Chapter 388 Busy too

A cow was added to the family, so a cowshed must be built.

Lao Zhoutou wandered around the two courtyards for a long time, and finally chose the thatched cottage where Zhou Zhoulang and his family lived temporarily, and now it is a room for storing sundries.

He asked his sons to clean up the contents inside, dry the moisture inside with a torch, and then carried a lot of straw in and paved it, making it clean and warm, and the cowshed was considered finished.

This is even better than the cowshed built by Zhou Hu's family.

Satisfied, the old Zhou walked around the cow, then stroked it gently and said, "It's cold now, you can stay warm in the house, and you won't get sick. In summer, I'll ask some boys to repel mosquitoes for you." , keep it so that you can sleep soundly in the house."

Old Zhou Tou said to it affectionately: "So you must eat well and work hard."

When old Zhou Tou walked out of Zhou's house again, his face was already indifferent, with a hint of complacency on his face.

The villagers listened all night and didn't hear the old Zhou's family beating the child, so they could only stop watching the show. When they saw Lao Zhoutou the next day, they asked about the credit cattle.

"Uncle Jin, I heard from Zhou Hu that you have taken advantage of the county government."

Old Zhou Tou gave a "bah" and said, "I think it's a big deal, so you're going to take it, thinking that the interest of thirty-six yuan a month is so easy to pay?"

The villagers just laughed and asked in a low voice: "Your family really left the cow?"

Old Zhou couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said: "If you don't stay, can the yamen return it to me? This is something from the government yamen."

This is true.

"Then when will your family plan to credit this account? The interest for this month is quite a lot."

"Lizheng didn't say that credit is not allowed for a day or two. You can just take the money and pay it back. Treat it as a big addition to the family. After all, you didn't lose interest, did you?"

"It's true Man Bao, why didn't you discuss such a big matter with you adults?"

"Didn't you follow on Tuesday? It's not a decision that Man Bao can make, right?"

Old Zhoutou disliked their noise, and said: "My family Man Bao said that my family will not lose money on this cow on credit."

"Why are you not losing money?"

"How do I know, I can't understand or understand that long series of arithmetic," said old Zhou head confidently: "Anyway, as long as you don't lose money."

"Then you don't pay back the money on credit?"

"Fart, that's the money from the yamen, dare I not pay it back?" Old Zhou Tou said: "But I don't have any money now, it would be best if you can lend me some. If you can't, you can only wait until next year."

Everyone was silent for a moment, and then they all talked about being poor, "Yeah, everyone's life was difficult last year. There are not many people in this family who have surplus food, let alone surplus money."

Old Zhou Tou had expected this a long time ago. He had a vague feeling that his family's current savings could not be said to be the third in Qili Village, but it was definitely ranked in the top ten.

Even he dared not take out money to buy cattle at once, let alone other people lending him money to pay off his debts.

It's not a matter of life and death.

Everyone was addicted to their mouths and knew what they wanted to know, so they said goodbye and went home.

Man Bao came back from school and happened to see them disperse, so he couldn't help saying to the better-connected families: "Because there are many people who are hesitating now, you should also go to the county government to bring back a cow on credit."

People who are encouraged: ...they are not stupid.

Man Bao watched them leave regretfully, the old Zhou Tou took her home and said, "Don't talk nonsense, what if they go to buy a cow on credit and they don't turn around?"

"what?"

"Stop it," old Zhou Tou didn't explain too much to his daughter, and changed the subject, "Didn't you say you were going to plant privet seeds on the mountain a few years ago? Have you done that?"

"Don't you dislike wasting effort, and you may not be able to work, so you won't let us grow it?"

"At that time, we couldn't finish all the work in the field. How could we have time to dig pits and plant privet seeds? But now, don't we have cattle?" Old Zhou said, "Go, call your brothers Come on, go into the mountain now and take out the branch of that tree, I listened before, just stick that thing in?"

Man Bao said: "It's cuttings. I've asked people, and basically they can survive."

"As long as you can live, go."

Man Bao rushed out to find some brothers.

Zhou Dalang and the others are busy composting. Early this morning, their father said that since they have cattle, they should pay more attention to tending a few acres of land. In this way, in order not to make enough fertilizer, they still have to pile up another pile of manure.

Zhou Dalang felt that the branches on the mountain were about to be bald by them.

So upon hearing Man Bao's words, Zhou Dalang and the others had a feeling that it was true. Even Zhou Zhoulang, who has always been diligent, couldn't help sitting on the ground, looking up at the sky, and sighed: "I always feel like I bought a cow." It’s not very labor-saving.”

Siwuliu nodded repeatedly, and also squatted on the ground.

Although he didn't want to move, Zhou Dalang led his two younger brothers up the mountain to dig a hole the next day.

In the eyes of Zhou Dalang and others, Ligustrum lucidum itself is a wild tree, so to plant it, of course, there is no need to open up the mountain.

They just want to open it, but Lao Zhou will not agree to them to go to the effort.

So they only found a thick and soft soil on Zhou Dalang's mountain behind the house, cut down or dug the nearby thorns, dug a hole, and cleared the weeds around the hole.

Then insert the Ligustrum twig that was folded back yesterday evening, pour some water and it's almost done.

Man Bao just threw a small handful of farmyard manure to them, there was no way, she didn't have any of the nutrient solutions that Dr. D said.

Anyway, that is also the liquid that promotes its germination, so she is not in a hurry to promote it, let it germinate slowly.

It took Zhou Dalang three days to dig about 30 holes on the mountain, and plant the privet branches cut into 32 sections.

It's not that they are slow, but because there are many trees and weeds on the mountain, even if they just dig a hole and clean up the roots and weeds beside the hole, it will take a long time.

And the lingering cold wave also came to an end, the spring breeze blew all night, Manbao changed the cotton-padded clothes the next day, and then went to school with a small bookcase on his back, but before noon, it was raining spring rain outside .

Man Bao looked out and said, "It's time to sow rice seeds."

At the same time, Mrs. Qian was also watching the spring rain, turned around and told Mrs. Qian, "Find out all the rakes, and go to the field in the afternoon to have a look. It's almost ready to sow rice seeds."

Old Zhou Tou also said: "The boss and I will go to the field to get it. You take the boss to pick the seeds again, and the bean seeds will also be picked. When the rice seeds are sown, the beans will also be planted."

Qian should go down.

Old Zhou took out his cigarette pouch but didn't smoke it. He looked at Zhou Dalang and said, "Let's go and see the wheat fields."

That's summer food!