Chapter 106 Chapter 106 Captain: Yes, this tiger...
There was complete silence all around. The chattering children all fell silent as if their mouths were zipped shut.
Wang Xue, who was originally dissatisfied with her nose and eyes, was shocked. Her thick black eyebrows twisted, and her pupils, which were originally rolling their eyes, suddenly shrank. Her whole face looked like a bowl of uncooked white rice and black sesame porridge, which was quite magical.
The pigs, who were originally unhappy about being driven out of the pigsty with a grunt, became silent in fear and huddled behind the team leader obediently.
The accountant who had just arrived was also stunned.
Good Things kicked its hooves impatiently and snorted twice:
A bunch of ignorant and tasteless bipeds, they act as if they are used to seeing its good deeds, and they react so strongly when they see a white scarf. Is it necessary for a tiger that is not even as tall as it and hasn't even grown all its teeth to do this?
The sound of hooves stepping on the snow was like a bell, bringing people back to their senses from their shocked confusion.
The captain opened and closed his mouth, and finally spoke first in the silence: "Xiao Song, you are a sly tiger."
Song Ruan thought about it seriously for a long time, but still couldn't be sure whether the "tiger" the captain was referring to was Bai Weibo or her. However, she believed that a warm-hearted and considerate girl like her did not need to be described in this way. So, he must be referring to Bai Weibo.
"Yes, it's called a white scarf," she introduced.
Bai Weibo listens to Song Ruan and is close to Song Ruan because Song Ruan saved him with a bottle of goat milk when his mother was about to starve to death. Since he entered Song Ruan's house, he has eaten nine meals in three days, with meat, eggs and milk for every meal. In his eyes, Song Ruan is a god who is particularly good at hunting and in charge of the endless food.
In addition, Song Ruan has been training it every day during this period. She can easily pin it down during training, which also shows it her powerful fighting ability. This is why Bai Weibo is so flattering to her.
But White Scarf is, after all, a Siberian tiger known as the king of the forest. And unlike its unreliable mother, White Scarf inherited its domineering grandmother from the previous generation, and it itself has a bit of pride.
He had no special feelings for any bipeds other than Song Ruan, and had no intention of developing any more friendships beyond that between humans and tigers. He howled impatiently twice.
When it calls, the pigs become agitated.
The captain subconsciously tightened his grip on the rope and said quickly, "Ah, ah, ah, Bai...Scarf, what a good name, what a good name, let's go."
He glanced at Song Ruan's peculiarly shaped snow sled, then looked at the huddled pigs, moved his mouth, and squeezed out a voice with difficulty: "Then... you walk at the back and hold the line."
Song Ruan had no objection. She even complained that the wind was too strong in the front, so she shook the reins and directed the two horses to walk slowly.
The team leader was walking in front, pulling the pigs in a daze. Wang Xue was instructed to stand beside the pigs with a long branch. On the other side was the accountant who had barely come to his senses but was also in a daze. Song Ruan was following far behind, sitting on a snow sled pulled by a tiger and a donkey. Overall, it was a huge team.
Perhaps it was because of the aura of the natural enemy on the white scarf, the pigs walked very peacefully along the way, turning when asked to, stopping when asked to, without any tendency to rush out and escape.
Wang Xue walked along the edge of the pig herd, one step deep and one step shallow. Although the pigs were now obedient due to his intimidation, the stench on their bodies would not disappear just because they became obedient. Especially since there were six pigs gathered together, the smell would be doubly bad.
Wang Xue came because she compromised after being frightened by the captain's words "Even if we don't support you, no one can say anything". It was not a proactive compensation after really admitting her mistake, but she still felt aggrieved and resentful in her heart. Now that she has been in such a "difficult" environment for so long, she feels that she has suffered a great injustice.
Moreover, she was pulled here by the team leader to help on a voluntary basis and did not receive any work points. But she heard that the person at the back who was being pulled comfortably by the snow sled had nine work points!
