Crossing the green wheat ears

For more than a month, Xiyuan earned more than 20 taels of silver from the vegetables in the vegetable garden at home. Including the money left over from selling Chinese cabbage, the total was 25 taels. After deducting the money to buy medicine for Wei Cheng, there was still 15 taels of silver. .During this period, Xiyuan asked his mother to ask the villagers who had chickens, ducks, and geese for sale. They even searched all over the village and bought a hundred of them. Chickens and ducks are the same. Three for a penny, and two for a penny for the goose chicks, and there were some small bills in the middle that were only worth a penny and a half. A total of 110 pennies was lost.

Grandma and Niang Xiyuan took good care of them when they bought them back. Now these little poultry are still small. In his previous life, Xiyuan only looked after the adults in his family, and he had never practiced it himself. Therefore, he left the decision-making power to his mother and grandma, and he gave appropriate care by the side. guide.For example, the reason why people in the village do not raise these things in large quantities is because they are afraid of wasting food, and they are also afraid that they will not be able to feed them, and it will be a waste of effort—when a plague comes, no matter how much they raise, there will be nothing left.In order to prevent this from happening, Xiyuan asked his father and grandfather to find quicklime and sprinkle it in the fences of these chickens, ducks and geese every now and then, and sometimes fumigate it with vinegar to disinfect it.Moreover, these small poultry are kept in the back garden of the home, and no unrelated people are usually allowed to approach, that is, grandma and mother must put on clean clothes when feeding.

The elders didn't know why they did this, but because of Xiyuan's success in helping the family make money several times, they all obeyed Xiyuan's instructions without principle.

Xi Wei and Wei Cheng were very happy to see so many little things raised at home. Every day, they took their small baskets and went to the field to dig wild vegetables for the poultry. Ah, I pointed out the bitter pockmarked vegetables, and the two little guys dug them back as they were. Seeing the little chicks eating happily, I jumped up and down happily, feeling very proud.Those small wild vegetables, like mother-in-law and bitter pockmarks, can play a role in removing internal heat, and it is very beneficial to feed small poultry. Of course, the fruits of their labor alone are not enough, and now the small things are still very tender , I can’t just eat vegetables without food, so most of the troughs are sprinkled with chaff. The family’s supply is not enough, so Xiyuan asked his father and villagers to buy some.When these little guys get older, they can be raised in the wild, and they can find food for themselves.

In addition to these little chicks, Xiyuan also asked the adults to find out if there was any ewe that was selling milk. As a result, the mother bought one from the village where the grandma’s house was located. It was a ewe with a lamb. The lamb was not born long, and the ewe's milk was also very good.Because I bought two sheep, I spent a little more money, and shared half of the sheep.The adults in the family felt sorry for Yinzi, but Xiyuan insisted and did not object.

After buying the sheep, Xiyuan began to milk the goats. However, with Xiyuan’s technology, the milk was not squeezed out, and the ewe almost fell over him, so Xiyuan stretched out his hand for the first time, and it was not successful yet. , the rest of the time, every morning, no matter who gets up first among the four adults in the family, the first thing to do is to squeeze out the goat milk and put it into Xiyuan's clean crock. Bring it to a boil and give it to Xi Wei and Wei Cheng to drink.Xi Wei took two sips and refused to drink any more. It was too bad to drink and had a strong smell.Although Wei Cheng also hated this thing, but seeing his brother working so hard, he pinched his nose and poured it down, like drinking medicine.Xiyuan tasted it by himself, and found it really not very tasty, so he went to the town to buy some cheap tea leaves, put it in to remove the milky smell every time he boiled the milk, and planted some jasmine flowers in the garden, and waited until early summer When the jasmine flowers are in bloom, they are picked off and dried in the sun for a few days, and the dried jasmine flowers are used to boil milk.

The goat's milk with the fishy smell removed is delicious, with the unique sweet taste of goat's milk. Not only Wei Cheng, but even Xi Wei, a little deserter, started to drink it.Sometimes when there is enough boiled milk, Xiyuan himself will have a bowl, and he doesn’t want to be so thin and small. Occasionally, grandparents, parents, and mothers will also taste it, but they always say that they are not used to drinking, Xiyuan All in all, they must have said this because they were afraid that they would not have enough to drink, and they did not force them. When the family conditions improved in the future, they could drink them all by buying two more sheep.

This time Xiyuan made up his mind to buy sheep not only for growing up, but for Weicheng.Dr. Li has been recuperating Wei Cheng's body. Although he doesn't need to take medicine every day like in winter, the soup and medicine are still there. Xiyuan thought that it would be impossible to always rely on medicine to recuperate. Based on the principle that medicine is not as good as food, Xiyuan thought of goat milk, which is nutritious. Otherwise, relying on the meals from the farm and the occasional snacks Xiyuan made would really only solve food and clothing.As a result, after more than two months, Wei Cheng's complexion improved a lot. Dr. Li gave him a diagnosis and treatment, and changed the prescription. He said that as long as he continued to persevere, Wei Cheng's body was expected to recover completely.Xiyuan was very relieved and felt that he had used the right method.

