Chapter 52 Uninvited

Chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, and pigs are the most basic poultry for rural people. Times are different now, and the countryside is also advancing with the times. Many farmers do not raise pigs, cattle, or sheep. If you go out to work, you usually raise some chickens and ducks. After all, you don’t raise any livestock, so it doesn’t feel like home.

Lejia also raises chickens, with an average of about six or seven, sometimes more than a dozen. When they grow up, they are sold or slaughtered during festivals. They are slaughtered or sold first. Most of them are roosters, and the hens are left to lay eggs. The eggs can be eaten by yourself or sold on the street.

Le’s family originally had twelve chickens, but one was slaughtered during the Dragon Boat Festival. Le’s father sold two of them a few days ago, and there are nine left, one breeding rooster, seven hens, and one Small cock of medium size.

In the morning, Leyun sent her father, who had a bit of a domineering tendency, to work. She took chicken food and went to the pig pen behind the house to feed the chickens. The domestic chickens were fed corn, rice, and sometimes cooked. Feed the pigs.

The rice is not yet mature, so chickens and ducks are allowed to roam freely during this season. They can be let out during the day and allowed to run wherever they want. In the evening, they will return to their pens and need to be kept for about a month while the rice is about to mature.

Opening the chicken coop, a group of chickens came out like a swarm, and each one grew strong. Le Yun counted the numbers and found that they were correct. She scattered the corn kernels on the ground and let them eat by themselves. She returned to the bungalow to clean. Hygiene, clean every corner inside and outside the house.

Do a good job of general cleaning, tidy yourself up, go to the kitchen, light a fire in the old-style fire pit, fry dendrobium in a pan, I fried a batch last night, those are just a drop in the bucket of space inventory, take advantage of the good weather, hurry up Time to continue frying some and dry them.

The best way to stir-fry medicinal materials is to use firewood. Use natural firewood to stir-fry wild medicinal materials to maintain the most original essence.

Lejia also has firewood, some of which are the remaining branches after selling the economic wood, some are the leftovers of the raw materials used to grow mushrooms and fungus in Leba’s workshop, and some are no longer available after growing mushroom fungus. For the reused scrap materials, Boss Wu took care of Le's father and gave them to Lejia at almost half the free price. If he sold them to others, it would cost at least ten thousand or twenty thousand at a time, and he would only give Lejia one or two thousand as the cost of production, so Lejia If you accumulate a lot of firewood, you can burn it for three years.

The fire in the fire pit is burning brightly. When the flames are stable, put the pot in. Le Yun takes out a basket of dendrobium seedlings, puts a handful in the pot and stir-fries slowly. Processing medicinal materials is a delicate job, and the heat also needs to be controlled. Okay, if it's too strong, it will burn, if it's too weak, it won't work.

Le Yun manages the fire by herself, stirs the dendrobium seedlings by herself, stirs them slowly with her hands, twists them while frying, twists the dendrobium into a spiral shape, and waits until it becomes a dried product, which is the well-known iron maple fight.

Zhou Qiufeng finished her housework in the morning and went to the fields to see the water. When she returned home, her brother and sister-in-law were nowhere to be seen. She guessed that she had gone to her hometown again.Went to play mahjong on the street.

When Grandma Zhou saw the girl coming back, she smiled and said: "Back? Can we leave then?"

"Okay." Zhou Qiufeng put down the hoe and took the sunshade straw hat.

The mother and daughter closed the two gates of their home, and when they got outside, Grandma Zhou went straight to the garden in front of the Lejia house. Zhou Qiufeng went to the pig pen behind the Lejia house by herself. She was familiar with the way. Open the courtyard door, go into the backyard of Lejia, find a bucket and pole, go to the place where manure is stored, fill it with a load of fertilizer, and carry it to the garden in front of Lejia.

Grandma Zhou is responsible for distributing fertilizers and putting manure and grass at the roots of each sweet potato. She has fun while working. She still doesn’t know if her daughter is willing to marry. Anyway, her old man has regarded Yueqing as his prospective son-in-law. Just like last night, her girl told her that she had nothing to do at home and wanted to help the Le family for a day or two. Without saying anything, her old man volunteered to come and help.

The mother and daughter did not tell the owner that they went to the fields by themselves, one picking fertilizer and the other putting fertilizer. They were obviously working for the Le family and were more serious and responsible than working for their own family.

Le Yun, who was frying dendrobium in the kitchen, heard the sound of Aunt Feng and Grandma Zhou talking and the sound of Aunt Feng picking fertilizer behind the house. She did not look around. She was frying the medicine. If you stop halfway, the heat will be poor and the quality of the finished product will be greatly reduced.

After a pot of herbs is fried, twist them all into a spiral shape, pour them into the spare bamboo sieve on the stand in the living room to cool, put down the pot, run out of the house quickly, and take a look at the door. Although the corn The seedlings are very tall and somewhat sheltered, but you can still see the two people in the garden. Aunt Feng walked into the corn row carrying a load of fertilizer, and Grandma Zhou was quickly spreading the fertilizer.

"Grandma Zhou, Aunt Feng!" Seeing the mother and daughter who came to help with farm work uninvited, Le Yun shouted with a smile and ran to the garden in front of the house.

"Lele, what are you busy with? I smell a scent."

A mother and daughter turned their heads when they heard the crisp and sweet voice. Look, I saw little Lele running towards me with a ding dong ding dong, and Grandma Zhou smiled and talked to the child.

Zhou Qiufeng said nothing, put down the burden on her shoulders with a smile, poured out the fertilizer neatly, and gently tapped the bottom of the pot with a pole to remove the dung and grass.

"I'm frying medicinal materials. Grandma Zhou, you and Aunt Feng are too busy with their own affairs. How can you help us? Our family doesn't have much sweet potato land. I will be with my father tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. It's enough to build the base for one day. You and Aunt Feng have a rest."

"We have finished all the work at home, so we are idle. Xiao Lele, aren't you sorting out the medicinal materials? Don't come. Now, you have to step in the mud and have to wash your hands and feet. Don't worry about us. Go and do what you are good at. Remember to add half a catty of rice when cooking at noon. Your Aunt Feng, her brother and her sister-in-law are going to the street today. hit onMahjong, your Aunt Feng and I are going to have dinner at your house at noon. "

Hearing that Xiao Lele was frying medicinal herbs, Grandma Zhou smiled and stopped her from running to the garden to join in. The crow's feet at the corners of the eyes of that old face were rippling like ripples.

Zhou Qiufeng poured the dung and grass in the other basket into the ground, carried the empty basket out of the ground, and asked Xiao Lele to do her work. They were more busy than Xiao Lele in the field work. They are good at it, and the two families are so familiar with each other, so there is no need for children to greet them.

　"Okay. Then I'll go take care of my herbs first, and I'll come back after I've dried them. "Le Yun was not pretentious. She really didn't go to the garden and ran back happily.

The Zhou family's mother and daughter saw little Lele jumping and lively like a newborn calf. I feel very happy in my heart, and I sincerely lament that time flies so fast. The little boy who could not walk unsteadily and spoke slurred at that time has grown so big in a blink of an eye.

Return to In the kitchen, Le Yun washed her hands again and continued to stir-fry medicine. A pot of dendrobium would accumulate some juice, and she was reluctant to pour it out, so she collected it in a clean bowl.

After frying several pots in a row, when the sun rose, There is a pole high, and the dendrobium twisted into a maple bucket is sent to the second floor. The steamed and cleaned medicinal materials last night are taken out from the roof shed and placed in the sun to dry. After preparing the medicinal materials, they quickly go to work in the fields.