Porridge and side dishes [farming]

Chapter 66 Buying Livestock【6000】

It rained heavily that night, and it didn't stop when I got up in the morning. Fortunately, I prepared a firewood room at home, which can put a lot of firewood, so the rainy weather is cold and cold, and I don't need to save firewood as much as I want to keep warm.

Yesterday's tea eggs consumed less than half of the remaining tea leaves at home, and I didn't drink the rest, I just kept them for cooking tea eggs for later.The two of them brewed the new tea they just bought yesterday.

It was still the same tea as before, Li Ji took a sip while blowing on the foam on it, not to mention more satisfied.This kind of tea is nothing compared to the good tea I drank yesterday, it's like the sky and the earth.But the peace of mind of drinking this kind of tea is incomparable to that kind of expensive tea.

No one came over yesterday, and Li Ji was a little surprised about Ergua, but it was raining outside, so it was not easy to go out and inquire.

After drinking two sips of tea to quench his thirst, Li Ji stood at the door and looked at the curtain of water flowing down from the eaves, thinking about something.

Er Gouzi just came back from the outside, took off his coir raincoat when he entered the house, and asked him what he was thinking.

"We were cheated of five renminbi, but our nephew and grandson have to pay for their studies. Of course it would be nice to be able to give up a scholar. Even if you can't study, it's good to learn how to count and help us settle the bill later. We need to save more money for retirement, Then we have to raise more livestock. If we raise too many, we can’t take care of them, and we always need two more people to help raise them. Other people can’t trust them, but my nephews and grandchildren can. If they are raised by hand, the employer can feel more at ease.”

Er Gouzi hung up the coir raincoat and bamboo hat, and put it there to empty the water, and then put it away when the water dries up.

"Well, everything is fine."

Er Gouzi's resigned character is going to give Li Ji a headache now.No matter how smart Li Ji is, he would sometimes take a nap, but Er Gouzi would be smarter?It can also remind him well.

"You are trying to save trouble, so you can't help me think about it. I will decide everything. You are almost becoming a little wife."

Er Gouzi smiled and said: "You said that you are my wife, and I am your wife too. You understand what I don't understand, and you are the master of our family."

Er Gouzi had never been in touch with the world since he was a child, so he didn't know anything.Nowadays, I don't bother to learn, and I feel at ease as a shopkeeper with a sense of peace of mind.

To put it in a deeper way, Er Gouzi has well-developed limbs and simple thinking.It's not that I'm not smart, but I don't want to think about it.

The two just had a very complementary state.One is full of strength, able to work and hunt, the other is good at calculating, and most things can be arranged seamlessly.

Er Gouzi is Li Ji's right-hand man, and Li Ji is Er Gouzi's brain, helping him arrange everything.

Li Ji felt that the burden on his body was heavy, so he stretched out his hand to pat Er Gouzi's forehead, but his fingers touched the skin, and it was so rare that he pulled Er Gouzi to lower his head, and kissed the place just touched.

"It's the first time I've heard such a sweet talk about being lazy. Okay, I can think about everything. Then we make a decision. We will pay for our nephew's school money. Li Qiaoer can come to help when she is free, but the eldest girl stays behind." Less than two years. But if there is an outsider, we have to find a way to prevent people from discovering about us. If we are discovered...then we can only go back to the mountains. "

Er Gouzi wanted to say that it would be better to go back to the mountains, but he remembered what Li Ji said before, if he lived alone, he would be very lonely.So he swallowed the words that reached his throat, and said instead: "We can build another house specially for raising livestock."

I just said that Er Gouzi doesn't care about anything, so I thought of a good idea.

"I didn't think of it. But it can't be in our yard, and it can't be too far away. It's not good to attract thieves if it's too far away. Let's set up a place in the west field for raising it. Let's Go to work during the day, and go home at night without delay. The gate of the yard is locked all year round, and anyone who comes will open it. We will live with the door behind closed doors, and no one will find out who comes.”

