At noon, most of the chicks were exchanged for eggs.
Granny Tang exchanged ten pieces, and Wen Shu's nanny also exchanged ten pieces, and then gave them fifteen pieces each to Zhou and Yanru. Other villagers also exchanged more than forty pieces one after another. Ruming's family only had ten pieces left.
Here comes a little chicken.
The ten-year-old chicks were led by a hen, foraging for food in the yard.
The other two hens were miserable. Because they were unwilling to give up the eggs that hatched late, the chicks around them were stolen one by one by the hostess. At first, the few remaining were just hatched and their feathers were not even dry.
chicken.
Chun Niang originally wanted to take away those few chickens and let the same hen take care of them, so that the other two hens could recover quickly and lay eggs early.
It turned out that one of them, the Luhua hen, was very stubborn. Once the hostess took away the chicks from her side, she chased her madly, snatched back one or two chicks from the hen with chicks, and took two chicks with herself.
The cubs seek food elsewhere.
After a few times, Chun Niang let it go.
After some confinement, the hen can already take her chicks out of the yard.
Chun Niang was afraid that her chickens would be confused with hers, so she used hematoxylin red dots to make red marks on their heads.
Every morning, after feeding the hen and chicks some yellow rice, the hen will coo and go out with her chicks.
The reed chicken also followed her two chicks out.
Maybe the number of chicks brought by the reed chicken is small, and it often goes far away, sometimes to the wasteland.
The wasteland is close to the pond, and there is a wild bamboo forest in the distance. The wasteland has lush vegetation and dense shrubs. The hens and their babies can not only find bugs in it, but also avoid the hawks and falcons in the sky.
There are also many ground predators in Bu Nao, such as weasels, foxes, wolves, etc., which will sneak out to hunt.
Fortunately, there are often people washing rice, washing vegetables, washing clothes, and carrying water at the pond, and those animals don't even dare to come near.
Unexpectedly, not long after, the two chicks of the reed chicken disappeared and were probably picked up by an eagle or other wild animals.
Recently, there have been one or two eagles gliding over the village in the sky, frightening the chickens in the whole village into panic.
Not only were the chickens frightened, but the villagers were also uneasy. They immediately sent their children back into the house and hid the lambs and piglets.
Because that kind of eagle is so big, it can easily capture a child of four or five years old or a lamb of one and a half years old.
Whenever they see an eagle swooping eastward, the villagers will beat it with copper basins or gongs, wave their arms and shout loudly to scare away the eagle.
But it didn't take long for them to swim and fly, and several times they hovered in the Jiang family's yard.
Chun Niang has no choice but to drive the hen and chicks into the house, wait for the eagle to fly away, and then let them out.
She didn't pay much attention to the reed chicken, so the two cubs of the reed chicken disappeared.
The reed chicken did not give up after losing its chicks, but instead tried to snatch the chicks from other hens again and again.
But now the chick has recognized its mother and is unwilling to follow her.
However, Yingbao often sees the reed chicken going to the pond alone, wondering whether it is looking for food or looking for its lost child.
Jiang Sanlang went to the county town for three days and came back in a new carriage in a very happy mood. When he entered the house, he showed a house deed to his wife and daughter.
As soon as you enter the house with five rooms, not far from the county school, the house price is more than 300 taels.
Adding to the one hundred taels in the carriage, Jiang Sanlang spent more than four hundred taels that time, including one hundred taels of silver given by his little girl.
The money in Chun Niang's legs was almost gone, with only about ten copper coins left.
She was not at all reluctant to give up, but was very happy. She finally had a house in the county, a house with five brick houses.
"The house is nice and the yard is quite big. It's no problem to grow vegetables and flowers. He will go there again after a while and hire some masons to repair the house and buy some furniture. It will be delivered after the autumn harvest. Xiaojie and Yuanbao went to the city to study."
Jiang Sanlang said to his little girl again: "I will go to the county town with my mother then, and we will become the county town's girls from now on."
After ten or eight years, my little girl will be a proper city dweller, and she will find a good husband's family in the county town.
Yingbao shook his head: "If he doesn't go to the county seat, I can just take my eldest brother there."
She had lived in the county town for several years in her life, but there was nothing interesting there except that there were many people.
Moreover, the county's water supply is very problematic. If there is no well at home, why don't you fetch river water for consumption or spend money to buy it?
Buying a load of water is barely enough for a family of three or five people to eat for a day, but for washing, washing rice and vegetables, you can go to a nearby pond.
The large ponds in the county are comparable to smelly ditches. The color of the water is green, which is fine in winter. But in summer, the whole pond smells faintly.
Even though I live close to a river and wash my hands in the flowing river, I am washing rice at the other end and there is no chance that someone is emptying the urinal and cleaning the toilet.
That's why she didn't ask to go to the county seat.
Chun Niang asked: "Why doesn't Bao'er go?"
"He really wants to study medicine with his master." Yingbao explained.
She not only studies medicine, but also wants to practice martial arts. She also wants to make money by growing golden ears. She cannot do anything when she goes to the county town.
Chun Niang smiled: "No, our baby really wants to study medicine, but my parents are so stupid that they forgot about it."
Within a few months, the news that Jiang Sanlang's family had bought a house in the county town spread throughout the township.
There is nothing we can do about it. One of our main responsibilities is to register the property of the villagers, and land and real estate must be recorded.
Over there, Jiang Sanlang had just signed the deed at the government office. Within two days, Sun Lizheng received a notice from the county government asking him to re-register the amount of Jiang Sanlang's property.
Doesn’t everyone know what comes and goes?
"Oh, did our family really buy a house in the county?" Aunt Wang saw Chun Niang and pulled her to ask.
Chun Niang opened her sleeves without leaving any trace, and said with a smile: "There is no house, just two rooms."
"Hey, two houses are not a house." Second Aunt Wang smiled mysteriously and asked in a low voice: "Then are we going to move to the county town? Are Erni and Yingbao going with us?"
"What a shame, our fields are all there, how can we move to the county seat?"
Chun Niang was in a hurry to get away: "Second Aunt, he is very busy, so he won't chat with me anymore." After that, she walked away quickly.
Second Aunt Wang didn't give up and wanted to chat with her again, but her second son stopped her: "Mom, the cake is burnt, please go and have a look."
"Ouch." Second Aunt Wang slapped her thigh and hurriedly ran to lift the pot. It turned out that the pancakes in the pot were fine and not burnt at all.
"What a stinky boy! How dare you lie to me!" Aunt Wang angrily turned the pancake over.
She turned around and saw her second son standing by the stove looking at her and glared at him: "What are you looking at?"
Wang Erlang: "He is hungry and is waiting for the pancakes to come out of the pan."
"Eat, eat! You know how to eat!" Aunt Wang made a gesture in front of her son with a spatula, and said angrily: "Er Ni Ma is going to the county town, what does he think I will do!"
"What should we do?" Wang Erlang stared at the pancakes in the pot.
Second Aunt Wang gave her son a red look and said, "Didn't I tell me that if I spend more time with Ernie Huzi, our two families might become in-laws in the future."
Only then did Wang Erlang react and twitched the corner of Dong's mouth, "Mom, how old is Erni? How can he get along with her?"
He is already fifteen, and Erni is only ten years old. How can he get along with a yellow-haired girl?
