Chapter 95
After listening to Shen Jianyi's words, Wei Yan explained: "In response to the insect plague, the city issued a notice requiring all chicken farms in the city to fully cooperate with the local pest control activities, and also assigned corresponding units according to the scope of the city.
The counterpart of Qingshan Town is the Xinji Chicken Farm, which said that they will guarantee to provide us with 10,000 adult chickens throughout the town.”
"Ten thousand!" The people watching nearby exclaimed.
Lao Cao, who followed, immediately asked, "How much can we get for our community? Five thousand?"
Wei Yan glared at him and scolded him with a smile: "What are you thinking! Five thousand? Giving you five hundred is already good enough. How big is Qingshan Town? There are only ten thousand in total. You open your mouth and ask for five thousand. You are so arrogant."
This sentence made Lao Cao feel embarrassed and a little ashamed.
Shi Lei quickly tried to make amends: "If you don't have five thousand, one thousand will do! We are a national-level test base after all. If we can't keep any food, how can we explain to the country at the end of the year?"
Wei Yan said nothing.
He looked up at the sky, looking at the insects that were smoked by the smoke and lingered in the air for a long time, and the expression on his face became more and more solemn.
In fact, he was not worried about whether the food in the community could be preserved. There was only such a small area in the community, how much could be grown?
Compared with food, he is more worried about the pollution of the community's land.
Speaking of how the community became a national testing base, Wei Yan knows the inside story best.
To put it bluntly, isn’t it all based on Mr. Gu’s book and the formation?
Otherwise, considering the area of the community, the population, and especially the limited planting area, it would not be their turn.
But - who makes this place so lucky to be the first place to use formations?
Because the formation was used early here, the soil has already been well cultivated.
In addition to the soil in my aunt's house, the active ingredients in the surrounding soil are much more abundant than elsewhere.
Even though many other bases have already started cultivating the soil, there is still a time lag.
Not to mention the whole of Bac Ninh, even if we look at the whole country, the soil activity is still the best in the community, especially the soil near my aunt's house, according to monthly soil testing.
Therefore, the purpose of this production base is to cultivate the soil, and whether or not to plant crops is secondary.
Just as Mr. Zhao said in the proposal he submitted, soil care is the top priority.
After it is grown, it can be used as fertilizer in other areas.
Of course, to be on the safe side, only a limited number of people knew about this, and the residents of the community had no way of knowing about it.
They only know that their community was listed as a national-level production base because it was the first place to grow vegetables and the quality of the vegetables was better than that of other places.
However, they don’t know that the good growth of these vegetables has nothing to do with the planting methods they have mastered, but it really depends on the soil in the community.
Wei Yan was not worried about what Lao Cao said about delivering grain to the country at the end of the year, because this base did not exist for the purpose of producing grain.
Only soil can guarantee that effect, and no one will say anything if you don't hand over a grain of food.
But if these bugs pollute the land...
Thinking of this, Wei Yan felt heavy in his heart.
He gritted his teeth and said, "I'll try my best to see how much I can get back.
Even though the city promised to give us 10,000 chickens, we still don’t know if we can get enough. Xinji has also been hit by the disaster, can’t other chicken farms protect their own chickens first? "
As soon as he received the notice, Wei Yan sent Assistant Zhang, the most capable subordinate of the working group, to Xinji.
The hope is to get ahead and save these 10,000 chickens.
He was in a hurry to return to the community this time, on the one hand to report the news, and on the other hand to find help.
Actually, he is also the deputy head of a regiment, but because his main job now is the leader of the production and income increase working group, he doesn't have many people under him.
Normally when he went to the test base to inspect the work, everyone would naturally cooperate, but when it came to the critical moment, he could not guarantee that such an order could be carried out smoothly.
When people heard that Wei Yan came back this time to take people to catch chickens, they immediately became excited!
I wasn't tired anymore instantly.
The anxious feeling I had just felt while catching insects seemed to have been extinguished by a spoonful of clean water, and I felt refreshed.
"Let's go, let's go! Let's push the car at home and go together!" Lao Cao immediately started to make arrangements.
