Chapter 90 Sheep
“Come on, let me see it, you are just lazy.”
“The vegetables in other markets are brought here by big trucks, why don’t you come twice? Can you compare it with other people's two trips? "
"It's not what the teacher said. I saw a lot of people hanging around here just during the few days I was on duty. , asking when your vegetable seller will open, and some even ask if you are coming."
"Think about it, isn't this all a door-to-door business? A few more trips will make more money than what you earn now?”
In fact, what Liang Jinke said makes sense.
But what he didn't know was that Chen Ling didn't care about this little money.
The original intention of opening this store was not for money.
However, this kind of thing is hard to explain, so Chen Ling had to say that the vegetables he sold were of high quality, but the output was very low, so even if he wanted to wholesale more, he couldn't.
“That’s true, but having said that, the food you sell is really pretty good...”
"The beans you gave me last time were stir-fried for two meals after I brought them back. The children and adults were all rushing to eat them. I thought my family hadn't eaten beans in half a year, and they thought they were fresh. It turns out you sold them. The food is good.”
“No wonder you have so many repeat customers!”
Liang Jinke laughed when he said this.
Chen Ling also smiled and pulled the little Mazha he brought over to him to sit down.
“I don’t want to sit anymore, I have to change shifts with others.”
"I just saw that you didn't work hard and showed your bad habits as a teacher again. I was holding back my energy in the past few days and wanted to teach you a lesson."
"I just happened to see you today. The door was open, so I couldn't hold it in anymore and came right over."
Liang Jinke waved his hand, then pushed the car and walked out the door.
Chen Ling sent him out. He wanted to give him some more peanuts, but the old man refused to take any.
"Okay, it's getting late. You should go home quickly. If there's anything going on here, I'll keep an eye on it for you while I'm on duty."
After watching Liang Jinke leave, Chen Ling didn't go to deliver peanuts to the oil mill anymore. He simply cleaned up the yard, locked the door, and drove the ox cart home.
On the way home, I met many people from the same village who were returning from the market, but there was nothing in Chen Ling’s car except a basket of rice dumplings, so everyone thought he was also going to the market. After meeting him, he Just say hello and say a few words to him.
However, several little kids who followed him to the market were very happy to see him. They had already become familiar with Chen Ling. Regardless of their family members' obstruction, they jumped over and climbed onto the bullock cart, laughing all the way. I went home making a fuss.
When he got home and gave Wang Susu the money for selling the medicinal materials, Chen Ling took the rice dumplings over and opened the cloth covering the basket.
"Look, Susu, these are rice dumplings given by two friends in the county. I'm going to steam them right now. How do we taste them later?"
"Ah? Why did you give so much? I thought we would make it in two days."
Wang Susu was surprised when she saw the basket full of rice dumplings.
“I think it’s a lot too, but if someone insists on giving it, it’s not good if I don’t accept it.”
Chen Ling smiled and said, “Let’s eat first, we have a lot of food these days. Eat some, and we’ll wrap them up at the Dragon Boat Festival.”
“Well, I’ll steam them, and you put the rest in the well.”
Wang Susu picked up seven or eight rice dumplings and said to Chen Ling.
Now that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the rice dumplings cannot be placed outside, nor inside the house, otherwise they will taste bad in one night.
There is no other choice but to put it in the well.
There are not many ways to preserve fresh food in rural areas. It is okay when the temperature is low. But when the temperature is high and there is no refrigerator, we have to put the easily perishable food in baskets or buckets, tie a rope and lower it to the well. inside, which can also play a good role in refrigeration and preservation.
This is how the mutton chops and mutton sent to Wang Jusheng's family a few days ago were preserved in this way. Because they gave too much, the couple took two or three days to finish them based on their current appetite.
Soon, the rice dumplings came out of the pot.
This rice dumpling was made by Liang Hongyu according to the rice dumplings from the capital. It is the four-cornered rice dumpling from the north. It is very big and is a sweet rice dumpling with peanuts and red dates.
But it tasted pretty good. Chen Ling ate four of them in one go to satisfy his craving, but his stomach was not yet full, so he had two more bowls of noodles and simply fried two with wild garlic. Eggs, I was barely full.
