Chapter 22 Night Talk
In a flash, more than half a month has passed.
There are almost no wild grapes left in the mountains. The unpicked wild grapes have automatically fallen to the ground and are slowly rotting. These wild grapes can no longer be dried to make raisins.
Not only does it affect the taste, it can also make people feel sick.
Zhao Yi led his father-in-law towards the city.
My father-in-law made 70 kilograms of raisins just like last time.
I sold it for 14 dollars last time, and it’s about the same this time.
The two men who got the money did not delay in the city, but went straight back to the village.
"Dad, it's so late, don't go back. Just stay at home. You will still be in time for work tomorrow."
Zhao Yi looked at Zhang Fusheng and said.
"I have to go back. I have to go to the commune pig farm early tomorrow to buy some piglets to raise."
Zhang Fusheng waved his hand and refused.
Zhao Yi and Zhang Jing have already bought a piglet and also received a mission pig to raise together.
I bought a lot of bran from the processing workshop in the city. Last time, my father-in-law helped as a laborer, carrying nearly 100 kilograms of bran and walking on the mountain road for several hours.
The two were talking while looking at the piglets in Zhao Yi's pigpen.
"This piglet is really growing fast eating bran and chestnuts. It looks different every day."
The father-in-law said with a smile.
In the city, bran costs a few cents per pound, but at a livestock farm, it costs only a cent per pound.
Zhao Yi also got a lot of wild chestnuts from the mountains, dried them, ground them into powder, and mixed them with bran and pig grass to feed them. The piglets were only more than 20 kilograms when they were bought back, and they seemed to grow a kilogram a day. Now they look as big as the piglets that have been raised in the production team for more than a month.
Whenever Zhao Yi went to work, he would get a lot of loaches, small fish and shrimps from the fields and bring them back to cook and feed the pigs.
"Eating grass alone won't provide much nutrition. Mix the fish and shrimp in the field with the pig feed and cook them together. Not only can they feed the chickens to lay more eggs, but the piglets will also grow meat after eating them."
Zhao Yi said with a smile.
"Okay, it's really too late to chat any longer. I'm going to go back first. If you have anything, ask Xiao Jing to come over and talk to me."
Zhang Fusheng looked at the two little pigs in the pigsty and was reluctant to leave.
Such chubby little piglets make people feel better unconsciously.
Now my father-in-law has raised quite a few chickens, almost a dozen. When they grow up, he will select the roosters and sell them to the commune breeding farm, and he can raise the remaining hens to lay eggs.
Zhang Jing had just fried a plate of wild onion eggs, took out the liquor prepared by Zhao Yi, and came over to invite the two to eat, but found that her father had disappeared.
When Zhao Yi returned from the village entrance, Zhang Jing realized that her father had left.
"Don't go into the mountains these days. You only earned 260 work points last month, which means you missed four days in a month. If it's the same this month, I'm afraid the team leader will criticize you."
Zhang Jing looked at Zhao Yi and said.
"There's nothing important to do right now, why would I criticize Xiaoyi?"
Li Dequan just walked into Zhao Yi's yard and heard Zhang Jing's words.
Zhao Yi gave Li Dequan two gifts last month. He did not ask Li Dequan to do anything, but just asked for four days off. There is not much work in the village now, and so many workers are not needed.
But everyone was unwilling to rest. Even when they had free time, they wanted to go to the fields to earn work points. Li Dequan had no choice.
"The captain is here, let's drink together."
Zhao Yi smiled immediately after looking at Li Dequan and quickly poured Li Dequan a glass of wine.
Zhao Yi didn't have any cups at home. This cup was made of bamboo as thick as a wrist, and each cup contained about three taels of wine.
"I just happened to have something to talk to you about, so let's have a drink together."
Li Dequan sat down with a smile on his face. Zhang Jing went to the kitchen to work again. After a while, she brought back a plate of peanuts, which were fried without a drop of oil.
Peanuts can actually be sold at the commune for money, but the team doesn’t grow too many each year, so each household can’t get much.
"I've also seen the pigs you raise, and they do grow faster than the piglets raised by our team. I want to ask if you are willing to work at the team's breeding farm."
Li Dequan ate a peanut, then took a sip of wine, and then he started talking about the purpose of his visit.
The bigger the piglets in the village pig farm, the more meat the village will get at the end of the year.
"Captain, I'm afraid this is a bit difficult. My piglets grow fast because they eat grain. I bought all this bran from the city. Everyone in the team is reluctant to spend money to buy bran to feed the pigs."
Zhao Yi shook his head and said.
"No other solution?"
Li Dequan looked at Zhao Yi and asked.
"No, if you want the piglets to grow fast you have to be willing to eat grain."
Zhao Yi nodded and said.
It is probably impossible for the team members to spend money to raise these mission pigs. No one can guarantee that after spending the money, the piglets will grow bigger than Class A pigs. Moreover, pigs have a big appetite. If you don't spend money, a strong laborer can get more than two kilograms of meat in a year. How much more can you get by spending money?
No wonder Zhao Yi shook his head. Even if he personally did the ideological work for the members, it would not work.
The two chatted for a while, and Li Dequan drank three or two glasses of wine before leaving.
Zhao Yi didn't drink a sip and just chatted with Li Dequan.
"Don't you have chestnut flour to feed pigs?"
Zhang Jing asked in a low voice when she saw Li Dequan had walked away.
"You teach others everything, what are you going to do when the time comes?"
Zhao Yi rolled his eyes at his naive wife. If more families in the village knew about this, they would all go into the mountains to pick chestnuts. Zhao Yi was not as early as them and could not compete with them.
These people got up early and set out before daybreak.
"I just realized that you ate all the eggs my mother-in-law sent you?"
Zhao Yi said, pointing to the empty plate in front of him.
Mother-in-law Wang sent ten eggs some time ago, saying that they were for Zhao Yi and Zhang Jing to replenish their bodies. In fact, it was to thank Zhao Yi for helping to take care of them. After three trips to the city, the Zhang family earned more than 30 yuan.
And now we have so many more chickens. If we raise pigs as well, our lives will be much better in the future.
"If you don't have any, just eat four. There are still six left. I'll get some wild onions from the mountains and fry them with eggs for you to eat."
Zhang Jing said with a smile.
The chickens at my own home can’t lay eggs yet. I’ve only raised them for over a month, so I’ll have to keep raising them for a while.
"Boss, you really aren't going to work tomorrow?"
Zhang Jing heard the conversation between Li Dequan and Zhao Yi just now and knew that Zhao Yi would have to rest for three more days this month.
"Don't worry about it. The captain has approved it. Why are you still worried?"
Zhao Yi said with a smile.
"All right."
Zhang Jing couldn't argue with Zhao Yi and could only pout helplessly.
Zhao Yi took his newly bought flashlight, carried a hoe and sickle and walked into the mountains. Although Zhang Jing was a little worried, she knew that it was useless to persuade him against what Zhao Yi was going to do.
The wild grapes will rot completely in a short time, and the wild boars will not come to visit. This is the last chance.
The wild boars would only come here to look for food during the day and return to one place to rest at night.
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