On paper, it says there are chickens, ducks and geese. Where are they kept?

With Li Mengxi's lack of common sense in life, he didn't quite know how the campers raised these small animals when they had nothing.

Raising chickens definitely requires chicken coops. According to Li Mengxi’s life experience in his hometown when he was a child, a chicken is so small that if you tie its legs with a rope, the chicken will not live long.

Chicken coops, all the chicken coops that Li Mengxi saw when he was a child, or also called chicken fences, were all made of thin bamboo sheets and were woven densely.

According to Li Mengxi's guess, it was very difficult to make a chicken fence. Firstly, the farmers had no bamboo, and secondly, they didn't have the tools to split bamboo. Thirdly, the farming had only started so short ago, so it was unlikely that the fence could be made.

Later, during the inspection, Li Mengxi saw how the villagers raised chickens.

Tunding are also raised in chicken coops. The difference is that the fence is very small, as big as a pot, and as good as a stool. It is not made of bamboo, but made of poplar branches or the like.

The villagers must have woven such a miniature chicken coop from the branches they randomly picked up.

In the small fence, there are chickens chirping.

Li Mengxi went over and took a look out of curiosity. In the fence, there was a cute little gray and furry chicken, tilting its little head and looking up with round eyes.

so cute.

"Brother, can I take it out and touch it?" Xiao Bian saw the cute little chicken and wanted to play with it. He looked at Li Mengxi pleadingly.

If you can't play, what should you do if you play to death?

Chicken, there is only one.

Perhaps because of the scarcity, in order to divide the chickens among the villagers as equally as possible, each villager was given one chicken, so here, there is only one chicken alone, without its brothers and sisters.

This is also good. When chickens are young, they are prone to chicken plague and die in large numbers.

If raised separately, the survival rate is much higher.

The little chicken is so cute. Li Mengxi was thinking about finding something to feed it with his brother.

Behind me, I heard voices.

A camper came back with a hoe.

The camper walked toward Li Mengxi and saw Li Mengxi gathered around the chicken coop. The man put down his hoe against the wall, smiled honestly, and stood aside without saying anything.

Li Mengxi thought he was blocking someone's way, so he quickly pulled his brother out of the way.

The guard grabbed a handful of naked, squirming things and threw them into the chicken coop.

Li Mengxi saw it.

"Earthworm?" He suddenly wondered.

“Where did you dig this earthworm?”

"Hoe panting? It's all over the ground." Tunding looked at Li Mengxi and smiled.

The Tunding, or the Yellow Turban refugees in their predecessors, this Tunding knew Li Mengxi.

When I first came to Toutou, at the foot of Zhuozhou City, just in front of the city gate, beside the doctors who were treating patients, the young man sitting with a wine jar was Li Mengxi.

At that time, the guards thought that Li Mengxi was the child of one of the doctors who helped. Who knew, but later they found out that he was a military advisor.

Most of the campers were very grateful to the rebels, and they had a good impression of Liu Guanzhang, the leader of the rebels, and others.

Besides, Zhang Fei is vicious and always scolds people and scolds anyone he arrests. Guan Yu is aloof and doesn't have much communication with the refugees.

The people who favored the refugees the most were Liu Bei and Li Mengxi.

The younger brother, Li Zhuan, was lying next to the fence, staring wide-eyed at the chickens in the fence, pecking at the earthworms. The younger brother was amazed.

He was very happy when he saw earthworms crawling out of the fence. Xiao Zhuan enthusiastically grabbed the earthworms and threw them in again.

Li Mengxi watched the little chicken chase and peck at the crawling earthworms. He was very worried. Does such a small chicken know how to eat in moderation? What if it gets full?

Li Mengxi, who still had a childish heart, and his younger brother watched the chickens eating earthworms with all their attention, and then left with unfulfilled feelings.

Through what he saw, Li Mengxi understood.

Feeding a small amount of livestock in the field will not increase any food consumption at all.

Take chickens for example. What do you need to feed chickens? Grain? No grain.

