Being able to farm: starting from moving to the village and picking up furry

[My egg is broken!] Hei Dou reacted and also screamed.

Li Laoer lay beside the egg, crying sadly.

Li Yanchuan felt his heart ache as he beat his chest. "This egg is so precious. It costs only one penny at the market. Now, one is gone."

Everyone felt as distressed as Li Laoer.

Then Grandpa Li decided that he and his second son Li Yanchuan would stay at home and weave the chicken coop basket first.

[Isn't that Hei Dou's egg? How did it fall out? ] Wangcai hurriedly called the little sisters and asked them to hold it in.

These words made Xia Qingyu's mouth twitch, and he and the others hurriedly sent the chickens up the mountain.

Wangcai brought a group of sisters, under the guidance of Xia Qingyu and Lin Lan, and escorted by Dabai and Xiaobai, into the mountains to find a place to lay eggs and look for food.

After coming down from the mountain, Xia Qingyu returned to the hut and discussed with Old Lady Li and the others about building a simple house for the hens.

"Yes, this is a big deal and cannot be ignored. After all, they are also the source of wealth for our family." Lin Lan and the old lady immediately got up and led people to build a chicken coop.

Lin Lan pulled Xia Qingyu and urged them, "Let's get it done today. Otherwise, weasels and rats will come to steal and bite the chickens at night, and then the chickens will suffer."

Moreover, there are guys who steal chickens in the mountains. Although Xia Qingyu has supernatural powers, he cannot keep an eye on them all the time. If he is not careful, the chickens will be caught.

She also knew that this simple chicken coop needed a good location.

Materials can be obtained locally, and the first thing Xia Qingyu thought of was bamboo and thatch.

I plan to use the bamboo at the entrance of the village to build walls first, and the thatched grass that grows wildly opposite the village can also be turned into treasure to weave thatched roofs.

First you need to make a fence, then a roof, and as for the chicken coop where the hens lay eggs, you can just place it in the yard.

When the time comes, we will cut bamboo, twist it into ropes with straw, tie it up like a raft, and form a circle.

Place a horizontal wooden bar in the sky for Wangcai and the other hens to squat on so they can rest peacefully at night.

"And there are chicken coops. There are thirty-six chickens, and every five or six of them share one. So we probably need five or six chicken coops for them."

"My brothers and I are going to the mountain to set traps. On the way back, we will chop some wood and bring it back to you." Li Yanfeng and his brothers also wanted to come back quickly to help.

Mr. Li, who was sharpening a knife, nodded and said, "We need to choose a higher place for the chicken coop. There is a suitable area next to our hut. The empty lawn can also give them some sun."

Their conversation was heard by Shen Qingqing and Zhu Ping'an in the yard, who asked those who were going up the mountain to bring food with them before leaving.

"Dad, husband, please wait a moment. My sister-in-law and I will go to the kitchen to make you some pancakes."

The two sisters-in-law were going to the kitchen to make some coarse pancakes to bring to the people who were going up the mountain.

After all, doing physical work without oil and water will make you hungry quickly, especially when there is not enough oil and salt.

Knowing that the fire had started in the kitchen, Xia Qingyu thought for a moment and suggested, "Sister-in-law, when you burn the firewood, you can take some potatoes and bury them in the hot ash below."

Xia Qingyu recalled a kind of roasted potatoes she had eaten before, in which the potatoes were cooked directly using the heat of the ashes.

Throw it into the ashes under the stove and cover the potatoes with the ashes. You don’t have to worry about burning them.

Sometimes the potatoes underneath are already cooked before the rice is ready, and they are often soft, attractive, sweet and sticky.

We are poor now. Although we don’t cook at noon, the soft, glutinous and fragrant potatoes can fill our stomach.

Xia Qingyu believed that once she made money, she would be able to have three meals a day and her life would get better and better.

"Okay! I'll bury the potatoes in the stove ash right away." Shen Qingqing, who was in the kitchen, brightened up when she heard Xia Qingyu's words.

Her seventh sister-in-law knows a lot of things. Although she doesn't know why she does this, she understands one thing: it's always right to listen to her seventh sister-in-law.