Speaking of this, Li Ji asked in a low voice: "You can remember in the future, when you leave this door, don't kiss me or hug me, and don't call me by my name, call me fourth uncle, let alone say you are my uncle. Daughter-in-law, I am your daughter-in-law, you know?"

Er Gouzi said similar things before, nodded in response, and finally couldn't help asking: "Why."

Li Ji opened his mouth and thought for a while before saying, "In their eyes, it's not good for us to be together. Of course, we don't have to live for their thoughts. If we don't let them know, we are protecting us. Therefore, we must not let Outsiders know about our relationship, do you understand?"

Seeing Li Ji being so serious, Er Gouzi nodded vigorously.

Who would want their feelings to be tolerated by the world?But for such a thing as fate, you can do whatever you want.

Li Ji took the initiative to pull Er Gouzi's head and kissed him.Li Ji has been avoiding this kind of thing all the time. It's a day to be able to hide, and it's best to be able to hide for a lifetime.

The rain only lightened in the afternoon, and it was already a hazy drizzle in the evening.The yard was extremely muddy. Taking advantage of the light rain, the two went outside to move the unused stone pavement under the wall outside before building the house. Hearing the children's laughter from a distance, Li Ji laid a stone and went to Look outside the yard to see who it is.

It turned out that it was Xiaotuo who brought Yingzi over. The two of them didn't know what they said, and they laughed all the way.

"Run slowly, don't drop Yingzi." Li Ji hurriedly stopped the two little ancestors.

Little Tudou raised his eyebrows: "Fourth Grandpa, you are eccentric, why do you love Yingzi, and don't you love me?"

"It's okay for you to fall off the roof and hit a hole. I feel bad for you." Li Ji took the child inside with a smile, grabbed some candies from the cabinet and put them on the table, making the two children think about it. Take it yourself after eating.

"Why are you thinking about it?" Li Ji asked.

Little Tudou was not polite at all, with a snot on his nose, he said, "I miss Fourth Grandpa's snacks."

"You're so welcome." Li Ji smiled angrily, "But it's a coincidence that you came here, yesterday I was cooking tea eggs with your Uncle Ergou, and you can share two of them when you come, but today I don't have any gone."

Because of last year's drought, this year Xiaotudou doesn't even have a hen at home, and he hasn't eaten much eggs for half a year.Li Ji felt sorry for the child's growth, and sometimes gave some, but he didn't give away too much. As for the two children, they couldn't eat a penny.

Li Ji didn't dare to give more, because he was afraid that others would come to ask for fairness, so he told Li Jin that there was nothing to do and let the two children go to his house.However, Li Jin has been polite since he was a child, and rarely let children come over.

"Then when will it be stewed next time? I'll bring Erying over to eat." Little Tudou asked with a smile.

Erying on the side shaved her face with her fingers: "I don't feel ashamed."

Li Ji smiled and shook his head, watched them eat for a while, and then asked Little Tudou: "What didn't your mother tell you?"

Little Tudou was stunned for a while, and then remembered after a while: "It's nothing, I always heard her muttering that it's a pity that the second child of Uncle Ergua's family was originally going to the county to study and read, so he ruined such a good opportunity Xin's father was ruined. I don't know what's the use of telling me, what's going on with Uncle Ergua's family has nothing to do with our family."

Li Ji smiled and understood that Erying is actually quite shrewd, he may be a little confused in major matters, but he is not bad at all in dealing with the world.

The reason why Li Ji asked Xiaotuo to go to school was the matter of Ergua's family. Now that Ergua's cheating money has been exposed, Erying is worried that Li Ji will become angry because of Ergua's matter and will not provide Li Ji. .

It's not good to come to the door to ask directly, it's hard to say.So usually mention a few more words in front of the children, and the children will tell the things when they are chatting.

Li Ji knew it in his heart, but he couldn't talk to the children on the face. He just joked on his face: "You said that you are going to study soon, and you still don't know how to restrain yourself. Be careful when you come to the master and hit your palm."

"I don't know how to restrain myself." Little Tudou said unconvinced, "Besides, going to school is not going to be beaten. He paid money to teach me skills, why should he hit my palm?"

