Chapter 128: Hydroponic Water Spinach
Combined with the mutton and pork legs they had stored previously, their meat reserves should be sufficient for this winter.
There is a brick "freezer" in their yard.
It is a rectangular pit surrounded by bricks and filled with clean snow.
Su Heng rode his bike to bring the meat back and threw it directly into the snow pit, where it would freeze the next day.
There's a lot of meat frozen in here.
Su Heng had not applied much salt to the goat meat before, and it was also frozen. If the meat was hung for a long time, it would dry out.
Zhaocai came over following the smell. When Su Heng saw him, he took a bamboo raft and pressed it on the snow pit with stones.
"Meow~" Zhaocai jumped up and made a flattering call to Su Heng in a pinched voice.
Su Heng wiped his chubby cheeks and said coldly, "It's no use acting like a spoiled child. I fed you this morning. If you want a snack, go catch a mouse yourself."
"Meow~ Gurgle Gurgle..."
The kitten didn't understand. It felt comfortable being petted, so it lay down and made the sound of a tractor's throttle.
The soft belly is exposed and the legs are relaxed and facing the sky.
Su Heng stroked it for a while, but out of principle, she didn't give it any more food and got up to go back to the house.
She took out the money she had just used to buy meat from her pocket and put it into the box. The meat was less than twenty yuan.
The pigs raised by the brigade are naturally much cheaper to buy than those sold outside.
They don't care about meat tickets or anything like that, but it's a pity that it only happens once a year and the quantity is not much.
But some count.
Su Heng carefully put her small treasury away.
There's nearly two thousand dollars in the box now.
Her salary increased this month, from 86 to 96, a jump of ten yuan.
There is also extra income from taking orders for clothing production, which has amounted to about 40 to 50 yuan recently, plus the more than 100 yuan salary paid by Lu Mingchuan.
The deposits in the small treasury are increasing rapidly.
Although they said they often buy meat, living in the village, other costs are very low.
The main reason is that I earn a lot, and my expenses are nothing compared to my salary.
After putting the box away, Su Heng locked the drawer before going out to work.
Since Su Heng hasn't been busy recently, she is mainly training new people.
When she didn’t want to cook at noon, she would eat in the cafeteria with her assistants.
At least the team slaughtered a pig today, and the base provides the canteen with a certain amount of funds every month to buy vegetables.
So Chen Xiang and the others also went to buy some meat, and there were a few meat dishes for lunch.
Pu Fengliang is in charge of a lot of things now, and he has given the financial matters to Zhang Xinghe. He originally thought that Su Heng was thoughtful and wanted to give it to her.
But Su Heng didn't want to manage money that didn't belong to him, so he gave this important task to Zhang Xinghe. Coincidentally, he liked counting money.
In fact, Su Heng had always thought that Zhang Xinghe's family conditions should be quite good. After all, being able to go to college these days can't be too bad.
It wasn't until the last time he got his salary that he casually said he was going to the city to send it back home.
I only then realized that he only kept a few dollars for himself every month and sent the rest back home.
I heard that he had five brothers and sisters, and his family was poor at the time, so they chose the one with the best grades to go to school. Later, he did well and was recommended to go to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University.
It can be said that he has made unimaginable efforts to get to where he is today.
Therefore, he is more sensitive about money.
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw Zhang Xinghe and the boys go back to their rooms to get their lunch boxes and come over to eat.
Pu Fengliang was not here today because he had gone to the city for something. Since the top leaders were not here, the atmosphere among the newcomers was much more lively.
Seeing Su Heng, Zhang Xinghe smiled and said, "Are we eating in the cafeteria today too?"
"Of course not. There is meat in the cafeteria today."
Zhang Xinghe laughed and said, "I heard you bought dozens of kilograms of meat. Are you still short of meat?"
This kind of gossip spreads the fastest in the village, mainly because of Su Heng's generosity, which is too shocking.
She quickly said, "That's an exaggeration. It's only about 30 kilograms. That's enough to last a whole winter. Who would complain about having too much meat?"
"I can only envy the life you live." Zhang Xinghe is a very cheerful person.
Although he lives in poverty now, he has always faced his poverty calmly.
Su Heng admires this kind of mentality.
With so many people, the cafeteria suddenly became lively.
Su Heng arrived early and stood at the front of the line. Seeing that the meat dish was pork stewed with vermicelli, she ordered one immediately.
Chen Xiang was the chef today and gave her a huge spoonful of soup, which almost filled Su Heng's lunch box.
"Not bad, Xiao Chen, it smells delicious. Your cooking skills have improved."
The clothes were made for her, and Chen Xiang's service attitude has improved dramatically recently.
"That's right. Bring me another box and fill it with food."
Su Heng handed it over: "Here, just two taels of rice will be enough."
Chen Xiang did as she was told and said there was free radish soup outside.
But Su Heng couldn't drink any more because the bowl of pork vermicelli was quite large.
The newlyweds put two tables together to form one, and they ate together.
Liu Hongying and her friends are cheerful and can get along well with boys, so this group of newcomers get along very well.
Su Heng likes this kind of working atmosphere, where there are not too many "rules" and intrigues.
After dinner, she went home to take a nap as usual.
There was a lot of food served at noon, and Su Heng didn’t finish it, so she took it back for Zhaocai to eat.
The days passed slowly.
The brigade's greenhouse was finally completed.
The entire team worked hard and built three 500-square-meter factory buildings in half a month.
It’s nearly two acres in area.
A kang was lit in the newly built house, raising the temperature and accelerating the drying of the earthen bricks.
Since it is not used for living, the house is naturally not built with such care.
As long as there is no air leakage or water leakage, the key is to heat the kang well and control the temperature.
After the house has been air-conditioned for a few days, the grown seedlings can be transplanted there.
Pu Fengliang took Su Heng and others to plan how to make the best use of the venue.
The area on the ground is fixed, but there is still space above.
Su Heng thought for a moment and said, "Teacher, we can try hydroponics. Water spinach can be grown hydroponically. We might as well try using bamboo tubes to grow water spinach in mid-air."
Pu Fengliang's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Xiao Su, you are the one with the brightest brain!"
As a result, the brigade's bamboo forest suffered a disaster. The old bamboos that were originally growing excessively and were as big as bowls were cut down and put up on a rack to be used as containers for hydroponic water spinach.
The vegetable garden on the ground and the shelves in the air must be planned reasonably, otherwise the site will be very messy.
Pu Fengliang and his team made a detailed plan, and the three factory buildings were planned in an orderly manner.
Secretary Chen slapped his thigh as he looked at the scene in front of him. He was determined to make a big splash this time!
He was not the only one who thought so, everyone in the team thought so.
All the vegetable seeds reserved for spring planting in the warehouse were taken out. If they failed this time, they would lose a lot of seeds.
But Su Heng would not let this happen.
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