Carrying the Ba Zong's child to farm
Chapter 94 Livestock
When we woke up this morning, Zhao Shanshi stretched out his arms from under the quilt, and was stimulated by the outside temperature with a "hiss", and quickly put his arms back under the quilt, "Why is it so cold today?"
"Twelve to 22 degrees today." Li Ping helped him take out a thicker coat from the closet.
"It's getting cold so fast." Zhao Danshi took off his pajamas and put on the clothes Li Ping prepared for him. "We can almost grow vegetables for sale in winter."
"En." Li Ping walked over to look at DouDou, DouDou hadn't woken up yet and was soundly asleep.
Li Ping touched his little face, planning to wait for him to wake up naturally before helping him get dressed.
Shocked by the cold air, Zhao Danshi became sober.The two went out to wash up, and Zhao Shanshi went to the kettle to pour warm water out to brush his teeth. Now that the water temperature is relatively low, it is easy to freeze his teeth with cold water.
"Brother, shall we have porridge this morning?"
"It's all right."
"Then I'll make multigrain porridge and order mixed noodles steamed buns. Is it cold dew tomorrow? Let's eat something delicious tomorrow."
Li Ping came over to help him knead the dough, "What do you want to eat?"
"How about some beef noodles? I haven't eaten beef noodles for a long time, I'm a bit greedy."
While talking, the three of Liu Erhua came, "Master, what are you doing for breakfast this morning?"
"It's just simple porridge and steamed buns, and it's almost ready. You can follow your master to pick vegetables in the field today. Are you hungry, do you want to eat something first?"
"No, we just woke up and we're not hungry."
Under Li Bing's leadership, the three of them went to the utility room to get baskets, carried them on their backs, and planned to pick vegetables.
Zhao Danshi boiled the porridge with Lingquan water, pulled the noodles, and then went back to watch Doudou.
Now Doudou has learned to stand up, thinking about escaping from prison all day long, when the adults are not watching, he likes to climb down from the crib, put his feet on the ground, and then crawl very fast with his little buttocks.The time he crawled the furthest was from the room to the yard, Dahei was still looking at him, barking and warning.
When Zhao Shanshi entered the room, he was already awake.Zhao Shanshi hugged him to pull Shouqiu, and then made half a bottle of milk for him.
Maozai smelled the fragrance and came over to rub Zhao Danshi's leg, and said softly to him, "Meow."
A pair of clear dark green eyes are full of Zhao Danshi's reflection.
Zhao Shanshi had no choice but to soak another half pot of milk with Lingquan water, give it half, and then pour half for Dahei.
Dahei wagged his tail at Zhao Danshi, his eyes seemed to be smiling. After Zhao Danshi poured the milk, he went to lick the milk and drink it in a good manner.
Most of Doudou's food now is solid food, such as minced meat, vegetables, cakes, egg custard, and the food that adults can eat, he can generally eat.Zhao Shanshi and Li Ping paid attention to nourishing him, and now he looks quite strong.
"clatter."
Zhao Danshi patted his little butt, "Call me dad, don't call me dad."
"Hehehe." Doudou laughed while holding the little hand that Zhao Shanshi had just wiped clean for him. Zhao Shanshi reached out to change the bottle filled with milk for him, and put it in his mouth to bite and play with.
The old man came out and saw DouDou sitting on his trolley, bent over and touched his head, "DouDou, let Grandpa have a sip of milk?"
Doudou is not stingy at all, upon hearing this, he immediately held the milk to the old man's mouth, "Da."
The old man made a gesture of drinking, and smiled very happily, "Grandpa has already drunk, thank you for going out."
"Yeah." DouDou took the bottle back and put it beside him,
In the early morning, before the sun rises, a piece of verdant green hills looms in the mist, the air is very fresh, and occasionally there are one or two birdsong.
Yao Jingming got up after him. He stretched a lot. He stood in the corridor, looked at the smoke rising from the kitchen, yawned, and asked, "It smells so good. What are you having this morning?"
"Drink porridge with side dishes and Zamian steamed buns."
The jars of baby corn they pickled were almost eaten, and now they mainly ate beans and sour bamboo shoots.
Bean fried meat, sour bamboo shoots are sour bamboo shoots in red oil, put them directly on the plate, when drinking porridge, drink a mouthful of porridge and eat a mouthful of sour bamboo shoots.
The fragrance of the porridge paired with the hot and sour bamboo shoots are so appetizing.
At around eight o'clock, Li Ping came back and led the three of Liu Erhua back.
Peng Yuyun also came over, he was a little embarrassed, a blush appeared on his fair face, he scratched his head, "I got up late."
"It's okay. I often woke up very late when I first came back. It will be fine after you get used to it. It takes a few days for the biological clock to adjust." Zhao Danshi gently pushed his shoulder, "Eat breakfast first, let's see." Does this breakfast suit your taste?"
Liu Erhua led his juniors to quickly set chopsticks, serve porridge and side dishes.
Everyone sat down in their seats and began to eat breakfast.
The plan of the day is in the morning.
After breakfast, the spoons came over, and everyone took tools to work in the field.
Now they mainly grow vegetables for sale. The previous batch of vegetables, such as water spinach, eggplant, beans, etc., are old and produce less. They have to pull out and replant new vegetables.
Li Ping and Zhao Danshi cleaned up, and this time they could basically free up [-] mu of land, plus the [-] mu of rice fields, they still had a lot of work to do.
The [-] mu of paddy field has been neglected since the rice was harvested. There are fish and loaches in it. Zhao Danshi intends to clean up the [-] mu of land first to see what kind of vegetables can be planted.
They didn't do much work on the rice fields, they just opened the vegetable beds. The deep ditches in the rice fields had to be kept, not only for the remaining fish to hide, but also for the convenience of planting rice next year.
They seldom fall fallow here, and the fields are not rested, and they all rely on artificial fertilization.
Zhao Danshi rents a lot of fields, and he plans to let these fields take turns to rest and recuperate. This winter, the rice fields will not be planted on a large scale. In addition to planting some vegetables, radishes, and garlic sprouts, the open space beside the deep ditch will be planted with milk vetch.
Milk vetch is very good for fertile fields, and is often cultivated as an important nectar plant, green manure, and pasture.
Their Baoshan contract has been finalized, and Zhao Shanshi not only wants to plant milk vetch in the rice fields, but also wants to plant some in the mountains in Baolai.
There used to be a lot of terraced fields on those mountains, and they already have a foundation, so it is not troublesome to open up wasteland now.Zhao Danshi plans to plant a crop of milk vetch in the original terraced fields, fertilize the field first this winter, and then plant rice in early summer next year.
Planting rice in the terraced fields is suitable for raising rice flower fish. Next year, you can try to raise some crabs in the rice fields.
In this way, they are busy again.
Zhao Danshi and the others invited more than 30 people, and many young and strong people who were free nearby signed up to help them open up wasteland.
Now that Peng Yuyun is here, it is much more convenient to coordinate personnel.
The first thing Peng Yuyun did when he took office was to clean up Zhao Danshi's assets.
Zhao Danshi also sent Peng Yuyun a copy of their plan for the second half of the year, and Peng Yuyun studied it carefully after reading it.
"Shan Shi, didn't you say you want to buy agricultural equipment? Now or when?"
They are too busy now, and Zhao Shanshi plans to buy two rotary tillers and two agricultural plant protection drones.
They hardly use pesticides in farming, and bought two agricultural plant protection drones. He plans to decorate them with spiritual spring water and operate them himself, so as to improve the efficiency of spreading the spiritual spring water and improve the quality of their products.
With the expansion of their industry scale, the customers they will face in the future will definitely be those catering giants in the city. Even if this is the case, they have to improve the quality even further, so as not to lag behind.
They now earn a lot of money and have a lot of disposable funds on the surface, so it is no problem to buy agricultural plant protection drones.
Zhao Shanshi also planned to buy a thresher so that he would not have to bother others when he got it.However, the purchase of a thresher can be discussed later, and it will not be too late to buy it when it is used. It is a waste to buy it now and leave it idle at home.
