Ye Cheng

The TV was smashed. Luo Yueling and Cai Jinzhi went back after talking a few words. Qian Shouwan didn't say anything, but his face was not very good. This TV was smashed as soon as it was smashed. Who doesn't feel sorry for it? ?The children were originally quite excited, but now their minds have calmed down.

"Brother, grandma is angry."

"It will be fine after few days."

"A lot of money."

"fine."

"Brother, I want to go out with you to make money."

"Row."

This winter, Ye Ping didn't go to other people's houses to play anymore. Every day, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan got up early every day. After breakfast, they brought their lunch. The three of them shared a bicycle. Ping squeezed in behind, and rode to the town with a sigh of relief, where the three dolls were placed in a stall.

Ye Cheng and the others don't spend much time in the village every day, but the people in the village talk about his family's affairs every day. Some say that they are really angry, and some say that they have too much temper, but it probably means the same thing. This child without a father or a mother is hugging like a wolf cub.

The Chinese New Year will be gone in a blink of an eye, and by then, Luo Yueling and the others will no longer be so angry. In addition, Ye Cheng did well in the final exam this year, with full marks in both subjects. This is not common in schools in the mountains. I heard that the schools in the town There were not many, so they all felt that their faces were bright, and they felt that this child was still sensible after all, so they were somewhat relieved.

In the first month of the second year, a duck seller came to the town, and the stall was placed not far from the alley where Ye Cheng and his men repaired shoes. At the beginning, Ye Ping went to look at the ducks when she had nothing to do, and heard that the duck seller told people to raise them. No matter how good the ducks are, how can they lay eggs? After a long time, he pestered Ye Cheng to buy ducks for her to raise.

Since the incident last time, she has been focused on making money, but when she came to town with Ye Cheng and the others, she found that she couldn't help at all except for occasional errands.Although a little frustrated, but because she didn't want to stay in the village, she still came to the town every day. Now that she heard that raising ducks can make money, how can she not be tempted.

Ye Cheng didn't agree at first. Raising ducks is not an easy task. After all, Ye Ping was only seven years old. Although he had been begging for a year of food and learned how to repair shoes when he was seven years old, Ye Cheng always treated his younger sister. Just treat him like a little girl who needs to be taken care of.

Then one day the duck seller came to Ye Cheng's shoe repair stand to repair shoes, and Ye Ping asked him about ducks. None of the children have parents, so with a big wave of his hand, aren't they just a few ducklings, give them away.

The man's surname was Chen, and he was the third eldest in the family. Everyone called him Chen San.He first gave Ye Ping ten small ducks. He said that the ducks were small, but they laid a lot of eggs, and the salted duck eggs were delicious.

Taking advantage of the gap between shoe repairs, Chen San told Ye Ping a lot of duck raising skills, how to raise ducks to grow fast, how to raise healthy eggs so that they will have more eggs, what to do when the weather is dry, what to do when it rains In general, Ye Ping listened carefully from the side.

From then on, Ye Ping no longer went to town with her brother, but raised ducks at home. Cai Jinzhi treated them like children playing around in the beginning. It was given by someone else, so she can keep it if she likes it, so as not to pester his brother every day and delay their work.

But she didn't expect that the ten mallard ducks were raised by her to look good. After half a month, none of them died, but they grew a lot in size, and their feathers were all smooth and shiny.Ye Ping usually keeps them in the yard, and takes them for a swim in the creek when she has nothing to do. At the beginning, the ducks were disobedient and always ran around, causing her to chase after them. Waving a small bamboo stick, the ducks will go wherever she points.

Later, Cai Jinzhi, Qian Shouwan and the others decided to start a business together. Since Ye Ping could raise ducks, she might as well let her raise them. Ye Cheng's family originally had a small paddy field by the stream. Last year it was still Qian Shouwan's planting, this year he simply gave it up and gave it to Ye Ping to raise ducks. .

So Ye Cheng's family bought forty ducklings from Chen San. The team of ducks expanded. Ye Ping was very happy. Chen San said that with so many ducks, when they grow up, they can lay many duck eggs. Salted duck eggs cost at least 25 cents each, and her fifty ducks can produce [-] yuan a day.

Ye Cheng would start school soon, so he could only help out a little when he came back from school. When it was raining and he didn't set up a stall, Lu Mingyuan would help Ye Ping watch the ducks at home.

