HLnovel Chapter 172
Chapter 172
Chapter 172
How heavy is the snow!
When I opened the door in the morning, the snow rushed in. It had been snowing all night and when people stepped in, the snow was already above their ankles.
"Snowing?!"
When Jiang Xiaomi opened the door, she saw the vast expanse of white snow. The bare books were also covered with icicles, and snow was still falling from the sky.
"Miss, what is snow?" Chunya was also a native of Luoshui County, and she had never seen what snow looked like in her life.
"Big sister, big sister!"
Jiang Xiu'an and Jiang Xiaomai rushed in like the wind: "Today's rain is so strange! Why aren't our clothes wet?"
Jiang Xiaomai even reached out to catch a handful of snowflakes: "My hands won't get wet!"
"Because this is snow, not rain! Snow can be understood as, it was supposed to rain, but the weather was too cold, so the rain got cold in the sky, and when it fell, it turned into snow."
Jiang Xiaomi actually didn’t know if her explanation was correct. She was a liberal arts student and had already returned her limited physics knowledge to the physics teacher.
Jiang Xiaomi threw a snowball at the feet of Jiang Xiaomai and Jiang Xiu'an: "Do you want to have a snowball fight?"
"Okay, okay!" Jiang Xiaomai wanted to make a snowball like her sister, but because her hands were small and she was wearing gloves, she couldn't make a snowball after trying for a long time. She got anxious and said, "Big sister!"
"What did you call me?"
"big sister!"
"Hey!" Jiang Xiaomi patted Jiang Xiaomai's face: "Good boy, big sister will help you!"
Although there is only one character difference between "big sister" and "elder sister", the age difference is huge!
Jiang Xiu'an looked at her elder sister eagerly: "I want one too!"
"Row!"
So the two adults and one child were having a snowball fight in the yard. Jiang Xiaomai and Jiang Xiu'an were small and weak, so the snowballs they made were like tickles when they hit their thick cotton coats.
Jiang Xiaomi was too embarrassed to bully them too much. She just made a small snowball from time to time for fun. She was not having fun at all until Jiang Xiubai appeared. Jiang Xiaomi suddenly became energetic, and the snowball as big as a human head finally arrived at its mission moment - it whizzed straight to Jiang Xiubai's storefront.
"Oh my god! Jiang Xiaomi, why are you giving me such a big gift so early in the morning?"
Jiang Xiubai punched the big snowball, and it broke into pieces. He squatted down and quickly rolled up a snowball and threw it back. Jiang Xiaomi ran away when she saw that something was wrong. Jiang Xiubai looked at Jiang Xiaomi's running back and laughed, "Jiang Xiaomi, do you know what you look like now? Like a 300-pound penguin running! Ahahahaha!"
Jiang Xiaomi: “…”
——It is worth mentioning that Jiang Xiaomi is now dressed so tightly that she looks like a 200-pound fat man, which has affected her flexible posture to a certain extent.
"Brother Xiaobai!" Jiang Xiaomai clapped her hands happily: "It's fun, fun! Brother Xiaobai, do it again!"
As he said that, he threw the snowball in his hand towards Jiang Xiubai. Jiang Xiubai also wanted to defeat the enemy with one move, but the snowball was too small. Although he threw the snowball, he missed. Instead, the snowball hit him in the face, covering his face with snow.
Jiang Xiaomai was stunned, and quickly stepped forward with his short legs: "I'm sorry, Brother Xiaobai, does it hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt, brother." Jiang Xiubai shook his head, but with a wicked smile, when Jiang Xiaomai pouted and was about to blow on him, he scooped a handful of snow into his palm. Jiang Xiaomai didn't notice and her little face was hit by it, and her face was also covered with snow.
Jiang Xiubai laughed: "Now we are the same!"
"It doesn't hurt, Xiaomai!" The little girl smiled, revealing her two little canine teeth: "One more time——"
"What is this? What is this?"
There were many children's voices coming from outside the door. They came to play with Jiang Xiaomai and Jiang Xiu'an.
During this period, the two children of the Jiang family had a high status because of the relationship between Jiang Lizheng and Jiang Yipei - they were the oldest among the adults, and the two younger ones were the oldest among the children. The adults also often asked their children to play with them more, so the two children often started socializing early in the morning.
"It's snow!"
Hearing that his friends were coming, Jiang Xiaomai immediately abandoned Jiang Xiubai and went out to greet them. He also explained to them: "This is snow! It's the rain that got too cold and turned into snow!"
“Snow is white!”
“We can also have a snowball fight!”
"Let's have a snowball fight!"
