Chapter 266 Vicious Female Supporting Escapes to Farm (16)

  The kitchen hasn't been built yet, and now it's just a sleeping room. Xu Yin doesn't plan to build a stove in the room, it's too smoky.

  So when pasting the wall, she mixed more clay, built a baking kiln and a simple earthen stove next to the house.

  Come to build a canopy for the kiln and earthen stove, and cook outside for the time being.

  Chicken soup is simmering on the clay stove, and sweet potatoes are roasted in the kiln.

  After the chicken soup was cooked, she washed some rice in another earthen pot, scooped two spoonfuls of chicken soup into it, put a handful of chopped shiitake mushrooms, and cooked a pot of shiitake mushroom and chicken porridge.

  When the Erlang brothers and sisters came back, she washed their hands and each of them drank a bowl of porridge.

   The porridge made with delicious chicken soup, served with wild mushrooms and pheasant chicken, is the most delicious meal that the two children have eaten in recent years.

  Xu Yin watched them gobble up the food, and while persuading them to eat slowly, she thought: In such a large piece of wasteland, it is possible to raise some chickens.

   It’s just, where can I get chicken?

  Xu Yin thought about this question.

  When Erlang was full, Xu Yin asked him to bring the half-clay pot of chicken soup left over to Shi Fengnian.

   Unexpectedly, Shi Fengnian came back with him.

   "Brother Hero, I didn't expect that you are not only strong and smart, but also cook so deliciously! My old lady has a bad appetite these days, so I drank your stewed chicken soup. Hey, my appetite is back!"

  Xu Yin laughed, brought him a roasted sweet potato, and asked if there was any way to buy chicken. **** eggs or chicks will work without chickens.

   "Do you want to raise chickens? I want to raise them too! But where can I get chickens! How about I go to the village tomorrow and ask?"

  Since she went to the village to ask, Xu Yin thought about it, and brought out a small jar of ginger-colored rock candy.

  She has seen the candies here, which are darker in color than earth rock sugar, but not as sweet as earth rock sugar.

   "You can exchange it for chickens or breeding eggs. You can decide how much to exchange. No matter how much you exchange, I will give you 20%."

   It was his errand fee.

  Shi Fengnian was stunned: "This, this is sugar?"

   "Yeah, haven't you seen it?"

   “I’ve seen it, but haven’t tasted it in years.”

  Xu Yin: "..."

   broke off a small piece and gave it to him: "Try it?"

   "No no no! This is too expensive! Such a big piece, maybe it can be exchanged for a chicken."

  Finally, he rubbed his index finger on the candy, then smashed it in his mouth: "As expected of candy! It's so sweet!"

  Xu Yin wanted to twitch her mouth.

  Shi Fengnian hid the sugar bowl in his sleeve as if he was carrying an ingot of gold, and went home carefully. Xu Yin listened to Erlang and sighed like a little adult:

   "Sister-in-law, you shouldn't bring out the dowry anymore! My mother once said that the dowry is only given to women when they are cornered. It is more precious than ginseng!"

   "..."

  That being said, Erlang and Sanmei went crazy with joy when they saw the three hens and a group of chicks brought over by Shi Fengnian the next day.

   "Wow! All these chickens belong to our family?"

"Yes!" Shi Fengnian said cheerfully, and then said to Xu Yin, "Brother Hero, candy is indeed more pleasing than silver. Many women are scrambling to get it, so I just picked the fattest one and exchanged three. I don’t want the weak ones. The chickens are all healthy and healthy, you count, there are eighteen chickens in total.”

  Xu Yin never expected that such a small can of sugar would get so many chickens.

  When a hen touches it, it knows it is a laying hen. Maybe it will have eggs tomorrow.

  She caught a hen and three chicks and gave them to Shi Fengnian: "The errand fee was agreed upon."

  Shi Fengnian was flattered: "No, no, no! I can't have it!"

   "Take it! You overfulfilled the task, this is what you deserve! If you don't accept it, I won't ask you for help next time I have something to do."

  So, Shi Fengnian returned home with a hen and three chicks.

  His father found out that Xu Yin sent it to him, and beat up his son: "How kind the hero is to you! You actually robbed him! What a beast!"

  Shi Fengnian couldn't tell: "Didn't you know each other at that time? Besides, I have sincerely repented, and the hero brothers have forgiven us all, why are you still beating me up!"

   "If you don't beat you, you won't have a long memory!"

   "..."

  Xu Yin didn't know how many chickens she gave away, causing Shi Fengnian to be beaten up by his father. She gave the chickens to the two children to look after, and continued to work on land reclamation.

  There are more chickens in the house, Erlang and Sanmei have work to do.

  Get up early every day and go to the chicken coop to collect eggs, then drive them to the wasteland to peck grass and find insects. The brothers and sisters pulled weeds and picked up stones by the way.

  The stones picked up in the wasteland, Xu Yin asked them to pile them up behind the house, so that they could use them to press the foundation for the kitchen.

  The brothers and sisters have picked up a lot of stones these days and came back. I kept busy until the sun rose, and then drove the chickens from the wasteland to the shade of the trees at the foot of the mountain, where there were many grass seeds that chickens loved to eat.

   Drive the chickens home at night.

  As a reward, Xu Yin cooks them an egg meal every day, sometimes poached eggs, sometimes steamed custard, and sometimes fried wild vegetables.

  Shi Fengnian, Shi Feng, and Chen Mancang would send some ingredients to her home from time to time.

  Pheasant is not so good, but birds, bird eggs and small miscellaneous fish in the stream can be eaten once every three to five days.

  When the food arrived, Xu Yin noticed that the clothes of the two boys were getting shorter and shorter.

  Especially Erlang, I think he is starting to get slack, and long-sleeved trousers look like short clothes and cropped trousers on him. The weather is hot right now, but how can I wear it when the weather cools down.

   I have to find a chance to go to the market, so I can find a reason to get some cloth.

  But she has been too busy recently, and less than two acres of the planned ten acres of wasteland have been opened, and the herbal seeds have not had a chance to be taken out, so she can only plant some sweet potatoes first.

  The cultivation cycle of medicinal materials is long. Don’t expect that the medicinal materials planted will not have a shadow, and the family will run out of food. So plant some sweet potatoes and store some food.

  The sweet potatoes brought out by the family have long been eaten, and the relief food allocated by the imperial court is used for planting. Sweet potatoes, potatoes, and dried taro are all coarse grains.

   This disappointed many victims.

   Some people’s daughters-in-law were born on the road to escape from famine. The mother’s nutrition is not enough to feed milk, and the child as big as a cat has to eat coarse food with the adults, which is unbearable.

  Everyone was looking forward to the imperial court sending out some fine grains such as rice noodles, but in the end, all the grains they got were not to mention coarse grains, and they were all old and rotten.

  The spirit that had been so hard to get up, was sluggish again.

  Xu Yin said to the big guys: "Which one of you has many sweet potatoes and potatoes, give me some. I want to plant them, and I can exchange them with rice!"

   There is a lot of wasteland in her house, and everyone didn't think about it elsewhere.

  As soon as they heard that coarse grains could be exchanged for rice, many men came to Xu Yin's house with bags.

  Erlang kept winking at her, very anxious.

  It’s not that there is not enough food at home, so why change the rice!

  Xu Yin comforted him by throwing a candy into his mouth, and asked him to give another to Third Sister.

  Third Sister has been guarding the flock of chickens, for fear that they will run away.

  The wasteland is too big, it’s really not good if you don’t look at it.

  Seeing that she insisted on exchanging rice for coarse grains, Erlang stomped out angrily.

  (end of this chapter)