MTL - The Sweet Little Fulang-Chapter 193
The next morning, Shen Xuanqing went to Wang Mutou's house. The table creaked when he chopped the meat. He specially picked a good board from the pile of wood in Wang Mutou's courtyard.
The table needs to be bigger, and there are two pieces of meat chops. There are also wooden racks for hanging meat. At least four, he directly asked to make six. More is better than less. These things It must be fully prepared. After opening, it will not be short of this today and missing that tomorrow.
He explained it to Wang Mutou in detail. If four wooden frames are made, they will be sent to him. The remaining two can be made slowly. Wang Mutou has dealt with wood all his life. This wooden frame is not a delicate thing. Nodding his head, he promised the promise, and reassured him that he would do it well.
After giving the money, Shen Xuanqing said, "Uncle Mu, then I'll go first."
"Okay." Wang Mutou stuffed the broken silver into his arms, sent him out, and said, "It's done tomorrow, I'll ask Cheng boy to send you home."
"Okay." Shen Xuanqing agreed and left.
The carpenter has agreed, and he has to go to the iron shop. It doesn't matter if you sell rabbits, chickens and ducks, but if you slaughter pigs and sheep, you have to get a few big iron hooks for hanging meat. A piece of pork is not light, and the rope is not good. Hanging, along with knives, pig-killing knives and meat-chopping and bone-cutting knives, I have to get three or two new ones.
Shen Xuanqing walked home, thinking about it in his heart, he had to spend a lot of money before opening, and he would earn it back slowly after everything was settled.
Before the spring ploughing, he could even see that there was still some ice in the river water, and the weeds on the banks of the wild land had not yet emerged green tips.
Before the sun came out, he, Shen Yaoqing and Wei Lanxiang Ji Qiuyue had already fed and drank the livestock, and swept the ones that should be swept. At this moment, Shen Yaoqing was shoveling manure in the backyard, and Ji Qiuyue was holding Zhao Zhao who had just woken up. The son is basking in the sun in the courtyard, and Wei Lanxiang is carefully tying the dried bamboo into a broom.
The brooms are made for the shop. If you want to sell meat and live there, you will have to sweep and sprinkle them. They have a lot of feather dusters, so just take one.
Wei Lanxiang sat there, heard the movement, looked up and said, "I just let the millet dry out the quilt I'm going to bring. I heard from your eldest brother that there is a small courtyard behind the shop, and the clothes and quilts can be laid out when the time comes. That's good, if I really can't put it out, I'll go to your master and my wife to bask in it."
There are few people who dry clothes in front of the door, and how to do business when the door is blocked.
"Got it, mother." Shen Xuanqing agreed, hugging Zhao'er and holding a small fleshy hand and pinching it, the chubby little paws were really fun, he couldn't help but let out a smile.
"Mother, the weather will be warm next month, and I guess there should be some people selling spring chicks at the rally. This year is different from previous years. Brother Yang doesn't say that there are fewer chickens and ducks. The brothel has to keep supplying them. I have to sell more chickens and ducks this year. Fifty or sixty chickens are not enough. Each of them will raise a dozen or so. If I am not at home, you and my eldest brother will go buy some chickens and ducklings. Our yard is big, so don’t be afraid. I can’t afford it, so I will buy more photos.”
Wei Lanxiang gave her a meal, and couldn't help smacking her tongue after hearing what he said. Now that they have too many chickens and ducks, they have to raise more, but she thought about it, and now they have to send them to the brothel at least twice a month. Rabbits and chickens and ducks, there are seven or eight less rabbits, and as many as thirteen or fourteen. The chickens and ducks each have more than ten chickens in a month, so they should not be raised.
In the first winter, they kept twenty chickens and ducks for sale, in order to raise them to lay eggs in the spring, and to hatch chicks and ducks. Last month, they only sent rabbits to the brothel.
