The happy little days of the Ye family

The pigs at home have been raised for more than three months.

Under Ye Xilin's careful care, the tender little girl weighing more than ten kilograms has turned into a fat pig weighing nearly 100 kilograms.

I ate more and more every day. When I first got home, a few baskets of pigweed were enough.

As he grows bigger, he eats more and more. Now he needs almost two cartloads of pigweed every day.

Mr. Ye is busy taking care of the fields and hills at home, and Mrs. Ye is also busy making hairbands and headbands.

Since having Ye Xilin, the two of them have become hands-off shopkeepers, and the pigs in the family have been fully taken care of by Ye Xilin.

Every morning, Ye Xilin and Mrs. Ye get up at the same time.

Mrs. Ye is responsible for making breakfast for the family, while Ye Xilin cooks pig food for the family's 10 pigs on the stove in the yard.

When the little piggy first arrived home, he could cook one pot of pig food for one day. Now, he can only cook two pots of pig food for these little ancestors for one meal.

Ye Xilin added bean dregs, chopped pigweed and sweet potatoes into two large iron pots, plus an appropriate amount of water.

While cooking pig food, Ye Xilin looked at the two makeshift stoves in the yard and thought about whether to add two more stoves.

You have to cook pig food anyway, and you have to light the fire here just like cooking two pots or four pots.

If you cook four pots of pig food at once, you will have to cook one less pig food in the afternoon.

Ye Xilin patted his thigh, and the more he thought about it, the more he thought it was a good idea, so that he would not have to cook pig food in the afternoon.

In the summer, squatting in front of the stove to cook pig food is really a torture.

Ye Xilin lit the fire, added two larger pieces of hardwood, and then went to find Mr. Ye.

Every morning, before breakfast, Mr. Ye would water the vegetables and fruits in the small vegetable garden.

Ye Xilin found Mr. Ye in the small vegetable garden and talked to him about building two more stoves in the yard.

"Grandpa, the ten big fat pigs at home are eating more and more. When we cook two pots of pig food in the morning, they only have enough for one meal."

"I want to add two more stoves in the yard to cook four pots of pig food at a time, so that I don't have to cook pig food in the afternoon."

"You have to cook pig food anyway, in one pot or in four pots. This saves a lot of trouble."

The pigs at home are now taken care of by Ye Xilin. Ye Xilin looks naughty, but actually does things quite safely.

Mr. Ye also agreed to add two stoves in the yard. As for raising pigs, he followed Ye Xilin.

Mr. Ye looked happily at his little grandson who had grown a lot taller. "There is yellow mud on the small back hill. I asked the long-term workers to help make some adobe bricks."

"When the adobe bricks are ready, I can put up the stove in one day."

Farmers cannot afford to hire workers to do the work, so they force themselves to do many things. Although they are not proficient, they know a little bit about many things.

Mr. Ye can build stoves, build houses, and even simple carpentry.

Seeing that Mr. Ye agreed, Ye Xilin was very happy, "I will help you when the time comes."

"If you have many skills, don't overwhelm yourself. I will teach you how to build a stove when the time comes."

"Okay."

Ye Xilin cooks pig food, cleans the pig pen and cuts pig grass every day, which is actually a bit boring. Setting up the stove is more interesting than cleaning the pig pen.

Ye Xilin loves to be clean. When he first started cleaning the pig pen, it was painful every day.

Every time you clean the pig pen, you must cover your mouth and nose with a cloth, and take a shower after cleaning.

As time went by, I gradually became numb. I didn’t even take a shower after cleaning the pig pen, but just pulled the cart and went to clear pig grass.

Now I feel very proud when I see the pigsty being cleaned very clean.

Especially when I saw the big fat pig that was even fatter than in previous years, I felt very happy.

Ye Xilin cleans the pigsty every day and is very diligent. He smokes mugwort in the pigsty every two days and sprinkles quicklime every five days.

Ye Xilin loves to be clean. When he cleans the pig pen every day, he still flushes water on the dirty big fat pigs and makes them look fat and smooth.

During breakfast, Ye's father also teased Ye Xilin, saying that he was better to the pigs at home than to him.

"Dad, don't worry. When you get old and sick in the future, I will definitely take good care of you, even better than the pigs at home."

Father Ye always felt that there was something strange about these words. This kid must have bad intentions. He didn't care, he had to fight him first.

Without saying anything, Father Ye directly kicked Ye Xilin, who was smiling mischievously.

"Dad, you sneak attack on me."

"Look at me."

"Dad, let me help you hold down this brat Xilin and beat him quickly."

Ye Donglin on the side also started making noises, and the father and son got into a quarrel.

Ye's mother rolled her eyes at Ye's father, "Childish, how old are you, why are you still making trouble with your children? You're not ashamed."

Mother Ye cursed, but her eyes were full of smiles, and she happily watched the father and son misbehaving.

Mrs. Ye was unfazed, she was tired of seeing this scene.

Mr. Ye looks mature and steady now. He was just like Father Ye when he was young, very childish.

Now that I am older, I have learned to pretend.

After breakfast, Mr. Ye pulled a brand-new cart to Xiaohoushan.

The Ye family has three carts. One is used by Ye Xilin to weed pigs every day, and the other is kept by the long-term workers for their use.

There is also one used by Mr. Ye, who pulls the cart to the small back mountain every day.

When I go home, I either bring back a cart full of pigweed or a cart full of firewood.

The pigs at home are not only edible, but they are also very wasteful of firewood. Just cooking pig food requires several cartloads of firewood a month.

In addition, Father Ye also makes braised pork and spicy duck every day, so the firewood is used up faster.

Arriving at Xiaohou Mountain, Mr. Ye first went to see the rice at the foot of the mountain.

In these newly opened paddy fields, the seedlings are planted more sparsely, and the distance between two seedlings is half as sparse as that in the first-class paddy fields.

The newly opened paddy fields were not fertile enough. When Mr. Ye planted the seedlings, he deliberately planted them sparsely so that the rice could be fuller.

When the rice bloomed, there was a heavy rain, and most of the rice flowers were knocked down. Now the grains on the rice are also sparse.

However, it may be that there are fewer grains and sufficient nutrients, and the grains on the rice are larger than in previous years.

The summer harvest is just over a month away, and the rice can be topdressed in two days.

Although the family raises 10 pigs, the fertilizer is never enough. Fortunately, there are also a lot of rabbits at the foot of the mountain.

Coupled with the rabbit excrement accumulated in daily life, it can barely be used to topdress the 50 acres of paddy fields.

However, no matter how well these grains grow, they cannot hide the fact that this summer's harvest is only [-]% of previous years.

The harvest of the newly opened paddy fields was not good, so Mr. Ye asked the long-term workers to focus on the two hills and the rabbit shed.

As for the paddy field, it is enough to remove the grass occasionally when it is empty.

There are the most mushrooms on the mountain after rain, but mushrooms are not always there.

There is less rain during this period and there are fewer mushrooms on the mountain. The main task of the long-term workers is to dig bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest.

Bamboo shoots can be made into dried bamboo shoots, and honeysuckle from the mountains can also be picked.