My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 371

  Every spring, there are always many people who carry burdens and go from village to household to sell chicken and duck seedlings.

  It is true that farmers can incubate chickens and ducklings themselves, but there are still many people who exchange chicks with others.

   This exchange is for the sick chickens, dead chickens, or roosters injured in fights in spring, or old chickens, to exchange chickens.

   The same goes for ducks.

   But this year, there are fewer chicks in the village.

  Chenwangzhuang can be said to have not changed a single family.

  The chickens and eggs at home are all used up when cooking and setting up banquets with people.

   It's not that the crew and the outsiders who came to play are greedy.

   But the prices in this mountain are too cheap.

  Compared with the outside world, they feel that eating a meal with meat and eating a vegetarian meal will cost a few dollars more, so it is better to eat better.

   As a result, half a month later, the villagers except for the hens that laid eggs were slaughtered, and not a single duck was spared.

   Now it is gradually out of supply.

  So when I heard that Chen Ling was going to the village to go to the market, a group of women and old ladies surrounded his tractor. There were nearly twenty people, all of whom wanted to take a ride to the village to buy chickens and ducks.

  It was still early at this time, and there were no people setting up stalls in the reservoir, so Chen Ling stopped the tractor and said, "I have to go to the county town to send Zhenzhen to school."

   "It's okay, it's okay, we are not in a hurry, let's hurry up with your business first."

  Chen Ling didn't say anything else, let them get into the car, put their big belly bamboo baskets away, and sat on the back of the car with Wang Zhenzhen.

  He didn't expect so many people to go to the market to buy chickens and ducks.

   No wonder people asked him about selling salted eggs at the beginning of the month, but no one asked him recently.

  At first I thought that what Chen Yongsheng said had an effect.

   It didn't come to fruition, because the villagers couldn't care less about salted eggs.

   Now the outsiders who come to the village are enough to consume the chickens, ducks and eggs of the farmer's family, and they don't earn less.

   "The family with the most chickens in the village only has a dozen or twenty chickens, and even fewer ducks..."

   "Except for the chickens that lay eggs, it's not too surprising that the entire village's chicken and duck meat has been consumed."

   "After all, Laobie has attracted a lot of people."

   Chen Ling looked in the direction of the reservoir and thought silently.

  But after thinking of the water monster on the shore, he frowned slightly and looked away.

  Wait until the heat of the old turtle's matter subsides, and then go to explore.

  Otherwise, there are not a few people like the old couple in Guangyun House who come out to worship at night, and he is too lazy to mess with this matter in the middle of the night.

  Sometimes this person is also very strange.

   I don’t know if it’s because I’m afraid of worshiping with others during the day, or if the gods and Buddhas don’t notice me or something.

  For the sake of the so-called good fortune and fortune, I have to stay up until midnight before going to toss alone.

  It seems that only in this way can I prove my sincerity, and the blessings bestowed by gods and Buddhas can be monopolized by myself.

   "Everything revives in spring, there are plenty of waterfowl and fish in the reservoir, and people worship the things left by the old turtle. Even if there are any strange creatures, it must not be short of food..."

  Chen Ling shook his head, stopped thinking about it, and concentrated on driving the tractor towards the county seat.

  The village woman in the car chatted lively with Wang Zhenzhen.

Wang Zhenzhen is lively, outgoing, and like a tomboy. He has been here for more than a year, running and playing with the little kids in the village all day long. When he is hungry and thirsty, he just goes to a kid’s house to drink. Water to eat.

   He is very familiar with every family in the village.

  Even many people who are not so close to Chen Ling's family gradually warmed up because she played with their dolls all day long.

  Of course, when these little kids went home, Chen Ling and Wang Susu were not stingy, they didn't avoid anything, and let them eat whatever they wanted.

   Come and go, people naturally think about this love.

   It was also this group of people who first caught fish fry and gave money.

After seeing off Wang Zhenzhen, I heard the women on the tractor started talking about the family surnamed Guang again, saying that the Guangyunzhai family also moved to the city to be with Erzhu and Chunyuan, and they are fleeing from famine. The only thing is that they are different from the people here, they are bad in their bones, they are white-eyed wolves and so on...

  Chen Ling was too lazy to listen to these words, and concentrated on driving the tractor, being a mute all the way.

   When he was leaving the county seat, he saw a few people carrying oil drums to refuel in the western suburbs of the county seat. A familiar yet unfamiliar figure caught his attention.

   This is none other than Li Hongqi, the tomb robber.

  Come here with a group of people to cheer, and don't know what to do.

  Wang Laishun just said a few days ago that some outsiders inquired about the village.

   Still planning to go into the mountains.

   I don't know if it's them.

  …

   "Sister-in-law and aunts, I want too many chickens, so I have to go to the chicken farm to buy them. Are you going to the Luoma Market or the chicken farm?"

   Arriving under the archway outside Changle Township, Chen Ling stopped the tractor and said to the village woman on the back of the truck.

   "Fugui, go to the chicken farm, then let's stay here. It's not easy to bargain at the chicken farm, and it's cheaper to buy it at the fair."

