Chapter 347 Wang Guoqing visits Taoyuan Village 3
"Next time you bring your sister-in-law here, I promise to teach her." Zhang Yuling didn't know that Yi Ke had already taught Wang Guoqing's wife.
"Well, I'll have to trouble you next time, sister-in-law. My wife is very stupid. Last time Yike taught her, but when Yike left, everything she learned went with Yike. Sister-in-law, don't despise her stupidity and take more effort to teach her." Wang Guoqing said this sincerely, and he really planned to bring his wife to learn next time.
"Brother Wang, I don't agree with what you said. I have talked to my sister-in-law, and she is not a stupid person. But when it comes to learning something, practice makes perfect. It's normal for her to forget what she learned after she hasn't practiced for such a long time," Zhang Yuling said as she picked out another basket of chicks.
Li Haoran felt uncomfortable when he saw his wife and Wang Guoqing talking so much and ignoring him, so he said, "Let's go, let's go somewhere else and have a look. It's just right to go back for lunch."
Wang Guoqing followed Li Haoran out, and he thought to himself, "If my village also raised so many chickens, how much money would all the members have to share?" He became more determined to set up a chicken farm in the village.
Wang Guoqing followed Li Haoran to the duck farm, where the ducks were marching at a pace of 2.58 million, showing off their might in the farm.
"Brother Haoran, what breed of duck is this? Why is it so big?" Wang Guoqing was the team leader and had the opportunity to visit other production teams, but he had never seen such a big duck.
"This was brought by Ziyi's friend, so I don't know much about it. But this duck is really easy to raise. It's not picky about food. It will eat green vegetables, wild vegetables, leaves, etc. As long as they are tender, it will eat them." Li Haoran said, and took Wang Guoqing to the food warehouse to see it.
There were still ducks eating in the food trough. When they saw two strangers, Li Haoran and Wang Guoqing, coming over, they quacked and shouted, "Hurry up, someone is stealing my food."
Li Haoran went to the feed room next door and grabbed a handful of crushed corn and scattered it in the trough.
When the duck saw its favorite corn kernels, it didn't care whether the two men were thieves or not, and stretched its neck to start snatching them from the other two ducks.
Wang Guoqing was extremely envious. Look, the animals in other people's homes eat better than those of the members of his commune. The members of the commune and his own family often ate coarse grains.
"Brother Wang, look at the trough. The sweet potato vines are mixed with rice bran and corn flour. Sometimes it's not sweet potato vines, but leaves of poplar and locust trees or the grass growing in the wheat fields, and others. Just cut them, chop them up and mix them with rice bran to feed the animals. The corn flour is for nutritional supplement. There is also a kind of pine needle powder, which has only recently been collected for feeding animals. It can be said that pine needle powder is not only nutritious, but also makes animals less likely to get sick after eating it." Li Haoran introduced, pointing to the food in the trough.
Wang Guoqing stretched his hand into the feeding trough and ate something. The duck thought that he was trying to steal food with his finger and pecked at it unceremoniously.
Wang Guoqing retracted his hand and said to the pale yellow powder, "Are those pine needle powder and corn flour?"
"Not all of them. There are other feeds as well, which are to ensure the ducks' complete nutrition. I am not very clear about the specific ingredients." As Li Haoran was talking, he realized that he often worked outside the mountains and only knew part of the things going on in the mountains. In the future, he will have to pay more attention to the mountains, as the business in the mountains is the foundation of his family.
"There seems to be only a small stream here. With so many ducks, is this stream enough for them?" Wang Guoqing couldn't help but wonder when he saw that this place was also very small, much smaller than the chicken farm.
"This kind of duck doesn't like to move around. As long as they have food, they're fine. So they don't need too many places to move around." Li Haoran continued, "This kind of duck is not only big, but also grows fast. They can be put into the market in four months at most."
"So fast, we can raise several batches this year." Wang Guoqing was tempted, and took a few quick steps, walking side by side with Li Haoran, and said in a negotiating tone: "Brother Haoran, can you sell me a few dozen ducks as breeding ducks?"
"Sure, hundreds of them are fine. The question is what are you going to feed them? You don't think they can grow bigger without eating." Li Haoran left Wang Guoqing speechless.
It sounds good to be able to market the cattle in four months, but you also need food and feed. That definitely wouldn't work if it were raised the way the villagers in my village do. I was impulsive. Alas, impulse is the devil. Wang Guoqing regretted speaking.
Li Haoran didn't want to upset his good friend, so he added: "If you want to raise it, you have to do it after the spring next year. At that time, there will be tender wild vegetables and leaves. I remember there is a thorny tree in the back mountain. The ducks will eat the leaves from the tree. You can also feed the chickens. The tender leaves in the spring are just right."
"Really? Which mountain behind it?" Wang Guoqing's eyes were full of green light, reflected by the green leaves of the mountain behind.
"The mountain behind Team Three is your backyard. There must be more than just leaves that can be eaten. Next time you go out of the mountain, ask her to go and find some." Li Haoran continued, "You can also cut the weeds in your wheat fields to feed the chickens and ducks."
Wang Guoqing smiled bitterly and said, "That is gone."
Li Haoran asked curiously, "Is it so good that your wheat fields don't have weeds?" "No, they are pulled out as soon as they grow. Don't people in the village raise pigs? The grass is fed to the pigs. There are no vegetables to grow in the village, so the children of the pig-raising families will look for wild vegetables and young grass all over the ground. And pigs are picky, they won't eat all kinds of grass." Wang Guoqing explained.
If the pigs in his village heard this, they would definitely cry out for justice. "They even eat old grass, but you can't give them the grass that cuts their tongues. All the delicious and edible wild vegetables have been snatched away by those people. They don't even have a chance to taste them, so how can you say they are picky? They are more wronged than Dou E."
Although Wang Guoqing's family also ate wild vegetables, they only picked those that were delicious, so they were naturally unaware of the injustice suffered by the pigs.
When he thought about not being able to raise ducks that grew so fast, he felt a little depressed. Later, when he visited the pig farm and the cattle and sheep farms, he still didn't cheer up.
Li Haoran didn't know whether he had forgotten or didn't want to continue to hurt his good friend, so he didn't take Wang Guoqing to visit the rabbit farm and production department for the time being. Instead, he took him directly back to the cafeteria for lunch.
At noon, people who were working outside came back one after another, and they all took their own plates into the cafeteria to line up for food.
Ziyi had the plates custom-made at a factory, based on the plates used in the student cafeteria in his previous life. One plate can be used for both rice and vegetables.
Wang Guoqing held the plate and exclaimed: "I have never seen anything like it in my life, but I have seen it all here."
Li Haoran was amused and said with a smile: "You have only lived half of your life. You still have a long life ahead of you. There will be more good things for you to see in the future."
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