At home, I boil water, wash pots and dishes, and tidy up the weeds in the yard.

The man went to the bamboo forest at the entrance of the village to cut bamboo, intending to drag the bamboo back after processing it.

The whole family became busy again, even the two little kids were not idle, they walked with their short legs and followed the adults to do things.

Since they couldn't cut or drag the wood, they would just pick up some dry bamboo, take it back, and use it to start a fire, and the stove would burn quickly.

Not forgetting to share the news with Xia Qingyu and the others, Tuantuan looked at the hens and said, "We will help too. Before, I heard from my grandmother that in their village, there were mice that would sneak into the chicken coop and pigpen.

While the chickens and pigs were sleeping, the mice gnawed their buttocks, leaving several large holes, wounds and blood all over them.

Thinking of this, Yuanyuan suddenly laughed, "Haha, those chickens and pigs that were bitten are so unlucky that they were bullied by rats.

At that time, my sister and I were holding brooms and working with my cousins ​​to hit the big black rat, but we didn’t catch it.”

"You guys are really brave. You're not afraid of being bitten by rats?" Lin Lan rubbed her arms, sincerely admiring them.

After cutting off the bamboo leaves, Lin Lan also became interested in thinking about her own experience. She said to everyone:

When I was a child, I slept in the same room with my older sister. There were a lot of miscellaneous things in the room, and I don’t know when rats had dug several holes in it.

One night, I heard a sound and was very curious, so I reached out to touch the direction of the sound.

At that time, I was naughty and didn't feel scared. Before I could react, I touched a lot of soft things and felt they were very elastic. As a result, my hand was bitten.

I told my eldest sister about it, and she lit the oil lamp. I saw a few big black rats that came out of nowhere and crawled over my feet. I still remember it vividly.

The moment we opened the sack, a nest of more than a dozen pink, hairless mice appeared before our eyes.

Haha, my elder sister and I were so scared that we almost fainted from screaming. "

"But aren't pigs omnivores? If they realize it, they will also eat mice." Li Yanchuan asked Tuantuan and the others while chopping bamboo.

A group of people expressed their opinions to each other. Mr. Li also mentioned that in the past when there was a famine, people would eat whatever they came across when they were hungry, not to mention mice, they would even eat tree bark and people.

Thinking of a dish that his teammates had eaten before, Xia Qingyu shared it with them.

"In one place, there is a dish that is to eat live mice that have just been born. It is called Sanzhier, or three mice."

Tuan Tuan was full of curiosity and asked her, "Aunt Qi, why is it related to three? Do we have to eat three?"

Xia Qingyu explained to them, "Because when you use chopsticks to pick up a live mouse, it will squeak in pain, and when you put it in the prepared dipping water, it will squeak again due to the stimulation."

"That last sound was when it was put into the mouth?" Li Yanzhu added.

"Yeah." Xia Qingyu nodded.

There were many strange things in the past life, and people have figured out many ways to eat them, and they can all be made into tasty dishes.

"Oh my god, this dish is so horrible. Even if you give it to me, I wouldn't dare to eat it." Lin Lan got goosebumps again.

The little girl was very curious, "If I eat mice, will they run around in my stomach?"

Her words made a group of people give her thumbs up, and even her brother Yuanyuan admired his sister.

"Stop talking, Tuantuan. When you say that, I feel something moving in my stomach."

"Hahaha!" A group of people laughed so hard that they spoke on purpose to scare each other.

After dragging the bamboo back to the yard, Xia Qingyu and several female relatives including Old Lady Li took sickles and went to cut thatch across the village.

After leaving the village, Xia Qingyu saw thatched grass growing in many places. Just beside the road in Shangxing Village, one could see a large area of ​​thatch.

"So many white grasses!" Xia Qingyu looked as if he had found a treasure.

Seeing that several people were puzzled, she explained, "The roots of this thatch grass taste very sweet and have high medicinal value."

"Wow, can this grass be used as medicine?" Tuantuan asked with his head tilted, and his little hands had already reached up to pull it out.

Xia Qingyu nodded, "For example, when someone has a nosebleed and can't stop it, boil its roots with rock sugar and it's very effective in curing nosebleeds."