"Hey bro, it's been ages since you called," Shi Jiankang asked Zhou Cunzong, putting his arm around his shoulder. "What have you been up to lately? Busy as a bee?"
He remained calm, saying, "What can I do? I'm at work."
He has a job; he goes to work every day. At most, he uses things he got from his mother's side to sell to others in cooperation with Qin Guangtan, making money off them.
"But you, it's not the busy season for farming right now, is it? Why didn't you come to see me?"
Shi Jiankang explained to him that the crops in the field needed fertilizer, and that he would go with the brigade leader to buy fertilizer.
After hearing this, Zhou Cunzong expressed his understanding, acknowledging that the young man was indeed quite busy.
Shi Jiankang is the captain's nephew. This kid is even more clever than the captain's son. Basically, whenever the captain needs to go out, he will take him with him.
Of course, the captain's sons sometimes envied and were jealous of him, but this did not affect the good relationship between the cousins.
“My chickens still lay eggs, so I can’t give them to you, but my mother should have an old hen that doesn’t lay eggs. I’ll go ask her for you.”
"Old hens are fine too."
Old hen soup is also very good. Zhou Cunzong asked his mother and the others to come with him to the brigade leader's house.
"Auntie, are you home?"
Although it's not the busy season for farming, farmers are generally never idle. Whether they're picking wild vegetables on the mountain or tending their own plots and vegetable gardens, they're always busy.
The work of weeding and pest control is also very busy, so Shi Jiankang is not sure if his mother is home at this time.
"Amu" means aunt, and Shi Jiankang's aunt treated them quite well.
"What are you doing here, kid? Weren't you supposed to be fertilizing?"
When Wang Xiufen came out, she saw her nephew leading a group of people. She looked at the group of people behind her with some surprise.
Yes, it wasn't just Chen Suwen and her few friends who came; a large group of people followed behind them.
After all, although their brigade leader had bicycles, a red women's bicycle like Chen Suwen's was quite rare.
And that tricycle.
Zhou Qingyun was very particular about the paint job on the tricycle he made for his son. It was all military green with a touch of camouflage.
Of course, he didn't intend to make the tricycle the same color scheme as the military vehicle, so the front of the vehicle was camouflage, while the cargo bed was mostly painted in ordinary military green.
Regardless of the color, the tricycle itself is already eye-catching enough.
The members of the Chishan Brigade were not exactly unsophisticated, but when they saw these vehicles, they still wanted to follow along and take a look.
Chen Suwen didn't care what others thought of her car, and she was somewhat surprised to see some vegetables growing in the garden in her yard.
Unexpectedly, Shi Jiankang's aunt is quite the expert farmer, managing to grow such a small vegetable garden so well.
“Auntie, this is my friend Zhou Cunzong. He and his mother came here to trade with the people in our brigade.”
“Auntie, don’t you have a hen that doesn’t lay eggs? We can replace it for them.”
Upon hearing his words, Wang Xiufen immediately smiled and warmly welcomed Chen Suwen and the others into the courtyard.
"You want to replace the old hen, right? No problem, I've been raising my old hen for almost six years."
“Such an old hen makes an excellent soup, it’s definitely nourishing,” Wang Xiufen said, giving a thumbs up.
If it weren't for the thought that the old hen couldn't lay eggs and could still be sold or traded for other things, she would have killed the old hen herself and made soup.
For someone from Guangdong province, the allure of old hen soup is undeniable.
Although poached chicken made from young chicken is very popular among people in Guangdong Province, soup made from old hen is also unforgettable.
Wang Xiufen led Chen Suwen to the backyard where she kept chickens, went in and picked up the old hen. "Look," she said, "this old hen of mine may not lay eggs, but it's still very energetic."
The old hen in her hands flapped its claws and wings vigorously, but the woman, who had worked hard all year round, was strong and held onto its wing roots so that it could not break free.
"Giggle giggle—"
The old hen was tightly bound, and it couldn't help but squawk, as if it had been sexually assaulted.
Chen Suwen was also very satisfied with the old hen's energetic appearance. "Sister, your old hen is indeed very good, very spirited."
"What are you planning to do with the change, sister? We brought peanut oil and sugar this time, and if you don't like those, we also have some tickets."
Other things were not easy to take out, and she hadn't prepared any fabrics, since she usually used good fabrics to make clothes for her family.
Xu Huixue is very skilled; she can embroider and make clothes. Every set of clothes she makes for her family members is exceptionally beautiful.
Chen Suwen also liked the comfortable and beautiful clothes made by Xu Huixue. She thought it would be great if Xu Huixue could open a tailor shop and make modern Chinese clothes after the reform and opening up.
Of course, accepting orders for haute couture gowns is also an option.
But there's no rush now. Reform and opening up haven't even started yet, and Xu Huixue is still heavily pregnant. We'll wait until she gives birth.
"Do you have peanut oil?" Wang Xiufen took a chicken coop off the "wall" of the chicken coop and stuffed the old hen inside.
She came out carrying the cage and asked Chen Suwen, "Do you have a lot of peanut oil? My old hen weighs about four or five pounds. How many pounds of peanut oil can I exchange for?"
Even if the old hens she raises grow fat, they won't produce much chicken fat, so the peanut oil she can exchange for them probably can't be exchanged for the old hens at a one-to-one ratio.
But she still hoped to get more peanut oil, so that at least she could have oil for a long time.
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