Chapter 206 Chicken and Duck Farming [Update 1]

After Tu Rongrong officially accepted two apprentices, she went back to sleep with satisfaction. Chu Xingye and He Junqing both had good talents, and she liked such apprentices very much.

Tu Rongrong happily left the second world and went to sleep. After getting up the next day, she had breakfast before preparing to start the live broadcast. Today, she also took Tu Yuanyuan to the food factory.

Tu Che and A11 had already selected the address of Food Factory No. 2, and later sent the construction robot to Food Factory No. 2. However, the factory building of the food factory has not been built yet, and Tu Rongrong came to Factory No. 1.

"The construction of the second food factory has begun. What about the high-speed rail running between the first and second factories? Has it started construction?" Tu Rongrong asked.

"It's still in the planning stages." Tu Che shrugged. "I asked a professor from the Department of Architecture at Huameng First University to bring his students to help with the design. Although we have construction robots, it's better to let professionals handle something as safety-critical as this."

Tu Rongrong agreed with Tu Che's words after hearing this. The interstellar era wasn't without construction robots, and that didn't mean there were no more people working on snow buildings. Most blueprints were created by humans, while construction robots mostly worked according to pre-programmed procedures. Asking them to design building blueprints? That would be a bit difficult for them.

"Okay, as long as Factory 1 and its employees can have convenient transportation after they officially start working, that's fine." Tu Rongrong didn't say much. After knowing Tu Che's plan, she had no intention of interfering.

"We are starting to prepare to raise chickens, ducks and geese. As for chickens, it is convenient to raise them in the mountains, but ducks and geese need to be raised in places with water, so I chose a place with a large lake as a breeding base for ducks and geese." Tu Che used his light brain to call up the place he chose and projected Hu Lai for Tu Rongrong to see.

Tu Rongrong has a complete hologram of Planet Aquamarine, and because Tu Che is her housekeeper and the person who helps her manage Planet Aquamarine, Tu Rongrong shared this hologram with Tu Che.

Of course, the hologram is not very accurate. It only shows things like flowers, trees, rivers, lakes, oceans, and mountains, but no animals.

The lake chosen by Tu Che is about several thousand kilometers away from Tu Rongrong and the others. The lake is really big, bigger than the West Lake, Chengyang Lake, Taihu Lake and other lakes that Tu Rongrong had seen before.

Although the lake chosen by Tu Che is not as big as Qinghai Lake, it is about several thousand square meters, so it is more than enough for raising fish, ducks and geese.

In particular, there are many wetlands around this lake, which makes it more suitable for raising water-loving birds such as ducks and geese. Of course, other water birds can also be raised.

"Because you said we should find a way to hatch duck eggs and goose eggs ourselves, I asked C988 and the others to pick up a lot of duck eggs, and selected the fertilized ones to hatch. The unfertilized ones were placed in the warehouse waiting for you to deal with them." A11 also said.

"We're settled here because there's plenty of water, so there are quite a few wild ducks like the ones you mentioned. We've been searching for a while and have found over 100,000 duck eggs."

"There are about 110,000 to 20,000 duck eggs that can be hatched, and about 30,000 to 40,000 that cannot be hatched." Tu Che took a look at the data he had recorded, and then said to Tu Rongrong.

"Of course, not all the fertilized duck eggs were hatched in the same batch. We incubated as many hatchable eggs as we could find. So far, we have hatched about 60,000 to 70,000 ducklings."

"Because the ducklings have just hatched and haven't molted yet, we didn't send them to the lake. As you said, we should raise them for a month or two until their feathers have molted and then we can let them roam free."

Tu Rongrong looked at the pile of pictures of little ducks sent by Tu Che. Looking at the fluffy, golden little ducks, Tu Rongrong was in a good mood.

"There aren't as many geese as there are ducks. So far, we've only found about 50,000 goose eggs, and only about 30,000 goslings have hatched, not nearly as many as there are ducks."

"But you also said that the geese are not in that hurry, so we can raise these geese ourselves and then breed goslings ourselves." Tu Che brought out pictures of goslings that looked uglier and bigger than ducklings and showed them to Tu Rongrong.

"As for chicks, although not as many as ducklings, we still have more than goslings. We've hatched about 60,000 chicks so far. Some eggs are unfertilized, or fertilized but can't hatch, so they're all in the cold storage waiting for you to deal with them."

"Yeah." Tu Rongrong nodded. "Uncle Che, I asked you to order more rice wine and wheat from Xingguang, and also prepare more yellow mud and other things. We will pickle the duck eggs."

"It happens that the weather is a bit hot now, but it is not the real Dragon Boat Festival yet. If we can eat salted duck eggs early, we can eat salted duck eggs and rice dumplings stuffed with egg yolks during the Dragon Boat Festival." Tu Rongrong said happily.

"I have prepared everything you said. Xingguang has already sent us the rice wine. If we were not Xingguang's partner, Xingguang might not be willing to sell so much rice wine to us." Tu Che said helplessly.

"Yeah." Tu Rongrong agreed with Tu Che's words, and the next moment they arrived at the parking lot of the food factory.

"Boss." The retired military robot B660, who happened to be on duty patrolling the food factory, came over happily and greeted A11 when he saw him.

"Boss, manager, good morning." B660 turned to Tu Rongrong and Tu Che again. The boss was Tu Rongrong, and Tu Che was the manager.

"Hello." Tu Rongrong also responded to B660, and then entered the factory under the guidance of B660.

"Because the eggs you mentioned are processed in another factory, we chose the newest factory as the salted duck egg processing workshop." Tu Che took Tu Rongrong around several corners and finally arrived at the salted duck egg production workshop.

"Well, you didn't hatch the ducklings at the food factory, did you?" Tu Rongrong asked suddenly.

"How is that possible? Hatching chickens, ducks and geese are all the farm's business, and the hatching workshop is of course also the farm's business. It cannot be placed in a food factory." Tu Che said speechlessly.

"That's good. We must pay attention to the safety and hygiene issues of our food factory, otherwise what if our reputation is ruined?" Tu Rongrong said worriedly.

"We understand all of this and won't mess around." Tu Che patted her shoulder and said, "Okay, let's go set up the machines in the workshop and start making salted duck eggs."

Tu Rongrong nodded and said, "Okay, let's go take care of the salted duck eggs, and then we'll go deal with the chicken eggs. We can't eat so many eggs all at once, so we still need to find a way to process them."

"Oh right, I'm going to do a live broadcast." Tu Rongrong thought for a moment and said, "I didn't do a live broadcast during breakfast, so today I'll show my fans the environment of our food factory."

"It's up to you. Anyway, the secrets of our food factory will not be leaked even if it is a live broadcast. Just broadcast it if you want." Tu Che had no objection. After all, his boss always announced the recipes when he did a live broadcast. Tu Che was not worried that the processing of salted duck eggs would be affected if it was announced.

Ordinary people are too lazy to pickle salted duck eggs by themselves, and other companies must purchase patents if they want to make them. So Tu Che has no objection. After all, he has already distributed so many recipes before, so what else is missing?

(End of this chapter)