In my days as a farmer

In fact, Xia Dongli's sudden raising of geese was not entirely due to reading the soft article... Well, at least he had seriously studied whether it was a fake Amway after eating Amway.

The research method is very simple, just search in reverse along the soft article title.

For example, the title of the soft article is: Surprise!You must not know the benefits of raising geese, so he went to search: Surprised, you must not know the disadvantages of raising geese.

Then he found a bunch of complaints.

After Xia Dongli thoroughly researched the tragic past of the majority of netizens, he made sufficient psychological preparations to make sure that he could HOLD these negative problems before buying goose chicks.

For the vast number of netizens, the most troublesome problem of raising geese is not a problem for him. On the contrary, many of the problems they worry about are advantages for him.

Geese, like all birds, have rectal bowels, which also means that it is impossible for them to control their urge to poop.

Moreover, geese are domesticated from geese, and they still have a little ability to fly. This characteristic is destined to expel feces from their bodies as quickly as possible, so as to reduce their weight and avoid placing too much burden on their wings.

Not to mention the fast digestion of geese, they are also completely vegetarian.

The energy consumption of eating grass is naturally not as good as that of eating fish, which also means that they must eat a lot to supplement the needs of the body-yes, this is the same as the food intake of giant pandas is larger than that of brown bears, even doubled or even more There is a reason.

The food you eat has no quality and can only be made up for by quantity, so you can imagine how good it is. Netizens who raise geese affectionately call themselves shit shovelers. Note that this verb is shovel, not rubbing. It's not punching, it's shoveling.

From this verb, you can see what kind of new world it is, but he doesn’t worry, it’s okay to poop, it can be flushed to the purifier when it’s in the cage, and it can be composted if it’s outside, just in case If you don't see it, you can still fertilize the land. Wherever the goose goes, his field can still digest this amount of poop.

In addition to this problem, Goose is also very clingy, afraid of loneliness, and has a strong desire to show off.Geese are not poor little ones who will swallow their grievances in their stomachs, they are cute ones who will expand their grievances into fullness and tell their masters.

It's just that the methods are somewhat unacceptable. They are yelling, er, maybe not intentional, just born with a loud voice, which is a natural skill.

Talent skills are good!

Xia Dongli just needed a loud voice like it to call the police.

"Actually, it's mainly because I'm too tired to watch the rice, and I want to share some work with it." Xia Dongli broke his fingers for his good friend: "Dami now has to herd the sheep every day, take care of the chickens and ducks at home, and take care of it." Little pig, now we have to defend against weasels, we will be exhausted if we continue like this!"

"... Are you exhausted?" When he understood what Xia Dongli meant by grazing, Lao Xu saw the watermelon in Jiyou's house, and then he got out of the air-conditioned room and ran to the pigsty to work overtime. The dogs all showed admiration, and saw the action of rice lying on the straw and dozing off after ordering the piglets again, and the way he looked at Xia Dongli was the same as looking at Zhou Papi.

Xia Dongli hurriedly cried out: "It wasn't the job I arranged, it was Dami who took over by herself! Dami has a very strong sense of responsibility, and now the flock of sheep can take care of the meal by himself, and he doesn't need it to accompany him, but Dami seems to be teaching Mi Li After learning herding skills, I still have to accompany him up and down the mountain every day."

"The same goes for the chickens and ducks. Every day when they go out to let the wind out, I will watch them, but the rice also goes out together..." He said more and more softly, not wanting to admit that in the eyes of the rice, he is a member who needs to be taken care of just like the rice grains. .

How is this possible, he is obviously Rice's favorite master, and also the most reliable master!Rice must be to accompany him, this is the dog's love for the owner, not worrying that he will lose the chicken!

Hey, this is the case with raising border shepherds, and it can be regarded as a heavy and sweet burden.

"Hehe, you should reflect on your own image in the eyes of Rice! But what does this have to do with raising geese?" Old Xu coughed dryly and changed the subject: "Raising two geese can reduce the burden on Rice. La?"

"The geese are the most vigilant among poultry. Once they find an accident, they will give a loud alarm, and they don't eat what others feed. It's a rural area." He didn't say the latter words, but Old Xu understood.

