The team leader, who was standing to the side, took a couple of puffs of his pipe and asked, "How much does their feed cost?"

"A bag weighs fifty pounds and costs fifty cents. It can be used to feed chickens, ducks, geese, fish, and pigs. Different species may have different prices, but the price is the same."

Li Guai said, "Five cents a bag? That's too expensive!"

"Uncle Li, this is already very cheap. Take pigs for example. If we get fifty bags of pig feed, along with tofu residue, vegetables, and pig feed, and use three or four bags a month, it will only cost us about twenty yuan a year. If the pigs gain an extra hundred pounds, do the math and see if we make a profit or a loss?"

The brigade leader said, "Xiao He, the educated youth, makes a good point. We'll have a meeting another day to discuss the matter of buying feed."

"Alright, Captain, this is a rare opportunity. I'm afraid that if too much time passes, that person will forget about me. I'll wait for your message."

This is a rare opportunity. She's helping the village, or rather, helping Wang Xiaorong and Zhang Cuicao. If the poultry are raised well, they'll get more money. The key is to let the commune or the educated youth office know about their efforts.

Maybe there will be a chance to go back to the city in the future.

After He Wan left, Li Guai also came out of the brigade leader's house.

Inside the house, Zhang Aiying snorted in annoyance, "That He Wan, of all people, had to come over and talk about feed when it came time to distribute the money. We're not even enough to eat, yet she's thinking about those animals eating feed, such a precious thing. With that money, she should just give more money to the villagers."

The last time the newly arrived educated youth, Zhang, reported her, it wasn't entirely unfounded. All that talk about helping the other educated youths carry things—I think she was just using the pretext of buying medicine to secretly smuggle things. Now she's selling animal feed; she's probably taken bribes from someone.

Chen Lemin glared at her, annoyed. "What nonsense are you spouting without any evidence? We know Xiao He better than you do. Only your family likes to speculate about people behind their backs. She's a teacher, too. Oh, right, she took Xue's spot back then. Heh, there's a saying that goes, gold shines wherever it is. Look at Xue, she was directly chosen by the cultural troupe this time."

"you..."

"What do you mean 'what do you mean'? Hurry up and go cook."

"I've only been married for a few days, and you've already made me go into the kitchen."

"What, you want to be a bride for the rest of your life?"

"I'll take it, so what?"

“Zhang Aiying, if you say another word, you’re married and you don’t listen to your husband? You’re going against the heavens.”

"What, you want to hit me?"

"So what if I hit you?"

"Go ahead and hit me, try hitting me once."

Zhang Aiying successfully provoked Chen Lemin's authority as a husband, and he actually slapped her.

Zhang Aiying was spoiled at her parents' home and was quite domineering. Now, she has only been married for less than a month and has already been beaten by her husband, so naturally she cannot afford to be at a disadvantage.

The two men started fighting in the room.

The captain, who had just seen off the outsiders, heard the noise and his face immediately darkened. He said to his wife, who was standing beside him, "Go and see what's going on. They've only just gotten married and they're already fighting. Is this acceptable?"

Aunt Chen snorted and said, "It's good that she's being beaten. Look at her, she's been married for more than two weeks and hasn't helped with any chores. Oh dear, who did we offend in our past life to deserve this retribution? We've married such an arrogant daughter-in-law. Is God trying to make our family miserable?"

"What are you saying in the middle of the day? You've already married her, so just train her properly. Since she's entered our family, she has to abide by our family rules. Our Chen family has always been reasonable and considerate, and we will never let our daughter-in-law disgrace our Chen family."

Go tell them to stop fighting, and encourage Lemin to stand up for himself. Just talk to him about it, and that'll be enough.

"I'm not going, you go if you want to."

"you..."