They dug a small puddle in the yard. The children dug the puddle when they were free. He dug the puddle deeper and deeper until it was nearly one meter high. Then he pulled the water pipe at home to pour water into it. It took several days to fill it up.Qian Shouwan also helped to build a shed by the puddle. When the sun is high, the ducks can enjoy the shade under the shed.

In this way, instead of going to the stream to release the ducks, it's okay to just lock them up in the yard for a day, and the ducks won't feel too uncomfortable, but Ye Ping will drive them out to swim and eat some aquatic plants and shrimps in the stream.And the paddy field vacated by Qian Shouwan was full of water hyacinths, which were grown very well. Ye Cheng and the others randomly pulled some from the pond in the neighboring village, and the whole field grew in a short time. Be full.

When it comes to raising ducks, anything is good, that is, Ye Cheng’s yard is mixed with duck manure. Qian Shouwan would come here to scrape it from time to time. Qian Shouwan would come here every day for the water in that small pond. Pick a few loads, these things are good fertilizers, with long-lasting fertility, which can better improve the soil quality.

The only downside is that it is too smelly. Even if there is a pigsty in the yard of ordinary people, it is not as smelly as a large group of ducks in their house.But I got used to the stinky smell. Anyway, among the three children in their family, none of them felt that the smell was intolerable. They should eat and sleep, and how to live their lives.

It’s just that these ducks are so edible. At the beginning, Ye Cheng just bought some cheap coarse grains and old millet from other people in the village. Later, they bought almost all the ducks in their village, so Ye Cheng had to go to the nearby villages with Cai Jinzhi to find them. Fortunately, there is no shortage of these things in the countryside.

Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan would go home every day to pick a large basket of water hyacinths from the paddy fields. When the ducks saw the water hyacinths, they would flap their wings and hop around. If they caught them, they would hide aside and eat them. Unfortunately, there were too many ducks. The place is too small to hide anywhere, so a duck ran with a water hyacinth leaf in its mouth, swallowing it while running, while several ducks behind it chased after it, flapping their feet.

The three children gathered around the fence to watch, enjoying themselves while watching, Huizi followed suit, with their heads tilted, and they looked quite seriously.

Chen San is an old duck farmer in this area. His family not only sells ducklings, but also meat ducks and duck eggs. At that time, the trade between various places was not as active as it was later, so he didn’t sell many ducklings. Basically, it is to increase income in the spring. If there are too many ducks sold, there will be more duck farmers in this area, and the price will also be affected.

When he was still setting up a stall, he would chat with Ye Cheng and the others if he had nothing to do. Anyway, stalls are right for stalls, and when everyone has nothing to do, what can they do if they don't chat.The old duck farmer's experience is naturally rich, and if he casually revealed something, it would be enough for Ye Cheng and the others to digest it for a while.

Chen San said that ducks that eat earthworms can lay eggs, and earthworms can be raised, and the earthworms can be raised with retting manure, and the top should be shaded and watered frequently.The soil left over from raising earthworms is used to fertilize the field, tsk tsk, no fertilizer can compare to that.

After Ye Cheng got the scriptures, he told Qian Shouwan when he got home. Qian Shouwan has ready-made fertilizers. If you want to raise earthworms, you can raise earthworms. Anyway, the more you raise the fertilizer, the fatter it will be, and no one will lose.

Half of Ye Cheng's big yard has been used to raise ducks, and the other half is now going to be used to raise earthworms. After all, it is his own yard. Afraid that earthworms will burrow around, they first spread a layer of plastic under the ground. The film is also surrounded by old bricks in the village to build a few low layers.Spread the fertilizer that Qian Xingliang jumped over, and dug some earthworms from the field and put them in, and then built a shelf on it, and planted a few bergamots, gourds, loofahs, and pumpkins on the side.

In this way, there is basically no open space in the yard of Ye Cheng's house. There is a large shelf on the left, earthworms are raised under the shelf, a small pond on the right, a duck shed against the wall, and a laundry pond next to the house. Huizi's nest was also moved there. In order to prevent the moisture, several children built a tall building for it.

Huizi liked it quite a bit. Standing on a high-storied building and looking down at the ducks below, it probably felt quite good.

The chayote loofah vines grew up quickly, and covered half of the yard along the shelf. When the pumpkins in the yard bloomed with large golden flowers, the ducks of Ye Cheng's family finally started to lay eggs one after another. Yes, fifty ducks, the number of duck eggs laid is still very impressive.

Ducks have a good habit of laying eggs. Ye Cheng and the others make the duck shed dry and limp every day. Ducks lay eggs in the duck shed at night, and they can pick up a lot the next morning, unlike hens , the time for laying eggs is not fixed, and the place where eggs are laid needs to be guided many times to form a habit.