Hearing Peng Yuyun's question, Zhao Shanshi said, "Buy the rotary cultivator and agricultural plant protection drone now. Please check the information to see which brand of agricultural equipment has better quality."
"Ok."
"Are the people invited in these two days going to form a group?"
The people they invited are already in place, a total of more than 40 people.Among so many people, naturally some are diligent and some are lazy, some have good physical strength and some have poor physical strength.With so many people looking out for each other, it's not enough to open up wasteland. They have to make some arrangements, at least they have to choose a team leader.
Zhao Danshi thought for a while, and simply took the list and divided these people into four groups.
Shaozi will lead a group, Rao Chunfeng will lead a group, Li Ping will lead a group, Zhao Wende will lead a group, and some people will not be afraid that the invited people will not be dedicated.
With so many people packing up the package of five mountains together, their area suddenly became extremely lively.
Now that autumn is dry and things are dry, the forest fire danger level has been an orange warning for several days in a row. Zhao Danshi told them to be careful when they go up the mountain to open up wasteland. They must not smoke on the mountain, otherwise they will cause a forest fire and all of them will suffer.
Under such circumstances, they had to take people to cut down many trees on the mountain, and the felled firewood had to be moved down instead of being burned on the mountain.
In this way, the firewood in their house has been greatly replenished, not only the corner of the yard where the firewood is piled up is full.Zhao Danshi specially found an open space, piled a lot of firewood outside the courtyard, and bought nylon film to cover it to prevent it from raining.
In addition to trees and shrubs, there are a lot of weeds on the mountain. After years of growth, these weeds are as tall as an adult's waist. There are many small animals such as rabbits, snakes, and rats in the grass. If you are not careful, you may encounter danger.
Zhao Danshi specially asked people to bring snake medicine back from the county town, and asked the workers to be fully armed. In addition to wearing rubber shoes, they also put on labor protection gloves, and told them to be careful.
It was a little strange for everyone to see him so nervous, but he was the boss, so he didn't have any troubles when he said what everyone should do.
There is so much grass that requires manpower to mow. Even if terraced fields have been opened before, no matter how good the land foundation is, it has been abandoned for so many years, and it is absolutely impossible to cultivate the land without spending a lot of effort to remediate it.
Zhao Shanshi looked at the plan he had made. After they mowed the grass, they had to repair ditches, sow seeds, and fertilize. They could stay busy until winter.
The construction team who gave them the house had already traveled twice, came to measure the terrain, gave a construction plan, and discussed with them the materials used, and when everything was ready, they could officially start construction on the mountain.
They have to build the house when they are free in winter while they have enough people, or they won't be able to live in it next year.
Thinking of this, Zhao Shanshi felt a headache.The workload of building a house is heavy, but it is hard to say that a group of existing labor has to be transferred there to help.
He couldn't calm down when he thought of the manpower, material and financial resources that would be consumed this winter.
The three of Liu Erhua couldn't be free either. They hired so many people. In addition to paying 80 yuan a day, they had to pay for a meal.
The three of Liu Erhua also learned to cook for a while, and the main task of cooking fell on them.Generally speaking, they need two meat dishes, two vegetarian dishes, and an extra soup. It is not easy to make a meal for so many people.
It was another sunny autumn day. After everyone finished working, they wiped their sweat and asked inside the room, "What did you do today, it smells so good?"
The eyes of a group of men were shining brightly, "Have you made those snakes you caught yesterday?"
When they were working yesterday, they encountered a snake nest. There were dozens of snakes in it, each of which was tens of centimeters long and nearly one meter long. Seeing these snakes immediately revived, a group of people yelled and surrounded the group of snakes.
Those who picked up the poles picked up the poles, those who took the dustpans took the dustpans, and a good snake catcher used the poles to hold down the snakes by seven inches in three or two strokes, then caught the snakes, packed them in fertilizer bags, and picked them back.
Zhao Danshi was an extraordinary cook, and he didn't dare to do anything when he saw these snakes. In the end, Liu Erhua hung up the snakes himself, removed the internal organs from his stomach, and cleaned the snakes out.
There are a total of six snakes, and when they are cleaned up, there is a big washbasin.
Zhao Shanshi decided to braise the dish snake in red at that time.
The snake meat is hard, and the snake soup has a strange smell. Not everyone can bear it, so braised in soy sauce is much easier.
Before braised in soy sauce, Zhao Danshi also fried it in oil. The top-quality Erjingtiao pepper was chopped into half a washbasin, served with ginger, garlic, and good wine. The condiments don’t need to be too complicated. By the time this group of people came back, the yard was already full of fragrance.
"It's done." Zhao Shanshi yelled, "Wash your hands and rest, we are ready to eat."
They ate in the courtyard, and more than forty people sat down one after another, filling the courtyard to the brim. Zhao Danshi borrowed spoons and tables from several nearby houses, and set up three tables in the courtyard.
"I said something so fragrant. I've never smelled it before. It turns out that the snake was really made."
"Shan Shi, do you have good food and wine? If you don't have our brothers to pay for it, why don't you buy a few bottles of wine?"
Zhao Shanshi smiled and said, "There are good wines, but now that you've finished drinking the good wines, you won't be working in the afternoon?"
Everyone knows that he has good food here, and when he mentions good wine, a group of people are so greedy that they almost salivate.
No matter men or women, everyone rushed to urge Zhao Shanshi to get out the wine quickly.
"It's all right, all of us are like this, the more you drink good wine, the longer your strength will grow, you'll know if you bring it to us and taste it."
"Don't worry, Shan Zhi, we drink very well, so we won't delay our work in the afternoon."
"After drinking, I have no energy to use. We have to work hard for you in the afternoon."
"Yes, if you fall asleep in the afternoon and can't get up to work, I don't want your salary today, and I will give you nothing in the morning as compensation."
Hearing what they said, Zhao Danshi didn't say much, and asked Zhao Mingtai and Zhao Fushun to bring out the good liquor left over from the jar fish they made last time.
"There's only so much white wine. It's agreed. At most, one bowl per person. You can't drink too much."
"Okay, listen to you."
"Don't worry, we supervise each other, and we won't do anything to anyone who drinks too much."
The wine is out, the dishes are out, and everyone is busy serving bowls and pouring wine, and the atmosphere is the same as that of the New Year.
I have to say that this snake meat is really delicious, and it tastes very fresh after it is cleaned up.
The snake meat is not only fresh, but also fresh and tough. Once you bite into it, your lips and teeth will be fragrant and full of flavor. If you have another sip of spicy white wine, the taste is really better than that of a living god.
"This fried pork with garlic sprouts is also delicious!"
"Let's not talk about pork, this green vegetable is very smooth and delicious. There is also this pot of seaweed soup, all seaweed is soup, why is your seaweed soup so delicious?"
"Yes, yes, is there any special way to make soup, and teach us a thing or two?"
Zhao Mingtai smiled, "Is there any special trick? Just a little, auntie, if you are willing to put eggs and seaweed, the soup will be enough."
"I think you can do it. You have learned the craft so quickly. This banquet is better than the dishes in the restaurants in the town."
"The stir-fried vegetables are really tender, and the original flavor is really delicious."
"I also think this green vegetable is the best fried, and it's ready."
Zhao Mingtai raised his face proudly, "That's because we have been studying seriously for so long, can we not eat it? How about our master not whipping me?"
"Mingtai, do you and Fu Shun have a girlfriend?"
Zhao Mingtai was not shy either, and quickly stuffed a mouthful of rice into his mouth, "Auntie, do you want to introduce us?"
"Just introduce, come on, tell me what kind of girl you like first?"
It is very lively for lunch every day.
Zhao Danshi, Li Ping and others who were close to him sat at the same table. In this atmosphere, the old man always ate two extra mouthfuls of food.
DouDou also likes this kind of lively environment, he is not afraid of strangers, he will giggle in everyone's arms.
The aunts who came to work liked her the most and brought him a lot of candies, but Zhao Danshi confiscated them all.
