Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

"Why don't you set up a stall too?"

Xu Chunying was shocked. "I can't! Besides, you know Ergou's leg was broken. I don't dare!"

Zhang Xiuhua also knew about this, but if it were her, she would go for the sake of her child even if it was dangerous. Seeing that she didn't insist, she stopped persuading her.

Xu Chunying convinced herself, "Forget it! Rather than let Hongwen hate me, I might as well open a stall. At worst, I can give them all the money."

She wiped away her tears and said, "What can I sell?! I don't know how to make snacks!"

"You can sell vegetables!" Zhang Xiuhua clapped her hands, "Profit without any investment! Isn't that great?!"

Xu Chunying thought about it carefully, and it was true. Every household in Lijiatun grows vegetables. It's like having no capital!

"If you are brave enough, you can go to other households to collect vegetables that you don't have, fill a cart with them and sell them in various residential areas in the county. Your vegetables are fresh and will definitely sell well." Zhang Xiuhua had also visited the supply and marketing cooperative in the county before. To be honest, the vegetables had been handled by several people and were in a mess.

If Xu Chunying transported some vegetables and fruits over there, who wouldn’t be happy to buy such juicy vegetables!

Xu Chunying thought about it and realized that it was right! It was just too far. "It would take me at least three hours to walk to the county town, right?!"

"You can find a place to live in the county town, and then go to the vicinity of the county town to pick vegetables. There's no need to go far!" Zhang Xiuhua thought this was a good idea. "By the way! Don't you raise chickens and geese at home? You can take them to the county town to sell and make some money!"

Xu Chunying hesitated for a long time. It was too risky for a woman like her to go to the county town to rent a house!

"You can take Hongwen with you. Let him see your sincerity." Zhang Xiuhua felt that there was no overnight hatred between mother and son. "The child probably regretted it, but he really wanted the model. He would definitely be happy to set up a stall with you."

Xu Chunying pursed her lips and thought for a long time, and finally decided to go back and discuss it with Hongwen.

She had been home for only half an hour, and soon came back to tell her, "Hongwen agreed. We'll go tomorrow!" She looked around and said, "By the way, do you sell vegetables? If I go there, I'll sell them to you as well!"

Zhang Xiuhua's family's private plot of land is used to build a chicken farm, and only the other half is used to grow vegetables, which is barely enough for their own consumption. Hearing this, she waved her hand and said, "No need! I don't have many vegetables at home. See if other families have any for sale!"

Xu Chunying did not force it and took the basket to collect vegetables from other families.

The next day, before dawn, when Zhang Xiuhua was still asleep, Xu Chunying took Hongwen and pulled a cart to the county to sell vegetables.

Zhang Xiuhua got up and her three children had already finished breakfast. After she ate and drank her fill, she went to the chicken farm to feed the chickens.

After collecting all the eggs laid last night, Zhuzhu's excited shout was heard from outside, "Mom! Mom! The pheasant laid eggs!"

Zhang Xiuhua came out with a basket. "It's just laying eggs. Do you have to be so happy?"

This pheasant was caught by Ergou from the forest on the mountain a few years ago. Zhang Xiuhua was reluctant to sell it because of its beautiful appearance. Of course, it was also because people at that time did not know the value of pheasants. The price of pheasants was the same as that of native chickens. She did not want to sell it at a low price, so she kept it.

Pheasants also have a long lifespan, with a natural lifespan of 7 to 12 years. They lay very few eggs, producing two to three clutches a year, with each clutch containing between 6 and 12 eggs.

Zhuzhu waved her hands, "No! Mom, there is something inside this pheasant. This egg can hatch chicks."

Zhang Xiuhua was overjoyed, "Really?" She took the pheasant egg from Zhuzhu's hand and exposed it to the sun. Sure enough, there was a ball of red blood.

Heck, she had raised this chicken for seven years and it had laid almost a hundred eggs, but this was the first time she had come across a fertilized egg.

