Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

Chapter 209 Fighting Pigweed

Chunzhi also responded with a smile: "Yes, Miss, we planted so many sweet potatoes that we will definitely not be able to eat them all in the future."

"We can't eat all the sweet potatoes we grow, but didn't I tell you before? I want to exchange the sweet potatoes for rice."

Chunzhi scratched his head and smiled innocently: "Chunzhi just thought the young lady was just joking."

The two of them were watering the plants and chatting, and before they knew it, the sun had risen high above their heads.

"Oh my, it's already noon without us realizing it! Chunzhi, let's pack up and get ready to go back and make lunch!" An Yue put down the bucket, stood up and wiped the sweat from her chin.

"Okay, miss. What are we having for lunch?" Chunzhi asked while still bending over to water the ground.

"Hmm... Let me think about it. We still have eggs at home, so let's make some steamed egg custard!"

"You fell down while helping to catch the piglets just now. How about giving you a bigger lunch as compensation?"

After hearing this, Chunzhi clapped her hands excitedly and said, "Great, great, Miss's steamed egg custard is the most tender and delicious."

After the two of them had poured the water in their respective wooden buckets, they began to pack up and prepare to go back to the yard.

After they pushed the door open and entered the yard, they placed the bucket in the corner of the kitchen, and Chunzhi went straight to washing the pot to prepare hot water for a bath.

"Chunzhi, heat up your bath water first. I'm going to the ear room to feed the silkworms."

"Okay, miss."

An Yue walked towards the room next to her ear.

The silkworms are now eating a lot, and a few leaves are no longer enough to satisfy their appetite.

An Yue looked at the mulberry leaves that she had just fed them in the morning. In just two hours, they had been eaten until only bare leaf strips were left.

They grew very fast, and An Yue started to support them.

An Yue took a clean, empty dustpan from the corner and divided the silkworms into two halves in another bamboo dustpan.

An Yue fed them all the remaining mulberry leaves and planned to pick some more in the afternoon.

After spreading the mulberry leaves in the two bamboo dustpans, as long as they climb onto the new mulberry leaves, you can clean up the remaining leaves they have eaten next time they come.

After An Yue distributed the winnowing baskets and fed the silkworms, she closed the door of the east ear room and walked towards the kitchen to prepare lunch.

"Chunzhi, is the bath water ready?" An Yue walked into the ear room and asked Chunzhi who was passing firewood under the kitchen.

"It will be ready soon. Chunzhi wants to wash her hair with more hot water."

An Yue took the meat out and put it in a wooden basin, ready to wash it thoroughly.

"Okay, okay, no hurry, I'll wash the meat first."

"Oh, by the way, Chunzhi, when we wake up from our nap, we're going to cut grass for the pigs and pick mulberry leaves."

"Well, Chunzhi will pick grass for the pigs, and Miss will pick mulberry leaves!" Chunzhi walked to the stove and began to prepare to scoop the hot water in the pot into the wooden barrel.

"Okay, I'll pick mulberry leaves and dig herbs at the same time." An Yue said as she washed the meat.

"It's a pity that Chunzhi doesn't know herbs."

"It's okay, I'll teach you."

"Okay, miss, Chunzhi will go take a bath now!" After Chunzhi said that, she carried two buckets of hot water and went to the toilet.

An Yue was cooking lunch alone in the kitchen. She was thinking to herself that the sweet potato vines in the field had not grown up yet, so she had to go outside to collect grass for the pigs.

There are many kinds of weeds outside, and the piglets are too young, so the weeds must be cooked before being fed.

When it grows a little bigger, gradually feed it raw food.

An Yue remembered that in the 21st century, the standard feed for the pigs raised by her grandfather was sweet potatoes, cornmeal, rice bran, and the cabbage that her grandfather could not finish eating, which was all fed to the pigs.

If you think about it this way, the poor families born in this era cannot even compare to the pig food of the 21st century.

In this era, supplies were scarce, tools were backward, and people could only barely fill their stomachs. How could pigs have any good feed?

An Yue thought of the rice bran she bought in town last time. Rice bran is made after rice is crushed by a mill and the grains are separated from the husks. The grains are for people to eat, while the husks are basically food for livestock.

The husks also contain a small amount of broken rice and rice bran, which is the best poultry feed An Yue can think of in this era.

So, she thought that next time she went to town, she must buy more rice bran, not only to feed the chicks, but also the piglets needed a lot of rice bran.

An Yue cut the washed meat into pieces, put it into the pot, added appropriate amount of water to the pot, and started cooking the meat.

A few minutes later, Chunzhi finished her bath and was combing her hair in the yard. An Yue had already prepared lunch in the kitchen.

"Chunzhi, it's time to prepare lunch!" An Yue walked into the main hall with the food and said to Chunzhi in the yard.

"Okay, miss."

After lunch and washing the dishes, the two went back to their rooms to rest for a while, and then woke up to start their afternoon work.

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After waking up from a nap, Chunzhi and Anyue both carried backpacks. Anyue specially took an extra cross-body bamboo basket to hold the mulberry leaves.

After closing the gate of the yard, the two of them went out.

"Miss, where are we going?"

"Let's go to the foot of the barren mountain!" An Yue said, and the two of them walked along the road.

"Chunzhi, the so-called pig grass is actually a herb, but you don't know its medicinal effects and characteristics, so it is generally called pig grass."

When they came to the main road, Anyue squatted down, dug up a plantain and asked Chunzhi, "Look, is this pigweed?"

Chunzhi nodded repeatedly with a "hmm".

"This is called plantain. In your mind, it may just be pig grass that can be fed to pigs."

Chunzhi listened very carefully, and she quickly responded, "Yes, yes, that's what Chunzhi thinks."

An Yue said as she walked: "In fact, when it is tender, we can eat it as a dish, for example; blanch it and mix it with cold salad, or scramble it with eggs, it tastes very good."

"No...no, Miss, you said that we humans can eat this grass?" Chunzhi asked in disbelief.

An Yue smiled and continued calmly: "Of course, but if it grows old and can no longer be chewed, pick it home, dry it, and take it to the medicine store, it will become a herbal medicine to cure diseases and save lives."

When Chunzhi heard what An Yue said, she stuttered a little and exclaimed: "Wow! This is too magical!"

"This plantain is used as medicine, but it has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, removing phlegm and relieving cough."

"Wow...Miss, you know too much. Chunzhi needs to take a closer look to see what exactly Miss has more than Chunzhi."

As Chunzhi spoke, she stretched out her claws towards Anyue. She held Anyue's face and examined it carefully.

Chunzhi looked at it and didn't find anything wrong, so she said a little disappointedly: "Miss, this is nothing extra. You look exactly like Chunzhi, but why do you know so much?"

An Yue's face was a little deformed by her squeezing, and she quickly stopped her, "Silly Chunzhi, you have stinky hands that have touched pig shit! Let me go!"

Chunzhi quickly released her hands from holding An Yue's face, and she sniffed it carefully again: