Chapter 57 Buying Lambs
After seeing off Zhao Feng and the villagers who came to watch the fun, Dad Ye sat on a chair in the yard with a rosy face. He grinned foolishly a few times, but he couldn't suppress his excitement. He picked up the tea on the table and drank it in one gulp. After drinking the cold tea, his mind finally became a little clearer.
Ye's mother patted Ye's father blankly:
"We've earned 180,000 already? This must be a dream!" To be honest, she and Dad Ye have worked hard for so many years, but their savings are not even half of this!
The child is in school, the elderly is in the hospital for medical treatment, and the family also renovated the kitchen a few years ago and bought some appliances and furniture. What money can the family have?
If it weren't for the hard work of the couple, who did odd jobs everywhere to save some money over the years, they would not have been able to save so much. Even so, the Ye Zhen family is considered a well-known family in the village.
Ye Zhen: "Mom, close your surprised mouth! This is just the beginning. If you make more money in the future, won't you be unable to sleep every day?"
"Just relax and watch me take you flying."
Ye's mother came over and hit Ye Zhen's shoulder angrily. This child was making fun of her!
"Dad, now that we've made some money, we should buy some sheep. How much grass is growing on that mountain? Not raising some sheep would be a huge waste of resources. We can't just rely on those pigs to eat it all!"
While the whole family was happy, Ye Zhen rubbed his shoulders and seized the opportunity to express his request at the right time.
She was really tired of eating vegetarian food. No matter how delicious the dishes at home were, they could not replace the place of meat in her heart.
She's craving for meat.
"Don't we need to build a sheepfold?"
Maybe money gives people confidence. Dad Ye has opened his eyes now and no longer refuses outright like before. It's just raising sheep. You can eat them at home, and if you can't finish them, you can sell them and there will be plenty of people who want them.
He often went to the back mountain to feed pigs. He knew what the mountains were like very well. The road to the pigpen had to be weeded every few days. He didn't even have to look for grass to feed the pigs. He could just find a place to cut the grass and carry back several baskets.
This pig is living a very comfortable life. It eats and drinks delicious food every day. It drinks from mountain spring water and is fed with leftover vegetable leaves and pumpkins from the fields. It wanders around the mountains when it's free and lies down on the grass when it's tired.
Anyway, every time Ye's father went to the back mountain to feed the pigs, he would sigh that pigs have a happy life.
That round body and the meat look so appetizing. He must eat two more bowls of meat during the Chinese New Year.
I don't know if it's because pig manure can fertilize the soil and cause the weeds to grow wildly. The pigs are not fed enough, but they know how to find food on their own and are not afraid of diarrhea. Wild boars are like this.
Raising sheep is also raising sheep, and Ye's father is quite in favor of it.
Since Ye's father agreed, Ye's mother had nothing to say, and the decision to raise sheep was made.
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The matter of raising sheep has been settled, but where to buy them is another question.
The small mountain villages are all very poor. In the spring, people drive oxen to plow the fields bit by bit. It's nothing like the wealthy places outside, where they can call on a few machines to plow large fields for a few days and guarantee that your fields will be plowed flat and smooth. It doesn't take any effort at all.
Nowadays, among the families in the village who have cows, who doesn’t treat the cows as treasures?
When sowing in spring, you need to first release water to moisten the ground. If you want to fertilize the field, you can sow some fertilizer seeds, such as grass seeds. When driving the oxen to plow the field, you can directly mix the grass seeds with the mud, thus saving the money on buying fertilizers.
Cows are precious, and many families join together to buy a cow, not to mention sheep.
Almost no one raises sheep in their village. Firstly, lambs are expensive, and secondly, sheep are of no use in farm work.
So no one knew where to buy them. No one was seen selling sheep in the town, and no one had heard of any in the nearby villages.
Hey! Ye Zhen still didn't believe it. How could he not buy this even if he had money?
It's no wonder that Ye Zhen thought of Zhao Feng. He is a purchasing agent. The supermarket needs a lot of fresh beef and mutton every day. Maybe he can actually know the answer.
I took out my phone and called directly:
"Hello, I'm Ye Zhen. I want to ask Brother Zhao if he knows where to buy lambs?"
Zhao Feng had just delivered the vegetables to the supermarket not long ago. Time was tight, so he informed the manager as soon as he came back, and then immediately contacted other departments to ask people to expedite the packaging.
He was responsible for contacting relevant staff in the supermarket to clean up the shelves and assign locations. As soon as he made the notification, he received a call from Ye Zhen.
"How many do you want? How about this, next time I go shopping I'll just bring them over for you, just to see how many males and females you want?"
Zhao Feng actually knew where to buy live animals, and the quality was pretty good. Thinking that Ye Zhen was already their partner, this little thing was nothing, and he could just bring it over when he went to buy vegetables next time.
Ye Zhen was delighted when he heard this:
"Thank you so much. Five will be enough. If it's more convenient, two females and three males will be enough. Sorry for the trouble!"
Rams are more expensive than ewes, but it also depends on the breed and purpose. However, Ye Zhen just wants to eat, so he can just buy meat sheep. After explaining it to Zhao Feng, Ye Zhen ended the call.
After resolving this issue, Ye Zhen planned to go to the pond at home with his father to catch fish.
In order to have a good Dragon Boat Festival tomorrow, Ye's mother even forbade Ye Zhen to eat the turtles caught by the two cats. Now the turtles are kept in a water tank at home, and they have to be fed every day, and usually some chopped vegetable leaves are thrown in.
It’s no wonder that these two turtles live a leisurely life. They even float to the surface to bask in the sun during the day, without any sense of crisis at all.
Little Brother Ye is very curious. He is poking the turtle's back with something. He will turn it over after a poke and watch the turtle reveal its small green eyes, turned-out nostrils and stretched neck. It is very interesting!
Ye Zhen was holding a scoop net and putting on his shoes. He was about to follow his father out the door when he was suddenly startled by a howl.
Oh my god! My ears are going deaf!
Little Brother Ye howled like a pig being slaughtered, swinging one hand back and forth as he ran around the yard.
"It hurts so much, Mom, come quickly! The turtle bit my hand."
"Grandpa, grandma, come quickly, your grandson's finger is about to break, it hurts so much."
Ye Zhen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. You are teasing others because you are naughty. Even rabbits bite when they are angry!
Mother Ye ran over in shock and grabbed little brother Ye's hand. Father Ye held the turtle in his hands but didn't dare to pull it. Little brother Ye would howl in pain if they moved.
"Hurry up and put the turtle into the water. It will let go when it feels safe." Grandma Ye was very anxious and asked Dad Ye to take Little Brother Ye to the water tank.
Who knew that after doing so, the turtle would never let go.
Ye Zhen stepped forward and hooked out a few strands of spiritual energy with his fingertips. The turtle's little eyeballs seemed to move. Ye Zhen led the spiritual energy into the water. Slowly, the turtle spit out the finger it was biting, dived forward and swam towards the spiritual energy, paddling its limbs quickly.
Little Brother Ye's eyes were filled with tears, and he held his hand with a look of heartache. There was obviously a tooth mark on it, but fortunately there was no bleeding.
Ye's mother frowned, and was amused by Ye's appearance. "Is it fun? Do you want to try it again?"
Little Brother Ye pursed his lips and said nothing, blowing on his poor fingers.
Ye Zhen directly found the alcohol at home, and while Ye Xiaodi was not paying attention, he soaked the paper towel and wrapped it around the wound.
"Ah!!!" Brother Ye's facial features were distorted and he jumped three feet high.
"Ye Zhen, do you want to murder your own brother?!"
Ye Zhen smiled. Deserved it!
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