Chapter 101 Plan to raise chickens

Liang Qiaoli bought ten eggs from the village and gave them to Shen Jiale for nourishment.

Seeing that her son was about to kill the chicken, she hurried to stop him.

After handing the eggs to Shen Jiale, Liang Qiaoli said, "It's not that I don't want you to eat the chicken, it's more cost-effective to keep the chicken for laying eggs."

Lu Mingfeng said, "I'll go to the town to buy eggs. Drinking chicken soup is more nutritious."

Liang Qiaoli didn't think so: "A chicken can only drink chicken soup a few times. If it is kept for laying eggs, your wife will have eggs to eat every day."

Shen Jiale had no shortage of food, but he also understood his mother-in-law's intentions, so he asked Lu Mingfeng not to kill the chicken.

There are not many families in the village who raise chickens. Even if the eggs are laid, they are reluctant to eat them and save them to exchange for salt.

After pregnancy, you need to supplement nutrition. The family is not short of money now, but often buying good things will also arouse others' suspicion.

When everyone is poor, eating meat occasionally will attract others' envy.

If your family eats meat and fish every day, you will naturally become everyone's target.

Therefore, if you want to live a good life, you must also slightly change the status quo of others.

When everyone is immersed in the joy of making money, they will not focus on your family.

Shen Jiale said to Liang Qiaoli, "Mom, how about we raise chickens?"

Liang Qiaoli said, "I've thought about it. You two sisters-in-law are both pregnant and need eggs for confinement. I'll catch two chicks in the spring and raise them.

I'll save eggs for you then." "Raising two chickens is not enough. Let's raise more."

"If we raise too many, there won't be enough food to feed them."

"I have a way to solve it."

"But a family is not allowed to raise too many. We'll be reported. If they're confiscated, it'll be a waste of effort."

"That's not a problem. I'll talk to the village chief."

...

Lu Mingfeng accompanied Shen Jiale to the village chief's house.

This time, the village chief and his wife came out to greet them warmly.

The villagers made money by growing garlic sprouts, and even those who didn't believe in it at first started growing garlic sprouts.

The village chief's wife poured water for a few people. Her family grew a lot of garlic sprouts and made a lot of money.

Everyone attributed the credit to the village chief.

The village chief was also praised by the commune.

Therefore, the village chief was full of gratitude to Shen Jiale. When the

village chief heard Shen Jiale's proposal to raise chickens for the whole village, the first thing he thought of was that it was not feasible.

Raising chickens requires a place and feed, which cost money, and the village cannot afford it.

Since Shen Jiale proposed it, there must be a way to solve the problem, so he listened to Shen Jiale carefully.

Shen Jiale suggested that the village could purchase chicks in a centralized manner, and the villagers could voluntarily take the chicks home to raise them. After they grow up, they can be handed over to the village to count as work points.

In spring, summer and autumn, there are wild vegetables on the mountain that can be used to feed the chickens. In winter, when the chickens don’t lay many eggs, they can be sold and raised again in the spring of the following year.

Distributing them to each household saves space, and the problem of chicken feed is also solved, so raising chickens is no longer a problem.

In order to increase the enthusiasm of the villagers in raising chickens, when the chickens lay eggs, two eggs are handed over per day for every three chickens, and the excess belongs to the villagers.

In this way, the villagers will definitely feed the chickens carefully, and the chickens will lay more eggs.

In this way, the village can increase income, and the villagers can also supplement their family

income from time to time, killing two birds with one stone. The village chief can't help but feel happy when he thinks about the end-of-year distribution of money and everyone's income has increased.

The village chief's wife praised: "People with education have flexible minds."

The village chief said: "Your idea is good. This time, I must praise you in front of the commune leaders."

Shen Jiale said modestly: "I just moved my mouth. The whole village contributed, and the whole village should be promoted."

Shen Jiale said that he wanted to raise some chickens first.

The village chief's wife said: "You have to wait until the beginning of spring to sell chicks."

Shen Jiale said that he could hatch.

The village chief was surprised: "You can also hatch chicks?"

That means the money for buying chicks can also be saved.

"Mingfeng's wife, can you take over the job of hatching chicks?"

"I can take it, but then you, the village chief, will have to go out and collect eggs, and you have to collect eggs laid by roosters at home."

