Niu male

In a blink of an eye, the ten piglets of Luo Meng's family have also lived in Xiaotupo for a while. These piglets grow up fat and strong, and when they are hungry, they whine and whine for food.

Luo Hanliang would go to Niuwang Village every morning and evening to pull a large cart of sweet potato vines. Sometimes Luo Meng would go with him when he was free. There are a lot of them, and they are put away very quickly.It’s just that the sweet potatoes in the field haven’t been dug recently, so we can’t cut them in one place. If the sweet potatoes in the field are damaged, the harvest will be affected.

Like Luo Xingyou, Luo Hanliang also installed a motor on the tricycle and ran between Niuwangzhuang and Xiaotupo every day.Her daughter-in-law, Hu Xiumin, is in charge of cooking the pig food. A three-burner earthen stove was built in a brick house on a small earthen slope, and the fire never went off all day long.

"Xiu Min, did you feed the heads of Luo Meng's family today?" In the early morning, Luo Hanliang pulled a cart of sweet potato vines up the small slope, and asked her daughter-in-law.

"Hey." Hu Xiumin replied while stirring the pig food in the pot.

"Then why are you still screaming?" Luo Hanliang untied the rope on the back of the tricycle, and carried the stacked sweet potato vines to the open space beside him.

"I'm not full. I'll feed them another pot later. Why do you think those pigs are so edible?" Hu Xiumin used to be from the countryside, and she also fed pigs at home. It is reasonable to say that she just bought them not long ago. The piglets shouldn't be so edible.

"Isn't it good if you can eat it? The ones in our family are also quite edible." The couple looked bored in front of outsiders, but they talked a lot in private.

"Thieves can eat. I'm still young, and I'm almost busy to death. After a while, when I grow up, I can't feed it by myself. I have to find a helper quickly."

Now the husband and wife are working on Xiaotupo's side. Although Cao Fenglian is no longer helping at Luo Meng's house, she still has a lot of work at home.

Not to mention housework, the two grandchildren plus the son and daughter-in-law, it takes a lot of effort just to cook and wash clothes, and there is also the eldest son, the old couple have to send vegetables to him every day, except For my own, I have to collect some from the village.

As soon as the two sons came back, Luo Quanshun was also busy. While helping the eldest son to dump vegetables and agricultural products from the village, he had to work hard to cultivate the land. Growing vegetables by himself is better than buying from other people’s homes. Their family still owes With a loan, you can save a little bit.

"Isn't my brother looking for it? I guess people like us in the mountains don't want to come, and it's not easy to find someone. Wait." Luo Hanliang said, and moved out the hay cutter. This thing is fast to use, but it is also quite dangerous. If you are not careful, you will have to cut your hand. He usually doesn't let his wife move.

"When will we have to wait, oh, why do you think these piglets are so edible?" Hu Xiumin said, and brought out another bucket of pig food, and poured it into the piggies of Luo Meng's house. In the trough.

"Isn't it good to be able to eat? If you can eat it, you will grow fast." At this time, the hay cutter has been turned on, and Luo Hanliang said amidst a burst of clanking.

"That's very good. I remember that it was not so easy to raise pigs in the past. Pour a bucket of pig food and eat cleanly. When I was 12 years old, my father bought two piglets and brought them home. No matter what, he refuses to eat, and if the piglet doesn’t eat, the whole family will also be unable to eat and fall asleep, which is troublesome.” Hu Xiumin said and passed a handful of sweet potato vines to his man.

"My father said it was the sweet potato vines from Luo Meng's family. Didn't everyone in our village use his family's cow dung to grow vegetables? That's why so many people come here to buy vegetables. I would like to go here. The people in our village can’t get much cow dung in a week, and they use it in the vegetable field. Who is willing to use the sweet potato field? It’s different in Niuwangzhuang. They are willing to use fertilizer. , this sweet potato vine is just fine, it’s not too bad for people to eat as a vegetable, let alone feed pigs.”

