pastoral fragrance

Chapter 241
After tidying up the slope, Qiulin's family finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then freed up time to go to the town to buy seeds and silkworm eggs.The fish fry and lotus root seeds also have to be sold. There are too few fish fry in the fish pond, and there are not enough lotus root seeds harvested in the fields.So you have to go to the town to sell it.

For fruit tree seeds, Qiulin bought some peach trees, apricot trees, pear trees, mulberry trees, etc., and bought more silkworm eggs this year than in previous years.There are more people in the family now, and they are too busy.Mulberry trees are also planted in patches, so they are not afraid of starving Can'er.Fish fry and lotus roots were also bought more than that year.At this moment, Xiaoqing and Xiaohei also came along, otherwise the Qiulin sisters would not be able to cope.

"Miss, you should have bought all these seeds, right?" Seeing the pile of things piled up in the bullock cart, Xiaoqing said this.

Qiuyue took another careful inventory, and now the head of the family has a lot of things, and it is not as good as the one who often came to town in the past.So try to buy everything as much as possible, and save running to the town to buy again.After taking stock, she felt that there was nothing missing, so she nodded, "That's it, let's go back quickly, these saplings should be planted quickly."

After Qiulin's family finished working on the slope, they began to build a small adobe farmyard next to the fish pond, which was used for Hu Manzi and his family to live in.The old house of Qiulin's family wanted to raise silkworms, so the house had to be vacated quickly.The adobe house is less labor-intensive than the green brick house, and the small courtyard was repaired in about ten days.

The small courtyard cost about 30 taels of silver, so the money in Qiulin's family would be bottomed out.Fortunately, the family doesn't need to spend a lot of money now, it's nothing more than daily necessities, and there is still some money.

After the small courtyard on the other side of the fish pond was repaired, Hu Manzi's family moved there to live.After vacating the old house, Mrs. Han will put silkworm winnows in the wing room, and put the silkworm winnows on the shelves one by one. A shelf can hold three layers of silkworm winnows, and two shelves are placed in the two wing rooms.

Now that the silkworms have come out, it is time to eat mulberry trees fiercely.The mulberry leaves are all picked and planted by the Zhang family, washed and sent over. The Han family can just give the mulberry leaves to Caner to eat at home.

With the help of Hu Manzi's family, the Han family can save a lot.She doesn't have to worry about the work in the field at all. Hu Manzi's family is also diligent, and they also take care of the honeysuckle and pinellia in the field next to the fish pond.Mrs. Han felt that it was too troublesome to come to them every day to pick up manure and fertilize, so she sold the pig that was fed by the family. After freeing up a few taels of silver, she sold three piglets and rushed to Hu Manzi's family asked them to feed them.

His family's crops are all on the slopes, and Hu Manzi's house is close to each other. He raises the piglets in his house, and it is also close to picking manure, which saves the trouble of running around!

Han Shi has nothing to do now, so he is thinking about how to hatch chickens at home.Incubating chicks is also a technical job, so the temperature should be controlled better, otherwise it will die in the egg.Mrs. Han caught all the hens in the house, found a piece of old cotton wool and spread it on a few benches that were patched together, put the chicken on it, and carefully stuffed the eggs one by one under the hen.

This is also Han's first time hatching chickens, and he doesn't know if he will succeed.So the eggs are not stuffed too much. If they can't hatch, isn't it a waste?

The chicken just lay on it all day long, since it doesn't move much.Qiulin's family is also paying attention to these eggs, wondering if they can hatch smoothly.

According to an old man in the village who has experience in hatching chickens, the eggs will show changes day by day on the fifth day.If there is no change, it is dead, and no chicks can hatch.

Everyone waited with great interest until the fifth day. That night, Han carefully took out an egg from under the hen, looked carefully at the kerosene lamp at home, and gently turned the small egg in her hand. The egg, sure enough, I saw some bloodshot eyes on the egg.The bloodshot was in the form of a net, and it seemed to be done.She stuffed the egg back under the hen and let it continue to hatch the chicks.

In the next few days, holding the eggs up to the kerosene lamp has become a pastime after dinner.It's just that the egg is also changing day by day. First, it grows eyes, and then it grows wings. After half a month, the chicken paws can also be seen.It's just that under the dim kerosene lamp, it's not particularly clear.

In the twenties, one morning, when everyone was drowsy, they suddenly heard the slight crowing of chickens.Everyone was shocked, and soon woke up from the dream, and ran directly into the main room with disheveled clothes.

I saw crumpled, scarlet chickens with messy hair standing on the old cotton wadding, with pointed red beaks, black eyes, and sticky hair. Like a drowned chicken that fell into the water.

Everyone looked at these small and ugly things, and couldn't help but pouted.With a disappointed look on his face, he said, "Ah, why is the chick we hatched so virtuous, so ugly!"

Looking at the poor chickens with low voices, Qiulin was also surprised. Shouldn't their chicken feathers be fluffy?These sticky hairs can't cover the skin and flesh of the chick, which looks a bit scary.

Seeing everyone's disappointed and disgusted looks, I couldn't help laughing out loud. "This chick looks like this when it just hatched. Do you expect to see where to go? It will be fine after a while. When the silkworm hatched earlier, it was still covered in black, isn't it worse than this?" Ugly? But then it became white and fat. Not to mention these chickens and silkworms, when you were born, you were all red, with a few sparse hairs, and your eyes can't be opened , I only know how to cry, so where is it easy to see? All the things that are born look like this, won’t it be fine after a while?”

Everyone was a little surprised when they heard Han's words. Is this how the baby was born?

Mrs. Han smiled and waved her hands, "Is that so? You will know in the future." Qiuyue is 16 years old now, but she is not young. The marriage between Qiuyue and Zhang Cheng may not be until next year at the latest, and the eldest daughter will be easy to marry.

Hey, this adopted daughter is going to marry into someone else's family to be a daughter-in-law.When a female university is married, even if she is reluctant to part with her daughter, she can't keep her at home forever. Zhang Cheng has also passed the exam now, so why don't you just wait for Qiuyue to marry her?She also needs to be careful, so as not to upset the hearts of the Qi family, right?
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