The happy little days of the Ye family

After feeding the pigs, Ye Xilin began to clean the pigsty. Fortunately, Ye's family had a well, and the pigsty was right next to the pool, so it was convenient to clean the pigsty.

Ye Xilin took a bucket and fetched water from the pool that had been filled with water for a long time. Bucket after bucket of clean water was poured into the pig pen. The dirt on the floor was washed away by the water and flowed away along the underground ditch.

Even the little piggy, which was originally dirty and gray, was washed pink and tender.

Raising pigs is not a simple matter. After cleaning the pig pen, Ye Xilin has to kill pig grass again.

The basket alone couldn't hold much pigweed, so Ye Xilin simply pushed out the cart at home, and using the cart to pull the pigweed could save a lot of effort.

Ye Xilin pushed the cart at home. There were many backpacks on the cart, and these baskets were used to hold pig grass.

Ye Xilin hummed a little tune and came to the back mountain in a good mood.

Ye Xilin saw that many children in the village were hunting pigweed in the back hill. Although the pigweed could grow again, he couldn't help but the whole village came to shoot pigweed.

After saying hello to his friends in the village, Ye Xilin turned around and went to Xiaohou Mountain to hunt pigweed. That was their own mountain, and pigweed grew better, so there was no need to compete with the villagers for this pigweed. .

Now there are 10 piglets at home, and Ye Xilin wants to take advantage of the fact that they don't have much to eat, so he is going to get more pigweed and bring it back to dry in the sun.

I will raise sows at home in the future. Now that the pigweed is growing well, I will harvest some more pigweed and save it to feed the pigs in the winter.

Pigweed cannot be beaten in winter. If the pigs are fed only with grain and bean dregs, the cost of raising pigs will be too high, and they may even lose money. Therefore, Ye Xilin plans to prepare freshly dried pigweed in advance.

It has to be said that Mrs. Ye is a very successful housekeeper. She not only keeps the Ye family in good order, but also makes the life more prosperous as time goes by.

Under her words and deeds, both Ye's father and the three children are very economical and know how to live well (they are all money-crazed).

When Ye Xilin came to Xiaohoushan, Mr. Ye was bending down to pull weeds in the paddy fields with five or six long-term workers.

After the heavy rain, when Ye Xilin came to mend the seedlings, the seedlings were still staggering and pitiful. Now they have grown lush and green, and they have grown a lot taller.

There are more grass roots and grass seeds in newly opened paddy fields, so there are more weeds than in ordinary paddy fields.

The long-term workers have to pull weeds every 10 days or so. Otherwise, these weeds will take away all the nutrients in the ground, and the grain yield will be even worse.

At the foot of the mountain in the distance, there were a dozen strong men working hard to build a rabbit hutch.

Now two rabbit hutches have been built, and a dozen men are divided into two groups and are building the third and fourth rabbit hutches.

The two rabbit hutches are half-built. In two or three days, four rabbit hutches will be built, and then rabbits can be raised.

The rabbit shed is built with old blue bricks brought back from the old house, and the floor below is paved with old bluestone slabs. Rabbits know how to dig holes. If you put bluestone slabs on them, you won't be afraid of rabbits burrowing and running away.

Tang Xiaojing originally planned to send a few pairs of breeding rabbits over after the rabbit shed was built. After the hunters in Dashan Village found out, they said they could directly hunt some rabbits in the mountains and raise them.

They were all experienced hunters, and it was easy for them to hunt rabbits.

The Ye family didn't know how to hunt, so the hunters felt it was a pity to leave the small animals on the two hills untouched.

These hunters plan to wait until the rabbit shed is built and then dig some traps on the mountain to catch rabbits and pheasants. This way, the Ye family and they will not have to worry about meat, and the excess can be sold for money.

Mr. Ye planned to build four large rabbit sheds and four pig pens. Half of the blue bricks were given to the Tang family, and the remaining green bricks were only enough to build four rabbit sheds.

Mr. Ye plans to go to the old house later to pull some bricks to build the pigsty, but there is no need to worry. The piglets in the village are so popular that even if the pigsty is built, it will be useless without the piglets.

Ye Xilin came to cut pigweed by the stream. The pigweed here grows very well, is fresh and green, and can be easily cut into a big bundle.

Ye Xilin has many years of experience in hunting pigweed, and his hands and feet are very agile. He can pack a basketful of pigweed in a few clicks, and eight basketfuls of pigweed in less than half an hour, which will fill the car. .

Ye Xilin had just finished beating pigweed, and he also packed a large bundle of pigweed and came to the large puddle next to the stream. Just as he was about to feed the fish, he found a lot of pigweed floating in the puddle. Under the pigweed The fish also obviously grew a lot.

Ye Xilin has good eyesight, and he can clearly see that all the fish in the water have round bellies, and they seem to be eating well.

Ye Xilin threw the pigweed in his hand into the puddle, and saw a lot of snails in the puddle. He hadn't eaten snails for a long time, and Ye Xilin was a little greedy, so he simply rolled up his trouser legs and went into the water to touch the snails.

The water in the large puddle was a bit deep, up to Ye Xilin's thighs, making it difficult to touch the snails.

However, there are little ducks raised on the other side of the creek. Snails, snails, small fish and shrimps have long been their meals, and they can only touch the snails in this big puddle.

The water in the puddle was a bit deep, and Ye Xilin didn't dare to stay any longer. He touched half of the basin of snails and hurried up.

Ye Xilin said hello to Mr. Ye and went home with half a pot of snails and a cart full of pigweed.

The piglets at home are still young and don’t eat much. Ye Xilin left three baskets of pigweed to feed the pigs today. The remaining five baskets of pigweed were taken to the stone slab in the front yard and spread out to dry. .

Ye Xilin remembered that there were heavy rains around the Dragon Boat Festival here, and pigweed could not be cut during the rainstorms, so Ye Xilin wanted to prepare more dry pigweed for the piggies at home.

After lunch in the afternoon, Ye Xilin pulled the cart to hunt pigweed again.

Mother Ye felt sorry for her son, "Xilin, the sun is scorching right now. Take a nap first, and it's not too late to hunt pigweed in the evening."

Ye Xilin waved his hand and didn't care at all. He was a child who grew up in the village. "It's okay. The sun is nothing."

Ye Xilin said cheerfully: "At this time, there were many people hunting pigweed in the back mountain. I stopped by and played with my friends there, and I shot back the pigweed while playing."

Although there were a lot of pigweeds in the small back mountain, he was the only one there. Ye Xilin felt it was too boring, so he decided to go to the back hill to hunt pigweeds because there were so many people there.

Ye Xilin pulled the cart out of the house happily.