Traveling through the famine years with the system to raise cubs

"Ten copper coins, if you want them all, I'll give you eight copper coins each!"

The peddler blinked, and took out a baby duck from the cage to show, only to hear him say: "Look at how healthy my baby duck is, you don't have to worry about taking it back..."

Before the peddler finished speaking, the duckling in his hand flapped its wings a few times and then fell motionless and limp in the peddler's hand.

Jiang Ling frowned and looked at the embarrassing peddler speechlessly. The peddler quickly put the duckling in his hand behind him, grabbed another duckling that was screaming happily with his other hand, and said, "Sister-in-law , look at this one, how lively it is."

Jiang Ling grinned and said, "I think you're just an average duck. How about I take all six copper coins?"

"This..." The peddler scratched his head hesitantly. Seeing this, Jiang Ling turned around and was about to leave. The peddler panicked and said, "Oh, sister-in-law, don't go! Don't go! I'll give you six copper coins each!"

Jiang Ling stopped and turned to look at the peddler and continued to ask, "Are these all ducks?"

The peddler took out a baby duck that looked bigger than the other ducks from the cage and said, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, except this is a male duck, the others are all female ducks. If you find a second male duck after you grow up Duck, bring it to me, and I'll refund you a hundred coppers right away!"

Hearing what the peddler said, Jiang Ling smiled awkwardly. It would take at least three to five months for the ducklings to grow up, so the peddler would not even say whether he was here or not.

Jiang Ling bought the abacus and walked to Lu Bo's cart with a cage containing twenty ducklings. The village woman who came with Jiang Ling hadn't come back yet. Lu Bo looked at the ducklings in Jiang Ling's cage. Asked curiously: "Mr. Jiang, you...why do you buy so many ducklings?"

"Ducks can lay eggs when they grow up, and they can also be killed for meat. The main reason is that the duck's fur keeps warm, so you can add some to it when making winter clothes!" Jiang Ling explained patiently.

"Oh? There are so many benefits? I'll buy some ducklings wherever I can get them!" Lu Bo asked with his eyes shining.

"I'm sorry, Uncle Lu, I've bought all twenty ducklings from the duck vendor. I guess it will be the next time! By the way, this is the old carpenter's plan!" Jiang Ling said from the basket Ri took out the abacus.

Uncle Lu showed a disappointed expression when he heard it, but his mood improved a lot when he saw the abacus in his hand.

At this time, the village women all returned to Uncle Lu's ox cart in twos and threes. They all showed surprise when they saw the duckling, but after Jiang Ling explained to them, they also showed more or less disappointment.

Along the way, the ducklings kept quacking, and as soon as they got home, several children surrounded them curiously, looking at the ducklings in the cage, Jiang Wenxi asked, "Mom, are you planning to stew meat for us?" ?"

Jiang Ling smiled and tapped Jiang Wenxi's forehead lightly with her hand, saying: "Snacks! You know how to eat every day, these ducklings are used to lay eggs and pluck their hairs!"

"What? Plucking? What are you doing plucking?" Jiang Yaojie looked at Jiang Ling strangely and asked.

"Of course I made winter clothes for you, oh yes, Yaojie, Suihe, Wenxi, from tomorrow onwards we are going to open up wasteland and cultivate land!" Said making winter clothes, Jiang Ling suddenly remembered that he still had cotton seeds in his back basket.

"Cultivated land? Elder sister, the planting season has already passed, and the harvest will be abundant. What do you want to plant?" Jiang Zhishan asked strangely.

"Cotton? Elder sister, why are you planting this? You can't eat or drink this stuff?" Jiang Zhishan's brows frowned even tighter.

"Zhishan, have you thought about how we will survive the winter? Cotton can keep out the cold. Although we can add reeds to our winter clothes, the reeds are almost dead this summer. How can we keep out the cold? And I heard that the summer is very dry and the winter is hot. It must be extremely cold."

"This may not be accurate, but we must at least be prepared, just in case..."

Jiang Zhishan was dumbfounded by Jiang Ling's words. He frowned and looked at Jiang Ling with strange eyes. He always felt that his eldest sister in front of him was both strange and familiar.

"Stinky boy, what are you looking at!" Jiang Ling teased, reaching out and patting Jiang Zhishan's shoulder lightly.

"Ah... no... no... no." Jiang Zhishan felt that he had lost his composure, and quickly shook his head to explain.

The corners of Jiang Ling's mouth turned up, and he went to the kitchen to start preparing lunch. The lunch meal was extraordinarily rich. Jiang Ling specially made Jiaoliu meatballs, fried wild mushrooms, bought a few eggs from the mall, and made a large quiches.

Jiang Zhishan stared wide-eyed at the food on the table, and asked in surprise: "Eldest sister, you... are you planning to stop eating in the future?"

"Uncle, you are talking nonsense, we eat very well almost every day!" Jiang Wenxi looked at the burnt meatballs on the table and couldn't help wiping his mouth.

Jiang Zhishan was completely convinced. He really couldn't understand his elder sister in front of him. Why did he become so good with his brother-in-law and after divorce? The elder sister took care of the four children much better than before. At least this will It won't be as yellow and thin as before.

"Eat quickly, we have to go to open up wasteland after eating! Zhishan, you can study at home!" Before Jiang Zhishan could say anything, Jiang Ling said first.

"No! I can't eat and drink for free when I come to the eldest sister's house, and I still have the eldest sister's money. This counts as my share!" Jiang Zhishan shook his head and interrupted.

"What do you do in the field as a scholar! You just need to read well!" Jiang Ling said.

"No! Sister, just let me go with you, there are no scholars here!"

Seeing Jiang Zhishan's resolute attitude, Jiang Ling finally sighed helplessly: "Zhishan, doing farm work is very hard!"

"Don't be afraid, my nephews and nieces can do it, why can't I, a big man with hands and feet, not do it?" Jiang Zhishan patted his arm as he spoke.

Looking at Jiang Zhishan's attitude, Jiang Ling knew that it would be useless to try to persuade him, so she simply allowed him to go to work together in the afternoon.

The sun was still hot in the afternoon, Jiang Ling distributed the straw hats bought in the mall to everyone and told them to stop working immediately and go to a cool place to rest if they felt dizzy or nauseous.

Jiang Zhishan and the four children nodded, and a group of six walked towards Jiang Ling's wasteland.

It is difficult to open up the wasteland, but fortunately, the water in the cave is flowing slowly, the surface is not particularly dry, and the soil has become soft.

Jiang Yaojie led Jiang Suihe and Jiang Wenxi to turn over the land with a hoe, and Zhao Erling's daughter-in-law at the side hurriedly came over.

When she saw Jiang Zhishan, she was even more taken aback.

"Oh, sister-in-law Jiang, are you all there, brother Zhishan? Did you buy this piece of wasteland?" Zhao Erleng's daughter-in-law asked.

"Yes, I plan to build a house in the back. You also know that my current house was temporarily lent to us by the village chief for pity on our mothers!" Jiang Ling said with a smile.

"Oh, brother Zhishan is also working here, don't be tired anymore, you have thin skin and tender flesh, thin arms and legs!" Zhao Erling's daughter-in-law didn't mean much, but she just felt sorry for this scholar who also came to do it. farm work.

But when Jiang Zhishan heard it, the taste changed. He stopped his hand that was digging the ground, held the hoe, looked at Zhao Erling's wife and said, "Sister-in-law Zhao, what do you mean by that?"