Chapter 039: Very Unplanned
"Can you do it?"
"It seems to be possible. Reach out and take a look. The temperature in here is a little higher now," Sun Dong said, and stepped aside to let Sun Feng feel it for himself. "Isn't it that the temperature inside is higher?"
"It's true. At this temperature, if these chickens are well fed, they can lay an egg almost every day." Sun Feng said happily.
As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Dong pulled his hand out and then carefully covered it with plastic film to prevent the heat from escaping.
"Do we want this plastic film?"
"Yes, of course. It's only three yuan, and these chickens can lay so many eggs. It's a great deal. If it weren't for Sister Fang, where would we find such plastic film?" Sun Dong said immediately. "I was just thinking, if we cover it with this plastic film, can we burn less coal briquettes in the future?"
Sun Feng's eyes lit up: "So, we can buy less coal briquettes?"
"Yes, coal briquettes are expensive. In previous years, the hens stopped laying eggs in winter, and we had to take good care of them. Now, not only can they still lay eggs, but we don't have to worry about them freezing to death one day. Isn't that good?" Sun Dong said, reaching out his hand and carefully touching the plastic film. "I'll see Sister Fang tomorrow morning. I'll just take the three yuan."
Sun Feng: "I'll listen to you."
"The question now is, should we still buy the plastic film?" Sun Dong and Sun Feng squatted in front of the chicken shed to discuss something. "We need to watch the sow giving birth. Zhao Zhiqiang said that it is not good for sows to give birth in winter. They can easily die. If we can have this plastic film, the piglets will be born healthy. Raising them will cost a lot of money."
"That's going to require Zhao Zhiqiang to pay for it," Sun Feng suggested, then realized something. "But he doesn't know how useful this plastic film is. Will he be willing to pay for it?"
"I have to go find him. He raised the pig for us," Sun Dong said, digging the branch in his hand into the soil again and again. "Is your mother still looking forward to earning pocket money from the pork?"
"Yes, she is very happy. If you ask her to make more bacon, she will definitely be willing to do so," Sun Feng nodded. "It would be a pity if the piglets died after birth. You should go and talk to Zhao Zhiqiang about it."
"Okay, I'll go," Sun Dong stood up and threw the branch on the ground. "By the way, you asked the soldiers to find Liu Zhiyong, how is the situation?"
"It hasn't been killed yet, but it has been agreed that after it is killed, I will take ten kilograms, and Junzi's family will also take one kilogram. Liu Zhiyong is very happy about it, otherwise if the black market is taken over, he won't know where to sell the pork." Sun Feng explained the situation.
"He got it cheap. If it weren't for the bacon, he should have been arrested for wanting to sell sick pigs," Sun Dong said, turning to leave. After two steps, he turned back and said, "Just buy a dozen pounds. No more. I'll ask Zhao Zhiqiang about the other people who got the pigs and see who's unwilling to sell sick pigs. Let's patronize the good guy's business. If Liu Zhiyong can't sell his pork, he can come to us for help."
"That's a good idea. We can bargain for the price later."
Sun Dong nodded, walked away quickly, and headed towards another hilltop.
There is one disadvantage of raising fish in winter. In order to maintain a certain temperature, you need to burn a fire, and the forest is not suitable for smoke, so someone always has to watch over them, otherwise it will be bad for everyone if the food is exposed.
Fortunately, both Sun Dong and Zhao Zhiqiang are very experienced. They started laying out the facilities after finding a place, and now the farm is doing well.
When he walked to the place, he saw the meat frozen outside at a glance.
Sun Feng's mother had a limited amount of bacon to make, and the house couldn't always be filled with the smell of meat, so every time he asked Zhao Zhiqiang for just a little bit of meat, saying that he was taking it out to sell, but in fact he was giving it all to Sun Feng's mother to make bacon.
After the bacon is cooked, it is handed over to Sister Fang. As for how she sells it, she naturally has her own way.
Sun Dong went inside and met Zhao Zhiqiang.
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There are no trading restrictions in Hong Kong, so Tang Yuan easily sold a batch of eggs at 40 cents each, for a total of fifty eggs. One of the five remaining tool eggs from yesterday was replaced.
Of course, it was replaced with a smaller one.
Fifty eggs cost twenty yuan, plus her previous savings, she had a total of twenty-four yuan on hand.
That way, if she sold the remaining 100 eggs, she would earn enough to pay the rent.
Fortunately, she doesn't need to eat out, otherwise this money would not be enough for her three meals a day.
She took out a small purse she had sewn earlier, put twenty-four yuan in it, and went to pack the cotton that she would give to Sun Dong tomorrow. There were thirty kilograms of cotton, which she put in two sacks.
The next morning, when she left the play area, she carried the two bags of cotton.
Sun Dong just looked at the appearance of the cotton and took out the money directly.
The final payment of twenty-four yuan, and three yuan as hard work fee.
This batch of cotton earned Tang Yuan 51 yuan.
