Chapter 261 Opened up a new way to make money
Killing a pig in the village is a particularly important event.
Especially for Shuiqing's family.
Last year, they exchanged rice for mushrooms. This year, due to the flood, rice was no longer possible, but pork was exchanged for mushrooms.
Three or four pounds of mushrooms were exchanged for one pound of pork, or eggs. Most of their chickens were exchanged for rabbits and raised at home, but they also kept one or two chickens at home to hatch chicks. The chicks hatched in the spring have been laying eggs one after another after more than half a year.
So although eggs are exchanged, they are not exchanged much. A lot of mushrooms are kept in the account just to exchange for pork!
Pork is meat, and it is the meat with the most oil!
A few slices of fat are mixed with stir-fried vegetables, and the vegetables and soup are all covered with oil. Eating oily food gives you strength.
When Jiang Hehu and the other two came to the village to announce that their family would kill a pig tomorrow and asked everyone who wanted to exchange pork to come and exchange, the whole village was boiling!
Not only the children cheered, but the adults were also very happy.
Especially the women who are responsible for cooking at home. Carrying soil is too physically demanding. They are struggling with how to nourish the whole family. Shuiqing's family decided to kill a pig. It must be for their sake.
They were digging soil on the mountain today, but they heard from Da Ni, Er Ni and the other five that Fan Jin went to the city to buy a donkey cart and pig fat to supplement their oil and water. Even the servants have pig fat to supplement their oil and water. How can the master's family lack meat?
Every household in the village thinks so.
The next morning
The old village chief's old eyes swept over the children who were so tired that they couldn't straighten their waists yesterday. They were all happy to know that they had meat to eat. He sighed: "Fortunately, there is Jin's family, otherwise I don't know how hard it would be this year."
Other families in the village don't mention it. Their family got the most benefits.
The family followed Jin's boy Shuiqing to exchange rice for potatoes, so they don't have to worry about food during floods.
The children were diligent and honest. The pot of mutton that Shuiqing sent to the eldest brother allowed the three eldest brothers who were digging drainage ditches in the heavy rain to go home and eat mutton for nourishment. It also allowed the family to eat better than during the holidays during the heaviest rainstorms.
This kindness, how can it be...
Wang Guifen also thought of the kindness of the two and smiled: "Indeed! Not to mention the distant past, this year we eat more meat than in previous years!"
The key is that this year there was also a flood.
They couldn't eat enough outside, but they actually ate meat. Although it was not a few times, it was really rare!
"Sister-in-law, how many pounds of meat are you going to exchange this time?" Zhao Lan approached and asked curiously.
The sister-in-law was in charge of the kitchen affairs at home. Anyway, she was better than her, so she just waited to eat.
Everyone else looked at Wang Guifen.
Wang Guifen looked at her father-in-law hesitantly.
When picking mushrooms, even the children of their family went out. There was still a lot of money in the account. If it rained later, they could pick more and exchange them. However, it was a big deal to exchange a few pounds, fat or thin, or less fat and more thin. It was not good for her to make the decision alone.
"You three sisters-in-law can make the decision on food." The old village chief had no opinion.
Wang Guifen looked at the two sisters-in-law again. The two of them had a trusting expression of "you decide"!
They didn't have a mother-in-law, and they didn't have any food distribution system. Anyway, everyone ate everything together. Except that Changlin ate better when he was in the academy, the good and bad food at home were the same.
Wang Guifen came to Shuiqing's house with the trust of the family.
Just like last time, there was a queue in front of the pork chopping board.
Hu the butcher got up early and killed early, but the women in the village wanted to go to pick up soil, so they exchanged pork early and went back to cook it, so that they could eat it at noon and it wouldn't delay their work, so everyone came early.
Wang Guifen thought she was early, but she was not even average.
She first went to the table next to her and asked Yan Qiu to help check how many mushrooms she had saved, and then calculated how many pounds of pork she could exchange for this time.
Shuiqing stood aside, contrary to her previous low-key style, and her voice was so clear that everyone present could hear: "We don't need to exchange too much this time. After picking up the soil, we still have to plow the land, and then plant potatoes. The busy farming season will last until at least mid-September.
We have thought about it, and we will kill a pig every ten days or half a month, and we will also slaughter sheep in the middle. It is better to exchange for fresh ones to take home."
When they heard that there would be more in less than half a month, the crowd became even more excited.
They knew that Shuiqing's father and brother had returned to Niutou Town and brought back many sows and piglets. Those sows gave birth to several litters of piglets one after another. Together with the previous ones, there were several big fat pigs that could be slaughtered.
But they didn't expect that Shuiqing would choose to kill them all at this time.
Shuiqing knew what they were thinking, and said with a hearty smile: "It's okay, when the next busy farming season comes, the previous piglets can be sold again."
In order to raise pigs, she bought "High-yield Sow Breeding Technology", "Pig Breeder Training Materials", and "Postpartum Care of Old Sows" from the mall to study and learn a lot.
An old sow can give birth to two or three litters of piglets a year, and if a litter is good, there will be twelve to fourteen piglets. The several old sows in her family have only given birth to the first round, and there are already dozens of piglets.
And the second round can be given birth to in four to six months, and the number will increase in the future. If they are not killed quickly, it may be too late to cut grass for the pigs!
Choosing to kill pigs at this time is certainly not because of the large number, but the main purpose is to add fuel to the fire over there.
The night is long and dreams are many, and only when the dust settles as soon as possible can we really feel at ease.
When Wang Guifen heard Shuiqing's words, she had an idea. If she also raised pigs at home, she would slaughter one and smoke part of it during the New Year. Wouldn't she have pork to eat during the busy farming season in the future?
In the past, I was reluctant to buy piglets, fearing that it would be a loss if they died. Besides, the house was not big enough to live in, and if the pigs were crowded together, the stinky smell would be even worse.
After seeing Shuiqing's way of raising pigs, it is entirely possible to open up a piece of land at the edge of the village wall, build a special pig house, and dig a ditch underneath to discharge pig manure to the outside of the wall for composting.
The piglets can be purchased from Shuiqing, so that the villagers can raise pigs together, which will also be an income in the future.
The more Wang Guifen thought about it, the more feasible it seemed, and she quickly pulled Shuiqing aside to express her idea.
Shuiqing didn't expect that her high-profile behavior with ulterior motives would actually open up a new way to make money: selling piglets.
This is good, just keep enough for your own consumption, and you can sell the rest.
And when people in the village start raising pigs, they have to kill them when they are out of the market, right? Then, in the future, you don't have to go to Fucheng or Niutou Town to buy fresh meat for yourself!
You can eat local farmers' pork in the village, which is pork freedom in the true sense!
Seeing Shuiqing agreed to sell the piglets at the regular price outside, Wang Guifen almost trotted home after exchanging the pork to tell her family about this idea.
Other women who exchanged pork walked towards the village in groups of three or five, smiling.
They discussed enthusiastically while walking.
Fan's mother was not worried about not having meat, because she had her share of filial piety from her son anyway.
Sun Jinhua heard the discussion and swallowed her saliva greedily.
Her eyes fell on her daughter who was standing on tiptoe to dry wet clothes.