Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Chapter 19 According to the regulations...
Chapter 19
According to regulations, each household in the village can only raise three chickens, ducks and geese. Some families only raise one kind, while others raise one of each kind.
The educated youth living together should have been considered one household, but they were not a family, and no one wanted to suffer a loss, so the village held a meeting to discuss the matter, and from then on each educated youth was entitled to raise a laying hen.
Yu Tao raised three chickens. Weisheng thought about it and decided to raise a chicken openly as well, just to raise them together with Yu Tao's chickens.
Normally, a chicken can only lay one egg a day, one egg a day...that's not bad.
Yu Tao's meal was alright, and fortunately Wei Sheng didn't expect to eat any luxurious meals or exquisite dishes during the time of scarcity. The two of them set up a floor-standing dining table in the kitchen and had dinner.
After dinner, Yu Tao washed the dishes and cleaned the kitchen. Weisheng also washed the dishes she used and put them in the cupboard.
Weisheng pulled three stackable enamel bowls from his luggage. The outermost one was the largest, with a handle. The remaining two bowls were slightly smaller, one fitting snugly around the edge of the larger bowl, while the other could be flipped upside down to serve as a lid.
Pure steel chopsticks, spoon and a small fork are placed in a slender iron box.
In this era, it's not easy to be too particular. Weisheng can only try to prevent the spread of certain diseases. Of course, who is sick is still unknown. When she is on guard against others, she is also on guard against herself.
It was past seven o'clock and the sun had not yet set, but the sky was gradually getting dark. Weisheng and Yu Tao went to the house of the village chief's second sister to buy hens.
As the weather was getting colder, it was difficult for the newly hatched chicks bought now to survive, and they would not be able to lay eggs until next spring, so Weisheng added some money and bought an adult hen that had already started laying eggs.
There were some lazy, languid men in the village who were the most annoying. The villagers were afraid that they would steal their chickens and ducks, so they almost all kept them in their own yards.
So Weisheng's chickens were also raised in Tao's chicken coop.
Yu Tao's family fed the chickens with rice bran and wheat bran along with some vegetables and wild vegetables. Weisheng didn't have these and didn't want to spend money on raising chickens anymore, so he made an agreement with Yu Tao that at this time next year, the hen would belong to Yu Tao and she would buy another chicken to lay eggs.
Yu Tao said it was not necessary, it was just a matter of rice bran and wheat bran, but Weisheng said that setting the rules was the only way to get along in the long run.
Unable to convince Weisheng, Yu Tao thought about the rules. She figured that even if the hen became hers in the future, she couldn't keep more than three. They could kill the hen and eat the meat, sending some to her parents-in-law and sharing the rest between the two of them. So she didn't say anything else.
With the help of the original owner's memory and his own little brain that was used to weighing the pros and cons, Weisheng didn't need any transition time and quickly arranged the trivial matters of life.
That night, the village chief's daughter Shan Xingchen came to see her sister-in-law. Weisheng greeted her and took a basin of well water back to the west room to rest.
After entering the space from the west room and taking a bath in the space, Weisheng went to the terrace to pick fruits with a satisfied look on his face.
The TV in the living room is connected to a large mobile hard drive, which contains a lot of downloaded variety shows and TV dramas. Watching variety shows and TV dramas in the evening while eating fruit snacks is the most relaxing time for me.
To maximize the space on her terrace, Weisheng even learned grafting techniques. Many of the fruit trees on her terrace are now grafted. Not only are they plentiful, but they're also incredibly diverse. While it's not as affordable as in later generations, where people can eat whatever they want, self-sufficiency is no problem. Most importantly, almost all of her favorite foods are grown on the terrace. Any leftover fruits and vegetables go to feed the chickens and ducks raised on the terrace, making their eggs more nutritious and their meat more delicious.
At half past ten, Weisheng fell asleep on the sofa.
It’s not that I don’t want to sleep in the newly cleaned west room today, but no matter how clean the west room is, Weisheng is still a little scared of the adobe house.
I always feel like there are bugs in the mud walls, dirt debris falling from the roof, etc. And the constant chirping of cicadas outside the window is annoying.
It seems that the good times have lasted too long.
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When Weisheng joked that he needed some time to adapt to his current living environment, Jin Menglan also felt that her current life was unbearable.
In her previous life, when she first got married, Ma Junming had excellent gambling luck. Not only did they buy a house in town, but it was also a brick house with glass windows. Everyone in the surrounding villages praised her for marrying well.
Even though Ma Junming's true colors were revealed later, she never lived in a mud house again.
Lying on the slightly warm kang, Jin Menglan kept turning over.
Sometimes I complain about the heat, sometimes I feel itchy all over, as if something is crawling all over me, and sometimes I complain about the noise inside and outside the house.
Over and over again, Jin Menglan couldn't help but think about her previous life.
That day in the hospital, Weisheng Yiran was not wearing a hospital gown, but a set of pink and blue long sleeves and trousers.
