Before dawn the next day, Yue Zhongyao hurried into the city alone in the starry night.
I didn't even wait for Mrs. Liu and Liu Meiniang.
The mother and daughter were arranged to live in the home of Lao Yuetou's fourth brother. They had agreed to leave together with Yue Zhongyao last night, but Yue Zhongyao sat at Qiao Mingjin's door for most of the night, feeling stuck in his heart.
If it weren't for those two people, he would still be able to enjoy this rare break with his wife and daughter.
Mrs. Liu and Liu Meiniang slept until the sun rose. They originally thought that Yue Zhongyao was waiting for them at home, but Yue Zhongyao finally disappeared. Good novel:.
Ms. Liu secretly cursed in her heart for a long time. Finally, under Wu's various attempts to persuade them, she hired a bullock cart from the village for them and sent the two people away.
Qiao Mingjin didn't know these things. She got up early in the morning and made breakfast for the family. After sending the two brothers out, she went into the mountains.
Today Sister Xiu's two children also came to play with Wan'er. They were chattering and making a lot of noise in the mountains. Pheasants and hares flew away in fright.
Nowadays, the cattails in the mountains and streams have been pulled out for so many days, and there is not much left, so they can only be sold for a few more days. The next crop must be cultivated and waited for them to grow again.
Fortunately, we now have fertile soil and have found a good buyer. Even if we only pull twenty or thirty bags a day, it will be a lot easier. In addition to letting my family breathe a sigh of relief, my parents-in-law can also help.
By then, if she didn't have much time to take care of the farm work, she would save money to buy some fields in Yunjia Village and leave them to her mother and uncle's family to take care of... She only had to take some grain when harvesting, and her mother
The two women don't have to go to the market to buy food, that's enough.
The overall living standard of the villagers in Yuejia Village is better than that in Yunjia Village, but there is not that much land for sale. On the other hand, there is a lot of land in Yunjia Village, including a lot of wasteland.
At that time, when I bought some fields in Yunjia Village, I was not afraid of others seeing me and telling lies or being jealous.
In the middle of the afternoon, Mingheng and Mingjue came back from the city. They also brought back many sacks for fertilizing soil. With the two of them joining in, the firewood was chopped even faster.
Qiao Mingjin saw that he had almost collected firewood, so he and Mingqi went to the forest together to pick up soil and pack it into bags.
The forests in this mountain are extremely dense. There is no such thing as deforestation in this era. The trees are all growing extremely well. They are lush, tall and straight, and some are so big that even a person cannot hug them.
There are countless layers of rotten leaves at the bottom of the tree. The lower you go, the better the fertility. If this fertilizer were put into the ground, the grain yield would increase by more than 10%.
The two sisters rake the leaves and shovel the fertilizer into the bag. When they rake the leaves, there will be some small bugs under the leaves. These are the chickens' favorite.
If the chickens eat these bugs, they will probably lay one more egg every day. Every time she goes to the mountains to cut firewood, she will see pheasants in the forest rake up the leaves with their chicken claws, and then eat the bugs under the leaves with their beaks.
Sometimes when Qiao Mingjin rakes the leaves of a tree, he sees the bugs piled underneath. They are white and fat. Some are bigger than a thumb. They may not have seen the light for a long time. Some bugs are almost transparent, but they don’t feel disgusting when they look at them.
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But Mingqi, a child who had been working on the ground since he was a child, got goosebumps all over his body after seeing it, while Qiao Mingjin was very calm.
It seems that he has experienced life and death. These things are no longer in his eyes. If he is not afraid of death, are he still afraid of being scared by insects?
Sometimes she would calmly shovel the bug into an empty sack, saying that she would take it home and give it to Sister Xiu to feed the chickens.
Qiao Mingjin looked at the considerable number of insects and wondered if she should also raise some chickens at home?
My daughter is still young, Mingqi and Mingheng are also growing, and meat is often not available at home. If we raise chickens, we can occasionally provide some eggs for the children.