Drinking goat milk is the most effective for Xi Wei. In just over two months, the little guy has grown half his head and is now taller than Wei Cheng. Although he is not fat, he is in good shape, just like a calf Seems strong.Wei Cheng is still the same, and he hasn't grown much, but he looks more energetic, with a pair of big peach blossom eyes, curved when he smiles, and the two black eyes are like the brightest stars in the sky at night, shining brightly, as if he can see People suck it in.

"Chengzi and his mother are good-looking, otherwise Wei's second son would not have been eyeing him back then, and there was no way to marry him. Unfortunately, his life was bad and he didn't enjoy the blessings." Xiyuanniang said with a sigh.

"Why do you have to marry him? If you don't agree, it's over?" Xiyuan felt that there should be something hidden in it.

"Who knows, maybe Wei's second son made some bad move. On the day they got married, Cheng Ziniang cried all the way from her natal home to our village." Niang Xiyuan sighed again.

Xiyuan was also silent. If it wasn't the person involved, he might not be able to understand the inside story. Wei Cheng's grandfather came to Xi's house from Wei Cheng and never visited it. I don't know if he really didn't understand the situation or pretended not to know.But Xiyuan didn't care about their coming, Wei Cheng was naturally protected by his family.

When the little guy first started spring, Xiyuan didn't let him stay in the house anymore, and went out to play for a few days very excitedly, but in four or five days, he didn't go anywhere, and walked around Xiyuan every day, or A man is playing in the yard.Xiyuan secretly inquired with Xi Wei and Zhuzi, and it turned out that some children fought with Wei Cheng and scolded that Wei Cheng was sold by his father and served as a servant of the Xi family, which was different from them.After hearing this, Wei Cheng bit that bastard child several times, he was too small to beat him with his strength.Later, he stopped going out of the house and did not cry to Xiyuan. Maybe these words made him feel that he was different from others. He was also there when Xiyuan gave the money to Wei's second son.

Xiyuan didn't go to teach Wei Cheng, nor did he go to settle accounts with that child. What a child can understand is all heard from the adults at home. Xiyuan blocked one person's mouth, and it is impossible to shut everyone's mouth. Besides, these children in the village were about the same age as Wei Cheng, so Wei Cheng was an important partner in the process of growing up, and it was also the person he had to associate with and the foundation of his contacts in the village.

It's just that from that day on, Xiyuan tied two cloth bags filled with sand in his yard. Every morning, he led Xi Wei and Wei Cheng to run around the yard a few times, and then let the two little guys hit the sandbags for a while. , the time increases little by little.Xiyuan thought that if he persisted like this, at least he would be able to keep his body strong, and he would not suffer a loss when fighting with other children.

In addition, Xiyuan found some narrow peach wood planks and made a knife and a wooden sword for Xi Wei and Wei Cheng.And polished smooth, the hilt and sword hilt are wrapped with grandma's cloth strips, tied with a colorful tassel, which looks very cool.Xiyuan's father also helped Xiyuan when he was doing this, and carefully carved three small mahogany swords with a small knife with the remaining materials, and gave each of the three children (including Xiyuan) one, tied with a red thread. Worn around the neck, it is said that the mahogany sword can ward off evil spirits.

After finishing the sword, Xiyuan taught Wei Cheng and Xi Wei the fancy martial arts moves he learned in physical education class in his previous life, and the Tai Chi he learned in his spare time.Tai Chi is the school celebration when I was in graduate school. There was a teacher performing Tai Chi. As a result, those instructors with extremely smart brains were so stupid and cute at this time. There was no way, Xiyuan came on stage for the instructor, and it was hard work for a while. .Martial arts are only used to fool those children. After teaching Tai Chi, Xiyuan asked Wei Cheng to practice it every day, which is also good for Wei Cheng's body.

Usually nothing happened, Xi Wei didn't know where to go, and Wei Cheng was left alone, Xiyuan led him to teach him how to climb a tree to dig out bird eggs, how to catch frogs and grasshoppers in the wild, and made him two Grasshopper cage.He made two more slingshots (one for Xi Wei) and taught Weicheng to use them to shoot birds.Wei Cheng is very talented in this area. Within half a month, he became a sharpshooter. He pointed at whichever to hit, and Wei Cheng often beat stupid sparrows and fell to the ground. However, Wei Cheng's strength is also weak. He couldn't hit things that were too far away, so Xiyuan also told him not to hit people.

This is enough for Wei Cheng to show off to the little kids in the village, so now Wei Cheng has a group of admirers around him, watching Wei Cheng hit birds with a slingshot and chop wild vegetable seedlings with a sword.Wei Cheng arrogantly held a sword in his left hand and a sword in his right, with a slingshot on his waist, followed by a small attendant who carried a grasshopper cage for him.

Those boys who scolded Wei Cheng and fought with Wei Cheng are now trying to please Wei Cheng. If Wei Cheng is pleasing to the eye, he will take him to play with him. As long as he has the ability, there is no need to be afraid of anyone, he will be a capable person!