Chapter 237: Lu's Family House
"Sure, why not?"
Shen Jin agreed without thinking.
His family didn't raise many chickens, only nine, because raising chickens is not something that can be done by just giving them grass. They also had to dig for grass seeds. They couldn't afford bran, so they had to give them some grass seeds and vegetable leaves, and they also had to catch insects to feed the chickens. Without some financial resources, they couldn't afford to raise more chickens. The three brothers were already struggling to raise these nine chickens.
"Don't respond so quickly. My family has quite a few chickens, and we should have more in the future. If you want to benefit from it, you should also raise more chickens at home slowly. That will be cost-effective."
Shen Jin thought about it seriously and asked Sang Luo: "Is that work particularly time-consuming and laborious?"
Sang Luo shook her head: "It's not too hard, just a little disgusting."
She herself was not willing to imagine that scene. This was also the reason why she never used this method even though she knew it during all these years in the mountains. She was actually afraid of that thing.
But in the final analysis, it was Chen Lie who gave her the confidence. In the past, in the mountains, pheasants did not have to be raised solely at home, they could be caught and hunted from time to time outside, so she really didn't have to worry too much.
But now she wants to start breeding seriously, even if it's just small-scale breeding at the beginning, it's different, she still has to use the money, and it just so happens that these little ones are short of money, so she just leads them together, she provides the technology, and the Shen Jin brothers contribute some effort.
Shen Jin thought it wouldn't take too much time, "That's fine. Bugs aren't disgusting."
It is common for him to play with insects in his hands.
As for the fact that his family needs to raise more chickens to be cost-effective, isn't it his sister-in-law who is helping him make money?
Shen Jin is not stupid, this is how his sister-in-law takes care of him.
"Sister-in-law, you tell me, I will definitely do it well."
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Earthworms are raised with pig manure and hay leaves. Worm manure is an excellent fertilizer, and after processing, earthworms become top-notch chicken feed.
Sang Luo explained the key points to Shen Jin in detail.
Shen Jin's eyes lit up when he heard this. He asked questions about things he didn't understand. After he figured it out, he patted his chest and said, "This isn't difficult, really, sister-in-law. Xiao Tie can do it. Leave it to us."
What's there to be afraid of? What a wonderful thing.
Shen Jin thought that there were many mountainous areas, and he could gradually open them up to grow some vegetables. In addition, with what his sister-in-law had taught him, he could save the eggs that the chickens laid in the future and let the hens sit on brood later.
Shen Jin could already imagine the scene of having dozens of chickens at home. Not to mention anything else, after raising them for a few months, he would be able to carry a basket of eggs to the East Market to sell every two days. He was so excited that he almost rubbed his hands.
"Sister-in-law, are there any other insects that can be raised?"
"Yes, but I don't want to." Sang Luo refused directly.
Don't ask, the answer is that it is much more disgusting than earthworms.
Shen Jin laughed, and then he remembered something and handed the IOU to Sang Luo: "Sister-in-law, this is the money for buying cows, pigs, geese and wheat seeds today. I wrote an IOU, please keep it and pay it back when I have money."
Sang Luo took the IOU and looked at it. The paper and ink were given by Wang Yunzheng. Although the handwriting was not very good, the IOU was well written and there were no typos. She had learned to read and write in the mountains for several years, and Manager Xu gave lessons to the children from time to time, which showed that he had put a lot of effort into it.
"Okay." She folded the note and put it away.
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After the five second brothers and the two geese settled down, Chen Lie went to the mountain. After looking at the blueprints and deciding with Zhao Da and Zhao Si which areas should be cleared for planting trees, he brought Chen An, who had been clearing the land on the mountain for half the morning, back home. After asking Sang Luo what other fruit trees she wanted besides wild grapes, he delivered Sang Luo's handwritten bamboo slips to the Xu family, and the two brothers took Shen Jin into the mountain together.
Of course, she couldn't walk far at noon, but Sang Luo wanted a lot of things, including the common golden cherries, wild grapes, chestnuts, red dates, sour dates, hawthorns, bananas, mulberry, pears, and persimmons in the mountains. She wanted whatever she could find and was not picky, so even if it was only half a day, she could find a lot in the nearby mountains.
Also going with them were Chen Dashan, Chen Ershan and Xu Wenqing, who had heard that the Shen family was going to plant fruit trees on the mountain and decided to follow them.
Chen Dashan just found out that his wife was pregnant. After staying at home for a long time, Chen Dashan came home full of energy. He didn't even talk about resting. He handed the money given by the government office to his family. Taking advantage of this three-day rest at home, he took his younger brother Ershan and followed Chen Lie and others to plant fruit trees.
Chen Ning returned home a step later, went into the kitchen, picked up the largest basket, and took a sickle: "Sister-in-law, I went to pick pig grass with Xiaoyaer, Qiaoer, Xiaotie, Axu and Zhou Wu."
The farm became lively when a group of second brothers and geese were brought back from the farm. In the past, they only raised sheep, chickens and rabbits, but now they have pigs and geese.
But the children in the village are strong and enthusiastic. They are just happy that there are so many livestock in the family. Which one would complain about being tired?
It was a busy day, and in a blink of an eye it was the twelfth day of the first lunar month. When Sang Luo woke up early on the thirteenth day, she had just left her room when Chen Lie called her, "Slide carefully."
