The two wild boars weighed a little over a thousand catties in total, which Lu Yuan calculated to be exactly a thousand catties. Liao Yongchang praised him for his generosity.
With the addition of a large, fat pheasant weighing five or six pounds, Deputy Factory Director Liao was overjoyed.
"Comrade Lu, if you ever need anything in the future, just come to me. I will do my best to help."
Lu Yuan smiled and thanked him, "Thank you, Deputy Factory Director Liao. I will definitely not hesitate to ask you for help in the future."
He thought to himself, "Isn't it obvious? He went to all that trouble to build relationships just so he could easily find someone when he needs them?"
He instructed, "Deputy Factory Director Liao, if anyone asks about this feed mill later, don't say it was traded for a wild boar. Normally, our brigade has to hand over wild boars to the commune after hunting them, so..."
Lu Yuan gave him a knowing look.
Liao Yongchang assured, “Don’t worry, Comrade Lu, I understand everything. I definitely won’t tell anyone about this. I’ll have our factory accountant put 2,000 in the books first, and then use another 2,000 to buy pork.”
Then the accountant gave Lu Yuan a receipt for 2,000.
Lu Yuan really liked this Deputy Factory Director Liao; he was so shrewd.
Lu Yuan left the machinery factory with four brand-new feed mills, feeling quite pleased with himself. On the way back, he found a secluded spot and took out a truckload of feed ingredients, such as wheat bran and rice husks, from his spatial storage before returning to the brigade.
The four feed mills filled the brigade with joy, so much so that no one paid much attention to where the wheat bran and rice husks came from.
But he still solemnly told several brigade cadres, "I had previously contacted people in the black market to help me collect these feed ingredients. They cost 30 yuan per truck, and there are at least ten truckloads left. I will bring them all back when I have time."
"Good, good, there's still so much left. In addition to the sweet potatoes, yams and potatoes you asked us to plant before, we dried the sweet potato vines and potato leaves and stored them there. There's still quite a lot. Now we won't have to worry about feed for two or three months."
Lu Guoan kept circling around the machines, his mouth never closing.
"Yes, we'll just put the sweet potato vines and potato leaves into the feed machine along with the wheat bran and rice husks," Lu Yuan said.
Zhang Yong'an pulled Lu Yuan aside, "Tell us how to use that feed machine. Once a few people have learned how, we'll start making feed."
Lu Yuandao said, "It's very simple. After turning on the power, put the raw materials to be crushed into the crusher. If you want to make pellet feed, mix the crushed raw materials together and then pour them into the feed pellet mill. The result will be pellet feed."
"I see, it does sound simple," Lu Guoan said.
One of the brigade cadres asked, "Then do we need to cook the feed before feeding it to the pigs?"
Lu Yuan almost spat out his drink. They didn't even know this?
On second thought, it makes sense. In the past, they fed their pigs entirely by gathering pig feed, cooking it, and never using commercial feed.
"No need, just feed the pigs directly. Piglets under 60 pounds can eat 1.5 to 2.5 pounds a day, divided into two meals."
"Pigs weighing 60 to 120 jin should be fed 3 to 5 jin per day, while large pigs weighing over 120 jin should be fed 5 to 7 jin per day."
“I understand. I didn’t expect A Yuan to know even this,” Zhang Yong’an said.
Lu Yuan explained, "I was thinking that our brigade was going to raise pigs, so I specifically went to the bookstore to look up information."
However, this bookstore is a bookstore in space.
"I see. It's great to be able to read; you can learn anything you don't know by reading books."
"Yes, we didn't realize it when we were just toiling in the fields. But now that our brigade has established a breeding farm, a pig farm, and a supply and marketing cooperative, we've discovered that leaders must be literate."
Several brigade cadres sighed with emotion.
Lu Yuan chimed in, "So we still need to study more. In the future, we should try our best to send all the children in our brigade to school."
“Yes, all children should be sent to school in the future. We can’t let most of us end up like us, blind and illiterate, with it too late for them to start school,” a brigade cadre lamented.
Lu Yuandao said, "Actually, it's not too late for you to start learning to read and do arithmetic now. We can open a literacy class later, select two educated youths as teachers, and teach two classes every day when it's not busy with farming."
“Sigh, we’ve run literacy classes before, but nobody’s really enthusiastic. A lot of people just come and chat, and hardly anyone actually learns anything,” Zhang Yong’an sighed.
"That's easy. We'll just tell everyone that there will be job openings later, and those who can read and do math will be given priority. Let's see who isn't eager to join," Lu Yuan suggested.
"Hey, that's a great idea!" Zhang Yong'an clapped his hands and cheered.
Lu Guoan also said, "I think it's a good idea. Let's take this opportunity to talk about the importance of literacy when selecting salespersons for the supply and marketing cooperative, and also mention the literacy classes."
The group nodded in agreement.
Lu Yuan asked, "By the way, have you decided on the location for the supply and marketing cooperative?"
"It's decided. We asked Yu and Xiao, and they are both willing to sell the house back to the brigade at the original price. So we're going to set up the supply and marketing cooperative there. We've already started loading soybeans into containers."
Lu Yuan nodded slightly. The captain and the others had already made arrangements, so he didn't need to worry about anything.
After two more days of back-and-forth work, transporting six truckloads of feed ingredients, they finally returned the truck to the agricultural technology station.
I also spent half a day working at the agricultural technology station, fixing a tractor that was about to be scrapped.
There were still a few truckloads of raw materials left to bring back, and Lu Yuan planned to wait until Xu Dong and Lu Yuanchao drove the truck back before transporting them back.
Some people couldn't help but grumble about it, and when they returned home from the commune, they heard a commotion at home.
"Sister-in-law, this big package is a gift from Uncle Xiao, this package is for Uncle Gao and Aunt Gao, and the last package is for Xiao Fan."
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