The village chief was a little hesitant.

Ordinary people raise chickens, mostly hens for laying eggs, and few families raise roosters.

What if the eggs bought don't hatch chicks, wouldn't it be a loss?

It seems that the money for chicks can't be saved.

...

After passing the village chief's place, Shen Jiale had to go back to make preparations.

On the way back, he passed by Widow Zhou's house.

Shen Jiale saw Zhao Meili nearby.

According to Zhao Meili's personality, she would definitely take revenge if she was wronged.

After asking Lu Mingfeng to go back first, Shen Jiale walked to Zhao Meili's side.

Lu Bailing and Zhou Jianghai are engaged, Zhao Meili has a lot of opinions about Shen Jiale.

No wonder she didn't matchmake for her, it turns out she was sticking to her sister-in-law first.

Thinking of how Shen Jiale saved her innocence, Zhao Meili convinced herself.

They are sister-in-law, so of course they should think of their family when there is something good. She

also envied Lu Bailing in her heart, it was great to have family as a backing, unlike herself, who didn't even know what was going on at home.

Shen Jiale said, "She is pregnant, don't act impulsively."

Zhao Meili looked at her and said, "She wants to make me lose my innocence, why should I care whether she is pregnant or not? The Zhou family wants a grandson so much, if she doesn't have a child, I wonder if the Zhou family will still tolerate her."

Shen Jiale said, "Will she definitely give birth to a boy?"

Wang Yanhong and Jiang Haoran had a secret meeting in Xiao Shulin, and the widow Zhou could tolerate it because of the child in Wang Yanhong's belly.

If it wasn't a grandson, the widow Zhou would no longer care about Zhou Da.

Then Wang Yanhong's life will be miserable.

"What if she is lucky and gives birth to a boy?"

"If you get rid of her child and the Zhou family finds out, they will come after you."

Zhao Meili was silent for a while and said, "I won't let her go."

"She has a complicated relationship with Jiang Haoran. It's hard to say whose child it is. If she doesn't look like Zhou Da, you don't have to do anything. Her life will not be easy."

Zhao Meili thought of this and thought it was much better than taking action now.

Let Wang Yanhong go for now.

If she has a hard time, I will add fuel to the fire.

If she has an easy life, it won't be too late to clean up.

Thinking about her family, Zhao Meili asked Shen Jiale for help. When she wrote to her family, she asked to inquire about her family's situation.

In order to reassure Zhao Meili, Shen Jiale agreed to ask for her.

Watching Zhao Meili leave, Shen Jiale touched her belly which had not yet shown any signs of pregnancy.

Now that she was pregnant, she could not help but feel a little more compassion.

Wang Yanhong was indeed evil, but the child in her belly was innocent.

She couldn't stand by and watch knowing that Zhao Meili would do something that would endanger the child.

Just think of it as accumulating virtue for the child in her belly.

...

When Shen Jiale returned home, she saw Lu Mingfeng killing a chicken.

"Didn't you promise mother that you would keep it for laying eggs?"

Lu Mingfeng wiped the chicken's neck and bled it in a bowl.

"Let you eat it to replenish your body first. I'll go find Brother Jing to buy some tomorrow, and buy more eggs that can hatch chicks."

Lu Bailing was already on winter vacation and was boiling water in the kitchen.

There was a lot of hot water, so Lu Bailing took Shen Jiale's clothes to wash, and then put them in a basin and took them to the river to rinse.

Shen Jiale said, "It's inconvenient to wash clothes at the river in winter, and you have to make holes in the ice. Let's dig a well at home."

Lu Mingfeng said, "Brother Jin's family has a hand-operated well. You can get water by pressing up and down. It's very convenient. Let's dig one in the yard."

That afternoon, Lu Mingfeng went to find Xu Jin, bought eggs, and brought a well-drilling master.

Shen Jiale put dry grass in the cardboard box, covered it with old clothes, put the eggs in, covered it, and put it on the kang to start hatching chicks.

The well was dug, and Lu Bailing pressed the well repeatedly at home to pump out the muddy water. When he saw that the water was clear, he carried two buckets of water to the old house.

On the way, he saw that everyone in the village was running up the mountain.

Lu Bailing asked a villager, who said that someone had fallen from the mountain and was injured.