Li Ji didn't understand why, he had never read a book, so of course he didn't know how to respect teachers, but after hearing what Little Tudou said, Li Ji didn't continue.

Yingzi thought for a while, then whispered: "I also want to read."

Li Ji paused, reached out to touch her hair, and sighed: "The school doesn't accept girls, otherwise Fourth Grandpa will definitely let you go."

"Why don't you let me go?" In fact, Yingzi also said this at home, but Li Jin and Erying laughed at her when they heard it, and didn't make it clear.

Naturally, it is because a woman's lack of talent is virtue, and scholars think that it is indecent for a woman to show her face in public, and they are strict to follow the example of the previous dynasty. Women will be scolded for not obeying women's morals when they go out of the second school. Naturally, it is impossible for the school to accept female students.

"If you really want to learn, when your brother Tudou goes to read the characters, I will hand over everything to you when he comes back. It's just that you should also supervise and let him study hard." Li Ji couldn't explain those reasons, so he simply diverted his attention.

"I won't teach, she's too stupid." Little Tudou stuck out her tongue.

"If you don't want to teach me, if you want to eat snacks again, just give me honestly, or else you won't have what your wife eats."

This snack is obviously more effective than anything else, Little Tudou muttered something, and ate the sunflower seeds.

After eating two handfuls of melon seeds, Li Ji took Little Tudou out to help move the stones together, and made a way from the door to the gate, so that he would not be afraid of getting his shoes wet when he went out.These shoes are all laminated soles, and they will get soaked after a while on wet mud, but it will be better if they step on wet stones.

With candy in his mouth, Little Tudou reluctantly went out to help. Such a big young man gained some strength, and after a while the work was done, Li Ji sent him to feed the animals again. Yingzi wanted to help, and Li Ji looked at her After thinking about it for a while, she couldn't think of any suitable work for her. In the end, she simply gave her some useless vegetable seedlings picked out of the ground, and asked her to feed the rabbits to play with.

Rabbits are cute, especially the little rabbits that have just grown fur. The fluffy ball pokes Yingzi's heart the most, and he keeps using vegetable sticks to tease the little rabbits to eat.

Seeing that Yingzi really liked it, when the two left, Li Ji picked out a pair of newly weaned bunnies and gave them to Yingzi.Tell her that Little Tudou will only come back once a few days after school, and that she will let Little Rabbit accompany her when she is bored, and that when she grows up, if she gives birth to cubs, she will send them back, and Li Ji will give her a penny.

Yingzi was very happy holding the two little rabbits, and bounced away.

This is the first time for Li Ji to send rabbits out, because rabbit fur is the main source of income for the family, and the high price is because it is the first in the county. If the live rabbits are sold, they will be reproduced for generations. , then the value of the rabbit will be greatly reduced, and the family will lose a lot of money.

It is indeed selfish, but there is no rule that you must affect your own interests to help others. No one will starve to death. Now that the world is peaceful, anyone who does something will not starve. Food and clothing for three melons and two dates is not a problem.

The two rabbits were sent out because they were really afraid that Yingzi would be boring alone.The second is to help Li Jin's family.Li Ji has a lot of juniors, and the one who cares most about him is Li Jin's family. They come and go, they don't give them money directly, they breed rabbits in the future, Li Ji will buy them back, there is no loss , and can feed the rabbit less, which is beneficial to both parties.

Going back to the house to clean up the leftovers from the two children's meals, it rained heavily outside again.

The rain stopped for three days before seeing the sun and waiting for the dark clouds to dissipate. The whole village breathed a sigh of relief. The rain is a good thing, and it can make the fields grow crops, but if it rains too much, it will be waterlogged. This is much worse than a drought.At any rate, the drought can be harvested, but once the waterlogging hits, there will be no harvest.

Fortunately, the terrain here is high, so we are not afraid of floods or anything.

