Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 247 Swimming
The sun is setting, and there is a glowing red glow in the sky, it is so beautiful!
The tricycle is driving on the mountain road home.

As the old saying goes, children face the days of March.

Anna, who was still angry with Li Hongbing just now, was jumping up and down in the carriage again, singing the nursery rhymes she had just learned, and the big flowers and the others also howled wolves to beat the younger sister.

Back to the old house.

Let Xiaowa take the leeks and schoolbag home first, and Li Hongbing was going to go to the barn on the meadow with Anna, when he suddenly slapped his forehead and forgot an important thing.

Brother Fang San will bring the chickens, ducks and geese over tomorrow morning, where will they be raised?
The old house is definitely not good, and more than 2000 chickens, ducks and geese can pile up mountains of cakes every day.

It's even more nonsense to put them on the meadow for free-range breeding. If it rains one night, they will all burp if they get a chicken plague.

When I met Shui Sheng just now, I forgot to mention this.

As I get older, my memory gets worse.

After Gu Ying felt sorry for himself, Li Hongbing asked Erhei to go to the yard and call the big white limelight parrot over.

Ever since the colorful rooster came into the house and deprived the two parrots of the right to sing, Li Hongbing vaguely noticed that the two parrots had some symptoms of depression, and they would pluck their hair from time to time.

To put it in layman's terms, it means that you panic when you are idle, and make yourself sick from idleness.

Now the two parrots have super memory and imitation ability. It is not an exaggeration to call them a photographic memory. As long as they have met each other once and heard a sound once, they can recognize and imitate them.

Or put the parrot on the persimmon tree at the entrance of the village, so that anyone in the village who is looking for someone in the future can let the parrot pass the message.

After all, apart from the village committee having a telephone, the villagers usually use their voices to find someone.

Now there is a parrot sending a message to collect a handful of grain at a time.

This is also considered self-reliant, and there will be no depression.

This is a good way to keep one at home and one at the entrance of the village, and take turns to go to work.

Flutter!
A big white cockatoo fell to the ground, and Li Hongbing recognized at a glance that it was the big hair in the parrot, which was named by Anna based on the size of the crests on their heads.

"Da Mao, go to Shuisheng and tell him that I have something to ask him."

"Quack, look for Shuisheng, look for Shuisheng." Da Mao shook his head and repeated several times, then happily flapped his wings and flew towards the village.

However, Li Bing saw that Damao's tail was missing a few feathers.

Depression is kind of serious.

"Dad, Dad, come down quickly, the bastard is bullying me." Under the grass slope, Anna was playing with the brunette, and the brunette kept hitting Anna with his head because of his big body.

"coming!"

Li Hongbing replied, and slowly walked down the grassy slope.

Due to the abundant rainfall this year, flash floods broke out in the deep mountains, and the meadows were more flooded than in previous years. Now half of the meadows in Horseshoe Bay have been submerged.

The range of activities of sheep and pigs is constantly shrinking, and only about 200 mu of meadow out of 100 mu is left.

咴咴!
When Hei Feng saw his master, he shook his head excitedly, and pawed at the grass with his hooves. Hei Jiao, who hadn't come home all the year round, also came over, closely followed by a few pot-bellied ewes.

Whoops!

You boy can do it!

I'm going to be a father!

Li Hongbing patted Heijiao's head in surprise.

I remember that these small-tailed Han sheep were more than three months old when I bought them, and now they are only five months old. Brother Fang said that this kind of sheep can only be bred in six or seven months. Now it is one or two months earlier, and the credit is naturally recorded in the source. head on.

"It's a pity that the water has risen, otherwise you still have fresh grass to supplement your nutrition."

baa!
Black Horn suddenly raised his head and let out a cry, then ran towards the water's edge.

When the sheep heard the call of the head sheep, they followed behind.

Just when Li Hongbing was puzzled, the first batch of sheep jumped into the water, pawing their front legs and kicking their hind legs, and they swam very quickly in the water.

After a while, he swam up to a grassy island in the middle of the stagnant water, shook his body, and lowered his head to eat the grass.

Cowhide!

It's really a knife stabbing fart - opened my eyes.

Li Hongbing saw the sheep swimming for the first time.

Anna next to her jumped up excitedly and clapped her hands in applause.

Seeing Anna abandoning him, the shriveled calf jumped into the water as soon as he became jealous. The female buffalo was worried about the safety of the child and hurriedly followed behind. The male buffalo saw his daughter-in-law going down the river.

As Blackhorn and the flock of sheep and cattle entered the water, even the native pigs followed suit, dragging their chubby bellies and swimming happily in the water.

Seeing the animals swimming, the picture was quite shocking, and Li Hongbing couldn't help but took out his mobile phone to snap a picture.

Only Heifeng and Honghong are left in the barn. Heifeng is quitting, who do you look down on!
What if the horse master can't swim.

In a fit of rage, he wanted to go into the water too, which frightened Li Hongbing, so he hurriedly put his arms around his neck to persuade him.