There is a large group of people here. Zhao Shanshi originally planned a construction period of 20 days. Unexpectedly, in half a month, all the fields were opened up on the mountain. All the fields and terraces were covered with vetch seeds. A large number of bamboos were planted above, and these bamboos also acted as a fence.
After two years, these bamboos will be able to produce bamboo shoots, and they estimate that they will harvest a lot of bamboo shoots every year.
Fresh bamboo shoots, dried bamboo shoots, sour bamboo shoots...the bamboo shoots are delicious no matter how they are made. The bamboo shoots produced in spring, summer, autumn and winter have their own flavors, and they should also bring them a lot of income.
Li Ping and Zhao Shanshi also specially planted some Chinese medicinal materials on the mountain avoiding people.
They planted loquats by the pond very well, and Zhao Danshi planned to plant another one.
It is enough to plant loquats now, as well as peaches, plums, and apricots. Zhao Shanshi also intends to ask who has seedlings. environment, it may be a bit risky to buy back.
Taking advantage of the large number of people invited now, Zhao Danshi also invited people to come out for two sheep pens and one cattle pen. It seemed that he wanted to raise cattle and sheep on the mountain.
Zi vetch has been planted, and now the most urgent task is to bring back a batch of cattle and sheep.
Zhao Danshi is not familiar with the animal husbandry circle, so this matter has to be left to professionals, so Zhao Danshi went to Zhao Mingming to inquire.
Zhao Zhiming is worthy of being a professional, he understood as soon as Zhao Shanshi said it.
He sat on the sofa, smoking a cigarette and asked, "What kind of cattle do you want? Beef cattle or farm cattle?"
"I want local buffaloes." Zhao Danshi didn't know much about cattle, so he explained his needs, "I mainly want to raise good breeds. You know that our family is not a professional cattle breeder, and we don't have any cattle breeders. Skill."
"Then raise local buffaloes. Local buffaloes are easy to raise and don't get sick very much."
"Okay, Uncle Wise, please help us find out, and by the way, help us ask if there are any milking cows."
"Milk-producing buffaloes are not easy to buy. Let me ask for you, what do you want milk-producing cows for?"
"Isn't my Doudou almost one year old, and he is almost able to drink milk. I bought a milking cow and milked it for him."
Zhao Mingzhi nodded, "Is this a special cow?"
"No, I'm not in the milk business. I just support our family to drink it for ourselves. Buffalo milk is better, with a mellow taste and rich nutrition in it."
"Okay. But to be honest, if you raise cattle and want to sell them outside, it's better to buy beef cattle. Our local buffalo grow slowly, and it takes two or three years to raise them for meat."
"No need, just buy ordinary buffaloes, just buy two. Isn't our family renting a lot of mountains? Now there are terraced fields on the mountains. If it is not convenient for machines to go up the mountains, we will pull the cattle up to plow the land. "
The mountains they cover are not big, but with so many mountains, there is also a lot of land to be cultivated.The mountain road is rugged, and there are many places where people can go up, but the rotary cultivator has to work hard to make a way out.Zhao Danshi reckoned that it would be more convenient to drive an ox up to plow the field.
"What about the goats? How many goats do you want?"
"Let's buy three hundred heads first." Zhao Shanshi estimated conservatively, "If it's not enough by then, I'll come to you again."
"Okay, I'll go and inquire for you first, and if I have any news, I'll call you, and then we'll go see the cattle and sheep together."
"Okay, sorry to bother you."
Zhao Mingming happily agreed to this matter. He has been in the butcher business all year round, so he has his own way.To make this deal, he had to take one or two cuts, and then thousands of dollars would be available again.
"By the way, I said that your family has already bought cattle and sheep, do you want to buy some pigs?"
Zhao Danshi hesitated, "Pig?"
At the beginning of spring this year, I also thought about buying two pigs, but the old man firmly opposed it.
It is time-consuming and laborious to raise pigs. The most important thing is that pigs eat more and pull more, and they are more smelly.
Zhao Danshi didn't have much impression of pigs at first, but after visiting a farm by chance this summer, he didn't have a good impression of animals like pigs.
Although the pig itself likes to be clean, it eats a lot and pulls a lot. The pig manure is piled there, and they can't use it up for a while, and they don't know how much smell it emits.
He didn't come back to farm blindly to make money. To make money and destroy the environment is not worth the loss.
Zhao Danshi thought for a while, and finally refused with regret, "Forget about pigs, pigs are more troublesome."
Local pork is delicious, but the pork they bought from Zhao Mingzhi's place is also good, so there is no need to raise it yourself.
"Hey, you really don't know. Traditional pigs are a bit troublesome, but isn't there a new type of black pig now? It's similar to cows. It eats grass and grows meat. It's easy to raise. convenient.."
"Is there really such a little black pig?"
"Of course, can I still lie to you?"
Zhao Mingzhi poured him a cup of tea, "I have an old friend who specializes in raising pigs. A batch of black pigs came in the year before last. Black pigs are expensive, but they don't grow much meat and are affordable. There are not many people there. He has raised them, but it is not very easy to sell, and now he has decided to return to raising white pigs, so how to manage these dozens of pigs has become a big problem.”
"The black pig's meat is of good quality, tender and juicy, with more obvious marbling and good fat quality. It is much more fragrant than our ordinary pork. I think your conditions are right there, and this kind of pig is also good. If you really want it, I will Go ask that old friend of mine, he still has more than a dozen piglets that haven’t been sold yet, I’ll talk to him, maybe we can get them at a low price.”
"Is this pig easy to raise?"
"I heard from him that it's not as difficult to raise as cattle and sheep." Zhao Zhiming smiled, "I just thought you want to raise livestock? Anyway, raising other things is also raising, and black pigs are also raising. If you raise them well, there are ways to sell them. Going out is also a very profitable business. Your mountain is so big, it is not troublesome to release it in random areas to let them move around."
"That's it, then I'll go back and look up the information, look again, and I'll reply to you tomorrow."
Zhao Danshi went back and told Li Pingyi, the two read the materials all night, Li Ping nodded and said: "Let's raise them, anyway, it's okay to raise a few more pigs, I feel that raising pigs is easier than raising goats. "
"Okay, then I'll ask Uncle Zhizhi to tell his old friend that if the price is right, we'll raise it."
Zhao Danshi couldn't help but feel a little moved when he thought of the smell of the pig introduced online.
If the black pig is well raised, and they have a good food, even if they don't sell it, it's good to keep it at home.
They mainly eat pork now. Although other mutton and beef are delicious, if they eat too much, they are not as tender, fragrant and plump as pork.
Zhao Danshi does not raise goats solely for food. Goats have a very bad habit of uprooting them when grazing, so the places where goats have been raised are prone to no grass.
However, Zhao Danshi liked its characteristics. They don’t use pesticides very well in farming here, and manual weeding is too troublesome. If you raise a group of goats, if there is a lot of grass, you will go there, just to start weeding. The role of assistants.
Of course, during the normal crop planting process, they may not be able to get the goats to remove weeds, but after they have harvested the crops, such as harvesting rice in the rice field, pulling peanuts in the peanut field, and picking watermelons in the watermelon field, they will drive a group of goats away. In the past, it was more effective with less effort.
He is not afraid of not having enough fodder for the goats.He has a lot of forage seeds here, which are specially provided by the Overwatch. If the goats don't have enough forage, he can find a piece of mountain and scatter them, and the forage will grow in ten days.
Speaking of which, goats are easy and helpful. It would not be so troublesome to raise black pigs, except for Ya Zimei, but I guess I have to hire another person to come here.
When he mentioned this trouble, Li Ping immediately said: "Isn't Uncle Wende working in the fields now? He is so old, and his salary is the same as that of Ya Zimei. I think he will be asked to work on the mountains next year." , Herding cattle and sheep, and raising pigs is almost enough, the old man is so old, don't get tired, and it will save you trouble."
"That's true. Let me tell Uncle Zhizhi, let's go and see how the other party's black pig is doing together."
