Seeing Jiang Yunshu's interest, Guo Feng'e seemed to open up. "They're not rich, but compared to our brigade, they're quite well-off. They have a brewery and a beekeeping garden, and they make quite a bit of money every year."

"What about our team?"

Guo Feng'e didn't expect Jiang Yunshu to ask this, and said with some embarrassment: "Our brigade has nothing else except growing crops.

My old man had led others to try it before, but it didn't work out. Our brigade was poor and couldn't hire experts from the province, so we gradually gave up on it."

Thinking of the pale and skinny team members, Jiang Yunshu stopped talking.

However, he already had an idea in mind. Not only could he help the people of the Red Flag Brigade get out of their current predicament and achieve prosperity, but he could also realize his dream of not having to work from now on. It was like killing two birds with one stone.

Jiang Yunshu has already seen the good days in the future beckoning to her, but for now she still has to go to work honestly.

Jiang Yunshu's proposal to turn the depression into fertile farmland was adopted by other members of the brigade. After the third autumn, when there was less farm work to do, they started digging ponds and wells.

None of the team members who had been looking forward to a good harvest this year expected to encounter a natural disaster. With limited rations, they could only tighten their belts and work. However, as time went on, the nutrition could not keep up and the human body could not bear it.

One after another, they fell to the ground. The anxious Du Shouquan lost a lot of weight. In addition to comforting the team members, he also had to go to the commune to ask for relief food.

He made many trips and almost broke down the gate of the commune, but it was of no avail. He returned empty-handed every time.

Seeing that people were about to starve to death due to lack of food, Du Shouquan struggled again and again and asked the accountant Li Datong to distribute half of the wheat seeds left in the granary.

There were so many people that each person didn't get much, but mixed with wild vegetables, it could last for a few days.

Jiang Yunshu, who held the space, thought about it again and again, and finally chose to remain silent and live his own life behind closed doors.

From time to time, people came to borrow food, but Jiang Yunshu said she would not drive them away because she knew that once she asked, she would never have a comfortable life again, and more and more people would come to her to borrow food.

By then, it was too late for her to regret and say no to the loan.

Du Piaoliang was worried that Jiang Yunshu would be hungry, so she would run to Jiang's house from time to time without telling anyone else and bring food to Jiang Yunshu. Sometimes it was a steamed bun made of three-grain flour, sometimes it was an egg, and occasionally there would be some meat.

Jiang Yunshu, who had plenty of food, refused to take it, but Du Piaoliang put down the bowl and left. Jiang Yunshu couldn't refuse Du Piaoliang's kindness at all, so he had to eat it in the end.

Just when everyone felt that there was no hope for the future, the commune distributed relief food, including buckwheat and sorghum.

The team members were so hungry that they had no strength to grind the mill. They boiled the buckwheat and sorghum they were given in a pot and ate them with the shells. Fortunately, they survived.

Jiang Yunshu also breathed a sigh of relief, because if she continued to be hungry like this, she couldn't guarantee what she would be able to do.

Jiang Yunshu, who had been squatting in the pigpen all day, felt that the time had come. She went to the Du family in the dark of night, found Du Shouquan, and told him her purpose.

She wanted to contract the two pigs in the team, and not only that, she also wanted to set up a pig farm.

Du Shouquan did not agree and asked Jiang Yunshu to go back directly. Although Jiang Yunshu had made constructive contributions to the team, he could not gamble with the only two pigs in the team.

She doesn't know how to raise pigs. If she kills the pigs, the commune won't be able to deliver the pigs as assigned, and the team members will hate her. He is thinking about her.

I just hope she can understand my good intentions.

Jiang Yunshu said, "Captain, you've seen the condition of those two pigs. They're so skinny they're just skeletons. Even if you don't let me raise them, you won't be able to deliver the required pigs to the commune by the New Year."

Du Shouquan waved at her and said, "Jiang Zhiqing, this is not something you need to worry about. I will pretend that you were never here today, and let's not talk about this again in the future."

Seeing that he disagreed, Jiang Yunshu finally used his trump card: "If I end up killing the pigs, I'll pay for it. Captain, just let me try. How can I not try?"

Du Shouquan didn't expect Jiang Yunshu to be so persistent. After a while, he said, "Jiang Zhiqing, raising pigs is not like working in the fields..."

"Captain, I know everything you said. Just promise me, if I succeed, our team will also have some income, and the team members won't have to suffer so much anymore."

What she raises is not just one pig, but a group of pigs, on the scale of a farm.

If, if she accidentally killed the pig, it wouldn't be a big deal. She could then smuggle the piglets out of the space and raise them.

She has so many piglets in her space that it’s no big deal for her if a few die.

Besides, no one goes to a smelly place like a pigpen. After a long time, no one will be able to tell whether the pig is the same pig as before.

"Okay, I promise."

For the team, this was a sure-win business. Jiang Zhiqing had said this much, and if he still didn't agree, the people in the team would curse him behind his back if they found out.

Seeing that he agreed, Jiang Yunshu became more demanding and said, "Captain, can you get me a few piglets? I want to raise a few more so that the team members can share the meat at the end of the year."

Du Shouquan was amused and said with a smile, "Jiang Zhiqing, you're quite courageous. Aren't those two pigs in the pigpen enough for you to feed?"

"Not enough. If you can't get the piglets, give me the money and I'll find a way. Captain, since I'm willing to take this risk, I have conditions."

There is no such thing as no gain without pain. Jiang Yunshu is just such a person.

Seeing Jiang Yunshu say this, Du Shouquan also became serious: "Jiang Zhiqing, you tell me first."

"Throw out the pigs the commune needs for the task, and I want 40% of the other pigs. The remaining 60% will belong to the team. The team can arrange them however they want. I don't care. I just want my share."

Du Shouquan shook his head and said, "40%? That's too much. I'm afraid the team won't agree."

"I'm not taking this 40% for nothing. If anything happens to the pigs, I'll take responsibility. I'm responsible for everything related to the pigs. If the team members still don't agree, then just ignore what I said."

Jiang Yunshu closed his mouth after he finished speaking, leaving the rest of the time for Du Shouquan to think.

In fact, her proposal was a completely cost-free deal for the Red Flag Brigade, and there was no need to bear any risks.

If it weren't for the strict regulations these days that prohibit individual breeding, she would have wanted to open her own farm, raise chickens, pigs and ducks, and make a fortune.

Raising pigs and opening a breeding farm is a big deal. Du Shouquan cannot make the decision alone and needs the collective consent of the team members.