"Even if you can't eat it in the building if you raise it too much, it doesn't matter, just keep it in the backyard." After Shen Xuanqing said, she hugged Zhaoer twice, and Zhaoer giggled.
Chickens and ducks can be raised for two or three years. The old chicken soup and the old duck soup are the old birds.
Shen Xuanqing held Zhao'er up in the air, made a gesture of throwing it to a high place, and hurriedly caught it, so happy that Zhao'er kept laughing, not afraid at all.
Tossing the child high doesn't have the strength to do it at will. Zhao'er is now older, and in her mother's womb, she eats better than other children in the village. Pi Shi, dare to play like this.
After playing for a while, Shen Xuanqing returned the child to Ji Qiuyue and said, "I'll pick ten more pairs of breeding rabbits from the young rabbits later, and I will be able to grow thirty or forty more rabbits every two months. It's not too good, let the big brother watch and replace it, there are no breeding for three months in winter, and the remaining 100 or so big, first keep 60 of them close to the brothel, I will send them in these three months, and the remaining 50 or 60 It's enough for ten to get to the shop."
There are still twenty-six little rabbits. They were bred by five female rabbits in the early winter. After three months, it will be just half a year. I am not afraid that I will not be able to continue what I want in the brothel. Raised in the firewood house, and also used a brazier to heat the fire, for fear of freezing to death.
Besides, rabbits are different from chickens and ducks. Broth diners still eat a little less, and they can’t deliver when they prepare 20 a month. These are enough.
"Brother Yang, if you want rabbits, give him a few. If there's not enough in the shop, I'll just take the dogs up the mountain and drive them up." Shen Xuanqing said, rolled up his sleeves and went to the backyard to pick rabbits.
Shen Yaoqing came out of the rabbit shack with the dung basket, saw him and asked, "Have you agreed?"
"Well, I'll pull it back when I'm done with Chengzi." Shen Xuanqing then said, "The rabbit cage is still empty now. I'll pick ten more pairs of rabbits, as many as possible."
"That's true." Shen Yaoqing nodded, and he asked after a while, "In this way, the rabbit nest has two more rows."
Shen Xuanqing said with a smile: "Exactly, the sun has been good these two days, and I'm not busy. I'll saw wood after picking out the rabbits."
The two brothers had a brief discussion, and the work came. Most of the country people were diligent and did what they said they did, without any ambiguity.
In the middle of the morning, Lu Gu coaxed Brother Xiaoling to sleep, while Shen Yan was doing needlework in his hometown.
In front of the firewood house, Shen Xuanqing and Shen Yaoqing each took a saw to saw the wood, the sawing clucked, and sawdust fell all over the floor. They only had one saw at home. The Chen family borrowed it, and the two of them worked faster together.
When he learned that he had bought ten more pairs of breeding rabbits and wanted to build a rabbit nest, Lu Gu couldn't help. The sound of sawing wood was really harsh, so he went to the front and poured a bowl of hot tea for Wei Lanxiang, and hugged Zhaoer to play.
The sun was very strong, and the big grays lay on the front yard to bask in the sun, and fell asleep when they basked in the sun.
Wei Lanxiang used the rope to wrap the broom handle tightly and tightly, and then wrapped it a few more times to hold the broom. There are not so many steps to weave the broom by herself, as long as it doesn't hurt her hands, she holds it up to take a look and thinks Okay, let's put it aside.
Zhao'er was already able to stretch her waist with her belt and walk forward. At this moment, it was Lu Gu who followed behind the child, holding the end of the belt tightly.
"Take, take." Zhao'er walked straight to the table after entering the main room. He had already seen the steamed buns on the table, stretched out his hand to reach his mouth and shouted.
"How can it be eaten like this?" Ji Qiuyue broke a small piece for him.
Wei Lanxiang had nothing else to do. Seeing that her eldest grandson's feet were getting tougher now, she was so happy that she took the belt from Lu Gu's hand and let Zhao'er walk around in the main room and the courtyard.
