Hearing that Yu Qiutang could solve the electricity problem and had already had the idea before, Lin Mu was quite satisfied.

The sitting posture is also more upright.

I started discussing with him some issues such as the early selection of hens and roosters, egg storage, incubation facilities, temperature and humidity control, etc.

Yu Qiutang originally only had a rough idea of ​​many things and thought he was quite capable, but now after hearing what Lin Mu said, he realized that this guy really has something.

Naturally, I admire him a lot in my heart.

The same is true for Lin Mu.

He originally didn't take Yu Qiutang seriously. He just thought that since Yu Qiutang had this idea and mentioned some difficulties, he should give up.

However, I didn't expect that Yu Qiutang had really thought it through carefully and had already thought of many aspects. For some problems that I hadn't thought of before, as long as I raised them myself, I could quickly find solutions.

Gradually, I started to take it seriously.

He did not hide anything and told Yu Qiutang a lot of things.

In the blink of an eye, more than an hour had passed. Yu Qiutang suddenly felt cold and remembered that Mi Yali was still waiting for him on the street.

I had thought it would only take half an hour to resolve the issue, but I ended up getting delayed dealing with the deer, and then chatting for a while here, so the total time was almost two hours.

If Miali was still waiting, she would definitely be impatient now.

"Do you have anything else to do?"

Lin Mu noticed Yu Qiutang's thoughts.

Yu Qiutang did not hide it, "Oh, it is true. There are people waiting on the street. I didn't expect to chat for so long this time. We hit it off right away."

"Then go back quickly, we'll talk again some other day."

Yu Qiutang stood up and prepared to leave, but then said, "Technician Lin, do you have time to go to the site and give us on-site guidance?

After all, it is a big project. No matter how much we talk, it doesn’t feel as intuitive as on-site guidance.

Of course, if the animal husbandry station requires any procedures or fees, we will definitely ask for them to be processed and paid, and the hard work will not be reduced, so that you will not be in vain. "

Lin Mu smiled and said, "That's fine. I also want to take a look at your place to see what condition it is in. How about this, I have something to do in the next two days, so you can pick me up the day after tomorrow."

"That feeling is good!"

Yu Qiutang was very happy.

This Lin Mu is much more professional than Yang Lin outside. An expert can tell whether something is true or not just by looking at it.

"Wait a minute~"

Lin Mu suddenly remembered something, walked to the bookshelf, searched around, and pulled out a thin old book.

“Take this book home and have a look. It is the result of some research that my teacher and I did before. When it was published, everyone thought it was too advanced and had no application environment.

Times have changed, and now that you have this idea, this book may be able to help you."

Yu Qiutang took the book, the title of which was: Modern Chicken Farming Technology.

Turning to the table of contents, it covers knowledge on chick hatching, breeding, hen egg-laying, broiler farming, and prevention of common chicken diseases.

The incubation here is the artificial incubation that Yu Qiutang is thinking of.

They even designed some hatching props, decoration of the incubation room, etc., taking care of every detail, almost like feeding you food.

"This is so great!"

Yu Qiutang expresses his sincere gratitude.

Knowledge is productivity. In this stage when the economy is just starting out and is about to develop rapidly, whoever masters the technology masters the productivity.

Although it only looks like a thin book of more than a hundred pages, it contains a lot of hard work of Lin Mu and his teacher. It is a pity that this kind of book can only be placed on Lin Mu's bookshelf to gather dust.

No wonder he looks like this.

Lin Mu escorted Yu Qiutang to the door after he came out with the book. Before leaving, Yu Qiutang thought for a moment and pointed at the house and said, "This house..."

"It's okay. This house is very solid. I've done a stress analysis. Don't be fooled by superficial things."

Lin Mu disagreed and was very confident.

As he spoke, his hands kept slapping the pillars that were fixed with nails, making it difficult for Yu Qiutang to avoid or not avoid it.

"Don't worry about me. I'm quite comfortable living here. At least no one disturbs me easily. I can read a book or write something in my spare time."

Lin Mu reiterated.

Then he added: "No matter what you do, you won't be understood. The more you talk, the more mistakes you make. The more you do, the more criticism you get. In the end, you get nothing good and end up in trouble."

Yu Qiutang could still hear some resentment and complaints in his last words, but he didn't say much.

Before leaving, he looked at Lin Mu's tattered coat, endured it, and finally did not ask about his thoughts.

why?
He was tidy inside and his white shirt was washed spotlessly.

