Chapter 218: You were just dreaming! You made me happy for a long time
After leaving the chicken coop, Su Wenchen walked towards the pigpen.
The pigpen was made entirely of cement and covered with a layer of hay. The sun slanted down on the roof. Four big pregnant black pigs were lying on the hay with a leisurely look on their faces, grunting.
Another white boar in a separate pen was searching around in the pigpen, even sticking his head out of the pen, as if he wanted to reunite with his beloved wives.
Vanderford was hunched over, using a bamboo broom to clean up the pig manure that had just been produced.
"Master Fan, why are you here to clean the pigpen yourself? I heard from Old Tan that the farm has specially arranged cleaners, right?"
Vanderfu shook his head and said to Su Wenchen with a smile.
"There are only five pigs in total. How can we use so many people? I discussed it with Section Chief Tan, and we decided that including Xiao Zhou and I, we can only keep four people."
"Usually, it's enough for one person to take care of one child each, splitting into morning and evening shifts. To be honest, I think that's too much."
"After feeding and cleaning the pigsty, there's basically nothing else to do."
"At night, the pigs snore soundly, so apart from the night shift for farrowing, there's basically nothing to do."
“I feel like it’s just like getting paid for nothing.”
Su Wenchen smiled and said jokingly.
"That's not good. Don't worry, there will be more pigs later."
After taking a look at the condition of the sows, I found that all four sows were in a comfortable state.
It can be seen that they are well taken care of and these pigs have completely adapted to this kind of life.
Then he turned to Vanderford and said.
"But now that this white pig has arrived, it can't eat our feed for free. Section Chief Tan will go out and find healthier sows to breed with it. I estimate we'll have at least 20 sows here."
"You'll be busy then!"
"It's not just you who's busy, it's busy too!"
As he spoke, Su Wenchen glanced at the white boar that had already stuck its head out.
If it weren't for this white pig, we would naturally have to place our hopes on the four sows. But now that the breeding pigs are back, we naturally can't let them rest. We must breed them vigorously and squeeze out every drop of energy.
Only in this way can we repay his hard work along the way.
Su Wenchen also asked Tan Liwei to find different sows from different regions and bring them back. He also wanted to see what differences there were in the sows hybridized between different regions.
Because only when the samples are large enough and extensive enough can we select the best ones!
Hearing Su Wenchen's words, Fan Defu looked over and immediately smiled.
"Be busy, be busy!"
"Otherwise, I always feel uneasy about taking the salary from the field."
"And look how anxious it is!"
As he said this, he looked at the boar with a smile, and the boar immediately shrank its neck because of his smile.
When Su Wenchen heard what Fan Defu said, he knew that there were still many people like him. If you really left him idle, he would feel uneasy because he had nothing to do.
Su Wenchen saw that the sows were fine and spoke directly to Fan Defu.
"Okay, go ahead and do your work. I'm going back to the office first. If you need anything, just call me. If I'm not here, you can usually look for me in the rabbit hutch."
Return to your office.
Su Wenchen is preparing to sort out the development ideas for the rabbit house.
Although the first batch of baby rabbits have just been produced.
But rabbits give birth too quickly. Even if we adopt a more conservative plan and wait one month after birth for the baby rabbits to be weaned before breeding, there will be six litters in a year, and one rabbit can give birth to more than 30 rabbits.
This is the production quantity under the premise that Su Wenchen does not develop rabbits for breeding.
Su Wenchen is still very optimistic about several breeding attributes of breeding rabbits. Whether it is to increase the growth rate of offspring or to improve their disease resistance and tolerance to roughage, they are all extremely useful attributes.
On the contrary, the several attributes cultivated in the direction of fur rabbits, such as improving the purity of fur color, made Su Wenchen feel a little unintuitive.
What does this mean? Change color?
What's the use of this?
However, Su Wenchen felt that the area of fur at the back was still more useful, because the larger the fur, the better.
