Chapter 157 Chapter 157
On the last day of sow delivery, there were still fourteen sows left to give birth. Although Ye Qing had been in control of the overall situation in the previous few days and had led his four apprentices to carry out the delivery work very smoothly without any mistakes, on the last day, the TV station set up a camera to film Ye Qing's delivery as important material for the TV station's subsequent news broadcast. Therefore, both the military farm and the reporters who came down this time were nervous, fearing that Ye Qing would make mistakes during the filming.
Several apprentices had never seen such a scene before. When they saw several cameras placed in the corner of the pigpen facing the delivery room, they didn't know what to do with their hands and feet. How could they be as calm and agile as they were a few days ago?
Ye Qing had no choice but to do it himself and lead a few incompetent apprentices to perform the operation step by step. Perhaps it was Ye Qing's calmness and composure that moved the girls' emotions, and slowly they regained their previous feeling and began to immerse themselves in the delivery work, forgetting the people around who were filming and focusing only on these sows about to give birth.
The entire filming process went very smoothly. The TV station did not follow the entire process. It spent one or two hours to confirm that all the required materials had been shot before withdrawing the equipment.
The last day ended earlier than the previous days, and everything was finished around 1pm.
After statistics, all the sows on the farm, except for the two sows that were bred later, gave birth safely, and ultimately a total of 1,604 pigs were born. This number is simply crazy, and not only the people on the farm were excited, but also the interviewers were all in a state of madness and disbelief.
If they had not seen with their own eyes Ye Qing delivering those piglets one by one from the sow's body, they would have thought that Qingshan Farm was also engaging in fraudulent activities like other places. The data was really too untrue. Even if it was spread abroad, I guess even the people on the other side of the strait would sneer at it.
Later, the TV station recorded a short conversation with Ye Qing, and Zhao Yuliang also accepted the interview. It was not too long, and even the questions and standard answers were written in advance by the TV station. Ye Qing only needed to delete them appropriately and organize them in her own language. If she wanted to be on TV news broadcast, she had to follow the tone of the TV station. This was also the official interview process. Ye Qing did not find it strange. Anyway, she would cooperate with whatever these media reporters asked her to do.
After the interview, the entire group of reporters did not stay at the farm. From yesterday to today, they had already shot enough material for them to write articles and do news, so the entire team set off immediately and rushed back to Jicheng as quickly as possible.
Only after sending these people away did Zhao Yuliang feel relieved.
In order to celebrate the sow's smooth delivery, Zhao Yuliang arranged a squad of soldiers to go into the mountains to hunt. That night, he added food to the tens of thousands of troops. In addition, he asked the canteen chef to start a small stove and prepare a large table of delicious dishes to reward Ye Qing and others. He also stuffed an envelope of coupons for Ye Qing as a subsidy, asking her to take it back and distribute it herself.
Ye Qing has always been generous to his own people. After getting the things from the military farm, he never keeps them for himself. Every time on the way back, he would show them to a few girls, let them pick out the tickets they want, and then divide the rest equally.
This time the subsidy included not only money and tickets, but also coupons for Friendship Stores. The coupons could be exchanged directly for things, but there was definitely no Friendship Store in Jiaotan County, so the only way to exchange things was to go to the provincial capital. Ye Qing was not interested in anything else, but there was a Japanese camera coupon that looked good to her, so she took it on the spot, saying that she only wanted this thing, and let the girls share the rest.
The girls were not greedy. They each took one or two of the ones they wanted and pushed the rest back. Ye Qing simply divided the remaining ones into five equal parts and stuffed a stack into each person's arms.
"Everyone has worked hard this time. We have learned a lot from the harvest in the past few days. After returning, you can each ponder and record your experience. In addition, the topic of postpartum care for sows that I mentioned earlier can be put on the agenda. The more than 1,000 piglets in the military farm and the batch of sows that have just given birth are your observation and experimental subjects. The next month is the best time to study this topic."
Ye Qing simply took charge of the project and handed it over to the girls to work on. She was only responsible for checking and controlling the general direction, and did not interfere with other matters.
Less than two days after Ye Qing finished helping the sows give birth on the farm, she received several calls from Mr. Yang, Mr. Gu Weidong, and Mr. Chen Youde from Shencheng. They all called her one after another, congratulating her.
Kaoshantun is remote and the information is relatively lagging, but those people in Jicheng and Shencheng have already seen the front-page headlines about Qingshan Farm's scientific breeding published by several major newspapers early in the morning. And Old Yang also got the news that the latest progress of Ye Qing's scientific breeding will be officially broadcast in the evening during the Jicheng TV station's news broadcast time, so the old man called to remind Ye Qing to turn on the TV and watch it in time.
During the phone call, Grandpa Yang praised Ye Qing in various ways, and it was obvious that he was extremely satisfied with Ye Qing's performance after going to the countryside. He was also extremely proud of the fact that he had gone against all odds to guarantee Ye Qing. After all, this little girl was discovered by him personally and recommended to the big leader. Now that this girl is so successful, he, as a mentor, naturally feels extremely honored.
Ye Qing was of course happy about the upcoming TV show, but he wasn't too excited or nervous.
The main reason is that self-media is prevalent in later generations, and she has seen all kinds of scenes. For her, being on TV was just the icing on the cake and would not cause much change in her current life. So she just had fun and put the matter aside and focused on her own business.