It’s not that Heifeng is not allowed to swim. Horses can indeed swim, but the time for horses to swim is relatively short and the distance is not long. If they are soaked in water for a long time, it will cause damage to the heart and lungs.

With black wind and bad temper, as long as he enters the water, he must compete with other animals to win or lose.

It's fine if you compete with Black Horn, but if you get into a fight with a bull buffalo, you have to turn into a submarine and spit bubbles.

Heifeng snorted unconvinced, looked at the swimming animals, felt aggrieved, threw off Li Hongbing's arm, and ran wildly on the meadow.

Not for a while.

Shui Sheng came to the meadow covered in sweat, and before he had time to say hello to Li Hongbing, he was surprised by the scene on the water.

A vast number of sheep, pigs, and buffaloes are having fun on the water in the meadow.

"Uncle Red Soldier, this is really what you raise as an animal." Shui Sheng threw himself to the ground in admiration and gave a thumbs up.

Li Hongbing smiled smugly, "You worked hard and ran over here, if you have something to ask for help."

"It's been a while, tell me if you have something to say." Shui Sheng hastily said politely.

Li Hongbing said bluntly, "That's right. I'm going to bring a batch of chickens, ducks and geese tomorrow, and I'm going to raise them on the meadow first. You can see how the shed fits and where it fits."

"how many?"

"One thousand reed chickens, one thousand wild ducks, five hundred white geese."

hiss!
When Shuisheng heard the number, he was stunned.

With so many chickens, ducks and geese, what is Uncle Hongbing doing?

Run a farm.

But he didn't see how he took care of the sheep and pigs he bought last time, so he threw them on the meadow and left them alone.

Shui Sheng had a stomach full of questions to ask, but finally swallowed them back.

Turning his head and looking around, he pointed to a grassy beach slope in the distance, "That's the most suitable place, facing the sun and facing the wind. It's best to use bamboo to build a shed. It's half a meter high from the ground, and half an acre of land is about the same. This can not only ventilate, but also prevent Snakes, rats and ants crawled into the shed, and the smell of feces and urine could not linger.”

Li Hongbing looked up and frowned.

That piece of grassy beach is not the site of Horseshoe Bay. If a chicken shed is built there, it will definitely attract scandals from the villagers.

Could it be that the plan to contract the meadow should be advanced.

Li Hongbing was deep in thought. In fact, now is not the best time to contract meadows. It will be the most suitable time to wait until August when the mountain mosquitoes hatch and start to wreak havoc in the village.

The plan can't keep up with the changes.

Think about it.

I still agree with Shuisheng's site selection.

The name of the village tyrant is still alive, and no one dares to make trouble for the time being.

"Just build it over there. If it can be done well tonight, the chickens, ducks and geese will be delivered tomorrow."

"Tonight!" Shui Sheng pondered for a moment, then nodded, "I have ready-made bamboo and wood, and the chicken coop is not too much trouble, the more people the better."

"That's fine, you go to prepare the bamboo materials, you decide who to find to help you, and the wages will be calculated together in the end."

"Okay, I'll go back and prepare the materials."

After a few simple words, Shuisheng left the meadow in a hurry, went back to the village to get bamboo materials, and gathered people.

Li Hongbing also took Anna back to the old house. As soon as he entered the yard, he could smell the aroma of fried leek boxes.

In the kitchen, my mother and Shan Xing are two people. One puts the leek box into the oil pan, and the other is responsible for frying the leek box. The division of labor is clear.

There was already a pot of fried leek boxes on the chopping board, Li Hongbing picked one up and stuffed it into his mouth, and Shan Xing didn't even have time to stop it.

hiss!
"Hot, hot, hot."

After one bite, there was still hot oil in the leek box just out of the pan, and Li Hongbing sucked his mouth when it was hot.

"The hair is frizzy, you can't eat the oil box in a hurry, you dare to eat it just out of the pan." The mother gloated.

Instead, Shan Xing hurriedly took a bowl of well water and handed it to Li Hongbing, and asked if it was hot in distress.

"You're just used to him." The old lady continued to mutter, but her eyes were full of approval for Shan Xing.

The youngest son grew up suffering, and when he grew up, he met a half-hearted daughter-in-law. After going around and going around, he finally met a caring person
"Mom, am I your own?" Li Hongbing asked with a grin.

"I picked you up from the trash." As soon as my mother finished speaking, Anna bounced into the kitchen, and when she heard this sentence, she looked suddenly enlightened.

"It turns out that my father, like me, picked them up from the garbage dump."

There was laughter in the kitchen.

at this time.

The bamboo leaf green got out from Anna's collar and crawled up to her neck.

"Ah! Anna don't move."

Shan Xing saw the Zhuyeqing at a glance, her face paled instantly in fright, and she repeatedly called on Anna not to move.

At this time, my mother also saw a green snake crawling on her precious granddaughter, her face turned pale from the same fright, and she hurriedly grabbed the rolling pin on the chopping board.