The only thing he was wearing was this old piece of clothing.

It doesn't even fit me anymore, it's so big that it looks like a mop turned upside down on my body.

It is a taboo to talk about deep things with someone you just met. Perhaps Lin Mu also has his story.
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Yu Qiutang rushed to the entrance of the small shopping mall, thinking that Mi Yali was extremely anxious and was tired of waiting.

But I saw Miali sitting on a small stool, winding wool with an aunt, talking and laughing, without any sign of impatience.

He walked over and patted her shoulder gently.

Miyali looked up and saw that it was him. She smiled and said, "Are you done?"

"Well, it's a bit troublesome. It delayed me for a while. Are you tired of waiting?"

"No, that's just how things are done. There's no such thing as a fixed time. When you go in to do something, they won't follow your schedule, right?"

Miali returned the wool loop wrapped around her arm to the aunt. The aunt was a sundry goods seller and she insisted on giving her a comb. She had no choice but to accept it.

"Young man, you have a good wife."

The aunt seemed to like Mi Yali very much and even praised her in front of Yu Qiutang.

Yu Qiutang smiled and said, "That's right, I think so too."

"No way."

Mi Yali gently pushed Yu Qiutang from behind, and the two said goodbye to the aunt and left.

"Is there anything I need to buy?"

Yu Qiutang saw that it was still early, so he decided to go shopping with Mi Yali.

In their previous lives, when they went shopping, they always had little money in their pockets and were always short of money to do anything. As long as they thought something was a little expensive, they would basically not ask.

Even when it comes to necessities, she won't ask when she starts selling them. She won't buy until there's only a little left before she gets enough to let others have a little less. She will save as much as she can. Now she must spend money with her.

Miyali shook the bag in her hand. "I bought some flannel, hemp rope and other things. I will take them back to make shoes for the children. I can't think of other things for now. When we were doing things, other people also gave us a lot of things. If we tidy them up, they can be used in many places..."

Miali was looking at the small vendors on both sides while circling.

She is simply too tall.

Although she is not as tall as Miaqin, when she walks on the street, most people around her are shorter than her.

Even though people say that men from the northwest are tall, that is only in later times. The average height of men in this era is less than 1.7 meters.

With her slim figure and thick black braids that are over one meter long, she attracts a lot of attention. Some people will turn around and look at her even when they are walking past her.

Some people who passed by her subconsciously moved aside to avoid looking short.

For men of this era, not being as tall as a woman is a direct blow, and they subconsciously feel ashamed.

Yu Qiutang walked beside Miyali and saw her braids swinging back and forth. He couldn't help but want to play with her, so he took the braid in his hand and swung it gently in circles like a kitten's tail.

Mi Yali was talking when she saw Yu Qiutang playing. She shook her head helplessly, remembering that when she got up in the morning, Yu Qiutang insisted on combing and braiding her hair. But after a long time, she found that her hair was too long and could not be braided properly, so she had to give up helplessly.

Yu Qiutang had read a folk story before, which was about a husband combing his wife's hair. He thought it was very romantic. Three thousand strands of black hair, and carefully helping her comb them, what a beautiful scene.

But when I actually tried it myself, I found that I was thinking too much.

Miali's hair is not only over one meter long but also very thick. There is a lot of hair and without strong force, it is impossible to pull it together. After a lot of effort, it will spread out again if you are not careful.

Miali's hair was like this in her previous life, but later she cut it off and sold it to supplement the family income.

She felt so distressed at that time.

When she walks down the street, people often stop her and ask if she wants to sell her hair, and they are willing to pay a high price for it.

After she cut her hair short, she never grew it long again and kept it short, neck-length, until her death.

"There's a hat seller up ahead. Can I go buy you a hat?" Yu Qiutang pointed ahead.

Miyali shook her head. "Forget it. Why spend the money? I don't wear a hat everyday. But I need a straw hat when I work in the fields. I can buy one."

She always talks about work. That's her.

After walking for a while, Yu Qiutang saw a shoe stall on the roadside. It was a stall where shops on both sides of the street set up shoes to sell on market days. He saw a pair of red leather shoes that were very beautiful, so he pulled Miyali to try them on.