After the ground was dry, Li Ji went to his original land to have a look. The seedlings in the field had all come out, and the growth rate was not bad, except that the ones with their heads down looked a little waterlogged, and it was quite decent to walk inside.

And the land I newly reclaimed may be because there are many trees in the mountains, and the growth is not as good as the previous land, but there is enough fertilizer to fertilize, and the harvest should not be too small.

There is a lot of fertilizer in my house, which is more than enough for the field, and the rest is poured into a ditch.

Some people have no livestock and few people at home, and they don’t have much fat, so they pick up dung thrown by other people’s homes or pulled by animals on the road.

Although it is a bit troublesome, as long as you are diligent enough, you can also gain weight.

Li Ji was like this a few years ago, but basically no one would throw their own dung out.Dung can be mixed into the field to fertilize the field. Few people have surplus. If there is surplus, neighbors will send it to their neighbors. What Li Ji picks up is the livestock dung on the road, but there are not many households with livestock in the nearest area.Sometimes Li Ji went out with a basket on his back, and it took more than ten miles to get half a box of dung.

At that time, Li Ji was quite satisfied.Now that Li Ji's family has left over livestock dung among his nephews, he throws it away and the family gets it.

I sat on a rock in the field for a while, the sun was hot, and it was a little stuffy, so I went home.

After all, Ergua was not sent to see the official, but was imprisoned in the ancestral hall by the head of the village.There is a small black room in the ancestral hall that is dedicated to detaining ignorant and erring people. It has been more than 20 years, and this is the first time that people have been detaining people.

Maybe Ergua should thank Gao Orion, because Gao Orion had just renovated the ancestral hall inside and out, and the small black house was still comfortable, so he wouldn't suffer too much.

This kind of thing sounds like a lynching, but in the village and the family, fundamentally speaking, the law is not completely feasible. Even if this kind of thing is brought up to the government, they will turn a blind eye and close one eye.

There was a period of time in the previous dynasty when it was fashionable for women to keep the chastity, and if they showed their arms, it would be considered a breach of chastity, and they had to marry or die.Widows who remarry are regarded as disloyal by the deceased husband's family, and drowning in pig cages can be seen everywhere. Who has been sentenced for this?

Li Ji took a look at Ergua later. The door was made of bamboo strips. It was very strong, and people could see inside, and it was not easy for people inside to escape.There is another door on the outside, which is a thick wooden door. No one can open it unless it is as powerful as Er Gouzi.

Seeing Li Ji, Ergua ran over and patted the window to admit his mistake, saying that the money owed would be repaid soon, whether it was a lie or not.

"Stop playing around in the future?" Li Ji asked.

Ergua nodded again and again: "I won't play anymore, I won't play anymore, fourth uncle, please intercede and let me go, I really dare not. There is still work in the field, I can't let my wife and children do it by themselves .”

He moved his wife and children out, but Li Ji really didn't believe what he said.When he first borrowed the money, he said it was for children to study, and he said that he had a nose and eyes, which made Li Ji believe it. What happened?

Now Li Ji doesn't care if Ergua has really repented, but the five coins are not too much to lock Ergua up for a year or two.

"Now I think of my wife and children? Don't you want to steal your girl and sell it? You don't need to tell me anything. I didn't participate in this matter. If you cheat money for money, it stands to reason that you should be caught and squatted in the fence. For several years, it was your mother-in-law who begged hard to imprison you here. This place is not bad, it is much better than the prison, and someone brings water and food every day, so you should regret it."

After people saw it, Li Ji felt more and more sorry for his wife and children.Without a man in the house, it must be very difficult for a woman to take care of two children, but it is better than taking care of this gambler and prodigal.Without the Ergua La Famine, the mother and son would be better off.

And there is an eldest son who is married, so it will definitely not be too difficult.

Li Ji turned around and left, ignoring Ergua's begging behind him.

Li Ji was responsible for paying for Little Tudou's study, and Li Jin and his wife took care of the rest.You can figure out how to do it if you go to the city and inquire about it, and the rest depends on whether you can live up to your expectations.

