Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 214 Duck Laying Eggs

"Wen He, do you want to come to town the day after tomorrow? There are a lot of fun things to do there."

"It should be in the evening, when it's almost dark, that it will be lively."

It's so hot in the daytime, who would want to walk outside?

"Yes, it's lively at night, I'll bring you there."

Ji Wenhe shook his head: "It's too far. I don't want to come back in the dark. There will be a lot of people on Qixi Festival. Who knows if there are any robbers on the roadside."

Where there are many people, there are petty thefts.

Moreover, she wants to buy everything she sees. She feels very uncomfortable when she wants to buy something but cannot. She also has a lot of food.

"We'll see next year. Next year we'll have more time and our family can come to town to play."

Shen Rongshan looked back at her and said, "I'm here. There will be a lot of fun and food the day after tomorrow. Don't you really want to come?"

She hesitated for a moment and said, "Forget it, let's wait until next year."

She doesn't want to see that she can't afford the food she wants, or that she can't satisfy her craving after buying it, because then she will think about it every day when she goes home.

In my previous life, when I went shopping and saw something I liked to eat, I had to buy it and eat my fill.

Swinging his legs leisurely, he said, "Brother Shen, let's come again next year. When Yuanshan and Wenshan get married, we'll bring them along."

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Shen Rongshan came to the stall and bought two soapberries.

"Wen He, we are out of town."

"Okay, since there's nothing else to buy, let's wait for Aunt Lan outside of town."

The two men came out of the town, found a shady place, and waited by the roadside.

"Brother Shen, what time is it now?"

Shen Rongshan looked up at the sky: "It's Si time."

During the Si hour, from nine to eleven o'clock, many people come into the town.

Looking at the pedestrians coming and going on the roadside, Ji Wenhe saw a man who looked less than 30 years old pushing a wheelbarrow.

"His unicycle is different from the one we have."

It is twice as big and has an extra-large bucket on top, similar to a bathtub.

“The water used in restaurants is very intensive, so they use large barrels.

Some restaurants cannot dig wells in their courtyards and have no water, so they use wheelbarrows and buckets like this to fetch water from outside.

"It looks very heavy, at least 200 kilograms."

"more than."

There were rings on both sides of the bucket, and the rope was tied to the wheelbarrow, so he walked steadily.

It looks easier than carrying water with a shoulder pole, but... it just looks like that.

She tried to push the wheelbarrow at home, but it tilted to one side if she wasn't careful.

It's really amazing to be able to push such a heavy object and control it so that it doesn't tilt to one side.

"Wenhe, Rongshan."

When they heard the sound, they looked to the right and saw Lan Qiuhua running over with a basket on her back.

"Aunt Lan, don't be in a hurry, run slowly."

He ran up to the two of them breathlessly, supported his knees with his hands and bent over: "I'm afraid you've been waiting for too long, when will you come out."

Ji Wenhe took the basket from her back and put it on the car: "Just came out, Aunt Lan, are all the vegetables sold?"

She straightened up and wiped the sweat from her forehead. "Lucky, a woman came and bought them all."

Shen Rongshan held the whip in his hand and turned to look at the two of them: "Wen He, Aunt Lan, come sit up."

"Hey." Lan Qiuhua turned her head and looked at the three large sacks in the car. "They are all cotton. How many kilograms are there?"

"Twenty-nine pounds."

She opened her mouth in shock: "Oh my god, why did you buy so much?"

"Make two thick cotton quilts, and two thin ones, as well as cotton jackets and trousers."

When winter is coming and spring is approaching, it is hot at night if you cover yourself with a thick cotton quilt, but it is cold if you don’t.

Ji Wenhe planned to calculate according to his previous life, one catty weighs ten taels, so a thick cotton quilt would weigh eight catties and a thin one would weigh two or three catties.

Finish making the cotton-padded jacket and thick quilt first, and make whatever is left.

Lan Qiuhua pinched the sack and said, "That doesn't need to be that much. This much cotton must have cost one or two taels of silver."

She would not be willing to spend so much money and buy so much cotton.

"They are all good cotton, right? Why don't you buy the slightly yellowish ones? They don't look good, but the cotton-padded jackets they make are quite warm and cheap."

"Well, it's a little over a hundred wen more. I originally wanted to buy that kind, but then I thought I'd better buy the good one. The good cotton can last for a few more years."

Although yellow cotton is cheap, she always feels that the cotton-padded jackets made from it are not as warm as those made from good cotton.

Moreover, in terms of both visual effects, the white and soft cotton is more comfortable to look at.

It’s also because I have money. If I don’t have money, I will have to buy yellow cotton.

Lan Qiuhua felt that she was being cheated because she bought too much. "I tell you, the cotton can't be used up. There will be a lot left."

"Then make two thick cotton-padded jackets for each of you to wear alternately."

I've already bought it and I can't send it back.

Ji Wenhe took out a straw hat from the basket and put it on: "Aunt Lan, I'll ask you to help make a quilt when I get back. The fabric has been brought back."

"Okay, unload the cotton at my house and I'll teach you how to make a cotton jacket."

"Hey, thank you Aunt Lan."

"Oh, why are you being so polite to your aunt?"

We returned to Shenjia Village chatting and laughing all the way.

Niu Guilan saw them coming into the village from a distance, stared at the car, waited by the vegetable field and asked, "What did you buy? Why are there so many big bags?"

Ji Wenhe smiled and replied: "I bought cotton."

Her eyes suddenly widened: "You bought so much cotton, my God, did your family make a fortune?"

"This one person can make five or six cotton-padded jackets, right? There are only four people in your family, why buy so many?"

Lan Qiuhua took over the conversation: "We still have to make quilts, why do we need to make so many cotton-padded jackets?"

Niu Guilan watched the car go farther and farther away, clicked her tongue twice, and muttered quietly: "I really made a lot of money. I bought so much cotton at once, it must be more than 20 kilograms."

"Rich, really rich."

The two twins were at home, one was looking after the shop and the other was weeding in the fields.

Shen Wenshan walked over from the shop, his face filled with joy: "Sister-in-law, brother, five eggs and one duck egg were laid today."

"The duck has laid eggs too." Ji Wenhe said in surprise, "I don't know when the goose will lay eggs."

Shen Suya jumped out of the house and said, "I heard that ducks rarely lay eggs during the dog days of summer, but they lay more eggs in spring and autumn."

"Geese don't lay eggs when it's the coldest or hottest. But once when I went to town I heard someone say they do lay eggs, just not many."

She didn't understand it either, she just heard it from others.

Shen Rongshan came out of the house, carrying a bag of cotton. "I heard that geese can only lay 50 to 120 eggs a year, and only about 40 in the first year."

"There is such a saying." Ji Wenhe only knew that eggs would not be laid when it was too cold in winter.

"I think what you heard is not true. When I was a child, I saw swans and ducks laying eggs during the dog days of summer."

"Once I went to the lotus pond with my relatives' children and found several goose and duck eggs."

Of course, I finally returned it to the owner, after all, it wasn’t my own pet.

"It doesn't matter how many eggs it lays, as long as it lays eggs."

If you can harvest five or six eggs a day, you can sell them in town in half a month.