The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 116
In less than 10 minutes, it will be February [-], and the dragon will raise its head.

The car that Li Hong sent chickens to Wang Shaodong arrived in front of the archway in Taohualing Village at [-]:[-] p.m. on the first day of the second lunar month. At this time, Wang Shaodong and Zheng Tao were waiting under the archway.

Zheng Hui is still in the chicken coop on the mountain, using electric heating fans and standing stoves to increase the room temperature.

"Xiao Wang, where are the chicks going?" Li Hong jumped off the co-pilot and asked Wang Shaodong.

On the phone, Wang Shaodong had already told Li Hong that this batch of chicks would not be transported to their chicken farm, and then asked him to wait at the archway of Taohualing Village, and Wang Shaodong wanted to show Li Hong the way.

"Uncle Hongzi, transport it to the foot of the mountain over there." Wang Shaodong said, pointing to the dark direction to the west.

"Is the road easy to go?"

"It's not easy to go, be careful."

"How far is it?"

"About two miles away."

"How shall we go?"

Wang Shaodong pointed to Zheng Tao and said, "Let him lead the way on a motorcycle, and let's go inside the cab."

Li Hong nodded and said to Wang Shaodong, "Get in the car."

The road was difficult, and it was not enough to let Zheng Tao lead the way. Some places were more difficult to walk, and Wang Shaodong had to remind the driver in the cab.

The car that delivered the chickens was a double-row container, so after Wang Shaodong got on the car, he had a place to sit.

As soon as Wang Shaodong and the others got into the car, Zheng Tao led the way on a motorcycle in front.

The road leading to the foot of Songbai Mountain, where Wang Shaodong built the chicken coop, is all dirt roads.Fortunately, this season is not the rainy season, otherwise it is difficult to go up the mountain even with a tractor, let alone a box of goods.

The dirt road up the mountain is similar to the dirt road on the side of Wang Shaodong's farm. It was originally a small road, but was later pushed out by a tractor pulling rocks up the mountain into a main road.

Some places are full of potholes, and unfamiliar drivers can easily get stuck in the potholes.

If he really left the car on the road in the middle of the night, those chickens of Wang Shaodong would be in trouble.

Along the way, Wang Shaodong had to remind the driver from time to time that the last distance was less than 1000 meters, and he ran for 10 to [-] minutes, which was not much faster than walking.

As soon as the car stopped, Wang Shaodong and Li Hong quickly jumped out of the car and ran into the chicken coop.

The entire chicken coop is more than 50 square meters, and an electric heater is working, and there is a stove with a large mouth on the south wall.The windows were sealed with plastic sheets, and a thick cotton mattress was hung at the door to block the cold air outside. When he arrived in the chicken coop, Li Hong hurriedly glanced at the temperature and humidity meter hanging at the entrance, and nodded: "Yes, hurry up." Order the chicken."

"Come on, Zheng Hui and Zheng Tao, let's get the chicken box."

Chickens are afraid of the cold, so long-distance transportation of chickens must use air-conditioned boxes, and the chickens must be packed in wooden boxes covered with thick insulating plastic sheets.

Generally, this kind of box specially used to hold chicks can hold [-] chicks in one box. When counting the chicks, you only need to count the number of boxes at the end.

Wang Shaodong ordered five hundred chickens, which happened to be ten boxes.

"Okay, Xiao Wang, are you going to jump out and do it yourself?"

Seeing that neither Wang Fumin nor his wife came, Li Hong smiled and said to Wang Shaodong.

The young chickens were scattered into the small chicken coop surrounded by plastic cloth. At the beginning, in order to keep warm, the breeding density of the chicken coop will be very high, and the free-range breeding can reach 50 per square meter, while Only a small chick, as long as 10 square meters of chicken coop is enough.

Wang Shaodong turned his head and smiled at Li Hong, and said, "Uncle, my dad has [-] meat chickens, and the mountain must not be able to take care of them."

The temperature inside the room looks like 23 or 29 degrees, while the temperature in the chicken coop surrounded by plastic sheets is around [-] degrees.

29 degrees is just the right temperature, which is most suitable for the growth and rest of chicks.

After everyone finished their work, Wang Shaodong left Zheng Hui in the chicken coop to feed the chicks with potassium permanganate solution and wait for them to excrete meconium. Then Wang Shaodong took Li Hong and others to the next room.Chicks, like babies, need to pass meconium before feeding.

There are a total of ten rooms in this row, all of which are sloping sheds with a north wall of four meters and a south wall of two meters. The entrance door is 1.8 meters. Tall people need to bow their heads to enter.

There are three beds in this room, where Wang Shaodong, Zheng Hui and Zheng Tao sleep.

This room is half smaller than the chicken coop where the chickens are raised now, only about [-] square meters.After entering the door, there is a small square table not far away, on which there are four ready-made dishes, namely a plate of fried peanuts, a plate of Shun Xiangzhai sausage, a plate of jelly pork skin, a plate of fried pork with green peppers and a pot of tomatoes egg soup.

Four dishes and one soup, not bad.

Li Hong and the others traveled more than 200 miles from Sidian Town to here, and they came here in a rush, so they had to soak for six or seven hours on the way.

Generally speaking, Li Hong and the others had to start catching chickens as soon as it got dark at six o'clock, and then they had to go on the road after eating the porridge in a hurry.The chicks are caught from the constant temperature incubator and must be transported to the chicken farmer's home within eight hours. Otherwise, the chicks will catch a cold easily after a long time.

After working hard all the way, when they reached the farmer's house, Li Hong and the others would definitely be hungry, and they would have to get some food for them at one o'clock.

Li Hong was a down-to-earth person, so he asked the driver to sit down to eat, and Wang Shaodong and Zheng Tao also ate with them.

These dishes were all made by Zheng Hui. It has to be said that Zheng Hui's cooking skills are still very good, although not as good as Wang Shaodong's mother, but definitely much better than most men.

"Uncle, you are all tired. After eating, lie down here for a while and wait until dawn before leaving."

The driver looked at Li Hong with lingering fear and said, "This road is really difficult, don't ask me for this job next time."

Li Hong smiled, turned his head to look at Wang Shaodong and said, "Okay, let's go after dawn."

"Uncle, how much is the money for chicken seedlings?"

"One chicken for two yuan."

In the first few days, the white-feathered broiler chicks sold at Wang Shaodong's house cost [-] yuan. According to the usual practice, the price of Hongyu rooster chicks should be around [-] yuan.

"Well, I'll give you 1500 yuan and [-] yuan, and I'll give you [-] after adding the fare."

Chickens cost two and three yuan, and according to the previous practice, Li Hong has to pay 3 cents for each chicken. In this way, he has 500 yuan for 150 chickens, and the fare has always been 200 yuan. Calculated, it is 1450 yuan.For Wang Shaodong's initiative to give an extra 50 yuan, Li Hong shook his head and smiled.

"Why do you need to pay an extra 50 yuan? Besides, I don't plan to take my 3 cents this time, so don't count it. How about it, you can give me 1300 yuan."

Others bargained in the hope that they would suffer less and gain more, but now Wang Shaodong and Li Hong were vying to let each other take advantage, which confused the driver who came with the car and Zheng Tao next to him.

(End of this chapter)