The three people's eyes widened and they looked stunned, obviously they didn't expect such an operation.
The banker was still passing on his experience and said: "If this chicken is fully fed, it can gain four to five taels of weight. In the first month of the year, meat is expensive, so it can earn at least five or six cents more."
Bai Shan swallowed his saliva and asked, "Did the chickens my family bought before look like this?"
Man Bao carefully recalled the chickens she had bought before. It seemed that she had wandered around the village to buy them during her lunch break. She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I shouldn't have been cheated."
Bai Erlang burst out laughing and said happily: "My family never buys chickens from outside, we always produce chickens in our farm."
Bai Shan and Man Bao ignored him together.
The banker was slightly embarrassed and said: "Master, Miss Man, many families do this, not just ours..."
Another farmer whispered: "In the past two days, Zhuangtou Bai asked us to catch chickens to sell, and this is what we did..."
Bai Shan and the others: "...It turns out we are also doing deceptive things."
Bankers:......
However, none of the three people objected. Man Bao said: "This particularly beautiful rooster does not need to be fed specially on the Lantern Festival. We are not selling it to people who eat it."
The farmer scratched his head and asked: "If you don't use this chicken to eat, what else can you use it for?"
Man Bao chuckled, "That has a lot of uses."
For example, it can also be used for fighting.
The three of them got a lot of beautiful chicken feathers, so they found a big stone to sit on and sorted them out, planning to make them into shuttlecocks.
Bai Shan asked while sharpening the roots of the chicken feathers with a knife: "Can our chicken really be used for fighting?"
"Try it. If it doesn't work, we'll take it to my sister-in-law's shop and kill it and stew it." Manbao thought for a while and then said, "I think it tastes better if it's fried."
Bai Shan: "I think so too."
They raise a lot of chickens and ducks in their small farm, and they also lay a lot of eggs and duck eggs, so they don't have to worry about meat and eggs.
Nowadays, life in Qili Village is much better than before. Most families raise chickens and basically save them for the Chinese New Year.
Not to mention the old Zhou family.
Their family built a large chicken shed at the foot of the hill behind their house, and raised nearly a hundred chickens. They also raised two geese to look after the chickens. With them around, not to mention people, not even weasels would dare to come.
Therefore, after the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, the village is always filled with the smell of meat.
Lao Zhou had a large family, and he could kill a chicken every night and eat it cleanly. Occasionally he would have the luxury of going to the market to buy some pork or mutton to go with it.
If Lao Zhoutou and Mr. Qian were reluctant to kill the chicken, Man Bao would bring back a killed one from his small village.
So, Mr. Bai finally got something to show his son's filial piety, and when he was happy, he kept giving him pocket money.
Bai Erlang is much smarter than when he was a child. Once he saw it, he understood it, so he went to the village every now and then to get back a bag of eggs, a chicken or a duck. He brought it to his grandmother today and said that he was filial to her, and he would pick it up tomorrow.
He went to his father and said it was for his father...
As a result, he received some pocket money and the happy smiles of his grandmother and parents.
Of course, he also remembered the most in his small ledger, becoming the person who picked up the most meat and eggs from Xiaozhuangzi this year.
Man Bao and Bai Shan were stunned.
Man Bao thought about it seriously and felt that it was impossible for her to go back with meat and eggs and expect her father to give her pocket money, so she gave up the idea and looked at Bai Shan.
Bai Shan also looked depressed, "Now that I bring something home, my grandmother won't even praise me."
Bai Erlang smiled proudly.
Bai Shan and Man Bao decided to ignore him for the time being, so they talked together, "It's New Year's Eve tonight, are you coming out to play?"
"You can play at the banyan tree, but you have to go back to watch at night, and it's so cold outside. My mother won't let me blow in the wind outside."
Bai Shandao: "My grandmother won't let me blow the cold wind outside, so do you want to come to my house to play and watch the night with us?"
"No, I want to stay vigil with my parents," Man Bao refused directly, "and I have gifts to give them tonight."
"Didn't you give me all your gifts?"
Man Bao said vaguely: "I also bought some other gifts for my mother and the others. They are special gifts that none of you have seen before."
In fact, it was the jewelry she bought from the mall. She played with it the day after she came back, and then went to see Mr. Zhuang off the next day, so she was never able to give it away.
As for the things she brought back from Yizhou City, Zhou Lang had already brought them back from the Bai family and distributed them directly to everyone.
Everyone also knew that those things were given to them by Manbao, so when Manbao came back from playing outside, he received a series of thanks, and then nothing happened.
Man Bao felt that it was not a good time to give a gift, so he never gave it.
Bai Shan didn't expect that she had a special gift, so he was silent for a while and then asked: "Then do you want to prepare a special gift for your grandmother and mother?"
Man Bao nodded, "You will always be happier when you receive a gift."
Bai Shan looked at Man Bao for a while.
At some point, Bai Erlang ran to the river to join in the fun. He turned back to look for them. Seeing that they were still standing on the roadside talking, he waved and shouted: "They are touching the loaches. Do you want to come?"
Bai Shan and Man Bao only looked at it for a while and then shook their heads, "No, it's very cold. It won't be good if you get sick."
Bai Erlang was not convinced, "When I was a kid, I never saw you yelling coldly when I went to the river."
Man Bao said: "That's because now I'm sensible. I'm a doctor after all. Don't tempt me to make mistakes."
Bai Shan laughed loudly after hearing this, and Bai Erlang also narrowed his eyes with a smile. He thought of Man Bao yesterday when he went to see a doctor for the grandson of the village chief's family.
The kid had a runny nose because he was playing with cold water. Manbao gave him medicine and asked him to keep warm. As a result, the kid said rudely: "I saw my aunt fishing in the ditch of Zhuangzi yesterday, so I just followed her.
You fish together and you are not sick, but I am sick, so it must not be because of touching cold water."
The final conclusion was that he could also touch cold water.
Then Manbao said he would not fish in the water today, let alone touch a loach.
In the end, Bai Shan and Man Bao stood on the shore and watched them touch the loaches. From time to time, they handed them bamboo baskets and other things. That's it, they were stained with mud, and finally returned home dirty.
Qian was used to it. When he saw her coming back half-covered in mud, he reached out and touched her hand. Seeing that it was warm, he stopped talking about her and waved: "Go to your sister-in-law, hurry up and take a bath and change clothes. Your sixth brother
When I got home, he brought back a lot of food from Yizhou City."
"Brother Six is back?" Man Bao ran to find her Brother Six.
Because Liu Lang was working in a restaurant, he couldn't come back with them. He thought he wouldn't be able to come back for the Chinese New Year this year. Who knew that their restaurant had a holiday on the 29th, so he came back with the convoy yesterday and slept outside at night.
Just came back after one night.
Zhou Lang said: "Originally, our boss wanted to host the New Year's Eve dinner, but who knew that the Yizhou Prince's Palace had temporarily ordered us, the boss of Zhiweilou, to go to the palace to prepare a banquet. The boss of our restaurant is the one who cooks the best food.
Without a chef, we couldn’t have the New Year’s Eve dinner, so the boss simply let us go home to celebrate the New Year. I also shared a lot of good things. Have you seen this beef? Your brother, I bought it for 120 Wen.
, it’s much cheaper than buying it outside, and the most important thing is that it’s affordable.”
Man Bao took a sip and asked, "Brother Six, how do you make this beef?"
"I don't know. I have to ask my sister-in-law. I have only seen my boss make this expensive thing, but I have never used it."