When Wang Guifen returned home, she quickly shared her thoughts with her family.

Finally, add: "Shuiqing said she's willing to sell the piglets at the same price as outside, that's fine."

It saves a lot of effort because we don't need to go outside to carry things to our own village.

The three Li brothers were deeply moved.

How many men don't like to eat meat?

Especially those thick, fatty pieces of pork!

Once we raise our own pigs, we can eat to our heart's content when we slaughter the New Year's pig.

Even if you can't bear to eat too much fatty pork, offal is fine too. It won't fetch a good price, but you can keep it for yourself. At least it's still meat.

However, "piglets need to be pounded to make the pork taste better when they grow up, and we don't know how to do that."

Wang Guifen had already inquired about it beforehand, and said calmly, "I asked Shuiqing, isn't her father a butcher? When there are no pigs to slaughter, he takes on the job of tending to piglets. Otherwise, who do you think tended Shuiqing's piglets?"

The others immediately realized what was happening, and then exclaimed with delight, "Then it's really possible to raise one!"

"A piglet costs a little over a penny. How about we buy two or three to raise?"

In the past, they would never have been willing to buy so many at once. After all, a piglet costs more than a coin. When they went to the prefectural city to work for wealthy families, their daily wages were only twenty or thirty coins. It would take them two or three months to earn enough to buy a piglet. If it died, they would be heartbroken.

The reason they were so willing to spend money was because they earned four taels of silver from delivering potatoes to Master Bai last time, which significantly increased their savings and allowed them to take the risk of raising two or three head of cattle.

Most importantly, the rabbits are being sold off one after another, bringing in income from time to time. Shuiqing taught us how to raise rabbits, and now she and her family are raising pigs at home, and doing it very well. We can ask her for advice again then.

The three brothers and their wives became more and more excited as they thought about it, wishing they could go and buy the piglets right now and raise them!

All six of them turned their gazes to the old village chief, waiting for his nod.

However, it's such a good thing, so Dad can't possibly refuse.

Unexpectedly, the old village chief sighed and asked, "You said you would raise pigs by building pigsties next to the fence, but have you decided which side of the fence to put them on?"

The area ahead is the village entrance; the smell of pig manure wafts throughout the village when the wind blows. Would the villagers agree to that?

The six people fell silent.

Since the wall was built, the road along the edge of the wall has been kept very clean.

The men patrolling the village trampled back and forth, making the area incredibly firm and compacted, forming a path. They would even pull out any weeds along the path!

In addition, the use of lime to eliminate the foul air after the previous flood has made the villagers more conscious of the cleanliness of the entire village.

Not to mention the village entrance, even the areas on either side of the wall are unacceptable.

“At the end of the village, there is only a large open space behind the wall of your Uncle Ding and Aunt Ding’s house. But think about it, once you occupy that open space to raise pigs, it may be okay in winter, but who can stand the mosquitoes and smell in summer?” the old village chief said again.

The six remained silent.

The reason Shuiqing could raise pigs was because her place was large, the pigsty was far from the main house, and the pigsty was located downwind, so the smell couldn't spread. The pig manure was directly discharged into the composting pit on the high ground, saving her the hard work of carrying pig manure and allowing it to be directly composted.

Fertilizing the fields will be easy then.

These are conditions that they couldn't achieve in the village.

"Then, we can't raise it anymore?" Zhang Hui asked hesitantly, though she already knew the answer in her heart.

In their village, people live very close to each other, if not right next to each other. Rabbit sheds already take up a lot of land, and if they raise pigs too, they'll really be right next to each other.