My village can't be like this

Chapter 385 Acquisition of Plantain

"By the way, my relative will bring Piggy over tomorrow. You should be at home."

After chatting with Zhang An for a long time, Zhang Jianwen was about to go home. Before leaving, he told Zhang An about the piglets.

Zhang Jianguo had called before, but the man selling the piglets had something to do at home these two days, so he pushed it until tomorrow.

If Zhang Jianwen had nothing to do before, he would have driven the carriage back there by himself.

But there is no way, there are things going on everywhere in the village during this time, and I really can't do without him.

"I have nothing else to do tomorrow, but in the afternoon I will go to the other side to help Uncle Li cook the bottom of the pot. If you come, you can come and find me. I will be at home the rest of the time."

Zhang An usually doesn't go out when there's nothing going on. He doesn't even take a single step in the town, let alone the city.

As long as he went to a place so close to the bridge, he would shout to Zhang Jianwen. At most, it wouldn't take much effort to go over and shout.

"You don't have to wait until the afternoon. He will be here in the morning. There will be nothing to delay you."

After seeing Zhang Jianwen off, Zhang An walked to the pen with an iron broom and cleaned up the pig pen at home.

Ever since the batch of fat pigs raised at home were slaughtered and sold, the pig pen at home has become empty.

Since the new piglets are coming tomorrow, Zhang An will naturally prepare a clean and comfortable environment for them to receive the wind and wash away the dust.

Only in a comfortable and good environment can those piglets grow up happily and carefree.

After all, pigs that grow up in a happy state will have a much higher quality meat.

"Xiao An, why are you thinking of coming over to clean the pig pen?"

Every morning and evening is the time for the chickens, ducks and geese at home to lay eggs.

So at these two hours every day, Wang Fangtie would come to the pen to collect the eggs that had just been laid.

But when Wang Fang came in, she found that her son, who usually didn't want to do anything, was cleaning the pig pen today.

"Mom, my uncle and I bought some piglets from mountain pigs. They will bring them here tomorrow, so I will clean up the pigsty first and then disinfect it."

Zhang Jianwen casually mentioned the matter of selling pigs to him before.

However, Zhang An had been busy raising seedlings for the past two days, and he forgot to tell his family.

So Wang Fang still doesn't know that Zhang An has already bought this year's piglets behind their backs.

"Your father and I were still discussing last night whether we should take time to buy a few in the next few days. Unexpectedly, you sold them. This will save us the trouble of going to the street again."

Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo have become accustomed to raising pigs at home over the years. It doesn't matter whether they sell them or not, but they must raise the pigs they kill during the Chinese New Year.

"But it's not easy to raise mountain pigs. If they are let out, they might not come back."

Wang Fang has raised pigs for so many years, so she naturally has no idea about the temperament of Gunshan pigs.

"Mom, you don't have to worry about this. Just have two dogs to guard them when the time comes. Our dogs can even herd sheep, so the pigs are no problem."

With so many big dogs at home, it’s time for them to come into play.

It’s all about raising an army for a thousand days and using it for a while. The big dogs at home have been raised for several years. Not to mention a thousand days, there must be hundreds of days. It’s time to make some contribution to the family.

Zhang An has already made plans and will send two of them to herd sheep in the mountains with his father, Zhang Jianguo.

He stayed for two days to guard the house, and put all the rest in the back mountain to guard those rolling mountain pigs.

Although the mountain pigs are wild and like to wander around, they are as courageous as mice. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are as timid as mice.

When the time comes, I will let the big dogs at home guard me. They will definitely stay on the mountain and roll around.

Moreover, Zhang An still has space. At worst, he can bring them in and tame them briefly.

They don't need to be clever, they just need to remember how to go out and how to come back.

After all, they are a bunch of pig brains, and Zhang An doesn't have high requirements for them.

In the evening, while Zhang An and his family were having dinner, Fatty Lu called.

"Hey, Zhang An, do you have plantains planted in your orchard?"

After answering the phone, Fatty Lu briefly chatted with Zhang An and then started talking about business.

"Yeah, it's estimated to be about a hundred acres. What's wrong? Have you changed your career?"

Fatty Lu didn't mention their fish, but instead thought about the plantains in the orchard, which surprised Zhang An.

After all, every time this guy calls, he can't talk about the fish in Zhang An's family.

For a moment, Zhang An felt that this man had changed his profession from selling fish to selling medicinal materials.

"No, no, I have a friend who makes medicinal materials. There is a big gap in plantains there now. I was thinking that you have a large area in your orchard, so I asked him if you have sold it. plan."

Fatty Lu didn't know about other things, but he was very familiar with plantain.

Why, because Zhang An's orchard is full of them. Every time he goes to Zhang An's orchard, all he sees are alfalfa and plantain. It would be weird if he didn't leave a deep impression.

When his friend heard that there were so many, he begged Fatty Lu to ask to see if Zhang An had any thoughts of betrayal.

After all, such a large piece of plantain would not be too little to play with. If he were to collect it piecemeal, it might take a lot of time.

If Zhang An sells it here, he can save a lot of effort and avoid a lot of trouble.

Although he knew that the plantains in Zhang An's orchard had never been sold since they were planted, they had always been there.

But he didn't agree on behalf of Zhang An, but called first to ask.

