Da Song a knife

Chapter 43 The Covenant
Zhang Sijiu's words finally pulled back Xu's mind, she nodded again and again: "It can't be calculated like this. If this is the case, we won't be scolded to death? Isn't this bullying children?"

However, she was also a little embarrassed to let Mrs. Xu say that she helped raise pigs for nothing.

It takes a year to raise a pig.

During a year, pigs eat a lot of hogweed every day.

Now that there are not many people in the family, where can I find so many pigweeds?
"Let's do this," Zhang Sijiu saw that Mrs. Xu was already in trouble, so he simply said: "When the pig comes, we will each have half the meat. We will produce pig grass and manpower. You will produce piglets, add some rice bran, etc. The pig is fattened up, and you are called to come when it is time to kill, and you can choose which side you want first, okay?"

Half for one person, it really wasn't Zhang Sijiu who opened his mouth to take advantage.

After all, pigweed needs her to mow.

Moreover, pigs eat a lot.Especially castrated pigs will become lazy accordingly, will not have estrus, and will only grow meat.But to grow meat, food is needed to supplement energy.

Then a lot of hogweed is needed.The human cost is also high.

Of course, just eating grass will not grow fast enough.

That's why she made the request for rice bran and miscellaneous grains.

Yang Yuanding agreed without hesitation: "Okay, let's do it this way, as long as you don't suffer any disadvantages."

Xu waved his hand: "No loss, no loss."

She even wondered if Yang Yuanding would be at a disadvantage.

Yang Yuanding happily entrusted the little pig to Zhang Sijiu: "Take good care of it. My future depends entirely on you."

Zhang Sijiu: ...that doesn't sound right.

Mrs. Xu was also amused: "That's right, how can a pig have something to do with the future? But don't worry, since you hand it over to us, we will take good care of it. It's just that the Chinese New Year is coming up in a few months. I guess I won’t be able to eat it during Chinese New Year, so I have to wait until next spring.”

This is Xu's experience based on his own pig raising.

Pigs that have been raised for a year can grow to a hundred catties, and only after they are killed can they be eaten.

Yang Yuanding and Zhang Sijiu looked at each other, tacitly neither of them mentioned the possibility of eating pork during the Chinese New Year.

Now that I have said it, everyone may not believe it, let's use the facts to speak.

As for the fact that the little pig had been castrated, the two tacitly did not mention it.

After all, it's hard to explain.

And Mrs. Xu looked at the piggy's normal appearance, and didn't look carefully, let alone found the small wound.

So, this little pig was settled in the Zhang family.

Fearing that the big pigs would bully the little pigs, Xu specially re-enclosed a place to feed the pigs—yes, directly encloses a place without a pigsty.

After all, the Zhang family has only one pigsty.

It is said to be a pigsty, but it is actually a shed.It can only play a role of shading and sheltering from rain.

And the design is very bad, there is no connected dry toilet, the excrement and urine are pulled in the corner, and people need to clean it every day.

Therefore, the whole pigsty is smelly, and the pigs are also smelly and dirty.

This is why pigs are regarded as unclean by the nobles, and the reason why they despise its meat.

Zhang Sijiu felt that it was time to improve the dry toilets and pigpens.

Otherwise, piglets grown in such an environment are not only prone to illness, but also pollute the environment.

Zhang Sijiu pulled Yang Yuanding and ran away again, bringing up the matter: "I need your cooperation."

Although Yang Yuanding didn't know what was going on, his trust in Zhang Sijiu had reached the point of blindness, so he didn't hesitate: "Say it!"

Nowadays, dry toilets are made by digging a hole, laying wooden boards on it, and then opening a small hole in the wooden board, and people squat on it to go to the toilet.

How should I put it, it's not only smelly, but also very... dangerous.

Because it is easy to fall into the cesspit.

Zhang Sijiu used tree branches to draw the prototype of modern rural latrines on the ground: "Look, with this design, the cesspit can be directly outside the house, which will not be so smelly, and it will be safer for people to go to the toilet. Not only can human toilets be designed this way, The pigsty is also available. You only need to plan the toilet and the pigsty together, and then leave an opening in each pigsty, and you can directly push the excrement and urine out of the pigsty from the opening and fall into the cesspit.”

"It's also a good thing for pigs. It can reduce the growth of bacteria. Moreover, the floor of the toilet should not be flat. It should be sloped slowly like the bathroom, so that the excrement and urine can flow to the opening."

Yang Yuanding really hasn't been to the countryside much, the only experience he has gone to is to live in a farmhouse, which is like living in a hotel, with flush toilets or squat pits, and he has never seen such the most primitive ones.

Zhang Sijiu spoke seriously, and he listened more seriously.

And I think it's a great design.

But there is a question: "Then what should I do if the cesspit is full?"

Zhang Sijiu shook his head: "It can't be full. Pig manure contains a lot of fiber and undigested grass. It ferments very quickly. The fermented manure can be used as fertilizer."

Now the manure in the cesspit is also used as fertilizer.

Yang Yuanding nodded: "That's no problem. But what should I do?"

"You go back and draw it, and then come back and tell them that this is what you read in your book, so it's better to raise pigs like this." Of course Zhang Sijiu had already figured out how to use Yang Yuanding.

When she mentions this matter, the family will definitely not agree and believe it.

After all, the first one is poor, and the second one, they will see themselves as children.

The most suitable candidate is of course Yang Yuanding.

Yang Yuanding himself is a pig fosterer, and secondly, he is the youngest son of the county magistrate's family. He is a serious scholar of the Eight Classics, and he is also older, so he is more convincing.

The only problem is funding.

Zhang Sijiu rubbed the center of his brows, and quickly thought of a solution to the funding: "When will the ferry start to be built? Do you know?"

The money earned from selling drinks can be used to repair the pigsty. If it is not enough by then...you can only ask Yang Yuanding to make some investment first, and then return the money to him after making money.

Yang Yuanding hadn't caught up with Zhang Sijiu's brain circuit, and was still a little dazed, so he replied subconsciously: "I heard that it's coming soon, it will only take three to five days. When the time comes, we have to sacrifice first."

These days, breaking ground is a major event. Not only do you have to invite someone to count a good day, but you also have to pay homage to various gods to ensure that the project goes smoothly and there is no problem with subsequent use.

Zhang Sijiu nodded: "Then I'll go back and prepare."

It's not summer yet, and she has already thought of a good drink: sour plum soup.

Think of a few more, and there are different flavors for guests to choose from.

In fact, in the city, she discovered that in this dynasty, stalls selling drinks were quite common.

Especially at the gate of the city, there are three or four.

However, most of them are mint drinks and the like, and they are not too complicated.

There are even some crushed ice cubes in those stalls.Used to make cold drinks.

But the ones with ice cubes are more expensive than ordinary ones.

Zhang Sijiu didn't intend to do so many bells and whistles, he just wanted to quench his thirst and cool off the heat—he didn't go to the city anyway, he just sold the ferry.

　Thank you "Jiuxu Chanli" for the little cutie's reward, I'm so embarrassed!

　　Next update, around six o'clock~
　　
　
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