For example, sweet potatoes, which are mostly rotten sweet potatoes that have been dug out and cannot be stored.
It is during the autumn harvest season that piglets can fatten up a bit.
But this only applies if the harvest is good. If the harvest is bad, not to mention the rotten sweet potatoes that have been dug up, these are lifesavers.
No matter how important pigs are, can they be more important than people?
If they keep feeding the pigs with pig feed until the New Year, they'll probably reach a maximum weight of 130 or 140 jin (650-600 kg)!
In such cases, if such pigs are sold to the supply and marketing cooperative, they would be classified as third-grade pigs, and the price would be much lower.
Therefore, in many villages, apart from raising pigs for specific tasks, almost no households would buy piglets to raise themselves.
After a year of hard work, and with the risk of the pigs getting sick and dying halfway through, who would be willing to earn so little money?
This is one of the reasons why piglets born to sows in their village are becoming increasingly difficult to sell.
Now Xishan Village is willing to order all the piglets born to the sow. With the Chinese New Year approaching, this is a huge income for Zhao Family Village!
"Okay, Uncle Tan, come to Qiao. The old sow in our village just gave birth to a litter of piglets a few days ago, a total of eleven."
"If you had been a few days later, I would have been prepared to sell all these piglets."
Zhao Jincai said with a smile.
Tan Dingguo glanced at him; those were some impressive words, quite impressive indeed.
“Let’s go take a look. If it’s good, you can send these piglets to Xishan Village in a few days.”
Hearing Tan Dingguo's straightforwardness, Zhao Jincai's smile became much more genuine.
"Uncle Tan, let me make this clear from the start: things in Zhao Family Village are always done in a straightforward manner."
These piglets were born not long ago, so our village's old sow will have to feed them for a while.
Once they're old enough to eat pig feed, we'll send them all over to you.
However, as you know, we calculate by weight, one yuan per jin.
A piglet that can be raised to adulthood is quite heavy.
If you buy everything during the National Day holiday, it'll cost at least two or three hundred yuan.
Tan Dingguo knew that Zhao Jincai wanted him to leave a deposit so that he wouldn't renege on the agreement later.
"I know everything you're saying. Since you've said you want it, a man's word is his bond."
As long as the piglets you send are healthy and have no problems, the payment will be settled on the spot.
"Uncle Tan, I like what you said."
"Come on, let's go see the little babies in the pigsty."
Upon hearing Tan Dingguo's words, Zhao Jincai laughed heartily, clapped his hands, and led Tan Dingguo to the pigsty.
As soon as they entered the pigsty, they saw a thin figure bending over with his back to them.
It had a handkerchief wrapped around its head and was making "lou lou lou" noises at the fat old sow.
She was carrying a bucket in one hand and using a ladle in the other to scoop up a ladleful of pig feed and pour it into the pig trough in the pigpen.
The old sow heard the familiar greeting, but only grunted a few times and didn't stand up.
Because more than a dozen white piglets hadn't even opened their eyes yet, but their mouths were already nestled between its belly, sucking hard.
"Aunt Ning."
Upon seeing that figure, Zhao Jincai greeted him.
The person who was called Aunt Ning turned around, and Tan Dingguo was stunned.
It was only because this woman looked at least six or seven points similar to Ning Jing, but he remembered that Ning Jing had been raised by the Fu family since she was a child.
"Village chief, what's this?"
When Aunt Ning saw Zhao Jincai, she quickly bowed in response. Then she noticed that Tan Dingguo was staring at her intently, and she immediately shrank back somewhat awkwardly, asking in confusion.
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