Chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, and pigs are the most basic poultry for rural people. Today’s times are different, and the countryside is also advancing with the times. Many farmers do not raise pigs, cattle, and sheep. If they don’t go out to work, they usually raise some chickens and ducks. After all, what? There are no domestic animals, so it doesn’t feel like home.
Lejia also raises chickens, with an average of about six or seven, sometimes more than a dozen. When they grow up, they sell them or slaughter them during festivals. Most of them are slaughtered or sold first. It's a rooster, and the hen is left to lay eggs. The eggs can be eaten by oneself or sold on the street.
The Le family originally had twelve chickens, but one was slaughtered during the Dragon Boat Festival. Le’s father sold two chickens a few days ago, and there are eight more chickens left, one breeding rooster and seven hens.
Le Yun sent her father, who had a bit of a domineering tendency, to work in the morning. She took chicken food and went to the pig pen behind the house to feed the chickens. The domestic chickens were fed corn and rice, and sometimes they also cooked pigs. Feed.
The rice is not yet mature, so chickens and ducks can roam freely during this season. Let them out during the day and let them run wherever they want. They will return to their pens in the evening and need to be kept for about a month while the rice is about to mature.
Opening the chicken coop, a group of chickens came out like a swarm, and each one grew strong. Le Yun counted the numbers and found that they were correct. She scattered the corn kernels on the ground and let them eat by themselves. She returned to the bungalow to clean. , cleaning every corner inside and outside the house.
Do a good job of general cleaning, tidy yourself up, go to the kitchen, light a fire in the old-style fire pit, and fry dendrobium in a pan. I fried a batch last night. Those are just a drop in the bucket of space inventory. Take advantage of the good weather and seize the time. Continue to fry some and dry them.
The best way to stir-fry medicinal materials is to use firewood. Use natural firewood to stir-fry wild medicinal materials to maintain the most original essence.
Lejia also has firewood, some of which are the remaining branches after selling the economical wood, some are the leftovers of the raw materials used to grow mushrooms and fungus in Leba's workshop, and some are no longer available after growing mushrooms. Boss Wu took care of Le's father and gave it to Lejia at almost half the gift price. If he sold it to others, it would cost at least 10,000 to 20,000 yuan at a time. He gave Lejia 10,000 to 2,000 yuan as the cost of the work, so Lejia saved up A lot of firewood can be burned for three years without any problem.
The fire in the fire pit is burning brightly. When the flames are stable, put the pot in. Le Yun takes out a basket of dendrobium seedlings, puts a handful in the pot and stir-fries slowly; processing medicinal materials is a delicate job, and the heat also requires good control. , too strong and it will be fried, too weak and it will not work.
Leyun manages the fire by herself, stirs the dendrobium seedlings by herself, stirs them slowly with her hands, twists them while frying, twists the dendrobium into a spiral shape, and waits until it becomes a dried product, which is the well-known iron maple bucket. .
Zhou Qiufeng finished her housework in the morning and went to the fields to see the water. When she returned home, her brother and sister-in-law were nowhere to be seen. She guessed that she went to Xiang Street to play mahjong again.
When Grandma Zhou saw the girl coming back, she smiled and said, "Now that we are back, can we go?"
"Okay." Zhou Qiufeng put down the hoe and picked up the straw hat to protect the sun.
The mother and daughter closed the two doors of their home, and when they got outside, Grandma Zhou went straight to the garden in front of the Le family house.Zhou Qiufeng went to the pig pen behind the Le family's house by herself. She opened the courtyard door with ease and went into the Le family's backyard. She found a basket and pole, filled the place where manure and grass were stored with a load of fertilizer, and carried it to the garden in front of the Le family's house.
Grandma Zhou is responsible for distributing fertilizers and placing dung and grass at the roots of each sweet potato. She has fun while working. She still doesn’t know if her daughter is willing to marry. Anyway, her old man has regarded Yueqing as his prospective son-in-law. For example, last night, her daughter told her that she had nothing to do at home and wanted to help the Le family for a day or two. Without saying anything, her old man volunteered to come and help.
The mother and daughter did not tell the owner that they went to the fields by themselves, one picking up fertilizer and the other putting fertilizer. They were obviously working for the Le family and were more responsible than working for their own family.
Leyun was frying dendrobium in the kitchen. She heard the sound of Aunt Feng and Grandma Zhou talking and the sound of Aunt Feng picking fertilizer behind the house. She did not look around. She was frying the medicine. If you stop, the heat will be poor and the quality of the finished product will be greatly reduced.
After a pot of herbs is fried, twist them all into a spiral shape, pour them into the spare bamboo sieve on the stand in the living room to cool, put down the pot, run out of the house quickly, and take a look at the door. Although the corn seedlings are there, It was very high and somewhat sheltered, so I could still see the two people in the garden. Aunt Feng walked into the corn row carrying a load of fertilizer, and Grandma Zhou was quickly spreading the fertilizer.
"Grandma Zhou, Aunt Feng" Seeing the mother and daughter who came to help with farm work uninvited, Le Yun shouted with a smile and ran to the garden in front of the house. This is life, modern version of life.
"Lele, what are you busy with? I smell a scent."
A mother and daughter heard the crisp and sweet voice and turned to look. When Little Lele came running with a ding dong ding dong, Grandma Zhou smiled and talked to the child.
Zhou Qiufeng said nothing, put down the burden on her shoulders with a smile, poured out the fertilizer neatly, and tapped the bottom of the pan with a pole to remove the dung and grass.
"I'm frying medicinal materials. Grandma Zhou, you and Aunt Feng are too busy with your own affairs, how can you help your old man? We don't have much sweet potato land at home. I will make a base with my father tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. It's almost a day, you and Aunt Feng have a rest."
"We have finished all the work at home, so we have nothing to do. Xiao Lele, aren't you sorting out the medicinal materials? Don't come. If you step in the mud and have to wash your hands and feet, you don’t have to worry about us. Just go and do what you are good at. Just remember to add half a catty of rice when cooking at noon. Your Aunt Feng, her brother and her sister-in-law will go to the street today to cook. Mahjong, your Aunt Feng and I are going to have dinner at your house at noon.”
Hearing that Xiao Lele was frying medicinal materials, Grandma Zhou smiled and stopped her from coming to the garden, her old face was glaring. The crow's feet ripple like ripples.
Zhou Qiufeng poured the dung and grass in the other basket into the ground, carried the empty basket out of the ground, and asked Xiao Lele to do her work. They were better than Xiao Lele in doing the work in the field. They are even better at it, and the two families are so familiar with each other, so there is no need for children to greet them.
"Okay. Then I'll take care of my herbs first, and I'll come back after I've finished drying them." Le Yun is not pretentious, she really is not.Go to the garden and run back happily.
When the mother and daughter of the Zhou family saw little Lele bouncing and lively like a newborn calf, they felt very happy. They also sincerely lamented that time flies so fast. They couldn’t even walk back then. The little boy who was steady and could speak slurred words suddenly grew so big.
Back in the kitchen, Le Yun washed her hands again and continued to stir-fry the medicine. A pot of dendrobium would accumulate some juice, and she was reluctant to pour it out, so she collected it in a clean bowl.
After frying several pots in a row, when the sun rose as high as a pole, I sent the dendrobium twisted into maple buckets to the second floor, and moved the steamed and cleaned medicinal materials last night from the rooftop shed. Come out to dry in the sun, prepare the medicinal materials, and quickly go to work in the fields.