The next day is the 25th day of the fourth lunar month, and the Dragon Boat Festival is ten days away.
Chen Ling’s family ate rice dumplings early, but other families in the village were still busy with farming.
At night, the south wind blows, and the wheat is covered with yellow. As soon as it enters the fifth month of the lunar calendar, it is the annual wheat harvest time.
Compared to the north, it is about a month earlier.
This is the busiest time of the year.
Even if you don’t plant wheat and plant other crops, it’s almost time to harvest.
Such as rapeseed, such as watermelon.
The rapeseed is better, the watermelon is almost ripe at this time, and people are inseparable in the melon field.
Wang Lixian stopped working at Erzhu a few days ago. He built a straw shed in the melon field early and took the family dog to guard it at night.
Prevent people from stealing, and also prevent other things from going to the fields to eat at night.
But early this morning, Wang Lixian came to see him and asked Chen Ling to come over and help him out.
When Chen Ling asked, he found out that he wanted to gelding sheep.
Wang Lixian's waist was not good, and the big male sheep was hot-tempered and strong. He couldn't hold it down at all, so he had to come to Chen Ling.
It just so happened that Chen Ling went to the county town yesterday, and he was free again. He had nothing to do at home, so he went without saying a word.
“Brother Xian, since you don’t want to keep breeding sheep, why don’t you gelding them when they are young?”
“I wanted to gelding them before, but this sheep is your sister-in-law’s. I brought it back from my parents' house. It was the twelfth lunar month at that time. It was cold and there was nothing to feed. I was afraid that the gelding would not be able to survive, so I didn't do it. As a result, after spring started, I was either busy planting melons or going to Erzhu to work. Well, I just forgot about it.”
"These days, the ram is starting to want to be bred. It is becoming dishonest day by day, which makes people uneasy. I just remembered that this sheep has not yet gelded."
Wang Lixian sighed and said.
The ram is like this. If you don’t want to keep the breeding sheep, you must shed them when they are four or five months old. Otherwise, after the physiological development is complete, you will just think about the ewes all day long, and they will not be born. She just jumps around the sheepfold all the time, and when she jumps out of the sheepfold, she has to mate with other ewes in the village.
It won’t work if you just ignore it. If you keep doing that thing, you won’t gain weight.
Just cast off the sheep and cut off its roots, so you don’t think about it anymore.
After the castration, the six roots of the ram are pure and the mind is pure. If you eat and sleep, you will grow meat quickly.
And the fishy smell in the meat will not be so strong.
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Wang Lixian's house is also a traditional old mountain village earthen courtyard, with yellow mud walls, black tile roofs, short courtyard walls, and a small gatehouse at the courtyard door.
It is also a long courtyard, but it is divided into north and south parts.
Wang Lixian's family lived in the north, and Wang Lixian's wife lived in the south. Chickens, ducks, dogs and sheep were also raised in the south yard.
After Chen Ling walked into the courtyard gate, he saw a very large old jujube tree growing in the center of the courtyard, and in the south courtyard, there was a tall acacia tree, full of white locust flowers. You can smell the refreshing fragrance from a distance.
After a few gentle sniffs, your mouth and nose will be filled with the fragrance of flowers.
At this time, Liu Yuzhi and Da Nier were having breakfast at the table in the courtyard.
Liu Nier was sitting on the thick branch of the old jujube tree, holding a piece of pickle and chewing on the steamed bun, shaking her legs restlessly while chewing.
When he saw Chen Ling coming in, his eyes lit up, he called Uncle Fugui vaguely, then he put the steamed bun in his mouth and jumped down from the tree.
"You are not honest when you eat. Hurry up and finish your meal and go to school."
Wang Lixian walked over and kicked Liu Nier on the butt.
"I don't, I have to watch the gelding before I go!"
Liu Nier patted her butt and yelled while squeezing her neck.
He is used to being beaten, so this baby is very strong.
However, seeing Wang Lixian want to glare again, I was still a little scared, so I hurriedly hid behind Chen Ling, stuck my head in and shouted: "Don't worry, I'll run over later and I won't be late."
(End of this chapter)