Zhao Danshi has the watch account in his hand, which can detect the status and basic information of the black pig, so he is not afraid of the other party's fraud.
"Let's go together, Doudou hasn't gone out for a long time, take Doudou out for a stroll."
Dou Dou's ears were clear, and he heard their voices on the small bed, and knew that his name was in the voice. He immediately looked forward to the railing and stood up, looking at the two fathers without blinking, "Yeah."
"I just said I would take you to play." Zhao Shanshi reached out and tapped his nose, "Dou Zai, when will you be able to talk? You see, I look forward to the stars and the moon until my hair turns gray. Come on, call Dad."
DouDou tilted his head to look at him, Li Ping laughed beside him and said, "Call me Dad."
Doudou looked at this, then at that, and said inarticulately, "Many."
Zhao Danshi was stunned, looked at his saliva, looked at Li Ping, then looked at Xiao Doudou in front of him, "Did he call dad just now?!"
Li Ping was also not sure, he coaxed Doudou in a warm voice, "Doudou is good, call again, call Dad."
DouDou sprayed a mouthful of saliva, "Many!"
After yelling, he giggled and kicked his little feet on the crib.
Zhao Danshi resisted the urge to pick out his ears, "Hey, he seems to be able to scream?"
After finishing speaking, Zhao Shanshi lamented again, fell on Li Ping's shoulder, and said dejectedly, "I've been teaching him for so long, Dad, how did he learn it first?"
Small depression is small depression, Doudou's voice coaxed the two silly fathers into joy.
Zhao Danshi took his bag out to play the next day, and they didn't go anywhere else, they just wandered around the county town.
It's been a long time since I went to the shop in the county seat, so the two of them simply took a tour of the shop.
The weather has turned cold and DouDou has grown up a lot. The thick clothes that Zhao Danshi bought for DouDou are no longer suitable for them. They still have to go to the county town to buy clothes.
DouDou liked to join in the fun, and was very happy to come to the county town. He looked around all the way and saw a lot of things. Zhao Danshi bought him a hydrogen balloon and tied it on his wrist.He flicked his wrists, concentrating on playing with the balloon the whole time.
"Dou Zai, let's go to the movies."
Zhao Danshi became interested, and turned to look at Li Ping, "Brother, haven't we seen a movie together before?"
Ordinary people’s dating procedure is to watch movies and eat, but now they are completely reversed, they only come out to watch movies when they are already married.
"It's because I haven't been to the cinema to watch movies. Let's go to the movies, what are we watching?"
At this time of year and season, there are not many good movies to watch, so Zhao Danshi and Li Ping went back and forth to choose, and finally chose a theatrical version of the animation.
"Yeah." Doudou looked at the colorful screens and moved back and forth excitedly. Zhao Danshi hissed him and kissed his little cheek, "Let's keep our voices down."
Li Ping hugged DouDou into his arms, patted him on the back, looked at the picture on the screen, and quickly calmed down.
The two of them went to the bookstore to buy books after watching the movie. They were newbies in agriculture, so they had to read books in many places, and they also gained a lot after reading the books.
So far, both of them have very good reading habits. Zhao Danshi and Li Ping read books for a while every night. Now that they have finished reading the books on the shelf, they have to go to the bookstore to buy another batch.
Doudou is almost one year old, and when he can read children's picture books, Zhao Shanshi intends to see if there are any suitable picture books for him.
They walked around the county town and came back with a lot of rewards.
Yao Jingming felt a little sour. He pretended to be sad and said: "Seeing you guys having so much fun, in contrast, we are living a boring life here. Single dogs have suffered a ton of damage."
"It's not that exaggerated, Senior Brother Yao, what do you want to eat tomorrow, I'll do it."
"Can you eat anything?" Yao Jingming rolled his eyes, "Didn't you say that you are going to buy a pig? Or how about buying a little suckling pig and making a roast suckling pig? I haven't eaten roast suckling pig for a long time. I want to eat that .”
Zhao Shanshi thought for a while, "It's okay to roast suckling pig. We often eat pork, and it's nothing special, and roasting it doesn't give you any special feeling. How about we roast a kid? It's cold now, and it's time to eat sheep. When mending the body, the goats are piled up and roasted in the yard for seven or eight hours, and when the goats are roasted, we will eat goats while drinking at night, just to celebrate the opening of the terraced fields on the mountain, how about it?"
"That's a good idea." Yao Jingming and Peng Yuyun agreed with both hands.
Zhao Shanshi immediately called Zhao Mingming and asked him to help get a kid tomorrow.
Zhao Zhiming said with emotion, "You really know how to eat. Didn't you mean to go to see pigs, or else we went to see pigs tomorrow and brought back some goats and pigs by the way. In that case, which one do you want to roast?"
"Sure, then let's go over with you tomorrow to have a look. Have you made an appointment with him, won't it be too abrupt for us to go so rashly?"
"It's an appointment. There are so many rules in the country. I will take you to visit tomorrow."
Early the next morning, Li Ping and Zhao Shanshi went out.
They don't need to pick the vegetables in the field anymore, they will take care of the spoons, they just need to confirm that the vegetables have been delivered to the shop, and then Peng Yuyun will reconcile them.
Zhao Zhiming drove a tricycle in front, and they drove a small car in the back until they reached a place called Youshan.
Zhao Zhiming introduced that this family name is Liu, and he has been raising sheep for many years.
The family that raises pigs is also in this town, and they also built a mountain to raise pigs.
"I'll take you there later. Buy the sheep first, right? You told me you want [-] sheep, right? I've already told the host that he happens to have lambs, so go and pick them out."
Zhao Danshi and Li Ping followed Zhao Mingming into a family who had been waiting for them for a long time. When they saw Zhao Danshi and Li Ping, they greeted them warmly, poured them tea, and brought them After eating, seeing Xiao Doudou sleeping in Zhao Shanshi's arms, the male host asked kindly: "Your child looks really good. How old is it?"
"Almost a year old."
"I heard that in addition to buying sheep, you also want to buy cows that produce milk. The purpose of raising cows is to give this child milk, right?"
"Yes." Zhao Shanshi smiled, "Drink more fresh milk, the child will grow up well."
They haven't found the cow yet, but now they only found the sheep and the pig. Hearing something from the master's words, Zhao Danshi smiled, "Could it be that you have connections?"
"I do know a few families that raise cattle, but now is not the time to buy cattle, and they don't have cows or cows to sell. I think if you really want to feed the baby milk, why don't you feed him some goat milk first? I There are several milking ewes here, as well as lambs, and if you get it right, goat milk is as good as cow milk."
Zhao Danshi was really interested when he heard it. He didn't answer, but just smiled, "Then let me see first, and if it's suitable, I'll bring a milk-producing ewe there."
The male owner’s eyes lit up when he heard the joke, “One sheep may not be enough to drink, and one milk-producing sheep may have no milk in half a year. You can buy two more sheep? Then buy a ram, so that the sheep will keep producing lambs, and they will be able to Keep producing milk. Of course, this is just a suggestion, just listen to it, and if you like it, you can come and take a closer look.”
Zhao Shanshi said why he was so enthusiastic, and he still wanted to do business, so he smiled, "Let's see where your sheep pen is first? Let's go to the sheep pen, and I will pick it myself?"
At the same time, Zhao Shanshi said to Watchman in his mind: "This time it's up to you, please wait a moment and scan which sheep is in good health, and tell me when the scan is complete, I mainly look at lambs. "
The Watchman answered in his mind, gearing up his fists and said: "Sure, just wait, I will help you pick out the best lambs in the sheepfold."
The male host also said cheerfully: "No problem, I will take you to the sheep pen to have a look. My sheep are usually raised on the mountain, but they are healthy and strong, and they are well adapted to the environment and climate here. I The meat sheep raised, if you buy them back and raise them well, they can grow in a year, um, about seventy or eighty catties of meat."
