Chapter 478 Seeing Live Animals for the First Time
Lu Yuan went to the farm to check on the progress of the grain harvest. Han Ying brought her dog and two children to visit the ranch.
The two children unanimously decided to go to the ranch to see the animals.
There are quite a few livestock raised on the ranch, including chickens, ducks, geese, quails, pigeons, cattle, sheep, pigs, rabbits and donkeys, the more common ones.
There is even a specially separated area used to raise the stray animals in Jiangcheng.
This is also what Li Ping said after taking over the farm. The place is not big, only about four or five acres, divided into several plots.
I heard that there are thousands of stray animals caught in Jiangcheng kept there.
They are disinfected and vaccinated every day, and the germs on their bodies will be reduced little by little after a period of time.
This area does not belong to Han Ying and their farm or ranch, but is guarded by people sent by the base itself.
I haven't heard yet what will happen to these animals when the time comes.
I didn't take Lei Yuhang and the others to see the stray animals, I only took them to see the livestock.
After the apocalypse, few people could see animals anymore. The dog the two children saw the most was Han Ying's dog.
Han Ying and Lu Yuanming apparently raised a lot of rabbits, but because they seldom visited each other, the two children had only seen them twice.
Now seeing so many small animals in the fence, the two children who originally said they wanted to be adults revealed their childish nature with bright eyes.
"Auntie Xiao Han, can we touch them?"
It was the first time for the two children to see live chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cows and sheep since the end of the world. They were quite excited.
But in fact, before the end of the world, they were all still young, grew up in cities, and had never seen these livestock.
So it can be said that this was the first time they had seen live livestock since they were born.
"Okay, which one do you want to touch?"
Now Han Ying brought them to a place where big white geese were raised.
After the apocalypse, every livestock is very valuable, so the entire ranch is equipped with floor heating, which can be said to be very luxurious.
The places where people live in the base are not as warm as those where the livestock live.
"I want to touch the one with a little black on its head and a round head."
When he heard that he could choose, Lei Yuhang decisively chose the one he liked.
Han Ying raised her chin towards the breeder next to her, and the man opened the door of the fence and drove the goose with a black spot on its head over.
The two children stretched out their hands, and each of them touched it once, then withdrew his hand after satisfying his taste.
They both knew that small animals were too precious nowadays and were worried about damaging them by touching them, so they just satisfied themselves and did not dare to touch them too much.
After wandering around the ranch for more than an hour, I saw Lu Yuan walk in. He said that a batch of harvested grain had been weighed and recorded and sent to the warehouse.
According to Li Ping, this speed is more than twice as fast as before.
If the pace continues, all the ripe grain can basically be stored in the warehouse before dark.
Some of the faster teams may have already started turning the soil in preparation for planting the seedlings before leaving get off work.
In the past, everyone received a fixed daily wage, so some people would slack off when the supervisor wasn't paying attention.
Now there are competition rewards, so everyone is working hard.
With the incentive of prizes, everyone will naturally be more motivated and will of course get things done faster.
But we can’t always use this kind of competition method in the future, otherwise we won’t be able to make enough compensation.
However, we can think of other ways to motivate these people and make them more motivated to do things.
In fact, Han Ying and Lu Yuan both already had an idea in their minds, but it still needed to be improved.
After leaving the ranch, several people came to Warehouse No. 3 together.
At the innermost part of the warehouse, there were more than a dozen simple granaries filled with mountains of corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes.
These grains will not be stored in the warehouse for long, as people from the mall will be sent over to take them away in the afternoon, so they are just randomly placed in the simple granary.
At this time, four people were using two track-type graders to sort the large and small potatoes and sweet potatoes.
The difference in size between hunger-resistant potatoes and new sweet potatoes is generally obvious.
Some are as big as an adult's palm, while some are as small as a grape.
Both large and medium-sized fruits will be sent to shopping malls for sale. Because the purchase limit is two per person in the mall, you can choose the size yourself and then take it to be weighed.
In the past, small and extra-small fruits would be sent to food processing factories, where they would be processed into coarse cakes along with other grains.
But Lu Yuan just said that the small fruits should still be sold to the food processing factory.
However, small fruits such as grape-sized potatoes or finger-thick sweet potatoes are left in the farm cafeteria to serve as snacks for employees.
Han Ying took a look and found that there were quite a lot of very small fruits. In a short while, she had picked out more than a dozen baskets.
These are sent to the cafeteria, cooked and distributed one to each employee at noon every day.
Although it’s not much, it’s still a fresh bite of food.
It depends on the number of items screened out, and you can divide it into several days.
At 12:30 noon, the entire farm was put on pause.
After a busy morning and everyone working extra hard today, we were already starving.
Everyone rushed to the cafeteria faster than ever before.
Everyone grinned when they saw that there was one more small potato today than usual.
After laughing, he threw the small potato, along with the rough skin, into his mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it carefully with porridge or water.
After finishing their meal, they did not even have time to rest and had to rush back to continue harvesting crops.
Just as Li Ping said, all the ripe grain was stored in the warehouse before work ended in the evening.
But the competition is not over yet, we still need to turn over the underground seedlings.
Some people wanted to stay and till the soil, but they were driven out by the soldiers.
It was too cold at night and someone could easily freeze to death if they were not careful, so everyone was sent back at 5pm.
However, before leaving the farm, according to convention, you must shake off your clothes, hat, scarf and shoes, and then do two bobsleigh jumps on the spot.
This has been a part of our daily life before leaving the farm since its establishment.
It’s okay when it’s extremely hot, but now it’s winter and everyone wears very thick clothes.
It is not impossible to smuggle some food out.
Many of them have been caught before, and these people have various ways of hiding food.
If you can't hide the big ones, hide the small ones, such as in the seams of shoes, socks, sleeves, trouser waists, scarves around your neck, hats, waists, etc.
Some even cut the inside lining of their clothes and hid the stuff inside the cotton.
If caught, one day’s salary will be deducted for the first time, one week’s salary will be deducted for the second time, and the third time you will be fired directly and will never be hired again.
The punishment was not light, but many people still tried to smuggle the drugs out.
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