Chapter 30 Eggs
Every family in the village is busy now. At the end of August, it is time to harvest rice. Everyone has to finish harvesting in mid-September. Otherwise, the weather will be hard to say. The rain from time to time will affect the drying of rice.
In addition to harvesting and threshing, the rice must also be dried to remove empty shells and impurities, and finally packed in wooden barrels to prevent mice at home from eating food and getting moldy.
The chickens at home were feeding the two brothers Ning'an and Ning Kang. There were five hens on several chickens. Grandma made a chicken coop under the corner of the wooden shed, and the straw that she had dried and collected last time was piled up next to it.
Straw should not be thrown away. It can be used as a fire after drying, and grass ash can also be used as fertilizer and wash greasy things.
That morning, the whole family was so scared by Ning An and Ning Kang's screams that they all ran out and saw Ning Kang's hands shaking at the corner of the wall.
My uncle hugged Ningkang with one hand. There were snakes in the countryside, and it was common for snakes to run into the house from time to time.
Everyone thought Ning Kang was bitten by a snake, and they were even more busy. Their mother touched Ning Kang from head to toe.
The second uncle took a wooden stick and walked forward, picked up the pile of straw, haha, and saw a pile of eggs.
The chickens at home lay eggs. Everyone looks at me and I look at you, but they are so happy that it means there are eggs at home.
Generally, it takes about three and a half months to four months from chicken to laying eggs. It takes more than three months to calculate, so laying eggs is normal.
The younger sister rushed into the kitchen and took a basket, put straw under it, and picked out the eggs one by one.
There were 35 eggs in a basket, and they were all bigger than ordinary eggs, almost catching up with duck eggs.
There were finally eggs at home. Grandma looked at everyone and waved her hands with a smile. Today she made egg custard and ate them. The two great heroes should eat more.
Ning Yue saw the eggs beaten by the second uncle in the pottery bowl. The egg white is transparent and the egg yolk is red. It is the best red-hearted egg.
This egg is probably related to the long insects that were dug in the "Qiankun Mansion".
Today's loud lunch was rich, white rice, yes, it was the white rice after the rice was hulled, steamed fish, egg custard, bean soup, cold cucumber, stir-fried cabbage, and the taste was full. This was the best meal Ning Yue ate here.
At this time, as long as the weather is good and people are diligent, they can eat enough no matter how hard they are.
Soon, the family found that the speed of laying eggs by their own chickens was amazing. They were twice a day, and they were all large and had no fishy smell. Ning Yue remembered that the good eggs also had a slight fishy smell. The water in the Lingchi had a purifying effect, which proved this in one go.
Ten a day, one hundred a day, ten a day, it is said that chicken lays eggs with a periodicity. When the chicken grows to six or seven months, there will be a peak laying period, which will slow down later, and finally the hen will become a chicken woman.
The chicken's function behind it is to hatch the chicken. The chicken grows into a big chicken, and the chicken turns into an egg, and the egg turns into a chicken.
In addition to white rice, Ning Yue’s favorite thing is the vegetables, vegetables and vegetables here. It is really sweet and delicious.
For example, when cucumbers are the most tender now, there are still small thorns on the body of the newly picked cucumbers. The flowers on the tail have not yet faded. Just wash them off and remove them. It is refreshing and can be used as fruits.
Everyone in the family may have seen that Ning Yue likes to eat. No matter who goes to the vegetable garden, he will pick two of them, wash them and cut them into small strips and put them in a pottery bowl.
Ning Yue’s teeth have not grown yet, so any special things are cut. This kind of care is silent and the most touching. Everyone takes care of her in this way.
If Ning Yue is a real child, she will feel at ease, but she is not. She can feel that they are really caring for her with their hearts.
You know, in the countryside, no one will do anything for a child when going up and down the mountain all day long, as long as you are not hungry, it's fine.
The sorghum, millet and soybeans on the mountain can be harvested sometimes, so Yao Jiati suggested going to the town to inquire about the school.
Seeing that the salt and oil at home were gone, grandma asked her father to bring some back. Ning Yue wanted to see if there was any other way to make money. She looked at Grandma Yao pitifully. Grandma pinched her little face and nodded with a sigh.
Ning Kang next to him pulled Ning Yue's clothes, his eyes full of desire.
Ning Yue was looking at the others, and she wanted to go, "Milk, Milk" sounded longer than the next.
Second uncle: "Little monster, what do you mean!"
Ning Yue: "Second uncle, I am acting cute to you for your mother, begging you to agree to let everyone go together."
Second uncle: "Yue'er, everyone has to rely on you for what you say."
Ning Yue: "That's, uncle, I'm asking for milk, and milk must agree. milk loves me the most, right, milk."
Grandma: "It's fake to say that your second uncle is a monster. I don't agree but I don't love you anymore, right? I'm a villain who is sophisticated."
Ning Yue: "Brothers want to go too, my sister-in-law wants to go too. Everyone wants to go too, I want to go too." The more I spoke, the more I whispered.
Grandma: "You all want to go."
A few young people were busy, each of them pecking at rice. Grandpa smiled and said, "Old woman, let's go together, you haven't been there for a long time."
Grandma: "But the chickens at home are still laying eggs?"
"It's okay, I'll be fine if I locked in the kitchen for a day."
"Okay, I'll go for a walk, too. There are dozens of eggs at home, so I can exchange them for salt."
Speaking of chickens, now five hens have eggs twice a day. Ning Yue’s family is steamed eggs, scrambled eggs, and egg soup at these times.
Grandma also wants to raise everyone's body. Jiantian only cooks with three eggs. Now she has collected more than fifty of it at home, and it is also a supplement to the family.
It was not dawn yet, and more than a dozen people packed up and set off. This time they went there, and it was almost two hours. The brothers were very enthusiastic and ran while walking.
When I arrived in the town, there were many people. When I walked past the bun shop, the fragrance made my stomach growl. Although my family is a little cheap now, I have never had a meal of white noodles.
The eldest uncle went up to buy nine meat buns, six steamed buns, grandpa, grandma, sister-in-law and six young people to eat meat buns, and the six adults to eat steamed buns.
One meat bun is three-money, two-money steamed buns. The copper coins used by my uncle should be the 150-money sent back last time. Ning Yue sighed deeply, and everyone took the water to eat the meat buns and steamed buns.
The steamed buns and buns here are still very big, but one adult is not enough, and the other one is similar to the child. The meat inside is fat pork and vegetable leaves. Ning Yue ate the skin, and most of the ones behind were given to Yao Jiati. Ning Yue did not eat fat meat, which was a habit developed in her previous life.
When everyone went to the place where they changed things, grandma exchanged for 40 eggs for three cents and exchanged them for four kilograms of salt. The salt was cheaper than when the famine last year. Now it is 30 cents per kilogram.
You can have two options for the things here. One is to sell them in a specified place on the street. The price is self-determined, but you have to pay a tax of two cents.
The other way is to go to the grocery store to change the price, and the price is set. For example, grandma goes to change it in a hurry, and sells it yourself if you want to have two more copper coins.
With more than a dozen people together, it is obviously rare for a family to go to the market, so some people will take a look at each other, including the shopkeeper Tian from Zuixianglou.
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