The squab meat that had been simmered for several hours was not chewy at all, so it was all cheap to the dogs in the circle.
After stuffing a few more buns into his mouth, Yang Dongxu was going to go to the street to get some rice-treasure porridge or some soup. Drinking tea in the morning always feels too bland, so it is better to go to the street to find something to drink.
When I was buying soup, I saw the tofu skin (Qianzhang Tofu) and fried dough sticks, which really matched the taste, so I ordered one, two tofu skins and one big fried dough stick, put coriander, garlic juice, some small pickles and diced radish, and one more Eggs only cost two yuan.
The total price of three yuan including the soup is not too cheap. You must know that the soup is freshly made with boiling hot chicken soup and eggs, so breakfast is not very cost-effective.
"You don't have to cook in the evening. There are all kinds of big fish and meat at noon. It would also be good to have some chicken sauce and bean curd in the evening." Yang Dongxu couldn't help but think while biting the tough bean skin and fried dough sticks in his mouth.
"Why did you come out for breakfast today?" He had just finished eating the bean curd fried dough sticks in his hand and was about to take the last sip of the soup, when he met Daliang leading his son out for breakfast.
"I didn't cook the porridge in the morning and I ran out of soup. I wanted to go out and have a bowl of soup. I saw that the bean curd dough sticks were pretty good and I bought one." Yang Dongxu finished scooping up the soup in the bowl and stood up to pay, "You guys pay for what you eat together. "
"I'd better pay for it for you. Your meal is three yuan and two yuan." Daliang said with a smile.
"Okay, I won't be polite to you anymore. I'll go check out the pig pen. I guess I'm quite busy today." Yang Dongxu said with a smile without being polite.
Although the pig farms no longer sell large pigs, they will sell some piglets according to the number of old sows. After so many years of cultivation, the breed of piglets from the Yang family pig farm is extremely good.
At the end of the year, the big pigs in various pig pens are sold and killed. The pig pens are already empty, so choosing a few piglets has become one of the purchases at the end of the year.
Spring started relatively early this year. The Spring Festival and New Year fall on February 7 in the Gregorian calendar, and the beginning of spring begins before February 4.
Therefore, it won’t be too cold after the New Year. The piglets will be brought home at this time, and they can get used to the pig pen and grow meat when the cold spring weather passes.
Raise like this for more than half a year, wait until the wheat harvest before catching two piglets, so that the big pigs can be sold before and after the autumn harvest. The piglets caught before the wheat harvest will be raised until the end of the year, and then they can be sold or killed during the Spring Festival. In this way, one year is considered Raising two crops of pigs can help subsidize some household expenses.
After all, pigs are rarely raised in rural areas now and the feed cost is not much. Crush platycodon, corn stalks, small sweet potatoes and pumpkins that cannot be sold during the autumn harvest can be given to the pigs.
"Don't forget to leave two ends for my family."
"I know." Yang Dongxu waved his hand.
It's not him and his wife who support Daliang's family. He now works in a truck company in the county town, and his wife, who runs a store, has no time to raise pigs and sheep.
These are all raised by the older generation, that is, people of Father Yang’s generation. With the passing of their grandfather’s generation, breeding and farming basically became the responsibility of Father Yang’s generation. A person’s main business.
That is to say, the cultivation of traditional Chinese medicine in rural areas is now relatively well developed. Otherwise, it would be impossible for young and strong laborers like Daliang to farm at home.
Because it is impossible to support a family by just farming. Only when both husband and wife go out to work and leave the children to their parents can the economic environment of the family be improved. The era of eating only from the ground is gone.
When we came to the pig farm, many people had already come to buy piglets. Two or three families in a village drove a three-wheeled battery cart with bamboo or wattle baskets on it and wheat straw padded inside. Five or six little piglets can also bring two or three people and many young goods back.
"Why did you come here just now?" When he arrived, Zhou Ya was already here.
"I was a little tired of eating steamed buns. I went to the street to drink some soup to moisten my stomach. I saw Da Liang and chatted for a few words. You go out and I will catch you. You are not strong enough." Yang Dongxu said while taking off the long rubber shoes next to him. Give it back.
Although the pig pen is quite clean, there is no accumulation of pig manure. But with the shoes he usually wears, if he goes into a pig pen to catch piglets and run around for a few hours, the rancid smell on the soles of his shoes will linger for several days.
"Then come." Zhou Ya took off the rubber gloves and handed them over.
Yang Dongxu didn't come, but Zhou Ya had already helped catch several piglets. Although the piglets were not big, they were very powerful.
If the old man of the company she used to manage saw the usually elegant and virtuous Empress Zhou, she would be quick and accurate in catching piglets, and she would definitely destroy her world view with one hand.
Piglets sold to the outside world are generally about 30 pounds and weaned for more than half a month. Basically, 26 to 7 pounds is more common, and the most is just over 30 pounds.
It is more cost-effective to buy small piglets of this weight. If they are one pound, thirty or forty pounds larger, the farmer who buys them will suffer some losses. After all, the price of piglets is generally three times the price of large pigs. The price of piglets goes up. The more you buy, the more you suffer.
It shouldn’t be too small, as it won’t be enough to eat well, and it will make it easy to get sick. Therefore, around thirty pounds is the best. Piglets at this time are basically forty or fifty days old.
Piglets that are 15 days old can basically be fed in small amounts. After the full moon, piglets are fed in large amounts and need less milk. Now they are 40 or 50 days old and have been weaned and fully fed for a period of time. The intestines and stomach have adapted, so they can be taken home and fed easily.
