Man Bao stretched out his finger and poked Zhou Lang's lower back. Zhou Lang moved forward but did not move.

Man Bao poked harder, and Zhou Lang continued to move forward, but still squatted and did not move.

Man Bao became angry and stretched out his hand to push him. Zhou Lang didn't expect her to be so strong and fell to the ground in an instant.

Zhou Xi and others who were doing housework looked over, and Man Bao stretched out his fist and hit him on the lower back. Zhou Xilang had no choice but to step forward and said with a blushing face: "Third sister-in-law, it's your turn today.

Is it time for you to clean the chicken coop?”

"Yes what's the matter?"

"Let me clean it," Zhou Lang said: "From now on, I will clean the chicken coop at home. Anyway, I have nothing to do."

When did the fourth child become so diligent?

He looked at him suspiciously.

Seeing that he was mumbling again, Man Bao rushed up and said for him, "Third sister-in-law, fourth brother said that he is too busy to work, but my sister-in-law and eldest sisters are so busy every day, so I leave the dirty work at home to him.

alright."

He glanced at Zhou Xi who was standing aside, thinking she understood, and said happily: "Okay, the fourth child is now considerate. It seems that he has really grown up."

Not only He, but also Xiao Qian and Feng felt that Zhou Lang did this to share some of the burden for Zhou Xi, because it would be Zhou Xi's turn to clean the chicken coop tomorrow.

Even Zhou Xi thought so. She glanced at the fourth child and felt a little relieved, but she said nothing in front of her sister-in-law and younger siblings.

Zhoulang exhaled and immediately went to get a broom to clean the chicken coop. Seeing Manbao standing far away, he raised the broom and glared at her.

Zhou Lang cleaned the chicken coop, spread a layer of straw inside, and took the garbage out.

He looked around and saw that no one was paying attention, so he dumped half of the garbage cleaned out from the chicken coop into his compost pile, and the rest into a dirty bamboo basket. Seeing that no one was paying attention, he poured it out.

He stuffed the withered grass and rotten leaves that he had prepared long ago into the basket to cover it, then picked up the bamboo basket and ran towards his wasteland.

Man Bao had been waiting for a long time. Wu Lang and Liu Lang took Da Tou and they swept out a lot of dead leaves and mud from the forest. The mud was thrown directly in, and the dead leaves were placed on the wooden board and cut with a knife a few times and thrown away.

The three brothers stirred it up with thick sticks, poured water, and covered the pit with a ready-made straw cover as Manbao asked. They also put a lot of withered grass on top to keep it warm.

Zhou Lang was very doubtful, "Is this enough?"

"It's not good yet. You have to add more stuff to it every day. Fourth brother, you must remember to clean the chicken coop every day."

Zhou Lang slumped his shoulders and said, "If dad knew that I stole chicken manure from home, he would definitely beat me to death."

"No," Man Bao comforted him, "Dad never cares about the chicken coop. He won't suspect it. If you are afraid, just dig some soil from the mountain and throw it in, so dad won't find out."

Zhou Lang thought this was a good idea. He and Lao Wu and Lao Liu looked at each other and began to secretly stir up trouble.

Man Bao had planned it. He would steal half of it in one day and fill it with soil. Dad probably wouldn't notice it. But who knew that Zhou Lang was becoming more and more greedy. After a few days, he found that no one at home was paying attention, so he secretly

He dumps all the garbage he cleans into his own compost pile, and the compost heap at home is filled with mud dug out from the mountains.

Old Zhou didn't notice it at first, but in February, Zhou Dalang and Zhou Lang plowed out the fields for raising rice seedlings. They chose a good day and it was time to set the clock, so he went to look at the fertilizer at home.

It doesn't matter, I found a big layer of soil next to it.

Although the soil looked better than river mud, he had never dug mud other than river mud. After careful inspection, he found that the fertilizer this year was much less than last year.

Lao Zhou was furious. In the countryside, it was just for a sip of water or a spoonful of fertilizer that the whole family could fight. His first instinct was that someone was stealing his family's fertilizer, so he walked home angrily and wanted to question three people.

Daughters-in-law, how do they take care of the house? Even if their fat is taken away, they don’t even know it.

When Man Bao ran home with a small book box on his back, he saw Zhou Lang kneeling on the ground. The yard was very quiet, there was no one.

Man Bao stopped for a moment, went to pick up Man Bao's head and took a cautious look inside. Then the two children walked in quietly, walked to Zhou Lang and looked into the main room.

Zhou Lang raised his eyelids and glanced at her, saying: "Don't look, no one is here."

Manbao breathed a sigh of relief, and then he had time to ask him, "Fourth brother, what bad thing have you done again?"

"I didn't do anything too bad, I just listened to what I said and stole the family's wealth."

Man Bao felt guilty for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Have you been discovered by your parents?"

"Well, dad asked me to wait for you at home. When you come back, I will take you to see him." So Zhou Lang got up, took Manbao and left.

Man Bao was a little short, so he picked him up and quickly hugged his arm and shouted: "I want to go by myself!"

Most of the Zhou family were in the fertilizer pit over there in the wasteland. Old Zhou was very angry at first. His son and daughter actually stole the family's fertilizer. Didn't he know that this was related to a year's harvest?

So he took his three eldest sons to pick up the fat and bring it back. When they got there, when they opened the lid, a burst of hot air came out and they almost vomited.

But Lao Zhoutou quickly came back to his senses, smelled the smell in the air, and became a little excited.

Even Zhou Dalang was a little surprised.

He is also a good farmer. He and his father have been retting the family's fertilizer together since he was nineteen years old. Of course he knows what kind of fertilizer is good.

What does it smell like, what does it look like...

When Zhou Lang came over with Man Bao, Lao Zhoutou and the others only shoveled out a shovel and then put the lid back on.

Zhou Lang and Man Bao came over with their heads lowered, thinking that they would be scolded, but in the end, Lao Zhou Tou pulled his daughter to him and asked pleasantly, "Man Bao, I heard from Wu Lang that you taught me this fermentation."

, is it still written in the book?”

Man Bao secretly glanced at her father and felt that he was not angry, so she cheered up, nodded, put down the book box, found the book inside and showed it to her father.

Lao Zhou's hands were a little dirty and he didn't dare to take the book. He just asked Man Bao to open it and let him take a look. He was illiterate, but it didn't stop him from reading the words in the book with awe.

He let out a long sigh and said, "It's so good to read. I didn't expect that even retting is written in the book. Come on, tell me, what does it say?"

There are many methods of retting described here, but in fact they are all similar. The only difference is the requirements for materials and some changes in temperature requirements.

Of course, Manbao couldn't completely copy it, because she didn't have the shed written on the tree, nor the warming bag written in the book, but Manbao was not stupid. She knew that retting fertilizer should maintain temperature, so she thought of covering the fertilizer with grass.

The pit was covered, and she planned to set a fire if the temperature was not enough.
Chapter completed!