   These women want to buy chickens and ducks, and they prefer to go to Jishang and Luoma Market. They have no scruples about bargaining, and they can do whatever they want.

   "Alright then, when you come back, you guys will still come here and wait for me."

  Chen Ling jumped off the tractor and helped them carry those pot-bellied bamboo baskets.

   "Okay, if you are rich, you have the ability. It is convenient to go to the market by this tractor. Today we will buy more chickens and ducks."

   "Rich, do you have enough bamboo baskets? If not, we will leave some for you."

  Chen Ling hurriedly said no. At this time, the women in the country are strong and have no shortage of strength. Each of them took two or three bamboo baskets, and happily went to the market to buy chickens.

  After they left, Chen Ling saw that there were a lot of people in the fair, just like the big fair in spring, it opened early and there were many people.

  Chen Ling got on the tractor and drove out of Changle village. Many chicken farms in the village were built outside the village, so there was no need to go inside.

  Just as he got on the tractor, a man came out with a bowl in his hand, and said with a smile on his face, "Hey, Fugui drove a tractor this year. You must have made a fortune."

   "What makes a fortune, tractors don't count as a fortune, and it's not a fortune if you don't replace it with a car."

  Chen Ling responded with a smile: "Brother Baolai, you are late for breakfast, and you are late for the stall."

   "It's not too late, I'm keeping my stall at home, so it's not too late, the key is that my eldest son has a baby this year, and your sister-in-law can't see it, so how can I care about cooking?"

  Guo Baolai held the bowl and slurped up the hot soup, and walked over with a steamed bun smeared with sauce stuck in his chopsticks.

  Since this person met Chen Ling the year before last, every time Chen Ling came to the village, he had to chat for a while, and he was really very enthusiastic.

   "Oh, brother Baolai, you are now a grandfather, congratulations."

  Chen Ling said a word of joy, no wonder the old boy has a happy face, it turns out that people are in good spirits when they celebrate happy events.

   "Hey, what about your fat boy, last time I saw you bring it for fun on a motorcycle, why didn't you bring it this time."

   "I didn't take him with me. I came here to buy chickens and ducks. I had to buy a lot of them, but I didn't care about him. The brat moved around like a small bug, and the road was restless."

   "Haha, boy dolls, that's what makes them lovable."

Guo Baolai smiled, and killed the steamed bun in two or three mouthfuls, "Oh, yes, I almost forgot to tell you that Niu Laosan has fresh beef today, a cow that got up early and just killed, what kind of beef heart and hooves do you want?" , ox tongue, ox tail, and bullwhip, all of them are very good."

  When Chen Ling went to Niu Laosan's restaurant to look for beef in the early spring, he still had a fresh memory. This kid didn't know what he was thinking, he didn't look for real beef.

   "Isn't it a sick cow?"

"No, how could the cows slaughtered by the three families be sick cows? Isn't the price of livestock cheap this year, and the price of beef can't go up. There are a lot of people going to the market to drink beef soup. This morning, the cattle were slaughtered before the market opened. gone."

   "That's good, I'll order some beef back after I buy the chicken and duck."

Chen Ling hasn't finished eating the more than 100 catties of yellow beef in the cave, but he is thinking about the fresh beef offal. The beef offal must be fresh and freshly killed. , I couldn't help but around the corner.

After bidding farewell to Guo Baolai, he drove a tractor around several chicken farms, picked some old hens that had already laid eggs, put them in bamboo cages, and placed half of the car body. There are not many ducks in the village, but it is useless. It took some effort to make up enough.

   There are one hundred and fifty ducks, and one hundred old hens will be in their early years.

  This time there are more ducks, because salted eggs are more popular than duck eggs.

  After shopping and returning to the archway, I planned to ask Guo Baolai to help look at the car, and go to buy some beef and offal by myself. Unexpectedly, those women were quite fast, and they had already bought chickens and ducks and came back.

   Chen Ling took a look. There were not many chickens and ducks in the bamboo basket. He couldn't tell the male and female ducks, but chickens were basically male.

  Generally, if chickens, ducks and geese are raised in the countryside, most of them are females. The reason is very simple. The females can lay eggs, and the males are left to eat meat for money.

When Chen Ling helped them move them to the tractor, a woman complained: "This spring market is full of chickens and ducks. These raised chickens are hard to find. They are all roosters. There are not many old hens. Why don't you follow them?" Fugui, you go to the chicken farm to buy it."

  They went around the market before realizing that Chen Ling is a veterinarian, and he often vaccinates chicken farms. He must have a lot of acquaintances, and the price may not be more expensive than the market.

  It's too late to regret it now, they don't have the face to ask Chen Ling to accompany them to the chicken farm again.

   "But it's okay. The rooster was killed and eaten when I went back, and it was used up for cooking. Let's buy it in the next episode."

  The earthen pot fried chicken and earthen pot stewed chicken of the people in the mountains are also excellent. They are paired with pork, beef, and fish every day. Those outsiders really can’t get tired of eating them.

