LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 265: Li Laidi
Su Danhong comforted the boy until he was able to calm down.
“When is the New Year?” Qiqi asked.
“The New Year is a celebration when we give out red envelopes,” Su Danhong replied
Qiqi began to look forward to it. Of course, the most important thing he was looking forward to was the red envelope. He wanted red envelopes.
He asked Renren to take him to the mountains to pick fruits. Su Danhong left them alone.
It was better for boys to be raised freely. They would be more resistant, and the most important thing was that they could protect the smaller ones well.
Su Danhong touched her belly. She had a feeling that she had a daughter!
She would need her two brothers to protect her. Otherwise, she would be easily bullied.
Ji Jianyun was very busy because he was short on money. He led the workers to build a chicken coop in the third orchard.
The alfalfa that were sown grew very well in the third orchard. Su Danhong often went there to water with the spiritual spring water.
The alfalfa was on three or four plots of land. They were going to use it to feed the chickens, just like the first orchard and the second orchard.
Chicken feet did a lot of damage to the land, so Ji Jianyun built a total of four large chicken coops. The chickens would live in one place, and rotate to the next place once in a while.
Ji Jianyun was also going to build another chicken coop in the first orchard mountain.
This was what he read in the breeding book recently sent from Uncle Zhang, who was in the capital. Uncle Zhang knew that he had these books at home and went to find them for him.
It wasn’t only chickens, but also ducks, pigs, sheep, and fish that had systematic breeding methods. Uncle Zhang sent all the books to him.
The chickens were going to be raised following the books. The ducks did not lay eggs for a while, but they still had salted duck eggs that they made before the summer. The ducks had their feathers cut off to let the female ducks rest and regain their strength before laying more eggs.
The food he fed the ducks was very good, and the ducks were growing well.
When he followed this method of raising the animals, Uncle Xu and Su Anbang praised him. The ducks that had laid eggs for two or three months in a row had lost a lot of weight, and they had obviously lost their vitality.
Since they were raised like this, they started laying eggs much faster.
Ji Jianyun thought that the books sent by Uncle Zhang were good. He had to believe in science.
Four chicken coops were built in the third orchard, and he was about to start asking the workers to fence the mountain again. This time, they did not use bricks and stones. He spent a lot of money to fence the first orchard and the second orchard, because it was relatively rare to have orchards at the time. Currently, it wasn’t like that. He asked Cai Zhanguo and Ji Guangzong to put up wooden stakes and nets around the third orchard, and that was pretty much it.
While the chicken coop was being built on the mountain, Ji Jianyun also built a house. He would have someone guard the orchard when it was ready, but he was not going to ask someone from the village.
After working hard for more than half a month, everything on the mountain was almost ready.
Ji Jianyun sent a basket of fruits to his mother-in-law that day. They were all big and sweet fruits.
“How is Danhong doing now?” Mother Su asked.
“It's okay, mother, don't worry,” Ji Jianyun replied with a smile.
His wife’s belly was around four months old and was in good condition. She ate fruit twice a day, every day. She ate very well.
“Mother, the main reason I came here today is to ask if there is anyone we can hire. I still need a guard for the third orchard,” Ji Jianyun explained.
After hearing this, Mother Su said, “Have Jinjun do it.”
The person guarding the orchard must be someone he could trust. If he didn’t, wouldn’t that person be a thief?
In the past, she would definitely not let her eldest son go. Her son did not have a bright future, but he did not do petty things like stealing. She was still in control at home, so how could he dare to mess around?
“I want to have him do it, but he has to be on the mountain every day to look after the orchard. He is still young and has to come back to be with sister-in-law,” Ji Jianyun said.
If possible, he would have Su Jinjun do it. However, how could he separate husband and wife?
Mother Su understood what her son-in-law was saying, and said, “With how old they are, how can you still care about such a thing.”
She was so straightforward.
“Let’s find someone else.” Ji Jianyun shook his head.
He would not be so polite to his mother-in-law, and Mother Su did not care if he was like this. In fact, what her son-in-law said made sense. Although her son had just entered his forties, forty was not considered old.
So she said, “Then I will help you find someone. If there is anyone suitable, I will tell you. I will visit and find someone with Danhong tomorrow.”
Ji Jianyun agreed to it.
Mother Su went through all her relatives, and decided that they were all not suitable. Since her relatives couldn't be hired, she had to find other people, but they were also not very suitable.
She went over to Su Anbang's house to visit, but he was not there. He was at the reservoir, and his wife was taking care of their child.
“Fifth aunt.” Su Anbang's wife, Li Laidi, greeted her with a smile.
“The tomatoes at home are ripe, and they are very good. I’ve brought you some. My grandniece will like them a lot,” Mother Su said with a smile.
She brought five or six tomatoes in a small basket. She washed one and gave it to the little girl who was teething.
Li Laidi poured some water and said, “Aunt, drink some water.”
“Thank you, sit down and let’s talk,” Mother Su.
Li Laidi sat down, and Mother Su asked how her life had been recently.
Li Laidi smiled. “Don't worry, aunt, life is good now.”
Her husband, Anbang, had a salary of 40 yuan every month. Her family didn’t have much land. They had just over an acre. She grew wheat there and some beans to eat at home. In the yards, she grew some vegetables and raised a few hens to lay and collect eggs. Three meals a day basically cost nothing.
Before the price of pork increased, she would buy meat once or twice a week. But since last year, she stopped buying it. At the end of a month, she might buy half a jin. Su Anbang complained to her several times about this and asked her to buy more meat.
But Li Laidi did not agree to it. Their life was much better than before. In the past, they couldn't even have enough porridge.
They could have a full stomach and eggs at every meal. What was there to be unhappy about?
As for meat, they could just buy some occasionally.
Li Laidi could save a lot of money because she was like this. Su Anbang wanted her to spend maybe only five or six yuan a month. Even if it was only five or six yuan, Li Laidi thought that it was luxurious.
Since her husband liked to eat meat, she had to buy a jin and a half of it every month for him to eat.
Otherwise there would be more money leftover.
After all this time, her family went from having no money to have a small amount of savings. Li Laidi was pretty happy these days.