Due to the properties of the fur, it is not as intuitive as a hen that can lay eggs directly, so Su Wenchen can only wait and experiment a little bit at a time.
So now Su Wenchen decided to take a batch of them for experiment first to see how big the difference is between the offspring of breeding rabbits and ordinary offspring.
Also, what changes will occur after breeding in the direction of fur, and is it worth breeding in this direction?
After all, this kind of feed cultivation involves two kinds of medicinal materials. Although neither of them is particularly expensive, Su Wenchen still needs to spend energy to communicate with the state-owned medicinal material purchasing station.
Just as Su Wenchen was lying on the table and concentrating on planning, time passed by little by little.
Suddenly a red song sounded, Su Wenchen raised his head and looked out the window.
The setting sun indicated that it was time to get off work, but normally at this time the employees would be walking out of the premises in groups.
But now, he could only vaguely hear bursts of slogans coming from the chicken coop.
It lasted for more than ten minutes before it gradually stopped. Then, groups of employees gradually appeared in Su Wenchen's sight and walked towards the door.
Su Wenchen opened the office door and walked to the door.
Looking at Zheng Xianghong walking towards me with a document in her arms.
"Instructor Zheng, it's fine for you to organize these activities, but please don't make too much noise. We are a livestock farm after all, and it's different from a factory. If the animals are frightened, it will still affect our production."
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Zheng Xianghong nodded.
"Director, you're right. I was indeed inconsiderate today. I will ask the staff to keep their voices down later."
Well!
Su Wenchen was stunned for a moment. This person actually admitted it directly?
Did she expect that if she gave in, he would stand on her side?
The other party can't be so naive!
Seeing that Su Wenchen was a little dazed for a moment, Zheng Xianghong also knew what Su Wenchen was thinking.
However, after two attempts at the beginning, including trying to win over Liang Hong from the production department, they were unsuccessful.
After all, even Section Chief Liang Hong, who was most likely to be won over, had a smiling face and was very respectful, but he didn't say a word other than about work.
She knew that the possibility of her taking control of this place was very low.
However, Secretary Zhou's initial instructions were to keep an eye on the production situation at the chicken farm.
To avoid the recurrence of the egg shortage that occurred during the tenure of the previous secretary.
So her mission has actually been completed, but she is just unwilling to accept it. After all, who wants to be second when they can be the boss?
But now, she didn't hit anyone with her two axes at the beginning, so she could only calm down and start thinking about integrating into the group first before doing anything else.
The first thing to do is to make peace with Su Wenchen and ease the stereotype formed by the conflict during the day.
Although Su Wenchen didn't know Zheng Xianghong's specific thoughts, he still didn't want to get close to this person.
"Well, Instructor Zheng, you can go ahead and do your work. You should go home early after get off work!"
"After all, you just arrived, so you still need to clean up the dormitory!"
Zheng Xianghong smiled and nodded.
"Thanks for the reminder, Director. I really need to go back and clean up after get off work."
After saying that, he took the documents and walked towards his office.
Su Wenchen looked at the other person's back suspiciously.
What does this person want to do? He is now a little confused about this fickle woman.
Look back.
Su Wenchen walked to the enamel washbasin in the room, ready to pour some water to wash his hands before leaving get off work.
Looking at the reflection of his young and handsome face on the water.
I was shocked for a moment.
Oh my god, she can’t be interested in me!
I want an old cow to eat young grass!
Then he would have to stay away from her in the future, and Su Wenchen felt that if he slept in the same bed with a woman like this, he would probably have to sleep with one eye open at night.
Otherwise, I don’t know when I will be sold.
After packing up, Su Wenchen pushed his bicycle out of the venue.
Looked at the sunset.
I found that it was still quite early, so I rode my bike directly to the commune.
"Ding-ling-ling!"
Accompanied by the crisp sound of bicycle bells, Su Wenchen rode against the crowd and headed towards the commune compound.
