Nongmen eldest sister: Farming and opening shops

Chapter 42
Lin Qinghe is a man of action. Now that the chicks have been bought, the open space behind the house has to be fenced off, and the chicken pens have to be built.

They said to do it, called Lin Qingsong, and the siblings took the machete and went to the back mountain to chop bamboo.

The two of them didn't talk much, they felled in the bamboo forest in silence, and within a short time, dozens of bamboos as thick as calves fell down.

Lin Qingsong's hands were sore from chopping, he stopped to look, he was a little dazed, and asked aloud: "Sister, we have cut so many bamboos, is it not enough?"

"It's not enough, if you cut this much, it's almost enough." Lin Qinghe replied without raising his head.

That's a hundred or so bamboos. Do you need so many? Isn't it just to build a chicken coop, and those 55 chickens don't take up much space, right?
Before he could ask, Lin Qinghe had already explained: "I'm going to build a big chicken coop, which can accommodate [-] chickens. If these chickens are raised well, I will buy some more and keep them."

Raised broilers, or eggs, will not fail to sell. She has traveled to the county several times to learn about this aspect. There are relatively few chickens, but more eggs, but the supply is in short supply. It is almost As soon as it was taken out, it was quickly snatched away.

Chickens, eggs, and the like are all nutritious products, and giving a chicken as a gift is considered a high standard.

Regardless of the fact that every family in the peasant household raises chickens, they dare not raise more, because raising chickens costs food, and a family raises a few chickens to lay eggs. In addition to eating for themselves, they will also take eggs as gifts to relatives. Take it and sell it.

"Five hundred chickens, can we raise so many?" Lin Qingsong looked surprised. He felt that it would be difficult to raise 55 chickens. Can we raise [-] chickens?

"Yes, even raising more is not a problem." Lin Qinghe lifted himself up, glanced at him, and said with a smile: "Don't worry about food, we can raise chickens without food."

"Then what to feed?" He still didn't understand.

"Chickens can eat vegetable leaves and grass. They can also dig worms in the ground to eat. We can also dig some earthworms, pick up some mountain snails from the mountain, crush them and feed them to eat, which can fill their stomachs." It’s fine if you’re not hungry.” There’s no need to feed food.

Some stingy people also thought about raising chickens without feeding food, and driving them out to let them find food by themselves, but in this way, the chickens would not be full or nutritious, so they would not lay eggs.

Lin Qingsong was dumbfounded when he heard it. It turned out that chickens can be raised in this way. He asked in a daze, "Is it really possible to raise chickens like this?"

"Why can't it, there is a combination of meat and vegetables. If you want me to say such a good meal, it is definitely the first among all the chickens in our village."

He didn't know whether the meal was the first one, but raising chickens like this was definitely unique in the village.

He thought about it in his heart, and thought it made sense. He was not hungry if he had something to eat and drink, as long as he could grow up well. As for what to feed him, it didn't matter, so he didn't say anything at once.

The siblings both have a lot of strength, and they don't drag their feet when they work. After cutting hundreds of bamboos, the sun has not set, so the two of them took advantage of the opportunity to remove the branches of these bamboos, and finally the hundreds of bamboos were bare. The bamboo poles were moved to the back of my house.

Lin Qingsong was left here to cut the bamboo poles into bamboo pieces to prepare for weaving chicken coops, but she was holding a chopping knife in her hand and walked around the open space behind the house and the semi-sloping land on the side of the mountain. Came back after a lap.

"Eldest sister, what were you wandering about just now?" Lin Qingsong asked after seeing the person coming back.

"I want to make a fence to surround this side and the other side, forming a big circle." Lin Qinghe pointed to the distance while speaking.

Lin Qingsong took the time to look in the direction of her finger, and then showed a puzzled face: "Why do you come out with such a large area?"

He didn't think it was a lot of trouble to weave a fence or something, but he didn't understand the use of such a circle. The yard at home was big enough, so it didn't make sense to build a yard behind the house.

"You don't understand. We chickens live in the chicken coop at night, but we have to come out for activities during the day. There are so many chickens. If we lose sight of them, we have to run to find them. It's a lot of trouble. , with a fence like this, the chickens have a place to move around, and they can't run far."

Speaking of these, the benefits of this era are reflected. It will be placed in later generations. You don’t even want to get involved in the land in front of the house, but in this era, the land is sparsely populated, and such a large area of ​​land is encircled. He didn't say anything, and even almost tacitly agreed that the wasteland around the house belonged to that family.

When Lin Qingsong thought about it, he felt that this was the truth. Those chickens were not like human beings, and they couldn't understand human words at all. Once they were released, they ran wherever they wanted.

He used to hear some women scolding people in the vegetable field, saying that someone's chickens ate up the vegetable leaves in the field, and their chickens raised a lot. If there is such a thing, say They are not allowed to be the first to suspect them, and there will be no one to support them when they scold them, so it is better to keep them in captivity.

"Then do this. If there is not enough bamboo, I will cut some more."

"Let's talk about it when it's not enough. I guess these are almost enough."

As Lin Qinghe spoke, she picked up a branch on the ground, and then took a flat piece of land behind the house, cleaned up the weeds and fallen leaves on the ground, and marked out a large piece of land on the ground, preparing to build a tree at this location. chicken rings.

Speaking of it, Zhaojia Village is a good place surrounded by mountains and rivers. There are mountains behind it, but there is a river in front of it. She has thought about it. If the chickens are raised smoothly, she plans to raise some ducks.

Isn't a place like the village suitable for raising livestock, and their family has no land. They used to go hunting in the mountains, but now their siblings can't hunt, and they just want to see if they can start a family by breeding.

Lin Qingsong took a look at the place she marked out, understood what she meant, and couldn't help asking: "Sister, do we want to build such a big chicken coop?"

The breadth of the land can be compared to some houses. There are rich families in the village, but there are also poor families. The rich naturally live in spacious and bright houses, and the poor live in dilapidated small houses. Well.

Hearing his question, Lin Qinghe nodded: "The chicken coop should be more spacious to prevent them from getting sick, and in the future, don't we need to buy more chickens to raise them, so we can simply cover them all at once to save time and trouble. "

As she spoke, she stretched out her gestures and drew a height: "The chicken coop should not only be spacious, but also higher, which should be compared to the height of our house, and then the chicken coop will be divided into two floors. "

Regarding how to build the chicken coop, she already has a charter in her heart. The chicks will grow up, and when they grow up, they will lay eggs, and how to pick up the eggs will be convenient. Much easier.

(End of this chapter)