A Small Farmer Girl 's Story of Making a Fortune by Farming

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In a blink of an eye, Shen Yao is already three years old.

　　The third son of the Shen family is already twenty-two years old, but still has not gotten married.

　　Xu did not get pregnant with a second child, and the Shen family's life continued as usual, except that the tiny baby had grown into a cute little pink and white dumpling.

　　It is said that even dogs dislike children of seven or eight years old, but three-year-old Shen Yao was already disliked by the chickens and dogs in the yard.

　　Ever since he was able to express his ideas clearly, Shen Yao explained to his family how to grow rice and wheat to achieve high yields.

　　But will the Shen family believe it?

　　Of course not.

　　How can a three-year-old child be taught to farm when he can’t even tell the difference between seedlings and weeds, let alone farming?

　　Shen Yao was discouraged and stopped insisting. She was too young to be convincing. Wait, when she is older, she will teach the Shen family how to farm.

　　Since she was not allowed to get involved in farm work, she started studying raising chickens.

　　At the beginning of spring, she begged Mrs. Wu to catch twenty chicks for her.

　　Twenty chicks are not expensive, but the difficulty is that in this age when people can’t even get enough to eat, what can we use to feed the chickens?

　　But Mrs. Wu couldn't resist and actually caught twenty chicks.

　　So, when Shen Yao had nothing to do, he would call his cousin to go to the field to pick chicken grass.

　　The scientific name of chick grass is Poa annua, a wild grass belonging to the Poaceae family. Because it can be eaten by chickens, it is also called chick grass.

　　In addition to chicken grass, Shen Yao would also go into the vegetable fields to catch caterpillars, which were a delicious meal for poultry.

　　"I knew you were going to look for chickweed again! Look, there are a lot of them growing on the ridge of my vegetable garden. I'll pull them out for you." Mrs. Hu was weeding in the vegetable garden. When she saw Shen Yao coming, she brought over a handful of chickweed.

　　The Hu family didn't raise chickens, so the grass was useless to her. Every day she saw the little girl from the Shen family looking for the grass everywhere, so she helped her pick it and put it away.

　　"Thank you, Aunt Hu. When the chickens lay eggs, I'll give them to you to eat."

　　Mrs. Hu Er laughed: "It's just a handful of grass, and Nannan still wants to give me eggs to eat."

　　Speaking of the daughter of the Shen family, she is rare in the surrounding villages. Not only is she good-looking, but she is also very sensible and clever.

　　When she was a little over one year old, Mrs. Wu took her to visit relatives and friends. She would sweetly call everyone uncle or aunt. When asked questions, she would answer clearly.

　　It is no wonder that Mrs. Wu, who is so patriarchal, values ​​this granddaughter so much.

　　I don’t know how the Shen family taught their child to have such a lovely one.

　　After throwing the chicks into the yard and letting them peck at the grass themselves, Shen Yao went to play with the local dog Dahuang.

　　As a result, the big yellow dog ran away when it saw Shen Yao. It didn't want to be scolded by its young master, and it didn't know what was wrong with the young master, who caught it, a dog that couldn't talk, and said a bunch of incomprehensible things.