Nongmen eldest sister: Farming and opening shops

Chapter 57 One Penny
Lin Qingmiao came back with a basket of grass, and then chopped it finely with a knife. Hei Ya, who followed her all the way back, talked to her from time to time, and the two talked and laughed, very happy.

After chopping up the grass, she put it in the basket again, and then carried it to the chicken coop behind the house, and scattered the grass on the ground, and the chickens rushed to it, fighting for food.

It was the first time for Hei Ya to see so many chickens, and she was full of surprise: "Qing Miao, your family has raised so many chickens, how much food will it cost?"

"Stupid, didn't you see me feeding the chickens with grass? Where did I waste the food?"

"But if you raise them like this, won't they grow fast?" Hei Ya asked looking at the chicks.

"No, look at these chicks. When I first bought them, they were so big, but now, they are already so big, and they are growing so fast."

"Actually, our chickens are not fed with food. They just go outside every day, but they don't lay much eggs. Every morning, she tries to pick them up, but she fails." How dare you feed it to chickens.

"My eldest sister said that if chickens don't lay eggs, it may be because they don't have enough nutrition. You need to eat better. If you catch more bugs and feed them to the chickens, they should be able to lay eggs." He warned again: "I will tell you this alone, so don't say it."

A stonemason has the skills of a mason, and a carpenter has the skills of a carpenter. These skills are kept secret. She feels that raising chickens in her family is also a secret of her own. Not an outsider.

Lin Qinghe just came back, and when she heard what she said, it was a bit funny for a while, raising chickens is really not a secret, everyone knows that chickens eat bugs, but no one will deliberately catch them and feed them to chickens, I think it's time-consuming, or I don't think it's necessary.

She pretended not to hear, and asked with a smile, "What are you doing here?"

"Sister, you're back. I just went to mow the grass and met Hei Ya, so I brought her over to see our chick."

Heiya called out a little cautiously: "Sister Qinghe."

"It's been a long time since I saw Hei Ya, come and play with Qing Miao when you have time." Lin Qinghe said with a smile.

Then he took out a bamboo tube from the back basket, and lifted the top cover, revealing a bamboo tube full of earthworms.

Hei Ya was taken aback by surprise: "There are so many bugs."

Lin Qingmiao also came over to take a look. Not only was she not frightened, but she also clapped her hands happily: "These bugs are enough for chickens to eat."

"Give these worms to the chicken?" Hei Ya asked curiously.

"For chickens, these are all meat. If you want to put pork in front of you, will you eat it?"

"Eat." Heiya nodded almost without hesitation, and even licked her mouth: "I don't even remember what the meat tastes like. I think these chickens eat better than me."

That's right, chickens still have meat to eat, and she doesn't even remember the taste of meat. Listening to them talking, Lin Qinghe felt both funny and sad. These days, everyone's life is not easy.

Lin Qinghe turned his head and asked Hei Ya: "Have you seen this kind of bug?"

"I've seen that when digging the ground, once the hoe goes down, you can turn up a few, and there are some rocks, these insects will run around when you move them away." Hei Ya opened her mouth and said.

"That's right, this kind of bug can be caught everywhere." Lin Qinghe nodded and said, "I feed these bugs to chickens every day. If you can catch such a full bamboo tube, I will give you a penny." money."

Heiya's eyes lit up immediately: "Sister Qinghe, are you serious?"

She smiled and nodded: "Of course it's true. When have you ever seen me cheating?"

"These bugs are not difficult to catch, why don't you catch them yourself, then you don't need to spend money."

"Because I have other things to do, catching these bugs is too late."

Heiya heard the words, and said very straightforwardly: "Okay, then leave this matter to me, Sister Qinghe, is one bamboo tube enough, do you want me to catch more?"

Lin Qing laughed when he heard this: "If you can, then grab three bamboo tubes and bring them here, and you will be counted as three pennies."

"Three, three pennies, you don't have to spend so much." She felt that even one penny was earned.

"Yes, one labor, one harvest. It takes a lot of time to catch bugs."

Hei Ya tugged at her yellow braid, and whispered: "I don't have anything to do at home, I'm quite free."

"Since I'm free, help me catch bugs every day!" The chickens in the house, if she hadn't put earthworms in a bamboo tube every day, they wouldn't have grown so fast.

"Okay, then I'll catch it for you every day, thank you Sister Qinghe."

This kid is quite sensible, Lin Qinghe smiled and said no thanks.

Things are settled, Hei Ya can't stay anymore, she has to go back and make preparations early, she has to prepare three bamboo tubes, she plans to use a big bamboo tube, so that sister Qinghe will not suffer, thinking that catching bugs can also make money, there are some underfoot fluttering.

Not long after, Lin Qingsong came back from the outside, with a look of displeasure on his face. When he saw Lin Qinghe, he said, "Sister, Zhao Zhengping passed the exam."

"Ah, only Tongsheng was selected, and there was no scholar?" She thought it was a sure thing, and it was also because the villagers praised it every day, so that she thought it was some kind of unborn genius, but it turned out not to be.

Lin Qingsong was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "Only Tongsheng was hit. This is the first Tongsheng in our village. Everyone is very happy. I heard that the village chief praised him several times in front of everyone."

"There is a famous scholar in the village, and the village head should be happy." Even the lowest-level Tongsheng has a serious reputation.

"The village chief should be happy, but I'm not." He said sullenly.

Lin Qinghe looked at him: "Could it be that because of his resignation, you will be unhappy when you achieve any achievements in the future?"

Lin Qingsong was stunned, he really had this idea, he would not be happy when the other party was in a good mood, and he would only be happy if the other party was unlucky.

But how can you say this? If the elder sister heard it, wouldn't she think that he is a small-bellied person.

"If you don't tell me, I also know what you think in your heart." Lin Qinghe smiled, and said: "You don't have to be like this. Originally, our two families had relatives, so we should pay more attention, but since we retired, That's someone who doesn't matter, and you don't have to pay too much attention to his affairs."

"That can't really be an insignificant person!" Lin Qingsong said somewhat dissatisfied.

"He has nothing to do with our family, so why isn't he an insignificant person?" Lin Qinghe shook his head: "From now on, just live our life well, if you feel that he is promising, and you are not convinced, then you are better than He works harder and strives for one day to be more successful than him."

"He is a scholar, no matter how I compare him, I can't be more promising than him, right?" He still has this self-knowledge.

"That's not what you said. The so-called 36 lines, you can be the number one scholar in every line. If you want to make achievements in other areas, how can you not compare with others? Everything is not smooth sailing. This time, they are rushing to be a scholar. I went, but in the end I only got Tongsheng, which shows that things in the world are not as expected."

"Sister, you are right, I may not be inferior to him."

He still remembered what Zhao Zhengping said to his eldest sister back then. He always thought that he must be stronger than Zhao Zhengping, so that he could prove that his original choice was not wrong.

(End of this chapter)