088: Xu Ying's Little Chicken
Apart from eggs and salt, Yu Xiaoye accepted everything else and exchanged them for anything he could get.
Because she really lacks everything and wants to change everything!
In the past few days, they received some cornmeal, dried red dates, wood ear mushrooms, dried daylily, wild walnuts from the forest, and some hazelnuts.
Many of the things here are mountain products, picked by the adults and children in the woods or nearby mountains during their free time.
The Great Northern Wilderness is vast and sparsely populated, but rich in resources. As long as you are diligent, you can always find good things from nature.
Later, Yu Xiaoye felt that the business of exchanging grilled fish for supplies would not last long. At that time, everyone just felt it was novel and wanted to taste the grilled fish, so they took out their own supplies to exchange for grilled fish.
Once the novelty wears off, it will become less common.
So, while it's still fresh, try something sustainable, like a chick.
As soon as Yu Xiaoye put forward this proposal, he immediately got the approval of his parents.
Just at this time, the chicken coop in his yard was repaired, so Yu Xiaoye asked Xu Ying to take advantage of the break in rehearsing yangge to contact the families of several old employees and exchange twenty chicks with them.
With chicks, wouldn’t it be more convenient to eat eggs at home in the future?
These chicks were hatched by the hens in the homes of old employees. They are about the size of a palm and can be distinguished between male and female.
Xu Ying selected fifteen hens and five roosters.
The hens are kept to lay eggs, and the roosters are killed for meat.
In this way, there are twenty more chirping chickens in the yard, and the whole yard is more lively and full of life.
Xu Ying is particularly caring for her chicks. Every day when she opens her eyes, she must come to check on the chicks to see if they have been eaten by wild wolves or weasels, to see how they are growing, and whether they have grown a little bigger than yesterday.
Xu Ying used to raise chickens in her hometown of Dongyang Province and knew how to feed them.
It's just that the pig tail cutting campaign was carried out a few years ago, and the situation in my hometown was quite tense, so each household didn't dare to raise too many chickens. Because their family was extremely poor, they had no food to eat, let alone feed chickens, so they hadn't fed chickens for several years.
The rules here in the Great Northern Wilderness don't seem to be that strict. The company is so remote that as long as each household is willing to raise chickens, it doesn't matter how many they raise. The place is big and the chickens have room to roam. They can be let out during the day to forage for food in the wild, so there's no need to worry too much.
Only in winter when the ground is covered with heavy snow and there is nothing to eat, we feed them some bran or something like that.
There is plenty of grain in the Great Northern Wilderness, so it is easy to get some bran or something. We can also open up some wasteland to grow some grains and have the ability to feed chickens.
Therefore, almost every family of old workers with families raised chickens, except for the single educated youth and farm workers who lived in collective dormitories and had no place to feed the chickens. They could only watch helplessly, and occasionally they would use money or meal tickets to buy some eggs from the old workers' families to supplement their diet.
Xu Ying looked at the group of healthy and strong chicks and suddenly remembered what her daughter had told her before. In the original book, old woman Xu Ying raised two hens in the Ninth Company, but she always stole eggs from other people's houses.
This matter originally made her feel very uncomfortable and she couldn't let it go.
Now I finally have twenty chicks of my own. I should be able to escape the fate described in the original book and not be beaten and crippled for stealing eggs, right?
Why would she steal other people’s eggs when she already has her own chicks!
Wouldn’t it be nice to eat eggs laid by the chickens you raise yourself?
Anyway, even if she had no eggs to eat, she would never steal other people's things, not even a needle!
Xu Ying loves her chicks so much that she can even recognize her own chicks.
When she saw other people's chickens on the street, she couldn't help but shake her head and recognized at a glance that they were not her own chickens.
Our own chickens are the most energetic chickens in the entire company!
Unparalleled!!
These days, Xu Ying is busy taking care of the chicks while also going to work. In the afternoon, she rehearses the yangko dance, and every day is very fulfilling.
Yu Jiahui also continued to clean the house, then went back to the space to grill fish, and then did the logistical work for the mother and daughter, such as cooking and helping them with their work.
When his wife needs him, he helps her; when his daughter needs him, he helps her. He tries his best to be a good househusband and a supporter of his wife and children.
During this period, he deliberately borrowed a fishing net once and pretended to go out fishing, just to do the superficial work, otherwise his grilled fish would not appear out of thin air.
His injuries have almost healed, and now his waist can basically move freely.
The bandage on his arm has not been removed yet, but it doesn't prevent him from working. As long as he doesn't do heavy work, he will be fine.
If you continue like this, you should be able to fully recover in ten days or half a month.
The whole family is busy.
Time flies.
Labor Day is finally here!
That morning, Yu Xiaoye got up early and put on a set of half-new clothes borrowed from Sai Jinhua. The upper body was a thin cotton jacket with white flowers on a red background, and the lower body was a pair of blue cloth straight pants.
I finally took off those bulky old cotton pants, and I felt a lot lighter instantly.
The clothes were half-new, without a single patch on them, because Sai Jinhua and Lao Pu were both working and received double salaries every month. They had no parents or children to support at home, so they could not spend all of their salaries. Their family conditions were considered to be top-notch in the company, and Sai Jinhua was quite fond of beauty and had many beautiful clothes that made people's eyes turn.
As soon as she put on the new clothes, Yu Xiaoye was completely transformed and was no longer the wild girl who had fled from famine in the countryside.
In addition, she has been eating well recently, and her face has finally gained weight. She is no longer pale and thin. Also, her mental state has been good recently, so she looks fresh and delicate.
Paired with this floral dress without patches, she looks even more lively and beautiful.
When she wore this new dress and went to the office to find Jia Song, Jia Song stared at Yu Xiaoye in surprise for a long time.
It's no wonder Jia Song was surprised. In fact, Yu Xiaoye
Wearing that tattered dress, her image was almost fixed by it.
When I first saw this girl changed her clothes, I couldn't recognize her.
Yu Xiaoye was very proud and deliberately raised his arm and turned it in front of Jia Song:
"How about it, Brother Jia? I won't embarrass our company by performing in this outfit, right?"
"—No, of course not."
Not only that, it actually adds luster to our company!
Who wouldn’t like such a cute and lovely little girl?
Of course, it's the kind of love an adult has for a child, not the kind of love a man has for a woman.
This yellow-haired girl can't even be called a woman.
Jia Song looked at Yu Xiaoye and asked:
"You're performing this afternoon. Are you nervous now?"
Yu Xiaoye deliberately said:
"A little nervous."
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