With Pinxixi in hand, I have a supermarket in the Changzheng!

Zhou Yue carried the five chickens and returned to the camp with Sister Xiuhua.

On the way, she kept thinking about the breeding business in this town.

If you want to get rid of poverty and become rich, breeding is a good industry.

However, due to some limitations of the times, this town still has many shortcomings in terms of breeding.

The first thing is the hatching of the chicks, which is difficult due to the lack of an incubator.

The high price of chicks increases the cost of breeding.

Moreover, the grain production here is low, and people are reluctant to use grain to feed chickens.

These chickens can only eat grass and small insects on the mountains, so they are small, thin and not fat.

Although there are many people engaged in breeding in this town, many ordinary people in the town do not make a lot of money from breeding.

On the contrary, due to economic problems, breeding can no longer be sustained.

This is a great opportunity to alleviate poverty!

She decided to carry out drastic reforms in the town after the Red Army left!

"Wow! Comrade Zhou Yue! You bought a chicken too!"

Zhou Yue scalded the chicken with hot water and was plucking its feathers when many soldiers in the camp returned after wandering around the town.

Many soldiers were holding chickens in their hands. After all, these chickens were not expensive, and they wanted to buy some to try some meat.

Zhou Yue smiled happily when she saw everyone coming back with not-so-fat chickens.

There were originally only five chickens, and she planned to stew them in the pot to give them a slightly meaty flavor.

Let everyone use this soup with a meaty flavor to soak their steamed buns.

There are more chickens now, about twenty or so.

She now wants to make a big pot of rich chicken porridge.

After plucking the chicken and cleaning it, chop the chicken into small pieces, put it into the pot together with the rice and simmer it in the pot.

The chicken porridge must be stewed for a long time so that the aroma can be brought out.

The dried vegetables I bought from my fellow villager last time are almost used up.

However, if you make chicken porridge without any vegetables, the taste will be a bit bland.

"Brother, let's go to the river and see if there are any wild vegetables!"

Zhou Yue carried a backpack and walked towards the river with her brother.

In fact, she didn't know whether there were any wild vegetables by the river.

However, she had already bought a lot of wild vegetables by the river through the mall.

As soon as I walked to the river, I saw from afar patches of green wild vegetables growing very well on the river bank.

"Wow! There is actually gray vegetables!"

My younger brother Zhou Xing put down the basket on his back and started picking fruits happily.

There is a layer of white substance on the surface of the gray vegetable, which looks like gray.

The taste of this dish is really good and not too bitter.

When Zhou Yue was a child, she often picked this kind of wild vegetable and brought it home with her grandmother.

Blanch the greens in water, then add various seasonings and eat it cold.

Zhou Yue thinks that gray vegetables taste better when served cold than green vegetables!

"Sister! There's still a lot of wild celery!"

There is a lot of lush wild celery growing by the river.

One piece connected to another, weighing at least hundreds of kilograms.

The smile on his younger brother Zhou Xing's face could not be suppressed, and his hands were so agile that they almost left afterimages.

I wonder if you guys have ever eaten wild celery.

This is just like the Chinese wolfberry, which is delicious to some people but tastes like arsenic to others.

Some people think that wild celery tastes smelly and unpleasant, and they feel nauseous after eating it.

But Zhou Yue felt that the wild celery tasted very good.

Wild celery can also be made into pickles, which can be stored for a long time after being pickled.

"When we get back later, my sister will pickle all the wild celery, and we can eat it with rice porridge in a while."

"Yeah! Pickled wild celery is my favorite!"

Although the sun was shining, it was not too hot. The brother and sister squatted on the river bank, enjoying the pleasant scenery by the river.

"Sister! Why do you hear those rustling sounds over there?"

Zhou Xing, who was picking fruits, suddenly pricked up his ears and looked into the distance vigilantly.

Zhou Yue also looked in the direction of the sound and saw a large reed marsh in the river.

There are so many reeds in clumps that they look like bushes, blocking the view.

At this time, there was a rustling sound in the reeds, as if there was someone inside.

Zhou Yue felt that there should be no danger in broad daylight.

She was really curious about who was hiding in the reeds and what he was doing.

"Brother, let's go and take a look!"

The two men took off their shoes on the shore and rolled up their trouser legs above their knees.

The river is not deep, just up to the calf level. The water is clear and you can see the bottom. There are smooth pebbles under your feet.

The two men walked along the river and came to the reed marsh where the noise was made.

Zhou Yue slowly pushed aside the reeds and suddenly met a pair of small, dark eyes.

After pushing aside the reeds, I saw several children, all of whom looked to be less than ten years old.

They were all busy, holding a large bunch of reed flowers in their hands.

A little girl with braids and big round eyes looked at Zhou Yue.

"Children, what are you doing?"

Zhou Yue smiled with her eyes curved. Although these children were dressed in rags, their eyes were bright and they looked so cute.

The little girl with braids had a soft voice.

"Sister, we are picking reed flowers."

After she finished speaking, she waved a large bunch of reed flowers in her hand.

Brother Zhou Xing looked at the reed flowers in their hands and was very curious.

"Why are you picking this thing?"

In his impression, reed flowers seemed inedible and did not seem to have any other uses.

The little girl with braided hair lowered her head and pursed her lips.

"Grandma asked us to pick some reed flowers and take them home to dry in the sun to make clothes for the winter."

When Zhou Yue heard this, a look of heartache appeared on her face.

She knew about making cotton jackets out of reed catkins. In the past, cotton was a very precious commodity.

Poor people cannot afford cotton to make warm-weather products.

So what should we do when winter comes?

Some people will dry the reed flowers and stuff them into clothes and quilts to barely keep out the cold.

But reed fluff is definitely not as good as cotton, and its shortcomings are obvious.

First of all, it is not warm enough. When stuffed inside clothes, it looks thick, but it is not cold-resistant.

Therefore, in some TV dramas, when stepmothers torture their children, they stuff reed fluff instead of cotton into their clothes.

The second disadvantage is that clothes filled with reed fluff will become a big clump after being washed with water.

It's hard and not fluffy at all, and very uncomfortable to wear.

Zhou Yue touched the little girl's head with her hand, took out some candy from her pocket and distributed it to each child.

"You are all great! Come home early later!"

"Okay! Thank you, sister!"

When the children saw the candies in their hands, they smiled until their eyes narrowed into slits, and the joy on their faces came from the heart.

Zhou Yue and her brother continued picking wild vegetables, and when they finished they prepared to return to the camp.

On the way, my younger brother Zhou Xing kept hesitating to speak, wanting to say something but failing to say it out loud.

Zhou Yue noticed his abnormality and put her arm around her brother's shoulders with a smile.

"Silly boy, if you have anything to say, just talk to your sister directly!"