It turned out that it had rained at some point in the night. Although it had stopped now, the ground was still wet, which was why Shen Lie was so nervous.
He had already worked in the mountains and survived. He brought back a batch of saplings yesterday evening, but they were not planted before dark. Together with Shen An and Shen Jin, he started working again early in the morning and had just finished planting.
Chen Lie looked at the sky and said, "It's probably the Rain Water solar term. Xiao An, Uncle Zhao, and Fourth Uncle Zhao and I have to plow the fields and weed after the rain these two days. I'm afraid we won't be able to go to the mountains these days. We have transplanted more than 30 grape trees and grafted more than 90. Is that enough?"
"More than a hundred trees?" Sang Luo was a little surprised, and then nodded: "Enough, how about the golden cherry?"
"We dug up more than 40 golden cherries and planted them around the fence of the chicken farm. We originally wanted to prune some and then take some cuttings, but I remember it takes two or three years to harvest these cuttings. Uncle Zhao and Uncle Zhao said they also have some on the hills near their homes, so they asked the boys at home to dig some and send them to us. I thought it was okay, and they would give us some money later, and we would consider it as buying them."
Sang Luo smiled and said, "Okay, that's great. I want to build a fence around the sheep farm and the chicken farm."
Shen Lie was a little curious: "What is the use of this thing?"
When he was a child, there was not much to eat, so Chen Lie picked a lot of them in the mountains. They were sweet when he first chewed them, but a little astringent after chewing. The most important thing was that his throat would itch after eating them. Of course, he later found out that it was because the hair inside was not cleaned up.
"It's useful. It's considered a medicinal herb. Let's see if the drugstore will accept it. If not, we can make golden cherry paste at home. It's sweet and tastes good."
This thing also has another name, sugar jar.
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After a night of spring rain, the people in Daxing Village, or in the entire Shezhou City, became busy.
It was on this day that Lu Erlang and Lu Sanlang returned to Daxing Village carrying large and small bags, followed by two teenagers who were almost as tall as them, and a few more people behind them. The fields of the Xu and Zhou families were closest to the entrance of the village. When Lu Erlang and Lu Sanlang saw this group of people, they could easily recognize them. The one behind them was...
Mrs. Xu was stunned for a moment, and then she realized: "Is this a tie post, an iron post?"
It's the tie pillar and the iron pillar. The young lady with long hair at the back is the big girl. Behind them are Hu Zi and Shi Tou who are much taller. At the very end, at a distance, there is a man with untidy beard who looks sloppy and a little old. Only after a closer look can you recognize that it is Lu Dalang.
The Zhou family must have recognized the people, and Zhou Cunzheng had already asked the fifth son of the family to go to the Lu family's fields to report the news.
Upon hearing the news, Old Man Lu and Mrs. Lu rushed out, took a closer look, and seeing that no one was missing, the old couple's eyes suddenly became wet. Mrs. Lu looked at her two grandsons who had grown much taller than her, opened her mouth, and called out "Shuanzhu" and then "Tiezhu".
As he grew older, his appearance changed a bit, and at first I couldn’t recognize him.
Shuanzhu and Tiezhu put down the things on their shoulders, knelt down, kowtowed to the two elders, and called them grandpa and grandma.
Old Man Lu and Mrs. Lu nodded happily: "It's good that you're back safely! It's good that you're back safely!"
Lu Da Nv led her two younger brothers to kowtow to their grandparents. At the end, Lu Dalang stood there and looked around Daxing Village. Finally, his eyes fell on his parents' faces. He opened his mouth but said nothing.
Mrs. Lu glanced at him, nodded, and then called her grandchildren: "Let's go, take the things back first."
Although the eldest branch of the Lu family had not yet settled down and allocated land, the old lady had already picked out the land that belonged to their family. There were also several rooms, and the old couple had cleaned them before the New Year, and mopped them again a few days ago. They waited and waited, and finally the people who were going to live there came back.
Lu Erlang was a little anxious: "Mom, has Liu Niang given birth?"
Since entering the village, Lu Erlang has been walking very fast, and only Lu Sanlang and Shuanzhu Tiezhu can keep up with him.
It was because he was worried that his wife was about to give birth, or even that she might have already given birth, so he was anxious to know the situation.
Mrs. Lu had never forgotten this, and smiled and said, "It's born, it's born, a girl was born on the evening of the second day of the first lunar month, and both mother and daughter are safe. You should go home soon, but you are too dirty, so don't go into your room yet. Just talk to Liu Niang through the window outside the room, boil some water and wash yourself, change all your clothes, and then go in to see your wife and child."
Lu Erlang was so happy that he agreed again and again. Lu Sanlang was also very happy: "Does your niece have a name?"
Mrs. Lu was full of joy: "Wait for your second brother to come back and get it."
When Shuanzhu's brothers and sisters heard that their second aunt had given them a new cousin, they looked happy and congratulated their second uncle.
Lu Dalang, who was at the end of the group, had a pair of eyes that had been calm except for the time when he saw Daxingzhuang. But when he heard that the second wife had a new daughter, he raised his eyes and there was a little more liveliness in his eyes.
No one noticed the twitching of his cheeks because of his messy beard. It was because he hadn't opened his mouth to speak in a long time, and when he suddenly showed any expression, the muscles on his cheeks twitched unnaturally.
Gave birth to a daughter?
It has been three years, two years and one month since their family was sent away. I wonder how many children this is that my second brother and his wife have?
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