The biggest problem in rural areas is that most people have little legal awareness, and even many places have not changed from clan rule to rule of law, and even the small police in some places have to look at the faces of these big clans, unless something touches the bottom line Problems are usually muddy.

Although Xiaojin Village is good in all aspects now, but as the saying goes, the emperor has poor relatives, and the sage's family also has strange flowers. Xia Dongli has never met such a person now. He set up a bunch of surveillance probes and raised a dog, and it doesn't seem to be profitable at the moment, even if someone wants to think about it for a while, he won't bother to do it.

But there is only a thousand days to be a thief, not a thousand days to guard against a thief. If there are people who do calculations with their minds, they will inevitably get the way.At that time, if someone really wanted to do something, the first target would be their dog.

This really hit Xia Dongli's Achilles' heel, but none of Xia Dongli's three dogs could make him feel at ease.

Rice is a shepherd dog. Although it is very smart, it is naturally friendly to humans. Anyone who wants to touch it will give it to anyone. It was a bit sad when I was depressed, but now I can’t wait to send my head to make people RUA.

Rice grain is a foodie. Although Xia Dongli tried to train it to refuse food, but it is too young and when it can eat, it usually uses the code of conduct of "creating opportunities to steal food if the owner does not feed it". Refuse to eat?Impossible, a meat bun can take it away in a wave.

The last one is San'er. San'er is a very qualified guard dog. He didn't act like that at the beginning, and he has a special style when eating. He will never eat anything that is not in the rice bowl, so he wants to lure him with food. It's impossible, but it has a huge disadvantage, San'er doesn't like barking!

As a watchdog of hell, Cerberus is naturally a particularly calm dog. Perhaps because of the needs of his previous occupation, he pursues "a dog that barks and disturbs its owner is not a good dog", "rather than asking the owner to get up to deal with it The problem is not as good as the self-requirement of "just kill me" and be merciless in the face of intruders.

But fragile human beings can't stand its casual bite!Not to mention humans, even if it bites some protected animals! !

So Xia Dongli gave it a death order before. Usually, if you see an abnormality, you can give a warning and knock you down, but you must not open your mouth, otherwise Xia Dongli will have no way to explain to people why it was bitten by a dog. Poisoning situation!

What's more, San'er is still a dog he raises without a license, and dogs raised without a license are not protected by law.

So raising a goose can make up for these small troubles to a certain extent. Goose is determined not to eat food from strangers, let alone food, even if it is close.

From now on, their family will rely on geese to share some rice work during the day, and rely on dogs to patrol at night. When the rice grains grow up, they can help the rice share the work. By the way, when the time comes, they will find a wife for the rice and give birth to a few puppies. Hey Hey.

Xu Yibai glanced at Xia Dongli who suddenly showed a silly smile, sighed, and changed the subject: "Speaking of which, what do you plan to do with these little pigs in the future? Will you sell them or keep them?"

"Uh……"

"You didn't think about it?"

Xia Dongli scratched his face, a little helpless: "I thought about it, but I haven't thought about it yet. I didn't plan to raise pigs before, but now that I'm here, it's an opportunity. I can give it a try. I'll talk about it after raising it well. It just so happens that I There is a requirement for the proportion of animal breeding in running a farm, and raising pigs can fulfill the proportion requirement at one time.”

"Are you willing to sell meat when you grow up?" Xu Yibai's expression was a bit tangled.

"I will raise them well, and then sell them with gratitude." Xia Dongli said that as long as he is mentally prepared, it doesn't matter, and now the live pigs are sold to slaughterhouses, and it's actually okay if they can't see them. The most important thing is - he has a bit of regret in his expression: "Do you know how expensive pork is now?"

He really wasn't rich enough to take tens of thousands of dollars as a pet, and he was counting on this as the family's second income to enrich his small coffers.

Old Xu couldn't help laughing at his left eye saying making money, and his right eye saying eating meat. He stretched his waist and didn't mention the matter of going in to see the piglets. , since the little friends have decided to treat them as pork pigs, it is better to keep a distance, so as not to embarrass others.

