Back To The Beginning Of Ming To Do Charity

Raising pigs is a troublesome job. Pigs can basically eat anything, but in the era when there was no fertilizer, it was very difficult to grow meat. Farmers always hunted pigweed, and fed some bran if possible. From spring to autumn, if there were milk vegetables, they would pull them out. For pigs to eat, milk sorrel is dandelion, which grows for a long time, but there are many refugees now, and when spring comes, they will probably be pulled out and eaten by refugees.

Now that Lin Yuan raises pigs, he feeds pigs grass and bean dregs.

Now bean dregs are also a good thing. While people feel distressed, they hope that pigs can grow more meat.

Some half-sized children, such as Erliang and Gouzi, would go to the river ditch to catch snails and feed them to pigs.

Because they were gelded, the two pigs were not very lively. As for whether they had grown meat, Lin Yuan couldn't tell in a short time.

Erliang and Gouzi both like these pigs, but Erliang still has to serve Lin Yuan, so Gouzi usually goes with the person in charge of the pigs to hunt pigweed.

Erliang was fine, so the two of them went to touch the snails together.

Lin Yuan is actually very greedy for snails, but now there are no spices, only oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, the snails still have an earthy smell, no one wants to eat them, unlike modern times, some chili oil, bean paste, and millet spicy And scallions and ginger, and some soy sauce. After frying for a while, add water to stuff them. It's not fragrant.

However, no one eats this stuff now.

Not so hungry that no one will eat it.

But don't pick the pigs, as long as they have something to eat, Lin Yuan will go to see them every half a month. After all, he is also very greedy for meat. After seeing the pigs four or five times, he is sure that the pigs are not bad, so Lin Yuan is relieved.

As for what they eat to grow meat, Lin Yuan still hasn't figured it out. Now that the conditions are not enough, it would be good to be able to raise these pigs for a year.

If it really takes two or three years, Lin Yuan can only decide not to raise pigs.

In addition to pigs, I also bought more than 20 chickens during this period. Ten hens lay eggs, one breeder chicken, and the others are broiler chickens. They are eaten when they grow up. The chickens are hatched by the hens themselves. It is luck to hatch. Well, failure to hatch is also normal.

A hen lays one egg a day, and sometimes, with luck, some hens can lay two.

Eggs can be stored for a period of time, so they are basically stored for a week, so that everyone can share a few eggs, and good performance will get more shares.

As for the poor performers--not at all.

They all cherish the present life, they have food to eat when they work, and the landlords do not deduct their rations.

If they are lazy and make the landlord angry and drive them out, they will know what life the people outside have.

Lin Yuan has been very free recently. He has nothing to do, so he started teaching people how to read, all of which are simplified characters.

Traditional Chinese characters are still difficult. Most people start from elementary school and want to study, and they have to start learning from the age of three or four, and memorize them by rote.

Lin Yuan felt that it was too difficult to teach them traditional characters. After all, if he did not have the memory of his original body, he would only be able to read and not write traditional characters.

Simplified characters with simple strokes are very convenient and suitable for low-level people to learn.

In ancient times, the threshold for studying was high. In addition to the high price of the four treasures of the study, there was Shuxiu. The ancients paid attention to being a teacher for one day and being a father for life. When the master is old, the disciples have to provide for him.

The cost of studying is also too high.

Knowing that the owner wants to teach them to read and write, everyone can't understand.

"What words do you recognize?"

"I have never seen a farmer who can read."

"That is, our ancestors have been illiterate for generations, so they are also alive?"

Some people were impatient: "You have to tell the boss about this."

"Why don't you go?"

"Why should I go?"

"Then I'm not going either."

Lin Yuan taught Chinese characters by drawing on the wall with burnt sticks, and the teaching was simple: "This is the word of mouth, which is the shape of the mouth."

This is simple.

"Just one circle! How convenient!"

"Hey, I can also read?"

"I remember, I will definitely write!"

Lin Yuan taught again: "This is a "human", without a head and arms, but with two legs."

Because what Lin Yuan taught were very simple characters, which were easy to memorize, which gave them a lot of confidence. As long as they felt that it was not difficult to recognize characters, their resistance would be less. Three hundred words is enough for daily use.

During domestic literacy campaigns back then, those who knew less than [-] characters were considered illiterate, and those who knew more than [-] characters and less than [-] characters were considered semi-literate.

Literacy is impossible, Lin Yuan felt that he was not that capable.

However, among these people, there are indeed those who can read quickly, and it is true that literacy also requires talent.

The weather is getting hotter, and there are wild beasts in the mountains and forests. Brother Dao takes a small team to set traps every day, and there are often harvests. When the harvest is the greatest, he hunts a wild goat and a small deer, which are slaughtered on the same day. , the weather is hot and can’t be put, all the internal organs are eaten on the same day, the general meat is made into bacon, and the other half is used to cook a hodgepodge.

Fishers can catch more than ten fish every day. These fish have never been saved. Basically, they are eaten on the same day they are caught, but they are smaller and have more thorns. After Lin Yuan got stuck four times, he gave up eating fish and only drank fish soup.

"I don't know how Wucheng is doing now." Lin Yuan said suddenly.

Jiang Gui was weaving straw sandals and bamboo baskets at the side. He was very agile and quick to learn, and now he was able to weave by himself. He raised his head and said without expression: "When I left, there was a fire in Wucheng. It should be burned." It's probably all burned."

At that time, no one was going to fight the fire, either fleeing for their lives or looting.

"It's probably already a dead city." Jiang Gui finished weaving a straw sandal, "Even if there are still people, they must hide."

"But it won't last long. There is no food in the city."

Lin Yuan whispered, "Brother Jiang, I want to go back to Wucheng next spring."

Jiang Gui was startled: "What are you doing there!"

Lin Yuan: "Anyway, there are city walls, and there are fertile fields in the city."

Jiang Gui rolled his eyes: "If the city wall is to work, can there still be refugees rushing in?"

Lin Yuan sighed: "The city wall can also be repaired."

Jiang Gui didn't think so: "You need people to build the city wall, but where are the people now? Even if women and children go, there are not enough people."

Lin Yuan: "There are still so many refugees."

Jiang Gui sighed: "I know you feel pity for them, but refugees are not easy to educate, and they cannot be reasonable."

Lin Yuan also sighed.

Jiang Gui put a pair of straw sandals aside, and said to Lin Yuan, "Fourth brother, there is a way."

Lin Yuan: "What method?"

"Anyway, you just want the city wall, and we can do it here." Jiang Gui said sincerely.

Lin Yuan slapped his hands: "Brother Jiang, it makes sense, I have to think about it."

After Lin Yuan left, Jiang Gui stroked his chin.

Jiang Gui thought silently: "Silly brother, if you go to Wucheng to build the city wall, there will be no one there, so there will be people here?"

You can't buy blue bricks now, if you dig stones to build, relying on this few people, you can build them in a hundred years?