The happy little days of the Ye family

Chapter 570 Selecting Breeding Pigs

Ye Xilin found two young men in the village who came from modest backgrounds but were very diligent and honest to help with the pig weeding.

One is Ye Pingan, who lives in the village and is 8 years old this year. The other one is Wang Xiaofu, who lives in the east of the village and is 9 years old this year.

An eight or nine-year-old child is considered half-motivated and cannot do heavy work at home, but there is no problem at all in hunting hogweed.

Ye Xilin made an agreement with them, a salary of 300 wen per month, plus a pound of candy.

The task of the two young boys was to haul two carts of hogweed each day.

Ye Xilin was very shrewd and calculated directly based on the number of pigweeds, so he would not be afraid of dishonesty.

If something happened at home or it was raining and you couldn't hit the hogweed, you could make up for it later. Anyway, he only paid for the hogweed when he saw it.

Ye Ping'an and Wang Xiaofu came from poor families. They did not go to school and could not do any heavy work at their age. It was just right for them to help Ye Xilin hunt pigweed.

With money and sweets to eat, the two were very happy to kill Ye Xilin. The day Ye Xilin finished speaking, the two of them couldn't wait to start working.

With two young boys collecting pig grass for Ye Xilin every day, he happened to be building a pig pen with his uncles in the village these days.

Wang Xiaofu and Ye Pingan worked very hard. They went to the back mountain to hunt pigweed every morning. With two carts full of pigweed, they could easily finish the job every day.

By the way, you can also kill the pigweed at home without delaying things at home.

The new breeding pigs have not even started to be raised, and the pigweed that the two of them harvest every day is too much for the pigs at home to eat. Ye Xilin dried all the excess pigweed and used it to feed the pigs in winter when there is less pigweed.

Building a pigsty is easier than building a house. One big and three small. The four pigsties were built in 4 days.

As soon as the new pigsty was built, Ye Xilin went to the pigsty in Xiaohoushan to select new breeding pigs.

Before going to Xiaohoushan, Ye Xilin put all the one-month-old piglets in cages and sent them to the pigsty in Xiaohoushan.

Generally, the piglets can be separated from the sow and sent to the small back mountain to be raised in a little more than one month.

At this time, the little piglets can already eat pig food like the big pigs and are easy to feed.

There are now 8 pig pens at the foot of Xiaohou Mountain. The first 7 pig pens basically hold about 10 pigs of different sizes.

The last pig pen was empty, and Ye Xilin put a litter of 11 piglets in it to raise.

The pig pen next door also contains a litter of piglets, which Ye Xilin sent over half a month ago.

The little piggies are all chubby, and you can tell at a glance that they are well cared for.

After settling the piglets, Ye Xilin started raising pigs again.

Ye Xilin came to a pig pen in the middle. The pigs in this pig pen have been raised for more than half a year and will be ready for slaughter in a few days.

All of them are fat and look to be in good spirits.

Ye Xilin carefully inspected every pig in the pig pen, picking and choosing for a long time, and finally selected five strong sows.

Five sows were tied up and put into cages.

Ye Xilin transported all these breeding pigs home and raised them in the newly built pig pen.

We already have a sow, now we just need a breeding boar.

Fortunately, there were many families raising pigs in the village. Ye Xilin specially selected a family that was good at raising pigs and bought a large boar weighing more than 200 kilograms.

This pig cost Ye Xilin 2 taels and 4 taels of silver. When he paid, Ye Xilin felt very distressed.

Ye Xilin transported the boar back and raised it with the five newly selected breeding pigs.

"You should work hard and give birth to piglets as soon as possible." Ye Xilin muttered in a low voice while looking at the breeding pigs in the pig pen.

Then Ye Xilin assigned the sows that were just pregnant with piglets in the pig pen to the newly built pig pen.

After lunch, Ye Xilin carried the pig food to the newly built pig pen, poured the pig food into the pig feeding basin, and couldn't help but joked:

"This second senior brother is really happy. He doesn't have to do anything every day, he is served with delicious food and drinks, and he also has five wives."

Hearing this, he seemed a little envious.

Then, suddenly he was slapped hard on the back.

Ye Xilin was shocked. Could it be that Guo'er was here?

Ye Xilin suddenly turned his head guiltily and saw Ye Qingqing looking at him with an unfathomable expression on his face.

"Sister, what are you doing? You almost scared me to death."

"It seems that you are very envious. How about I tell Guo'er?" Ye Qingqing deliberately teased him.

Ye Xilin's expression changed, and he immediately put on a smiling face and begged for mercy:

"Sister, my good sister, I just said it casually, but please don't tell Guo'er."

Last time it was in the pig pen, Li Guoer crushed a fist-sized stone in front of Ye Xilin with his bare hands.

That scene was deeply etched in Ye Xilin's mind, and he is still a little scared when he thinks about it now.

He really just said it casually. If Guoer knew about it, it would probably be more than just stones that would be broken next time.

"It's okay not to say anything, but you should pay some hush money." Ye Qingqing looked at Ye Xilin with a smile, ready to kill him.

Ye Xilin said angrily: "The ducks and fish I usually send you are all for nothing."

Ye Qingqing kicked him over, "Who told you to talk nonsense and say anything out loud?"

Ye Xilin dodged nimbly and said with a smile: "Sister, you are getting more and more rude."

"I haven't spanked you in the past few days. Are you feeling itchy?"

"Shouldn't you be doing embroidery at home at this time? Why don't you come to see me?"

"We have accumulated a lot of dried mushrooms and bacon at home. Your brother-in-law and I will go to the dock tomorrow to sell dried goods."

"Big Huang and Xiao Huang stay at home to look after the house. You can go over and help feed them at noon."

There is still so much money at home, and Dahuang and Xiaohuang have to rely on them to look after the house, otherwise Ye Qingqing will put them in the Ye family.

No one was at home, so the feeding task had to be left to Ye Xilin.

Ye Xilin laughed and looked at Ye Qingqing with a look of shame, "Okay, is there any reward?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand towards Ye Qingqing.

Then Ye Qingqing kicked her again, "I think your skin is itchy. Have you not been beaten for too long?"

Ye Xilin bared his teeth and covered his calf kicked by Ye Qingqing, shouting exaggeratedly:

"It hurts, it hurts. My leg was broken by your kick. Please pay for my medical expenses."

Ye Qingqing casually pulled out two weeds on the ground, threw them on Ye Xilin, and said with a smile:

"This is your fault."

Ye Xilin pushed away the weeds and pretended to be sad and said:

"You're too perfunctory, why don't you give me two copper coins?"

"No money."

Ye Qingqing blocked Ye Xilin with one sentence.

After the matter was finished, Ye Qingqing ignored Ye Xilin and turned around to leave.

Before leaving, I didn’t forget to remind Ye Xilin: “Remember to go over and feed Rhubarb and Xiaohuang tomorrow.”

Ye Xilin curled his lips and said, "I know, when I was beaten and hungry as a child, why didn't I see you being so kind to me?"

Huh, every time he was punished, these people just watched and gloated.

What's even more outrageous is that these people are still eating melon seeds and watching his jokes.