Chapter 83 Obedience Potion
That's the obedience potion that Katarina gave me. Its effect is similar to the puppet potion, but its duration is shorter. However, just one drop can make the other person obedient for 20 minutes.
It's somewhat similar to hypnosis, and afterwards, the person affected won't notice anything unusual; they'll just think it was their own thought.
Ning Xuan thought this was truly a cutting-edge negotiation technique, but she had her bottom line and wouldn't use it for anything immoral or unethical.
She can guarantee that the chicken farm won't lose money, so she doesn't feel guilty about using it.
Ning Xuan encouraged Zhou Jianguo to make another trip to the commune, and this time she would go with him.
"Captain, I'll go talk to the Party Secretary about the chicken farming techniques I know. Maybe after he hears them, he'll have more confidence in our chicken farm and approve it."
Zhou Jianguo didn't quite believe it would be that easy, but he really wanted to make it happen, so he agreed anyway.
The two arrived at the commune and found He Wei's office without any trouble. When He Wei saw Ning Xuan, he actually remembered the time when he had made things difficult for her.
After that, he often had nightmares, but after the mandatory work points for education were abolished, he stopped having nightmares. He Wei became even more convinced of the saying that evil will be punished.
So when He Wei saw Ning Xuan, he actually felt quite guilty.
Ning Xuan didn't want to waste time, so as soon as she entered the door, she secretly used a small paper doll to put obedience potion on He Wei. After she finished explaining the technical advantages and plans for running her chicken farm, He Wei readily nodded in agreement based on Ning Xuan's hints and even praised the young man for his enthusiasm.
Zhou Jianguo was now truly impressed by Ning Xuan; how could she have managed to win her over so easily?
But it's good that it passed.
Because they were busy with farming, Zhou Jianguo couldn't arrange too many people to help Ning Xuan with the chicken farm. So Ning Xuan took the opportunity to suggest that Xu Jiajia, Lu Xun, and Zhou Zhipeng come and help.
Because the educated youth couldn't work as well as the local team members, and because they were also doing work for the brigade and earning work points by setting up chicken coops, Zhou Jianguo agreed.
As for the others, they all felt that the educated youth were not good at their work, including the male educated youth, so they didn't say anything.
This time, Ning Xuan simply gave her partners a chance to slack off, because she was strong and the others only needed to lend a hand, so it was still easier than doing the work.
The key is that there are no scorekeepers coming to check all the time. It feels like when the boss and leaders are not in the company when you are at work. Although you still have to do the work, you feel much more relaxed.
Ning Xuan planned to raise free-range chickens on the mountain, so she chose a location for the chicken farm at the foot of the mountain that was relatively close to the brigade.
The chicken coop is on flat ground, and then a fenced-off area on the mountain is set aside for the chickens to roam and find food.
In this way, the chicken farm is relatively far from the houses where the team members live, and it is not upwind, so the smell from the chicken farm will have little impact on the team members' lives.
Moreover, it doesn't take up too much open space in the brigade.
Of course, Ning Xuan didn't wait until the wooden house was built before getting the chicks. She had already told the brigade leader that she would take care of the chicks and that the brigade didn't need to worry about it.
Then Ning Xuan pretended to have found some chicks that had just hatched elsewhere, and then went to the team members' homes to exchange them for fertilized eggs. Each time she exchanged eggs, she would tell the team members that she planned to use them to hatch chicks.
Hatching chicks is a technical skill, and no one expected that Ning Xuan would know how to do it. You know, this kind of skill is usually only known to some of the older folks in the village, and there aren't many of them.
Ning Xuan said that her incubation was not a lie; she actually planned to artificially incubate some to record the data. However, she had limited energy, so she only planned to make a few for experiments, and asked Lin Yuhan to help her buy the rest.
Since they were all chicks less than a week old and didn't take up much space, Ning Xuan, after getting the consent of the others, decided to raise the chicks in their yards first.
And you know what? Although the chicks weren't even as big as a fist, there were so many of them that the courtyard was always bustling with chirping every day.
She fed the chickens herself, secretly mixing the chicken feed into the wheat bran. Because the colors were similar, it was hard to tell unless you looked closely.
Then Ning Xuan would secretly add some high-tech ingredients, namely the low-grade spirit-feeding pills that Yun Xi gave her. These pills were used to feed spirit beasts in their area, and even low-grade ordinary animals could eat them. They could be diluted with water according to the size of the animal.
For example, cattle and sheep can eat half or a quarter of a pellet directly, while chickens need to be diluted with a lot of water.
Following Yunxi's instructions, Ningxuan could mix one low-grade Spirit Feeding Pill with 500 catties of water, and then Ningxuan would feed the chicks this water once a day to enhance their physique.
This cutting-edge technology is truly something else; it's much more effective than garlic water.
Ning Xuan considered that she couldn't manage the chicken farm forever. She had advanced technology that others didn't, so she randomly selected 10 chicks from the 100 chicks and raised them without using feed or advanced technology, just according to the conditions available in this day and age.
When the scale of breeding is expanded in the future, the amount of food she feeds will naturally increase.
Once it opens up to the public, and if the chicken farm continues to operate, conditions in all aspects will improve, and then we can simply follow scientific feeding methods.
This chicken farm is a side business of the brigade. Ning Xuan is the current actual manager. Once the chicken coop is built, Zhou Jianguo will arrange for someone else to help watch over the chicken farm, since it's not appropriate for Ning Xuan, a girl, to stay here overnight to watch over the chicken coop.
There's also the cleaning. The chicks are still small, so Ningxuan can manage on her own. Once the chicken coop is set up and the chicks are moved there, she'll arrange for one or two more people to clean, depending on the needs.
Zhou Jianguo's plan is to select men and women around 50 years old.
The chicken coop only needs to be built to accommodate 100 chickens. In addition to the chicken coop, a batch of chicken cages also needs to be made.
Besides the fear of chickens getting sick, another problem in raising chickens is that rats steal the chicks, so measures must be taken to address this issue.
The chicken coop for chicks should have small gaps, just enough to allow for ventilation, so that the chicks won't be bitten by mice when they sleep at night.
Once the chickens are a bit bigger, replace them with a coop with larger openings. By then, the chickens will be able to fight back and will generally be less likely to be bitten by rats.
You also need to prevent mosquitoes and other insects. You need to burn mugwort every day, otherwise too many mosquitoes will affect the chicks' rest and growth, and in severe cases, they may even make the chicks sick.
Ning Xuan prioritized her tasks according to their urgency, with feeding the chicks being the top priority.
Next, they built the chicken coops, while the team leader assigned other people to weave the chicken cages.
After Ningxuan finished building the chicken coop, she first fenced off the flat area with a fence so that the chicks could move around there first.
Then, gradually build a fence around the mountainside, using wood to create a enclosure. Once the chickens are a bit bigger, you can release them onto the mountain to forage for themselves.
After more than a week, the chicken farm finally had the most basic equipment, and the chicks could be moved here to be raised.
However, finding workers for the chicken farm became another problem. The team members all knew that this was a job where they could easily earn work points, and maybe they could even secretly make some extra money in the future, such as secretly hiding eggs. This was an unspoken understanding.
Therefore, families with older members want to secure this job for their family members.
The squad leader has been quite troubled by this lately.
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