Chapter 23:

Raising pigs is a cumbersome job. Pigs basically eat everything, but in the age without fertilizer, it is very difficult to grow meat. Farmers use pig grass and feed some chaff if possible. From spring to autumn, if there is milk vegetable, pull it. For pigs, milk sorrel is dandelion. It grows for a long time, but now there are many people fleeing. When the spring begins, it is estimated that they will be pulled out by refugees to eat.
Now Lin Yuan raises pigs by feeding pig grass and bean dregs.
Bean dregs are also a good thing now. People feel distressed and hope that pigs can grow more meat.
Some half-and-half children, such as Erliang and Gouzi, go to the river to catch snails and feed pigs.
Because they had been casted, the two pigs were not very lively. As for the growth or lack of meat, Lin Yuan could not see it in a short time.
Erliang and Gouzi both like these pigs, but Erliang still has to serve Lin Yuan, so on weekdays, Gouzi goes to the pig grass with the pigs.
Two and two were all right, and the two went to touch the snails together.
Lin Yuan is actually quite greedy for snails, but now there are no spices. He only adds salt, sauce and vinegar. The screws still have a smell of soil, no one wants to eat it. Unlike modern times, some chili oil, bean paste, and some spicy millet. With scallion and ginger, some soy sauce, stir-fry for a while and add water to it, it won't smell good.
However, no one eats this stuff now.
Not hungry to the point of desperation, no one will eat.
But if the pigs don't pick them, they can eat some. Lin Yuan will go to see them every half a month. After all, he is also very gluttonous. After watching it four or five times, he is sure that the pig looks good, so Lin Yuan is relieved.
As for what they eat longer meat, Lin Yuan still didn't figure it out. The conditions are insufficient now, and it would be good to be able to raise 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 bought more than 20 chickens during this period. Ten hens lay eggs, one breeder, and the others are broilers. They are eaten when they grow up. The chickens are hatched by the hens. With good luck, it is normal to not hatch.
A hen lays one egg a day. Sometimes with good luck, some hens can lay two eggs.
Eggs can be stored for a period of time, so they are basically stored for a week, so that everyone can divide them into several pieces and get more points for good performance.
As for the poor performers-that's not the case.
They all cherish the present day. They have food for work, and the landlord does not deduct their rations.
If they are lazy and make the landlord angry and drive them out, they will know what life the outsiders are like.
Lin Yuan has been very leisurely lately. He has nothing to do, so he began to teach people how to recognize Chinese characters.
Traditional Chinese characters are still very difficult. Most people are from elementary school. If they want to study, they have to learn by rote from the age of three or four.
Lin Yuan felt that it was too difficult to teach them traditional characters. After all, if there was no 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 reading was high. In addition to the high asking price for the four treasures of the study, there was also Shuxiu. The ancients emphasized being a teacher for one day and being a father for life.
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 have never seen farmers recognize characters."
"That's it, our ancestors have not recognized words for generations, won't they also survive?"
Some people are also impatient: "You have this to tell the boss."
"Why don't you go?"
"Why should I go?"
"Then I won't go either."
Lin Yuan teaches to read characters by using a wooden stick made of charcoal to write pictures on the wall. The teaching is also simple: "This is the mouth shape and the shape of the mouth."
This is simple.
"Just a circle! How convenient is this!"
"Hey, am I literate too?"
"I remembered, I will definitely write!"
Lin Yuan also taught: "This is a "person", without a head and arms, just two legs."
Because what Lin Yuan teaches is very simple words, easy to remember, which gives them a lot of confidence. As long as they think it is not difficult to recognize words, their resistance will be less. Lin Yuan did not want to teach them how many words to recognize, and how to recognize them. Three hundred words are enough to satisfy everyday language.
In the domestic literacy activities 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-literate.
Literacy is impossible, and Lin Yuan feels that he is not so capable.
However, these people do have fast literacy, and it is true that literacy also requires talent.
The weather is getting warmer, and there are wild beasts in the mountains and forests. Brother Dao takes a small group of people to set traps every day, and often harvests. When the harvest was the biggest, he hunted a wild goat and a small deer, which were killed on the same day. It is not allowed to put it in hot weather. I ate all the offal on the same day. The general meat was made into bacon, and the other half was used to cook a hodgepodge.
The fisherman can catch more than ten fish every day. These fish have never been saved. They are basically eaten on the day they were caught, but they are smaller and have more thorns. After four times, Lin Yuanka 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 and learns quickly. Now he can do it by himself. He raised his head and said with no expression, "When I left, there was a fire in Wucheng. It’s probably burned."
At that time, no one went to fight the fire, either fleeing or looting.
"It's probably a dead city." Jiang Gui finished making up a straw sandal. "Even if there are 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 taken aback: "Go there and do it!"
Lin Yuan: "At any rate, there are city walls, and there are fertile fields in the city."
Jiang Gui rolled his eyes and said, "If the wall is to work, can there still be refugees rushing in?"
Lin Yuan sighed and said, "The city wall can also be repaired."
Jiang Gui didn't think so: "It is necessary to repair the city wall, but where are there now? Even if the women and children go, there are not enough people."
Lin Yuan: "There are still so many refugees."
Jiang Gui sighed: "I know you have pity for them, but the refugees are not easy to be educated, and they cannot 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 way?"
"Anyway, you just want the wall, we can do it right here." Jiang Gui said sincerely.
Lin Yuan slapped his face: "Brother Jiang, it makes sense, I have to think about it."
Jiang Gui touched his chin when Lin Yuan left.
Jiang Gui thought silently: "Brother silly, you go to Wucheng to repair the city wall and no one will do it. Could anyone do it here?"
You can't buy green bricks now. If you dig a stone to build a building, you can rely on this person to build a building in a hundred years?