The people in the community agreed to disperse, and even Shen's father asked Jiashu and Shichen to go home and push the cart.
Chen Cong then walked up to Wei Yan again and asked, "What did your brother-in-law and his family do in the city?"
Wei Yan walked to one side, avoiding the crowd, and then whispered, "I heard that Meng Chao came and brought several kinds of plant seeds, and asked my brother-in-law and Uncle Gu to go over and take a look.
It is said that there are several wood-type ability users coming with Meng Chao this time. It is said that they were specially organized to jointly study the control plan for the insect plague. "
At this point, Wei Yan suddenly smiled and said, "Sister, you didn't see my brother-in-law like that.
When he heard that there were a few more wood-type supernaturals, his eyes lit up. How excited! I've never seen him so excited when he saw you."
"Get out." Chen Cong kicked Wei Yan.
He laughed and hid aside, then said: "Don't worry, he must be fine, but I guess he won't be back for a while. Meng Chao and the others came to call my brother-in-law and Uncle Gu, so they must be taking them away.
Wouldn’t it take a long walk for this trip?
I thought they might have to follow the bugs, and there was no telling when they would come back."
Naturally, I also thought of the Shen Cong that Wei Yan mentioned.
The country is so big, there must be many places affected by the disaster.
Now that the expert group has begun studying governance solutions, it is natural that they will go to more places to collect samples and conduct experiments.
However, as long as he was doing the right thing and could ensure safety, Chen Cong didn't care how long Gu Kai was out.
As a man, it's always a good thing to be ambitious.
What's more, this is what Gu Kai is willing to do.
“If I had known this, I would have brought them something.” Chen Cong said in a low voice with some regret.
Wei Yan sighed, looking sour: "I should call Ranran right now and let her see how virtuous I am. I've been out for such a long time and she didn't even say she would bring me anything."
Knowing that Wei Yan was joking on purpose to relax himself, Shen Cong appreciated his kindness and did not argue with him any further, but ran back home.
When she got home, she didn't bother with the car, but packed a bag for Wei Yan as quickly as possible, putting dried meat, homemade beef sauce, a packet of milk powder and several bottles of multivitamins in it.
In addition, of course, the Chinese medicine that the old man had prescribed for him was indispensable.
When Wei Yan got the bundle, the muscles at the corners of his eyes twitched several times, and he looked at Chen Cong with an indescribable expression.
But under her threatening glare, he gritted his teeth and took it.
Thanks to the help of people in the community, the 10,000 chickens were finally saved, and Wei Yan successfully completed the task.
As for the community, thanks to its close proximity and the persistence of Lao Cao and others, it "snatched" back a thousand adult chickens from Wei Yan and the working group.
Although the money for buying chickens will have to be paid with food in the future, with them, food will be guaranteed!
This deal is definitely a good deal.
When the chickens were pulled back, the whole community was like it was New Year's Day.
Because it was already afternoon when Wei Yan returned to the community, he organized people to rush to Xinji, then transported the chickens back to the town, and returned to the community after the distribution...
After this trip, it was already dawn when the residents returned.
But no one cared about being sleepy and immediately held a meeting to discuss raising chickens.
After all, this is also a technical job!
Fortunately, there are still talented people in the hospital.
After discussion, everyone found out that one of the senior management had worked on a chicken farm before, and the three of them were quite experienced in raising chickens.
According to the plan proposed by the three people, Shi Lei made a decision on the spot and directly allocated a piece of vacant land near the high-rise building to build a chicken coop, and mobilized the residents of the community to act together.
Building a house is not a difficult task for people in the community, let alone a chicken coop, which is even simpler.
It's just a matter of building a few larger suspended wooden houses with wooden boards. The upper level is for chickens to live in, and the lower level is convenient for cleaning.
In addition to building the chicken coop, another task is to set up nets over cracks and places where chickens can easily escape.
The cracks in the ground within the community had previously been blocked by fences.
But the fence was built relatively low, and in order to prevent these "chicken ancestors" from flapping their wings and jumping down, a net had to be pulled up on top.
To be honest, these tasks are very trivial and somewhat troublesome.