That is bamboo leaf green, poisonous.

Anna blinked her eyes wide, not understanding why Aunt Xing and Grandma suddenly seemed to be different people.

Li Hongbing knew the reason, and said depressedly, "Why did you let Xiaolu out, you didn't tell you to put it in the wooden house."

"Xiaolu doesn't want to leave me." Anna took Zhuyeqing from her neck and played with it in her hands.

"Li Hongbing."

"elder brother!"

Mom and Shan Xing looked at Li Hongbing at the same time, with anger and complaint in their eyes.

Under the old oak tree.

The whole family will appear on the stage alone.

Dad, Mom, and Shan Xing sat together, and on the opposite side were Li Hongbing, Anna, and Shawa, forming a three-on-three situation.

First, Dad fired a shot.

"Silly boy, you are a good boy, it has nothing to do with you, come and sit."

"Oh." The silly boy obediently picked up the small bench and sat behind his father.

Now the situation has become four to two.

The old man took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and then sprayed, "Unfilial son, what do you think? Let the child play with snakes, or Zhuyeqing, do you know that this snake is poisonous. Little Anna doesn't know, you are such an old man , I don’t know what to do!”

"Anna wants to play, what does it have to do with me, and all her fangs have been pulled out." Li Hongbing raised his head weakly.

"If Anna wants to play, let her play. If you pull out your fangs, you are still a poisonous snake..."

Dad was about to start a long speech, to teach Li Hongbing an unforgettable lesson, but he happened to see Li Hongbing secretly pointing to the teacup with his finger and then opening his palm.

Only half a catty!

Something is better than nothing.

The old man understood the code by heart, and immediately changed the topic.

"Since there are no fangs, you should also pay attention to safety. Wild snakes have bacteria on them. You can give the snake a bath first. If you take a bath, I recommend using sulfur soap, an old domestic brand. It can not only inhibit bacteria but also... ouch!"

I saw my father's ear was grabbed by my mother, and there was a 360-degree spiral.

"Old man, when I didn't see San'er giving you a signal, tea can be more important than granddaughter's life."

"Take it easy, take it easy." The old man repeatedly begged for mercy, "San'er is capable, and there is nothing wrong with raising animals, big or small, at home, it's just a snake."

snort!
Mom let go of Dad's ear, looked at Shan Xing, "Xing'er, what do you think?"

This…

Shan Xing saw that Li Hongbing and Anna were begging with their eyes at the same time, and her heart softened.

"That... that, brother Hongbing... say it's okay... then it's okay!"

The situation took a turn for the worse, and the father and Shanxing rebelled, leaving the mother suddenly helpless.

Although he already believed that Zhuyeqing was tamed by his son, it was still very dangerous, and besides himself, everyone else in the family was in the trenches with his youngest son, so what else could he say.

"You guys... are really kind... losers. Remember only this time, if the fangs grow out, throw them away immediately."

Uh-huh!

Li Hongbing and Anna nodded again and again.

At this time.

Tie Zhu's loud voice sounded at the gate of the courtyard.

"Uncle Hong Soldier, we are all here, come and see."

"What are you going to bother about?" Mom has been unable to teach her a lesson. Since his son returned to the village, one thing after another, one thing is getting bigger and bigger. If he said that he would lay tiles on the Great Wall, he would not blink his eyes. one time.

Li Hongbing said awkwardly.

"There are a lot of insects in the field. I bought some chickens and ducks to put in the field. Experts say this is called ecological farming. I plan to cover the chicken coop tonight."

Mom nodded, "The expert finally said something human, let's go!"

Li Hongbing immediately left the hopeful Anna behind, took the silly baby with him, and when he heard that his mother began to educate Anna on love, he immediately ran out of the yard with oil on his feet.

yard door.

Shuisheng, Dakui, Tiezhu and more than a dozen villagers smoked, squatted or stood, and several carts next to them were piled with moso bamboo and wood.

Seeing Li Hongbing coming out, the villagers rushed forward to say hello.

"Uncle Hongbing, I heard that you bought thousands of chickens."

"At this time, I'm afraid I won't succeed in raising chickens. Immediately, the mountain mosquitoes will come out of the water. If the chickens are bitten by the mountain mosquitoes, they will get chicken plague."

"It's not a big deal, or wait for Kaiqiu to raise it."

"Yeah, it costs a lot of money to buy those chickens. If you get chicken plague, you will be in vain."

Faced with the kind advice from the villagers, Li Hongbing humbly accepted it and refused to change it.

Experiments have proved that livestock that have received the power of the source are 100% immune to mosquitoes and bacteria. In other words, as long as they don't eat them, they can live until the day they die of old age.

Seeing that the persuasion was ineffective, the villagers also sighed silently in their hearts. The old saying is good, good words are hard to persuade, damn it, and we should have persuaded them. If there is chicken plague caused by mountain mosquitoes, there is no way.

A group of people picked up the materials from the cart and walked towards the selected location of the chicken coop.

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(End of this chapter)