From time to time, I directed one or two children to see how the ducks were doing, and then said: "Now when grazing, you have to pay attention to giving the ducks some shade. You should also go out for grazing at 6 o'clock in the morning and again in the afternoon. Don't let the ducks get too hot. Add more water in the evening."

Use well water, well water is cool."

Chu Qing asked: "Have you collected all the duck feathers?"

The children rushed to answer: "I accepted it! My family accepted it!"

"My family also accepted it. Didn't you say you could use the money to buy it?"

"Sir, do you really want to buy it?"

Chu Qing nodded and praised them for their ability, and promised that they would definitely acquire them.

When the locusts were roasted, Chu Qing invited the children to eat them. The children were just curious to see "Master Cotton" doing things and didn't want to eat them.

What do locusts have to eat? Apart from their wings, they are all legs, with no meat, and they are so ugly.

But when the roasting smell came out, the children couldn't help it. As soon as Chu Qing said hello, pairs of little hands stretched out.

The children ate happily, and some of the younger girls would jump behind their brothers. Chu Qing laughed when she saw them: They had to jump even when they were eating delicious food. It was so simple to be happy.

The children ate quickly, and Chu Qing was busy flipping and baking on several stones, and could hardly keep up with them.

"How is the situation in your rice fields?" Chu Qing asked.

The children just ate in silence, no one answered, and they all looked depressed.

Of course, the most important thing is to eat more. It is so delicious that talking takes up time.

He opened his mouth when he wasn't sick. Anyway, his land was uncultivated this year and he only planted one acre of vegetables: "They are all white ears, most of them are empty!"

No wonder, the growth is not good and the adults are anxious, but the children also understand that this means busy work in vain. After autumn, there will be no food harvest and they will be hungry.

When the rice is in the heading stage, the field is too dry and the water supply is insufficient. The rice ears cannot absorb sufficient water, and the rice ears will become white.

The drought is so severe this year that it is impossible to keep up with the pace of watering the fields.

It finally rained for some relief, but it was just a drop in the bucket. It didn't rain much, but the temperature started to rise immediately. It was very hot during these days, and the water evaporated quickly, which would definitely affect the earing.

Drought and heat have caught up, and white and empty ears are inevitable.

"How is your vegetable patch?" Chu Qing asked.

"My family has a well," Wu Bing said, "watering the vegetable field is not a problem. My mother can go to the ground now and can carry half a bucket of water up every time. My sister and I can also carry half a bucket of water. We can only carry half a bucket of water."

Water half a bucket at a time, slowly, but I'm not thirsty for the vegetable patch."

Drilling a well was the largest amount of money spent by a healthy family this year. It took a lot of effort to persuade his mother to spend money to dig a well.

There is a drought this year. I don’t have the labor to farm the land. My mother wants to save the money from selling chickens and ducks to buy food. But how much is too much?

They sold a lot of chickens and ducks, and saved a lot of money, more than ten taels. This is a big income for a farmer's family, and other families may not get this income from selling grain after autumn when they have more labor.

His mother even fantasized about buying pen and paper for her son so that he could study.

But when the son asks for money to dig a well, how can his mother agree?

So the mother-in-law spent three days "arguing", and finally the mother "backed off".

When Wu Bian talked about digging a well, his friends were very envious. They were not qualified to argue with their parents, nor were they as eloquent as Wu Bian.

Moreover, their parents no longer dared to bully Wu Bing and his mother: they could not make enough money to earn money for their orphans and widowers; they still had a well, but they expected to be able to fetch water from their house.

The status of being healthy has also changed from the "power" brought by the "Steel Whistle" rewarded by "Lord Cotton" at the beginning, to a real surrender to their family's overall economic strength.

Didn't you see it? Anyone who has no problem to tell him to take a look at the duck must go, even if it is a big kid who is a head taller than him.

The children only had two meals a day. They had eaten this meal in the afternoon before they went out to let the ducks go out, so their stomachs were already empty by now.

However, every family is like this. They eat porridge every day and can eat two meals a day. Even if they don't stop eating, it is worth saying that this family can live well.

Chu Qing checked that he was not sick. Among all the children, he seemed to be the only one with a little flesh on his cheeks, and he looked better than last month.

The reason is simple. My mother, who is not sick, loves her children. Even if she has two meals a day, she will let her children eat dry food and she can take care of one bite at will.

However, with the insistence of the two children, the family of three steamed two egg custards every day and shared them among three people to increase nutrition.

Their family is the best among the villages in the Junhu District in operating a cycle of chickens laying eggs and eggs laying chickens.

Chu Qing turned around and looked at the group of ducks competing for aquatic plants and small fish and shrimps in the hepaozi. It was quite large, and the hepaozi looked like it was not enough.

However, the ducks are also smart and don't want to compete with everyone. They just sit on the shore and use their big feet to press down the grass. The locusts inside start to flutter around, making it easy for them to eat one bite at a time.

From the eggs to the adult worms, the ducks have really had better nutrition than humans in the past few months. They are all fat and strong. Looking at them from a distance, Chu Qing seemed to see a walking roast duck.

I saw a flock of chickens grazing during the day. Those chickens were also chubby and squawked loudly. When their necks stretched and shrank, there were many locusts in their mouths.

"The locusts now are hard," said Wu Bing, "ducks prefer to eat locusts, which are tender and don't jump as high. Sir, tell me, so many ducks eat them every day, why are there so many locusts?"

"Well, this is probably the species that people least expect to have 'more children and more happiness'!" Chu Qing replied vaguely.

There was noise in the distance, and several people trotted over, followed by workers from the Chuqing lumberyard.

The children also saw it and quickly stood up and shouted:

"Dad, why are you here?"

"mother!"

"Milk, we are here!"

The parents of these children stopped when they saw Xiangzi, because Xiangzi stretched out his hand to stop them from getting closer.

The foreman of the lumber yard angrily explained to Xiangzi: "I heard they were coming, so I asked what was going on, but they didn't say anything. They were coming, and we couldn't stop them!"

Yes, there are three women in these military households. They are not close to each other. The foreman cannot stop them with force, and he has no position to stop them. They only say they are looking for children, and Hepaozi is not from the Chu Qing family.

"What do you want from me?" Chu Qing asked, and at the same time told Xiangzi: "Let them come over."

There is no need to worry about safety issues. With these five or six people, Chu Qing dare not say that he can deal with them all. He can still defeat three or four.

What's more, there are Xiangzi and the ten guards he brought.

"Sir!" A man stepped forward to answer. He glanced several times at the stone flakes in front of Chu Qing and the uneaten roasted locusts on them, and said, "It's getting late. The children haven't gone home yet. The younger ones are coming out.

Take it."

Oh, that's right. Parents have to worry if their children don't come home at that time, so Chu Qing nodded: "I'm sorry, I chatted with the children and delayed their return home. Please forgive me."

Then he told the children: "Hurry up and gather the ducks and go back. Take these with you as snacks."


Chapter completed!