And the chickens all recognize their nests. When night falls, they will automatically return to their nests. Then, they will be free-range in the woods. In the morning, they will carry the chicken cages to the woods to free-range them, and then at dusk
After they return to their cages, they are then taken home with their cages on a bullock cart.
The more Qiao Mingjin thought about it, the more she felt that this matter was feasible and that there was still much to be done.
Maybe, the chickens fed this way will grow better than other chickens, and they can be sold at a good price.
The more Qiao Mingjin thought about it, the more excited she became, as if she saw a flock of chickens and ducks in her house, eating too many eggs every day, and the children turning around and running away when they heard they were eating eggs.
She had been thinking about the feasibility of this matter, and her mind was a little distracted.
Mingqi was there to pull the bag for her, while she shoveled the fertilizer into the bag. Several times, the fertilizer was poured into Mingqi's hand, half of it went in and the other half leaked on the ground.
The worm stopped picking and put it directly into the bag. When the fertilizer was sprinkled on Mingqi's hand, the worm also fell into Mingqi's hand.
Mingqi was so frightened that she screamed and jumped up high even without holding on to the bag.
Only then did Qiao Mingjin wake up.
Seeing her sister's appearance, she couldn't stop laughing and was glared at by Mingqi several times.
Qiao Mingjin put her mind away and concentrated on shoveling the soil. The two sisters quickly filled fifty bags.
After brothers Mingheng and Mingjue carried all the firewood home, they brought He Xiaochun over to help carry the fertilizer onto the bullock cart.
Fifty bags of fertilizer were not much, but after they were all loaded onto the cart, the ox pushed forward with its hooves several times before struggling to move forward little by little.
Qiao Mingjin's heart tightened when she saw it.
Originally, she was thinking of pulling fifty bags at a time. If she got up earlier, she could make two trips a day. But now seeing how hard her oxen was pulling, it would be extremely difficult to pull fifty bags in one cart.
The most important thing is that our home is far away from the city. If the cow piles up its load halfway, I'm afraid the gain will outweigh the loss.
Several people finally managed to protect the cow and return home. They unloaded the cart board and watched the cow puffing away. They all looked at each other and started to unload twenty bags of fertilizer.
This cow was bought for eight taels of silver, but it can be used for many years. If it is damaged by tossing, it will not be worth it.
After a few people had rested and were about to have dinner, the door was banged.
Mingheng stood up and pulled the bolt. When he opened the door, he saw Mrs. Wu standing at the door with her two daughters-in-law.
Mrs. Wu glanced at Mingheng and murmured in a low voice: "I don't even have enough food to eat, but I have some free time to support others."
Mingheng pretended not to hear and asked, "What's the matter with you?"
While he was talking, he kept his hand on the door frame.
Wu was about to squeeze in with one foot when she saw Mingheng holding the door, frowning and waiting to speak. Sun and Yu, who were following behind, looked at each other, and Sun said with a smile: "
We have something to talk to your sister about. Just let us in."
Mingheng remained unmoved, still holding the doorframe and saying, "If you have anything to say, just talk here. It's the same with me."
Wu cursed secretly and wanted to push Mingheng away with her body and squeeze in.
Unexpectedly, Mingheng has been working at home since he was a child, and he has cut a lot of firewood in the mountains these days. His strength is also very strong, and Wu did not use all his strength, but he was not able to squeeze Mingheng away at once.
Wu was so angry that she cursed: "You don't want us to go in. Is your sister doing something shameful inside? She is hiding the wild man, is she afraid that we will see it?"
ps:
I have received a lot of long and short reviews in the past few days. Xiyu is very grateful to all the book friends for their strong support and enthusiastic comments. I read the book reviews every day and am very grateful to these book friends for their valuable opinions. I have made some modifications to this chapter today and deleted it.
It has become a larger article. Some changes have also been made, including the outline and fine steel. There will be a second update of thanks tomorrow. I bow to everyone who has posted book reviews. Thanks to "Huijun hies, Xiao Hui Hui La La La, Jansam" for the review.
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