   At this time, Guo Baolai had business at the car repair stall. Seeing Chen Ling standing still and talking, he quickly waved to ask what's the matter and if there was anything wrong.

  Chen Ling smiled and waved his hands, walked over and said a few words, telling these women to guard the tractor and go to Jishang to buy beef by themselves.

  Beef is very cheap this year. Compared with the rapidly rising prices, this beef has fallen instead of rising.

As for the beef offal that Chen Ling was eyeing, it wasn't real beef, but cheaper. Even though the business of beef soup was good recently, Niu Lao San didn't want to sell more offal. He only sold him about three catties, and he didn't I thought that I only picked what the third cow didn't want, so in addition to the cow's head and four hooves, the ribs and the tail were also directly rounded.

  I even bought more than half of the coagulated cow blood.

  This thing is so cheap, I can’t eat it by myself when I go back, and I can also ask my father-in-law and mother-in-law to use it when cooking big pot meals for others.

  Although it didn't cost much, when he pushed these things out with a rack cart, it still aroused everyone's surprise.

  Because there are too many things.

  Not to mention the ox blood, the ox tail is probably enough for the whole family to have a full meal.

  This ox tail is not a simple tail, but also has a coccyx, and there is a lot of meat on it.

  Chen Ling planned to split the head of the cow and stew the head and tail together after returning home.

  The remaining spare ribs are used to make soup together.

  Give this soup to the father-in-law and sell rice. Once the soup is poured, it will be fragrant, and the business will definitely be hot.

  So for everyone's surprise, Chen Ling didn't explain much, but just said: "I can't eat too much, let's make a big pot of rice at home and sell it."

   "Oh, yes, yes, yes, there is a turtle prince, and his reputation has spread far and wide recently. The temple fair has not yet opened, and he can sell food, which is no worse than that in the village."

Guo Baolai suddenly understood, and then said with a smile: "That's why Niu Lao San refuses to sell you the bones of the ox frame, otherwise you can buy the big bones and cook a pot of soup. When the time comes, the steamed buns will be fried and the beef soup will be sold, tsk tsk, that guy, at least in the morning and noon, there will be absolutely no shortage of people.”

   "Hey, Brother Baolai, your idea is good. If we don't know when people will stop coming, this business can really be done."

  Chen Ling's eyes lit up. In fact, beef soup is less troublesome than making a big pot of rice every day. The two of them can really cook it.

  The investment in beef soup is not large.

  Beef bones are very cheap, boil a pot of soup.

  The soup is mostly beef offal, and the beef is relatively small. It is served with vermicelli, vermicelli, and small green vegetables.

   Let’s make some deep-fried dough sticks, deep-fried dough sticks, deep-fried fried dough sticks, one dip, two meals in the morning and noon, there is no shortage of people to eat.

   "It can be done, our vision can be worse, and I will go to your village to join in the fun after a while, and burn two sticks of incense for Lord Turtle."

   "Haha, welcome, welcome, call Uncle Lao Gen to set up a stall together."

   Chatted with Guo Baolai for a while, and agreed to see you again in Chenwangzhuang, Chen Ling drove the tractor back to the village with people and a car full of chickens and ducks.

  There are still many people in the reservoir today, which shows that the deeds of the old turtle are still fermenting.

  It appeared for the first time last year, and it doesn’t mean anything when it appears once, but it means something different if it appears for the second time this year.

   What's more, the county also built a stone statue of the old turtle, which added fuel to the incident.

   It is not a bad thing that there are many tourists, but it is too troublesome to get in and out.

  Chen Ling took a lot of effort, and came down to command with Wang Laishun and several brigade cadres before driving the tractor back to the village.

  Come back just in time for lunch, and there is no time to make beef offal, so Chen Ling cooks up some beef blood, served with rice, and it is very fragrant.

   At the dinner table, Wang Susu first thought that Chen Ling bought a lot of ox head and ox tail. After Chen Ling explained that they would be handed over to the elders to make a big pot of rice, Wang Susu also thought it was feasible when he talked about the beef soup.

   "The business of beef soup can definitely be done. It's okay for parents to do it for a few days. After a long time, they get up early and stay late every day. They set up stalls in the wind and sun. Dad's legs and feet are like that. Let's forget it."

"Well, I think the same way, just take advantage of the high flow of people here, and do it for a while, anyway, my parents cook big pot rice for people every day, so why not cook beef soup? It’s easy to cook in one pot, a pot of soup can be used for several days, and it’s just a matter of adding meat to it after it’s sold out, which makes it easier for parents.”

   "That's true, then my pharmacy is fine, and I can make pancakes for my mother, and deep-fried buns?"

   "It will definitely work. We have everything in our house, pots, stoves, bellows, whatever you want, and it is completely feasible to make some pocket money for your parents after a while."

  The young couple discussed happily.

I don’t want to, not long after dinner, Wen Chao, the youngest son of the Er Mao Donkey’s family, came and said that a foreigner asked them to be a guide and asked them to take them into the mountains. They would pay a lot of money, and asked Chen Ling if he could go go.

  (end of this chapter)