It was mid-October when all the corn in the village was stored in the warehouse. When Chen's mother came to see Dabao, she told Su Xia some interesting stories about the autumn harvest.
“Thinking back to the time when I ate 놊껗 rice a few years ago, time flies!”
Su Xia: "Mom, the harvest is so good this year, and there are still so many potatoes and sweet potatoes, don't worry."
Mother Chen remembered that she would have to harvest potatoes and sweet potatoes tomorrow, and she began to grin.
"My dear, how much do you plan to buy this year?"
Of course the more Su Xia there are, the better, but the villagers must not give in.
"Mom, if you want to buy more, the captain will let you!"
꺗 glanced at 깊 and saw Dabao playing with his mother Chen: "Mom, after we distribute the grain, can you help me buy some more, potatoes and sweet potatoes will be fine?"
Chen's mother glanced at Su Xia when she heard this. Deep down, they were still afraid of this private reselling, but they didn't know what was going on with the eldest son's wife.
Thinking about the few times she sold eggs and vegetables in the second half of the year, Mother Chen has gone from being shocked at first to being numb now. She never thought that making money would be so easy.
Su Xia looked at her and kept talking: "Mom, please give me a straight answer?"
Why....
Mother Chen looked at her helplessly and said, "I'll talk to your father later, but you have to promise that I'd rather run a few more times than take too much at once."
Su Xia was delighted to hear that. She smiled at Chen's mother and said, "Don't worry, I will take care of it. Just hand it over to others. I will make dumplings and bacon for you when the time comes!"
When Mother Chen heard about the steamed buns and bacon, she felt a little greedy. Although the family was short of food, they were short of oil and water.
She thought of the three big pigs in the backyard of her eldest daughter-in-law. She had to admit that although the old lady didn't work, the money she earned was almost as much as her eldest daughter-in-law's half-year salary. After deducting the money for food and drink, she saved very little in a year.
She hugged Dabao and kissed him on the cheek. "Grandson, you are so lucky. Your parents make money for you!"
Su Xia pouted in disdain, but Dabao really liked his grandparents. Every time he came to see him, he would smile at them and crawl on them, not disliking the smell of sweat on the two old people at all.
Sometimes Su Xiaxiao sighed at the wonder of blood relationship!
"Yes, mother, when will the two younger siblings be born?"
"It's too early, the New Year is coming soon, and it's only 6 months now."
Su Xia calculated it after hearing this, and it seemed to be at that time.
"This is great. It's the perfect time to get pregnant, and we don't have to delay spring ploughing. Besides, the pigs at home and the village's tax revenue at that time are just enough for them to have a good rest during the confinement period."
Mother Chen began to frown. She now really looked down on the two daughters-in-law. They knew how to take care of the children, but the men cared less. She was always jealous and envious.
She is just waiting until after the birth. She has already told her husband that she will take care of the child. She is almost 60 years old. She still wants to live a few more years to see her grandson grow up.
"Well, the sooner the better. When they are done working, I will give them an easier job so that they can come back to see the baby."
Su Xia just looked at Chen's mother. From what she said, she meant that she was going to take care of the child, but she couldn't express her opinion on this.
After Chen's mother left, Su Xia started her pickling business. Today's task was to pickle green onion leaves. This vegetable was a perfect match with porridge.
Thinking about the mustard greens, cabbages, and radishes that I haven't dug yet, I'll go back to the village to buy some more, so that I can get more vegetables.
Add coarse salt to the chopped scallion leaves, put them neatly into a ten-jin jar, cover it with a lid, and store it in a cool place.
Next time I go to the county town, I will buy a batch of jars and pots, so that I will have enough for everything.
Su Xia looked at the bare vegetable garden. This time there was really nothing. The only good thing was the watermelon this year. For some reason, it went bad when it was halfway grown.
But she heard that the villagers were like that. When the team leader Chen's father came to find her, she actually knew the specific reason.