After a few days of busy work at home, I had to go to the shop to cook the stove and boil hot water when slaughtering livestock.
The two brothers, Shen Xuanqing and Shen Yaoqing, went as usual. They brought two baskets of straw to mix with the yellow mud. As for the loess, just go to Jixing Town to find a few baskets in an unowned field to save money from the elders at home. Take it far.
After the mule cart was set up, Lu Gu was also here, helping to put the shovel, broom, feather duster, etc. on it.
"The stove is fast, and I'll be back in the evening." Shen Xuanqing said with a smile. Before it opened, he was not in a hurry to live in the shop.
"Well, I'll keep food for you two." Lu Gu agreed.
Seeing that all the things to be put in the car were put away, Shen Xuanqing said again: "The third grandma remember to pay the market price, and I'm inquiring to see who else in the village wants to sell it. Take it, if you don’t have it, wait until I come back to the neighboring village to find out.”
"I know, don't worry." Lu Gu nodded with a smile.
Jixing Town was thirty miles away. Shen Xuanqing didn't delay much. After the warning, he waved the whip and drove the mule forward. The road was bumpy, and he was afraid that something on the trolley would fall. Today Shen Yaoqing sat in the back of the trolley. .
After the two of them left, Lu Gu helped sweep and sprinkle the big mansion, and after finishing his work, he and Wei Lanxiang went to Sanfang's house.
Yesterday afternoon, Zhou Xiangjun brought Shen Yu to their house to visit their house. He mentioned that he wanted to go to town to sell chickens and ducks. The two old chickens and two old ducks have been raised for three years, and they don't lay eggs much. They will sell them for some money. It is good to buy a few spring chicks back to raise.
Shen Xuanqing happened to be at home, so he kept it when he heard this. All the hens and ducks in their family can lay eggs. If they can't move, they can't move first. But if they want to open a butcher shop, they can't have too few things. Bring a chicken and duck over, even if you don't make money for a while, when the shop opened the day before, there would be more things in the shop, not just rabbits.
As soon as they entered the door, Chen Xinlian and Shen Yu were both at home, and they greeted them to sit down in the main room, pouring water and taking jujube mud cakes for them to eat.
The two families have always had a good relationship, far from being comparable to a big house.
After chatting for a while, Lu Gu thought about the sleeping little brother Ling at home. Now that brother Ling is a little older, he can recognize his family. After waking up, Shen Yan can coax him well, but as Eminem, he will definitely worry more, so he said: "Ah Mammy, Erqing said that I will take the chicken and duck back today, and it will be convenient to pull it back to the town."
There is no need to run to the town, nor to sell on the street. Zhou Xiangjun is not happy, he pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "Okay, I'll go catch it now."
After he finished speaking, he called Shen Yu to go to the backyard, and Lu Gu and Wei Lanxiang followed, the four.
Zhou Xiangjun and Shen Yu helped bring the chickens and ducks to the big house. These four are from outside. If they are put into the chickens and ducks, they may fight. It is not good if they are injured. Lu Gu used the old fence against the wall to enclose a small area. Enough for these four to wander around.
All the chickens and ducks were put in. He took out the prepared copper plates from his arms and strung them with ropes. The total was 60 cents. The market price of an old chicken and an old duck that did not lay eggs was 15 cents recently. Shen Xuanqing did the same. He said so.
Zhou Xiangjun originally thought about his relatives, Shen Xuanqing was going to sell it in a shop, and it would be cheaper.
"Just take it. What's more polite with his two little ones, you can't cheat your grandma."
Wei Lanxiang persuaded a few words from the side, and he accepted it.
These four are not enough. According to what Shen Xuanqing said, it’s better to get a few more to fill the storefront. Wei Lanxiang is also concerned about the shop. Lu Gu went back to see the children. She simply called Zhou Xiangjun to come along. Neighboring village inquired about who wanted to sell chickens and ducks.
