magic eye doctor

Chapter 52 Uninvited

Chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, and pigs are the most basic poultry in rural households. Times are different today, and rural areas are also advancing with the times. Many farmers don’t raise pigs, cattle, and sheep. If they don’t go out to work, they usually raise chickens and ducks. It doesn't feel like home.

Lejia also has chickens, which are kept at around six or seven on average, sometimes a dozen or so. When they grow up, they are sold at a certain time or slaughtered during festivals. Most of them are roosters that are slaughtered or sold first, and hens are kept. Raw eggs, eggs can be eaten by themselves or sold on the street.

Lejia originally had twelve chickens. One was slaughtered during the Dragon Boat Festival. Le Dad sold two chickens a few days ago, and there were nine more, one breeding rooster, seven hens, and one medium-sized rooster.

In the morning, Le Yun sent her father, who had a tendency to be female-controlled, to go to work. She took her chicken food to the pigpen at the back of the house to feed the chickens. The domestic chickens were fed corn, rice, and sometimes cooked pig food.

The rice is not yet ripe. Chickens and ducks are free-range in this season. They are released during the day and let them run around. In the evening, they will return to the barn by themselves. When the rice is about to mature, it needs to be kept for about a month.

When she opened the chicken coop, a group of chickens came out like a swarm. They only grew strong. Le Yun counted the number. She threw the corn kernels and let them eat by themselves. The corners were cleaned up.

Do a good job of cleaning, clean yourself up, go to the kitchen and cook dendrobium in the old-fashioned fire pond. I cooked a batch last night. Those are just a drop in the bucket. While the weather is good, hurry up and continue to fry some for drying.

The best way to fry medicinal herbs is to use firewood to fry wild medicinal herbs with natural firewood to keep the most primitive essence.

Lejia also has firewood, some of them are the leftover branches after selling the economic wood, some are the leftovers of the raw materials used to grow shiitake mushrooms in Le Dad's workshop, and the waste materials that can no longer be used after planting mushroom ears, Boss Wu. Taking care of Le's father, he almost gave it to Lejia at half the free price. It is estimated that selling it to others would cost [-] or [-] yuan, and [-] or [-] yuan would be the cost of labor for Lejia. Therefore, Lejia accumulated a lot of firewood and burned three Years are fine.

The fire in the fire pond is booming. When the flame is stable, put it in the pot. Leyun takes out a basket of Dendrobium seedlings and puts a handful in the pot to fry slowly; processing medicinal materials is a delicate job, and the heat also needs to be well controlled. , too weak to work.

Le Yun manages the fire by herself, stirs the dendrobium seedlings by herself, and stirs them slowly with her hands, twisting and twisting the dendrobium while frying.

Zhou Qiufeng finished the housework in the morning, and went to the field to see the water again. When she returned home, her brother and sister-in-law were nowhere to be seen. She guessed that she was going to play mahjong in the township again.

When Grandma Zhou saw the girl come back, she smiled and said, "Come back? Can we go?"

"Okay." Zhou Qiufeng put down the hoe and took the straw hat for shade.

The mother and daughter closed the two gates of the house. When they went outside, Grandma Zhou went straight to the garden in front of Lejia's house. Zhou Qiufeng went to the pigpen behind Lejia's house by herself. Shao Kei pole, go to the place where the dung and grass are stored, fill up a load of fertilizer, and pick it up to the garden in front of Lejia.

Grandma Zhou is in charge of distributing the fertilizer, putting the dung and grass into the roots of each sweet potato, and having fun while working. She still doesn't know if her daughter is willing to marry. Anyway, her old man has already regarded Yueqing as a prospective son-in-law. She said that she had nothing to do at home and wanted to help Le's family for a day or two.

The mother and daughter didn't tell the master, they went to the ground by themselves, one picked fertilizer and the other put fertilizer. They were obviously working for Le's family, and they were more serious and responsible than working for their own family.

Le Yun, who was frying Dendrobium in the kitchen, heard the voices of Aunt Feng and Grandma Zhou and the sound of Aunt Feng picking up fertilizer when she came to the house. The quality of the finished product will be greatly reduced.

After frying a pot of herbs, twist them into a spiral shape, pour them into the spare bamboo sieve on the living room stand to cool down, put down the pot, and quickly run out of the house. Still able to see the two people in the garden, Aunt Feng walked into the corn row carrying a load of fertilizer, while Grandma Zhou was swiftly distributing the fertilizer.

"Grandma Zhou, Aunt Feng!" Seeing a mother and daughter who came to help out with farm work uninvited, Le Yun shouted with a smile and ran to the garden in front of the house.

"Lele, what are you doing? I smell a scent."

Hearing the crisp and sweet voice, a mother and daughter turned their heads and saw Xiaolele ding dong ding dong running, and Grandma Zhou smiled and talked to the child.

Zhou Qiufeng didn't say a word, put down the burden on his shoulders with a smile, poured out the fertilizer neatly, and patted the bottom of the shaoji with the pole to pat down the broken dung grass.

"I'm frying the medicinal herbs. Grandma Zhou, you and Aunt Feng are too busy with their own affairs. How can you work so hard for your old man to help? We don't have much sweet potato fields. I will build a day with my father tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. You and Aunt Feng, rest."

"Our homework is all done, and I'm also idle. Xiao Lele, aren't you arranging herbs? Don't come here. You have to wash your hands and feet when you step in the mud. You don't need to worry about us, just play with you Just remember to add half a catty of rice when cooking at noon, your aunt Feng, her brother and her sister-in-law are going to play mahjong on the street today, and your aunt Feng and I will have dinner at your house at noon."

Hearing that Xiaolele was frying medicinal herbs, Grandma Zhou smiled and stopped her from running to the garden to gather together. The crow's feet at the corners of the eyes on that old face were rippling like ripples.

Zhou Qiufeng also dumped the dung grass in the other shaoji to the ground, carried an empty basket out of the ground, and also asked Xiaolele to do her work. They were better than Xiaolele in the field work. So familiar, there is no need for children to greet them.

"Okay. Then I'll take care of my herbs first, and I'll come back after drying the medicine." Le Yun was not hypocritical, she really didn't go to the garden, and ran back happily.

The mother and daughter of the Zhou family were very happy when they saw Xiaolele jumping and jumping like a newly born calf, and they sincerely sighed that the time passed so quickly. The little girl has grown so big in a blink of an eye.

Back in the kitchen, Le Yun washed her hands again and continued to stir fry the medicine. Frying a pot of Dendrobium would accumulate some water juice, and she was reluctant to throw it away, so she collected it in a clean bowl.

After frying several pots in a row, when the sun rose a pole high, I sent Dendrobium, which was twisted into a maple bucket, to the second floor. I moved the steamed and cleaned herbs from the roof shed and dried them in the sun. Good herbs, hurry to work in the field.

(End of this chapter)