The new mud house built by Chen Xuanxuan is three meters wide and eight meters deep. Excluding the half-meter foundation, its highest point is three meters and three meters.

This new house has been divided into four rooms by wooden boards.

The innermost one is the bedroom of Chen Xuanxuan and Gu Yanzhang.

The smallest one in the middle is the bedroom of the two girls, Daya and Erya.

As for the outermost room, it actually only has a kang that is two meters and a half long and one meter and a half wide, and two side-by-side wooden cabinets. And the small kitchen next to the door.

Chen Xuanxuan and Gu Yanzhang's six children have been very happy since they moved into the new house.

In fact, the bedroom for the four boys is the largest of all the rooms. It is more than enough for Gu Yu'an and his wife to move in.

Chen Xuanxuan called them several times and asked them to move in together, but they refused to move.

In addition, the weather was not very cold and the cooking smoke was too loud. After thinking about it, Chen Xuanxuan had to cook in the old stove room every day.

The old stove room now has a kang, which is heated up every day when Chen Xuanxuan cooks.

Gu Yu'an and Yu are old now. They are sixty years old and have gray hair. Their backs are lumpy. They are also very afraid of cold.

Although it is September with clear and cool weather, they still like to cover themselves with the black quilt from winter when they sleep at night.

The quilt is full of pulp. There is a black layer of dirt, about one centimeter thick. It also emits an indescribable odor.

It was really unbearable, so Chen Xuanxuan asked Gu Yanzhang to help them wash the quilt with laundry soap. And hung it up to dry.

Seeing that the weather was about to get colder, Chen Xuanxuan and Gu Yanzhang finally solved the family's hygiene problem completely.

...

As the saying goes, every autumn rain brings a chill.

Living in this mountain village, Chen Xuanxuan can clearly feel that as long as it rains on the mountain, everyone is reluctant to go out. They

prefer to sit by the fire and warm themselves.

Chen Xuanxuan raised a few wild ducks in early spring.

Now the four wild ducks are all alive and well under the care of the Chen family.

They are not frozen to death, nor are they starved to death, and they have not contracted plague.

They now look almost the same size as adults.

Chen Xuanxuan noticed several times that Gu Yanzhang stared at them with greedy eyes.

Chen Xuanxuan sometimes had to remind him, "These ducks are all female. There is not a single male. I plan to raise them for a few more years and let them lay duck eggs every day."

"They lay four duck eggs a day. In 365 days a year, they can lay thousands of duck eggs. So, these ducks are treasures. They can make money..."

Gu Yanzhang agreed with a smile, and it was not known whether he heard her or not. But his parents kept her words firmly in mind.

So these four ducks have always been taken care of by Gu Yu'an himself.

He also took special care of them.

Make nests for the ducks. Dig earthworms for the ducks and snails for them to eat.

Just last night, the fattest female duck actually laid a gray-green duck egg.

He hadn't had time to tell his family about this yet. Suddenly, he heard his daughter-in-law talking about ducks again, so Gu Yu'an said to her, "Daughter-in-law, our ducks are well raised."

"It laid eggs last night."

Speaking of ducks laying eggs, Gu Yu'an hesitated for a moment, then told Chen Xuanxuan with a serious face.

"Daughter-in-law, the four ducks we raise at home are actually wild ducks. The habits of wild ducks and domestic ducks are different. Wild ducks only have two egg-laying periods a year. From March to May, and from September to October. After laying about ten eggs each time, they will choose to hatch. So...just think about it, if they lay an egg every day, that won't work. Unless we raise more domestic ducks. Let these four wild ducks live with them every day. After raising them for a few years, the habits of these wild ducks will be almost the same as those of domestic ducks..."

As a girl who has lived in the city for many years, Chen Xuanxuan also heard such a thing for the first time.

So raising a few wild ducks requires this...

Chen Xuanxuan hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "In that case, why don't we buy some domestic ducklings in the future?"

Gu Dazhu and Erzhu, who were sitting nearby, were delighted when they heard this.

"Mom, can I raise all the ducks at home from now on?"

When Chen Xuanxuan heard this, she glanced at Gu Yu'an, "This... Dazhu and Erzhu, you have a lot of things to do in the future!"

"You still have to follow your father and go out to do odd jobs and see the world. Let your grandpa and grandma take care of the ducks! They are more careful, and the ducks they raise are very fat..."

When she said this, some very classic ducks of various colors suddenly popped up in Chen Xuanxuan's mind.

Roasted duck legs, duck racks and duck necks, halogenated duck, salted duck, crispy duck, beer duck, winter melon stewed duck, bamboo shoots roasted duck, longan and red dates steamed duck, scallion duck, golden needle and fungus stewed duck, casserole duck, eight-treasure glutinous rice duck...

Oh..., there are so many delicious ducks, Chen Xuanxuan suddenly wants to eat them.

When Chen Xuanxuan was drooling over those ducks, Gu Yanzhang, who had noticed her hungry eyes, couldn't help but shudder.

"Wife, do you still remember what you said?"

Chen Xuanxuan was still savoring the fragrance of the ducks she had eaten. Suddenly, Gu Yanzhang interrupted her thoughts. She looked at him unhappily and asked, "What did you say?"

"I have said many, many things in my life. What do you think I should remember?"

Gu Yanzhang raised his hand and touched his forehead.

"Wife, didn't you say that we can't eat these ducks now?"

"Haha, I also think we can't eat them now. We should raise more in the future. Then, we will have duck eggs to eat every day."

Hearing this, Chen Xuanxuan looked at the ducks unwillingly, and finally, she got off the kang. After putting on her shoes, she took off the lid of the earthenware pot on the stove.

After taking it off, Chen Xuanxuan scooped up all the porridge in the pot.

It was a big pot of pumpkin.

Although it is sweet, fragrant and delicious. But this thing can't stand eating every day.

Thinking of the house repair some time ago, in order to save costs, Chen Xuanxuan stewed a pot of pumpkin porridge for those people every day. She also asked them to eat her family's unique pickles, kimchi, sauerkraut, spicy vegetables..., Chen Xuanxuan smiled.

This pumpkin has a high yield and is delicious. The more than 60 people who came to help had to consume a whole large pumpkin weighing dozens of kilograms and more than three kilograms of kimchi a day.