The Blessing of the Qi Nv of Transmigration

Chapter 15
August osmanthus is fragrant everywhere.

The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the mountains and plains, casting a layer of dazzling gold on the world under its rule. The summer heat has receded. Although the heat has not completely dissipated, it has begun to cool down in the morning and evening.

Yang Feier took the basket, opened the back door of the barn, and took it with him to the backyard.

After the rice was planted, because the chickens in the chicken coop grew up gradually, except for the four that unfortunately died in the middle, the rest were healthy and lively.For the sake of safety, Da Hu and the others sneakily built a half-rock and half-earth wall with a six-foot-high base and thorny branches on it, connecting the main house in front and the latrine in the back to form a square yard.All the poplar trees in the yard were cut down and used for other purposes, leaving only a circle outside the yard for the chickens to shade in summer.

Three-quarters of the yard on the west side is surrounded by nets for the chickens to move around. Starting from the back door of the barn, along the edge of the net, a semi-circular gravel road is paved, leading to the back hut.

Heeding Yang Feier's suggestion, he built a chicken coop for the hens to lay eggs on the west wall. On a wooden frame half a person's height, there were two floors of bamboo cages two feet high and two feet wide, covered with dense The grass roof is both ventilated and sheltered from the sun and rain. The inside is covered with thick straw. There is a small door every arm's width, which can be opened and closed for the hens to come in and out, and can also be used for collecting eggs. .

Watching a yard of fat and fat chickens rushing over with conditioned reflex, they looped around their feet, and ignored them. There is actually a pink Hello kitty embroidered, the water red thin linen narrow-sleeved summer shirt is rolled up twice, the lotus-colored long skirt is rolled up, and a lot is wrapped around the bend of the legs to avoid dirtying the skirt, little girl She has grown about four or five centimeters in the past six months. She was stuck at home all summer and was not allowed to go out. She was afraid that she would suffer from heatstroke and cause old illnesses. She only went to see if there were any diseases and insect pests in the seedling fish occasionally in the early morning or evening. Abnormally, the complexion is white and rosy, and a pair of smart eyes are flickering, pure and thorough.

Dressed neatly, he picked up the broom leaning against the wall and started sweeping from his feet, sweeping all the chicken manure and floating soil to the latrine to accumulate manure.

After sweeping a yard of more than 100 square meters, I was drenched in sweat.

Turn around and enter the barn, drag out a bag containing duckweed leaves and other chicken food, drag it all the way to the net in the middle of the yard before stopping, bend down and grab the two corners at the bottom of the bag, and dump all the contents in the bag with force And out, a small pile was built, and those chickens swarmed up, extremely ferocious, scratching their claws and pecking at their beaks, refusing to give in to each other, Yang Feier picked up the wooden shovel leaning on one side, and with great difficulty, he jumped over the heavy chickens and fed the chickens. Slice and form long strips so they are less crowded.

Watching the chickens calm down and concentrate on enjoying their dinner, Yang Feier took off his mask, took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat off his face, took a short rest, put on his mask again, turned around and walked to the back door of the barn, bent over Picking up the basket, tidying up the straw at the bottom of the basket a little, went to the west wall and started collecting eggs.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, I finished the work in the field, built the fence and set up the chicken coop. When it was almost June, the hens began to lay eggs one after another, and each hen would lay eggs every one to two or three days. One, and some lay eggs every day, so, from then on, the family will receive ten to twenty eggs every day.

Because when picking the chickens, they were rushing to collect the eggs. Shen and Wang used a local method to select all the hens, dipped the little paws of the chickens in water, and let them go. Let it walk and look at its footprints. The rooster runs in a straight line, but the hen does not. The specific reason is unfounded, but after all, there must be considerations or mistakes in this method, in case a rooster that does not take an unusual path strays into it. Among the 46 chickens grown up in the family, there are still three roosters, but this is also good, such eggs can be used to brood for chicks next year.

Hearing a sound from behind the barn, Xiao Guang and Xiao Chang came out in response. The two carried a big bamboo basket and walked into the yard. Xiao Guang was behind and closed the door behind his back to prevent Xiao Hei from squeezing in. Let him in , that was really jumping, shouting in the mouth: "Sister, we are back."

Yang Feier had finished collecting the eggs, and turned around in response, and saw that he had placed the bamboo basket in the net circle and removed the pole. Yang Feier took it with one hand, and sent it to the warehouse together with the egg basket, and then returned. When I went to the courtyard, I watched my two younger brothers dumping half a basket of screws on the stone slab on the ground. There were more than a dozen large river mussels mixed in. After half a year of daily fishing, the screws in the river were obviously not enough, and I had to run away. Fishing from far away, we also need to add mussels. The mussel meat needs to be chopped up to feed the chickens, which is an extra procedure, but there is no way. One job is all for fun.