"Mutton is not cheap now. It costs four to fifty yuan a catty. Raising a flock of sheep can earn you a lot of money throughout the year. If you raise them well, you can sell lambs as well as me like me. "
"It's good to raise well, but my place is not big, and I need
"Twelve to 22 degrees today." Li Ping helped him take out a thicker coat from the closet.
"It's getting cold so fast." Zhao Danshi took off his pajamas and put on the clothes Li Ping prepared for him. "We can almost grow vegetables for sale in winter."
"En." Li Ping walked over to look at DouDou, DouDou hadn't woken up yet and was soundly asleep.
Li Ping touched his little face, planning to wait for him to wake up naturally before helping him get dressed.
Shocked by the cold air, Zhao Danshi became sober.The two went out to wash up, and Zhao Shanshi went to the kettle to pour warm water out to brush his teeth. Now that the water temperature is relatively low, it is easy to freeze his teeth with cold water.
"Brother, shall we have porridge this morning?"
"It's all right."
"Then I'll make multigrain porridge and order mixed noodles steamed buns. Is it cold dew tomorrow? Let's eat something delicious tomorrow."
Li Ping came over to help him knead the dough, "What do you want to eat?"
"How about some beef noodles? I haven't eaten beef noodles for a long time, I'm a bit greedy."
While talking, the three of Liu Erhua came, "Master, what are you doing for breakfast this morning?"
"It's just simple porridge and steamed buns, and it's almost ready. You can follow your master to pick vegetables in the field today. Are you hungry, do you want to eat something first?"
"No, we just woke up and we're not hungry."
Under Li Bing's leadership, the three of them went to the utility room to get baskets, carried them on their backs, and planned to pick vegetables.
Zhao Danshi boiled the porridge with Lingquan water, pulled the noodles, and then went back to watch Doudou.
Now Doudou has learned to stand up, thinking about escaping from prison all day long, when the adults are not watching, he likes to climb down from the crib, put his feet on the ground, and then crawl very fast with his little buttocks.The time he crawled the furthest was from the room to the yard, Dahei was still looking at him, barking and warning.
When Zhao Shanshi entered the room, he was already awake.Zhao Shanshi hugged him to pull Shouqiu, and then made half a bottle of milk for him.
Maozai smelled the fragrance and came over to rub Zhao Danshi's leg, and said softly to him, "Meow."
A pair of clear dark green eyes are full of Zhao Danshi's reflection.
Zhao Shanshi had no choice but to soak another half pot of milk with Lingquan water, give it half, and then pour half for Dahei.
Dahei wagged his tail at Zhao Danshi, his eyes seemed to be smiling. After Zhao Danshi poured the milk, he went to lick the milk and drink it in a good manner.
Most of Doudou's food now is solid food, such as minced meat, vegetables, cakes, egg custard, and the food that adults can eat, he can generally eat.Zhao Shanshi and Li Ping paid attention to nourishing him, and now he looks quite strong.
"clatter."
Zhao Danshi patted his little butt, "Call me dad, don't call me dad."
"Hehehe." Doudou laughed while holding the little hand that Zhao Shanshi had just wiped clean for him. Zhao Shanshi reached out to change the bottle filled with milk for him, and put it in his mouth to bite and play with.
The old man came out and saw DouDou sitting on his trolley, bent over and touched his head, "DouDou, let Grandpa have a sip of milk?"
Doudou is not stingy at all, upon hearing this, he immediately held the milk to the old man's mouth, "Da."
The old man made a gesture of drinking, and smiled very happily, "Grandpa has already drunk, thank you for going out."
"Yeah." DouDou took the bottle back and put it beside him,
In the early morning, before the sun rises, a piece of verdant green hills looms in the mist, the air is very fresh, and occasionally there are one or two birdsong.
Yao Jingming got up after him. He stretched a lot. He stood in the corridor, looked at the smoke rising from the kitchen, yawned, and asked, "It smells so good. What are you having this morning?"
"Drink porridge with side dishes and Zamian steamed buns."
The jars of baby corn they pickled were almost eaten, and now they mainly ate beans and sour bamboo shoots.
Bean fried meat, sour bamboo shoots are sour bamboo shoots in red oil, put them directly on the plate, when drinking porridge, drink a mouthful of porridge and eat a mouthful of sour bamboo shoots.
The fragrance of the porridge paired with the hot and sour bamboo shoots are so appetizing.
At around eight o'clock, Li Ping came back and led the three of Liu Erhua back.
Peng Yuyun also came over, he was a little embarrassed, a blush appeared on his fair face, he scratched his head, "I got up late."
"It's okay. I often woke up very late when I first came back. It will be fine after you get used to it. It takes a few days for the biological clock to adjust." Zhao Danshi gently pushed his shoulder, "Eat breakfast first, let's see." Does this breakfast suit your taste?"
Liu Erhua led his juniors to quickly set chopsticks, serve porridge and side dishes.
Everyone sat down in their seats and began to eat breakfast.
The plan of the day is in the morning.
After breakfast, the spoons came over, and everyone took tools to work in the field.
Now they mainly grow vegetables for sale. The previous batch of vegetables, such as water spinach, eggplant, beans, etc., are old and produce less. They have to pull out and replant new vegetables.
Li Ping and Zhao Danshi cleaned up, and this time they could basically free up [-] mu of land, plus the [-] mu of rice fields, they still had a lot of work to do.
The [-] mu of paddy field has been neglected since the rice was harvested. There are fish and loaches in it. Zhao Danshi intends to clean up the [-] mu of land first to see what kind of vegetables can be planted.
They didn't do much work on the rice fields, they just opened the vegetable beds. The deep ditches in the rice fields had to be kept, not only for the remaining fish to hide, but also for the convenience of planting rice next year.
They seldom fall fallow here, and the fields are not rested, and they all rely on artificial fertilization.
Zhao Danshi rents a lot of fields, and he plans to let these fields take turns to rest and recuperate. This winter, the rice fields will not be planted on a large scale. In addition to planting some vegetables, radishes, and garlic sprouts, the open space beside the deep ditch will be planted with milk vetch.
Milk vetch is very good for fertile fields, and is often cultivated as an important nectar plant, green manure, and pasture.
Their Baoshan contract has been finalized, and Zhao Shanshi not only wants to plant milk vetch in the rice fields, but also wants to plant some in the mountains in Baolai.
There used to be a lot of terraced fields on those mountains, and they already have a foundation, so it is not troublesome to open up wasteland now.Zhao Danshi plans to plant a crop of milk vetch in the original terraced fields, fertilize the field first this winter, and then plant rice in early summer next year.
Planting rice in the terraced fields is suitable for raising rice flower fish. Next year, you can try to raise some crabs in the rice fields.
In this way, they are busy again.
Zhao Danshi and the others invited more than 30 people, and many young and strong people who were free nearby signed up to help them open up wasteland.
Now that Peng Yuyun is here, it is much more convenient to coordinate personnel.
The first thing Peng Yuyun did when he took office was to clean up Zhao Danshi's assets.
Zhao Danshi also sent Peng Yuyun a copy of their plan for the second half of the year, and Peng Yuyun studied it carefully after reading it.
"Shan Shi, didn't you say you want to buy agricultural equipment? Now or when?"
They are too busy now, and Zhao Shanshi plans to buy two rotary tillers and two agricultural plant protection drones.
They hardly use pesticides in farming, and bought two agricultural plant protection drones. He plans to decorate them with spiritual spring water and operate them himself, so as to improve the efficiency of spreading the spiritual spring water and improve the quality of their products.
With the expansion of their industry scale, the customers they will face in the future will definitely be those catering giants in the city. Even if this is the case, they have to improve the quality even further, so as not to lag behind.
They now earn a lot of money and have a lot of disposable funds on the surface, so it is no problem to buy agricultural plant protection drones.
Zhao Shanshi also planned to buy a thresher so that he would not have to bother others when he got it.However, the purchase of a thresher can be discussed later, and it will not be too late to buy it when it is used. It is a waste to buy it now and leave it idle at home.