Of course, when we say crowd, it is just a few dozen people. After all, it is impossible for the commune to support so many idle people.
Because this time Su Wenchen was wearing normal clothes.
The guard didn't stop him at all and even greeted him.
"Director Su, you're here to see Director Jiang again!"
"I heard Director Jiang moved back to the dormitory. Is this to smooth things over?"
Su Wenchen smiled and waved his hand.
"What's the contradiction? Isn't this a job requirement?"
"Okay, I'm done talking to you. Just take a look at the car for me! Don't let anyone steal it!"
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, the other party patted his chest.
"Director Su, don't worry. I, Old Wang, may not be good at anything else, but I have these two eyes. They are really amazing. I can recognize anyone's bicycle at a glance."
"Can it be my turn to guard the gate of our commune?"
"Okay, thank you for troubling Master Wang."
After parking the car in the carport, Su Wenchen walked inside carrying a bag of glutinous rice noodles that he had just bought from the non-staple food area of the supply and marketing cooperative.
The office space on the commune's side is actually not much better than their site.
They are all rows of small brick and wood bungalows. The most they have are the wooden doors and windows at the entrance, which are painted with a layer of green paint. However, they seem to be quite old, and a lot of the paint has peeled off.
Su Wenchen just walked to the front of the first row of townhouses and asked where Jiang Li's office was.
After all, there are several rows of townhouses, and he really doesn't know which one it is.
But He Feihuai happened to walk out from inside.
"Hey, how come you have time to come over here? I heard that all the factories in the city are in turmoil because of this instructor."
"I heard you guys have already made arrangements, why aren't you busy cleaning up that mess instead of thinking about romance?"
Su Wenchen rolled his eyes.
"Secretary He, what you're talking about is not romance. We're cultivating revolutionary feelings."
"You won't understand at your age."
"Besides, he's just an instructor. How can this be difficult for me? Isn't it easy to control him?"
He Feihuai was a little surprised to hear Su Wenchen say this.
"You must have been the one who got the upper hand. You don't know that there was a big uproar at the textile factory in the city. It even stopped production for a while."
"Several factories have united to protest! No one is looking for you."
Su Wenchen shook his head.
"No, we just sent someone here yesterday. I guess they don't think highly of us!"
"After all, we're so far away from the city, we can't go over there to protest!"
He Feihuai nodded.
"Yeah, it's better not to participate. This way, no matter what, no one can find you responsible. Otherwise, even if Secretary Zhou really withdraws everyone, he will still have to settle the accounts one by one later!"
"Let's just focus on production and not get involved in other things. How are the rabbits in your farm?"
"Let me tell you, the nitrate workshop in our commune has been built, and the textile workshop has also found good people."
"But we're counting on the rabbit skins in your farm. All the wild rabbits around here have been caught clean now."
Seeing this, Su Wenchen said directly and confidently.
"Secretary He, just rest assured. The female rabbits in our farm have already given birth to their first batch of baby rabbits."
"Once these baby rabbits grow up, we'll basically have an endless supply of them."
"How many do you plan to raise here in your commune?"
He Feihuai sighed.
"We consulted the county, and in the end, they decided to follow the same rule as chickens: each household can only raise five chickens in order to prevent any manipulation."
"However, each brigade is allowed to open a collective farm to generate income. After all, the risks involved are much lower than allowing members to raise their own livestock."
Obviously, due to the ever-changing situation in the city, the county must also be conservative.
Otherwise, if others make a fuss about this, it will be counterproductive.
So after hearing what He Feihuai said, Su Wenchen didn't say much. After all, they now have a large supply of forage.
We can raise a batch of more Rex rabbits, so we can still meet the supply.
"Okay, Secretary He, I won't chat with you anymore. It will get dark if we continue. Which office is Ali's?"
After knowing that the rex rabbits in Su Wenchen's farm had started to reproduce, He Feihuai felt relieved.
After all, their commune had been focusing on the two industries of the nitrate workshop and the sewing workshop in the first half of the year.
