Chapter 96 Pig Farm

Xia Zhen talked to her parents for a while, and then went to the educated youth site.

After all, this is their family matter. Others can say good things, but they cannot interfere. So although Li Ruolan and Qin Wan really wanted to know what happened next, they did not follow.

After Deng Minghao and Lu Yunxiao came back, they both went back home.

Wang Xiaoni had already prepared the meal. Her cooking skills were very poor at the beginning, but after Deng Minghao taught her for a few days, Wang Xiaoni's cooking skills became better day by day.

The three of them sat together for dinner, and Li Ruolan told Deng Minghao about Xia Zhen's parents.

Deng Minghao nodded without any interest, and looked thoughtful while eating.

After finishing the meal, Wang Xiaoni went to wash the dishes, while Li Ruolan came to Deng Minghao and said, "What's wrong with you? You look like you have something on your mind."

Deng Minghao said: "Today the team leader said that the neighboring commune has opened a pig farm. I heard that it is doing well, and I also want to open a pig farm in the village. The pig farm in the village was too small before, and there were not many pigs.

Now that the brigade has some spare money, the brigade leader is thinking of building a pig farm so that we can distribute pork by the end of the year, and we can get a lot of money by selling the remaining pigs."

The previous pig farm only had six pens, so it could only raise six pigs. However, there were many members in the Victory Brigade, and six pigs were only enough to distribute meat during the New Year, and there was no way to sell them for any money.

Now that the neighboring brigade has made money, the brigade leader is also thinking of expanding the pig farm and raising more pigs so that they can sell them for money.

Li Ruolan said: "This is a good thing, but why are you worried?"

Deng Minghao said: "Because there is no large land in the village, and there is no space for the previous pig farm, the team leader said that the new pig farm should be built either behind the educated youth site or next to the cowshed."

Li Ruolan frowned immediately: "How disgusting it is to build it behind the educated youth site? It stinks, won't it be suffocating in the summer? How can we live here?

It can’t be built next to a cowshed, because there are cows in the cowshed. If there is a cross infection, the whole litter will die if they get sick, and we will definitely lose money.”

Deng Minghao nodded: "That's right, so I was thinking whether I could persuade the team leader not to build a pig farm.

Instead, they buy piglets and give them to the villagers to raise. Each household can raise two pigs, and then calculate the work points or directly calculate the money based on how much weight the pigs have gained at the end of the year."

Many period novels describe how pigs are raised this way. This way, there is no need to build a pig farm, which can save a lot of money.

"You can go talk to the team leader. Anyway, I don't want the back of our educated youth site to become a pig farm. It will be too smelly." Li Ruolan said. In fact, there are many places in the village where pig farms can be built.

But everyone in the brigade lives in the village, and they must know that the smell from the pig farm is unpleasant. The brigade leader and his men must have discussed it with the villagers, so they wanted to build the pig farms in these two places.

The villagers think it stinks, and the educated youth must think it stinks too. This matter needs to be discussed carefully.

Deng Minghao nodded: "I have already made up my mind. I will go talk to the people at the educated youth camp later, and then go to see the captain with Shen Yiji and the Red Army."

They wouldn’t say anything if the pig farm was built somewhere else, but they absolutely could not tolerate it being built behind the educated youth site.

"It can be built next to the composting pond. That way we don't have to go back and forth to collect the feces. Wouldn't it save effort to just throw the manure into the composting pond?" Li Ruolan thought of another place and said.

Deng Minghao hummed and said, "I will tell the captain about this matter when I go to work later."

In the afternoon, Deng Minghao and his colleagues went to work, while Liu Kunming and Xia Zhen took a leave of absence. They went to the town with Xia Zhen's parents, and no one knew where they went.

Deng Minghao, Shen Yiji, a member of the Red Army, and several old educated youth went to see the team leader and asked about building a pig farm.

The team leader took a puff of his cigarette and said, "You all know that except for the large open space behind your youth camp, there is really no other place as large as this in the village.

Building the pig farm behind the educated youth site is the best choice. The cowshed is also an option, but the cowshed is close to the mountain. If a wolf comes down the mountain and kills all the pigs, it will be a loss.”

Deng Minghao offered the team leader a cigarette and said, "Uncle Wang, we understand your considerations, but if we build such a large pig farm, there will be a lot of pig manure and the pigs will cry at night. What will we educated youth do?

We came here not to stop the village from building a pig farm, but the pig farm was built behind the educated youth settlement, so can we educated youth find another place to live?"

We are not saying that we are not allowed to build a pig farm, but we can build it but we have to help these educated youth find a new place to live.

Shen Yi nodded: "That's right, my family built the houses by ourselves. If we move now, this house will be given to the team, but the team will have to build a new one for us. We haven't lived in this house for long."

The captain immediately frowned and said, "We didn't build a pig farm for you to live with the pigs. Why do you want to move?"

Ji Hongjun said, "There is only a small area behind the youth camp. We live with pigs, but we are neighbors with them. We have all raised pigs before. With the smell and the constant barking in the middle of the night, how can the team leader let us sleep?"

Deng Minghao also agreed: "Yes, Uncle Wang, if we don't get enough rest, we will definitely not be able to work properly. Then we won't get so many work points. How can we survive?

What do you think of building the pig farm near the manure pit? Isn't there a large open space there?"

The captain took another puff of his cigarette in worry. Of course, he had thought about building a pig farm there, but weren't there several villagers there? They were already unwilling to build a manure pit there.

If a pig farm is built there now, those families will definitely make a scene.

"It really won't work. The pig farm has been decided to be built behind the educated youth site. As for relocation, you don't have to think about it. The team leader will not agree." The team leader looked at Deng Minghao and the others and made up his mind to say something final.

The old educated youth immediately started shouting, and the team leader's house immediately broke out into a quarrel.

Deng Minghao waited for a while before coming up to persuade them to stop fighting: "Everyone stop arguing! Captain, what do you think of this idea? We won't build a pig farm. Let's go ask if there are any team members willing to raise pigs. If they are willing, the team will pay to buy piglets.

Then we give the piglets to the team members to raise, and at the end of the year, we will see how heavy the pigs are, and then give them work points or money to distribute the meat. In this way, we don't have to build a pig farm, and we can still save a lot of money to buy piglets.

If the team members are willing to raise more pigs, this would be more than a large pig farm could raise. In this way, we wouldn't have to worry about where to build the pig farm. What do you think of this proposal, Uncle Wang?"