Chapter 84 Completed
The captain suppressed the dissatisfied crowd with just a few words.
After everyone calmed down, the team leader began to feed the villagers sweet dates again: "Don't worry, the village and the educated youth have already negotiated. When the breeding farm is built, we will definitely recruit a few breeders. This is the first time to recruit people, and there are not many places, so the educated youth will not compete with everyone for the positions of breeders this time, and will take the initiative to give the positions to our villagers.
Next time, if the farm is able to grow bigger and continues to recruit workers, the educated youth will compete with you for jobs.
Don't accuse me of being biased. Just count how many people are needed for a breeding farm. The educated youth point now only occupies four positions. Do you still have the nerve to say it's unfair?
Okay, today's meeting ends here. In a couple of days, the village will set aside a piece of land for a breeding farm, and people will be recruited to build it. It will also be counted as full work points. If you want to work, go to Accountant Jin to sign up now, and start work immediately after you have selected a position. ”
The villagers were completely quiet now, and no one dared to say anything unfair. However, someone asked a question: "Village head, how should the quotas for breeders be allocated? How many quotas are there?"
"The village has held a meeting to discuss this. There are only two or three vacancies in this batch. We plan to give priority to poor households in the village. They must be clean and efficient.
When the time comes, the selected candidates will draw lots. It all depends on their luck and no one can blame anyone else. ”
What else could the villagers say? The team leader had made all the arrangements clear, so everyone had no choice but to accept it.
What's more, they are not without opportunities. As long as this breeding farm can be run, they will definitely recruit workers in the future. If they make trouble now and leave a bad impression on the team leader, they may not have a chance next time when recruiting.
The matter was settled, and Li Gaoyang and the team leader were busy selecting a location and building a site.
Jiang Panyu is now busy. She has to take good care of these quails, let them mate more and lay more eggs.
For this reason, the captain of Team 8 did not assign her too many tasks, for fear that she would be too busy and delay important work.
The site for the farm had been selected, near the cowshed in the village. Twenty young men spent half a month to build the site.
The walls of the house are built with adobe bricks, and the roof is made of beams, purlins, and rafters to create a frame, which is then covered with mats woven from reed stalks to seal the roof.
Then apply the stirred mud on the mat, and while the mud is still wet, spread a layer of chopped straw on it, and then apply another layer of mud.
Then use lime and waste coal slag to smash them into slag, add water and stir them into a sticky black mud. Use tools to beat the black mud firmly to form sand and stone flakes, and then spread these sand and stone flakes on the mud.
Then apply mud again and secure it with neatly woven straw.
The walls of adobe houses should be smoothed with wheat bran mixed with mud to make them look smoother.
This is very cheap to build, warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is quieter than residential areas. It is a good place for breeding.
However, it snows in the northern province, so we have to build fire beds and fire walls to ensure that the quails can spend the winter warm without affecting their egg laying.
Yang Laoba also rushed to make a lot of quail cages. Now everything is ready except the quails.
During this half month, Jiang Panyu harvested more than 200 breeding eggs. The brigade paid to buy all the breeding eggs, including those of the quails that were laying eggs, and only left two quails for Jiang Panyu to lay eggs.
There are more than 200 eggs and 26 quails. The quail eggs cost 10 cents each, so the total cost is 11 yuan.
Because the quails were at their best time to lay eggs, the team leader did not take advantage of Jiang Panyu and simply bought them for one yuan per pound. The twenty-six quails weighed a little more than three pounds in total.
Including the eleven dollars from the quail eggs, Jiang Panyu made a huge profit of fourteen dollars and thirty cents.
The breeding eggs that Aunt Wu and the Gossip Sisters bought from Jiang Panyu have now hatched and have all been bought by the team leader.
The quails were sent to a newly built breeding farm, and Jiang Panyu, the breeder, officially started working, earning full work points every day.
As for the quail eggs, Jiang Panyu naturally had to borrow brooding hens from everywhere to hatch the eggs.
On the third day after Jiang Panyu took office, new employees Zhou Liangmei and Xia Manzhuo arrived at the farm. They were both middle-aged women, only in their thirties, but the vicissitudes on their faces looked as if they were in their fifties.
Both of them have lost their husbands in the family, and life is not easy for a woman to support the whole family.
After Jiang Panyu got to know them, he took them to work. The job of taking care of quails is actually quite simple, after all, every household in rural areas raises chickens.
There is actually not much difference between raising quails and raising chickens, except that it requires more refinement.
After Jiang Panyu had been in charge for two days, the two of them got the hang of it, and Jiang Panyu started working in shifts. They did the daily cleaning, picking eggs, feeding, digging wild vegetables, catching snails, and looking for earthworms. These small tasks were done by the three of them taking turns, which made the work easier.
The breeding farm is on the right track. Although there are not many quails in it now, Jiang Panyu and her colleagues are busy.
After taking care of the quails every day, as a breeder you have to go out and dig wild vegetables, catch snails, and dig earthworms.
Be prepared to have something to eat after the next batch of quail hatch in large numbers, and also store some to use as feed for the quails in the winter.
Wild vegetables are easier to deal with, as they can be washed, dried and put away. Snails and earthworms need to be washed, cooked and then dried. After they are dry, they need to be crushed and dried again. When the moisture is completely dried, they can be put away. This involves more steps.
Although it is a trivial task that can never be completed in a day, it is still much easier than working in the fields.
At the end of August and the beginning of September, the latest batch of quails from Jiang Panyu's farm hatched under the incubation of the mother hen, and the farm was full of vitality.
In the past half month, dozens of quails laid another batch of eggs. After Jiang Panyu and a few others picked out the breeding eggs, he handed the rest to the team leader.
The team leader is taking these unhatched quail eggs to participate in a quail egg competition.
The purpose is to compete to see who can make the most delicious quail eggs. As a selected candidate, Tan Yanlu naturally has to participate. Not only does she have to participate, but she also has to defeat other contestants in order to secure her position as a technician.
Jiang Panyu has great confidence in Tan Yanlu. In her previous life, she was the daughter of a wealthy family that owned a restaurant chain, and she was born with a natural talent for cooking.
The team leader and cadres gave the test questions, which required quail eggs to be made into three flavors: five-spice, soy sauce, and spicy.
All the materials used in the competition were purchased by the team. With the same materials, the same quail eggs, the same firewood, and the same pot, Tan Yanlu's dish tasted better than others.
Even if others were dissatisfied, they had to admit this, so Tan Yanlu successfully got the position of technician, and no one dared to say a word of dissatisfaction anymore.
But she is not in a hurry to start work now. She needs to hand over her work tasks to the new teacher at the literacy class before she can go to work at the farm.
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