"By the way, should we raise some pigs?" Lu Lin asked.
Yang Qing thought for a moment and said, "Forget it. Raising pigs is not like raising cattle and sheep where you just need grass. You need pig feed. If you don't have feed, you have to cook pig feed for them yourself. How can we have that much time?"
Lu Lin nodded, "That's true."
Leng Yi said, "We can also go look outside. I know there are several feed mills in this city, but I don't know if they still have feed."
"When people have no food to eat, they can eat pig feed, including cat food and dog food."
Yang Qing sighed. Yes, let alone feed, even the mosquitoes from a while ago were wanted to be eaten by some people.
The three of them took a shower before leaving the space.
Two days later, Haozi came over and said he had found everything. "But for things like chickens and ducks, they won't sell you for just two. You need at least ten."
"Cows and sheep can be sold in pairs."
"Ten is ten." Yang Qing nodded. She didn't need that little fish anyway. A few more could lay eggs for her to eat.
"We can't have five males and five females. One male is enough, so nine females." Leng Yi said.
"Is that so?" Yang Qing was surprised.
"Yes, that's how they are raised in the countryside. One male is enough, and a few more females can lay eggs." Leng Yi nodded.
"Is this still polygamy?" Yang Qing laughed.
Leng Yi laughed, "Animals are different from humans, especially poultry like this. Too many males is not good."
"My brother Yi still knows more." Haozi gave a thumbs up. "Sister, let's deliver the stuff to the old place this afternoon. It's a lot, so you'll have to drive the truck over there."
"Okay, tell me approximately how many kilograms it is so I can take the fish with me." Yang Qing said.
Haozi thought for a moment and said, "The cows are six-month-old calves, not very big, about 200 kilograms each. The sheep are adults, about 110 kilograms. This is 600 kilograms."
"Each chicken, duck, or goose weighs about two kilograms. Thirty of them weigh sixty kilograms. That's a total of six hundred and sixty kilograms."
"Okay, I'll bring some fish in the afternoon, no more, no less." Yang Qing nodded.
"Sister, make sure to put the ice cubes in. It's so hot, it will stink in the afternoon." Haozi said hurriedly.
"Don't worry!" Yang Qing nodded and suddenly said, "By the way, do you have a cold storage truck? I'll give you fish here, but by the time the ice melts, it will easily go bad if you take it back."
"If you have a cold storage truck, get me one. I'll put the fish in it and you can just drive it back when the time comes."
"That's a good idea." Haozi nodded. "Okay, I'll drive the cold storage truck over here later."
"By the way, can you get a water tanker? Like the ones used by the government to distribute water." Yang Qing suddenly said.
Haozi's eyes lit up, "Sister, can you get some water? Fresh water? Not purified seawater?"
"Yeah!" Yang Qing nodded.
Haozi suddenly became excited, "Sis, how many do you have? We want them!"
Yang Qing smiled. She had plenty of space. "You can have as much as you want."
"Sister, we don't want the fish anymore. Let's get water." Haozi said immediately.
Yang Qing raised an eyebrow, "Why, water is more valuable than fish?"
"Sister, you don't know how precious water is now. When it snowed before, we could drink snow water. But now it's so hot, all those lakes and rivers have dried up. It's so hard to find water."
"Although the government has seawater purification, it's a drop in the bucket, and the water isn't as delicious as natural fresh water."
"How do we change it?" Yang Qing asked.
The mouse thought for a moment and said, "How about this? Let's take all the cattle and sheep together, and forget about the fish. Just a cart of water. How about that?"
Yang Qing smiled and said, "It depends on how big the truck is. If it's 20 tons of water, I'll be at a huge loss. Do you think I'm stupid?"
Haozi blushed, "A normal sprinkler truck can hold five tons of water. So, sister, can you fill half a truck for me?"
"Half a truck weighs 2.5 tons, or 5,000 kilograms, and my chickens and ducks only weigh 660 kilograms," said Yang Qing.
