Chapter 769 Leisure
The three of them widened their eyes, looking stunned. They obviously didn't expect such a thing to happen.
The farmer was still sharing his experience, saying, "If this chicken is well fed, it can weigh four or five taels more. Meat is expensive in the first month of the year, so it can at least earn you an extra five or six coins."
Bai Shan swallowed and asked, "Is the chicken my family bought like this before?"
Manbao carefully recalled the chickens she had bought in the past. It seemed that she usually bought them while wandering around the village during lunch break. She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I guess I haven't been cheated before."
Bai Erlang laughed heartily and said happily, "My family never buys chickens from outside. We have always produced them on our farm."
Bai Shan and Man Bao both ignored him.
The farmer was a little embarrassed and said, "Master, Miss Man, many families do this, not just ours..."
Another farmer whispered, "These past two days, the village head asked us to catch chickens and sell them, and we did the same thing..."
Bai Shan and the other two: "...So we also do things that deceive people."
Farmers: ...
However, none of the three of them objected. Manbao said, "This particularly beautiful rooster does not need to be fed specially on the Lantern Festival. We are not selling it to people who eat it."
The farmer scratched his head and asked, "If we don't eat the chicken, what else can we do with it?"
Manbao chuckled, "That would be very useful."
For example, it can be used in fighting.
The three of them got a bunch of beautiful chicken feathers, so they found a big rock to sit on and sort them out, intending to make them into shuttlecocks.
Bai Shan sharpened the roots of the chicken's feathers with a knife and asked, "Can this chicken really be used as a fighting cock?"
"Let's give it a try. If it doesn't work, we can take it to my sister-in-law's shop and kill and stew it." Manbao thought for a moment and then said, "I think it tastes better if fried."
Bai Shan: "I think so too."
They raised a lot of chickens and ducks in their small farm, and they laid a lot of eggs, so they had no worries about meat and eggs.
Now life in Qili Village is much better than before. Most families raise chickens, which they basically keep for eating during the Chinese New Year.
Not to mention the Zhou family.
Their family built a large chicken coop at the foot of the mountain behind the house, raising nearly a hundred chickens and two big geese to look after the chickens. With them around, not only people but even weasels dare not come.
So after the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, the village is always filled with the aroma of meat.
Lao Zhou has a large family, and he would kill a chicken every night and eat it all. Occasionally, he would splurge and buy some pork or mutton at the market to go with it.
If Old Zhou and Mrs. Qian were reluctant to kill a chicken, Manbao would bring back a slaughtered one from his own farm.
So, Mr. Bai finally got to eat the food his son gave him as a filial gift. He was so happy that he kept giving him pocket money.
Bai Erlang was much smarter than when he was little. He understood everything after seeing it, and every now and then he would go to the farm and bring back a bag of eggs, a chicken, or a duck. One day he would bring it to his grandmother, saying it was a gift to her, and the next day he would bring it to his father, saying it was a gift for him...
As a result, he received some pocket money and the pleased smiles of his grandmother and parents.
Of course, his little account book also recorded the most, making him the person who took away the most meat and eggs from the small village this year.
Manbao and Baishan were stunned.
Manbao thought about it seriously and felt that it was impossible for her to go back with meat and eggs and expect her father to give her pocket money, so she gave up the idea and looked at Bai Shan.
Bai Shan also looked depressed, "Now when I bring something home, my grandmother won't praise me anymore."
Bai Erlang smiled complacently.
Bai Shan and Man Bao decided to ignore him for the moment, so they gathered together and said, "Tonight is New Year's Eve, do you want to come out and play?"
"You can play under the banyan tree, but you have to go back to keep watch at night. Besides, it's so cold outside, and my mother won't let me stay out in the wind."
Bai Shan said, "My grandmother won't let me stay outside in the cold wind, so why don't you come to my house and keep watch with us?"
"No, I want to stay up all night with my parents," Manbao refused directly, "and I have gifts for them tonight."
"Haven't you given all your gifts?"
Manbao said vaguely: "I also bought some extra gifts for my mother and others. They are special gifts that you have never seen before."
In fact, they were the jewelry she bought from the mall. She was busy playing the next day after she came back, and then she went to see Mr. Zhuang off the next day, so she had not been able to give them away.
The things she brought back from Yizhou City had already been brought back from the Bai family by Zhou Silang and distributed directly to everyone.
Everyone knew that those things were given to them by Manbao, so when Manbao came back from playing outside, he received a series of thanks, and then nothing else happened.
Manbao felt that it was not a good time to give gifts, so he never gave any.
Bai Shan didn't expect that she had a special gift, so she was silent for a moment and then asked, "Should I also prepare a special gift for my grandmother and mother?"
Manbao nodded, "It's always happier to receive gifts."
Bai Shan looked at Manbao for a long time.
Bai Erlang had run to the river to join in the fun at some point, and when he turned back to look for them, he saw them still standing by the road talking, so he waved and shouted, "They're catching loaches, do you want to come?"
Bai Shan and Man Bao only watched for a while on the shore before shaking their heads, "No, it's so cold. It would be bad if you get sick."
Bai Erlang was unconvinced, "When I was a kid, I never saw you complain about being cold when you went down the river."
Manbao said, "That's because I'm sensible now. I'm a doctor after all. Don't tempt me to make mistakes."
Bai Shan burst into laughter when he heard this, and Bai Erlang also smiled. They both thought of Manbao going to see a doctor for the village chief's grandson yesterday.
The boy had a runny nose from playing in the cold water, so Manbao prescribed some medicine and told him to keep warm. But the boy replied bluntly, "I saw my aunt fishing in the ditch at the village yesterday. I was fishing with you guys, and you all didn't get sick, only I did. So it definitely wasn't from the cold water."
The final conclusion is that he can also touch cold water.
Then Manbao said today that he would never go into the water to catch fish, let alone catch loaches.
In the end, Bai Shan and Man Bao stood on the shore and watched them touch loaches, and handed them bamboo baskets or something from time to time. Even so, they got covered in mud and finally returned home dirty.
Qian was used to it. Seeing her return half-covered in mud, she reached out and touched her hand. Seeing it was warm, she stopped nagging her and waved, saying, "Go find your sister-in-law. Hurry up and take a shower and change your clothes. Your sixth brother just came home and brought back a lot of food from Yizhou City."
"Sixth brother is back?" Manbao ran to find her sixth brother.
Zhou Liulang couldn't come back with them because he worked in a restaurant. He thought he wouldn't be able to come back for the Chinese New Year this year, but his restaurant was closed on the 29th. So he found a car team to come back with him yesterday, and he slept outside all night before returning.
Zhou Liulang said, "Originally, our boss wanted to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner, but the Yizhou Palace suddenly issued an order for the boss of Zhiweilou to prepare the banquet there. Since our boss is the best cook in our restaurant, and we don't have a chef, we can't prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. So, the boss simply let us go home for the New Year. I even gave him a lot of good things. See this beef? I bought it for 120 coins. It's much cheaper than buying it outside, and most importantly, it's available."
Manbao sucked his saliva and asked, "Sixth Brother, how do you cook this beef?"
"I don't know. I'll have to ask my sister-in-law. I've only seen my boss make this precious thing, but I've never tried it myself."
(End of this chapter)
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