Yang Xu and Yang's father were catching piglets in the pig pen. A group of people stood outside the pig pen to pick piglets. They wanted to point out which end they wanted. They directly grabbed the front and rear legs and tied them with straw ropes, and carried them to the side to weigh and pay.
Under normal circumstances, families that are not particularly poor will not pay on credit, and they basically make cash transactions on the spot. After all, the New Year's Eve is about to begin.
At this time, the debt owed to Father Yang, the creditor, may feel that it is nothing, but the debtor feels a little uneasy even during the New Year. After all, this debt is postponed from the end of the year to next year, which is equivalent to being in debt for two years, which is quite unlucky in the eyes of many people.
Therefore, many times at the end of the year, many people who are in debt will sell pigs, sheep, etc. to clear their family's debts and have a good year.
I have been busy all morning, especially around 11 o'clock at noon, when people who went to the street to sell New Year's goods came to take one or two piglets home, and there was a long queue.
I originally planned to buy forty or fifty piglets for two or three days, but they were all cleared in one morning.
The piglets after the New Year will not be sold to the public, so that when the half-sized pigs in the pig pens grow up and can be sold, the piglets after the New Year will also grow up, so that the piglets can continue to be slaughtered.
There is no need to concentrate on slaughtering, leaving the pig farm empty all of a sudden. The workers will be extremely busy for a period of time, and they will be idle for a period of time with nothing to do.
"Okay, you go back, take the money bag back and reconcile the accounts. Your mother and I will take care of things here." After the piglets were sold, Father Yang waved his hand to Yang Dongxu and Zhou Ya to stop here and go back to reconcile the accounts. Prepare lunch or something.
In addition to the Yang family, Grandpa also came over to help today, but he only helped to maintain order, and he couldn't do any work. After all, he is over seventy years old.
The little piglet struggled very hard, and it was impossible for him to catch the piglets, so most of what he did was chatting with the people who came to buy piglets, or helping to weigh them.
Today was a market day, and my uncle and his family were selling goods on the street and they didn't come over to help. My grandma was there to help, and my two sons and one old man were helping me impartially.
"Okay, what do you want to eat for lunch?" Yang Dongxu greeted Aunt Hua, and it was up to her to cook. He and Zhou Ya were both ready for big dishes, but there was an old man Xuan at home who knew how to eat.
Some odd jobs, such as washing vegetables, chopping vegetables, making soup, etc., he was too lazy to do anyway, so Aunt Hua needed to help.
"Get some whatever you want. The piglets are out of the market. The half-grown pigs will be fed in the middle of the night. A few hard vegetables will be eaten at noon." Father Yang said.
The casual words he said were obviously casual politeness, but his request was stated in the next sentence.
Pigs in pig farms are fed twice a year, one in the morning, and another in the middle of the night, that is, at five or six o'clock in the afternoon. Those that grow meat need to add some feed or something.
So I drank something tipsy at noon, took a nap, and woke up at 3 or 4 in the afternoon to prepare pig food. It was a pleasant little life.
"Okay, got it." Yang Dongxu responded.
Zhou Ya and I left the pig farm and walked towards the old house. The old house was not very popular all year round, so at the end of the year, we basically chose to cook there.
"I'm going to tell my aunt that they won't be allowed to cook at noon. Let's eat at our house." Zhou Ya said after leaving the pig farm.
"Okay, let's prepare a few more dishes. I'll look for Wen Chen by the way. I don't know where he's gone. I don't know how to go home without looking for lunch."
"I should be playing with Jiejie. I'll look for him later." Zhou Ya nodded.
In the past two years, there was almost a big conflict at home because of the issue of whether Jiejie should go to a good school in the city.
In the past two years, my aunt has basically not mentioned this incident, because first, during the high school entrance examination, this kid only got into the No. 1 middle school with less than 500 points.
My aunt rented a house next to the No. 11 Middle School and watched Jiejie go to high school. As a result, he is already 17 and is already in his senior year of high school. He is about to take the college entrance examination next year and his grades are hard to describe.
Even if you go to Yanjing or Shanghai to attend the attached high school with this score, you will still be the kind of person who basically has no hope of entering a university if you don’t find connections and don’t donate teaching buildings or infrastructure to the school.
So the aunt simply gave up and seemed to realize that her child was not meant to study at all.
The current consideration is that 18 years old is still a bit too immature. If the college entrance examination does not go well next year, let this kid find a technical school to learn skills, or go out to work directly.
However, although Jiejie's grades in school are not good, his communication skills are good. Although I couldn't be the class president with poor grades, after all, class teachers and students both wanted to save face, but the sports committee member went from the first year of high school to the third year of high school.
At school, he doesn’t respond to everyone’s requests, but this kid is always an active member of whatever activities are held in the class or sports meets held in the school, and he does well in whatever tasks are assigned to him.
Therefore, by cultivating such character and communication skills, you can develop absolutely first-class sales talents, and then develop management experience. Your future future will be no less than studying in college.
It's just that nowadays parents still value college diplomas very much, as if to make up for the regret that they can't go to college.
But in fact, in today's society, although academic qualifications are a stepping stone, ability is also very important.
Especially for people like Jiejie who don't need a stepping stone, academic qualifications are really not a necessity, ability is the first priority.
What, this master's degree, that doctorate, it's just a halo, it's really of no use to Jiejie.
