"I arrived late, and there's only one piglet left. Can I raise it first, and then buy more piglets if the sow has more piglets?"
Aunt Wu got anxious when she heard this, "You already have a piglet, make way for those of us who don't have one!"
Shuiqing spoke up at the right time to promote: "We don't have piglets, but we have plenty of lambs. Although lamb is not as oily as pork, it is still meat, isn't it?"
Furthermore, sheep can be let graze in flocks, driven to the hilltop to graze freely, and then brought back to the sheepfold when they're full. It's much easier than raising pigs, and during busy farming seasons, a fresh and delicious sheep can be slaughtered.
Aunt Wu had eaten Shui Qing's mutton before. It wasn't fishy or gamey, the skin was thin and the meat was thick. It wasn't as oily as pork, but the mutton was nourishing, the mutton offal soup was delicious, and the mutton spine was flavorful. Thinking about it, she unconsciously swallowed her saliva.
As Shuiqing's number one loyal supporter, when Shuiqing mentioned the goodness of sheep, Aunt Zhang immediately raised her hand and shouted, "I want five!"
Anyway, she's just idling at home, so herding sheep is a good option.
Before Aunt Wu could react, she saw that someone had already made a reservation and immediately shouted, "I want eight, no, ten!"
In an instant, all of Shui Qing's lambs were gone.
Shui Qing chuckled, "The herd mentality applies everywhere."
Originally, Aunt Wu only came to buy piglets. She thought she would go home once the piglets were sold out. But when others wanted to buy sheep, she followed suit and bought ten of them!
Those who didn't buy enough or bought too little looked regretful, thinking it was because they were too slow to react.
She looked at everyone present and said, “No need to rush. You can’t get fat in one bite. Start by raising a small number of pigs. Later, the pigs I raise will have offspring, and the ones you buy will also have offspring. The offspring will have offspring, and in two or three years, our village will have so many pigs and sheep that we can’t eat them all and will have to sell them!”
Pigs and sheep do not reproduce as quickly as rabbits, but their sheer numbers allow them to multiply several times over, creating a snowball effect that continues to grow larger and faster.
With plenty of livestock in the village, her brush workshop would never lack raw materials!
The women who bought piglets went home happily to build adobe pigsties and raise pigs, while those who didn't buy piglets went home to build adobe sheep pens.
The village now has walls, and if these large livestock were kept at home, the smell would be too strong.
With so many households raising them together, and so many at once, the smell of their excrement must be unbearable!
Only now did I understand why the old village chief's family built a pigsty at the foot of the mountain; it was entirely to prevent the smell from affecting other households.
Then I realized they could learn from this too. After all, they had their own mountain, and whether raising pigs or sheep, they couldn't do without grass, so it was perfect.
Aunt Wu arrived late, but fortunately she managed to snag ten lambs and priority access to the next batch of piglets. When the women who had been hesitant at home finally decided to buy piglets arrived at Shuiqing's house, they found that not only were the current piglets and lambs gone, but the next batch had also been pre-ordered!
Their eyes were blank, and they regretted their hesitation.
Then she realized that the reason for her hesitation was that she had listened to the men in her family, and she was immediately annoyed and regretful, thinking that they should not have listened to them!
Look at Aunt Zhang, whose husband died, how well she's doing. She managed to get two piglets right away. Isn't that because she's in charge and doesn't need to ask the men in the family for their opinions, which would waste time?
Did they miss out on piglets and lambs? No, what they missed out on was experiencing a better life later than other families!
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