Since their commune itself did not have many resources, these two workshops also took a lot of effort from their boss.
If there is a problem with Su Wenchen and there are no subsequent products to process, it would be like all their work in the first half of the year was in vain.
Now that he saw that the progress was going smoothly, he pointed directly at the first row of townhouses and said.
"It's right next to my office, the third one. There's a sign hanging on it."
After saying this, he put his hands behind his back, hummed a red song, and walked towards the gate of the compound in a very good mood.
Su Wenchen had been to He Feihuai's office several times before.
So go straight to the first room in the first row.
As soon as he arrived, he saw the door of the third house was open, and Su Wenchen looked up.
I found that in the two rooms in front, one was labeled "Secretary's Office" and the other was labeled "Director's Office".
The signs hanging in the rooms at the back indicate public offices such as the Civil Affairs Office, the Women's Federation Office, and the Youth League Office.
Obviously, Su Wenchen could tell Jiang Li's status in the commune just from the layout of the rooms.
I seemed to hear some noise outside, but no one came in.
So when Jiang Li just walked to the door to check, she saw Su Wenchen appear in front of her carrying a bag of glutinous rice noodles.
A look of surprise appeared instantly.
"Hey, Achen, why are you here? What are you doing standing at the door? Come in."
As he said that, he immediately pulled Su Wenchen in and closed the door.
Su Wenchen said directly.
"I just missed you, didn't I? Are you hungry? I bought you some glutinous rice noodles."
Su Wenchen walked into the room and found that the whole room was not big, only about ten square meters. There was a table at the back and a cabinet for files next to it.
There are a few stools and a washbasin on the outside.
In Su Wenchen's opinion, it was still very simple.
At least in terms of conditions, their field is much better than here.
So Su Wenchen looked around the room and said.
"Your office is really small! It's not even as big as our office in the field."
Jiang Li opened the glutinous rice noodles handed to her by Su Wenchen, peeled off the outer layer of oil paper, rolled her eyes and said.
"Your farm is so rich, and you even have funding approved by the city. Can our commune do the same?"
"Secretary He asked me to ask Uncle He for some financial support, but Uncle He acted like he could kill me, and the county didn't have a penny."
"By the way, he also told me about you. He said that the city had agreed that most of your farm's profits would be subsidized to the county."
"Later, Secretary Li said that our farm needed to develop, so he left this year's profits to you. He later said that the profits would be used to subsidize two other industries in the county. But before the profits were paid, the people were transferred away."
"Go find Mayor Zhai. Mayor Zhai told him to find Secretary Zhou."
"Uncle He said he'd go find Secretary Zhou, but Secretary Zhou said he didn't know and told him to go find whoever made the promise."
He said this while covering his mouth with his hands and laughing.
"The county is losing money now. Uncle He said that every penny he earns has to be split three ways. How can he afford to support us?"
"It's good that you don't ask us for money."
When Su Wenchen heard this, it was naturally impossible for him to take the responsibility of this matter.
"That has nothing to do with us. Well, Uncle He should go to Secretary Li for this matter. Didn't he say he was going to the province to serve as deputy director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee?"
"We can definitely mobilize some resources. Resupplying the county is no small matter."
"By the way, why aren't you off work yet? Are you busy with something at the workshop?"
Jiang Li shook her head and walked to the table with a piece of glutinous rice noodle.
"It's all caused by the educated youth. Someone from the Pukou Brigade down below reported him and ruined his name."
Su Wenchen immediately looked at Jiang Li curiously. He knew that at that time many female educated youth were being taken advantage of.
But logically speaking, this place is not a remote mountainous area, and there is not only one person in each educated youth site, so no one should dare to steal it.
So I was a little surprised.
"Someone actually dares to come directly and force his way in! Isn't he afraid of death?"
After all, the policy on this matter was quite strict at that time. Sometimes there was no need to go to the farm to force women to do things against their will.
