow fluffy, white toot, clusters of flowers, black wars crowded together and chirping, silly and cute cute.

Every time Yang Feier sees it, his heart melts, he forgets that he is in a different world, it seems that he has returned to his childhood, and accompanied his grandmother to hold down the hatching hen at night, let it excrete and feed it, while Use a kerosene lamp to illuminate the eggs one by one to see how well they hatch until the chicks break out of their shells.In just three or two days, the chicks can follow the mother hen for food like a group of small pompoms.

Yang Feier used fine hemp rope to weave a long net again. In fact, how could Yang Feier know how to weave a net? It was just a kind of knitting yarn she learned in the university dormitory. Can be woven into a net.Use a few poplar trees behind the house to form a circle, and use stones to hold down the bottom. The door of the chicken coop is opened in this net circle. In the morning, when the door of the chicken coop is opened, the little chickens will come out huh-la-la. Eating activities in the net circle, as soon as it gets dark, after feeding, they will consciously go back to the chicken coop to sleep, and then close the doors and windows for them to prevent the yellow cats from coming in and taking the chickens away.

Now, it has been almost a month since I came here. Since Xiu’er fell into the water last time, Shen’s family’s clothes have been washed early in the morning before going to the field. Only Yang Fei’er can hang the clothes. In the morning, the two younger brothers go At the foot of the mountain, they stroked the leaves, and when they came back, they fished two baskets of snails in the river. At noon, the three siblings heated up the pumpkin, sweet potato, porridge and a bowl of steamed rice that were left in the pot in the morning—the bowl of steamed rice was naturally delicious. What was left for Xiu'er, the two younger brothers also regarded it as normal, and never had any objection-fried some green vegetables or leeks, and then ate some pickles indiscriminately, Hu Guang and Hu Chang sent meals to the field, Yang Feier cleaned the pot Wash the dishes, clean up, wait for the two younger brothers to come back, and then take a nap.

In order to get rid of this sickness as soon as possible, Yang Feier will practice yoga for an hour after taking a nap. She will also accept this habit of insisting on giving her the most delicate food with gratitude. In order to recover as soon as possible, she is also helpless. .

Although she knew that this was the family's love for Xiu'er, Yang Feier thought to herself: Since she took Xiu'er's body, she also assumed Xiu'er's responsibility, and she must help Xiu'er to repay the kindness of nurturing. , This brother and sister love.So Yang Feier also tried his best to integrate into this poor but loving family, eliminate the strangeness, and regard himself as a member of this family.

Tangjia Village is a place surrounded by mountains and rivers. Behind the village is a majestic group of mountains stretching for hundreds of miles. There is a small lake called Lingjie Lake, which gathers streams flowing down from the mountain, and a small river winding out from the opposite corner, called Tangxi River, flows slowly from west to east in the south of Tangjia Village, just like this A scarf from a small village.

This small mountain village is indeed a natural oxygen bar and a place with excellent scenery. If it was in the previous life, it would have been developed into a resort or something.

On the edge of the small river in the morning, Hu Guang and Hu Chang were fishing for screws in the river. Earlier, I saw two younger brothers roll up their trousers and go into the water to touch them. Their lips turned purple from the cold. In a triangular shape, with pine wood as the handle, I made a long-handled scooping net for each of them. In this way, as long as they stand on the bank and buckle the scooping net upside down to touch the bottom, and drag it up, the screw can be scraped to the shore. Yang Feier Carrying the basket followed and picked it into the basket, which saved time and effort. Hu Guang and Hu Chang felt that this method was really easy to use, and they caught more screws.

At noon that day, seeing the sun slowly rising towards the middle of the sky, it was time to go back for lunch, and the two small baskets were also filled with screws. Today's chicken food was enough for the day, and the three siblings returned satisfied.

The lunch is still the same, pumpkin and sweet potato, rice porridge and white rice, plus a plate of green vegetables and a plate of pickles. I have eaten these things for nearly a month, and they can only satisfy my hunger. How can they be delicious?
But Yang Feier knows that even so, their family is considered to be a relatively good family, and many other families still maintain the habit of eating two meals a day!
The society Yang Feier lived in before is naturally incomparable now. Even ordinary landlords’ families may not live better than ordinary people in modern society, let alone Yang Fei, such a self-sufficient single gold-collared nobleman?
Eating rough tea and light food occasionally is called health preservation, but Yang Feier really feels that he can't stand eating like this every day. What's more, what he needs now is not to lose weight and maintain health, but to supplement the nutrition of this extremely weak child...

After eating lunch hard, Yang Feier had an idea. He didn't take a nap, so he and his two younger brothers spent the afternoon weaving four shrimp pots. It is a fishing gear commonly used by modern fishermen. A square framed by two equally spaced iron wires—the wires are hard to find here, so bamboo strips are used instead—formed into a long cage shape, which is more than two handfuls in the hand when folded, and about three meters long when unfolded. Leave four or five openings on the net of the cage body, and then connect the surroundings of these openings with wires and continue weaving inwards to form a funnel-shaped soft long channel with a large outer entrance and a smaller inner entrance, leading directly into the cage, allowing fish and shrimp to drill in. It also prevents fish and shrimp from getting out.

This kind of fishing gear was seen by Yang Feier when he went to play at the home of a college classmate who lived on the edge of Chaohu Lake. It was everywhere to dry by the lakeside, but he had never seen it here, and it is expected that there is no such thing.

Seeing that the sky was not yet dark, the three brothers and sisters took the shrimp pots to the river, opened them and put them in the river, tied hemp ropes at both ends and in the middle, and tied stones of moderate size on the hemp ropes to ensure that the shrimp cages would be filled with fish. The cage can sink to the bottom of the water, but it can’t be too heavy to lift the cage. On the bamboo frame at the end, another hemp rope is tied, and a section of reed is tied to it, so that it can float on the water surface for positioning.

Everything is ready, just waiting to get up in the cage tomorrow morning to see how it works.

(End of this chapter)