Raising pigs is a troublesome job. Pigs basically eat everything, but in the age of no fertilizer, it is very difficult to grow meat. Farmers all use hogweed and feed some bran if conditions permit. From spring to autumn, if there is a milky vegetable, pull it out. For pigs, the milkweed is a dandelion. It takes a long time to grow, but there are many people fleeing now. When the spring begins, it is estimated that they will be pulled up and eaten by the refugees.
Now, when Lin Yuan raises pigs, he just feeds pigs some pig grass and some bean dregs.
Now bean dregs are also a good thing. While people feel distressed, they hope that the pigs can gain more meat.
Some half-sized children, such as Erliang and Gouzi, also go to the river to fish for snails and feed them to pigs.
Because they were gelded, the two pork pigs were not very lively. As for whether they grew meat or not, Lin Yuan couldn't tell in a short time.
Erliang and Gouzi both liked these pigs, but Erliang had to serve Lin Yuan, so on weekdays, Gouzi followed the pig man to hunt for hogweed.
When the two were all right, the two of them went to touch the snails together.
Lin Yuan is actually quite greedy for snails, but now there are no spices, just add salt, soy sauce and vinegar, the snails still have an earthy smell, no one wants to eat them, unlike modern times, some chili oil, bean paste, and some spicy millet And onion ginger, some more soy sauce, add water after frying for a while, and it will not be fragrant.
But now no one eats this stuff.
Not too hungry to the point of nowhere, no one will eat.
But don't pick the pigs, just eat some of them. Lin Yuan goes to see them every half a month. After all, he is also very greedy for meat. After watching it four or five times, he was sure that the pigs were not bad, and Lin Yuan was relieved.
As for what kind of meat they eat, Lin Yuan still didn't understand. Now that the conditions are insufficient, it would be good to be able to release these pigs for a year.
If it really takes two or three years, Lin Yuan can only decide not to raise pigs.
In addition to pigs, I also bought more than 20 chickens during this period. Ten hens lay eggs, one breeder chicken, and the others are broilers. They are eaten when they are grown up. The chickens are hatched by the hens themselves. Luckily, it's normal that they don't hatch.
A hen lays one egg a day, and sometimes with luck, some hens can lay two.
Eggs can be stored for a period of time, so they are basically stored for a week, so that everyone can share a few eggs, and the good ones get more points.
As for the poor performers - not so much.
They all cherish the present day, and they have food to eat when they work, and the landlord does not deduct their rations.
If they are lazy, the landlord will be angry, and they will be driven out, and they will have a bottom line in their hearts.
Lin Yuan has been very leisurely recently. He has nothing to do, so he began to teach people how to read characters, all of which are simplified characters.
Traditional Chinese characters are still very difficult. Most people are from elementary school. If they want to read, they must learn from the age of three or four and memorize them by rote.
Lin Yuan felt that it was too difficult to teach them traditional characters. After all, if he didn't have the memory of the original body, he would only read and not write traditional characters.
Simplified characters with simple strokes are very convenient and suitable for people at the bottom to learn.
In ancient times, the threshold for studying was high. In addition to the high price of the four treasures of the study, there was also the practice of cultivating.
The cost of reading is too high.
Knowing that the owner wants to teach them to read, everyone can't understand it.
"What word do you recognize?"
"I've never seen a farmer who can read."
"That's right, our ancestors didn't know how to read, didn't they survive?"
Some people were impatient: "You have something to say to the boss."
"Why don't you go?"
"Why should I go?"
"Then I'm not going either."
Lin Yuan taught character recognition by writing and drawing on the wall with a stick of charcoal. The teaching was simple: "This is the character of the mouth, and it is the shape of the mouth."
This is simple.
"Just a circle! How convenient!"
"Hey, I can read too?"
"I remember, I will definitely write!"
Lin Yuan also taught: "This is a "human", without a head and arms, only two legs."
Because Lin Yuan taught very simple words, which were easy to remember, it gave them a lot of confidence. As long as they felt that it was not difficult to recognize words, their resistance would be less, and Lin Yuan did not want to teach them how many words to recognize. Three hundred words, enough to satisfy everyday language.
In the domestic literacy campaign that year, those who knew less than 500 words were illiterate, those who knew more than 500 words, and those who knew less than 1,500 words were semi-illiterate.
Literacy is impossible, Lin Yuan felt that he was not so capable.
However, among these people, there are indeed people who can read quickly, and indeed literacy also requires talent.
The weather was getting warmer, and wild beasts began to move in the mountains and forests. Brother Dao took a small team of people to set traps every day, and often harvested. When the harvest was the largest, a wild goat and a deer were hunted, and they were slaughtered that day. , the weather is hot and can't be placed, the offal is eaten on the same day, the general meat is made into bacon, and the other half is used to cook a hodgepodge.
The fisherman can catch more than ten fish every day, but these fish have never been saved. They are basically eaten on the same day as they are caught, but they are smaller and have more spines. After Lin Yuan got stuck four times, he gave up eating fish and only drank. fish soup.
"I don't know how Wucheng is now." Lin Yuan said suddenly.
Jiang Gui weaves straw sandals and bamboo baskets on the side. He is very agile with his hands and feet, and he learns quickly. Now that he can knit it by himself, he raised his head and said with no expression: "When I was leaving, there was a fire in Wucheng, and it was time to burn it. It's probably burned."
At that time, no one was there to put out the fire, either fleeing or looting.
"It is estimated that it is already a dead city." Jiang Gui finished weaving a straw shoe, "Even if there are still people, they must be hiding."
"But it won't last long. There is no food in the city."
Lin Yuan whispered, "Brother Jiang, I want to go back to Wucheng next spring."
Jiang Gui was startled: "What are you going to do there!"
Lin Yuan: "Anyway, there is a city wall, and there are fertile fields in the city."
Jiang Gui rolled his eyes: "The city wall has to work, and there will still be refugees rushing in?"
Lin Yuan sighed and said, "The city wall can also be repaired."
Jiang Gui didn't think so: "It takes a lot of money to build the city wall, but where are there still people? Even if women and children go there, there are not enough people."
Lin Yuan: "There are so many refugees."
Jiang Gui sighed: "I know you pity them, but refugees are not easy to educate, they can't be reasonable."
Lin Yuan also sighed.
Jiang Gui put a pair of straw sandals aside and said to Lin Yuan, "Fourth brother, there is a way."
Lin Yuan: "What method?"
"Anyway, you just want the city wall, we can do it here." Jiang Gui said sincerely.
Lin Yuan slapped: "Brother Jiang, it makes sense, I have to think about it."
When Lin Yuan left, Jiang Gui touched his chin.
Jiang Gui thought silently: "Silly brother, if you go to Wucheng to repair the city wall, there will be no one here. Is there anyone here?"
You can't buy green bricks now, if you dig stones to build them, you will rely on these people to build them a hundred years later