Nongmen eldest sister: Farming and opening shops

Chapter 41
Leaving the preserved fruit in Aunt Yu's shop, Lin Qinghe walked on the streets of the county town, feeling uneasy. He spent a lot of money, but he didn't even earn a penny.

The candied fruit is not selling well. Fortunately, there is Aunt Yu's shop, which can help sell it. Otherwise, these candied fruits will be thrown into their hands. Although they can't sell it, they can eat it at home, but they also have expectations for the candied fruit, right? , the feeling of losing hope is not good.

Recalling what he said about raising chickens to lay eggs, since he came to the county, he bought the chickens and raised them. Thinking of this, he went straight to the place where the livestock were sold.

This area can be regarded as a relatively lively place in the county town, selling vegetables, meat, and various livestock, and from time to time there are people yelling, or the sound of bargaining is noisy.

After a while, Lin Qinghe appeared in front of a woman who sold chickens.

The woman greeted her warmly: "Little girl, do you want to buy some chickens to raise? Our chickens are energetic, and it is best to feed them."

There were seven or eight chicken sellers, and she also found that the chicks in this store were the most energetic, so they stopped in front of her. She stared at the chicken for a few times, and then asked, "How much is one?"

"It's not expensive, it costs a penny a piece. If you want more, little girl, I can make it cheaper." The chicks have to be sold as soon as they hatch, otherwise they have to be fed and raised by the family every day, which is not very cost-effective. , naturally the sooner it is sold, the better.

Eggs cost five cents a catty, and eggs per catty are about ten. A penny a chick is not expensive. After all, there will be a certain amount of wear and tear on the way to hatch the chicks. Of course, if you use your own chickens If you have eggs, you will make more money.

"If I buy fifty, how much cheaper will it be?" She asked directly.

"If you buy [-] pieces, it can save you two pennies, what do you think?"

Lin Qinghe thought for a while, and then said: "I don't need two cents, how about giving me five chicks?"

"This!" The woman hesitated for a moment, presumably she had made some calculations in her heart, and then nodded: "Okay, then I will give you five more chickens."

Lin Qinghe pursed her lips and smiled, showing that even if it was two pennies and five chickens, she didn't seem to be losing money.

"These chickens were hatched with the help of my mother-in-law. She is a good hand at hatching chicks and has a good eye. Almost every egg she picked out by herself can hatch chicks, and these chicks Chickens are also very easy to feed, and other people's families don't have the skills like my mother-in-law."

When the woman talked about her mother-in-law, she obviously admired her very much.

No wonder so, she just said, a chicken for a penny may not be able to earn much, if it is not considered loss, it is indeed profitable, but as the woman said, it must have excellent craftsmanship Only then.

After picking out 55 chicks, she went straight out of town and home without further delay.

"Sister, you are back!"

As soon as she entered the courtyard, she heard Lin Qingmiao's surprised voice. She didn't stay in the room, but stood in the courtyard, moving around in small steps.

"Why did you go to the ground? Didn't you say that you need to raise it for a while?"

"I didn't dare to move around. It was Grandpa Zhao who said, I can walk slowly, but I can't run and jump around. I'm bored in the house these days. It's good to walk around in the yard. Don't worry. I don't go out."

"It can still keep you bored, isn't there someone who moved you to sit in the yard and bask in the sun?"

"It's been a long time since I played with Heiya and the others." She sighed.

Lin Qinghe shook his head with a smile, and said, "I'm afraid you won't have much time to go and play in the future. Let's see what I bought back."

She put the pannier on the ground, and lifted a coat covering it, revealing the huddled chicks inside, chattering non-stop.

"So it's the chick, I heard the sound just now." Lin Qingmiao looked surprised, glanced at the chick a few times, and then raised her head and asked: "Sister, you have to keep your word, say good mother The chickens are kept to lay eggs, and the roosters are killed for meat when they grow up."

"You know how to eat." Then he nodded, "Of course I keep my word. When the rooster grows up, I will make soup and drink it. For the eggs laid by the hen, I will give you two eggs a day. If there are more, I will save them." sell."

Eating eggs is good for nourishing the body. It is still a long time for the body to grow. The food at home is not good. If there is nothing to replenish the body, how can it be done.

"That's good. If that's the case, I'll take care of these chicks from now on. I'll feed them every day." Lin Qingmiao happily took over the job. She felt that such a trivial matter was really nothing.

"Okay, then I'll leave it to you. There are 55 chickens in total. You have to watch them carefully so that they don't get caught by something." Lin Qinghe reminded.

The vitality of these chickens is quite tenacious. Generally, given some food and drink, most of them can grow up well, but some accidents cannot be avoided, such as being caught and eaten by cats, or stolen by mice. possible.

When she said this, Lin Qingmiao immediately became more concerned, and quickly assured her: "Don't worry, elder sister, I will count every day, and there will be no shortage of one."

Lin Qinghe nodded: "Okay, just pay attention every day."

Then he said: "I don't plan to keep these chickens at home. I want to put out a piece of land behind our house, raise these chickens outside, and cut some bamboo to build a chicken coop with a windshield." Where it rains."

The main reason is that if there are too many chickens, no matter how you clean them up at home, there will still be peculiar smells. Besides, there are dozens of chickens, and the yard at home is not enough for them to flop, so it is better to place them outside.

"If you keep it outside, there won't be wild beasts stealing it in the middle of the night?"

"You think too much. Although we live on the edge of the back mountain, when have you ever seen wild animals running out? Even if the rabbits you catch are closer to the mountain, it is only luck that you can catch them. One." Lin Qinghe shook his head but then said again.

"If you don't worry, we can raise two dogs."

She thought it was impossible for wild beasts to come from the mountains, but it was inevitable that people who saw so many corns in their house would come to steal chickens in the middle of the night.

"Okay, okay, then we'll keep two dogs." Lin Qingmiao cheered and clapped her hands, but after a while, she showed some hesitation: "But dogs also need to eat food, can we keep them alive? "

"It's not bad for that bite." Lin Qinghe said helplessly.

"Since you say it's okay, big sister, then you can do it. It's great, our family can also have a dog." In the past, she could only look at other people's puppies with greed.

It's not that the Lin family can't afford a dog, it's just that the Su family is Xijie, and she can't stand the family bringing prey back to clean up from time to time, and she's even more impatient about raising chickens or dogs at home, even if it's far away from her. Even if it is far away, she will also feel that it is unclean and too dirty.

(End of this chapter)