clang farming notes

Selling vegetables is actually easy to talk about. If you have that patience, you can drive to Jinyang City and sell them scattered, and you can sell them for a few dollars. A little bit, but don't worry, and don't need to show your face to do business.Nowadays, there are more and more vendors in Jinyang City. The more people there are, the more food there will be.I don't worry about selling it.

But, no matter what, we still have to wait for the rest of the village to collect them and get a charter together. Don't do it one by one, which will make things wrong, which will hurt the harmony of the villagers, which is not worth it.

There is no need to rush this matter, these few days, Zhao Ba and the others are busy building a pig's nest behind their heads.

It turned out that Fang Sheng took the matter of being a veterinarian to heart after Du Zhongping said it that time, and his family members all supported him. Du An Du Zhongping also helped Qin to inquire when shopping. Lamb and calf or something, just come back and tell him.It's just that most people raise pigs, and they give birth to piglets in the early spring. Now it's time to grow up and make them easier to feed, so most people won't sell them.Sheep, cows, etc. are generally raised by themselves, and they can only make money when they grow up and sell them.

After inquiring for a long time, there was no suitable one, and Fang Sheng was a little discouraged.It happened that there was a family where the sow gave birth to a litter of six piglets. Because the weather is hot now, it is difficult to feed the newborn piglets. They don’t need many people and they can’t raise so many piglets. So I heard Said that there was someone in Qingniu Village who wanted it, so he came to the door.Not only that, I was afraid that Fang Sheng would not want it, so I lowered the price, only a little, and hoped that Fang Sheng would catch a few more, preferably three or four.

Fang Sheng was a little embarrassed, he just wanted to try raising a pig, and didn't expect to make money from raising pigs.Moreover, even if he has never raised it, he knows it. It is already June, and the pig is not big enough for the New Year. It is definitely not enough to eat this year.It’s better in summer and autumn. You can feed the pigs with endless vegetables in the yard, or some grass outside. In the old autumn and winter, you can only feed food and so on. It’s really not worthwhile to raise so many pigs. .

In the end, it was Zhao Ba who made the decision, and he would only take three heads, and not want any more.The man also agreed, which is also very good, if you can sell one end, it counts as one end.

It's just that I have never raised pigs at home, and there is no pigsty yet. I have agreed with others to take a few days to get them when the pigsty is built.

This pigsty definitely can't be placed in the front yard, the two families are so close, the book on the other side is loud and fragrant, but the pigs on this side are whimpering and stinking to the sky?Just thinking about it makes people twitch, it's really not an ordinary dissonance.Even if we can't help with the scholar's affairs, we can't hold back.Moreover, people in the village always like to come and go around twice from time to time when the children are studying. There are many people from outside the village on market days.

The backyard is quite big, but almost all the places are planted with vegetables.Ruthlessly, I chose the last place near the courtyard wall in the northwest corner, far away from the house, separated by vegetable fields and fruit trees, and the smell is not so strong.At that time, a back door will be opened on the back wall, and the feces will be transported directly from the back when cleaning up, so the impact will not be great.

The pigsty doesn't need to be very good, just close to the wall, and then the east and south walls will do. It doesn't need to be too high, it's about the same as Zhao Ba's waist.There is a door in the middle of the east wall, which is convenient for feeding and watering.It's just that we have to build a shed to protect against rain and snow, and to have a cool place in hot weather.The ground was compacted, and I bought a pig trough from a mason, and put some hay in it, and that was it.

Fang Sheng was in high spirits and kept busy following along.After finishing the work, he went directly to the backyard of Du's house and dug a well to wash.The well water was cool, and Zhao Ba poured it on his head directly, and shouted happily.Duane didn't dare to be like him, but he also took a cloth towel and soaked it in water to scrub.Only Fang Sheng was dragged to the front yard by Du Zhongping, and washed with the water that had been drying for a long time. The water was already warm, and neither of them found it satisfying.

Now every morning, the Du family took two big basins and put them in the yard, and put the well water in the sun. In the evening, the water was just warm enough to bathe Jin'er, and the two big ones were enough for wiping.Fang Sheng thought it was good when he saw it, so he did it himself. Although Zhao Ba is not afraid of the cold, it feels good to be thought of by Fang Sheng. He washes it with this warm water every night.

While sitting and breathing, Du Zhongping brought melons that had been splashed with well water. This is a local variety. Although it is small in size, it has thin skin and is particularly sweet and crisp. It quenches thirst when eaten cold.Recently, Du Zhongping prefers this one. Every time he meets someone who sells it, he has to buy it for about ten catties, which makes the seller always come to Du's house, shouting back and forth.

It's just that Jin'er can't eat too much, or he won't have diarrhea easily, so the adults in the family take advantage of him to go out to play secretly.

After a few days, the little pigs were already plump when they were brought back. They were all black and white pigs, and they looked very cute.It is also because the sows in this litter have fewer babies and have enough milk, so the piglets grow well.Now I took it back and put it in the nest. Xu Shi came to an unfamiliar environment, a little uneasy, and they all groaned and chirped, their little noses arched from time to time.

It was Fang Sheng's first time raising it, so naturally he had to be more cautious. He deliberately left a pot and set up a stove near the pig's nest in the backyard. He cooked the bran that he had at home with some chopped vegetables before putting it in the pig trough.Seeing that the piglets had been eaten, and there was nothing abnormal, he felt relieved.