She doesn't really value these work points, she just feels that she's been at a disadvantage!
But this cannot be blamed on the team leader - after all, he is the head of the village. His own niece has made a promising young man in the team like that. In addition to apologizing to the victim, he must also show the entire team his attitude of admitting his mistake - voluntary labor for the team is the best choice.
But Wang Xue didn't understand, and she didn't want to understand.
She had a gloomy face and looked very unhappy.
Halfway through the walk, we met the old sheep leader from the Qingshan Brigade opposite. He was driving seven or eight sheep up another snow-covered mountain path, and it seemed that he also had a mission to complete.
But they are the sheep for handing in tasks.
The old sheep was quite happy to meet a fellow traveler. He greeted the captain enthusiastically: "Hand in your mission."
The captain came back to his senses and nodded at him: "Yes."
The old sheep praised politely: "Your pigs are really fat."
This is not really a compliment. After all, the pigs of the Dongfeng Brigade are indeed well raised, with an average weight of 120!
The captain looked up with some complacency, feeling tickled. He praised her politely, "Of course, your team's sheep are well-fed. Look at how fat they are."
The old sheep head smiled like an old goat. Looking at the pigs in the captain's hands that were walking quietly and obediently, he praised from another angle: "You guys are really good at raising pigs. Look at these pigs in your hands. They are so big, but they are more obedient than my sheep. You are really good at it."
Captain: “…”
He subconsciously glanced back and said, "Well, mainly because there is a tiger."
"What?"
The old sheep didn't hear clearly, but he turned around unconsciously and saw the half-grown tiger pulling the snow sled. His eyes popped out.
"Ah, this, ah?" he stammered.
Seeing his look, the captain became reserved instead. He said calmly and casually, as if this was a very common thing and the old sheep-head was making a fuss: "Well, he is from our team. Isn't he cute? He is quite capable."
Old Sheephead: “…”
He doesn't dare to speak.
The flock of sheep he was herding also sensed the presence of their natural enemy and no longer dared to bleat. They were originally bustling with activity, but now they were as quiet as chickens.
His sheep were as docile and obedient as the pigs of the Dongfeng Brigade, following closely behind the old sheep leader/captain, not daring to move their eyes.
It was a smooth and trouble-free journey.
Song Ruan sat on the snow sled, leisurely watching the bare trees on both sides of the road slowly retreating. She wore her scarf and hat tightly, and her whole body huddled on the sled like a carrot.
She even sipped the hot milk tea she exchanged from the system from a small kettle - because it was an opaque kettle and she was far away from other people, the strong north wind blew away the smell, and others just thought it was the hot water she brought with her - it was so comfortable.
But Haoshi and Baiweibi are not grown up yet after all. They are still two cubs who have not been fully weaned - it can be said that they have started working before they are weaned - and they are already having a hard time dragging Song Ruan when there is only one-third of the way left.
Song Ruan was not a cruel and ruthless person. She still liked good things and white scarves. Seeing that they began to breathe heavily, she stuffed two sugar cubes into the donkey and a piece of meat into the tiger, then let them both sit on the snow sled and she got off to pull.
She specifically asked Ning Yuan to borrow a sled with a wide and smooth bottom beam, which was very easy to pull on snow - if it was on ice, a sled with embedded metal strips would be even easier to pull.
The donkey and the tiger pulled her, and when they were tired, it was her turn to pull the donkey and the tiger. When she was tired, it was the donkey and the tiger pulled her again. How can this not be considered a perpetual motion machine?
When they arrived at the purchasing station, Song Ruan stopped his sled far away in a small woods because he was afraid of scaring others or causing panic due to the breed of the sled.
But seeing that the team leader and the accountant were both smiling, I thought everything should go smoothly.
Several people met in a small woods.
Wang Xue was annoyed by the stinky smell on her body and yelled that she wanted to go back quickly. The team leader thought that his niece did work today - change always comes little by little, so he didn't say anything.
