Man Bao stretched out his fingers and poked Zhou Zhoulang's back, and Zhou Zhoulang moved forward without moving.
Man Bao poked harder, and Zhou Zhou Lang continued to move forward, but still squatted and did not move.
Full of energy, he stretched out his hand and pushed him. Zhou Zhou Lang didn't expect her to be so strong, and he fell to the ground in one fell swoop.
Zhou Xi and others, who were doing housework, looked over, and Man Bao stretched out his small fist and beat him on the back. Zhou Zhou Lang had no choice but to step forward and blushed, "Sister-in-law, it's your turn today." Is it time for you to clean the chicken coop?"
"Yes what's the matter?"
"Let me clean it," Zhou Zhoulang said, "I will clean the chicken coop in the future, anyway, I have nothing to do."
When did the fourth child work so hard
He looked at him suspiciously.
Seeing that he was silent again, Man Bao rushed up and said for him, "Sister-in-law three, brother-in-law said he was too busy, but my sister-in-law and elder sisters are so busy every day, so I leave the dirty work at home to him." alright."
Mrs. He glanced at Zhou Xi who was standing aside, thought she understood, and said cheerfully, "Okay, the fourth child will be considerate, it seems that he has really grown up."
Not only the He family, but even the Xiaoqian family and the Feng family felt that Zhou Zhou Lang did this to share some burden for Zhou Xi, because it would be Zhou Xi's turn to clean the chicken coop tomorrow.
Even Zhou Xi thought so. She glanced at the fourth child, feeling a little relieved in her heart, but she didn't say anything in front of her sister-in-law and siblings.
Zhou Zhoulang breathed out, and immediately went to get a broom to clean the chicken coop. Seeing Man Bao standing far away, he raised the broom and glared at her.
Zhou Zhoulang cleaned the chicken coop, put another layer of straw in it, and took the garbage out here.
He looked around and saw that no one had noticed, so he dumped half of the garbage from the chicken coop into his compost heap, and dumped the rest in a dirty bamboo basket. Stuff the withered grass and rotten leaves that had been prepared a long time ago on the basket to cover it, then picked up the bamboo basket and ran into his wasteland.
Man Bao had been waiting for a long time. Wu Lang and Liu Lang took Datou and they swept out a lot of dead leaves and mud from the forest. The mud was thrown in directly, and the dead leaves were cut on a wooden board with a knife and thrown down.
The three brothers stirred it with thick sticks, watered it again, and covered the pit with a prepared grass cover according to Manbao's requirements, and put a lot of dry grass on it to keep warm.
Zhou Zhoulang was very skeptical, "Is that all right?"
"Not yet, I have to add things to it every day in the future, fourth brother, you must remember to clean the chicken coop every day."
Zhou Zhoulang slumped his shoulders and said, "If Dad knows that I stole the chicken manure from the house, he will definitely beat me to death."
"No," Man Bao reassured him, "Father never cares about the chicken coop, he won't doubt it. If you are afraid, then dig some soil from the mountain and throw it in, so that Daddy won't find out."
Zhou Zhoulang thought it was a good idea, he and the fifth and the sixth looked at each other, and started to make trouble secretly.
Manbao was planned, steal half of it a day, and fill it with soil. Dad probably wouldn't find out, but who knows that Zhou Zhoulang is getting more and more greedy. After a few days, he found that no one was paying attention at home, so he secretly Pour all the garbage out of the cleaning into his own compost pile, and leave all the mud dug out of the mountain for the family compost pile.
Old Zhou Tou didn't notice it at first, but in February, Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang plowed out the field for raising seedlings. They were going to ring the bell on a good day, so he went to see the fertilizer at home. It doesn't matter if you look at it, and found that there is a big layer of soil next to it.
Although the soil looked better than the river mud, he had never dug any other mud than the river mud. After careful attention, he found that the fertilizer this year was much less than last year.
Old Zhou was overwhelmed. In the countryside, it was for a sip of water and a spoonful of fat to fight with the whole family. His first instinct was that someone stole his family's fat, so he walked home angrily, and wanted to question the three Daughter-in-law, they don't even know how they take care of the house, even the fat is taken away.
When Man Bao bounced home with a small bookcase on his back, he saw Zhou Zhou Lang was kneeling on the ground, the yard was very quiet, and there was no one there.
Man Bao stopped for a while, went to pick up Man Bao's big head and took a cautious look inside, then the two children tiptoed in, walked up to Zhou Zhou Lang and poked his head into the main room.
Zhou Zhoulang raised his eyelids to look at her, and said, "Don't look, no one is here."
Man Bao breathed a sigh of relief, and only then did he have time to ask him, "Fourth brother, what did you do wrong again?"
"I didn't do anything too bad, I just stole the fat from the family."
Man Bao felt guilty for a moment, and asked in a low voice, "Did your parents find out?"
"Well, Dad asked me to wait for you at home, and when you come back, I will take you to see him." So Zhou Zhoulang got up and left with Man Bao.
Man Bao was a little short, so he lifted him up, hugged his arm and shouted, "I want to go by myself!"
Most of the Zhou family are in the fat pit on the other side of the wasteland. At the beginning, the old Zhou was so angry that his son and daughter stole the fat from the family. Don't you know that this is related to a year's harvest
So he took his three eldest sons to pick up the fat, and when they got there, when they opened the lid, a gust of hot air came over the surface, and they almost vomited.
But Lao Zhoutou quickly came back to his senses, smelled the smell in the air, and became a little excited.
Even Zhou Dalang was a little surprised.
He is also a good farmer. Since the age of nineteen, he and his father have been retting the fertilizer at home together. Of course, he knows what kind of fertilizer is good.
What does it smell like, what does it look like...
When Zhou Zhoulang brought Manbao over, Lao Zhoutou and the others only took out a shovel, and then put the lid back on.
Zhou Zhoulang and Man Bao came over with their heads down, thinking that they would be scolded, but the old Zhou Tou pulled his daughter to him and asked kindly, "Man Bao, I heard from Wu Lang that you taught me how to make this fertilizer. , is there still writing in the book?"
Man Bao peeked at her father, feeling that he was not angry, so he cheered up, put down the bookcase after nodding, and found the book from it for her father to read.
Old Zhou's hands were a little dirty, and he didn't dare to pick up the book. He just asked Man Bao to open it for him to take a look. He couldn't read, but it didn't affect him looking at the words in the book in awe.
He let out a long sigh and said, "Reading is really good. I didn't expect that there would even be fertilizer written in the book. Come on, tell Dad, what does it say?"
There are many retting methods written here, but in fact they are all similar. The only difference is the requirements for materials, and some requirements for temperature have changed.
Of course, Manbao can't do a complete copy, because she doesn't have the shed written on the tree, nor does she have the warming bag written in the book, but Manbao is not stupid, knowing that retting must maintain temperature, so she thought about covering the fertilizer with grass. The pit was covered, and she planned to set a fire if the temperature was not enough.
Well, it is also written in this book, commonly known as burning dung, but this requirement is too much, and Manbao himself does not understand it very well, so he does not plan to do it for the time being.