mesbooks Chapter 235 Egg Freedom
Chapter 235 Egg Freedom
"You say you can't make any money? How can a cook like you know about the orchard?" Boss Sun glanced at Zhu Neng with contempt.
"Humph!" Zhu Neng stared back without flinching, his eyes gleaming:
"Do you know where Luo Xiaoran bought the apple trees she planted?" He paused and wanted to keep the question in suspense.
As expected, someone in the crowd immediately couldn't help asking, "Where did you buy it?"
"Say it quickly!"
“That’s right. If you don’t want to talk, let’s just disperse!” Boss Sun couldn’t stand Zhu Neng’s expression of keeping people in suspense, so he waved his hand and started to drive away the crowd.
“Hey, hey, hey, don’t go!” Zhu Neng hurriedly grabbed Boss Sun’s arm to stop him from driving people out.
"Are you going to tell it or not?" Boss Sun asked him.
Zhu Neng sniffed, released his arm, and winked at the crowd:
"I bought those fruit trees from an old man named Zhou in Xinghua Village. I know his trees well. They are particularly attractive to insects and produce very few fruits. I can't make much money at all!"
This……
The crowd was suddenly in an uproar.
The news spread everywhere and soon reached Zhang Changzong's ears. He couldn't help but break into a cold sweat for Luo Xiaoran.
It happened that Wang Dandan came to visit his home, so Zhang Changzong asked Wang Dandan about the problem of insects attracting apple trees in Zhou Laozhang's village. After getting a positive answer, Zhang Changzong immediately became worried.
Without bothering to entertain Wang Dandan, Zhang Changzong hurried out and went straight to Luo Xiaoran's house.
Wang Dandan behind him couldn't stop shouting, "I haven't finished yet..."
Zhang Changzong said angrily: "You were cheated. I heard that the apple trees you bought are infested with bugs and the harvest will not be good!"
Luo Xiaoran quickly poured a cup of tea for the breathless Zhang Changzong, "Don't get angry, Village Chief. I know about this."
Yun Hu helped find several fruit farmers, and Luo Xiaoran chose Zhou Laozhang. One reason was that Xinghua Village was close to Hexi Village, which made it convenient to transport the fruit trees.
The second point is, of course, because there is something wrong with Zhou Laozhang’s fruit trees, and Luo Xiaoran can also lower the price.
"Cough, cough, cough!" Zhang Changzong choked as he drank the tea. He looked at Luo Xiaoran in disbelief: "You knew that? Then why did you buy it?"
"What if these trees are no longer infested by insects when they come to our village?"
"Cough, cough, cough!" Zhang Changzong choked again.
……
When transplanting the apple trees, Luo Xiaoran specifically reminded Niu Shubao and others that the location for planting the trees was important.
The fruit trees in the middle are planted in a vertical and horizontal arrangement, but the apple trees on the outermost edge are planted more densely, like an outer wall surrounding the entire orchard.
There is an empty space in the orchard, and Luo Xiaoran wants to build a chicken coop here.
Yes, Luo Xiaoran didn’t just want to grow apples from the beginning, she also wanted to raise chickens in the orchard. Raising chickens is more important than apples. Luo Xiaoran’s ultimate goal is to achieve egg freedom.
Therefore, it doesn’t matter if Mr. Zhou’s fruit trees attract insects. He can put chickens into the orchard and the insects will become food for the chickens. This not only protects the fruit trees but also saves chicken feed.
Maybe the adult chickens will fly up and down everywhere, making the apples in the lower part look unsightly, but as long as they can lay eggs, it's fine.
The day after the apple trees were planted, Wang Dandan and his men worked hard to raise the foundation of the reserved land for the chicken coop according to Luo Xiaoran's request. He was a little puzzled:
"Xiao Ran, this is already the highest place in the orchard, why do we need to raise the foundation?"
Luo Xiaoran smiled and said, "If it rains too much, I'm afraid the chicken coop will be flooded. It would be safer to raise the foundation a little higher. Then I can dig drainage ditches around it and that will be enough."
Wang Dandan thought about it and realized that it was indeed the case!
Last year, a chicken coop of a family in their village was collapsed by rain. More than a dozen chickens were exposed to the rain and all died within a few days.
Wang Dandan recalled Zhang Changzong's hurried departure yesterday and couldn't help but joke:
"Xiao Ran, you are so cautious in your work. My brother-in-law is worried that you were deceived by Mr. Zhou because of the fruit tree. He rushed to find you yesterday without waiting for me to finish my words!"
Luo Xiaoran felt warm in her heart, she had been in Hexi Village for almost a year, during this year the village chief had helped her a lot, other people in the village loved to gossip, few were very good.
Even if there is a top-notch person, he wouldn't dare to offend her now.
First, the fact that Zhang Erhe, Wang Xiaofeng, and Zhang Xiaohe were sent to the authorities for stealing made all the villagers realize that she was not someone to be trifled with.
Secondly, she built private schools and clinics, and subsidized food for corvée labor (it was Yunhu who was against food), all of which earned her popularity among the villagers.
With the combination of kindness and severity, Luo Xiaoran and her family have gained a high status in the hearts of the Hexi villagers.
Now, Luo Xiaoran is at least a "highly respected" small landlord. She shouldn't be too happy with her days of lying down continuously!
If you want to raise chickens well, the chicken coop is very important. Luo Xiaoran explained some precautions to Wang Dandan in detail.
The interior of the chicken coop should be divided into multiple small rooms, and the roof should be sealed with corn and sorghum stalks to ensure good insulation and heat insulation.
Wang Dandan suggested that the west and north walls of the chicken coop could be appropriately thickened. Luo Xiaoran thought of the northwest wind blowing in the middle of winter and still felt some pain on her face, so she nodded solemnly.
The west and north walls really need to be thickened, much thicker!
Wang Dandan led people to build the chicken coop, while Luo Xiaoran went to prepare other things, such as:
Wire mesh needs to be installed on the doors and windows, which needs to be ordered in advance from the blacksmith shop. Lime needs to be purchased from the lime shop for disinfecting the chicken coop.
The water trough is bought from a stonemason, the feed trough is bought from carpenter Lao Liu, and the chickens are bought from various vendors...
This is a huge business with a lot of things to do, but her current focus is to prepare everything.
Three months later, the chicken coop had been built and ventilated for two months. Luo Xiaoran drove a hundred chickens into the apple orchard.
The creamy yellow chicks swayed their bodies and ran towards the tall and strong apple trees. In contrast, the chicks looked even smaller.
Luo Xingchen and Niu Dan looked at the group of yellow fluffy chicks with their eyes wide open and their necks stretched long, each pulling one of Luo Xiaoran's arms.
"Sister, why don't we raise chickens at home?" they both said in unison.
"If you keep so many chickens at home, the chicken droppings will be everywhere and the stench will be overwhelming. Can you bear it?
Besides, you two like to open the windows. What if a chicken flies into the room and tramples on the bed, poops or pees on it? "
Luo Xingchen: ...
Niu Dan: ...
It’s better to keep it in the apple orchard!
After a while, excluding a dozen chicks that died early due to weakness, there were more than eighty chicks left in the forest. They chirped in the orchard all day long, making Uncle Xiang and Aunt Ji very happy.
Uncle Xiang and Aunt Ji come to the orchard to help during the day, adding water and feed to the chickens. At night, Uncle Xiang sleeps in a new house built next to the chicken coop, watching over the chickens in the coop.
Later, Luo Xiaoran found a watchdog and tied it in front of the locked door of the chicken coop, and Uncle Xiang returned to Luo's house to sleep.