When Luo Hanliang first came back, he heard people say that there is a Niu Wang in the Niu Wang Village, and that the Niu Wang's god of soil and water is very effective, and it is more effective than any fertilizer when sprinkled on the vegetable field.At first he didn't believe it, he thought it was so old, why are the people in the village still so ignorant, but after a long time, he really can't believe it, some things are just there, Can you deny it?

"Don't talk about it, let's pick some young leaves and fry them at home later?" Hu Xiumin said suddenly.

"Succeed, our mother has picked so much recently, she can't wait to ask us to drink pot water." The best vegetables grown in their family are picked by Jiweilou, and the rest are basically sent to the county town, some seasonal If the vegetables were not exhausted, they were all dried and pickled. It was not much at all. What did they eat at home these days? Yesterday Cao Fenglian picked a handful of wild vegetables from the field and went home to fry them.

"You owe so much money, don't you feel uncomfortable?" The old lady has never been in debt in her life, and this time she borrowed such a large amount from the rural credit cooperatives. It is certain that she is not at ease, so she has been a little Saved too much.

"If these piglets can continue to grow like this, I won't feel bad." When they pay off all their debts, life will be easier in the future. "You said that the ten pigs in their family are growing very well. Is it related to the swill brought back by Hongfeng in the past few days?"

"It must be related. Otherwise, their pigs eat the same food as ours, so why are they growing so well? They are piglets bought from a pig farm." Hu Xiumin was pawing among the sweet potato vines. Twigs and leaves, replied.

"It's a pity that my brother always delivers takeaways to people, otherwise our family would have slop." They also collect the swill in the village, but with so many pigs in their family, the little swill is not enough to look at.

"In Yongqing, how much is the shipping fee alone, is it worth it?"

"That's right." Luo Hanliang nodded, and after a while he said again: "Do you smell anything?"

"What's the smell?" Hu Xiumin was picking sweet potato leaves, when she raised her head, a smell of burnt pig food came into her nose. "Oh my god, it's still cooking in the pot." After saying that, he hurried into the house.

These earthen stoves with three burners start a fire. The first pot is the fastest, the second pot is slower, and the third pot is the slowest. A scoop of water was boiled in that pot, and the remaining two pots continued to cook.Cooking pig food requires more water than cooking rice, and less water than cooking porridge. If you don't pay attention to stirring it, it will become mushy in a while.

Luo Hanliang glanced at the anxious back of his daughter-in-law, laughed a few times, and continued to chop his sweet potato vines.

Although the life after returning to the village is not as easy as outside, raising such a large herd of pigs, and working from dawn to dusk every day, he is at ease in his heart, and he is still more willing to stay in the village than outside.

It's autumn, and the weather is getting cooler day by day. The sweet potatoes, walnuts and chestnuts of Romon's family are almost ready to be harvested. The sunflowers and melons on the mountain have basically been harvested, and only the pumpkins are left. Part of it was confiscated.

After the decoration work of Niuwangzhuang was over, Luo Meng lost one item of expenditure. Every day, things were sold in the online store, buns and steamed buns from various schools were supplied, and Jiwei Building was always getting goods every day, as well as Bao Dahua and Chen Chongquan. Gradually, there were some savings from the income there. He calculated that when he saved some more money, he would pay off Lin Bo's house first.

There are not many things that can be harvested in the field recently, and Romon wants to keep potatoes and sweet potatoes for a while. He planted these two things late at the beginning, and they are still growing now. It is a pity to harvest them early.

There wasn't much to harvest in the field. Apart from watering the vegetable seedlings every day, there wasn't much work in Niuwangzhuang. So Luo Meng asked everyone to continue to open the land, and opened up a large area of ​​land where watermelons were planted before. In a few days, he plans to plant a season of autumn peanuts.

Right now, this is mid-September, and peanuts usually mature in less than three months, which will be the beginning of December in the Gregorian calendar. Harvesting before winter should not be a problem.