Jiang Li shook her head.
"It wasn't forced, was it? After investigations and visits by the county police, we discovered that the young woman was proactive in the beginning, hoping to find a stable job."
"But now, after a few months, the brigade accountant no longer wants to give out food coupons."
"That's why this woman made the anonymous report, hoping to scare the brigade accountant."
"She thought she had concealed it well, but who in the village could have kept it a secret? The county police came and exposed everything."
"The county has asked our commune to strengthen the management of production team cadres to prevent such incidents from happening again."
He pointed to the messy table.
"I was originally busy with things at the saltpeter workshop, and now I have to come up with a plan to strengthen the management of production team cadres."
"I can only work overtime."
Su Wenchen said a little unhappy.
"Secretary He is too bossy. He left work early and left you to work overtime alone."
Jiang Li shook her head.
"That's not the case. The most I can do is write a plan. To carry out such an offensive task, Secretary He will have to take action personally."
"Otherwise, the leaders of those production teams wouldn't be so obedient."
"By the way, how are the Rex rabbits in your farm? Our commune's nitrate workshop depends on you."
As he spoke, he seemed to remember something.
Jiang Li stood up and walked to the drawer to search.
A moment later, he came over with several color pictures.
"This was sent to me by my friend in the name of the Foreign Trade Bureau because I often write to her about this Rex Rabbit fur."
"She now also often pays attention to this information from abroad."
"These are some of the more popular Rex rabbit fur colors internationally."
"Look at what kind you have in your store. I tell you, the price will be much different if the color is different."
As she spoke, Jiang Li took out the top photo of the gray-brown Rex rabbit.
"This color is called field mouse outside. The Foreign Trade Bureau inquired with international fur manufacturers and they're buying it for eighteen to twenty dollars a piece."
"This is called cyan blue. Even though it looks like silver gray to me, that's what they call it. It's used as a raw material for high-end clothing. It was sold for thirty dollars a piece at an auction in Paris this year."
"Also, within this purple-blue coloration, there's a chance that some gray-blue Rex rabbits, controlled by a recessive gene, will appear. These individual variations are extremely rare. The fewer mixed hairs and the purer the color, the higher the price. However, my friend couldn't find out the exact price because the production is so low."
"This black Rex rabbit skin is around fifteen dollars a piece, but this color is popular in North America. Currently, our Foreign Trade Bureau doesn't have trade relations with North America, so if it's this breed of Rex rabbit, we'll have to find a way to sell it domestically."
Looking at Su Wenchen who seemed a little dazed, Jiang Li waved her hand.
"What's wrong?"
"Are you stunned? The rabbits you imported aren't really black Rex rabbits, are they?"
Hearing Jiang Li's words, Su Wenchen shook his head.
"That's not the case. I just know what purified Rex rabbit fur means."
After saying that, he took out the photo of the purple-blue Rex rabbit.
"Our country originally imported Rex rabbits from France in Western Europe. How could they be the black color from North America? The ones we farm are this bluish-purple-blue color, but they're more silver."
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Jiang Li immediately showed a hint of surprise.
Ever since the Foreign Trade Bureau sent her the photos of these rabbits, she has been worried that the black color might appear.
Although there are rumors now that relations with the United States will be eased, no definite news has been given from above.
Even the Foreign Trade Bureau can currently only contact developing countries such as Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
So he breathed a sigh of relief and said.
"A purplish-blue color is fine, but what do you mean by purified? Do you have any mutant gray-blue Rex rabbits in your farm?"
Su Wenchen shook his head.
“Not now, but there may be in the future, and there may even be solid colors.”
Jiang Li rolled her eyes and put a glutinous rice noodle directly into Su Wenchen's mouth.
"So you were just dreaming!"
"I was so happy! It's a solid color! The purple-blue color we imported is already pretty good."
"If this can only be controlled by some gene, and it all depends on luck, let's not speculate."
(End of this chapter)
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