After raising these pigs for a few days, Du Zhongping felt some benefits.The vegetables in the yard grow fast, and the family can’t eat them all, and they will get old in a few days. Every family has them, and they can’t even give them away. Now they pick them up, cut them, cut them, and feed them to the pigs. Nothing is wasted.After all, it is a vegetable that I planted by myself. It is a pity not to say that it was thrown away for nothing. It is really a bit distressing.He wanted to dry it and save it for winter, but he was told that the dried vegetables could not be kept in the dog days, and they would grow hairs and become moldy. It would take the beginning of autumn anyway, so he was relieved when the vegetables had a place to go. tone.He even thought about planting some water spinach for Fang Sheng. Once the water spinach was cut, it would grow back in a few days. Unlike leeks, pigs would not eat it. It would be best to feed pigs.In the future, when the pig grows up, the food intake will definitely increase. Why can't Brother Sheng go out to hunt pigweed with the children?

Duane is also very happy, now he is more and more able to live, and he can cook a lot, but there will always be some leftovers, which will go bad in a hot day, just for the pigs to eat.

Jin'er is also happy, other people's family raises something, but his own family does not, and now he raises three pigs at one go, and among the children who play with him, no one raises so many pigs!He felt very proud. After class these days, he took a few good ones to the backyard to watch. He also said that he and Erzhu would hunt pigweed to feed them, which would definitely make them fat. fat.Fang Sheng accepted with a smile. If he really brought back the grass, he would feed it in for real, and he would not disappoint the child's heart.

After two days in a row, Jin'er came back with the grass, her face flushed from the sun, and Fang Sheng couldn't bear it anymore.Although it is normal for five or six-year-old children in the countryside to help the family with some pigweed, and adults will praise a few words such as "really sensible" or "really worry-free, it is easy to live", but that is someone else's home child.If you put it on your own baby, you will only feel distressed.To put it bluntly, tell Jin'er that the vegetable pigs at home can't be eaten up, and the waiting is not enough, so I must tell him that it's hard to coax him.

Du Zhongping saw that the days were getting longer and the weather was getting hotter and hotter, so he left Jin'er at home to take a nap at noon, and let him go out when the sun was westward and the heat was not so hot.He boiled mung bean soup every day, let it cool for him to drink, even his own students who often came to Jin'er to play, everyone had a share, so as to relieve the summer heat.

He reciprocated, you know, when I was a child, I didn't have that much patience, even if it took a day or two to play with children who were so much younger than me, I would get impatient if the days went by.But the kid Dazhu took Jin'er out to play almost every day, and he wasn't impatient at all. Now that Jin'er is running around with them, he eats more, grows taller, and has a stronger body. Du Zhongping appreciates this very much, and always treats them very well, and if there is anything to eat, they will always have their portion.

This is true for everyone, if you treat me well, I will pay you back three points.Dazhu led a few children, and while they were playing by the river, they cleared up several acres of rice fields in the Du family.This half-child is used to doing farm work at home, so doing this is a smooth thing.Listening to what Du Zhongping said about toads eating bugs and fish fertilizing the fields, I also took it to heart. When I was playing with the water, I caught big fish and took them home to add vegetables. I threw all the small fish into the rice fields. I caught them in early summer. Tadpoles and little toads were also thrown in.It's also due to the good location of the Du family's rice fields. The river turns an elbow there, and the current is gentle, which is most suitable for fish and shrimp.

Duan also knows how to be a human being. The students helped with the work, and sometimes he would clean up fish, shrimps, loaches, etc., and help to get fried delicious food to satisfy these children's mouths.Ordinary people take loach and just stew tofu or something, how can it compare with this, the coaxed children are getting better and better towards Jin'er.

Seeing that vegetables had been planted in the potato field, Lizheng finally called everyone to the open space in the village to discuss it. Most of the people were willing to sell the surplus vegetables together, saving The wind and the sun suffer.Besides, if the potatoes are well placed, they can be put in the spring of the next year, and we can slowly find someone with a suitable price to harvest them.

But Ding Sangou in the village has a strong family with few laborers. He has a lame elder brother and an elderly mother.It's just that he had a bad fight with the big guys when he was hunting last autumn, and now no one agrees with him, which makes him look a bit pitiful.

That Ding Sangou was also willing to show his face, seeing that he was ignored by others, he went to pester Lizheng after they were gone.He was thinking that he had no skills, and his mother and elder brother were even more unreliable. Now that he was almost 30 years old, he didn't even have a daughter-in-law.Taking advantage of the opportunity of selling vegetables, it would be good to get a little more money, maybe I can also buy a daughter-in-law from the mountains.Just how many catties of vegetables can I have at home?How much can you sell it for?I just thought that other people in the village would give him the vegetables to sell.

Li Zheng was so entangled by him, but he also knew that the villagers might not trust him.It's just that what he said is also reasonable, he really doesn't have much food, and he can't sell it for much money.In fact, he also allocated a lot of land at the beginning, but later sold some of it for his mother and his brother.The family has a small labor force and is poor. Not to mention hiring people to work, even if they exchange jobs, no one wants to call him: everyone else works for someone else, and that family provides food, and the workers eat. If he goes to the house, if he goes to help others and contributes one labor, the three of them go to eat, and it is his family's turn to provide food, not to mention delicious food, there are even pickle sticks.

As a result, no one wants to be with him, and his family's land becomes worse and worse, the family becomes poorer, and people become more stingy. In Du Zhongping's words, it is a vicious circle.

Lizheng also annoyed him a little bit, and felt sorry for his filial piety, but even though he was Lizheng, he couldn't be the master of other people's family, so he could only tell him to sell his family's small dishes first, so as to save some money. , if he really does a good job in business, Lizheng will go to help and talk about it, who is not selling?If the business is not done well, then naturally there is nothing to say.

It's just that Ding Sangou's family is not much better if they don't talk about poverty. Jinyang City is not too far away from here, but it takes two hours to drive. He doesn't have any livestock at home, which is also a worry.It's just that even Lizheng didn't dare to lend him his family's livestock, so in the end he only lent him some money and asked him to rent a donkey elsewhere to make do with it.