Haozi was anxious, "Sister, water can't be compared with meat. Meat can make you full, but water can't."
Yang Qing laughed, "Without water, people will die of thirst!"
"Sister, you can't say that." Haozi's face turned red.
"I'm just kidding." Yang Qing said with a smile, "Half car is half car."
After thinking for a while, he said, "Why don't you just find me a pair of piglets, one male and one female, both intact. Then give me two thousand kilograms of pig feed, and I'll give you a full truck of water."
"Two thousand kilograms of pig feed?" Haozi was surprised, and then he calculated in his mind that it was equivalent to exchanging one kilogram of water for half a kilogram of pig feed, which was certainly not cost-effective under normal circumstances.
But now no one wants pig feed, while fresh water can be sold at a high price to those rich second-generations.
"Okay." Haozi nodded. "I'll drive the water truck over here in a moment."
"If you want water, it won't be that fast. The water isn't ours, we have to get it from someone else. You should drive the car here at night, otherwise it will be too conspicuous. The water can only be given to you tomorrow!" Yang Qing said, not wanting to reveal that he had water.
"Sure, I can go back and look for the pair of piglets and pig feed." Haozi nodded.
"The water truck must be clean. You are going to use this water to drink. Make sure it is not a sprinkler truck that has been used by someone else." Yang Qing warned.
"Sister, don't worry. If you want drinking water, I'll find a new car, clean it, disinfect it, and bring it to you." Haozi agreed readily.
Yang Qing nodded, that’s good.
At night, Haozi brought the car over.
Because there was no electricity and it was pitch black everywhere, it didn't attract much attention.
Yang Qing drove the car outside for a spin before putting it into the space.
I went home and entered the space, connected the water pipe to the side of the villa, and filled the water into the water tanker.
However, the water flow from the tap is limited, and it took four hours to fill a truck with water.
"Then we need to drive two vehicles tomorrow, one for water and one for the cattle and sheep?" Leng Yi said.
Yang Qing nodded, "We each drive one."
"By the way, is two thousand kilograms of pig feed enough?" Yang Qing asked.
"That should be enough." Leng Yi nodded. "There used to be a professional pig farmer in our village. I heard him say that a pig weighing about 200 kilograms from larvae to slaughter needs to eat about 500 kilograms of feed."
"Two thousand kilograms is enough for us, and if we have piglets and run out of feed, we can just trade them for rats."
"However, water has no cost. You can exchange some with him now. Stock up a few thousand kilograms, and you won't be afraid to raise more in the future."
Yang Qing nodded, "Then you should exchange more. If you have it now, you may lose it in the future."
The next day, the two went out together, took out two cars in a deserted place, and each drove one to the agreed place.
When we arrived, Haozi and his friends were already there. They also drove a truck over.
Seeing them coming, Haozi climbed onto the water tanker, opened the lid, scooped out a cup of water and tasted it.
My eyes suddenly lit up. The water tasted so good. It didn't seem like self-driving water, but like mountain spring water. It was a little sweet and much better than ordinary water.
Sister Yang is open and honest in her actions and doesn't fool herself.
"How is it?" Yang Qing looked at him and smiled.
"It tastes good." Haozi gave a thumbs up. "As expected of my sister, she has such good water."
Several people began to load the feed from their cars onto Yang Qing's truck, separated it with wooden boards, and then drove the cattle and sheep onto the truck.
"Mouse, do you have any feed left?" Yang Qing asked.
"Yes, sister, we found a feed factory. They have dozens of tons of feed stored there." Haozi said, "Do you want more?"
Yang Qing thought for a moment and said, "I'll give you two more truckloads of water, and you'll get me five more tons of feed."
"Okay!" Haozi smiled. The more trades he made, the more money he made. "I'll drive the car over to you tonight!"
"Okay!" Yang Qing nodded.
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