Lin Wanwan knew what they meant and said with a smile, "There are about 5,800 chickens and ducks, and if the eggs are well managed, they can produce more than a thousand pups. Of course, there will be losses. As for me, I don't need you to provide chickens and ducks now. I will talk about it after it stabilizes. When you raise the first batch of pups, I will come to collect them and determine the daily amount required."
"Of course, the initial investment will be mine, and the grandparents will do the hard work. We need to get started as soon as possible. It takes 21 days to hatch chickens and ducks, and two to three months to grow them. You can also talk to the head of the village and ask the whole village to raise them together. Then, we can raise and slaughter them together, and the price I charge will be even higher."
Chen Dachang shook his head quickly, "No, no, how can I let you spend all your money! Just consider it as a loan from you, and I will pay you back slowly with the money I earn in the future!"
"Grandpa, I've always known that you love me and Lin Bai. We don't have much land to begin with, but you still send us so much every year, so we don't have to be so calculating. When I become rich, I will definitely take you with me. Besides, the situation is unstable now. If someone gets jealous of me and stops everyone from selling me chickens and ducks, what should I do? So you can be considered my escape route!"
Chen Wenhua nodded. "It is important to be prepared for danger in times of peace. What Wanwan said makes sense. Dad, what we need to do now is to quickly raise the chickens and ducks. We can think of other things later. We need to be a solid backing for Wan girl instead of holding her back."
"Yes! Si'er, you are right! Dad is overthinking."
Lin Wanwan stayed for lunch and left them thirty taels of silver so that they could buy grains to feed the chickens and ducks.
After returning home, he stayed in the shop for the whole afternoon, taught Huniu a few new dishes of chicken and duck, calculated the accounts for this period of time, took the money and left in style...
Two days later, she finally arrived at the side door of the county government office with the model and drawings.
"Brother, I am..."
Before she could speak, the bailiff standing at the door said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Lin, right? We all recognize you. Wait, I'll go tell the master!"
Not long after, he helped carry the wooden box and took Lin Wanwan to see the county magistrate.
When Lin Wanwan went in, she saw three middle-aged men inside, who seemed to be discussing something. The county magistrate saw Lin Wanwan coming and hurriedly greeted him.
"Hahaha, come here quickly, girl Wan, we were just talking about you!"
"Greetings, sir!"
"No need to be polite. How is it? Are you done?"
He saw Lin Wanwan glance at the people next to him and introduced them, "These two are my senior brothers. The other one is the governor of Yingzhou. After they heard what I said about the water mill, they rushed here overnight and arrived this morning."
Lin Wanwan bowed to them and said, "I am Lin Wan, a commoner. Greetings to the adults!"
"Miss Lin, don't worry about these. Where is the painting? Is it finished?" the prefect said anxiously.
Lin Wanwan smiled, opened the wooden box, took out the models one by one, and placed them neatly on the table.
"I asked someone to help me reproduce these, please take a look, adults."
"So that's how it is, it's so exquisite!"
"Junior brother, you have done a great deed!"
"Yes, Brother Zhuo Wen, this windmill is exquisite. If it is put into use in the northwest region, it will greatly save manpower and material resources. In addition, water mills can be built in places with rivers. This is a great thing that will benefit the people!"
Lin Wanwan gave them the drawings as well, stood aside and listened to their discussions, and patiently answered their questions whenever they had any questions.
"Junior brother, we will return to the capital with Lord He overnight and present the things to him. I believe that it won't be long before this thing is promoted to all places!"
"Yes, Brother Zhuo Wen, we will leave soon!"
Lin Wanwan felt that it was enough, so she asked for her resignation from the county magistrate, who personally escorted her to the gate.
He whispered to Lin Wanwan, "Miss Lin, just go back and wait for your reward!"
"Okay, then I'll wait for good news from the adults every night!"
When she walked to the Fu Mansion and took a look, the door was still closed. It seemed that Fu Junyi had not returned yet, and she didn't know whether things were going well.
After Lin Wanwan returned, she hurried to grow pepper seeds. She constantly tested the temperature and humidity of the greenhouse and finally met the requirements. The germination rate of the pepper seeds was also very high, and they could be transplanted after they grew a little longer.
All the fields have been reclaimed and the cow dung has been decomposed and can be used as fertilizer and spread on the farmland, so more than 20 acres of potatoes were planted first.
She had asked about the weather in advance. It gets colder and colder from early December to late January, with heavy snow. It starts to warm up in mid-to-late February. Rice is only grown for one season, and there are also beans and hemp crops in the fields that will be harvested later.
It turned out that it had been like this for decades. There was more rain in the summer, but as soon as autumn came, there was a severe drought. It was not until the heavy snow in winter that we saw some water. God did not give us food, and no one could do anything about it. Later, they blamed the former emperor, saying that his harsh and absurd policies were the reason why God punished them.
Lin Wanwan thought about it and there were probably several possibilities. One was excessive deforestation, two was the increase in population, three was meteorological reasons, and three was the low effective utilization rate of water resources. The last one was the drought caused by the crustal activity cycle. Combined with what they said about the earth dragon turning over every few years, she was afraid that it was the last one.
But there’s no point thinking about these things now, so let’s just focus on the things at hand.
Recently, Lin Bai, Lin Ping'an and Lin Le'an have become close friends. They run around in the yard after school, or take Ermao and Sanmao to play in the back mountain. They always come home covered in dust, and even the dogs have become real "country dogs".
Lin Wanwan was very happy that the children had a good time, but no matter how happy she was, she still had to let Lin Jiu take them to practice martial arts. The children were afraid of him at first, and after practicing a few times, they were even more afraid, especially Xiaobai, who would turn around and run away every time he saw him without saying hello.
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