The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 3 Homecoming

Clean short ear-length hair, neat bangs, cloud-like sideburns, and a delicate face, Ma Lili is the type of girl I like.However, in the previous life, by the time Wang Shaodong figured out what kind of girl he liked, Ma Lili was already the mother of a child.

"Tomorrow? I seem to be free. What are your plans?" Hearing Wang Shaodong asking if she was free tomorrow, Ma Lili was a little flustered and excited.

"Tomorrow, I will go to the Internet cafe in the county to find out how to apply for a volunteer. Do you want to go together?"

In fact, Wang Shaodong didn't want to fill in the college entrance examination at all, because he knew very well that his college entrance examination score this time would not exceed [-] points, and he was not even qualified for the second batch of college entrance examinations.However, this reason was the most upright one for asking Ma Lili to come out. Presumably Ma Lili's father, Ma Zhentang, would not have any objections.

Next, Ma Lili may be the key person to prevent the tragedy of bird flu from happening to the four poultry farmers in Taohualing Village.

When Ma Lili heard this, she seemed to hesitate.

"It's really necessary to go to the Internet cafe to find out how to fill in the application for the college entrance examination, but, Shaodong, I don't know how to surf the Internet."

Indeed, in 2002, when Internet cafes first appeared in the fifth-tier city of Gangcheng County, it was normal for many high school students like Ma Lili to have never touched a computer and could not surf the Internet.

"It's okay, I'll teach you." Wang Shaodong said very sincerely.

Ma Lili looked at Wang Shaodong with admiration: "Shaodong, do you know how to surf the Internet?"

In that era, being able to surf the Internet was almost equivalent to the glory of being the strongest king in 2017.

Wang Shaodong nodded slightly. He was very satisfied with the other party's admiration for him, which was a good foundation for his next plan.

From No. 33 Fuqian Street, Gangcheng County, where Luzhong No. 205 Middle School is located, to Taohualing Village, Dazhai Township, the home of Wang Shaodong and Ma Lili, it was a total of twenty miles away.At the beginning, Fuqian Street and National Highway [-] were flat asphalt roads, but after passing Dazhai Village to the west, the remaining ten miles were full of bumpy rural dirt roads.

Wang Shaodong remembers that it was after 2008 that this road was asphalted.

The three-wheeled motorcycle parked under the archway at the head of Taohualing Village, and further inside was a very narrow alley, and the three-wheeled motorcycle could not pass through.

Wang Shaodong took the initiative to pay ten yuan for the motorcycle fee, and then asked Ma Lili to look after the luggage at the head of the village, while he ran home to push a small cart, and was busy taking bedding, books and miscellaneous things to the farm. transport.

Wang Shaodong's chicken farm and Ma Lili's chicken farm were next to each other. After bringing back their luggage, the two went home separately.

Since chickens, ducks, and pigs were added to the farm, the eight farmers have all moved to the farm.

Wang Shaodong's farm covers an area of ​​five acres, surrounded by two-meter-high hollow brick courtyard walls, and the gate faces west.The three tile-roofed houses with whitewashed walls in the northwest corner are the living room and parents’ bedroom; the two rows of six unpainted houses in the southwest corner are warehouses for stacking feed; Wang Shaodong’s bedroom is on the north side of the entrance gate, which is Two bungalows.

Facing the gate of the iron fence about ten meters away, there is a shadow wall.To the east of the screen wall is a vegetable garden with an area of ​​three quarters. To the east of the vegetable garden, there are two steel structure chicken greenhouses. In 2002, the investment of the greenhouses required more than 6 yuan, but after 2016, such greenhouses did not have 15 yuan. It cannot be built.

The two greenhouses are 10 meters wide from north to south and 100 meters long from east to west. There is a gap of [-] meters between the greenhouses. In the gap, Wang Fumin planted two rows of poplar trees with a small road in the middle.

There was no one in the house, and Wang Shaodong knew that his parents must be in the chicken shed.

Walking to the shed, Wang Shaodong saw that his father was adding feed to the feed trough with a woven bag, while his mother, Zhao Shiling, was adding water to the water trough.

The three yellows raised by Wang's family are now close to 130 days old, and their weight has risen to an average of four and a half catties, which has met the standard for slaughter.

Sanhuang belongs to hybrid chickens. There are broiler chickens and native chickens. The broiler breeds are slaughtered at 52 days old, while the native chickens need to be slaughtered at 120 days or older, preferably before 180 days old.If the chickens are slaughtered early, the weight will be reduced, and if they are slaughtered too late, the chickens will only eat feed and will not grow meat, so it is not cost-effective.

However, Wang Shaodong's father, Wang Fumin, saw that the price of raw chicken has been rising recently, from about [-] yuan during the Chinese New Year to more than [-] yuan now.He feels that the price of raw chicken will continue to rise before the [-]th day of the seventh lunar month this year, so in the last few days, he wants to wait and see, and plans to wait until the price rises again before selling.

However, Wang Fumin didn't know that the disaster of bird flu was approaching him step by step.

"mom!"

Inside the chicken shed, it was dusty and the air was very poor. Both Wang Fumin and Zhao Shiling wore masks.

Wang Shaodong yelled, then picked up a clean mask at the door of the shed and put it on, and then he also carried a bag of [-] catties of feed to feed the chickens.

Wang's chickens are raised on the ground in greenhouses, which are more difficult to manage than chickens raised in cages.However, the chickens raised in this way are not much different from the free-range chickens raised in the home. Both in terms of appearance and meat quality, they are a level higher than chickens raised in cages.

Seeing that their son was sensible enough to help, Wang Fumin and Zhao Shiling nodded in satisfaction.

Free-range on the ground requires special feed troughs and drinking troughs.The feed trough is a tall cylindrical plastic set on a cone-shaped plastic, and a large disc-shaped plastic is placed underneath. When filling, the feed is directly poured into the cylinder, and then the feed in the cylinder Drop along the cone plastic into the disc plastic for the chickens to eat.The drinking trough is a plastic bucket buckled upside down on the disc.In 2002, the local farms in Gangcheng County did not have automatic drinking water equipment and feeding equipment.

However, Wang Shaodong was not worried about this. Based on his own memory, he should be able to fiddle with the labor-saving equipment in a short time.

The biggest trouble facing Wang Shaodong now is the issue of bird flu.

"Son, how did you do in the exam?" Wang Fumin took off his mask and looked at his son with a smile.

Zhao Shiling also took off the mask: "Seeing my son smiling so happily, I think our son is going to college this time."

When Wang Shaodong heard this, he quickly waved his hands and said, "Mom, your son has tried his best. If he fails to pass the exam, it's up to God."

Wang Shaodong really tried his best, and he could barely cope with the two-day college entrance examination after searching his memory 15 years ago.

Wang Fumin and his wife have always been very confident in their son's studies, and would not believe that his son would fail the university entrance exam.

"Son, be hungry, Mom will cook something delicious for you right now."

Wang Shaodong nodded vigorously, he hadn't eaten the meal made by his mother for a long time.

(End of this chapter)