The color is indescribably beautiful and noble, and the fabric looks silky smooth and has a slight luster, just like the extremely comfortable fabrics and styles worn by the noble ladies in Republican dramas.
She wore a jade bracelet with excellent water content on her wrist, and a very thin platinum chain around her neck. The pendant on it was very small, with a little bit of green, and was the same style as the pair of small and exquisite earrings on her ears.
She was wearing an off-white shawl, and she and Li Wenxuan stood side by side outside the CT scan room, laughing and talking. After a while, Li Wenxuan held her arm and left. The scene was so beautiful that Jin Menglan subconsciously touched her left arm.
It was nothing, the left arm that had been broken by Ma Junming started to ache again.
They were not far apart, yet it seemed as if they were a whole world apart...
Recovering her thoughts, Jin Menglan touched her face and felt even more jealous and unwilling.
Wei Sheng Yiran is not even as good-looking as her, so why does he live that kind of life?
You're overthinking this.
Jin Menglan has the kind of energetic beauty with thick eyebrows and big eyes, while Weisheng Yiru has the kind of delicate beauty with small and elegant features. They just have their own beauty.
Ma Junming's gambling addiction is not that serious at the moment. Although he likes to gamble from time to time, he prefers to engage in speculative activities.
At this time in his previous life, Ma Junming and a few of his buddies got some low-quality liquor and made a fortune by taking advantage of the extra money and food that every household had after the autumn harvest.
On the day they divided the money, Ma Junming had drunk too much and, passing by the haystack, had insisted on pulling her over for sex. If Ma Junming slept with the wrong person this time... If Weisheng Yiran didn't marry Ma Junming, then Ma Junming would be guilty of rape, and Weisheng Yiran would be branded a slut. If Weisheng Yiran married Ma Junming, then she could get rid of him.
He tried hard to recall what happened back then, and after coming up with at least three ideas to lure Weisheng to the haystack to wait for Ma Junming, a band of light appeared on the horizon.
As if they had just fallen asleep, the family members started getting dressed and getting off the kang. Seeing this, Jin Menglan had to yawn and get off the kang. After a busy morning, after breakfast, they heard the sound of gongs at the village entrance and headed towards the village committee compound.
Like Jin Menglan, Li Wenxuan, Zhang Xiaoyu and Shen Zhao also couldn't sleep last night.
The educated youth's courtyard consisted of two rows of adobe houses. The male educated youth lived in the front row, and the female educated youth lived in the back row. There was a vegetable garden between the two rows of adobe houses.
However, whether they were male or female educated youth, they all slept in a large bunk bed.
Li Wenxuan and Zhang Xiaoyu, who were still complaining about the poor conditions of the town guesthouse the night before, were completely stunned by the accommodation environment in the educated youth courtyard.
Zhang Xiaoyu was better off; after all, the female educated youth were either very clean or very pretty, so there wasn't a foul smell in the room. However, the male educated youth dormitory where Li Wenxuan and the others lived was filthy and messy, reeking of either sweat or stinky feet.
Chen Zhao was a premature baby, his health fluctuating, and he was already overwhelmed after days of traveling. His face had turned even paler from the smoke, and he didn't even know when he fell asleep. Li Wenxuan, on the other hand, stayed awake until dawn, caught in the snoring and the stench.
All I could think about was the fact that Weisheng could take photos and repair buses...
Compared to the others, Weisheng slept well last night and didn't wake up too late. Before leaving the space, he took a frozen chicken from the refrigerator and put it in the kitchen to thaw naturally, planning to return to the space during lunch break to make a pot of chicken soup to nourish himself.
The morning meal consisted of pickles, cornmeal porridge, cornmeal flatbreads, homemade soybean paste, and some pickled vegetables from the garden. It wasn't very greasy, but it was the most common meal in the countryside.
Shan Xingchen and Yu Tao lived together last night. She got up early and made breakfast with Yu Tao. She went home only after the three of them had breakfast.
It's easy to guess why Dan Xingchen came here last night, but Weisheng doesn't care what others think of her.
But you know what, Weisheng's performance yesterday was so remarkable that even the village head and his wife felt that he was too cunning. Furthermore, the tension between Weisheng and Jin Menglan yesterday made it clear to everyone that Weisheng had a prickly temper and wouldn't tolerate any injustice.
The village chief asked his daughter to come and see his eldest daughter-in-law, one reason being to see if the two could get along; the other was to tell Yu Tao about his original intention of arranging Weisheng to go there.
What the village chief and his family didn't expect was that Weisheng acted with such grace and sophistication, not at all like a girl of seventeen or eighteen. So the village chief thought about it and went to see the production team leader before going to work.
As for Jin Menglan, she was now apologizing to Weisheng for what happened yesterday in front of the whole village with a very sincere attitude, and she directly lifted Weisheng up!
"I'm a simple-minded person. I really didn't mean to target you yesterday. Please don't misunderstand me!"
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