Liang Shengdi walked around the main room and rubbed her belly. As she did so, she looked at little Shumei crying on Lin Guoqing's shoulder and couldn't help but sigh.
"Alas, life is so hard. I feel uncomfortable when I'm hungry, and I feel uncomfortable even when I'm full... Are we born to be poor? We can't even eat more good things..."
Lin Guoqing was also impressed by his mother.
"I told you not to eat too much glutinous rice, and you too, ate such a big bowl of rice, so much braised pork and poached eggs, and you still managed to eat four Qingming cakes.
Is there nothing to eat tomorrow or something? "
After saying this, he glared at his eldest daughter, Lin Shuying, who was also walking briskly in the yard with her head drooped.
"And you! How old do you think you are..."
The main reason is that it's so rare to have a meal like this. During Chinese New Year, this is the only dish we have, and we haven't eaten Qingming rice cake yet. Everyone is a little overstuffed.
Chen Chunhua was the only one in the family who went to bed because she was really too sleepy. She had stayed up all night yesterday and had to cook rice porridge today. Even though she was worried about the health of her children just now, she fell asleep the next second after Lin Guoqing forced her to lie down on the bed.
The second and third children did not go into the room to sleep. They first went to the mushroom house for a walk together, and then squatted on the ground to play with the chicks.
"Dad, will the chicks ever feel sad because they are too full?" Lin Shugan watched the chicks pecking at the broken rice in the trough from time to time, and it felt like they had been eating all day long.
"Generally speaking, they won't die from eating too much, but they can still die from indigestion, so don't feed them carelessly."
"What is indigestion?"
"Just like your grandmother and your sister are now, even if they have indigestion."
In an instant, the room became quiet, and except for Liang Shengdi, the children were all frozen.
With a snap, the small wooden stick that the third child was holding to tease the chicken fell to the ground, and the next second he was heard crying loudly.
"Wuwuwu... I don't want my little sister to die... Wuwuwu... Sister, don't die either... Wuwuwu, my little chicken can't die either..."
Liang Shengdi listened for a long time but didn't hear her own name, and she was very angry.
"So I'm the only one who can die?"
Lin Guoqing: ...The younger one is ignorant and the older one doesn’t mind.
"Mom, what are you talking about! ... Third brother, stop crying. That's not what I meant. Chickens will die from indigestion, but people won't die that quickly from indigestion..."
Even Lin Shu's eyes started to turn red.
"...How long do my sisters and grandma have left to live..."
Lin Guoqing: ...They can live! They can all live! Everyone can live to be a hundred! Even if I die, they will still be alive!
Chen Chunhua felt that she could faintly hear a child crying in her dream, but she just couldn't wake up. Her eyelids felt heavy and she fell asleep after trying for a long time.
After Lin Guoqing coaxed the younger and older ones, he waited for the gluttons to digest their food and went to bed. It was almost ten o'clock, which was already very late in this day and age with few entertainment activities.
Lin Guoqing had to go out at 11 o'clock, and there was less than an hour left. He didn't plan to rest anymore, so he carried a shovel and went to the new chicken coop in the backyard.
He skillfully threw the five old hens and the big rooster that had just arrived home yesterday into the cage one by one and locked them up. Then he used a shovel to push the straw in the shed aside and lifted the bottom bamboo frame, revealing a pit more than half a meter deep.
He recently changed his method. Instead of digging evenly, he only dug half of it. This saves time and effort, and the dug mud can be pressed to the side.
Maybe while digging you'll find a corner of a box, and then you can just dig a hole horizontally.
Lin Guoqing dug every time with a shovelful of digging with a pious attitude, hoping that he would find something with the next shovelful.
Although when chatting with Shen Chunhua, he always said that since he couldn't sell it, it would be better to keep it in the field for safety, but when he started shoveling the soil, he was a hundred times more enthusiastic than Shen Chunhua.
After shoveling for more than half an hour today, broken stones were scattered all over the ground. In the early spring weather, Lin Guoqing was sweating. He climbed up to shake off the dirt on his body, and then cleaned up the larger stones and mud scattered on the periphery.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a smaller one, as chickens pick up stones to eat. But if it’s a bigger one, the children at home are still young, and they trip and fall and bleed while walking around. It’s him and Shen Chunhua who feel sorry for them.
Lin Guoqing restored the chicken coop to its original state and opened the cages containing the roosters and hens, letting them come out as they pleased.
Then he went to the mushroom house. He had been growing mushrooms for almost half a month. Although Chunhua said that mycelium should have grown inside, he didn't see any changes.
My hands were itching, so I picked up the watering can and watered the plants again, muttering to myself as I watered.
"Grow well, grow quickly, so you can exchange it for money when you are big enough."
After leaving the mushroom house, she went to the main room to check on the chicks. The two incandescent bulbs had been turned off. Chen Chunhua was afraid that they would be cold, so she put two salt water bottles filled with hot water in before going to bed.
I was afraid that they would be scalded to death, so I covered them with cloth bags. These two bottles of salt water were originally used to keep them warm in the winter, but now they are used for the chicks.
There were seven or eight chickens in each box, lying here and there next to the thermos. Most of them had fallen asleep, but there were a few night owls who were still awake, sometimes pecking at the few remaining rice in the trough, sometimes stepping on their friends' heads and running around in the box.
Lin Guoqing put one hand behind his back and pointed at the chicken in the air with the other hand, and whispered a lesson,
"Still sleeping! How can I grow up if I don't sleep! How can I lay eggs if I don't grow up! How can I make money if I don't lay eggs!"
After thinking about it, he added,
"It's okay if you don't lay eggs. You still have to grow up. When you grow up, you can be slaughtered for meat, or you can be sold to other families for money and slaughtered for meat."
After the "leader" finished his inspection, he looked at the time and saw that it was almost time. He put on his big backpack, picked up his small backpack, and slung his small basket over his shoulder, and went out in a proud and confident manner.
Alas, there are too many industrial chains at home, so I am busy all day long and can’t stop at all.
However, being busy also has its advantages. Thinking of the increasing number of banknotes in the drawer, Lin Guoqing couldn't suppress the corners of his mouth.
Now I raise chickens and mushrooms, sell vegetables every day, and occasionally sell fish balls, snails, river shrimps, etc. By the Chinese New Year, my family must have saved three or four hundred yuan, right?
Even in the dark of night and yawning all the time, it couldn't affect Lin Guoqing's vision of a happy life in the future.
So, by the end of the year, his family will really be able to buy a bicycle?
Lin Fuqiang's family is the only one in the village who owns one. When he rode it back two years ago, it caused a sensation in the village. He still rides it around like a treasure every day.
I thought that my family would have one, and then I could ride it to sell vegetables every day... Alas... No way.
Thinking of this, Lin Guoqing sighed again, lifted the basket on his shoulder, and quickened his pace.
Bicycles are cool, but for their family, they don’t seem as practical as tricycles. So they should buy a tricycle. Then, even if they want to sell chickens or fish, they can put them on the tricycle.
However, tricycles are more expensive than bicycles, but it seems that no tickets are required...
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