Chapter 16 Section 16

This year's Spring Festival, the young couple had a prosperous and lively life.The fourth sister made new clothes and trousers for her and Jianfeng, all of which were the most fashionable "polyester card" fabrics in the village at that time, not to mention the firstborn son.The abundance of wine, meat, food and clothing cannot conceal the differences between the young couple. The debate started when making dumplings on the evening of the New Year's Eve, and continued until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.Simeizi plans to start a small family chicken farm. She can take care of the children without traveling around, and the income will not be wrong.Jianfeng advocated opening an electrical repair shop in Sangshu Town, and asked her to keep accounts, take care of the children, and cook for him, without raising any chickens or pigs.

"You want me to be the proprietress? Haha! I can't accept my character! Empty the toilet for you in the morning, cook for you three times a day, and count your money at night. It's... comfortable, but I will suffocate to death." of." "How much money can you earn from raising chickens! Those chickens that have just hatched, if you buy ten chickens, you can't survive one of them. Just ask the aunt and sister-in-law next door." "Don't worry about it, I've already read a book of 'Chicken Raising Knowledge' by heart. I raise chickens according to the scientific method, and my aunt and sister-in-law only know the old-fashioned way..."

This debate goes on and on.On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the couple ate meat-filled dumplings, trying to convince each other; the couple hugged the baby and carried gifts on their way to pay New Year’s greetings to their second aunt, and they fought again; Fifth, the last small climax of the New Year’s Eve has passed, and no one can persuade the other; in the end, the two sides had to compromise with each other and be independent: Jianfeng went to Sangshu Town to set up his electrical repair shop, and Simeizi started her own shop at home. family chicken farm.She reached two agreements with him: one is to help her build two kangs before he goes to Mulberry Town, as a hotbed for raising chickens, and she can't do it alone.The second is that she asked him to go home to sleep every night.He said, what about rain and snow?She said that she would come home even if it rained or snowed.He said, isn't this procedure set too rigidly?Can you be a little more flexible?She said, can't be flexible.She and him have been married for several years, and they have had quarrels and quarrels, and they have always slept on a kang at night, which has become a habit. If he doesn't come back, she will not sleep well.He still wants one percent flexibility, or special circumstances.She simply said that she was dead, she was not allowed to have one percent of mobility, did she want to pull the wild woman?One sentence made Jianfeng blush, and he didn't fight for any more flexibility.

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, ordinary rural men and women have not cheered up from the drunkenness and joy of the New Year's festival, and the joyful atmosphere has not dissipated from the streets and alleys of the village. Simeizi and Jianfeng are already sweating profusely . She supplies him with mud.He carried a brick knife to build the heated kang. He is a smart country youth with ingenuity. As long as she tells the purpose of the heated kang and the purpose he wants to achieve, he can arrange the fire vents and chimneys reasonably, and can adjust The temperature of the kang.Looking at the heated kang that had already taken shape, she was satisfied.She dug the mud with a shovel and sent it to his men.He needed a piece of tile to stabilize the adobe, and she handed it to him immediately.He helped her, and she seemed tame and obliging.

He took the tile pieces she handed over and placed them under the adobe to stabilize them.He said: "It would be great if I could hear about Shunjiao like this at night! Damn baby, do you understand?" She was caught off guard, and he was talking about what happened at night while she was concentrating on something.She slapped him lovingly on the face, then wiped the mud on his face, and then laughed, laughing at his funny face with five faces. The fourth sister bought five hundred chickens at a time, which alarmed the men and women in Lujiabao.Although the women here raise chickens, there are no more than a dozen chickens at most, all of which are hatched by old hens in spring, and the chicks gradually grow up under the warm wings of the old hens. chick fondling grows up.People flocked into her yard, squeezed into her hut, touched the wall of the kang, watched the chicks swarming on the kang, coming and going, in the small courtyard, on the dirt field outside the gate, There was a lot of discussion.

Of the three huts, only one was reserved for her and Jianfeng to sleep and live in, and two of them were turned into chicken coops. Three large kangs occupied the foot of two huts, leaving only a small one in the middle. corridor.Five hundred chickens squeaked and squeaked, and soon there was a smell of chicken droppings in the room. The elms on the elm tree in front of the door turned green and then dried up, and the wheat in the river turned green and then turned yellow.After the tense summer harvest, when the scorching hot summer leaves the peasants free to seek shade, those women dropped by the fourth sister's house, all screaming in amazement.

how cute!In the chicken coop surrounded by bamboo sticks, a piece of snow-like feathers with white grids are vying for food, chasing and playing. The big rooster with a high neck and red crown is chasing a beautiful hen, not avoiding the crowd. Jump on the back of the hen without shame.The entire small courtyard is fenced with bamboo sticks, leaving only a small open space. The fourth sister warmly received all the aunts and sisters-in-law who came to watch, patiently answered their inquiries, and did not care about the jealous look in the eyes of a narrow-minded woman.The joy and pride brought by success itself are enough to make people tolerate and tolerate all the world.