Hearing Peng Yuyun's question, Zhao Shanshi said, "Buy the rotary cultivator and agricultural plant protection drone now. Please check the information to see which brand of agricultural equipment has better quality."
"Ok."
"Are the people invited in these two days going to form a group?"
The people they invited are already in place, a total of more than 40 people.Among so many people, naturally some are diligent and some are lazy, some have good physical strength and some have poor physical strength.With so many people looking out for each other, it's not enough to open up wasteland. They have to make some arrangements, at least they have to choose a team leader.
Zhao Danshi thought for a while, and simply took the list and divided these people into four groups.
Shaozi will lead a group, Rao Chunfeng will lead a group, Li Ping will lead a group, Zhao Wende will lead a group, and some people will not be afraid that the invited people will not be dedicated.
With so many people packing up the package of five mountains together, their area suddenly became extremely lively.
Now that autumn is dry and things are dry, the forest fire danger level has been an orange warning for several days in a row. Zhao Danshi told them to be careful when they go up the mountain to open up wasteland. They must not smoke on the mountain, otherwise they will cause a forest fire and all of them will suffer.
Under such circumstances, they had to take people to cut down many trees on the mountain, and the felled firewood had to be moved down instead of being burned on the mountain.
In this way, the firewood in their house has been greatly replenished, not only the corner of the yard where the firewood is piled up is full.Zhao Danshi specially found an open space, piled a lot of firewood outside the courtyard, and bought nylon film to cover it to prevent it from raining.
In addition to trees and shrubs, there are a lot of weeds on the mountain. After years of growth, these weeds are as tall as an adult's waist. There are many small animals such as rabbits, snakes, and rats in the grass. If you are not careful, you may encounter danger.
Zhao Danshi specially asked people to bring snake medicine back from the county town, and asked the workers to be fully armed. In addition to wearing rubber shoes, they also put on labor protection gloves, and told them to be careful.
It was a little strange for everyone to see him so nervous, but he was the boss, so he didn't have any troubles when he said what everyone should do.
There is so much grass that requires manpower to mow. Even if terraced fields have been opened before, no matter how good the land foundation is, it has been abandoned for so many years, and it is absolutely impossible to cultivate the land without spending a lot of effort to remediate it.
Zhao Shanshi looked at the plan he had made. After they mowed the grass, they had to repair ditches, sow seeds, and fertilize. They could stay busy until winter.
The construction team who gave them the house had already traveled twice, came to measure the terrain, gave a construction plan, and discussed with them the materials used, and when everything was ready, they could officially start construction on the mountain.
They have to build the house when they are free in winter while they have enough people, or they won't be able to live in it next year.
Thinking of this, Zhao Shanshi felt a headache.The workload of building a house is heavy, but it is hard to say that a group of existing labor has to be transferred there to help.
He couldn't calm down when he thought of the manpower, material and financial resources that would be consumed this winter.
The three of Liu Erhua couldn't be free either. They hired so many people. In addition to paying 80 yuan a day, they had to pay for a meal.
The three of Liu Erhua also learned to cook for a while, and the main task of cooking fell on them.Generally speaking, they need two meat dishes, two vegetarian dishes, and an extra soup. It is not easy to make a meal for so many people.
It was another sunny autumn day. After everyone finished working, they wiped their sweat and asked inside the room, "What did you do today, it smells so good?"
The eyes of a group of men were shining brightly, "Have you made those snakes you caught yesterday?"
When they were working yesterday, they encountered a snake nest. There were dozens of snakes in it, each of which was tens of centimeters long and nearly one meter long. Seeing these snakes immediately revived, a group of people yelled and surrounded the group of snakes.
Those who picked up the poles picked up the poles, those who took the dustpans took the dustpans, and a good snake catcher used the poles to hold down the snakes by seven inches in three or two strokes, then caught the snakes, packed them in fertilizer bags, and picked them back.
Zhao Danshi was an extraordinary cook, and he didn't dare to do anything when he saw these snakes. In the end, Liu Erhua hung up the snakes himself, removed the internal organs from his stomach, and cleaned the snakes out.
There are a total of six snakes, and when they are cleaned up, there is a big washbasin.
Zhao Shanshi decided to braise the dish snake in red at that time.
The snake meat is hard, and the snake soup has a strange smell. Not everyone can bear it, so braised in soy sauce is much easier.
Before braised in soy sauce, Zhao Danshi also fried it in oil. The top-quality Erjingtiao pepper was chopped into half a washbasin, served with ginger, garlic, and good wine. The condiments don’t need to be too complicated. By the time this group of people came back, the yard was already full of fragrance.
"It's done." Zhao Shanshi yelled, "Wash your hands and rest, we are ready to eat."
They ate in the courtyard, and more than forty people sat down one after another, filling the courtyard to the brim. Zhao Danshi borrowed spoons and tables from several nearby houses, and set up three tables in the courtyard.
"I said something so fragrant. I've never smelled it before. It turns out that the snake was really made."
"Shan Shi, do you have good food and wine? If you don't have our brothers to pay for it, why don't you buy a few bottles of wine?"
Zhao Shanshi smiled and said, "There are good wines, but now that you've finished drinking the good wines, you won't be working in the afternoon?"
Everyone knows that he has good food here, and when he mentions good wine, a group of people are so greedy that they almost salivate.
No matter men or women, everyone rushed to urge Zhao Shanshi to get out the wine quickly.
"It's all right, all of us are like this, the more you drink good wine, the longer your strength will grow, you'll know if you bring it to us and taste it."
"Don't worry, Shan Zhi, we drink very well, so we won't delay our work in the afternoon."
"After drinking, I have no energy to use. We have to work hard for you in the afternoon."
"Yes, if you fall asleep in the afternoon and can't get up to work, I don't want your salary today, and I will give you nothing in the morning as compensation."
Hearing what they said, Zhao Danshi didn't say much, and asked Zhao Mingtai and Zhao Fushun to bring out the good liquor left over from the jar fish they made last time.
"There's only so much white wine. It's agreed. At most, one bowl per person. You can't drink too much."
"Okay, listen to you."
"Don't worry, we supervise each other, and we won't do anything to anyone who drinks too much."
The wine is out, the dishes are out, and everyone is busy serving bowls and pouring wine, and the atmosphere is the same as that of the New Year.
I have to say that this snake meat is really delicious, and it tastes very fresh after it is cleaned up.
The snake meat is not only fresh, but also fresh and tough. Once you bite into it, your lips and teeth will be fragrant and full of flavor. If you have another sip of spicy white wine, the taste is really better than that of a living god.
"This fried pork with garlic sprouts is also delicious!"
"Let's not talk about pork, this green vegetable is very smooth and delicious. There is also this pot of seaweed soup, all seaweed is soup, why is your seaweed soup so delicious?"
"Yes, yes, is there any special way to make soup, and teach us a thing or two?"
Zhao Mingtai smiled, "Is there any special trick? Just a little, auntie, if you are willing to put eggs and seaweed, the soup will be enough."
"I think you can do it. You have learned the craft so quickly. This banquet is better than the dishes in the restaurants in the town."
"The stir-fried vegetables are really tender, and the original flavor is really delicious."
"I also think this green vegetable is the best fried, and it's ready."
Zhao Mingtai raised his face proudly, "That's because we have been studying seriously for so long, can we not eat it? How about our master not whipping me?"
"Mingtai, do you and Fu Shun have a girlfriend?"
Zhao Mingtai was not shy either, and quickly stuffed a mouthful of rice into his mouth, "Auntie, do you want to introduce us?"
"Just introduce, come on, tell me what kind of girl you like first?"
It is very lively for lunch every day.
Zhao Danshi, Li Ping and others who were close to him sat at the same table. In this atmosphere, the old man always ate two extra mouthfuls of food.
DouDou also likes this kind of lively environment, he is not afraid of strangers, he will giggle in everyone's arms.
The aunts who came to work liked her the most and brought him a lot of candies, but Zhao Danshi confiscated them all.
