Chapter 181 Night Talk
At the captain's house, the captain's wife and Yike were cooking in the kitchen. Today, there was pork brought by Tang Jianguo. So the captain's wife fried the fatty pork into lard. When it was almost done, she saw her daughter's eager eyes beside the stove, so she gritted her teeth, took out sugar from the kitchen cupboard, took a bowl, poured a few small clumps of lard into the bowl, and immediately scooped a spoonful of sugar into it, then stirred it with chopsticks, and the lard made a sizzling sound. "Here, take it and eat it with Sister Yike."
Jinxia and Caixia cheered happily, and took their bowls to Yike. Caixia took the chopsticks and handed them to Yike, saying while swallowing her saliva, "Sister-in-law Yike, you eat first." Jinxia swallowed her saliva beside her.
Yi Ke picked up a piece of fried dough with chopsticks without hesitation. It was sweet but not greasy. Tender, smooth and refreshing. "Delicious!" Yi Ke praised.
"You guys eat too, it tastes better when it's hot." Yike urged the sisters Jinxia and Caixia to eat quickly.
The sisters Jinxia and Caixia are not like Yike who takes everything in one gulp. Jin Xia took a small bite, chewed it carefully, and then took another small bite. Just like that, a piece of oil residue gave her the feeling of eating the three delicacies of the sea.
As for Caixia, this silly girl took one bite and said "delicious!" She took four bites of a piece of oil residue and said "delicious!" four times. Yike was heartbroken to hear this and became more determined to help the people in this village get rich.
The team leader's family is considered to be one of the better-off families in the whole team, but they can't even eat oil residue like this. I'm afraid the other villagers don't even have any oil foam. This village is too poor.
"Yike, come out for a moment. The captain has something to ask you." Ziyi went to the door and called Yike.
"Oh, what's the matter?" Yike felt strange.
"Yike, Ziyi just said that you can tell whether eggs are fertilized or not, and you can also artificially hatch chicks. Is that true?" The captain looked excited.
"Oh, you are talking about this? Of course it is true. You can go to the mountain where I live first and take a look. I think raising chickens, ducks and pigs is better than making bags. At least there will be no objection to raising chickens, ducks and pigs. Besides, people nowadays just want to fill their stomachs, and bags are dispensable. Of course, making bags makes money quickly and the results are immediate, so you generally won't lose money. But it's not necessarily the case with breeding. After all, they are living creatures and they can get sick and take medicine like humans." Yi Ke stopped talking here. Some things you will believe once you see them with your own eyes.
The captain fell into deep thought, and Yi Ke spoke to Tang Jianguo: "Brother Tang, are you leaving tomorrow?"
Tang Jianguo nodded: "We are leaving tomorrow. We are going to go to the Red Army to see if he has a sewing machine. This is arranged by your man."
"Thank you for your hard work! Have you settled the matter regarding my cousin?"
"It's all right. Your cousin, although she looks carefree on the surface, is actually very smart and capable. Even the director of her supply and marketing cooperative has never been able to outwit her."
Yi Ke became curious and interested, "Tell me, what's going on?"
"She insisted on asking for the middle price of a floor, and it's not just a one-time price, but it will be required for all future transactions."
"She still has that brain? And you guys agree to that?"
"Didn't you ask me to take care of you? I definitely can't lower the price too much. She probably knew this, so she had already negotiated with the director of the supply and marketing cooperative before I met with the director. No matter what price I offered, she would take it. If she didn't agree, she wouldn't recommend me. What else could the director do? He had to agree. So when the director and I negotiated the price, he bargained hard, and I gave them a lower price than others for your sake."
"The director of the supply and marketing cooperative didn't give me a discount. He added a layer of money for my cousin, so it's still the same price as others."
"That's their internal matter. I'm just making concessions."
Ziyi interrupted, "It's not like that. If it weren't for your cousin, he wouldn't even be able to get in the door, and he wouldn't have anything to sell or make money. He's also very smart. People will be motivated to do things only when they see benefits. Just like this time with the bag, your cousin tried her best to stop me, afraid that I would leave. She even asked the old man to come out and take charge. If there were no benefits ahead, would she be so motivated?"
"Your analysis is indeed correct. There is a saying that if you want a horse to run fast, you have to feed it grass."
"Cousin, what kind of business are you talking about just now?" The captain came back to his senses and heard the conversation between the three people. He couldn't help but ask curiously.
"This is canned food, canned meat and canned fruit."
"There's no meat to eat, and you still have meat for stuffing? Where did you get it? This is a good business, there's no way it won't sell."
Tang Jianguo glanced at Ziyi, and Ziyi nodded calmly.
Tang Jianguo said meaningfully: "This is not produced by the government, but is secretly raised by private individuals for Zhucun's convenience."
"That shouldn't be much. If Yike's cousin wants to make money, she should sell the bag to her." The captain kindly reminded Yike.
"Cousin, you are wrong. Bags are not as profitable as canned goods, and the quantity is not large. Canned goods are more in quantity, more expensive, and easier to sell."
"Isn't it a private breeding? How many can you raise? Will it go unnoticed if you raise too many?"
"Hey, you don't know about this, cousin. They say they raise the animals using scientific methods, and they produce meat every month, and only fruits are available in season."
"Scientific breeding? How to do it?"
"That's the method Ziyi's wife told me!"
"Ziyi, is this can made in your mountain?"
"Yes, we have not only canned food, but also various dried fruits. In the second half of this year, we plan to make sausages, cured pork, etc."
"How many pigs do you want to raise?" the captain asked in surprise.
"Not much, about a hundred pigs, a few hundred chickens and ducks, and a thousand rabbits, more than enough to make spicy meat."
"What? Hundreds or thousands? There may not be that many in our entire commune added up, right?" The team leader was shocked.
"Yes, there are so many, and there will be more next year." Ziyi nodded affirmatively.
"So what Yi Ke just said about artificially hatching chicks is true?"
"Of course it's true. Would Ziyi do something he's not sure of?"
"Science, this is science. If we want to get rich, scientific breeding is the right thing to do. We have been relying on hens to hatch chickens, but we can't hatch many throughout the year. But raising chickens requires food, and we don't have food." The team leader, who was full of confidence just now, became dispirited again.
"You can artificially cultivate earthworms to raise chickens. When they grow up, you can feed them a variety of wild vegetables mixed with some grains and earthworms. Chicken manure can also be used as farmyard fertilizer."
Yi Ke thought about it and then roughly talked about how to make organic fertilizer to increase crop yields, how to raise pigs, how to compost pig manure, how to raise fish with pig manure, etc., which can be done in rural areas. The team leader was stunned and surprised for a long time without saying a word.
The captain's wife had been standing at the kitchen door, listening intently.
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