boyutpedia Chapter 196 Piggy
Chapter 196 Piggy
In addition to these necessary daily tasks, they also have a lot of free time to relax.
For example, when you go to the mountains to pick mushrooms, no matter whether you can eat them all, just pick them up and take them home first.
Because he could pick any variety of mushrooms every time, Zhou Mingshu ordered a double-flavored pot directly from the blacksmith shop.
These mushrooms are really good for hot pot!
There are also a lot of vegetables in the field. You can pick as many as you want to eat. There is no need to pull out the roots. Just break off the leaves.
The hot pot base prepared by Zhou Mingshu is also something the whole family can’t stop eating. The spicy soup is fresh and spicy, one pot of spicy soup and one pot of chicken soup.
Today, when they were enjoying their meal, Zhou Minghua came from the backyard with something round.
"Grandma, what do you think this is?"
Her eyes were curved into crescent shapes from smiling, and she looked like she was asking for praise.
"Hey, eggs, did you take them from the chicken coop?"
Old Mrs. Zhou swallowed the mushroom in her mouth, her face full of surprise.
The chickens at home have started laying eggs!
"Yeah, there's more."
"Hahaha, okay, okay, after dinner, grandma will go and take a look. This egg will be given to you as a reward. Wait for me to get a bowl and boil it for you."
Old Mrs. Zhou washed the eggs, beat them into the chicken soup pot, and when they were cooked, she took them out and put them into a bowl for her to eat.
"We have twenty chickens at home. Thanks to good care, none of them have been taken away by weasels or gotten sick. In addition to the two roosters, we can harvest eighteen eggs a day. Oh, it's great."
If this situation had happened in the past, the whole family would have cried with joy.
But now that the family has nearly a hundred taels of silver, the surprise brought by these eggs is nothing.
"Let's save some and send a basket to your aunt first, and we'll eat the rest ourselves. If it weren't for your aunt's chickens and ducks, we wouldn't have any eggs to eat."
"Yeah, the chickens have started laying eggs one after another, so the ducks should be laying soon too."
"Yes, I remember they were delivered one after the other. Now they are so fat, they should be ready soon."
Zhou Mingshu was very happy. When there were more chicken eggs and duck eggs at home than could be eaten, she would make some preserved eggs and preserved eggs.
The purpose of hotpot is to eat just one dish to fill you up, but since there are many men in the family, Liu still kneaded some dough and cut some noodles to put into the pot.
Maybe the soup was too flavorful, so Mrs. Zhou didn’t let them throw it away and planned to blanch some vegetables tomorrow.
But everyone shared the other pot of chicken soup and drank it all.
After Zhou Mingshu finished his meal, he returned to his room and began to prepare for the class content later.
After two months of study, everyone has learned a lot of words and even addition and subtraction within one thousand.
Currently, they have started learning simple multiplication and some simple poems.
Not long after, Zhou Mingshu heard someone coming to the door to look for Old Mrs. Zhou, saying that he wanted to sell some mung beans.
Ever since the villagers knew that they were selling jelly, and considering that her family always gave away mung bean dregs, they knew that her jelly was made from mung beans.
So those who have some mung beans at home will come and ask if they want to collect some.
The price was much cheaper than that in the town's grain store, so Mrs. Zhou agreed. She needed these things at home anyway, so it didn't matter where she bought them.
The villagers were also very happy because it was more cost-effective to sell to the Zhou family. If they sold it to a grain shop, the price they got would not be that high.
Both sides felt that they had gained some advantage.
This is also a beautiful thing!
After doing all this, Old Mrs. Zhou went to the firewood pile and pulled a lot of straw, intending to make a few chicken coops.
After running back and forth, when he came back, he had a handful of eggs in his hand.
This is just the beginning, so the eggs are relatively small and you can take several in a handful.
"Siya was right, look how many eggs I found. Siya, come here and tell grandma how many eggs these are."
Zhou Minghua stretched out his fingers and counted them one by one, "Five, grandma, these are five."
"Hahaha, good job. Your third sister really paid off in teaching you how to count at such a young age. Study hard."
Mrs. Feng, who was standing by, looked at her daughter and smiled. She had learned a lot from taking classes with her older sisters and brothers.
Nowadays, the content taught by Zhou Mingshu has become somewhat difficult, and Zhou Minghua has long been unable to keep up.
So sometimes she would give her special lessons, or let Zhou Mingyuan take her and teach her to recognize some simple words and numbers.
Two days later, Boss Zhou finally carried the piglet back home, but the piglet was not bought from the livestock market, but from a slaughterhouse.
Boss Zhou didn't expect it to be such a coincidence. He just complained that there were no suitable piglets in the livestock market, and the boss took him to his own breeding base.
Let him choose whatever he wants!
This made Boss Zhou very excited.
So I bought three at once, spending a total of 600 Wen, a friendly price.
Two hundred coins each, it’s really a good deal.
The piglets' squeals had been heard all the way and had died down for a while, but the road to Lianglin Village was a bit bumpy.
They lay restlessly in the donkey cart and started groaning again.
This attracted people on the roadside to look.
"Look, look, the Zhou family has bought three piglets again. They look so pleasing to the eye!"
"That's right, this business is different. I heard that her jelly is very profitable. There are a lot of people buying it every day. If you don't know, you would think she is robbing."
"Don't envy others. If you have the ability, go home and do it too."
The person being talked about rolled her eyes, as if she had never tried it at home.
Not only did I waste a bucket of mung beans, but even dogs wouldn’t eat the food I made.
However, although they were envious and jealous, they also learned something useful from the Zhou family, which is raising ducks!
I don't know which clever guy came up with the idea of letting the ducks eat grass in the fields, so they no longer have to weed in the fields under the hot sun. This works for both big and small ducks. Leading them to run around the fields every day, even the number of pests in the fields has decreased a lot.
Nowadays, corn has grown as tall as their thighs, so they no longer have to let them graze. They can just chase them to the river or wasteland when they have nothing to do, which is less troublesome.
The squealing stopped as soon as the piglets entered the pen.
Because it’s finally not bumpy anymore, and this nest seems to be more comfortable than the previous one.
Clean and spacious.
Zhou Mingyuan and Zhou Minghua were lying at the front, looking at the piglets in the pigpen, feeling as if they were going to drool in the next second.
"All three are sows. They can give birth to piglets when they grow up."
Boss Zhou put his hands on his hips and smiled happily.
"That's great, Dad. Once the pig grows up, should we slaughter it and eat it?" Zhou Mingjie asked.
"Of course. You just feed them well. The grass they eat now will grow into meat in the future. By the New Year, we will have more pork than we can eat!"
What Boss Zhou said was half true and half false, but his overall purpose was to let the children feed the pigs well.
So there was one more chore to do at home, which was to collect grass for the pigs.