"Old Zhou, what are you planting so many peanuts for?" This time, Luo Meng asked them to turn over the sloping land where they had planted watermelons and sunflowers, and sprinkled the fire dung that burned a while ago, The people in front are still plowing the ground, while the people behind have already planted the seeds.

"What else can we do with peanuts? Sell them. You can sell raw and cooked ones, you can sell them when ground into peanut butter, you can sell peanut oil after squeezing them, and the oil residue can be fed to cows." Romon's abacus was crackling. .

"Then there's no need to plant so many, right?" Looking at the past, it's endless, how many acres does it have.

"It's okay, our family's things are selling well online." Luo Meng was full of confidence.

"By the way, Lao Zhou, why haven't I seen your soybeans in your village's online store recently?" These people who work in Niuwangzhuang basically know that their village now has an online store. When I don't come to work in Niuwangzhuang, I just visit the online store, it's convenient to buy something.

"Keep it for making tofu." There are indeed a lot of soybeans in the warehouse in the courtyard, but the amount of tofu that Jiweilou gets from him every day is also considerable, so he doesn't sell soybeans now.

"Then why not plant some soybeans?"

"Soybeans grow slower than peanuts. In our place, planting at this time seems to be a bit late, so we can only talk about it next year." Next year, Romon will definitely increase the planting area of ​​soybeans, but other beans can be reduced appropriately. , Like peas and kidney beans, the sales are obviously not as good as soybeans.

This afternoon, Romon saw that the sun had almost set, so he took out a net bag of chestnuts from the kitchen, and a large watermelon from the cold storage, planning to go to the blacksmith shop.

Recently, the grape seedlings at the blacksmith shop have not been planted for a long time, and the weather is dry and sunny. Xiao Shulin and the others spend a lot of time just watering these grape seedlings every day. Zhuang, Liu Chunlan and the others got up early again in the morning, and they didn't dare to make too much publicity, so the chances of meeting and talking recently were much less.

In September, all the watermelons on Niuwang Village have been harvested. Those who can be put into the cold storage have been put into the cold storage, and those who cannot be put into the cold storage are almost consumed. The watermelons that used to be a must for every meal are now very few in Niuwang. I saw it on the dining table in Zhuang Canteen.

There are still fruits after meals, sometimes it’s the cantaloupe, melon, and melon that went into the cold storage with the watermelon some time ago, and sometimes it’s a few cucumbers or a large pot of tomatoes in cold salad.Although these things taste good, they still can't match everyone's love for watermelon.

Transporting this watermelon to the blacksmith shop would naturally receive a warm welcome. Romon grinned and started the tricycle.

"!" As soon as the car started, it jolted slightly.

"What the hell?" It stands to reason that there should be no stones in this courtyard. Luo Meng looked back and saw a chestnut ball that was crushed by the wheels lying on the concrete floor behind the tricycle, and there was another stone beside it. A round chestnut, probably just squeezed out.

Luo Meng jumped off the tricycle, picked up the chestnut ball and looked at it, and found that there were two chestnuts inside, so he picked them out with his fingers. The hard thorns on the chestnut ball were crushed by the car just now. It's not so annoying at the moment.

There was also the chestnut on the ground, which was also picked up by Romon, wiped on his clothes, and put into the net pocket together. It's not that he was bragging, the chestnuts in their house are really delicious, it's a pity to lose them.

As soon as Luo Meng got off Niuwangzhuang on a tricycle, Yaya and Southeast Xixi came out from nowhere, whining around the empty chestnut skin.

"Ahhhhhhhh!" Yaya was very angry!It knew that Romon must have taken their chestnuts away!

"Woo..." The boss plucked at the empty chestnut skin without giving up, and took his brothers to search around the ground, but in the end he found nothing, so he fell down in the yard in frustration.

"Pfft!" Seeing this scene outside the yard, Erlang sighed and left, wagging his tail, and the other calves quickly followed.

Alas, in the end there was still nothing to be happy about.