Just after the eighth month of the lunar calendar, a shocking cry of a hen sounded from the backyard. The fourth sister opened the fence door and ran into the chicken coop. The hen was so frightened that it ran away like the wind.She ran to the hen's nest, and there was a bright white egg in that nest, and she caught it in her hand, only then did she see that there were traces of blood on the pink-white eggshell.Her eyes were blurred by the overflowing tears, and an uncontrollable voice echoed in her heart: Labor started!Started labor! In less than half a month, three hundred hens began to lay eggs one after another. From morning to night, the hens reported to her that they had laid eggs one after another.She evacuated pots of mixed feed into the trough, and walked out of the gate with baskets of eggs.She dared not leave the courtyard for a moment, she was too busy.The most urgent thing is that the eggs cannot be sold, they cannot be piled up at home!

She finally discussed with Jianfeng and decided to ask her husband and mother-in-law to come and help.Although her mother-in-law helped her take care of the baby and collect eggs, she was not reliable after all.She wants to have a formal conversation with the two old people, and asks the two old people to come to her small courtyard to take care of the housekeeping, and she can go out to sell eggs every other day or two.She bought cakes, cigarettes, tea and wine at the consignment point in the village, a total of four gifts, and asked Jianfeng to pack them in a shoulder bag, and went into the house of a familiar old father-in-law.

Early the next morning, the fourth sister came back with a load of water and saw her husband squatting on the steps smoking a pipe. She hurriedly beckoned him to sit in the house, but the old man knocked off the cigarette ash and picked up the load she had just put down to fetch water .She said to him: "Dad, your legs and feet are inconvenient, let me pick them, and you can feed the chickens!" She told the old man about the proportions of corn grits, bran, fish meal, bone meal and several trace elements. The old man said he couldn't remember it, so let him fetch water.She refused and said, "Dad, if I go out to sell eggs, you have to feed the chickens. Actually, it's not difficult. I'll write the recipe on the wall for you, and you'll memorize it after mixing it once or twice." As she spoke, She demonstrated by herself, put all kinds of feed in the wooden tank according to the proportion, stirred it evenly, and then asked the old man to put the feed into the chicken coop.Just as the old man was about to push open the fence gate, she hurriedly shouted, "Dad! Step on the limestone next to the gate."

The old man turned around, confused and puzzled: "What are you doing stepping on lime?" Fourth Sister said, "Disinfect." The old man became impatient, put down the basin full of feed, and simply walked back: "You think I'm poisonous? You send it in yourself!" The fourth sister smiled.The old man is sick in his heart.She explained with a smile: "Dad! I have to step on the lime when I send it in. Every time I enter the chicken coop, I have to go through this disinfection procedure. Don't worry about it. This is a requirement for epidemic prevention. Don't dare violation." The old man seemed to have heard it, and walked to the fence gate of the chicken coop again, stepped on the lime pile, picked up the basin, and walked in. The fourth sister walked out the door carrying a bucket, and couldn't help laughing.God, she's pointing fingers at the old man!He actually listened to her!He is one of the few shrewd and powerful crop handles in Lujiabao. He is always asked a lot by others. In the crop business in the countryside, there is no way or technique that can't stand him.He is also a parent with extremely strict family laws... However, he obeyed the health and epidemic prevention system she ordered him to do. The fourth sister brought back another load of water.As soon as she entered the street, she heard the old man sternly instructing the old woman to say: "Stamp on the pile of lime. Your feet are poisonous. Don't be sloppy with hygiene and epidemic prevention. Remember, every time you enter the chicken coop, it's good to feed or collect eggs." , whether I am in front of you or not, you have to rub the soles of your shoes in the lime pile." The fourth sister smiled. The old man turned his head away when he heard the sound, smiled embarrassedly, and said loudly, "Don't look at my old brain. I believe in science! That year, when the government sent chemical fertilizers, no one dared to buy or use them. Many people said , we use a cart to deliver dung to the field, and the wheat is not growing well. If we sprinkle such a few catties of flour-like things, can we still expect to grow wheat? I bought it and used it. Hey, that year, only our wheat Looks good! I believe..." After eating some dry buns and drinking a few sips of boiled water, the fourth sister tied two egg baskets lined with wheat straw to the bicycle, and said to the two old people: "Feed once at twelve o'clock, and again at five o'clock. Match the feed in proportion. Eggs should be picked up in time. If the nest is piled up too much, it will be easily crushed.” After she finished speaking, she pushed the car out of the street gate, and her son clamored to go with her.The mother-in-law tried to persuade her, and then dragged the crying boy away. The fourth sister stepped into the car, the morning wind is so cool!