If no one is willing to do it under normal circumstances, but when everyone thinks about the big problems these chickens will solve for the community, they will work hard without complaint.
In order to take care of these chickens, the people in the community were busy for a whole day and night.
Everyone was assigned to work in batches, and basically no one was idle.
But these "chicken ancestors" who were served did not disappoint people's earnest hopes.
After they were taken down from the car, they all started to "work" spontaneously without any delay.
Because these insects have appeared for two or three days, the chickens should have tasted them in Xinji and knew that they were a rare delicacy.
So once they were freed, they all became the most ferocious fighters, immediately scattered in all directions, chasing the insects, pecking and tearing them, eating them with great pleasure.
Although everyone knows that chickens can fly, few people have actually seen chickens climbing trees or walls.
I saw the chickens chasing the bugs and flying over the fence, then jumping onto the high platform. I watched them rush into the fields, peck the bugs stuck on the corn stalks to death one by one, and swallow them into their stomachs...
All the fatigue of the people disappeared!
Everyone started to do the math in their minds.
If, as the people of Xinji say, a chicken can eat 70 to 80 insects a day, then wouldn't a thousand chickens be able to eat 70,000 to 80,000 insects a day? !
With them, what is there to be afraid of?
No matter how many insects come, they will only become food for them.
After figuring this out, everyone was very excited.
Someone shouted, "Don't burn the bugs you catch again! Keep them all. They're food for our chickens!"
Everyone burst into laughter, as if all the bad feelings they had suffered in the past few days had suddenly disappeared.
This happiness reached its climax early the next morning.
Before Chen Cong went downstairs, he heard a commotion outside the house.
She yawned and was about to ask when Jiashu shouted from downstairs: "Sister-in-law, are you awake? Come downstairs and eat quickly. After dinner, we can go catch bugs!"
There was such joy in that voice that Chen Cong felt like he was dreaming and shook his head subconsciously.
She hurried downstairs and saw her mother smiling. Most importantly, the old lady was frying eggs for them!
The aroma of scrambled eggs with tomatoes rushed into Chen Cong's nose, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
"What's going on? Why are you so happy? Mom, how many eggs did you exchange in Yingshui Village before? Are you going to use them all up?" she asked in surprise.
After asking, he looked outside and only saw that the black insects on the iron net were still there. Only then did he make sure that there was no such thing as all the insects disappearing overnight, which was worth celebrating.
Before Cheng Ru could speak, Jia Shu interrupted her excitedly, "Sister-in-law, don't worry. With us here, there will be no shortage of eggs at home in the future."
As he spoke, he pointed outside and said, “You don’t know, the people in our neighborhood are going crazy this morning!
Those who got up early were all shouting and running out to pick up eggs! "
"What do you mean? Are you saying that the chickens laid eggs outside yesterday?" Chen Cong was a little confused: "Didn't we build a nest for them yesterday?"
“Maybe those chickens don’t recognize their nests yet?
There were only three of them in Xiao Chen's group, and they probably couldn't get all the chickens back.
Most of them slept outside last night.
As a result, those chickens are laying eggs everywhere. Now, just from what I heard, people in our community have picked up more than a hundred eggs, right?
I don’t know how many people picked it up without saying anything, or else there would be more!”
"More than a hundred!" Shen Cong was also shocked.
There is such a good thing? This is a pleasant surprise!
"It must be more than that. Think about it, we brought back a thousand chickens yesterday. Although we didn't count them, hens must be the majority. Is more than a hundred eggs a lot?
These are all adult chickens, and they are well fed! One chicken and one egg a day, that should be at least 500 eggs, right?
If that's the case, we'll have to be better off than the people in Yingshui Village in the future, and we won't be short of chicken or meat anymore."
Cheng Ru said happily as she served the eggs.
"That's right, I guess our two captains are so excited right now that they haven't worked out a system yet.
He just told us to go out and catch insects when we were free, and said he would exchange the insects for eggs.
Sister-in-law, please eat quickly. If you go too late, the bugs will have been caught by other people.
Alas, if you know these bugs are so useful, why did we burn them before? We should have left a hole to bring them all in, how much eggs would that be worth! "
Jiashu said this, looking at the barbed wire outside the house with regret in his eyes.