There is a large group of people here. Zhao Shanshi originally planned a construction period of 20 days. Unexpectedly, in half a month, all the fields were opened up on the mountain. All the fields and terraces were covered with vetch seeds. A large number of bamboos were planted above, and these bamboos also acted as a fence.
After two years, these bamboos will be able to produce bamboo shoots, and they estimate that they will harvest a lot of bamboo shoots every year.
Fresh bamboo shoots, dried bamboo shoots, sour bamboo shoots...the bamboo shoots are delicious no matter how they are made. The bamboo shoots produced in spring, summer, autumn and winter have their own flavors, and they should also bring them a lot of income.
Li Ping and Zhao Shanshi also specially planted some Chinese medicinal materials on the mountain avoiding people.
They planted loquats by the pond very well, and Zhao Danshi planned to plant another one.
It is enough to plant loquats now, as well as peaches, plums, and apricots. Zhao Shanshi also intends to ask who has seedlings. environment, it may be a bit risky to buy back.
Taking advantage of the large number of people invited now, Zhao Danshi also invited people to come out for two sheep pens and one cattle pen. It seemed that he wanted to raise cattle and sheep on the mountain.
Zi vetch has been planted, and now the most urgent task is to bring back a batch of cattle and sheep.
Zhao Danshi is not familiar with the animal husbandry circle, so this matter has to be left to professionals, so Zhao Danshi went to Zhao Mingming to inquire.
Zhao Zhiming is worthy of being a professional, he understood as soon as Zhao Shanshi said it.
He sat on the sofa, smoking a cigarette and asked, "What kind of cattle do you want? Beef cattle or farm cattle?"
"I want local buffaloes." Zhao Danshi didn't know much about cattle, so he explained his needs, "I mainly want to raise good breeds. You know that our family is not a professional cattle breeder, and we don't have any cattle breeders. Skill."
"Then raise local buffaloes. Local buffaloes are easy to raise and don't get sick very much."
"Okay, Uncle Wise, please help us find out, and by the way, help us ask if there are any milking cows."
"Milk-producing buffaloes are not easy to buy. Let me ask for you, what do you want milk-producing cows for?"
"Isn't my Doudou almost one year old, and he is almost able to drink milk. I bought a milking cow and milked it for him."
Zhao Mingzhi nodded, "Is this a special cow?"
"No, I'm not in the milk business. I just support our family to drink it for ourselves. Buffalo milk is better, with a mellow taste and rich nutrition in it."
"Okay. But to be honest, if you raise cattle and want to sell them outside, it's better to buy beef cattle. Our local buffalo grow slowly, and it takes two or three years to raise them for meat."
"No need, just buy ordinary buffaloes, just buy two. Isn't our family renting a lot of mountains? Now there are terraced fields on the mountains. If it is not convenient for machines to go up the mountains, we will pull the cattle up to plow the land. "
The mountains they cover are not big, but with so many mountains, there is also a lot of land to be cultivated.The mountain road is rugged, and there are many places where people can go up, but the rotary cultivator has to work hard to make a way out.Zhao Danshi reckoned that it would be more convenient to drive an ox up to plow the field.
"What about the goats? How many goats do you want?"
"Let's buy three hundred heads first." Zhao Shanshi estimated conservatively, "If it's not enough by then, I'll come to you again."
"Okay, I'll go and inquire for you first, and if I have any news, I'll call you, and then we'll go see the cattle and sheep together."
"Okay, sorry to bother you."
Zhao Mingming happily agreed to this matter. He has been in the butcher business all year round, so he has his own way.To make this deal, he had to take one or two cuts, and then thousands of dollars would be available again.
"By the way, I said that your family has already bought cattle and sheep, do you want to buy some pigs?"
Zhao Danshi hesitated, "Pig?"
At the beginning of spring this year, I also thought about buying two pigs, but the old man firmly opposed it.
It is time-consuming and laborious to raise pigs. The most important thing is that pigs eat more and pull more, and they are more smelly.
Zhao Danshi didn't have much impression of pigs at first, but after visiting a farm by chance this summer, he didn't have a good impression of animals like pigs.
Although the pig itself likes to be clean, it eats a lot and pulls a lot. The pig manure is piled there, and they can't use it up for a while, and they don't know how much smell it emits.
He didn't come back to farm blindly to make money. To make money and destroy the environment is not worth the loss.
Zhao Danshi thought for a while, and finally refused with regret, "Forget about pigs, pigs are more troublesome."
Local pork is delicious, but the pork they bought from Zhao Mingzhi's place is also good, so there is no need to raise it yourself.
"Hey, you really don't know. Traditional pigs are a bit troublesome, but isn't there a new type of black pig now? It's similar to cows. It eats grass and grows meat. It's easy to raise. convenient.."
"Is there really such a little black pig?"
"Of course, can I still lie to you?"
Zhao Mingzhi poured him a cup of tea, "I have an old friend who specializes in raising pigs. A batch of black pigs came in the year before last. Black pigs are expensive, but they don't grow much meat and are affordable. There are not many people there. He has raised them, but it is not very easy to sell, and now he has decided to return to raising white pigs, so how to manage these dozens of pigs has become a big problem.”
"The black pig's meat is of good quality, tender and juicy, with more obvious marbling and good fat quality. It is much more fragrant than our ordinary pork. I think your conditions are right there, and this kind of pig is also good. If you really want it, I will Go ask that old friend of mine, he still has more than a dozen piglets that haven’t been sold yet, I’ll talk to him, maybe we can get them at a low price.”
"Is this pig easy to raise?"
"I heard from him that it's not as difficult to raise as cattle and sheep." Zhao Zhiming smiled, "I just thought you want to raise livestock? Anyway, raising other things is also raising, and black pigs are also raising. If you raise them well, there are ways to sell them. Going out is also a very profitable business. Your mountain is so big, it is not troublesome to release it in random areas to let them move around."
"That's it, then I'll go back and look up the information, look again, and I'll reply to you tomorrow."
Zhao Danshi went back and told Li Pingyi, the two read the materials all night, Li Ping nodded and said: "Let's raise them, anyway, it's okay to raise a few more pigs, I feel that raising pigs is easier than raising goats. "
"Okay, then I'll ask Uncle Zhizhi to tell his old friend that if the price is right, we'll raise it."
Zhao Danshi couldn't help but feel a little moved when he thought of the smell of the pig introduced online.
If the black pig is well raised, and they have a good food, even if they don't sell it, it's good to keep it at home.
They mainly eat pork now. Although other mutton and beef are delicious, if they eat too much, they are not as tender, fragrant and plump as pork.
Zhao Danshi does not raise goats solely for food. Goats have a very bad habit of uprooting them when grazing, so the places where goats have been raised are prone to no grass.
However, Zhao Danshi liked its characteristics. They don’t use pesticides very well in farming here, and manual weeding is too troublesome. If you raise a group of goats, if there is a lot of grass, you will go there, just to start weeding. The role of assistants.
Of course, during the normal crop planting process, they may not be able to get the goats to remove weeds, but after they have harvested the crops, such as harvesting rice in the rice field, pulling peanuts in the peanut field, and picking watermelons in the watermelon field, they will drive a group of goats away. In the past, it was more effective with less effort.
He is not afraid of not having enough fodder for the goats.He has a lot of forage seeds here, which are specially provided by the Overwatch. If the goats don't have enough forage, he can find a piece of mountain and scatter them, and the forage will grow in ten days.
Speaking of which, goats are easy and helpful. It would not be so troublesome to raise black pigs, except for Ya Zimei, but I guess I have to hire another person to come here.
When he mentioned this trouble, Li Ping immediately said: "Isn't Uncle Wende working in the fields now? He is so old, and his salary is the same as that of Ya Zimei. I think he will be asked to work on the mountains next year." , Herding cattle and sheep, and raising pigs is almost enough, the old man is so old, don't get tired, and it will save you trouble."
"That's true. Let me tell Uncle Zhizhi, let's go and see how the other party's black pig is doing together."
Zhao Danshi has the watch account in his hand, which can detect the status and basic information of the black pig, so he is not afraid of the other party's fraud.