"By the way, Sister Fang, you should still be able to get plastic film, right?" Sun Dong asked him, "I told Zhao Zhiqiang about the plastic film yesterday, and he was very interested. He said he was willing to buy more, and he wanted to buy large ones. Money is not a problem."
After saying that, he took out ten yuan.
Tang Yuan was surprised: "He agreed so easily?"
Sun Dong smiled and said, "Because they have seen plastic film before, they said it can really keep warm, but it is hard to find, and even if they find it, they are not willing to sell it. Last year and the year before last, they also had sows to give birth, so they went to look for plastic film, but they were not willing to give it to them. So when I mentioned it yesterday, he nodded and agreed."
"No wonder," Tang Yuan suddenly realized, "Then wait a little longer today, I'll go get it. According to the amount I gave you yesterday, there are still nine yuan worth of eggs left. You can take them all back today. It's cold this time, you don't have to go out so often, just give me all the eggs at once."
Xiangjiang eggs are easy to sell, and it doesn't matter whether you sell them early or late.
The same goes for her selling eggs. Instead of going there frequently, she prefers to sell fifty eggs at a time. That way she can sell them and no one will notice her.
"Then I'll wait here and I'll give you the money." Sun Dong handed the money to her.
Tang Yuan took the ten yuan, took out a yuan and put it in his hand, then left the shabby house.
The temporary residence was not too far from the dilapidated house, but she did not rush. She even went to Hong Kong and sold fifty eggs. It took her nearly an hour to put the plastic film in a basket and take it out to the dilapidated house.
After Sun Dong left with his things, she calculated today's income and found that she had earned a total of RMB 60 and HKD 20.
She made money from both the plastic film and the eggs, but in reality, the plastic film made the most money. Almost the same amount of money went into her pocket, and if converted into purchasing power, she definitely made a fortune today.
She currently has a total of 44 Hong Kong dollars in savings, which is only 6 dollars short of paying the rent.
Although the small house in Xiangjiang is shabby, old and small, it is still a place to stay. It is said that a house of the same size in a better place would cost two hundred yuan a month in rent.
With this calculation, fifty-one months' rent is not that expensive.
She found it hard to imagine how such a small house could cost two hundred dollars. Maybe it would have a glass window and there wouldn't always be a foul smell coming in from outside.
Returning to the shabby house again, she turned on the light and took a rag to wipe every place that could be wiped.
The room was almost empty, with only a few wearable clothes in the closet and two pairs of shoes under the bed.
The original bedding was also extremely dirty, and she was really disgusted with it, so she took it to the game space and removed the quilt cover, leaving only the blackened cotton core inside.
She planned to give it all to Sun Dong when she had the chance, and let him use it to keep the chickens and pigs warm.
All the places that could be wiped were wiped. As for the places that could not be wiped, she would wait until she saved more money. After deducting the rent, she would use the remaining money to buy some newspapers to paste on them. It would look much better than the dirty place now.
After wiping, she threw the rag back into the play space.
He leaned against the door and listened. After making sure that no one was there, he carefully went out and locked the door.
It wasn't that she was afraid of being stolen, but mainly because all the things in her room had been cleared out at once, and it wouldn't be good if she left the door open and someone could see everything inside.
After a few days, she was able to lean against the wall and step over the spittoon on the steps with ease.
As soon as she walked downstairs, she could faintly hear angry cursing from upstairs. Based on her limited familiarity with Cantonese, she thought the quarrel was probably about the spittoon.
She couldn't understand why the spittoon had to be placed on the aisle steps when the aisle was already so narrow. She felt like something could happen at any moment.
After walking out of the building, she looked back at the building and the surrounding buildings, found a direction, and walked forward. Every time she came to a fork in the road, she did not turn to ensure that she could find the direction accurately on the way back.
After walking for about ten minutes, she came to the main road. The surrounding environment gradually became open. There were almost always cars on the road. Sometimes there were several cars at the same time, and sometimes one car just drove past and the next one drove over. The colors of the billboards around also became brighter, just like the Hong Kong she had seen in TV dramas before.
Different from the black, gray and blue in the mainland today, the people here wear clothes with richer colors. If she hadn't seen the calendars hanging in some stores, she would have thought that this time was not the same world as the other side.
In fact, it is not only the same world, but also the same year and even the same day.
The other side wears thick cotton clothes, while here you can just wear light shirts and pants. Some people are so angry that they even wear short sleeves and sandals.
Further ahead, the billboards were stacked up and down, looking more like the scenes that would appear in the TV series in her memory.
The noise exploded in her ears, and the chaotic voices impacted her language system, forcing her to accept the meaning of the Cantonese dialect and to correspond to the information she needed to understand.
There is a coffee and cake shop in front. The cheapest coffee is five dollars a cup.
There was also a pork shop where a pound of pork was shown to cost 12 yuan.
To put it in perspective, these twelve yuan can buy 30 eggs, and the price ratio of pork to eggs is 1:30. However, in mainland China today, pork costs 80 cents per pound, and eggs cost 0.8 cents each, so the price ratio is only 1:10.
Compared with this, it would be a bad deal for her to buy pork here.