allonlinenovel Chapter 445: Bigger than a Pig
Chapter 445: Bigger than a Pig
Gu Qingqing sat down without any hesitation. Seeing her helping Shengxi take off the bamboo basket on his back, she said, "I would like to find someone, but there is no one at home. I can't let Shengxi carry everything. She is still growing."
Niu Li shouted "Plum Blossom" to the room, and went to the kitchen to pour them a bowl of water. "Then why can't you ask Yuzhu to get it? You have to bring it yourself. You don't know what's going on with you, and you're making people worry. Come on, drink a bowl of water. Shengxi, sit down and drink some water too."
Wen Shengxi took the water but did not sit down. She squatted and fed the two little ones. After they drank a few sips, she drank the rest. Then she simply held little Gu Qi and took little Nuannuan to watch the chickens in the yard.
Gu Qingqing ignored the little ones and drank her water by herself and asked, "If I ask Yuzhu to come to my house to get it, would you agree?"
"How can I..." Niu Li originally wanted to say how could I not agree, but she swallowed the words when she reached her lips, "Then you can let me bring it back when I go over to help Xiaocao later."
Gu Qingqing smiled bitterly and said, "Aunt, there were many people at home at that time."
Niu Li was also stunned by what she said. That was right. At that time, Qingqing's family had a lot of things to do, and she took what others didn't. How ridiculous.
While they were talking in the yard, Luo Meihua came out of the house. It seemed that she had just been woken up from her sleep.
"Sister-in-law, why are you here? What did you bring?"
Niu Li said to Luo Meihua in a familiar tone, "She is now very capable. She carried half a basket of eggs here by herself."
Gu Qingqing chuckled, "Isn't this just for you to try? Try it. If you think it tastes good and want to plant it, tell me and I'll leave some seeds for you. But the quantity is limited, only enough for you to plant one or two acres of land at most."
Her family's harvest from one acre of land is about 1,200 to 1,300 kilograms. This is because she had few seeds and planted them too sparsely. If she had enough seeds, the yield might have been several hundred kilograms higher.
"Then let's try it. If it tastes good, we'll plant some next year." Niu Li continued.
Luo Meihua walked over to Gu Qingqing and first looked at the bamboo baskets on the ground, then sat down and said, "Why don't you just let those come over for us to taste? You're willing to carry two baskets."
"Okay, if you don't know, you might think you're joking. It's clearly two half baskets, but you said it was two full baskets. Besides, why would I be reluctant to part with it?" Gu Qingqing said this and looked around the yard. "Yesterday, Dong Ge told me that your family bought an ox cart, but why can't I see any oxen? Where is your cowshed?"
Luo Meihua smiled and patted her hands and said, "Then you have to wait. Dad and Yuzhu drove the ox cart to take Xiaoyang and Xiaoguang to the fields. The ox cart made the two children very nervous. They kept pestering Dad to ride in the ox cart."
"Children always want something new."
Gu Qingqing was not in a hurry to go back. Since she had nothing to do today, she started chatting with them here.
Over there, Wen Shengxi took the two children to look at the chickens. After they had seen enough of the chickens, they went to look at the pigs. As a result, she looked at them in confusion and shouted to the yard, "Sister, didn't Sister Meihua's pigs and our pigs get caught together? They don't look as big as ours."
"Ah? Really? Let me see." After saying that, Gu Qingqing and Luo Meihua stood up and walked towards the pigpen.
Even Niu Li, who was washing clothes, put down her work and walked towards the pigpen when she heard that the pigs she raised were not as fat as those in Qingqing's family. "I haven't even seen your pigs. Are the pigs in my family not as big as yours?"
In fact, Gu Qingqing seldom comes to Meihua's house. Usually it is Meihua who comes to her house, so she rarely sees her pigs.
She was standing outside the pigsty looking at the half-grown pigs inside. After a while, she said uncertainly, "I haven't been to my pigsty for a long time. They should be about the same."
Look, she clearly used a period, but there was a tone of doubt in her voice.
Wen Shengxi said with certainty, "Sister, I went to our pigpen the day before yesterday and it was much bigger."
When Wen Shengxi said the last sentence, his tone became much lighter, as if the big size of the pigs in his sister's family was something to be happy about.
Gu Qingqing saw Luo Meihua and Niu Li looking at her at the same time. She touched her nose awkwardly and said, "I haven't visited my pigs recently."
Seeing that she couldn't get any response from Niu Li, she quickly looked at Wen Shengxi and asked, "Shengxi, are the pigs at your sister's house really much bigger than mine?"
Wen Shengxi nodded.
Niu Li became anxious when she heard this. She stopped washing her clothes, wiped her hands and said hastily, "No, I'll go to your pigpen to check. Qingqing, are you going?"
"It's okay anyway, let's go together. Do you want to go, Meihua?" Gu Qingqing replied to Niu Li's words and asked Luo Meihua at the same time.
"Let's go and see together."
Since Gu Qingqing was going back, she asked Niu Li to free up the bamboo basket she brought with her, and followed Wen Shengxi to hold little Gu Qi. Niu Li held little Nuannuan in her arms, and the group walked towards the pigpen on the hillside near Gu Qingqing's home.
When the few people arrived at the pigpen, they didn't know what was going on until they took a look. Hey, the pigs here are much bigger than the ones in Luo Meihua's home.
"No, what did Qingqing and the others feed the pigs? Why do they grow so fast? Shengxi said I can't believe it, this, this... Could your pigs have eaten some magic medicine?" Niu Li really didn't know what to say.
They were all born from the same pig and were caught one day. She raises the pigs carefully herself, so why is there such a big difference?
Everyone burst into laughter at Niu Li's words.
Gu Qingqing almost laughed to the point of tears, "Aunt, if there is a panacea, it should be given to humans, not to them. I guess it has something to do with the fact that my pigs were castrated. Besides, my pigs are fed with food cooked in a pot by Wu Fang and her family. How do you feed them?"
Niu Li ignored the first question and asked in surprise, "Do your pigs eat cooked pig food? What are they cooking? Boiled pig grass?"
Gu Qingqing nodded, and then said, "Not only pig grass, I also know about wheat bran. It should be that all the food that pigs can eat is cooked in a pot until it is more than half cooked, including some fruits or things that mountain people don't eat. You will have to ask Wu Fang and the others for details later. They are the ones who are in charge. I have never been in charge of anything here."
Niu Li couldn't stay any longer and happened to see Wu Fang picking eggs on the hillside with a basket. She put Xiao Nuannuan down and said, "I'll go ask," and walked quickly towards Wu Fang.