roccoschili Chapter 423 Chicken Farming
Chapter 423 Chicken Farming
So Grandpa Zhao repeated the letter that Yunhua sent back to the Taoist priest. After listening to it, the Taoist priest became more certain of his observation.
But he still couldn't help complaining, "This court is too poor. You don't know that the food those new soldiers eat is all the dry food they bring from home. Some of them have to starve after eating. If the army doesn't give them food, what's the point of fighting? It's better for them to starve to death before they even reach the battlefield."
Grandpa Zhao also agreed, "In fact, the situation should not be that bad. It's just that someone has set it up."
"That's right. No matter how poor the imperial court is, it's not so poor that it doesn't have this much money. The royal family has so many jewelry, paintings and calligraphy as tributes. If we just sell some of them, we can still make up a lot. There must be something fishy going on here. No, I have to write a letter to Yunhua and ask him to investigate it thoroughly."
After the Taoist priest finished speaking, he was about to get up to write a letter. Lu Chuan pointedly stopped him and said, "Master, why don't you take a shower first? Your body is sore."
After hearing this, the Taoist priest lowered his head and sniffed himself seriously, "You know what, it really feels a bit sour."
Xu Han continued, "Master, the hot water is already boiling in the pot. Go take a shower first. There's no rush. Take a shower and have a good sleep. I'll write the letter tomorrow."
"Okay, I'll go take a shower first, and you guys should get some rest too, it's getting late."
Seeing this, Xu Han and Lu Chuan went back to their rooms to sleep, while Grandpa Zhao went to the Taoist priest's room to wait for him. After the Taoist priest came back, the two chatted for a long time...
After several days, the wheat in the wheat field was fully mature. That evening, Lu Chuan and the Taoist priest were sharpening their sickles. After preparing the tools tonight, they could start harvesting the wheat tomorrow morning.
"We planted a lot of wheat this year, so we'll harvest it in the order we planted it before. We should take advantage of the good weather these days to harvest the wheat quickly, or else all the wheat will be soaked in the ground after a heavy rain."
Xu Han also agreed, "Everyone just needs to work harder these few days. After the wheat harvest, I will make delicious food for everyone."
"Hahaha, after being idle for so long, I finally have something to do."
Grandpa Zhao joked with Lu Chuan, "After the summer harvest and autumn planting, we won't be able to rest. We can go hunting in the mountains. Let's see if you still want to be idle."
Lu Chuan replied with a smile, "It's better to be busy. Being busy gives you a purpose. It's really uncomfortable to be idle all day long."
Xu Han laughed and said, "Hahaha, a bunch of hardworking people."
Everyone went to bed early that night, just waiting to get up early the next day to harvest the wheat.
After being busy for more than a month, we finally harvested the crops in the fields.
The hard work of the few people during this period has paid off. After all the wheat was threshed and dried, Lu Chuan took the Taoist priest to weigh this season's harvest.
After the result came out, Xu Hanle couldn't stop talking for several days.
I'm so happy. These are all enough to fill my stomach. If I keep going like this, even if Heidian gives birth to a few more puppies, my family will be able to afford to raise them.
As long as there is grain in the granary, we have confidence and are not afraid at all.
And this is just the harvest for one season, there is still one season left to be counted.
Although the harvest was gratifying, Xu Han did not plan to continue reclaiming the land. There were only a few people in the family, and even if they reclaimed the land, they would not be able to cultivate it.
Rather than leaving it abandoned, it is better to do your best to take care of the existing fields.
Before she knew it, it was already June. After finishing the work in the fields, Xu Han also started her own chicken raising business.
After half a year, there are now more than 300 chickens in the orchard, and the area that was fenced off before is a bit small for the current flock of chickens.
So these few days, Xu Han and a few others are busy planning to expand the chicken farm.
The density of chickens is too high, and the chickens are prone to plague. Especially in summer, if you are not careful, all the chickens may be infected with the plague.
If the area where chickens are raised is expanded and the air circulation is better, the chickens will be less likely to get sick.
In addition, every few days, Lu Chuan would use quicklime to disinfect the chicken coop, and sometimes he would boil some herbs for the chickens to drink, so at present, the chickens in the orchard are growing quite well.
However, perhaps because of the large number of chickens, Xu Han always felt that the chickens in the orchard grew more slowly. Chickens of the same month did not grow as big as the chickens raised at home before.
But Xu Han was also good at comforting herself. Fortunately, there were so many of them. Adding ducks and the like, the total number was more than 400.
Xu Han’s goal is to increase the number of chickens in the orchard to at least 1000 by this time next year, so that there will be more eggs in the future.
The roosters are used for daily consumption or sold to restaurants, while the hens are kept to lay eggs, which are then sold. However, it would be difficult to sell eggs alone, so other methods need to be considered.
In the later stage, the number of roosters will be so large that ordinary restaurants may not be able to handle it. We will need to think of a solution by then.
But that’s all in the past. We don’t have that many chickens at home right now, so we won’t need them for the time being.
Moreover, the chickens we raised this year have not started laying eggs yet. The chickens we raised last year laid quite a few eggs, but my family didn’t eat many of them. Many of them were used to hatch chicks.
After finishing breakfast early in the morning, Xu Han followed the Taoist priest and Lu Chuan to the bamboo forest to cut bamboo.
Bamboo grows very fast and has a strong reproductive capacity. In less than two years, more than half of the bamboo forest has recovered, and many new bamboos have grown densely.
Lu Chuan took the two of them to specially select last year's bamboo, which was not too tender and was also stronger.
It took them several days to cut the bamboo, and then they started working on building the chicken coop.
This chicken coop is two or three times larger than before. It should be able to last for two or three years without any problems.
When the number of chickens increases again in the later stage, we will build a new chicken pen in the newly transplanted orchard.
By the way, this spring, Xu Han also planted a lot of fruit trees, and now they have all been transplanted.
In a few days when the weather is not too hot, I plan to continue cultivating the fruit trees and strive to plant all the fruit trees on the mountain. By then, I can make a lot of money just by selling the fruits.
In addition to planting fruit trees, Xu Han also plans to take some time to go to the mountain with Lu Chuan to plant some chestnut and walnut branches, and then plant some of them. It would be great whether they can be eaten by themselves or exchanged for money.
By then the space for raising chickens was expanded, but problems also arose. There were not enough people at home, and they would be too busy to handle raising too many chickens.