Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1678 The Real Academic Master

Gillette said, "It's better to raise chickens yourself. It hurts to see Elbow using money to buy eggs for the kids. Don't worry, Elbow. Raising chickens is my specialty since I was a child. I will definitely raise them well for you!"

"How about this? We can make the chicken farm bigger?" Zhou Zhi felt that this enthusiasm and resources must be utilized.

"There's no need to rush." ​​Chi Ri disagreed, "Let's take it step by step, raise them ourselves and then breed them. Not only can we save money, but the chicks will also be familiar with the local climate and can be raised safely."

"So that's how it is. It seems I need to learn how to raise chickens from my aunt. I ate shredded chicken in Meigu today, and it was so delicious!"

"But the chicken farm has to be opened in the pine forest on the back slope of the mountain." Old Chi Ri said: "The water problem must be solved. There was a landslide on the mountain before, which destroyed the waterway from the back mountain. It's still a bit annoying to carry water up."

"Brother Elbow said that the problem can be solved through wells and irrigation stations." said Jike Azi.

"Brother Elbow also said that we have to ask Brother Renzhong to go to the state and cry for funding before we can build a pumped well." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "The pumping station is not a big problem, but our small power station cannot drive a motor with too high power, so we have to build a water storage well and pump water in stages before we can go up the mountain."

"It would be easy if we had an electric motor. We wouldn't have to pump water in stages." Lao Chiri said, "We can connect the mountain tap to the place where the water was first diverted, and pump the stream water over the landslide section, and then we can use the old canal."

"What is a mountain dragon?" Zhou Zhi didn't understand.

"It's a kind of pipe, built on the slope." Tu Liangzhi explained to Zhou Zhi: "As long as it is filled with water and there are no bubbles, the water will automatically be sucked from one end to the other. This kind of pipe is called a mountain dragon."

"So powerful?" Zhou Zhi asked in surprise, "This is something that uses the siphon phenomenon, right?"

"It's probably thousands of years old." Old Chi Ri said, "It's already existed in ancient songs. It's nothing new."

"In ancient times, there were no motors to pump water into the pipes. How did our ancestors start the siphon? In other words, how did they expel the gas in the pipe and turn it into a sealed pipe filled with water?"

"Is it difficult?" Old Chi Ri was confused: "First, plug both ends of the pipe, then drill a hole at the highest point of the pipe over the mountain, insert a small tube and pour water into it, plug the small tube after it is filled with water, and open both ends, isn't it done?"

"Hey! This is a great idea!" Zhou Zhi clapped his hands and said, "Why didn't the village build this dragon to draw water over here?"

"Because no one has thought of raising chickens in the Banpo pine forest." Lao Chiri said, "At most, they can herd sheep. Sheep can go down the mountain to drink water."

"We didn't do a good job of research when we first arrived." Zhou Zhi shook his head. "We were a little too presumptuous before and didn't take into account the actual situation in Lianhe Township. So, Grandpa will take us to investigate tomorrow? If this method works, it will be much easier to build orchards, raise cattle and sheep, and solve water source problems in the future."

"Orchard? Isn't it a chicken farm?" Lao Chi Ri was stunned again.

"I think based on the soil and climate of our village, it is suitable to grow pomegranates like Huili." Zhou Zhi said: "The price of pomegranates is still good even if they are sold in the state, and the sales have always been good."

"Comrades from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences came to inspect us before." Tu Liangzhi said, "Indeed, they said that our village is suitable for growing pomegranates and apples."

"But it's still a water source issue. Ever since the landslide destroyed the waterway, the county has stopped talking about it."

“Why do we have to wait for the county to bring it up?”

"Because we have to get money from the county, do you think we can afford the pomegranate seedlings?" "No, there must be no poverty alleviation projects in the county or state, right?" Zhou Zhi was becoming more and more confused.

"Yes, the county Agricultural Bank sent us piglets so we could raise them."

"Then what?" Zhou Zhi recalled what he had seen in the village over the past few days: "Where are the pigs?"

"I can't afford it, so I just..."

Zhou Zhi understood: "So it became the Tuotuo meat used in the Yi New Year, right? It's really delicious with the Gan Gan wine!"

"It's really unreasonable for the Agricultural Bank to support us!" Gillette said, "Our bean dregs are eaten by humans, and we can't even feed them to cows, so how can we raise pigs?"

Wu Renzhong was completely dumbfounded. When he first heard that the villagers ate the piglets that the Agricultural Bank of China used to help alleviate poverty, he felt very angry. He felt that the villagers were not aware enough, were lazy, and were hopeless.

  After Tu Liangzhi and Jilie Abi said this, Wu Renzhong began to think that the city cadres were just messing around and had totally ignored the real situation in the countryside. It would be nice if you could bring a few lambs over, but wouldn't it be better to celebrate the Yi New Year if you could bring a suckling pig over?

On the way back, the confidence that had just been boosted by Zhou Zhi was hit so hard by the actual situation in Lianhe Township that I wanted to back down.

Shama Ricong said: "Renzhong should learn more from Uncle Tu and Grandpa Chiri and should not make the same mistakes as the poverty alleviation units in the city."

Jike Chiri felt that the atmosphere at the dinner table had become a little awkward, and said, "If the water problem can be solved, the orchard proposed by Elbow is actually a good project."

He then laughed at himself and said, "At least the little piglets can be used to make meat, but you can't bear to use the fruit tree seedlings to make a fire, right?"

This sentence made everyone laugh, and the atmosphere just now eased immediately.

After dinner, the villagers were still watching TV in the conference room. There were a lot more people than before. There were no seats left in the conference room, so they squeezed in front of the door and outside the window to watch.

"We still need to bring the coaxial cable from the prefecture here," Wu Renzhong said. "Many villagers don't even speak Chinese. They can only watch images and listen to songs on TV. There is a Yi language radio station in the prefecture, but we can't receive the signal from the county TV tower here."

"You're daydreaming." Zhou Zhi knew clearly that it was impossible for the county to build a TV signal tower specifically for Lianhe Township, let alone run a coaxial cable to Lianhe Township.

The real solution will have to wait for decades, and it will take the fiber optic wiring of wired networks and wireless network base stations to be used with set-top boxes to solve this problem.

"Fortunately, Aguo and the others can speak Chinese." Zhou Zhi said, "It is from their generation that Lianhe Township will be connected to the outside world."

Everyone came to Jike Azi's room. There were electric lights in the room now, illuminating an entire wall of awards. Those were the various awards that Jike Azi had won since she was a child, and Jilie Abi had posted them all here.

"Azi is amazing!" Shama Ricong praised, "So many awards, Elbow, do you have more?"

"Me?" Zhou Zhi couldn't help but laugh. "I was naughty all my life. It was not until the second semester of my senior year that I started to change my ways and study hard. I'm far behind Ah Zi."

After saying that, he looked at the wall of award certificates and shook his head, "If we talk about top students, Ah Zi is the real top student."