Chapter 7: Healed and ready to work
Take care of the chickens and two pigs.
From now on they too will be blessed.
Xu Zhichun quickly heated up half a pot of water, poured two large ladles of hot water into the pig feed bucket, stirred it in the pig feed bucket, and sprinkled two handfuls of fish bone powder on it. He brought it to the pig pen and poured it into the trough.
Two little pigs that looked to be about thirty pounds looked at her with their bright black eyes, then came running towards her following the scent.
As soon as it enters the mouth, everyone pushes each other and screams to grab the food.
Xu Zhichun smiled with relief.
The good days have just begun!
After being kept, they will have big meals every day, and they will be fat and strong. Those that should gain weight will gain weight, and those that should lay eggs will lay eggs.
After destroying all the evidence, Xu Zhichun boiled some water and prepared to cook dinner.
Liang Mingxuan came back a little later. Xu Zhichun hurried forward to help put down the backpack.
"This is a bit too heavy. Try using less force next time."
Xu Zhichun hadn't said anything about not letting him go in the future. The uncle and his sister-in-law still had a long way to go. Even though the child didn't look like a heartless person, who knew? She couldn't spoil him. If he was willing to do any chores within his ability, she wouldn't refuse.
If everyone contributes to this family, our lives will get better and better.
Liang Mingxuan shook his head: "It's okay, sister-in-law, it's not far, I'm picking pig grass at the village entrance."
As he spoke, he took a big bunch of pig grass and threw it into the pigpen. He then chopped up two big handfuls, put them in a chicken feed ladle, mixed them with two handfuls of rice bran, and poured them into the chicken feed trough.
Seeing how skillfully he cooked, Xu Zhichun smiled, went to the backyard and brought some firewood into the house to prepare dinner.
Liang Mingxuan came in, a little puzzled: "Sister-in-law, why don't our chickens eat much today?"
Xu Zhichun thought to himself that of course he wouldn’t eat anymore since he was full.
"Maybe they found something to eat outside and are full."
"Yeah, I guess so."
Liang Mingxuan suddenly understood and nodded in agreement.
Xu Zhichun smiled and said, "Don't worry about them. You're sweating all over. Go take a shower or you'll get sick easily. I'll cook now."
When Liang Mingxuan heard that it was easy to get sick, he went there obediently.
My sister-in-law hasn't recovered from her injury yet and needs to eat delicious food to replenish her body. He can't get sick, otherwise it will cost money again.
After sending the children away, Xu Zhichun took out half a chicken from the warehouse, removed two pieces of chicken breast meat and cut them into small pieces to stir-fry with shredded radish.
Just say the chicken was leftover from lunch, and it was cut into shreds and mixed with stir-fried vegetables. The kids had no idea how much was left.
She took out more than thirty eggs and put them into the small egg jar in her room, where there were already about twenty eggs there, all laid by the family's chickens.
Generally, every month a peddler who travels from village to village would come to the village in an ox cart to collect eggs, three for two cents, or you could exchange eggs with him for small items such as needles and thread, cloth, handkerchiefs, malt sugar, etc.
I casually glanced at the rice jar and saw that there was still half a jar of rice.
Xu Zhichun simply took out a 20-jin bag of ordinary rice from the warehouse and poured two bags in until it was almost full.
There is a trash can next to the warehouse. She can just throw the packaging bags in there, and they will be automatically picked up and disappeared at some point without her knowing.
This amount of rice can last the uncle and his sister-in-law about a month.
In a month, she should have earned her first pot of gold.
I'll make scrambled eggs with leeks tonight, and a soup with tender Chinese cabbage.
Two dishes and one soup, a perfect combination of meat and vegetables.
Liang Mingxuan took a shower, and before the sun set, his uncle and sister-in-law had dinner.
Without waiting for Liang Mingxuan to ask, Xu Zhichun smiled and took the initiative to explain: "There are still a few pieces of chicken left. I might as well cut it into shreds and stir-fry it. We both need to replenish our energy. Chives and eggs are also good. Let's eat quickly."
Liang Mingxuan nodded: "Thank you for your hard work, sister-in-law."
His sister-in-law used to be very quiet and would only say a few words to him a day, but he knew that she cared about him. Now his sister-in-law had gone through a near-death experience and her thoughts might have changed, or maybe she had been greatly shocked by his brother's death, but in his heart, his sister-in-law was still his sister-in-law.
After resting for another three days, Xu Zhichun was no longer in poor health.
Well, during these three days, she killed another chicken and took out another fake one from the space, and the uncle and sister-in-law had a few good meals.
The child looked much better.
Xu Zhichun felt a great sense of accomplishment. From then on, he boiled four eggs in plain water every day and ate two by himself. He had to supplement his nutrition and restore his body.
Three days later, after breakfast, Liang Mingxuan went to the private school in the neighboring Quanshan Village.
Liang Mingxiang, the eldest son of the family, also went to school, but not in Quanshan Village. Instead, he lived in a boarding school in the county town and only returned to the village for two days at the end of each month.
Therefore, Zhang had danced in front of Xu Zhichun more than once to show off, disdainfully mocking the old student from the neighboring village, saying how could he compare to the city's academy? Her daughter Mingxiang had won from the start, outperforming Liang Mingxuan.
She also instigated Liang Mingxuan, saying that Xu Zhichun, the eldest sister-in-law, was doing it on purpose, was reluctant to spend money, didn't want him to have a bright future, and deliberately wanted to cheat him.
She even urged Liang Mingxuan to ask for the money that Liang Minglang was about to give him, and promised that as long as she had the money, she could let Mingxiang take him to the school in the county town, which would be much more prestigious than attending a private school in the next village.
Fortunately, although Liang Mingxuan is young, he knows right from wrong. He knows who is good to him and who is bad to him, and he does not listen to Zhang's instigation.
Otherwise, Xu Zhichun would have been so sad and his family would have been in chaos.
Liang Mingxuan went to school, and after Xu Zhichun gave the chickens and pigs at home a snack, he carried a basket on his back and went up the mountain for a walk.
Although the rice has been planted, there are still more than two acres of dry land at home, which have only been half dug and have not yet been planted.
In previous years, soybeans, peanuts, and taro were planted, and a few pumpkins, winter melons, and white melons were also planted in the corners.
In early winter, you can harvest a few winter melons and pumpkins. When the white melons are old, they can be cut open to reveal the melon pulp. When they are still tender, they can also be stir-fried and eaten.
Taro is also kept at home for eating in winter, and soybeans and peanuts are also kept and mixed with rice as staple food.
This way, you can save a lot of money from selling rice.
When Liang Mingxuan went to school, he had to pay for his brushes, inkstone, paper, books, tuition, clothes, shoes, and socks. While clothes and shoes were cheaper, everything else was expensive. An ordinary brush cost seventy or eighty wen, and a sheet of ordinary paper cost forty wen. Even a book cost five qian of silver.
This year, Xu Zhichun does not plan to plant soybeans and peanuts, but plans to plant sweet potatoes and potatoes. Of course, these two are still lying in the warehouse and have not yet been released.
It goes without saying that potatoes are full of treasures. Sweet potatoes are not only delicious, but the vines can continue to grow after being cut, making them ideal for feeding pigs and chickens. The tender shoots can also be pinched and fried.
She had to find a reason to bring them to light.
(End of this chapter)
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