It just so happened that those earthworms had been raised for two months, and it was time to harvest them. Every morning, Ye Cheng and the others went out after breakfast, and Ye Ping took a pair of chopsticks and squatted under the loofah stand to pick up the soil and start digging. Earthworms, pick the big ones, pick a small bucket and bring it to the edge of the fence, use a broken kitchen knife that is not at home to break the chopping board, chop them up one by one, and throw them into the fence.

The ducks have grown up now. The fence was not very short before, but it is not too high now. There are a few ducks that are more powerful and can fly out with a flap of wings. For this matter, Ye Cheng and the others have been busy. Well, it was not easy to catch those ducks, and when I caught them, I cut off the longest and hardest feathers on their wings.

Ye Ping was outside chopping up earthworms while throwing them in, and the ducks were flopping and snatching food inside. I think these ducks could only chirp when they first bought them back. It sounds pitiful, and they are too small to walk When they used to be able to walk and fall, but now they are fine, their heads have grown, their mouths are hard and sharp, and they will attack each other with their mouths when grabbing food, and they scream fiercely.

After feeding the earthworms and coarse grains, I did a couple of casual jobs, and the whole morning was over. The lunch was left by Ye Cheng in the morning. She brought it out and sat in the yard, watching the ducks while eating. Her duck eggs already had one The baskets are ready, Cai Jinzhi said that after two days, get a big water tank to pickle the duck eggs, but hearing that it takes a month to pickle the salted duck eggs, Ye Ping feels that she is getting closer to making money.

After lunch, Qian Shouwan came over to pick fat. First, he scraped away the straw in the yard that was trampled wet and soft by the ducks, and Ye Ping brought clean straw from the backyard and laid it on. It also belongs to her uncle's family. Every year when the rice is harvested, there is a lot of straw left over.

After a while Qian Shouwan dug some soil out of the field where the earthworms were raised, filled in some new fertilizer, and finally took a few loads of water from the small pond in the yard of Ye Cheng's house.

Ye Ping waited for his uncle to leave, and pulled the water pipe at home to pour water into the pool. After such a replacement, the originally muddy pool water seemed much cleaner.Ye Cheng and the others would bring pebbles back from the stream almost every day and spread them under and around the pond, so the pond in front of their house was much cleaner than before.

After three o'clock in the afternoon, Ye Ping drove the ducks out, and Huizi followed. Now the ducks knew their way, as long as she opened the gate of the fence and the yard, the ducks would fight for each other. Xiang rushed out in panic, twisting his buttocks and walking towards the creek.

When they got to the creek, Ye Ping drove the ducks into their paddy field first. As the temperature rose, the water hyacinths in that paddy field grew wildly, and the ducks also grew up. Ye Cheng and the others stopped picking ducks as before. Instead, she asked Ye Ping to drive the ducks over and let them flop around in it. Anyway, the water hyacinth is very powerful, and no matter how much the ducks tossed about, it still grew well.

When the ducks were almost eaten, they came out of the paddy field one after another. At this time, Ye Ping was going to count. Although she hadn't gone to school yet, she was very fluent in counting and addition and subtraction. Every night when Ye Cheng and the others came back, Lu Mingyuan would take out the harvest of the day and count it. If there was a lot of money, it would be good to count it.

Ducks love to swim, and often bury their heads under the water to find food. Sometimes they can find some small shrimps and loaches in the aquatic plants beside the stream, not many, and there are also crabs, but The crabs in the creek are small and timid, and they basically hide under the rocks and cannot come out.

The ducks swam endlessly, and refused to go home until it was dark. After a while, Ye Cheng and the others came back, and Lu Mingyuan and Lu Mingyuan rode bicycles to the creek to play with Ye Ping for a while, and picked up some pebbles. Let's go back to cook first, while Ye Ping waits for dark with the ducks by the stream.

Basically, when the sun goes down and the sky starts to get dark, the ducks will go to the bank to shake the water and start heading home. If Ye Ping wants to drive them back before this time, it will not be easy.In the past, Ye Ping didn't know, so she made a lot of troubles, but now she has figured out the way, and sat on the field ridge by herself, and waited for the ducks to go home by themselves, and then followed Huizi slowly, saving effort.

Ducks like to move in groups, as long as they don't fall behind, they will basically never get lost. When the ducks return to the yard, Ye Cheng has already prepared dinner.