"Do you still have any money? Brother, do you want me to sponsor you?"

"Also, I didn't mention a series of manuscript fees before." Xia Dongli patted him on the shoulder, "It's okay, it's almost enough to spend another fruit seedling money next time, and the bulk is basically bought."

"That's fine, if you have any embarrassment, just tell me, I don't ask too much, and I get three points!" He raised his finger in earnest, in exchange for a pair of Xia Dongli's eyes, after the trouble Xu Xu Yibai suddenly raised his finger and pointed in a certain direction: "I wanted to ask before talking about this, what is that?"

In the direction of his finger was a small golden roof under the sun. Even though it was a long way away, Xia Dongli could still see clearly that what Old Xu was referring to was their compost bin.

"..."

"When I drove all the way, I only saw the golden one. I was thinking on the way, you built a pagoda on the mountain? When did you believe in that?"

"It's not a pagoda..." Xia Dongli explained in a low voice with some difficulty: "It's a compost machine."

"How about Buddha?... What kind of new belief is this?" Xu Yibai immediately became nervous when he didn't hear clearly, and quickly reminded: "Xiao Xia, don't follow others to believe in any weird religion, be careful of being caught by a cult." Brainwashing! Our young people in New China should only believe in Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the core values ​​of socialism!"

"No!" Xia Dongli was almost blinded by the light of socialism all over Old Xu, and he quickly turned on his mobile phone and input keywords, and handed it to others, "It's a compost machine, it's used for composting, it's for composting !"

Lao Xu took his mobile phone and glanced at it, but the machine in the mobile phone entry is too simple, and the existence like the small tower over there is not at the same level at all. His expression is still a bit suspicious. He reached the peak when he walked to the side of the composter for a closer look.

"Xiao Xia, I have an impulse now." He rubbed his chin and muttered.

"What are you doing?" Xia Dongli looked at him inexplicably, and saw Lao Xu looking back at him with a serious face: "I have something to do, you promise me first that you don't stop me."

"Okay, okay, just don't unplug my machine." He was still very conniving towards his good friend Xia Dongli, and then he saw Lao Xu took out a coin from his pocket and wrapped his hands in his palms He pressed it against his forehead and muttered for a while, then under his dumbfounded, Lao Xu put the coin on his fingernail and flicked it firmly through the dragon-shaped handle of the composter.

Wait, what just happened?

Did he misunderstand Lao Xu's actions?

Xia Dongli was shocked to see his little friend clenched his fists and applauded, and he was a little unresponsive, "You, what were you doing just now...?"

"Ah, this, instinctive reaction." Old Xu touched his head and laughed. He had a "you understand" expression on his face. After all, we all had the same childhood.

Xia Dongli was silent for a moment, looked at his composter with new eyes, and then had to admit that what Old Xu said was right.Not to mention, he wanted to toss a coin for the four hollows and progressive shapes.

No no no!Xia Dongli shook his head quickly, trying to suppress the imminent thoughts.

Before he could finish criticizing Lao Xu's behavior full of feudal superstition, his cell phone rang, and the man on the other end spoke with a southern accent: "Hey, Mr. Xia, an employee of my insurance company, I'm sorry I have some I don't know your way here, where is your little dirt slope?"

"Uh," Xia Dongli hurriedly turned on the map navigation for someone, and after asking the other party's location, he began to instruct: "Go north, then cross XX Road and turn east, and then..."

"No, I'm sorry, that, can you tell me left and right, I can't tell the difference between south, east and north."

Xia Dongli clicked, and touched his nose in embarrassment: "That way, you go straight and then turn right... Uh, uh."

It's over, he doesn't recognize his own way after changing left and right.

Old Xu couldn't stand it anymore. As an old driver who just arrived here today, he calmly took the phone in Xia Dongli's hand: "Young man, did you look up and see the pagoda? The golden one, that's right. The one with the steeple is in this direction, just drive here, go up when you see an uphill, and stop when you see a house. You’re welcome, be careful on the road~”

After all, he put the hung up mobile phone in Xia Dongli's palm.

Xia Dongli: ...