When they arrived at the farm, Lu Ting had to assign today's tasks to the soldiers first. Su Yan took this opportunity to go to the pig farm.
Zhang Minghao, the captain of the pig farming company, was very enthusiastic when he saw Su Yan coming over. "Comrade Su, you finally have time to come and visit our pig farm."
"Captain Zhang, I heard you raised over 300 more pigs this year?"
"Thanks to you, the birth rate of sows in our pig farm has generally increased, and the pig farm of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences has also cooperated with us on technology.
The drought isn't that severe this year, so the higher-ups told us to raise 300 more pigs, so we did. "Comrade Xiao Su, we'll give you a few pounds of meat when we slaughter the pigs for the New Year."
"Thank you, Captain Zhang. I haven't done anything for you this year. Forget about the meat distribution. I'll come to your place and buy some meat to make bacon. You can save some for us."
"Okay, I'll save some for you then."
Lu Ting originally planned to kill a pig before the New Year, but Su Yan said to kill it when the baby was born. Because there was no wedding banquet due to the drought, they should have a dinner and eat red eggs when the baby was born, right?
It didn't matter if the adults were wronged, but they couldn't let their firstborn child suffer. Regardless of whether it was a boy or a girl, Su Yan planned to host several tables of third-day celebrations for her child.
The pig was slaughtered on New Year's Day, so pork must be bought for the Chinese New Year. If the farm leaves some pork for her, it doesn't matter if she spends a little more money.
Su Yan followed Zhang Minghao to see their newly bred piglets. "Comrade Su, this is our newly bred gilt. It will be ready for breeding in the second half of the year."
"Are all six of them?"
"Well, there are a few old sows that need to be eliminated. They don't produce enough piglets and they even bite their own babies. We can't keep them anymore."
At this time, Lu Ting walked over, and Zhang Minghao took the initiative to greet him, "Captain Lu, your soldiers carried 20 loads of pig manure from our area yesterday without receiving manure tickets."
"I'll have someone bring it over this afternoon. Yanyan, I'll take you for a walk in the mountains now."
Su Yan was stunned when she heard the word "manure ticket". It was really hard to describe. In this era, no matter whether it was a human or a pig, there would be someone to take care of their feces and urine, and they were really strict about it.
Su Yan said goodbye to Zhang Minghao and followed Lu Ting to the barren mountain. It had taken so long to reclaim the two or three hundred acres of barren mountain, but there were still fifty or sixty acres that had not been reclaimed.
More than 200 acres of land have been planted with various fruit trees, and various small medicinal seedlings are planted under the fruit trees.
"Lu Ting, did some of the fruit seedlings fail to survive?"
"Well, the jujube trees, apple trees... and grapes are almost all alive, but dozens of peach and pear trees have died. The mountains to the west haven't finished blooming yet, so I'll buy some more fruit seedlings next year to continue replanting."
In April, while we were clearing land, we also planted over twenty acres of watermelons on the mountain. This month, we're going to take the watermelons to the city to sell, and we expect to make quite a bit of money. "Yanyan, thank you so much for the watermelon seeds."
Su Yan thought Lu Ting was quite smart. Since there was no profit from growing fruit trees and medicinal herbs this year, he planted watermelons on the new wasteland.
The high-quality melon seeds that Su Yan gave can easily achieve a yield of 8,000 kilograms per mu. More than 30 mu can produce at least 200,000 kilograms of watermelons. At three to five cents per kilogram of watermelon, it is no problem to sell these watermelons for 8,000 to 9,000 yuan.
Even though it couldn't cover the wages of so many people, it was at least an income. After harvesting the watermelons, they could continue to plant another kind of medicinal herb.
"Lu Ting, have you started picking watermelons these days?"
“Well, this year we have a bumper harvest, and during this time I will take some comrades to pick watermelons.
This year is not so dry, and the hundreds of acres of farmland on the farm are all planted with grains and cereals, and only about 20 acres of various vegetables are planted.
When I thought about the fact that no one was growing melons on the farm, I wanted to plant some on the mountain.”
"You've grown so many watermelons, but have you ever eaten the big watermelons you grew?"
Lu Ting smiled but did not answer. Most people did not dare to pick collective things at random, but he must share the first batch of melons with the soldiers. How could he have the energy to work if he didn't eat the melons he planted?
Su Yan followed Lu Ting for a walk in the mountains and wanted to visit the soap factory, but Lu Ting was busy. Well, she could only go next time when she was free.
Years ago, she asked her father-in-law to help sell three recipes for medicated and perfumed soaps to a soap factory, and also gave them two recipes. She didn't even know when the factory expanded its production line or whether it had started producing medicated soaps.
When she came here, she took a bicycle, and when she returned, she walked slowly alone. When she got home, she was bored, so she took out some fine wool and knitted a sweater and trousers for the baby in her belly.
I didn’t know whether the child was a boy or a girl, so I chose unisex yellow wool.
Lu Ting has no brothers or sisters, and Su Yan's brother is not even married yet, so naturally no one will send them old children's clothes, so they have to prepare everything themselves.
Su Yan suddenly thought of a difficult problem. In this era, there were no diapers, and diapers were prone to leakage. Should she find a way to make some large diaper pads?
As for diapers, she decided to use gauze masks. It happened that she had two large boxes of gauze masks in her warehouse that were of little use and would be best used to make diapers and small gauze clothes.
Su Yan spent several days knitting sweaters in her space. After seven or eight days, she finally finished a set of baby sweaters.
In the evening, she took out the knitted sweater and asked, "Lu Ting, do you think this sweater looks good?"
"It looks great! Our daughter will look great in it. Yanyan, haven't you installed the snaps and elastic band yet?"
"Well, I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow and buy some more snaps and elastic bands. Lu Ting, can you spare some time to make some undershirts and diapers for our child?"
Su Yan brought out a box of gauze masks. Lu Ting looked at the masks in the box and said seriously, "Yan Yan, these are all new. Usually, when they use gauze masks to make clothes or diapers, they use old ones."
Su Yan knew that Lu Ting was trying to save money, but he didn't agree with it. She raised an eyebrow and looked at Lu Ting, "Are you planning to give these masks to them first, and then use them on our children after they're all used up?"
"Yan Yan, you misunderstood me. My mom has actually started sewing diapers for our child. Let's not waste these masks for now."
"Lu Ting, do you know how many times a child poops a day? I doubt the diapers your mother makes are enough..."
"Yan Yan, don't worry. I'll help you make the diapers and the gauze clothes. By the way, my mom told me today that we'll ask an aunt to come and help take care of the baby after it's born."
"Aunt? The aunt you're talking about isn't your mother's sister, is she?"
"Well, she's my mother's youngest sister. Her family has many children and the conditions are not very good. Didn't my mother say before that she would help us take care of the children?
My dad said that if my mom quit her job, it would affect her retirement, so we should just pay for an aunt to come and help take care of the kids.”
Su Yan felt mixed emotions at this moment. When her mother-in-law said she would help her take care of the child, she was very happy and went to take the college entrance examination without any worries.
Now they came to tell her that they would have to pay for a nanny for her. Her mood plummeted to the bottom. Fortunately, they were planning to hire a family member, otherwise people would really gossip about her.
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