The manpower is so idle that only one chicken is needed for each person. Even if the farmer digs out bugs with a hoe all day long, the bugs he finds will be enough to feed a big chicken, let alone a small chicken.

A young man is strong enough to feed a laying hen.

Assuming that a laying hen lays one egg every five days at the slowest egg-laying frequency.

There is an egg to eat every five days. This life is much better than in the manor. Where can I get eggs to eat in the manor?

Moreover, chickens eat all earthworms and small bugs, which are high in protein and extremely nutritious, so they must lay eggs very frequently.

Maybe, on average, you can have an egg in three days, or even two days.

So, in a month, accumulate more than a dozen eggs.

You can eat it to replenish protein, and you can exchange it with nearby villagers for things, and you can keep getting things in exchange.

Chickens are actually production tools.

Farming does not necessarily mean when the wasteland can be reclaimed into land capable of growing food.

But for poultry, if you give it three or four months, it will be able to lay eggs, and your life will be improved.

Also, piglets can be fed grain, bran, or neither.

A young and strong person cannot afford to feed a pig. If he goes out to cut the pig grass, he can feed the pig until it is full, and the pig will not be able to finish it.

Behind them, Li Mengxi saw little ducks and a bigger goose.

When I went to see the wasteland, I met a camper carrying a large bundle of branches and leading a little lamb.

The data he had just seen came to Li Mengxi's mind. The price of lambs was about the same as that of piglets.

And for lending the lamb, what Tun Ding has to repay is, either, fifty kilograms of mutton.

Or, one lamb and one sheepskin.

Or, just pay back the money.

When Liu, Guan, and Zhang arrived, the campers greeted each other with greetings.

The most important thing about farming is to open up wasteland and cultivate land.

In the wasteland, Li Mengxi and others saw the villagers hoeing the land.

The ground is not good, and it is full of weeds. When you put the hoe down, it cannot go very deep because there are many grass roots, and the hoe gets stuck and cannot go down.

Therefore, every time you pick a hoe, you have to lower your head for a long time to pick up grass roots.

Picking up a handful, another handful, waving the grass roots and throwing them towards the ground.

In this wasteland, the grass that grows the most is a kind of grass that grows close to the ground.

Li Mengxi vaguely remembered that this kind of grass should be called Jiejie grass.

Liu Bei was well versed in farm work. While chatting with the villagers, he bent down and picked up a handful of grass roots from the dug up soil, and looked at them again and again.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to plow it this time, and grass will still grow. It will take about four or five times before the grass can be picked up."

The villagers thought it was because the land here was not good and there was too much grass to plow.

The guard said that there was nothing to do anyway, the land was only two acres, and he had to plow it from time to time. If he plowed it more than ten times, he could get rid of all kinds of grass.

However, all the land that the rebels found for farming was unclaimed wasteland. If it were easier to plant, the nearby villagers would have planted it long ago, and it would not be the turn of the rebels to cultivate it.

Poor land is a common condition.

Behind them, Li Mengxi saw most of the wasteland and the entire farmstead was thriving.

Among the centurions of the garrison, among the more than one hundred people, he was the only one who had armor, a spear, a sword, a shield, a crossbow, and was in charge of five bows and hundreds of arrows. He was the only manager of the garrison.

Li Mengxi looked at the centurion and said, "Let me test you, what are the five disciplines of farming?" Li Mengxi raised his head and looked into the centurion's eyes.

"Go out early to work and go home at night. Don't go far away alone."

"Don't conflict with the villagers."

"You must not bully anyone from above or below, and you must not fight with each other."

"Be careful with fire."

At this point, the Centurion was stuck.

"These are only four, what more are there?" Li Mengxi asked.

After a while, the centurion remembered.

"Don't drink raw water."

"Yes, that's the rule, you are not allowed to drink raw water." Li Mengxi nodded with satisfaction, "Your area is so smoky, the water must be boiled and drank. If you drink raw water indiscriminately, if you get the plague, military doctors will come and save you.
Chapter completed!