She just said that she would go to help next year, but she thought it was a problem with the soil, as sandy soil was best for growing watermelons, so she would have to wait until next year to talk about it.
As for her yard, she will try a different location next year, perhaps at the foot of the back mountain.
She moved the cantaloupe there and ate two this year, saving the seeds of the remaining two.
In the next few days, Su Xia put Dabao in the position in front of her where you can see him, or sometimes Niuniu would stay to help watch over him, but she disappeared after harvesting potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Every time she came back, there were still a few rotten potatoes or sweet potatoes in her backpack, and she would solemnly ask Dabao to show him: "Brother, do you think your sister will support you?"
Every time at this time, Dabao would look at Niu Niu with a silly smile and want to grab her to play with her.
In the past, Su Xia would dig some water from time to time to feed the three pigs in this land at the foot of the back mountain, but there was not much left, after all, the total area was almost one acre.
When all the vegetables were dug up in the evening, there were still some cabbages, mustard greens, and radishes left, which were also dug up.
Su Xia took out the big scale in the space. It was still a jewelry store at that time. She thought of getting one casually, and also bought several weighing scales.
I didn't expect that the ones I used now would be weighed in a basket after summer, and I probably knew the rest.
Two baskets of mustard greens weigh 100 jin, one basket of white radish, one basket of carrots, and about one basket of green radish.
The potatoes were harvested into three sacks, weighing 200 jin in total, and the sweet potatoes were harvested into three sacks, weighing 150 jin in total.
Su Xia used the space to store them in the cellar first. As for the mustard greens, she put them behind the kitchen to dry in the sun, and then pickled them in a few days. There was no use keeping them. After that, Su Xia saved a few of all the seeds so that she could continue planting next year.
There were also some with broken skins, which were thrown to the pigs, and some were given to the chickens, geese and goose.
But sometimes Su Xia looked at the pair of chickens in the chicken coop and felt a headache. There were already 300 eggs in her space, and 100 pickled salted eggs.
In order to do it, she had to kill a batch of chickens. Otherwise, when the time came to kill the pigs, the villagers would know about it. There would definitely be some good people there, and if they sued her, she would have nowhere to complain.
As for the three geese, they now recognize their homes and people. Every time they see Su Xia, Dabao, and Niuniu, they will call "Geese--" as if to say hello.
Whenever they met someone in the old house, they would change their expressions, barking fiercely, stretching their necks and waving their wings, as if they were ready to fight at any time.
Mother Chen sometimes sighed, saying that this thing was like a dog, barking loudly when it saw strangers.
Niu Niu and Dabao are the most favorite. Sometimes when Niu Niu goes to the village to play, she will take them with her. After a long time, the three geese got used to it and followed her like bodyguards. Every time they went out, they would eat grass while Niu Niu played, and when they were full, they would lie down to rest. When Niu Niu came back, they would follow her.
When the villagers knew about Su Xia's geese, someone came to ask about it. They found out that Su Xia had exchanged some goose eggs from others and let the hens hatch them. A group of people went back, but some smart people had already discussed with Su Xia that they would exchange a few of them for raising next year when they hatched chickens.
Su Xia did not refuse this. To her, it was just a matter of putting eggs under a hen. She had already kept the breeding eggs in a separate space.
This still has some benefits. The women who came from Suxia Village all said it was good, but there were no goose eggs because the three geese in her family were all female.
Although the villagers felt sorry, there was nothing they could do. At least they had chickens to raise. A group of people went back happily, and other villagers knew about it.
If anyone wants to come, it's better for the captain's wife to come as a representative, so that only Su Xia's hens can be kept. If they are killed, what will happen if there are no brooding hens?
The main thing is that Su Xia and Chen Mu are the only ones raising chickens in the village. Su Xia even went to help Chen Mu with this matter for a while, asking her not to kill the roosters, so that they could raise eggs and hatch chickens to exchange for money.
I still remember how shocked Chen's mother was at that time. She really didn't expect that the old family's business had grown to the whole village!
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