As the New Year approaches, the household is actually not so busy.
The fields have someone looking after them, and the hired hands have decided to stay until the day before New Year's Eve to make more money.
In the winter, there's not much to do in the fields, so the hired hands help clean the pigpens and chicken coops, carrying the chicken and cow dung to the fields. Some corners of the fields have large pits for storing these.
Manure is good for fertilizing the fields, but it needs to ferment first, otherwise, it can burn the crops.
There's plenty of goose grass in winter, and with good crop growth this year, the wild grass in the fields has also thrived, which can be used to feed the pigs and chickens.
The rabbits have also been prepared with hay, and each day a bit is thrown to them, along with some water in the trough.
There aren't many bamboo rats, only thirty or forty, and one or two bamboo stalks a day is enough.
