After sending away these three children, Chen Ling's own life returned to its former peace.

Every day I would either walk slowly from home to the farm, or walk slowly back home from the farm.

Anyway, apart from the fact that my wife is giving birth to a baby, there is nothing particularly important lately.

And Wang Susu's physical fitness is far better than that of ordinary pregnant women. She has been pregnant for more than eight months and has never had any adverse reactions. Gao Xiulan is taking care of her at home, and Chen Ling can eat to nourish her lower body from time to time, so she doesn't have to stay at home with her.

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Therefore, Chen Ling and Wang Cunye still have time to go to the county town and go to the village market to sell eggs and duck eggs.

The laying hens at home now include those raised by Chen Ling's family before, brought by Wang Zhenzhen, and bought from Erwazi's chicken farm in the countryside some time ago. In total, there are almost 80 laying hens. That guy can lay eggs every day.

Pick up more than half a basket.

In addition, there are also many duck eggs.

If you can't save it for a few days, it's time to sell it. You can't keep it at home.

Although people from the county town would still come to buy, they would only buy enough eggs for two days to share. However, Chen Ling's chickens were still laying eggs, so they had no choice but to go to the market and sell them to the county town market.

As for the countryside, he and Wang Cunye also went there twice, but the price was too low to sell, so they never went there again.

Prices this year are much higher than in previous years.

Although it cannot be compared with the high prices after last year's flood, it can be felt in all aspects of food, grain, oil, and meat.

Last year, due to the shortage of grain and oil, the price of peanuts and soybeans, the main oil-extracting crops, soared to three yuan per catty. But this year, the price is just over one yuan per catty. But even the price of one yuan per catty is higher than in previous years.

It's two cents higher.

The normal price of pork last year was 2.5 yuan per catty, but this year it has remained at around 3.8 to 4 yuan.

The price of eggs has increased even more. Compared with last year's price of 2.3 to 2.5 yuan per catty, it has increased to 3.1 yuan or 3.2 yuan per catty this year.

Chen Ling took the eggs to the market and sold them, asking for three and a half yuan, but some people accepted them.

Hey guys, the price of eggs is about to catch up with the price of pork?

This is no coincidence.

But because the price of meat was too high last year, there were so many people raising pigs and sheep this year, but the number of chickens was greatly reduced.

Many breeding factories even sold chickens and ducks in large quantities a year ago and replaced them with piglets.

Since then, there have been fewer eggs on the market, and the price has naturally become more expensive.

Based on the daily egg production of Chen Ling's family, excluding the daily food at home, there are an average of eighty eggs every day.

Due to the large size of eggs, local eggs are comparable to foreign eggs. If we calculate eight eggs per catty, this is at least ten catties of eggs per day.

I go to the market every five days and sell more than 50 kilograms of eggs for 3.5 yuan. I go to the market and sell eggs six times a month, and I can earn 1,200 to 300 yuan.

It doesn't sound like much, but now the maximum for a large-scale worker in the county is only 20 yuan a day, and for a small-time worker, only 10 yuan. Chen Ling's income is half as much as that of a large-scale worker.

If after a while, the chickens and ducks are fully grown, they will at least double in size.

At first, Wang Cunye was worried that his son-in-law's farm would lose money, but recently he calculated in private that if it was safe and sound, he would be able to recoup his capital in one year's gross profit just by selling eggs and duck eggs.

While he was surprised, the father-in-law became more and more interested in the farm.

Many people in the village made fun of him.

Why did he work so hard for his son-in-law? The son-in-law didn't give him any money and he wouldn't show his filial piety to him in the future.

Wang Cunye was not annoyed, but secretly laughed in his heart that these people had narrow vision and did not know what his son-in-law was capable of.

Chen Ling didn't care about this. After the chickens, ducks and geese adapted to the environment, he released them all and let them roam the mountains and fields looking for bugs to eat. He also sent two dogs to watch them, and at night they would knock on the pots or iron buckets to eat.

Call back once, and then take the dog around to pick up eggs.

Other times he is very free, just tinkering with his fish on the farm.

Now that the place is bigger, it’s not just a matter of fun.

Another thing is that after a year, the fish school in the cave has become larger and larger, and there is a bit of overproduction.

At the beginning of the year, he opened two more ponds in the woods, but they still couldn't keep up with the expansion rate of the fish school. Now that he had space, he simply stopped working in them and started secretly releasing fish outside every day.

A few days passed like this, and the farm's lotus pond, canal, and small river ditch at the foot of the mountain were all filled with fry and half-sized fish he had released.

As for the big fish that are raised, very few are released outside, and those are only used every now and then to feed the family.

Fish that grow relatively quickly, such as grass carp and herring, will grow even faster after being put into the cave. In just half a year, they can grow to more than ten kilograms.

The meat tastes firm and delicious, without any muddy smell.

