The happy little days of the Ye family

When the sky was still gray, the big rooster from Ye's house next door started to crow non-stop.

Tangshan and Tang Xiaojing woke up to the sound of roosters crowing.

After washing, Tang Shan and Tang Xiaojing boxed several times in the yard, and the father and son sparred for a while. They were so hot that they were sweating profusely, and their clothes were half wet.

Tang Xiaojing went back to the house and changed into clean clothes, then went into the kitchen and started making breakfast.

There are only two people in the Tang family, father and son. Tang Xiaojing makes breakfast as simple as possible.

I cooked a large pot of thick polenta, buried two relatively large sweet potatoes in the charcoal fire, and boiled four eggs, and a simple and hearty breakfast was ready.

The breakfast seemed to be large, but Tangshan and Tang Xiaojing both had big appetites, and with the addition of Rhubarb and Xiaohuang, who had bigger appetites, Tang Xiaojing was still worried that the breakfast was not enough.

While Tang Xiaojing was making breakfast, Tangshan filled the water tank with water and chopped a lot of firewood.

When Tang Xiaojing called Tangshan to have breakfast, Tangshan was watering the newly grown pumpkin seedlings in the small vegetable garden.

The father and son have been eating together at Ye's house for a long time. The family's small vegetable garden does not grow vegetables. Most of the space is planted with sweet potatoes, leaving a little space for two rows of pumpkins.

Xiao Jing went to Ye's house to ask for the pumpkin seeds specially from Mrs. Ye. The pumpkins from Ye's house were really delicious, and both Tang Shan and Tang Xiao Jing liked them very much.

Whether it is used to make pumpkin steamed buns, pumpkin pancakes or pumpkin porridge, it is always delicious and delicious.

Tang Xiaojing followed Mrs. Ye's example and saved all the pumpkin seeds. He saved a lot of pumpkin seeds at home. Tang Xiaojing planned to take them to Ye's house and ask Ye's mother to help fry some spiced melon seeds.

Dahuang and Xiaohuang's breakfast was similar to that of the Tang family's father and son, a large bowl of polenta with a boiled egg, but one less roasted sweet potato than the father and son's.

When Tang Xiaojing was eating roasted sweet potatoes, Dahuang and Xiaohuang stared at the roasted sweet potatoes in his hand.

Da Huang was even more anxious and groaned, while Xiao Huang stared at him pitifully.

The two little guys saw that Tang Xiaojing felt guilty for a while, so they simply broke the sweet potato in his hand into two halves and gave it to the two greedy little guys.

Then Tang Xiaojing shamelessly snatched half of Tangshan's roasted sweet potatoes.

Tang Shan kicked Tang Xiaojing in dissatisfaction, "You unfilial son, who asked you to be so picky and only roasted two sweet potatoes."

Tang Xiaojing nimbly dodged Tang Shan's feet and said with a smile: "Who said I didn't roast enough? Originally, I roasted two sweet potatoes. Each of us will eat half, and the rhubarb and the small huang will eat one."

"Strong words make sense."

After breakfast, the father and son drove the ox cart to Stone Mountain. Tangshan was busy with spring plowing, and after spring plowing, he was busy building rabbit sheds. He had not gone to the town or county to recruit people for a long time.

Tang Xiaojing just stopped the ox cart. Da Huang and Xiao Huang jumped out of the ox cart excitedly and ran up the mountain like crazy.

Now that the two little guys are getting better and better at hunting, Tang Xiaojing doesn't worry about them. What he should worry about is the small animals on the mountain.

At this time, the 10 long-term workers hired by the Tang family were working hard to build rabbit hutches. The rabbit hutch built by the Tang family was larger than that built by the Ye family. One rabbit hutch could probably raise forty rabbits.

Tang Xiaojing plans to build five large rabbit sheds, one rabbit shed to raise breeding rabbits, one rabbit shed to raise newborn rabbits, and the remaining three rabbit sheds to raise half-grown rabbits.

Now two rabbit sheds have been built, and the third rabbit shed is being built. These five rabbit sheds will become the Tang family's rabbit breeding farm.