Feed the chickens, clean up the garbage, and see that the chickens have entered the chicken coop one after another, close the blinds and windows of the chicken coop, check around, and go back to the main house if there is nothing missing.

Several people washed their faces and hands. Yang Feier beat the dust off his body with a dry towel back and forth, put on an apron, and washed vegetables for dinner.Chop a large piece of mahjong and put it in the pot to cook. The two bowls of rice left at noon, washed eight eggs, and stirred a soup bowl of gnocchi, put them in together. Put half a basket of cabbage that is as long as a knuckle in it, boil it and add oil and salt, and it will be fine.

This time has been rice in the fields.It started to turn yellow. From the earing to the filling, the adults in the family were extremely nervous and stayed in the field every day. According to their experience, they watered, drained, dried the field, and applied fertilizer again, and then slowly reduced the water in the field. , in the later stage, the main thing is to dry, but those fish are still raised in the fields, and they have to be driven to the fish pit and fish ditch. Those fish are now seven or eight inches long, and the catfish beard has grown to one Two or three inches in size, it looks really gratifying, and the look is even tighter.

Hearing someone talking outside, knowing that Da Hu had come back, he seized the time to pour hot water from another pot into the earthen pot, and just put the earthen pot on the table in the main room, where Da Hu A few people entered the door, and laughed loudly: "Is Xiu'er clairvoyant? This point is too accurate."

"With your voice, it's hard not to hear it." Grandma Wang teased.

Shen Shi pursed her lips but smiled and said nothing, Grandpa had already walked to the table, took off the towel around his neck and washed it.

Yang Feier also laughed, picking out eight eggs from the pot, and putting them in a soup bowl filled with cold water to wash and peel them off. , Set up the chopsticks, serve dinner, put a white and tender egg in each bowl, together with the fried salty lentils and green pepper sauce that was fried at noon, and serve it on the table with Xiaoguang Xiaochang.

Unsurprisingly, Mrs. Wang began to babble again: "Why are you making eggs again? You children really don't know how to live. You do have them now, but you have to save a little bit. This is not the way to live..."

Since the hens at home started laying eggs, Yang Feier has added an item to the family's food list. He needs to eat eggs three times a week. Now the family's finances are also well off, and the family has more than 200 taels of silver Well, seeing that the rice harvest is about to come up, there is no need to pay rent or tax, and the fish in the rice fields, there are about [-] fish per mu, and selling them is another income. If those chickens in the backyard were sold a few years ago, they would still be able to earn a fortune. Why bother to live the old life?

Besides, Yang Feier is still silently calculating one thing in his heart.

Yang Fei'er sat on the same side as her elder brother, and started to eat slowly, pretending to be casual while eating, "Daddy, are you going to buy shrimps at the market with elder brother tomorrow?"

"Yes" said his daughter casually, and Da Hu answered casually.

"Then can daddy take me to go shopping in the market tomorrow?"

Everyone at the table looked up, Shen felt sorry for her daughter, and said: "Xiu'er, you have to walk an hour or so to go to the market, your health is good, mother is afraid that you won't be able to eat, why don't you wait until In the twelfth lunar month, mother will go with you and cut cotton clothes for you, let's not be in a hurry, okay?"

"Mother, I know my own body. My body is in good shape now! There is no problem at all. I often walk long distances with Gemini to fish for screws, and I don't feel tired. Let's talk about housework at home. Work, from morning to night is not too little, I can still do it, and I will occasionally deliver meals to you at noon. I believe that there should be no problem for me to go back and forth to the market. Dad, you can take me there .”

Wang looked at her coquettish granddaughter lovingly, and patiently persuaded her: "Listen to your mother, let's take a look at it in a while, the last trip to the market will take two hours to go back and forth! You are so small, where can you eat?" live."

"Grandma, the weather is neither cold nor hot, and it's just right to go out. Besides, I have stayed at home for ten years and have never gone out. I really can't wait. I really want to go out and have a look. After a while, The family is going to harvest rice and sell fish again, I'm afraid I don't have time, why don't you take me out while it's not too busy, I promise I can." Yang Feier sincerely pleaded.

Father Hu kept his head down to eat without saying a word, and now he raised his head and said to Da Hu: "After dinner, go to Tang Zhengfu's house with me, and borrow his ox cart for a day. Xiu'er has been bored all these years. It's really hard at home, since she wants to go, let her go out to see the world, just bring ten eggs with you when you borrow the ox cart, and now the ox is idle at home."

When Da Hu heard that his daughter could go there by car, he felt relieved. After dinner in a hurry, Da Hu and Father Hu went to Tang Zhengfu's house with ten eggs in a net bag to borrow a cart. Hu Kang was happy to see his sister. He looked happy for her, and said: "Sister, the fair is very lively, don't be dazzled when you go, I know there are a few interesting shops, and the elder brother will take you shopping."

(End of this chapter)