Mi Yali was naturally reluctant to do so, and repeatedly said that she already had shoes to wear and there was no need to buy leather shoes. Seeing Yu Qiutang's insistence, she said that farmers worked in the fields all day, and it was very convenient to wear cloth shoes, which were light and breathable. Even if there was dirt in the shoes, it would be much easier to pick it out and pour it out.

But Yu Qiutang couldn't do that.

Now that I have money, even if I don’t buy something luxurious, I have to think too much about buying a pair of shoes for my wife. That would be too shabby.

Miali couldn't persuade him, so she agreed to give it a try.

I was thinking that when I try them on, I could just say the shoes don't fit and reject them.

"Come, hold my shoulders and I'll help you change."

The stall outside is not like a shoe store. There is no seating. If she had to change her shoes while standing, Miali would feel embarrassed to take off her shoes in front of everyone.

Besides, she was wearing new clothes today and didn't want to get them dirty, so she became even more hesitant.

Yu Qiutang knew what she was thinking, so he squatted down, let her hold his shoulders, and helped her change her shoes.

Miali was very embarrassed.

I whispered in his ears many times "no" and "get up quickly" and other words like that, but Yu Qiutang didn't care at all. What did it matter?

In her previous life, Miali had served him meals for decades, washed his clothes and socks for decades, and heated the kang for him for decades. She had suffered so much, but this was nothing.

No matter how much he did, he could never catch up with Miali.

"It fits perfectly."

Miali didn't expect that her feet and the shoes matched very well. Her skin was very fair, and it matched the bright red shoes very well. This color, which most people have difficulty in handling, she handled with ease and it didn't look vulgar at all.

After taking a look, I liked it too.

It is no longer possible to say that it is inappropriate and refuse.

Next, the two of them went around many places, and Yu Qiutang also bought Mi Yali some women's items such as a comb, a mirror, shampoo, etc.

When buying toilet paper, Miyali would subconsciously choose the cheapest one, but Yu Qiutang would directly choose the softest and best one.

There were no sanitary napkins at that time, and although they could only use toilet paper, he also hoped that his wife could be more comfortable.

As a result, when they came back from shopping, both of them were carrying a lot of things in their hands. Mia Li was happy, but she also lamented that they had spent too much money. If they continued to spend like this, no amount of money would be enough.

Yu Qiutang told her that this little money was nothing. Only by spending money can you have the desire to make money. Life is only more than 20,000 days. You can't wait to prepare everything and enjoy it only after saving enough.

Not to mention the question of which will come first, an accident or tomorrow, even if you can live to old age in peace, after you have passed the years of youth when you are still young and curious about beautiful things and want to enjoy them, when you are old and gray, even if the best things in the world are placed in front of you, will you really be happy?

He doesn't think so.

What made Yu Qiutang even more gratified was that when buying things for Miyali, Miyali did not forget the other people in the family. Her reasoning was that they would have their own families in the future, so naturally they would not need to do anything, but they still lived here now, so they still needed more care.

It is also said that money is a thing that is spent regardless of where it is spent. As long as everyone is happy, it doesn’t make much difference whether people live in poverty or wealth.

This is reasonable and naturally saves Yu Qiutang from many taboos.

He had a little more respect for Miali.

Sure enough, after returning home, Yu Chunxing and Yu Chunmei both told me not to buy things for them because they wouldn't need them all day at home and life would be hard for everyone.

But even though he said that, he couldn't hide the smile on his face.

It's no different with the kids.

Yu Qiutang specifically asked his third sister to pay more attention to Yu Chunju, because Yu Qiujiang was now busy decorating and organizing the shop and could not stay at home with Yu Chunju.

The two siblings have always depended on each other, and Yu Qiutang was worried that Yu Chunju would not be able to adapt.
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The next day, it started snowing again.

The temperature suddenly dropped to nearly minus ten degrees Celsius.

This is also the special climate here. Unless it is after the third day of the third lunar month, it is hard to say that the temperature will actually rise. It is very likely that it will still snow in March or even April.

Of course, this situation is rarely seen in later generations.

In later generations, the temperature became warmer and it snowed less frequently throughout the year. Often, the temperature would quickly rise to more than ten degrees after the New Year, which was dozens of degrees different from the temperature of this era.

Yu Qiutang and his family were weaving silk screens.

He studied the chicken net in the book that Lin Mu gave him yesterday and found that it was a lattice net woven with nylon ropes. He planned to try weaving it today.

Unexpectedly, an uninvited guest came. (End of this chapter)