After seeing them off, song Xintong closed the door and carried two baskets of mushrooms and fungus into the kitchen.
Lu's mother is cooking fish soup in the kitchen. She has cooked it for a long time. The fish is bone free. The soup is thick, white and fragrant. It tastes delicious.
"Aunt Qiu, are they gone?" Lu Mu asked, gesticulating.
"Already back." Song Xintong put the basket on the table: "this is just from mother-in-law Qiu. Mother, can we have mushrooms at noon?"
Lu Mu nodded: "of course."
Song Xintong asked Lu's mother for advice: "but they sent a lot of them. It's easy to get bad if they can't finish eating. We'll wait until the winter when it's dry?"
Lu Mu had dried and stored the mushrooms they had brought. She knew Xintong liked to eat them, so she kept them. In winter, they could be used to make soup and stir fry. Although the taste was worse, there was still some taste.
With Lu Mu's consent, song Xintong picked up enough mushrooms to eat for two days, and took the rest out to the sun. Here he was holding a thin bamboo stick, which should have been dried before his mother.
One by one, song Xintong strung the mushrooms one by one, quickly strung a long string, then poured the wet agaric on the dustpan to dry, and put them away when they were dry.
Lunch is very simple, mushroom meat, stir fried vegetables, appetizer's pickled ginger, and a delicious fish soup.
Song Xintong drank two bowls full of fish soup, and ate half a bowl of rice, so she couldn't eat any more. She wanted to pour all the fish soup to Lu Yunkai, but she was stopped by Lu's mother: "if you are hungry, drink it."
But it will be fishy.
"Niang, Xianggong is reading very late every day. He has to drink more fish soup to nourish his brain."
As soon as she said this, Lu's mother would not stop, "drink more, and I'll stay up in the evening."
Before Song Xintong was lucky, Lu's mother said to her, "I'll boil some tremella and wolfberry sweet soup later. I'll drink it when you wake up."
"..." well, she prefers to drink tremella soup for beauty.
After lunch and washing the dishes, song Xintong went back to his room and lay down. He had a nap with Lu Yunkai for a while. When he woke up, Lu Yunkai had already got up to read a book.
Song Xintong especially admired Lu Yunkai's self-consciousness. When time came, he would definitely get up and never stay in bed. He felt that the only time he stayed in bed was when they just got married.
She can't do it now. She has completely let herself go. She wakes up naturally when she sleeps. No one cares about her at all, and she doesn't have to worry about other things.
She got up and drank a bowl of tremella and medlar sweet soup. Her stomach felt full again, so she didn't drink any more.
Taking advantage of the fact that the sun has turned to the other side of the mountain, song Xintong goes out to the chicken house in the back mountain. When he enters the door, he hears the cries of chickens and dogs all over the mountain.
"Master, are you back?" Zhang Xiaocui, Zhang's daughter in charge of chicken house and duck house, cried out in surprise when she looked at Song Xintong. Then she hurriedly yelled at the house below: "Daddy, grandma, the owner is coming."
Song Xintong looked at the chickens running all over the mountains and fields. They all grew up a lot. They were no longer fluffy chicks. They were bigger than their palms and their feathers became hard, a bit like the feathers of an adult chicken.
"It's growing so fast. You're well fed."
Praised, Zhang Xiaocui also other happy, smile not close mouth, "master, you careful foot, sometimes those chickens will fly out, shit on the ground."
"It seems that our fence needs to be raised." Song Xintong looked at the rabbits grazing on the ground on the other side, "can they go back when they come out?"
"Yes." Zhang Xiaocui said: "aunt Cui, they don't want to rush. As long as it's dark, they will run back. They are very smart and know that there are delicious food in the cage."
After a pause, she added, "as smart as a human being."
"What about the chicken house and duck house? Will you go back when it's dark? " Asked song Xintong.
"Yes, they are waiting to go home and eat delicious food."
When she got to the door, Zhang Xiaocui quickly ran into the yard and yelled, "Mom and Dad, aunt Cui, the owner is coming."
When song Xintong walked into the yard, Cui's second daughter-in-law and Zhang's also rushed over. Both of them were cooking feed for chickens, ducks and rabbits. As soon as they heard the sound, they ran out: "master, you're back."
Song Xintong put the crisp candy on the stone table and said, "take it and eat it."
"Thank you, master." Zhang Xiaocui's crisp thanks.
Song Xintong took a sip of tea and said, "what happened this month when I was away? What's the problem? "
"No, it's all going well." Cui second daughter-in-law said.
Zhang said: "the owner, that is, chickens and ducks have died more than 30, I do not know whether the weather is hot or how."
"Are you still dead?"
"Now it's gone. My family and I stare at it every day, and we don't find any chicken or duck that is not in spirit."
"That's good. It's better to burn the dead ones, and the chickens and ducks should be cleaned with lime every day after they go out. It's easy to die on such a hot day." Song Xintong stressed again.
"Don't worry, my boss. I did everything you ordered. I cleaned the cage every day." Zhang said.
"That's good." Song Xintong said, "I remember the chicken farm will send hundreds of chickens every month? How long will it be this month? "
"Not yet. It was delivered at the end of July. It's estimated that it won't be delivered until the end of August this time." Zhang said: "now the first batch has grown to half a catty, and the small ones have begun to grow feathers."
"It's good of you to keep them in a cage. They grow fast."
At present, there are not many cages for chickens and ducks, so we should close a batch of them first, take away the long fat, and then put in the free range. Anyway, there are both free range and cage, which can save space and grow fast.
Song Xintong nodded with satisfaction: "the rabbit house here can be increased?"
"If you go back to the owner's house, it will be increased. In addition, housekeeper Yang has brought back more than 200 rabbits from outside. Now there are 580 rabbits of all sizes in the rabbit house. There are 200 female rabbits who can give birth, 60 male rabbits and 320 little rabbits."
Cui's second daughter-in-law continued: "now there are more than 80 female rabbits pregnant. It's estimated that there will be 1000 in another two months."
"How long will the half size rabbit come out of the cage?"
"One and a half months at most."
Song Xintong nodded, "You raise more, strive for female rabbit and male rabbit can reach 500, the rest of the rabbit grow up as soon as possible, I will be useful at that time."
"Good owner, you can rest assured." Cui second daughter-in-law pause, "now delicious and good to serve them, is the owner you buy grass without eating."
"It's OK. There will be another period of time when the sweet potatoes are dug out. At that time, we will feed them sweet potatoes to ensure that they will grow fat soon." Song Xintong said, "you can load all the fertilizers. After a while, the people in the village will definitely come to us to buy fertilizer."
"Don't worry, my boss. They're all piled up in big pits to retch fertilizer. Now it's almost half a pit. My boss picked a lot of water to go in, which is enough for dozens of mu of land."
"That's it." Song Xintong is very satisfied, now everything is on the right track, silver will soon come back, "I go back first."
"Slow down, master."