The father-in-law and mother-in-law sighed after eating it several times, saying that no wonder Chen Ling cooked fish for his daughter every day and she never got tired of it.

The fish is good and there are many ways to prepare it, so you will never get tired of eating it.

These are the big fish in the cave. While providing food for the family, they continue to produce seeds and reproduce small fish, which can very well supplement consumption.

Let the small fish go and keep the big fish.

After a few days, the canals and ponds in the cave became quite empty.

Chen Ling went into the cave and made some new plans.

Common fish are in one pond, ornamental fish are in another pond, and rare fish such as slender fish and mullet are in another pond.

Of course, the Thin Scale Babies are too small, so they can only be kept in one place alone and cannot be raised together. Now we are trying to see what changes will occur after being placed in the cave, and whether they can be raised larger.

After making the plan, Chen Ling caught some baby turtles and put them into the ditch at the foot of the mountain.

He owns the mountains, and the rivers and ditches are naturally his, and he can put them wherever he wants. He is not afraid of people knowing about this kind of thing.

Others, such as red eel, will not work.

Except for a few that he raised at home, he has not let them go outside.

Neither can those giant turtles like Garlic.

Chen Ling thought that after this year was over and there was no strange noise coming out of the reservoir, he would take Guan Tou and the others to Shanzhong Lake. The place there was large and they would not be bored.

"Shhhhhhh..."

In the morning, Wang Cunye herded sheep in the orchard and kept chasing away the birds that flew to the ditch to eat the fry.

This is the disadvantage of only releasing small fish and not large fish.

But big fish are very wild and ferocious, like herring, which is like an old turtle at first. It sinks to the bottom of the water and doesn't like to move. However, the herring raised in the cave is very ferocious. It eats the shells and eats small fish.

He often jumps out of the water to eat some birds that come to drink water.

If this were released, smaller birds would really be no match for it.

It's also troublesome for people to see.

"Why don't you bring the kites over? There are more and more thieves coming to steal fish and eat them."

Wang Cunye said.

"The kite can't be brought here. Now it's busy flying around looking for companions."

Chen Ling was taking the dog everywhere to pick up eggs and duck eggs. When he heard this, he smiled at his father-in-law and said, "I'll go lay some traps."

In fact, there is nothing wrong with eating small fish, because you simply don’t need too many small fish.

Recently, even magpies and storks often fly over and pick up small fish to eat by the channel. When people come over, they have already picked up the fish and flew away in the air.

This is of course due to the great temptation of Dongtian's fish fry, but also because Chen Ling pours buckets of Dongtian spiritual water into lotus ponds and mountain streams all day long.

Now two water canals surround the farm and flow throughout the orchard. Pour a few buckets of spiritual water into the stream at the foot of the mountain. The diluted spiritual water will flow everywhere in the orchard along with the canals. While watering the fruit trees, it will also provide water to the fruit trees.

The barren land brought vitality, and the weeds and shrubs grew rapidly.

Therefore, it is normal to attract many birds and small animals.

It's okay to eat fish and drink water, as long as it doesn't harm eggs and duck eggs. You must know that magpies and storks are little experts at stealing eggs and meat. Now that the small fish can feed them, there is no need to steal eggs.

In fact, this is because the price of fish is low now, the transportation is not good, and no one comes to collect it. If the fish can be sold, let alone setting traps, Chen Ling has already put up the sticky bird net by now.

But since he couldn't sell it for money, Wang Cunye still felt a little distressed. "Give me your slingshot this afternoon. I'll get angry when I see these thieves."

"OK."

Chen Ling smiled and continued to pick up eggs with his two dogs.

When we reached the small river ditch at the foot of the mountain, because he had put fish in it, there were more water birds, wild ducks, oil gourds, and rails on the edge of the small river ditch, foraging and playing on the water.

When they noticed someone coming, the wild ducks immediately flew up alertly, the oil gourds dived into the water, and the corncrakes also fled quickly, and the water surface made a loud splash for a while.

Frogs in the grass by the river also jumped into the river.

It's just that this small river ditch is still a little turbid and not clear enough. As you get closer, you can see green water plants swaying on the bottom of the water through the green water, and small fish and shrimps flash and disappear among the grass from time to time.

Suddenly, his eyes stopped, staring at a place and slowly opening his eyes, "Good guy, the duck eggs have fallen into the water."

There are lush aquatic plants at the bottom of the small river ditch, and a few duck eggs are hidden among the aquatic plants. There is a dense layer of small fish fry around the duck eggs, nibbling something on the eggshells.

After Chen Ling pried open the water plants, the small fry dispersed in a rush.

Free-range chickens and ducks save the need for feeding, but that's the disadvantage. They lay eggs everywhere, with all kinds of nooks and crannies, and you don't know what they are thinking.
To be continued...