The children were wearing big cotton-padded jackets and cotton-padded pants and running wildly in the snow, shouting “Ahhhhh” and having snowball fights, which attracted more and more other children. They ran out without even having time to put on their clothes. Their parents chased after them, “Come back and put your hat on for me!”
"And gloves!"
"shoe!"
There was a little kid who was running around so fast that he accidentally fell down. He was ready to cry because he had fallen down two days ago and was in so much pain that he also broke his skin!
This fall was so heavy!
It's bound to bleed again!
Mother said that he would need to eat a lot of meat to make up for the loss, but there was no meat left at home. Mother told him to be careful and not to fall again, or he would have no meat to heal, but he -
It doesn’t hurt!
Pingping got up and felt his whole body naturally to make sure that he was fine. Then he climbed up from the snow, and then did something that shocked Jiang Xiaomi who was about to help him up - he fell down again.
Sprawling.
He climbed up again, and fell down again, climbed up again, and fell down again, landing on his face every time, laughing and shouting, "Xiaomi, try it now, it doesn't hurt to fall into the snow!"
When other kids saw him doing this, they also followed his example. There was a group of self-inflicted kids in the snow. When they were tired of falling, they actually rolled in the snow, rolling from one end to the other, from outside the house to inside the house, making devilish noises as they rolled - hahahahahahahahahahaha…
In the end, there were children rolling on the ground in the snow, with snowflakes all over their clothes, shoes and hats, and even on their eyelashes.
Not to mention the children, even the adults were a little excited. It was the first time for them to see snow. They grabbed a handful and it was icy cold. "I didn't expect snow to look like this. It looks pretty clean."
"Snow is just like rain. It falls from the sky, so of course it's clean." Old Master Jiang said, "Water from the village wells needs to be filtered. If anyone wants to do less work, they can collect snow. Melted snow is water, which can be used for boiling water and cooking!"
To a certain extent, this snow fell at a good time. When domestic water is polluted, the snow water from the sky is many times better than unsterilized well water or river water!
"It's really good!" Many people thought so too.
"It's snowing, but why does it seem not as cold as yesterday?"
A bunch of southern bumpkins who have no experience of "it's not cold when it snows, it's cold when the snow melts".
I thought that if it snowed, people would be freezing to death. And that was indeed the case. If it was snowing in the south, then there must have been a snowstorm in the north. Countless houses collapsed under the snow, and countless people were frozen to death.
More than a dozen urgent documents from over 800 miles away were presented to the Golden Palace, begging the emperor to open the granaries and provide disaster relief.
First there was a rain disaster, then a snow disaster. The already old emperor became more and more exhausted. He remembered his predecessor, the Imperial Astronomical Observatory, who had been dead for several months. He had observed the stars at night and said that there would be heavy rain in a month. He did not take it seriously at the time and thought it would only rain in three to five days. Who knew it would rain for three months!
if……
Never mind, the emperor never regretted it.
Eating, sleeping, and favoring concubines occupied most of his energy every day, so he issued an order to hand over the disaster relief matter to the Prince of Qi, the son of the Queen and the Emperor's legitimate son.
This emperor was also a weirdo. At the age of seventy, he still hadn't appointed a crown prince, neither the legitimate son nor the eldest son. Several censors made death-defying remonstrations, but they failed to change his mind, resulting in a chaotic fight between the King of Qi and the King of Xian in the court.
The virtuous prince is the son of the imperial concubine of the current dynasty and the eldest son of the emperor. He is nearly fifty years old and dreams of becoming the emperor, but his father just refuses to die.
The emperor appointed Prince Qi to take charge of the disaster relief work this time. The public opinion in the court has slowly changed. Many people are speculating whether the emperor intends Prince Qi to be the crown prince?
Naturally, the virtuous prince could not sit still. The imperial concubine went to nag the emperor every day, and the concubines she had newly placed to serve the emperor kept whispering in his ear. Finally, the emperor waved his hand and the prince of Qi and the virtuous prince were to jointly preside over the disaster relief affairs.
Oh no, the government and the public are going crazy again.
How long can such a dynasty last?
Jiang Xiaomi didn’t know, and Jiang Xiubai didn’t know either. He only knew that raising chicks in this kind of weather was really troublesome!
When he met Jiang Xiaomi, the chickens he raised ate the cabbage grown by Jiang Xiaomi, so he had some experience in raising chickens.
In the chick stage, chickens have poor body temperature regulation ability, fast growth rate, imperfect digestive function, poor disease resistance, strong sensitivity, like to live in groups, and are timid. According to the knowledge in books, chicks at this stage are extremely easy to die. Jiang Xiubai is extremely concerned about these hard-earned chicks——
Although it is produced by the system mall, it will die if it is not taken care of properly!