"It must be that this year I raised thirty roosters, and it finally took a fancy to one of them." Zhang Xiuhua clapped her hands, regretting it deeply. If she had known that the pheasant didn't take a fancy to the previous roosters, she should have picked more roosters for breeding. What a mistake!

Baolin and Yaoyao were doing homework under the fruit tree. I heard their conversation and was a little confused.

"Mom, this pheasant is useless. It wastes food all day long. It only lays a dozen eggs a year. It's not worth it. Why do you still keep it?!" Baozhu felt that no matter how beautiful this pheasant was, it couldn't be eaten. It would be fine to keep one at home for viewing, but Mom wanted to hatch another one. How desperate she was.

Yaoyao nodded her head, "Is this pheasant dying? Aunt Zhang wants to raise chickens?!"

Baolin really didn't expect this to be the purpose, and nodded as if he suddenly realized something.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "What do you know? Now that we have reform and opening up, I can make money by raising these pheasants. People abroad will definitely like these pheasants."

She kept the fertilized pheasant egg carefully and reminded Zhuzhu, "If you come across such pheasant eggs, remember to give them to me. Don't leave them in the kitchen, or they will be eaten accidentally."

Zhuzhu nodded repeatedly, and then opened her big black eyes and asked, "Mom, when will the chicks hatch?"

"In early spring! If they hatch now, we will have to build a house for them in winter. If they can't withstand the pressure, they will all die." Zhang Xiuhua touched her head.

Zhuzhu nodded thoughtfully.

By the time Li Jianguo went home to rest, Zhang Xiuhua had already collected six fertilized pheasant eggs.

She asked Li Jianguo to ask his comrades in Pengcheng to inquire about the price of pheasants abroad.

Li Jianguo had no problem asking, but "We don't have that much space at home, you can't keep more than a few at a time, and even if we sell them at a high price, it's not worth sending them to Pengcheng."

Pheasants can only be raised in the open, and their chicken coop can only hold 50 chickens at most. If all of them are pheasants, they will move around a lot and need a lot of space, so they can only hold three at most. Pheasants like to peck and bite, and if one chicken is the king, if two chickens are locked together, the chicken coop will probably become a cockfighting arena.

"Let's ask first. If the price is high, I think it may be possible in the future!" Zhang Xiuhua told him, "Jiang Province has already implemented the household contract responsibility system. I heard from Xinghua's boyfriend last time. It will definitely be in the next few years here. If pheasants can really make money, we can ask for more mountain land. My body shape is not suitable for farming, but raising chickens is no problem."

Li Jianguo thought about it carefully and thought her idea was not bad. If the household contract responsibility system was really implemented, their entire province would be sparsely populated and every household would have to get at least several dozen acres of land. Xiuhua's body size was not suitable for working in the fields. It was a good idea to rent a piece of mountain land to raise chickens!

He showed her an admiring look, "You are very thoughtful. I didn't think of this."

Zhang Xiuhua laughed, "Then call quickly!"

Li Jianguo nodded, "Then I'll go now."

As he was about to leave, Zhang Xiuhua thought of something else. "I think a bicycle is only suitable for carrying one person. A truck is needed to transport goods. Is there a bicycle with a compartment on the back?"

She was not sure when the tricycles were first introduced, so she asked Li Jianguo, fearing that she might have remembered the wrong time, if he had seen one.

Li Jianguo thought for a moment and said, "I have seen it before. But that truck is used to transport goods, and you need a driver's license!"

Zhang Xiuhua was puzzled. Driver's license? She knew that bicycles now needed a bicycle license, but did the electric tricycle need a driver's license?

"The tricycle you mentioned is electrified?"

"It's not electricity, it's diesel. It's like a tractor, but it's much faster than a tractor!" Li Jianguo has only seen it once.

Zhang Xiuhua was very disappointed when she heard that there were no electric tricycles now.

"If you want a tricycle, you can buy a pedal tricycle. We sell them in our county. The price is not expensive."

Zhang Xiuhua doesn't need a pedal tricycle for the time being. "Forget it. Let's talk about it later."

Li Jianguo nodded and rode his bicycle out of the house.