Chapter 91: The problem of raising pigs
As for the truant child Ding Erni... yes, she is no longer tired of studying, but has evolved into truant. However, schools in this era are not strict and many families are in difficulty, especially girls.
Out of fifty children, it is impossible to have more than ten girls.
Therefore, Erni often did not go to class. At first, Dingyu would go to school to ask for leave from the teacher. Later, when she entered the second grade, she simply stopped going to class and the teacher ignored her. As long as she took the final exam, the tuition fees would be paid as usual.
In addition, at this time, the teachers at the school did not dare to strictly control the students, so Ding Yu didn't care about her. As long as her grades were not too bad and she could get into college at the Restoration University, it would be fine.
Ever since Chen Shenzhong came up with a prescription to poison roosters to mute, although the prescription was used after killing several roosters and experimenting to find the appropriate dose. The final result was not that they could not make any noise at all, and the hoarse ones could still cry out.
, but the voice is quieter and the roosters are not crowing all the time. They have raised a few roosters this year.
However, the valley is not completely safe. Weasels often steal chickens, and there are also snakes. Not only spraying pesticides but also sulfur cannot eradicate them.
"I specially left two buns for Aunt Fang to try tomorrow. Pork is better than chicken, and rabbit meat is more fragrant."
The climate in the valley is warm in winter and cool in summer. Over the past two years, Fang's originally haggard body has recovered a lot. Although she has not recovered to her previous state due to hard work, she is still healthy, and her face was always pale.
His expression, which was gloomy, became cheerful, and he looked a little like a child.
When he heard that the tench fish was specially reserved for his mother, he pursed his lips, his eyes flashed, and he nodded reservedly.
He looked at Ding Yu funny like this. Although the child had been going in and out with them for the past two years, eating and working together, Ding Yu could see that he was always grateful to them and rushed to do all the work.
Sometimes when Erni deliberately made things difficult for him, he would let her go without saying a word, but she always felt that there was a layer of separation.
It wasn't until last year that the chickens, rabbits and pigs raised in the valley began to make a lot of profits, and the returns were visible to the naked eye. Both Tengyu and Fang had saved a lot of money, and then he felt relieved, as if
The burdens on their bodies were lifted, and they all began to argue with Er Ni, secretly making Er Ni suffer a loss. Only then did they realize that this child had been holding his breath!
Sometimes Ding Yu can't help but compare. The boss was so smart when he was seven or eight years old. What was she doing when she was seven or eight years old?
It seems like she followed a group of children from a nearby community and spent the whole day playing hide-and-seek and playing sandbags after school. Then she came home dirty and was scolded by her mother... There is no comparison. When she compares, she feels like she was a fool when she was a child!
I turned around and saw Er Ni who was making undress for Sanni... Oh, she can't even compare to Er Ni!
The next day, everyone except my uncle went to work and went to the valley. Before they reached the valley, they met Uncle Meng on the way. He was marking the mountain along the middle with the head they had left in the hot spring cave.
Turning this way, Dingyu said hello and said, "Uncle Meng, good morning. The ground hasn't melted yet. Isn't it a little early?"
In the past two years, they have only farmed in the valley. Although the food grown is not enough, because they feed too many poultry, they are busy every day cooking pig food or digging wild vegetables. In autumn, they have to cut the grass this morning, dry it and store it.
We have to feed grass all winter, so we don’t have any free time. The plan that we have been planning to find a place to grow more grain has been put on hold.
But this year they plan to raise more chickens and rabbits, and food is even more urgent. They just bring food in from outside. They don't know there is room for tench. They carry empty baskets from outside, and only put the food in when they enter the valley.
The fish were carried back into the mountains one after another, and they all unanimously decided to open up more land to grow food.
"Well, let's not clear the ground first. We'll find stones and surround this side. Although the water flowing here is from the hot spring and smells, planting food will definitely not be able to stop these beasts in the mountains. Just
It’s the birds in the sky that waste a lot of food every year, but I can’t find a good place like the valley!”
Today's yield per acre is either several thousand kilograms per acre of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and hormones, or only six to seven or eight kilograms per acre on good fertile land dedicated to growing white sweet potatoes, not to mention that this is thin land that has just been cultivated in the mountains.
They have no harm from wild boars and rabbits in the valley, and they rarely attract birds. They can only harvest three to four hundred pounds from one acre of land. This reminds me that in ancient times, people would go hungry even if they had enough land to grow. When there was a natural disaster, there would be refugees everywhere.
.It is purely because the yield per mu is too pitiful for people, so modern society is better. Even though the food we eat is grown with chemical fertilizers and hormones, we don’t have to worry about starvation.
Thinking of rabbits and wild boars... Come on, you should fence the land first before planting!
Every day, stones are removed to build the wall, and there are more and more chickens and rabbits in the valley that need to be cooked, and wild vegetables are dug for feeding. Unknowingly, the footsteps of spring come in the non-stop busyness.
Chen Shenzhong and Erni are both eight years old this year. At such an age, they have to work in the fields when spring planting comes. Erni goes to school, and the village is not strict with them. When Tengyu is not busy farming, her uncle will help, so that Tengyu can have
Spend more time running in and out of the mountains.
When Chen Shenzhong grew up, he had to participate from beginning to end, and he usually had to work. Therefore, by the time they planted all the land this year, it was almost summer.
And as soon as summer comes, the smell in the valley becomes less pleasant as more and more chickens are raised. Although they are diligent in cleaning, there are more than a thousand chickens, three to four hundred rabbits, and just a small place.
Five pigs, eating, drinking and peeing, really can't get clean even if they want to.
"Isn't this the answer? Otherwise, we won't raise pigs next year!"
The sun outside was so strong that no one could stand it. After lunch, everyone gathered in the second house to take a break. Tengyu suggested as he smelled the unpleasant smell in the air.
Over time, for the sake of convenience, they dedicated the first house to live in, and then cleared out the second house at the back, so they cooked and ate here when the weather was warm, so as not to make the sleeping area too hot and crowded.
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"No, if you don't raise pigs, it will be inconvenient to eat pork at the beginning and end of the year. At least you have to raise two to keep and kill them for meat." The first person to speak out against it was Fang.
In the past two years, they have raised pigs by themselves, and sometimes they raise seven or eight pigs. In a year, they kill two or three pigs just to eat meat. The rest can be killed for meat, leaving pig offal and pig feet to sell on the black market.
Exchange money and daily necessities.
It can be said that it is precisely because they raise pigs that they have no shortage of meat to eat. If they don't raise pigs, they will only buy them from outside. Firstly, they don't have meat tickets, and secondly, if they have meat tickets, they may not be able to get meat. Therefore, Fang feels that they still have to buy it themselves.
Chapter completed!