Chapter 319 Planning and Cultivation Direction
Su Wenchen is leaving the farm.
As soon as I walked into the branch farm yard, I saw a big pot of boiling water set up at the canteen door.
The water in the big iron pot has reached a boiling point.
Two young workers were scooping boiled water into wooden barrels and carrying them to the backyard where pigs were slaughtered.
Su Wenchen stepped over the big pot of boiling water and walked straight into the cafeteria.
The dining area outside was empty at this time, and there were fewer tables and chairs. Su Wenchen was probably temporarily moved to the backyard.
Walking to the food window, Su Wenchen saw an old chef in an apron sitting there dozing off.
"Master, is there any more food?"
After being woken up, the other person just waved his hand impatiently.
"Where is the food at this hour? Why don't you hurry over to eat now?"
But as soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to think of something and quickly stood up to look outside.
After discovering it was Su Wenchen, he quickly added.
"Director, I'm not talking about you. Section Chief Zhao told me, but the Wotou was gone when Section Chief Zhao came over."
"In order to entertain those people from other factories, they asked me to help them roll some noodles, and the director also reserved a portion for you.
"Director, please wait a moment. I'll cook it for you right away!"
Su Wenchen shook his head when he heard this. He didn't expect that Lao Zhao was such a good eater, but he really wanted to eat some of this smooth and chewy fine grain.
So he took out his food coupons and said.
"Okay, then I'll trouble you, Master, to cook me a bowl."
Looking at the food coupons handed over by Su Wenchen, the other party quickly waved his hand.
"Director, Section Chief Zhao, I've given them all. Section Chief Zhao also gave your portion. We rolled them together at the time. Now I'll just give it to you directly."
Su Wenchen raised his eyebrows when he heard this.
"Did Lao Zhao really give it to me? Don't lie to me!"
The other party quickly shook his head.
"Director, I wouldn't dare lie to you! Wouldn't you know if you just asked?"
"Please find a place to sit for a while. I'll cook the noodles right away."
Su Wenchen felt relieved when he heard this, and he didn't feel any psychological burden about eating a bowl of noodles from Zhao Weiguo.
While waiting for the noodles, Su Wenchen began to ponder how to breed the next few selected local white rabbits.
First of all, in terms of choosing the direction, Su Wenchen felt that he should still breed in the direction of meat rabbits.
One reason is that what is lacking now is high-quality meat rabbit species.
The second is that the fur of local white rabbits is thin and brittle.
The most basic function of fur clothing is to keep warm. In addition, the local white rabbits are small in size and are not suitable for breeding into fur rabbits.
Besides, their farm already has high-quality fur rabbits like Yuehua Rabbit, so there is no need to compete with themselves.
As for breeding, Su Wenchen feels that if one really wants to breed a truly native species, one cannot adopt the hybrid breeding model.
It can only evolve by cultivating feed.
Su Wenchen had only tried this method before, by configuring the second-level breeding feed.
Because starting from the third level, expensive medicinal herbs such as ginseng are needed as auxiliary materials. Su Wenchen feels that it is too uneconomical to feed it to laying hens. How many eggs must be laid to earn back the money for the ginseng!
So he simply gave up this option.
This time, Su Wenchen is not planning to breed them in large quantities. He will just start by breeding these local white rabbits to see if he can continue breeding them.
He now also wants to test the limits of this golden finger.
Thinking of this, Su Wenchen took out another notebook from his pocket.
He started to organize several kinds of breeding feed for breeding native white rabbits. After looking around, he found that the first breeding feed was basically some very common medicinal materials, with the main ingredient of alkali grass.
But what puzzled Su Wenchen was that he had seen a lot of Suaeda salsa in Dongfeng Commune.
The local chickens eat too much of this stuff, and the eggs they lay have a faint salty and alkaline taste. To put it more nicely, they also taste like seafood.
If the rabbit eats too much, it won’t be able to evolve into a seafood rabbit!
Will the meat taste like seafood like those chickens?
Is this okay? I hope I don’t get gout if I eat too much!
Just as Su Wenchen was daydreaming, a bowl of steaming pig blood hand-rolled noodles was served in front of him.
"Director, the pig's blood is freshly slaughtered and very tender! Please eat it quickly."
Looking at the steaming noodles in front of him, Su Wenchen's appetite was aroused and he just picked up the chopsticks.
Then, as if he had thought of something, he spoke directly to the cafeteria chef.
"Master, are you a local?"
"I wonder if we've ever had a large amount of Suaeda salsa planted here before?"
Hearing Su Wenchen's question.
The other party was a little confused, but still sat opposite Su Wenchen and spoke with some reminiscence.
"Director, I'm not from here, but I've been working in the commune cafeteria for almost ten years."
"I came here with others when I was fleeing famine."
"Everyone here knows about Suaeda salsa. It's everywhere in the saline-alkali land. There's no need to plant it."
"We relied on this thing to get through the famine years back then!"
Su Wenchen took a mouthful of noodles and looked at the other party in shock.
"No, what are you thinking? Are you fleeing here? Even if you were to flee, you'd better go to the Northeast where the grain production is high!"
"Is it like this here all year round? Why are you still coming here?"
To be honest, this was the first time he heard of someone running to a poor place.
The other person shook his head.
"In fact, because the grain production here has always been low, we didn't dare to eat the communal meals in the early years, so at that time we still had some grain reserves here."
