The happy little days of the Ye family

Nowadays, the Ye family's rabbit breeding farm is also running well.

There are 5 breeding rabbits in 50 rabbit sheds, including 20 male rabbits and 30 female rabbits.

In addition, there are more than 100 rabbits of various sizes, born from breeding rabbits.

There are already dozens of large rabbits. In about half a month, the first batch of rabbits will be ready for the market.

Father Ye, Li Orion and Village Chief Yang have already agreed to send the rabbit to Dashan Village when it grows up.

Li Orion was responsible for making the rabbit skin into leather, and Ye's father paid Li Orion twelve cents for each piece of rabbit skin.

The rabbit meat is arranged by the village chief, who hires someone to make it into bacon. The cost is the same as the bacon made at the end of the year.

A pound of fresh rabbit meat costs 1 penny, and the spices for making bacon also cost money to buy from the villagers.

Mr. Ye counted the rabbits in the rabbit shed and found that there were 46 rabbits in the first batch ready for slaughter.

These rabbits eat well and live well in the rabbit hutch. They are larger and fatter than the wild rabbits in the mountains.

Mr. Ye picked up two fat rabbits and weighed them. One rabbit weighed about six pounds.

If you raise it for another half month, a rabbit should weigh about seven pounds when it is released.

Originally, Ye's father also persuaded Tang Xiaojing to transport rabbits to Dashan Village to be made into wax rabbits. In this way, not only could the rabbit meat be sold for money, but the skin would also earn money.

But Tang Xiaojing had already made an agreement with Shopkeeper Liang to provide live rabbits to the Liang Family Restaurant.

Tang Xiaojing often sells prey in the Liang family restaurant, and it is difficult to break his promise.

The Tang family's rabbit farm is larger than the Ye family's. Since last month, it has begun to provide live rabbits to the Liang family restaurant.

The Liang Family Restaurant can consume about 3 rabbits every day. Tang Xiaojing sends live rabbits to the Liang Family Restaurant every three days, with 9 rabbits sent there each time.

Liang's restaurant needs 3 rabbits every day, each rabbit weighs about 7 pounds, and rabbit meat costs 12 Wen per pound.

Tang Xiaojing sells 90 rabbits to the Liang Family Restaurant every month. Just from the rabbits sold to the Liang Family Restaurant, he can make seven or eight taels a month.

There are more than 7 rabbits in the seven rabbit sheds of the Tang family. The rabbits eat a lot of tender grass every day, and they eat a lot and poop a lot.

Whether it's mowing the grass or cleaning the rabbit hutch, it requires a lot of manpower.

Tang Xiaojing alone couldn't take care of it, he mainly relied on the family's long-term workers to help take care of it.

If the wages of 10 long-term workers, 5 taels of silver per month, were deducted, only [-] taels of silver would be left.

After Mr. Ye finished counting the rabbits, he cut two large bundles of pigweed for the fish in the big puddle.

While weeding pigweed, Mr. Ye took a look at the Chinese toon seedlings that Mr. Ye had planted by the water. Unexpectedly, they actually survived.

The toon seedlings cut by Father Ye are about half alive. They have grown a lot of new leaves and have grown a lot taller. They are now as tall as Mr. Ye's waist.

"I didn't expect that this Chinese toon can be grown from cuttings."

Since the long-term workers settled at the foot of the mountain, they have been actively feeding the fish in the puddles and ponds every day.

Big baskets of pigweed are thrown into the water every day, and the fish eat them until they are chubby.

Just after two bundles of pigweed were put into the water, many fish swam over and ate the pigweed in the water leisurely.

In the past, Mr. Ye often fed these fish. The fish in the water were not afraid of people at all. Even if Mr. Ye squatted by the puddle, he was not afraid at all.

Mr. Ye looked at the chubby fish in the water and was a little greedy. He hadn't eaten fish in his family for a long time.

And these fish are not small anymore. Grass carp weighs about four kilograms, and crucian carp is as big as a palm.

Mr. Ye took the big basket on his side and fished it into the water with quick eyes and hands, and fished out two crucian carps that were a little smaller than a palm.

When we fished for the second time, the fish in the water became more alert, and after a lot of effort, we only caught one crucian carp.

"This crucian carp is so fat. Three of them are enough to make a pot of fish soup."

When Mr. Ye saw that all the fish in the water were scared away, he went to get another bundle of pigweed and came back, but in a different place to feed the fish.

When the fish swam over to eat the pig grass, Mr. Ye quickly picked up the basket on his back and soon caught another large grass carp weighing more than 4 kilograms.

The fish in the big puddle were caught from the pond on the side of Zhulin Mountain. The fish in the pond should be about the same size.

Mr. Ye was holding the big grass carp and muttered with a smile: "This fish is really not small. It seems that we can clear the pond to catch fish at the end of the year."

This fish is not small now. If you keep it well until the end of the year, it will weigh at least five or six kilograms.

Mr. Ye happily carried the fish to the rabbit shed, where he found a big bucket to keep the fish.

There was only one young man left in the rabbit shed to take care of the rabbits, while the others went up the mountain to collect gold and silver flowers.

Honeysuckle blooms in summer, and the previous heavy rain knocked down many honeysuckle buds.

Today, the honeysuckle on the mountain is as scattered as the rice.

Moreover, at the beginning of spring, Mr. Ye also cut many honeysuckle vines and took them to the Bamboo Forest Mountain to plant cuttings.

There are not many honeysuckles on the mountain, so Mr. Ye has not hired anyone else to pick the honeysuckles. The money from selling the honeysuckles may not be enough to pay his wages.

Therefore, all the long-term workers in the family went up to the mountains to pick honeysuckle flowers.

Fortunately, the jujube trees on the mountain bloom later than the rice flowers, and now is the time when the jujube flowers are in full bloom.

Last year, Ye's mother's family had a bumper harvest of jujubes. They were also grown in the barren hills that had just been reclaimed, but the jujubes they planted grew better and were bigger than those grown by Ye's family.

Mr. Ye went to Grandpa Ye and his second uncle specifically for advice.

It turns out that the branches of jujube trees need to be pruned every year. Some branches that are too dense and those that cannot get sunlight must all be cut down.

With fewer branches on the tree, more nutrients will be supplied to the dates, and the fruit will grow naturally.

Mr. Ye came here today just to prune the branches.

Before coming to Xiaohoushan, Mr. Ye made a special trip to see how the Wang family's jujube trees were pruned.

Originally, the jujube trees were pruned at the beginning of spring, but they were busy with spring plowing at the beginning of spring, and they were also busy picking mushrooms after spring plowing.

It has been delayed until now. The jujube trees have bloomed, and Mr. Ye has time to come over and prune them. If it is later, the jujube trees will bear fruit.

According to what Grandpa Ye said, more branches should be left on the sunny side, while the backlit side should be pruned sparsely.

After a while, the tree was covered with chopped jujube branches.

Mr. Ye took a look at the branches all over the ground. It seemed that he didn't have to worry about firewood in the second half of the year.

When he returned, Mr. Ye went to the rabbit shed again and picked out the biggest and fattest rabbit.

Mr. Ye didn't go back to hunt pigweed today, but he had enough meat tubes for the night.