Nongmen lady Jiang Huhan

219 Master-disciple relationship
"When we were fertilizing the fields before, I taught you how to raise earth dragons. I wonder who raised them?" Back in the classroom, Xin Wan looked at the students and asked.

A few students raised their hands with arrogant looks on their faces, while those who didn't did it lowered their heads in guilt.

Xin Wan smiled: "After raising earthworms, you can raise chickens in winter when the chicks hatch. Now I will talk about raising chickens in the greenhouse in winter and building a chicken coop in summer."

In this way, Xin Wan's half-day class was almost all about raising chickens.

Although modern chicken raising technology cannot transfer all the industrial methods, some good methods are definitely useful.

This farmhouse's chicken coop is very simple. The family took great care to surround a piece of land with wooden strips, made a small Cao Peng, and threw in a pile of hay to make a chicken coop.

Because every household can't raise a few chickens, some families use a broken straw basket to make a chicken coop. Usually, as long as they find a way to prevent the weasels from taking the chickens away, it will be fine.

However, in modern breeding, the orientation, lighting, and construction height of the chicken house are all very particular.

Naturally, Xin Wan would not let everyone spend a lot of money to build a chicken coop, but the wooden chicken cage has two floors, the feces falls directly through the gaps in the slats to the lower floor, and then weaves straw baskets for the hens. The nest is convenient for laying eggs and hatching them.

There are also chicken feed troughs and water troughs. Although chickens are kept free-range in every household, clean and hygienic chicken coops are definitely of great benefit when the number of chickens increases, so that chickens are less likely to get sick.

Even if the conditions at home are good and a large chicken coop is built, the chickens can be raised directly in cages.Behind the school there is a large chicken coop designed by Xin Wan, with two floors. There is a chicken trough on the outside of the chicken coop. The hens can only eat food by sticking their heads out, so as not to get their feces into the trough.

The water tank is an automatic fuchsia-style kettle that is common in modern pigeon breeding. It is filled with water. When the water that overflows the outer ring is drunk, new water flows out little by little from the inner water hall.

Li Yuan has already started making this thing. It is very practical and not easy to break. Farmers can use it for a long time if they buy it. It is convenient and hygienic. It is better than chickens looking for water in ditches to drink.

After giving a lecture and then visiting the chicken coop, the girls returned home happily. After that, the wives and mothers-in-law of the three villages, who were friends with each other during the winter, talked about hatching chicks the most. thing.

The school's egg whites were taken care of by the students during the day, and by the school's care in the evening. Seven days later, Xin Wan led everyone to take care of the eggs. The method was to look at the light to see if there were any small black spots in the eggs. If there were any, they would be fertilized eggs. , take good care of it and you will be able to hatch chicks.If it doesn't, it can't, and this is called a widowed egg.

"Wow, that's amazing. Can you tell the difference?" Little girl Chunya looked at the egg with a candle and was surprised to see the small black dots inside the egg.

Xin Wan asked everyone to look at the eggs. There were more than 300 eggs, and finally about 80 were picked out, and the rest continued to be hatched.

It was also the first time for Xin Cui and Xin Meng to hatch chicks, and they also learned very seriously.

"You can't see anything at this time. If you were older, you could see it more clearly." Xin Wan said.

Wang Meihua looked at Xin Wan's eyes full of gratitude, but she seemed to have thought of something else and felt a little disappointed.

Xin Wan roughly guessed her intention. She was the eldest girl in the school and was already 16 years old. Her family had already decided on a marriage and she would get married after the spring plowing next year.

Xin Wan discussed with Xin Meng and Xin Cui, and then reassigned seats to the 18 older girls.

The younger ones are on one side, the older ones are on the other side, and then they start teaching lessons in a planned way every day.

There is no need to worry about embroidery and embroidery for young girls. Let them focus on learning literacy and writing.The older ones, 13-16 years old, were looking to get married, and five of them already had some embroidery skills, so Xin Meng asked their parents to sign documents with him and start teaching Beijing embroidery skills. The requirements were simple. After learning, the girl can only make money by making needlework or pass it on to her biological daughter in the future. Sisters or aunts in the family cannot teach it.

Taoyuantang has given these girls preferential treatment, letting them know how to teach their apprentices to starve their masters to death. Of course, Xin Cui and Xin Meng are naturally pointing to the unique skills of embroidery, and their unique skills of Su embroidery will only be passed on to themselves in the future. daughter.

The five families excitedly signed confidential documents under the witness of the village chiefs. As long as their rumors are found out in the future, the money gained will be returned to Xin Wan ten times. This is still very serious.

There is no free lunch in the world. The reason why I teach them is because they are daughters from three villages, especially students of Taoyuan Hall, and will also be students of the three Xin Wan sisters in the future, so they have a master-student relationship.

So naturally what should be kept secret should also be kept secret.

"Don't worry Xin Wan. My daughter has learned your family's craftsmanship. She must have covered it up before it was too late. Jedi will not be stupid enough to spread it outside. Besides, all three of you sisters are her mentors. We must I will remember this kindness." Wang Meihua's mother took Xin Wan and promised.

Xin Wan nodded: "I teach girls embroidery skills because I want them to have skills so that they won't be bullied by my mother-in-law and sisters-in-law in the future at my husband's house.

The clothes that are made with good craftsmanship are beautiful and the clothes that are well embroidered can be sold for money, and people will praise them wherever they go.

However, it is up to the individual to lead the master to practice, and embroidery also requires talent. We try our best to teach it, but how much they can understand depends on themselves. "

"It's natural, we understand this. Don't worry, our plum blossom will definitely learn from it and remember your kindness for the rest of his life."

It has been more than a month since Taoyuan Hall started classes, and the three villages seemed to be much more lively throughout the winter.

The boys box and exercise on time every day, and then the sound of reading can be heard in the classroom.

Enlightenment children mainly focus on literacy, and only after they can write can they teach other things. Every time someone passes by the school in Taohua Village, they will look up at the large mansion on the gentle slope and stop for a while, listening to the uniform sound of children reading. , everyone’s heart is hot.

The people sitting there are their descendants, and they are their hope!

In the girls' class, they learned the skills of fertilizing and fertilizing fields with earthworms for more than half a month, and then started learning how to raise chickens and hatch chicks.

All the older girls are starting to learn embroidery, which makes those who don't take girls' education seriously, and those who don't take their own girls seriously, regret it.

Fortunately, many of them are not among the first batch to withdraw voluntarily. They will have to send their children in when new students are admitted next year.

The chicks here are still hatching, the children in the girls' school are studying seriously every day, and Xin Wan caught up with two pregnant women giving birth.

After finishing the work on Tian's twins in the morning, Xin Zhengtai was so happy that he knelt down and kowtowed to God, thanking the gods from all over the world for giving him a pair of twin sons.

After so many years, he had given up hope that he would ever have a child, not to mention that the whole family had been blamed for having two daughters in his old house.

Now he was very proud that his wife had the guts to give him two boys at once. There were not many twins. If he hadn't been used to Xin Meng and Xin Cui's good pregnancy, he would have been even more excited.

Xin Wan was also busy. After visiting Tian, ​​the Tie family heard in the afternoon that Qiao Xiaohe had given birth, but it turned out to be dystocia. In the end, mother and daughter were finally safe.