In the past few days, Tang Shan and Tang Xiaojing blocked eight nests of rabbits in Rabbit Mountain. They caught more than 40 rabbits, large and small, and Tang Xiaojing kept and raised these rabbits.

Today, the Tang family has a total of 30 breeding rabbits, 10 of which are male rabbits and 20 of which are female rabbits. There are also more than 30 half-grown little rabbits.

These rabbits have been raised in newly built rabbit sheds. One rabbit shed raises breeding rabbits, and the other rabbit shed raises half-grown baby rabbits.

After the other rabbit sheds are built, the half-grown rabbits should be raised separately. The female rabbits can be kept as breeding rabbits to give birth to rabbits, and the male rabbits can be sold after they are raised.

Tang Xiaojing felt that there were still too few breeding rabbits at home, so he took Tangshan up to Rabbit Mountain.

After going up the mountain, Tang Xiaojing shouted loudly to Rhubarb and Xiaohuang several times. After a long time, the two little guys emerged from the grass wagging their tails.

The eight nests of rabbits that have been blocked in the past few days were all found by Dahuang and Xiaohuang. The two little guys took Tangshan and Tang Xiaojing all over the mountain to find rabbit nests.

The father and son were very lucky. Under the leadership of Dahuang and Xiaohuang, they found three nests of rabbits and got nearly 3 rabbits, large and small.

The father and son returned to the foot of Stone Mountain, where the rabbit shed was built.

Tang Xiaojing placed several large rabbits with the breeding rabbits to keep the rabbits, while the smaller rabbits were raised in another rabbit shed to raise the rabbits.

There are now more than 30 rabbits on the breeding rabbit side, and there are more than 40 rabbits in the rabbit shed on the half-grown rabbit side.

Seeing that the little rabbits were a little crowded, Tang Shan said to Tang Xiaojing, "Are these rabbits enough? If we catch any more, we won't be able to keep them in the rabbit shed anymore."

Tang Xiaojing thought about it in his mind and felt that it was almost enough.

"There are more than 30 large rabbits now, and more than 20 of them are female. Spring is a good time for breeding. In a month or two, many little rabbits will be born."

"Rabbits can give birth to about 3 to 6 little rabbits in one litter, and more than 20 breeding rabbits can give birth to about 100 little rabbits."

"When the first batch of rabbits are born, these half-grown bunnies will also grow up. By summer, the farm will have more than 50 female rabbits that can give birth to bunnies."

Tang Xiaojing was very happy, "Calculating this way, wouldn't the breeding farm be able to have 300 little rabbits by the second half of the year?"

Tangshan is not so optimistic. "The survival rate of rabbits is not high, and only half of the rabbits born can be fed."

"Even if only half of them survive, there will probably be about 1 rabbits when they are raised."

After doing this calculation, Tang Xiaojing found that there seemed to be fewer rabbit sheds at home. There were two rabbit sheds just for breeding rabbits, and newborn rabbits had to be raised in a separate rabbit shed.

Tang Xiaojing added: "Calculating this way, we need to build at least 7 Tupengs, and 5 is too few."

Tangshan: "I heard from the Ye family that if you raise too many livestock, they will easily get sick. Why don't you build the rabbit shed in two places?"

"Half is built at the base of Stone Mountain and the other half is built at the base of Rabbit Mountain."

Tang Xiaojing thought it was okay, "How about building 8 rabbit sheds directly? Build 4 rabbit sheds at the foot of the mountain, and the distance between the rabbit sheds should be farther apart."

Tangshan thought it would be okay to see eight rabbit sheds. Anyway, the rabbits eat grass, and the breeding rabbits are caught from the mountains. They don't cost any money, so the breeding farm can't lose money.

"I'll go to Brother Li first and tell him to build rabbit sheds in two separate places. I'll go to the county later and buy more blue bricks and bluestone slabs."

After saying that, Tangshan ignored Tang Xiaojing and went to Li Feng to discuss the rabbit shed.

Tang Xiaojing took several large baskets and went to Rabbit Mountain to cut grass and feed the rabbits.