"Then you go back. I still have to go to the commune."
Wang Xue stopped moving again.
——She suspected that this uncle was planning to have a feast or do something good in the commune, so he didn't want to take her with him!
She didn't mind the greasy and semi-meaty food, but she had worked today and was so tired. Why did he want to get rid of her when he got the chance?
Don’t even think about it! ! !
But now he had figured out the captain's temper a little bit, so he didn't confront him head-on. Instead, he pursed his lips and asked in a well-behaved manner, "Uncle, where are you going? Can I help you?"
Sure enough, the captain nodded with some relief: "Forget it, forget it, just go back and rest, you are tired today."
However, Wang Xue didn't think that this was the captain's leniency towards her at all - if it was leniency, he should have simply not asked her to come so far in the cold weather to deliver the pigs, working so hard for nothing. Since she had already run so far, why should she pretend to be lenient!
So she insisted on her attitude and kept asking, "Uncle, what else are you going to do? Don't even I know?"
The team leader was so pestered that he could only explain: "It's too expensive to get piglets from the commune every year, so we discussed with the team and thought about getting them ourselves."
A healthy piglet costs more than ten or twenty yuan, and ten pigs cost almost two hundred yuan - this is not a small amount of money.
Everyone is in difficulty now. We all plan to save again and again on the daily necessities such as food, oil, salt, needles and thread. There is no reason to be indifferent to such a huge expense.
Several village cadres discussed it and decided to just appoint one themselves next year!
Their team raised a total of ten pigs. After slaughtering one for the celebration banquet, there were nine left. Six were handed over to the commune, and the remaining three were originally planned to be slaughtered that year and the meat distributed to everyone, but it was not impossible to keep a female.
——Nowadays, all pigs are black pigs, and they eat pig grass, so it is not easy for them to grow meat. You can get one hundred and twenty or three hundred kilograms at most, and one hundred and fifty kilograms is rare in a few years. Excluding the fur, internal organs, blood and bones, there may not be 100 kilograms of pure meat, how can it be compared with 200 yuan
They had it all planned out.
Because it was the first time, they were cautious and only kept one sow as a breeding pig. The other two were boars. They were bred quickly before the New Year pigs were slaughtered to make the sow pregnant. Then the boars were killed and the sows were kept.
A sow can give birth to piglets when it is three or four months old, and there can be more than ten piglets in one litter. This way, their team does not need to buy piglets.
What’s more, the time for giving birth is right next spring, so there’s no need to worry about the cubs not being able to survive the winter. The pig grass is also very big, just right!
Even if it fails, all it will take is a few months of energy spent on raising sows and some pig rations - but these days, labor is the least valuable.
As for pig food, although it is hard to find pig grass now because it is so cold, you can still find it if you look carefully. Besides, it has only been a short time since the autumn harvest and the grain has been distributed, so there are still corn cobs, chaff, and other things, so they will not starve to death.
Even if the sow loses a few pounds of meat, the sow is still there and can be slaughtered and eaten.
With this calculation, it is a business that is sure to make money!
The more I think about it, the more feasible it seems. There is just one problem -
"But it's not yet the season for sows to get pregnant, so I'm thinking about going to the commune to apply for some medicine."
Considering that his niece was still a young girl, the captain did not dare to explain it too clearly and tried to get away with it by being vague.
Wang Xue reacted immediately - he was going to get the breeding medicine.
Wang Xue's eyes rolled, and she immediately thought of Zhao Weijun, who was demoted and could not be defeated or killed, but might harm her in the future.
She hurriedly followed him: "Uncle, I'll go with you. After all, this is a big deal for our team. What if I can help?"
Although the captain felt that she could not help much, he was embarrassed to be stiff and refuse to help his niece, who had been causing chaos in their home ever since she came to their house, so he could only agree vaguely.
"Let's go, then," he said.
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