The happy little days of the Ye family

After buying New Year's goods, Tang Xiaojing went to Stone Mountain in the afternoon to give New Year's gifts to his family's long-term workers.

These long-term workers have worked hard in the Tang family for a year, and everyone has worked hard too.

He had discussed it with Tangshan and Ye Qingqing two days ago, and they agreed to give each person 60 cents, plus a duck and a rabbit.

With money and rabbits and ducks, all the long-term workers were very happy and wished they could work in the Tang family for the rest of their lives.

Rabbits and ducks are raised at the foot of the mountain and cost nothing.

The Tang family now has a total of 15 long-term workers, each with 60 cash, and a total of 900 cash spent.

This money is not much, but it can allow everyone to live a good year and stabilize these long-term workers. Tang Xiaojing thinks it is very good.

After giving out the New Year gifts, Tang Xiaojing asked half of the long-term workers to go back early to celebrate the New Year, while the other half stayed in the mountains to feed the remaining livestock.

After working hard for a whole year, these long-term workers stayed in the mountains every day and never returned home a few times. They must take turns to go back to spend time with their families during the Chinese New Year.

Tang Xiaojing had already made arrangements to let half of the people go back to rest early today.

When they are in the third grade of junior high school, another group of people will go home to rest.

Moreover, the group of people who went back to rest first this year are the same people who went back to rest last year.

Tang Xiaojing's bowl of water was flat, and the two groups of people exchanged it, and no one could find fault with it.

Each long-term worker can go home and rest for 10 days, and during the Chinese New Year month, wages are still calculated at 550 Wen.

After giving out the New Year's gifts, Tang Xiaojing wandered around the foot of the mountain, carefully taking stock of the remaining little ones.

Before the Chinese New Year, Tang Xiaojing had the long-term workers make bacon out of the fat pigs that were ready for slaughter.

Tang Xiaojing had already sold the first batch of bacon at the county wharf some time ago, earning more than twenty taels of silver.

However, there is still a batch of bacon in the cellar at home, which was just dried in the past two days.

Now that all the merchants on the dock have gone back to celebrate the New Year, there is no time to sell them, so he plans to keep them and sell them slowly after the New Year.

Anyway, the bacon is durable, so there’s no need to worry about this.

As for the rabbits in the rabbit shed, all the rabbits weighing more than 5 pounds were slaughtered during this period and made into wax rabbits and rabbit skins.

Although the Liang Family Restaurant no longer wants rabbits, they can make more money by killing rabbits and making rabbit skins.

Like cured pork, the rabbit skin coats from the previous batch of cured rabbits have been sold some time ago, and now there are still the newly made ones from the latter batch.

Although many little guys were slaughtered years ago, there are still many at the foot of the mountain.

In the pigsty, there are still 30 piglets of different sizes. The largest one weighs just over 100 pounds, and the smaller one was just delivered from the Ye family a few days ago.

In the rabbit shed, there were dozens of newborn rabbits, as well as half-grown rabbits in two sheds.

These little guys can't live without people, so Tang Xiaojing arranged five long-term workers to take care of them.

Even though these little guys are tiny, they are very edible. These five long-term workers spend a lot of time just hunting pigweed every day.

"Quack quack..."

"Quack quack..."

"Quack quack..."

Coming out of the rabbit shed, Tang Xiaojing heard a loud noise in the distance.

I saw a large group of fat ducks of different sizes swimming in the river at the bottom of the valley.

At first, Tang Xiaojing wanted to raise these ducks to provide extra meals for himself and his long-term workers, and to collect some duck eggs to make salted duck eggs.

Later, the Ye family started selling duck products and roast ducks, and the Tang family raised some more to sell.

Don't worry about the ducks. Just let them find food in the river. At least you can make more money.

At the end of the year, the Ye family's roast ducks sold well, and the adult female ducks had long been bought by the Ye family, leaving only a few old ducks and some ungrown ducklings.

But after raising them for another month or two, these ducks will be big enough to be sold for money after spring.

Tang Xiaojing wandered around the foot of the mountain, and then went to Rabbit Mountain.

"BAA Baa baa……"

"BAA Baa baa……"

"BAA Baa baa……"

As soon as he reached the foot of the mountain, Tang Xiaojing heard the crisp cry of sheep.

When I looked up, I saw a few cute little lambs gathering together, eating grass leisurely.

Not far away, there were three more lively little dumplings chasing and playing.

Tang Xiaojing looked at these little white balls from a distance, feeling that they looked a bit like clouds in the sky, and they were quite cute.

These lambs were raised before the autumn harvest and have been raised for nearly three months now.

Tang Xiaojing chatted with the long-term worker responsible for herding sheep for a while, and learned that these lambs had grown from a few pounds each to more than ten pounds now.

Some of them have good appetites and already weigh nearly 20 pounds.

There aren't any ferocious big guys in Rabbit Mountain, but there are a lot of snakes, insects, rats, and ants on the mountain, and some lambs were also killed in the process.

Of the 65 lambs originally raised, 4 have died one after another in recent days, and another 2 have disappeared. Now there are only 59 lambs left.

The remaining lambs looked quite strong and very lively, chasing each other in twos and threes.

Moreover, these little guys are not afraid of people at all, and they even come over to Tang Xiaojing when they see him.

Seeing how cute these little guys were, Tang Xiaojing couldn't help but hold them in his arms and stroke them several times.

On the way back, Tang Xiaojing had been thinking about how to plan his family's industry next year.

The Tang family now has 8 pig pens and 8 rabbit sheds.

Those that have grown up have been slaughtered some time ago, and now the pig shed and rabbit shed are mostly empty.

Rabbits breed quickly, so don’t worry about this. By the time next spring comes, the little rabbits will be born and they will probably be able to fill up all the empty rabbit hutches.

As for the empty pig pen, I will go to Ye's house later to find Ye Xilin and see how many piglets there are that I can bring over.

If it's not enough, you should order some piglets in advance from the sow-raising family in the village.

These pigs can not only eat meat, but can also be used to fertilize the fields. The piglets in the village are particularly popular.

If it weren't for Ye Xilin, half of the eight pig pens in the Tang family would have been empty.

Tang Xiaojing saw that the long-time sheep farmer was quite responsible and conscientious. The lambs on the mountain were raised well and he planned to raise more goats next year.

Rabbit Mountain is quite big. It would be too wasteful to raise only more than fifty sheep. Tang Xiaojing plans to buy 60 more lambs after the new year.

However, there are many sheep on the back mountain, and it is not possible to graze them freely on the mountain like now.

These little guys tend to run down the mountain by themselves, or run to the top of the mountain to eat the herbs grown by Tang Xiaojing.

"I think we should circle the top of the mountain. There are a lot of herbs planted on it. Don't let the goats go up and cause trouble."

As for the foot of the mountain, Rabbit Mountain is really too big. The long-term workers at home have things to do and don’t have the time to trap it.

Tang Xiaojing thought for a while and decided to forget it. Just circle the top of the mountain.

The family seems to have many long-term workers, but there are quite a few little ones at the foot of the mountain, and the family also has 60 acres of paddy fields.

During normal farm breaks or after rain, I would go to the mountains to pick mushrooms. Manpower is still somewhat scarce.

Tang Xiaojing felt that there were still fewer long-term workers at home, so he considered whether to recruit two more people to help.