Take the five qian silver first, and then take it again when it is time to pay the tuition fee. Little Tudou is the same as Li Tian at the eldest nephew's house.

There are a lot of vegetables grown in the yard at home, and the weeds must be pulled out at any time so that the leaves of the vegetables can grow plump and tender.Moreover, in some places, there are many germinations, so it is necessary to pinch off the excess seedlings to save nutrients.Where there is a lack of seedlings, it is necessary to replant in time, and the same is true in the field.

After all the work is done, in the morning when the weather is good, Li Ji will take Er Gouzi up the mountain to dig wild vegetables together. Whatever he finds is nothing. If he can't eat it, he will pickle it and save it for winter.

I dug the wild vegetables for several days and observed the growth of the grass suitable for feeding livestock on the mountain. When it is more than two feet high, it can be harvested and dried.

At this time, Li Ji also spread the word in the village, collecting dried hay, two catties and one penny, unlimited collection.

In fact, this work is not very cost-effective, because the grass has no weight when it is dried. Although the work of mowing grass is not tiring, it is not light, and it only earns a few pennies a day. This is not much alive.

Most of them are half-grown children who are still relying on their parents for money. There are men and women. Every day, they go up the mountain in groups of three or four to mow grass, take them home and dry them, and they can sell them for a few cents from Li Ji. money.If you are greedy, buy some snacks, and for girls who love beauty, buy some rouge paper, it is enough.

In the first few days, Li Ji and Er Gouzi went up the mountain to mow grass early and late. The nearby grass was almost mowed, so they went to the mountain to mow. no danger.

After waiting for those mowers to dry the grass and bring it over for sale, Li Ji and Er Gouzi will not go up the mountain to mow so exhaustingly.At most, put some fresh grass that is being fed now, and it is enough to go up the mountain and cut it twice, and spend the rest of the time in the field dealing with the seedlings.

Taught Er Gouzi to look at the scale, put the copper plate into his pocket, and told him to give silver when he saw the scale, and no one should give more, not even the child, that is, two catties and one penny.

Then Li Ji drove the bullock cart to the bull market to have a look.

At this time, there are quite a few people selling livestock cubs, and the most prosperous business is selling chickens, ducks, goose seedlings (cubs), because the big guys either have no livestock at home, or there are few, and they need to buy some to take home. I can eat eggs.

Therefore, the seedlings are usually sold out immediately after being sold, and Li Ji tried several times but failed to snatch them up.

Helpless, I had no choice but to turn my eyes to the pigs and sheep.

There happened to be a family selling pigs, but there were only four piglets left, and they were still quite thin, and the strong ones were picked away.

Although Li Ji looked at it, he didn't look unattractive, but after all, he wasn't fat enough to make him look good.

After a lot of bargaining, it was obvious that there were fewer livestock this year, and the prices of all the livestock had increased. Li Jileng bought all four piggies at the same price as last year.Just catch up with the ox cart and tie it to it, and Li Ji will go find another one.

I met a family that sold cattle, but the cow looked like an old cow, and it would not last long after I bought it back to feed. I only had the life of eating meat, and I also met two dog sellers.Li Ji raised a dog himself, and it looked pitiful, but raising a new dog, and it was a big dog, would definitely cause conflicts with the original small tail at home.

After searching for two rounds, there was no one selling sheep, and I shook my head after asking several companies. In the end, I could only return disappointed, and went back with four piglets who were not fat.

The first dog in the family was still harvesting grass, and a woman was still arguing with him. He would give him a penny for a catty and a half, and he would still sell it here in the future.

The grass mowed in the mountains, two catties and one penny is already picked up for nothing. If it is like this, you still have to take advantage of it. How can Li Ji let it go?

If this is the first of its kind, then harvesting grass will be directly changed to a catty and a half penny.

"What's the matter? How long have I just left? Er Gouzi, go and drive the pigs you just bought into the pigsty and feed them. I'm here." After Er Gouzi was arranged, Li Ji turned around with a smile on his face Looking at the entangled woman, "They are all from the village, so we can discuss everything."

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