Her Cultivation Diary

Chen Xi finished speaking, lifted the bucket, and said to everyone: "Excuse me, I need to go feed the pigs first."

The group quickly made way, then eyed the small red bucket in his hand, puzzled:

"Do pigs only eat this much at a time? Or is it for feeding piglets?"

This year, the Song Family raised quite a few pigs. In their pen, along with Xiangxiang, there are two males and one female adult pig, six piglets bought in, and Big White pig is pregnant...

Chen Xi and Chen Chi returned from their studies, and the task is demanding!

At the moment, he smiled and explained: "This isn't for those free-ranging pigs, one big pig is pregnant, this is its food."

"Extra meals shouldn't be too abundant."

A pregnant sow?!

The crowd grew curious: "Can we see? We've never seen one before."

Chen Xi laughed heartily but firmly refused: "It's not convenient; after all, it's pregnant. Too many people might frighten the pig."

"If you want to see pigs, both big and small are roaming back and forth at the Riverside Beach, they're very friendly, feel free to watch them."

After thinking, he pointed to the corner: "There are shoe brushes over there, call 'Luo Luo' with the shoe brush, and pigs will come over."

"Use the shoe brush to groom them, brush their whole body, they love this!"

This activity is truly loved by all pigs, but the Riverside Beach is too busy, not every pig can enjoy it daily. Now with twenty or so people around, having been influenced at Lao Song's family, Chen Xi cleverly utilized labor.

Therefore, he explained more meticulously: "They have thick skin, the softness of this shoe brush is just right. One brush and they'll lie down, pat their back and they'll even roll over."

"They're clean, though they might get dirt and leaves on them, every day at noon when the sun warms up, they swim in the river for a clean bath..."

Pigs are actually smart and love cleanliness. Since moving from the mountain pigsty to this vast riverside area with water and grass, they are happier.

Their daily life is well-arranged.

Indeed!

Upon hearing this, everyone eagerly looked back at the corner, tiptoed to peek at pigs distinctly different from the herd of cattle and sheep, and immediately got excited!

Seeing them rush to grab shoe brushes, Chen Xi smiled and went into the pigpen nearby with the bucket.

Compared to the spacious indoor cattle and sheep pens, the pigpen built later is much smaller. But relatively speaking, at least when Chen Xi went in, he always felt it was spacious.

Big White pig has been pregnant for two months, likely due in over thirty days, but it seems to be carrying many, it's recently not very active.

While other pigs are roaming around the field, and prefer sleeping outside the pigpen, it alone returned indoors to a pile of straw, sunshine streaming in... occasional extra meals!

Carrying cubs is truly comfortable!

There's another wild boar at home, also a male, originally didn't need Xiangxiang for mating, but this wild boar converted to domestic, Professor Song suggested arranging mating after 12-15 months.

Now, Big White is carrying Xiangxiang's cubs!

At this moment, seeing Chen Xi come over, its bulky body quickly moved up from the straw pile, then grunted as it approached the bucket, loudly urging him to serve the meal.

Every time seeing this begging energy, Chen Xi felt like it pretends not to move when lying.

But regardless if it's pretending, it's carrying cubs, so he quickly poured the hot food from the bucket into the trough, no other pigs come to compete, Big White ate without looking up.

Taking advantage of the moment, Chen Xi checked its build, being familiar with this part, Big White doesn't resist at all.

However, with just one small bucket of extra food, after wolfing it down, Big White pushed open the door contentedly, strolled out for a walk.

Meanwhile, Chen Xi inspected the straw for dampness or rot, and cleaned the pigpen a bit, then rinsed the feed trough before leaving with the bucket.

On the road, seeing five or six newcomers already around two or three pigs, diligently using shoe brushes, brushing pigs to the point of grunting and lying down directly, he couldn't help but smile.

Life here is truly relaxed, even hearts find it easier to rejoice.

...

While the older brother was busy, the younger brother was not idle either.

Today, Chen Chi's task was gathering duck and goose eggs.

Originally, the ducks were well-behaved, though initially couldn't resist laying eggs everywhere — in the water, reeds, shores... truly everywhere.

But after Big White's education, they behaved quite decently.

Coupled with a new batch of ducklings bought this year, waddling daily to the river, everything was still regular, laying eggs in fixed places.

However, Little Ten and Little Eleven secretly ventured over, startled them, causing them to revert to their old ways, not many duck eggs were seen in the nests for two consecutive days, Chen Xi knew something was wrong.

Thus, after being busy at noon, Chen Chi's task was assigned.

Zhang Wang's Family was running a machine to mix fermenting manure, with sealed covers blocking the smell, clearly the work wasn't tiring, so he had time to comment on Chen Xi's arrangements:

"It's good to leave this job to Dachi, looks like he enjoys doing it."

"Absolutely," Chen Xi also laughed: "He's treasure hunting! Probably searching more meticulously than we would."

After just a little while, already from a distance, saw another basket returned.

Chen Xi followed to inspect, then asked: "Where did you pick these duck eggs from?"

Light blue oval duck eggs stacked in a small basket, large and consistent in size, evident they're good eggs.

If broken, what a pity it would be!

Chen Chi pointed ahead: "I followed brother's advice, picked from the shore first."

"Got it," Chen Xi understood, then set those duck eggs aside: "Later, when eating, bring these to Qiaoqiao, they can be pickled into salted eggs."

"Be careful in the reeds, don't pick if they're not duck eggs. They might be from other wild ducks or birds."

Reportedly, there's even a Guoyi, though he's not versed in ducks and rarely has the chance to leisurely admire by the river, so he's yet to know which it is.

Chen Chi nodded, for Chen Xi's repeated instructions he wasn't impatient at all, instead he took the basket again and asked: "If picked from the water, should they be kept separately?"

"Yes," Chen Xi nodded: "Keep them separate. Eggs soaked in water spoil easily, must be brought back to Lao Song's family quickly, and after pickling into salted eggs, they can only be consumed by our own people."

Otherwise, selling them, if any are bad, that'll be troublesome.

Chen Chi nodded, then took back the basket: "No worries brother! I'm great at treasure hunting! I'm the Treasure Hunting Mouse, I'm called Little Pig Bear!"

Chen Xi found it both amusing and exasperating: with such a big Little Pig Bear, what kind of Nezha would be needed to raise it?

However, he didn't speak, just waved his hand: "Hurry, it's best to finish picking today, or they'll spoil faster by tomorrow."