"Plus, we've been consciously reducing our activities and food consumption at home in winter."
“So the situation here is actually a little better.”
"But the Suaeda grass in the saline-alkali land was indeed very useful!"
"Although it tastes bitter, it can be used as food to alleviate food shortages during famine."
"Also, our commune warehouse is now using it as a backup food supply, storing a lot of dried Suaeda salsa."
"When we put the grain into the warehouse earlier, we processed a lot of it to make room for the grain!"
"At the beginning, a lot of it was sent to our canteen, but now that we have food, no one likes to eat this bitter Suaeda steamed bun anymore."
"I heard they were all sent to the farm to feed the rabbits."
When Su Wenchen heard this, his hand holding the chopsticks to eat noodles stopped for a moment.
Good job.
So those rabbits eat a lot of this Suaeda salsa?
After thinking about it, Su Wenchen felt that it was almost correct.
Because when these salsa grasses are sent to farms, the breeders will most likely not feed them to the imported species that will die easily.
You can definitely feed them with the local rabbits.
But then Su Wenchen thought about it and found that this might not be a bad thing, because this thing is like a weed, it does not need human care in saline-alkali land and can grow tenaciously.
This is more convenient than forage grass such as alkali-resistant alfalfa, which needs to be cultivated artificially.
After all, alkali-resistant alfalfa cannot survive well in highly saline-alkali soils, but this thing has no problem.
It doesn't even need to be cultivated artificially, it grows all over the ground like weeds.
If we can breed rabbits that specifically eat this kind of grass, maybe we can even create a rabbit breed specifically for saline-alkali land!
Because Su Wenchen had tasted the steamed buns made from this kind of salsa grass.
He could only say that if there were any other choice, no one would be willing to mix precious food with such unpalatable things.
If you feed rabbits a large amount of this alkali grass, it will definitely taste much better after the rabbits absorb and process it.
Besides, at least it is meat, which is definitely much better than eating this saltwort directly.
Thinking of this, Su Wenchen immediately finished a bowl of noodles in big mouthfuls.
He wiped his mouth and asked directly.
"Master, please clean up the dishes. I have something else to do here."
The other party quickly waved his hand.
"Director, what are you talking about? This is our job in the cafeteria."
"Hurry up and get busy!"
"I'll just tidy up the table."
Su Wenchen didn't hesitate and left the cafeteria.
Go straight to the backyard of the field office.
“Ouch!”
“Ouch!”
Before Su Wenchen arrived, the heart-wrenching roar of a black pig reached his ears.
After just a few sounds, it stopped abruptly.
After Su Wenchen walked over, he saw a large group of people busy surrounding the big black pig that was struggling just now.
There were people pressing the pigs, collecting blood, and serving hot water. Almost all of them were cadres from various departments working at the site.
Since most of the employees were busy working in the fields, we had no choice but to call these people out.
At the very edge, there were little kids who had been covering their eyes but with their fingers showing, and they were now looking at the adults who were sharpening knives with great interest.
Su Wenchen walked over and shouted to Ren Dachuan who was giving orders.
"Comrade Okawa! Comrade Okawa!"
Seeing that it was Su Wenchen, the other party immediately came over.
"Director, you're here!"
"We've already killed several of them. How do you think we'll divide them up?"
"Normally, after finishing work, only the employees who worked during the day would eat in our branch canteen."
"Some workers were assigned to take care of the land originally owned by their production teams."
"Do you think we should call them over, or send them over separately?"
Su Wenchen waved his hand.
"There are too many people. Even if we call them over, our cafeteria can't accommodate them. For those brigades farther away, you should arrange for someone to deliver the pigs to them!"
"The teams around the headquarters can just eat in the headquarters cafeteria."
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Ren Dachuan nodded.
"Okay, then I'll have someone deliver the pigs to them according to the number of people in the group."
"Otherwise, with so many people, there really wouldn't be anywhere to sit for dinner."
Su Wenchen didn't continue to care about this matter, but asked directly.
"I heard that we still have some Suaeda salsa stored in our warehouse as a backup food supply?"
"Is it still available now?"
When Ren Dachuan heard this, he immediately became a little confused.
Suaeda salsa?
What does the director want that for? It can't be stewed with the pig!
Wouldn’t that be fatal?
So he quickly explained.
"Director, we do have that stuff, but it's used by the commune to save lives during famine."
"When the region delivered food some time ago, I swapped out some to make room. I didn't want to waste it, so I sent it to the canteen."
"As a result, workers complained every day that the steamed bread they had prepared wasted."
"Then they stopped producing this thing and sent it to the farm. Director, did you hear that this thing can be eaten?"
Su Wenchen shook his head.
"I've eaten this stuff before, and there's no need to eat this now."
"There's still some in the warehouse, right? Take me there to get some. I need it for breeding rabbits."
"By the way, do we have any common medicinal herbs in our warehouse?"
Ren Dachuan immediately nodded in response.
"Common medicinal herbs are available, as most of the medicines needed for the commune's health are stored in the commune warehouse."
"Director, do you need me to take you there?"
Ren Dachuan had naturally heard that rabbits often died at the farm, so he was not surprised that the director wanted to prescribe medicine for the farm.
Su Wenchen waved his hand.
"No, just focus on your own business. I'll pick the herbs I need myself."
(End of this chapter)
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