The truth is that they had been delayed for too long in the military farm during the past five days, resulting in a backlog of three to four hundred patients waiting to be treated at the health station. If she didn't work overtime, the patients waiting behind would probably complain.
Ye Qing didn't take the matter to heart, but Wu Yongbing and the others couldn't help but take it seriously. When they heard that Ye Qing and his friends would be on TV news that evening, the people in Kaoshantun were more excited than Ye Qing himself, and they immediately began to make arrangements. Not only did they move the black-and-white TV that had been rewarded to Ye Qing to the sun-drying field, they also set up the stage and debugged the TV channels in advance, they also rushed around to tell each other, informing the surrounding production teams of this great news so that everyone could witness this exciting moment.
So, when Ye Qing and his friends finished seeing the last patient of the day and returned to the yard to eat and rest, they were dragged to the threshing ground by the people in the village. By then the threshing ground was already crowded with people. People from the village and several nearby production teams were all sitting very still in the huge threshing ground. Everyone stretched their necks, their eyes fixed on the 14-inch black and white TV placed on the stage in the middle.
The television had been tuned to the Jicheng TV station. There were hundreds of people in the sun-drying field, but no one made a sound. Everyone listened attentively, their eyes fixed on the picture on the TV, for fear of missing Ye Qing appearing on the TV.
After Ye Qing was dragged to the sun-drying field, everyone immediately saluted Ye Qing, and they spontaneously made way for her, leaving the front seat closest to the TV for her. Wu Yongbing and the old branch secretary were waving at her in front, and Ye Qing had no choice but to go in with a few apprentices.
The TV news during this period was broadcast from 7:00 p.m. to 7:20 p.m., for 20 minutes. It usually broadcast some leaders' meetings and major parliamentary events, and occasionally mixed in some international news. When Ye Qing first got a black and white TV, he watched it a few times at night out of curiosity, so he was basically clear about the TV station's news broadcast process during this period.
But what Ye Qing had never expected was that the news broadcast time that evening was extended from the previous 20 minutes to 40 minutes. The largest and longest news content was the scientific pig breeding reform in Qingshan Farm. Not only were the interviews with Ye Qing and Zhao Yuliang included, but also the scenes of Ye Qing using flying needles to induce labor in sows, and the process of her and several of her apprentices delivering babies to sows were also edited in.
It took twenty minutes, from the time the sow started to the last litter of more than twenty piglets, who were successfully born. Everyone in the sun-drying field held their breath and dared not blink. Until the last moment, they were still shocked and dumbfounded.
Even though these people had heard before that Ye Qing's scientific breeding was a very big deal, and even that all the production brigades were following in the footsteps of Kaoshantun and adopting Ye Qing's artificial insemination technology to breed sows, but because they had not witnessed the sow's final delivery with their own eyes, these people still did not have a completely clear concept of Ye Qing's so-called scientific breeding.
But at this moment, the images broadcast on the TV station gave everyone a deeper understanding of Ye Qing's new pig breeding technology. Only then did they vaguely realize how powerful this breeding reform technology is! The group of people present may be witnessing history!
If every production brigade can really master this technology, let alone twenty piglets per litter, as long as the sows about to give birth can steadily produce ten or more per litter, then from now on, the domestic pig production will skyrocket, expanding directly from a shortage of supply to overcapacity. By that time, having meat on every household’s table every day will no longer be a dream!
The whole place was in complete silence. It was unknown how much time had passed before someone finally came to his senses and asked loudly:
"Ye Zhiqing, is this true? Did the farm next door really give birth to more than a thousand piglets?"
Before Ye Qing could say anything, someone at the back of the crowd shouted, "How could this be false? Several newspapers reported this morning. After I got the news, I went to the farm to verify it myself. A total of 78 sows gave birth to more than 1,600 live piglets, and not a single one died during the birthing process!"
The person who spoke was none other than Lai Guochang.
Lai Guochang received a call from the county in the morning, and then received a newspaper urgently delivered by the post office. When he saw the front-page headline, he learned that Ye Qing had caused such a big commotion at the neighboring military farm, and he quickly went to the farm to find Zhao Yuliang to verify it.
After seeing the group of lively piglets with his own eyes, even though Lai Guochang was in his thirties or forties, he could not help but feel his heart pounding with fear, as if a huge wave of shock was set off.
He immediately realized that he was right to let his production teams follow the steps of Kaoshantun. Now those production teams have used the artificial insemination technology developed by Ye Qing. If nothing unexpected happens, the sows in these production teams will give birth one after another soon. His requirements are not high. As long as these sows can give birth to more than ten piglets per litter, the pig production task of Hongqi Commune this year will definitely be exceeded.
Under his leadership, the production teams under his command were able to work so united and cooperate with each other to produce such a good result. This was the result of his hard work in the commune.
What's more, Kaoshan Village belongs to Hongqi Commune. Now that such a strong talent has been discovered in the village, it is enough to show that he, the secretary of the commune, has led the village well. No one can take away this credit.
In short, Lai Guochang now sees clearly that if he wants to climb up and successfully join the county committee, the best and fastest shortcut is the little girl Ye Qing. As long as he holds on to this little girl's thigh tightly, he will not be afraid of not being able to rise to the top in the future.
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