Shen Cong: "..."
I never knew that bugs could be so lovable.
When it comes to catching insects for eggs, the adults in the family are fine, but the children can't sit still.
The three of them were so excited that they couldn't even eat. They just drank a bowl of porridge and started to run out.
The initial fear of insects had long disappeared after a few days of "reinforcement". Not to mention the two older children, even Shanshan now dares to catch them with his bare hands.
Of course, after being discovered by Chen Xi, he gave him a good beating.
Because there were children at home, we naturally went out a little later. By the time everyone came out, the yard was already full of people.
People all took various homemade tools and began to catch insects in small groups in different areas.
Jiashu has always been a lively person, and he has a good personality and is popular with people.
In addition, he had lived in the community for a long time when he was digging the well, and there was everyone here from top to bottom that he didn't know.
So within a short while of leaving home he had found out all the information he could.
It turned out that the property management had already posted a notice for the purchase of insects, saying that ten kilograms of insects could be exchanged for one egg, on a first-come, first-served basis.
"Ten kilograms of bugs! How much is that?" Chen Xi asked in shock.
Jiashu looked around and pointed to a woven bag someone was carrying not far away: "Xiao Qian said that a bag like this can hold about 20 kilograms."
"Oh my god, there must be thousands of them in this bag, right? If that's the case, we won't be able to catch enough insects no matter how many there are?!"
"Then do you want more bugs? It's a good thing if we can catch all the ones we have now." Father Shen scolded from the side.
"I don't mind. I guess there are many people in our community who are feeling sorry for burning all the bugs. I'm sure no one would complain about the number of bugs right now."
Chen Xi didn't care about being scolded by his father and said with a smile.
"Well! What a pity!" Cancan, who had been standing aside without saying anything, suddenly nodded heavily.
There was a painful expression on the little face.
The adults couldn't help laughing when they saw this.
The little girl had experienced the most difficult days after the earthquake, and she knew the importance of food.
Ever since he found out in the morning that he could exchange insects for eggs, his little face has been twisted.
For a long time, he had been staring at the iron net at home, almost staring a hole in it.
Although the little girl didn't say it, her expression clearly showed that she wished she could go back to the past and pick up all the bugs that were not burned.
Shi Chen is not much better than his sister at this moment.
He didn't regret it, but he was too busy to even talk.
He ate only two bites of breakfast and ran away, then started busying himself making various insect catching tools.
Not only did he requisition all the remaining woven bags for seeds and grain in the house, he even called Tongtong away.
Two people, one big and one small, were chattering together. In a short while, they managed to make five or six insect nets using bamboo poles, iron wires and woven bags, and they looked pretty good.
…
With these tools, catching bugs is extremely easy.
Shi Chen took Tong Tong with him, each holding a large net and running around the wall like crazy. When they came back, the net was half full.
Father Shen and Jiashu simply didn't even need the net. They each took a torn disposable raincoat and directly hung it against the wall.
It's easy to catch a hundred of them at a time.
After last night, a large group of insects came again. I don’t know where these ghost creatures came from.
But now people are not afraid of them at all, and even have less disgust towards them. In everyone's eyes, they have become as valuable as eggs.
Cheng Ru and several old ladies were also recruited by the people in the community.
They do nothing else but boil water to scald the insects.
The insects caught by the residents were weighed and scalded to death in hot water. After the water was drained, they were spread out in the community square to be exposed to the sun.
Although the government has not issued any documents, no one has told us what to do.
But in fact, people all understand that even though these insects are so rampant, they won't stay for too long.
When there were no chickens before, everyone wished they would get rid of them as soon as possible, but now, everyone realizes that they are rare chicken feed.
After the insect infestation is over, people will face a new round of food shortages. By that time, people will be short of food, and how to raise these chickens will become a very big problem.
But who can bear to give up a chicken that lays eggs?
Therefore, it becomes a very important task to store food for them in advance and to keep them well.
With these chickens, especially the eggs, if we exchange them, I think the problem of food shortage in the future can be alleviated a lot.
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