The other villagers were the same; the whole village enjoyed a sumptuous and delicious meal, even the soup was a meat broth with oil on it, which was hot and comforting after a year of hard work.
We don't know when the next one will be, but everyone feels full of energy for the next one.
We are moving closer and closer to a life where we have enough to eat and eat well.
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The winter month is the off-season for farming. In the past, most farmers would have been hibernating, except for gathering firewood.
Shanshui Village is exceptionally busy this year.
The first priority was building pigsties and sheep pens. Every household pitched in, making adobe bricks, clearing weeds and dead branches, digging foundations... everyone was busy as bees.
Actually, not many people started raising pigs and sheep in the first batch, but everyone thought they should take advantage of the current off-season to build them quickly so they wouldn't be in a rush when they bought pigs and sheep later. Otherwise, what would they do if the next batch came during the busy farming season? There wouldn't be enough manpower to build pig and sheep pens then.
Pig and sheep pens are much easier to build than houses for people. First of all, they don't need to be built so high; they only need to be about the height of one person, which immediately saves half the cost of adobe bricks.
Secondly, the roof was not made of tiles, but of thatch, so the whole process was labor-intensive and cost no money.
The village feast ended, and the house was completed in just a few days. The families who bought the cubs went to Shuiqing's place to catch them with great joy.
The money had already been paid; once caught, they could be placed on a cart and transported directly to the prepared pig and sheep pens.
The old village chief has already discussed the care arrangements with the other livestock farmers.
The first batch of pigs and sheep were not many, only a few families, about nine families. Each family sent one or two people every night to guard the pig and sheep pen. They rotated every nine days. Since there were many people in the family, it was not considered tiring.
Once the next thirty-odd households all started raising pigs and sheep, they would only get to eat once a month or so, making it even easier for them.
Li Wenxi carefully placed the three piglets into the pigpen, while Li Wu carefully placed the five lambs into the sheep pen. Watching the pigs and sheep wandering around and getting familiar with their territory, the whole family looked at each other with great affection.
It was as if they weren't looking at livestock, but rather at piles of silver and a good life to come.
"Dad, we raise the most!" Li Qiang said with great joy.
Although Aunt Wu's family raised ten sheep, she arrived too late and there were no pigs left.
Other families may have sheep, but they don't have as many pigs as his family!
Li Wu continued, "It's all thanks to my sister-in-law's speed! She spoke up early, otherwise we wouldn't have three pigs in our family."
"Sister-in-law is the best!" Zhang Hui immediately chimed in.
Wang Guifen felt embarrassed by the praise and waved her hand, saying, "Alright, alright, this was Dad's idea, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to speak so quickly."
Aunt Wu's family was a step behind because the head of the household disagreed.
The old village chief was used to the children praising each other and eventually ending up praising him. He didn't continue the conversation but got down to business: "What do you guys think about moving the rabbit out?"
Wang Guifen and the others' eyes lit up.
They've wanted to move the rabbit out for a long time!
We have enough space to raise rabbits at home, but we can't expand the scale. Besides, we need to feed the pigs and cook their feed, and cut grass for the sheep. Since it's all grass, feeding them all at once would save time, wouldn't it?
“Rabbits are our family’s biggest source of income. In the past, we were afraid that if we released them, something might happen. Now that there are people guarding this area on the back hill day and night, I think it’s worth a try.”
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