However, the trouble is not only these, but also the experienced chicken-raising guru, Old Lady Wang. It's so funny that he and Old Lady Wang have different breeding concepts.
From what he had learned, chicks have poor ability to regulate their body temperature, so the indoor temperature must be controlled, and it is best to control it at 34C - 35C, and then reduce it by 2C every week until it reaches 21C.
As for humidity, the relative humidity should be 70%-75% at the beginning, drop to 60% after a week, and finally maintain at 55%-60%.
Because excessive humidity is conducive to the reproduction of pathogenic microorganisms, it is easy to induce coccidiosis. If chickens get coccidiosis, it is very difficult to treat.
If the humidity is too low, the dryness will cause the chicks' breathing to speed up, and the water in the body will be dissipated in large quantities with breathing. The remaining egg yolk in the abdomen will be poorly absorbed, affecting the development of the chicks.
These are not difficult tasks. He can buy some thermometers and hygrometers to accurately grasp the humidity and temperature.
However, Old Lady Wang couldn't understand what he was saying. Although she didn't understand, it didn't stop her from thinking that he was too idle and was looking for trouble. What kind of book was this written in? How could such things be written in a book to torment people?
Temperature and humidity.
She has been raising chickens like this for decades. Everyone who comes to buy her chicks will say one thing: - Are they strong?
I saw that Old Lady Wang simply placed the cage for raising chickens at home next to the kang, and then put a basin of water and a basin of bran in the cage.
Jiang Xiubai: “?”
Chicks have poor digestion ability and must be fed easily digestible and nutritionally complete feed!
When he first raised chickens, he controlled the water temperature at 32 degrees Celsius. Two days after the chicks hatched, they were fed at regular intervals and in fixed quantities, usually until they were 2% full.
Because overfeeding can cause indigestion in chicks, while underfeeding can affect their growth and development, and even cause them to have a bad habit of pecking, the amount of feed is fixed each time, and the feeding time is controlled within 15-20 minutes.
You just feed them bran?
One pot at a time?
He suddenly felt sorry for these chickens. Would they die?
Just when he wanted to take half of the chickens back to raise himself, he found that the chicks had all moved away from the chicken coops close to the kang and were crowded to the other side. He was about to speak when Old Lady Wang moved the cages a little further away, and then a little further away, until the chicks were no longer crowded together and were evenly distributed in the chicken coops. Only then did she determine the final placement of the cages.
She also taught Jiang Xiubai: "Chickens know hot and cold just like humans. They can't be too hot or too cold. This is just right."
Jiang Xiubai: ...Yes, if it hadn’t been discovered in time, the chicks would have been roasted!
"Also, the lively chicks and the stupid chicks need to be raised separately, otherwise the stupid chicks won't have enough food and will starve to death!"
"That's right!" Jiang Xiubai agreed with this. This is what the book said about raising strong and weak chicks and sick chicks in separate groups: "I want to ask, how do you deworm chickens?"
"That's easy! Go to the mountain and pick some leaves, chop them up and mix them in the chicken feed for the chickens to eat. I guarantee that all the worms will be excreted. Chickens with worms won't grow meat, so it's all in vain to feed them any amount of feed."
“What kind of tree is this?” So smart?
When he raised chickens, he just bought ready-made medicine to deworm them.
"Chicken shit vine, you should pick it when the chickens poop red. The chickens will poop worms after eating it, and then they will grow meat! Grandma has been raising chickens for decades, so she doesn't need to read books."
Fine.
Since neither of them could be convinced, they decided to raise their own chicks. Jiang Xiubai took away twenty chicks.
If there are more, he won’t be able to support them.
When he was in school, he only raised ten chickens, two of which were used as the control group.
Jiang Xiubai did not go home, but went to Jiang Xiaomi and directly placed an order for a thermometer and a hygrometer. He also had chicken raising tools at home, and he moved them all over.
Jiang Xiaomi helped to lift it while saying, "Brother, can I refuse?"
Jiang Xiubai was panting as he moved and asked, "What do you want to refuse?"
"Refuse to keep chickens in my yard..."
Chicken poop is really ugly, and roosters crowing is really loud!
"How about you go to the next yard?" As long as it's not in my yard, you can go anywhere!
"Can you please overcome this? This isn't your room, so it won't take long! If you use my method to raise chickens, they can be slaughtered in 45 days!"
By then, Old Lady Wang will be scared to death. He has inquired about it, and knows that in ancient times, it would take at least half a year for chickens to be raised in the pen!