"Let's go together, Doudou hasn't gone out for a long time, take Doudou out for a stroll."
Dou Dou's ears were clear, and he heard their voices on the small bed, and knew that his name was in the voice. He immediately looked forward to the railing and stood up, looking at the two fathers without blinking, "Yeah."
"I just said I would take you to play." Zhao Shanshi reached out and tapped his nose, "Dou Zai, when will you be able to talk? You see, I look forward to the stars and the moon until my hair turns gray. Come on, call Dad."
DouDou tilted his head to look at him, Li Ping laughed beside him and said, "Call me Dad."
Doudou looked at this, then at that, and said inarticulately, "Many."
Zhao Danshi was stunned, looked at his saliva, looked at Li Ping, then looked at Xiao Doudou in front of him, "Did he call dad just now?!"
Li Ping was also not sure, he coaxed Doudou in a warm voice, "Doudou is good, call again, call Dad."
DouDou sprayed a mouthful of saliva, "Many!"
After yelling, he giggled and kicked his little feet on the crib.
Zhao Danshi resisted the urge to pick out his ears, "Hey, he seems to be able to scream?"
After finishing speaking, Zhao Shanshi lamented again, fell on Li Ping's shoulder, and said dejectedly, "I've been teaching him for so long, Dad, how did he learn it first?"
Small depression is small depression, Doudou's voice coaxed the two silly fathers into joy.
Zhao Danshi took his bag out to play the next day, and they didn't go anywhere else, they just wandered around the county town.
It's been a long time since I went to the shop in the county seat, so the two of them simply took a tour of the shop.
The weather has turned cold and DouDou has grown up a lot. The thick clothes that Zhao Danshi bought for DouDou are no longer suitable for them. They still have to go to the county town to buy clothes.
DouDou liked to join in the fun, and was very happy to come to the county town. He looked around all the way and saw a lot of things. Zhao Danshi bought him a hydrogen balloon and tied it on his wrist.He flicked his wrists, concentrating on playing with the balloon the whole time.
"Dou Zai, let's go to the movies."
Zhao Danshi became interested, and turned to look at Li Ping, "Brother, haven't we seen a movie together before?"
Ordinary people’s dating procedure is to watch movies and eat, but now they are completely reversed, they only come out to watch movies when they are already married.
"It's because I haven't been to the cinema to watch movies. Let's go to the movies, what are we watching?"
At this time of year and season, there are not many good movies to watch, so Zhao Danshi and Li Ping went back and forth to choose, and finally chose a theatrical version of the animation.
"Yeah." Doudou looked at the colorful screens and moved back and forth excitedly. Zhao Danshi hissed him and kissed his little cheek, "Let's keep our voices down."
Li Ping hugged DouDou into his arms, patted him on the back, looked at the picture on the screen, and quickly calmed down.
The two of them went to the bookstore to buy books after watching the movie. They were newbies in agriculture, so they had to read books in many places, and they also gained a lot after reading the books.
So far, both of them have very good reading habits. Zhao Danshi and Li Ping read books for a while every night. Now that they have finished reading the books on the shelf, they have to go to the bookstore to buy another batch.
Doudou is almost one year old, and when he can read children's picture books, Zhao Shanshi intends to see if there are any suitable picture books for him.
They walked around the county town and came back with a lot of rewards.
Yao Jingming felt a little sour. He pretended to be sad and said: "Seeing you guys having so much fun, in contrast, we are living a boring life here. Single dogs have suffered a ton of damage."
"It's not that exaggerated, Senior Brother Yao, what do you want to eat tomorrow, I'll do it."
"Can you eat anything?" Yao Jingming rolled his eyes, "Didn't you say that you are going to buy a pig? Or how about buying a little suckling pig and making a roast suckling pig? I haven't eaten roast suckling pig for a long time. I want to eat that .”
Zhao Shanshi thought for a while, "It's okay to roast suckling pig. We often eat pork, and it's nothing special, and roasting it doesn't give you any special feeling. How about we roast a kid? It's cold now, and it's time to eat sheep. When mending the body, the goats are piled up and roasted in the yard for seven or eight hours, and when the goats are roasted, we will eat goats while drinking at night, just to celebrate the opening of the terraced fields on the mountain, how about it?"
"That's a good idea." Yao Jingming and Peng Yuyun agreed with both hands.
Zhao Shanshi immediately called Zhao Mingming and asked him to help get a kid tomorrow.
Zhao Zhiming said with emotion, "You really know how to eat. Didn't you mean to go to see pigs, or else we went to see pigs tomorrow and brought back some goats and pigs by the way. In that case, which one do you want to roast?"
"Sure, then let's go over with you tomorrow to have a look. Have you made an appointment with him, won't it be too abrupt for us to go so rashly?"
"It's an appointment. There are so many rules in the country. I will take you to visit tomorrow."
Early the next morning, Li Ping and Zhao Shanshi went out.
They don't need to pick the vegetables in the field anymore, they will take care of the spoons, they just need to confirm that the vegetables have been delivered to the shop, and then Peng Yuyun will reconcile them.
Zhao Zhiming drove a tricycle in front, and they drove a small car in the back until they reached a place called Youshan.
Zhao Zhiming introduced that this family name is Liu, and he has been raising sheep for many years.
The family that raises pigs is also in this town, and they also built a mountain to raise pigs.
"I'll take you there later. Buy the sheep first, right? You told me you want [-] sheep, right? I've already told the host that he happens to have lambs, so go and pick them out."
Zhao Danshi and Li Ping followed Zhao Mingming into a family who had been waiting for them for a long time. When they saw Zhao Danshi and Li Ping, they greeted them warmly, poured them tea, and brought them After eating, seeing Xiao Doudou sleeping in Zhao Shanshi's arms, the male host asked kindly: "Your child looks really good. How old is it?"
"Almost a year old."
"I heard that in addition to buying sheep, you also want to buy cows that produce milk. The purpose of raising cows is to give this child milk, right?"
"Yes." Zhao Shanshi smiled, "Drink more fresh milk, the child will grow up well."
They haven't found the cow yet, but now they only found the sheep and the pig. Hearing something from the master's words, Zhao Danshi smiled, "Could it be that you have connections?"
"I do know a few families that raise cattle, but now is not the time to buy cattle, and they don't have cows or cows to sell. I think if you really want to feed the baby milk, why don't you feed him some goat milk first? I There are several milking ewes here, as well as lambs, and if you get it right, goat milk is as good as cow milk."
Zhao Danshi was really interested when he heard it. He didn't answer, but just smiled, "Then let me see first, and if it's suitable, I'll bring a milk-producing ewe there."
The male owner’s eyes lit up when he heard the joke, “One sheep may not be enough to drink, and one milk-producing sheep may have no milk in half a year. You can buy two more sheep? Then buy a ram, so that the sheep will keep producing lambs, and they will be able to Keep producing milk. Of course, this is just a suggestion, just listen to it, and if you like it, you can come and take a closer look.”
Zhao Shanshi said why he was so enthusiastic, and he still wanted to do business, so he smiled, "Let's see where your sheep pen is first? Let's go to the sheep pen, and I will pick it myself?"
At the same time, Zhao Shanshi said to Watchman in his mind: "This time it's up to you, please wait a moment and scan which sheep is in good health, and tell me when the scan is complete, I mainly look at lambs. "
The Watchman answered in his mind, gearing up his fists and said: "Sure, just wait, I will help you pick out the best lambs in the sheepfold."
The male host also said cheerfully: "No problem, I will take you to the sheep pen to have a look. My sheep are usually raised on the mountain, but they are healthy and strong, and they are well adapted to the environment and climate here. I The meat sheep raised, if you buy them back and raise them well, they can grow in a year, um, about seventy or eighty catties of meat."
"Mutton is not cheap now. It costs four to fifty yuan a catty. Raising a flock of sheep can earn you a lot of money throughout the year. If you raise them well, you can sell lambs as well as me like me. "
"It's good to raise well, but my place is not big, and I need
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