"It's too troublesome. To sell that thing, I have to find someone to dig it up. I'm too lazy to bother with that."

Although there are so many plantains, if you dig them up and sell them, they may not fetch much.

Zhang An, with his lazy temperament, would definitely not find trouble for himself.

He just thought that Fatty Lu wanted to introduce business to him, so he refused without thinking.

"Zhang An, your grass won't be of much use if you keep it in the orchard anyway. Why don't you just sell it? This is a very good friend of mine. The gap here is really big, and he is also willing to raise the price. .”

It turns out that what happened was that Fatty Lu’s friend had a rather important pharmaceutical client.

The factory received a very large order this year, and one of the essential ingredients for medicine is plantain.

Usually this thing is rarely used, so they don't have much in reserve.

A big order suddenly came in this year, and naturally those pitiful reserves couldn't supply it.

Generally, such large orders are not only related to how much money can be earned, but also reflect the overall strength of a pharmaceutical factory.

Therefore, the factory did not want to give up, so the pharmaceutical factory began to seek help from these suppliers of medicinal materials, and Fatty Lu's friend was one of them.

The demand this time is relatively large and it is not easy to handle.

But it’s not easy to refuse at this time. Once you refuse, the customer will stay away from you in the future.So Fatty Lu’s herbal medicine friend gritted his teeth and agreed.

Upon hearing Zhang An's rejection, Fatty Lu didn't think Zhang An wanted to raise the price, but felt that Zhang An had no such intention at all.

Because Zhang An initially planted alfalfa and plantain in the orchard, not for the purpose of selling medicinal materials.

It was to improve the soil quality of the loess slope in the back mountain. Fatty Lu and the others knew about this a long time ago.

But now that the soil quality in Zhang An's orchard has improved very much, it's useless to keep those plantains there.

Both sides were friends, so Fatty Lu wanted to help make peace.

Anyway, the price of plantain has increased a lot now. If we can reconcile it, we can get money and solve the problem at the same time.

"Since you said it's so urgent, I'll call for people to start digging in the next two days. You can prepare a car to pull it over, but the things dug out are all raw and there will be no time to dry them."

Zhang An was afraid of trouble before, but Fatty Lu said so, so he thought about it and agreed.

For Fatty Lu to say this, he must be a friend with whom he has a very good relationship.

"No, no, no, just dig it out, no need to dry it, then I'll let him go in the next two days."

On the other end of the phone, in addition to Fatty Lu's voice, Zhang An also heard another very excited voice, which was probably the friend Fatty Lu mentioned.

"I won't say thank you very much. If anything happens in the future, I'll just look at my brother's performance."

Fatty Lu knew that Zhang An was able to agree in the end entirely because of him.

Although Zhang An could make money from selling this time, Fatty Lu knew that this little money was nothing to Zhang An.

Therefore, he must accept this favor.

"Okay, okay, what a big deal, by the way, my fish pond was dug up by me..."

"What? Did your fish pond get damaged?"

Before Zhang An could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Fatty Lu and asked loudly.

Don't blame him for being excited, because Zhang An's small pond is simply his life.

He couldn't sit still when he heard that Zhang An had dug the fish pond.

"No, Zhang An, why are you digging that fish pond? It's not big to begin with, so why bother digging it?"

"Okay, okay, no matter how old you are, you don't even want to finish your words, right?"

Listening to Fatty Lu howling to death on the other side of the phone, Zhang An was a little bit dumbfounded.

"I mean, I dug my fish pond again and now it's expanded to four acres. Next time you want to catch fish, you'll have to drive two cars over."

"It's expanded. This is a good thing. Do you know that it almost scared me to death? Your fish pond is my life. If it's gone, how can I live?"

When he heard that the fish pond was still there and had been expanded by Zhang An from half an acre to four acres, Fatty Lu immediately came back to life.

And I am even happier than before, after all, a small pond of half an acre can produce so many fish.

Now it has become four acres, an increase of eight times. He can't even imagine how many fish he got at that time.

There was only one thought in my mind, it was time for me to take off.

Although he has never experienced passionate love in this life, at that moment, he had already experienced what it meant to regain something lost.

The feeling just now was like the girlfriend who had been dating him hiding his identity and suddenly disappeared.

When he was in a state of despair, the other party suddenly appeared in front of him and told him that she was like a very rich eldest lady in her family.

"Okay, that's your life, so I'll fill it in now. I'll see if you're really dead."

"Don't, Zhang An, you can't make such a joke. We don't want to be so scary between brothers. Well, my friend just said that if possible, we will go there tomorrow and watch you dig it out."

"Okay, I'm always at home anyway, you can come anytime."

It seemed that Fatty Lu's friend was really in a hurry, otherwise he wouldn't have thought of coming to the scene to supervise the troops.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang An shook his head and went back to the table to eat.

"Is it Xiao Lu? Why does it sound like killing a pig on the phone?"

Phones these days are very loud even if they are not on speakerphone.

Even though there was a wall, Wang Fang could still hear the call coming from Fatty Lu.

"It's nothing. I told him that our fish pond was dug again, but he didn't listen and thought I filled the fish pond, so he died there."

Zhang An explained what happened on the phone, and everyone in the family was made to laugh by Fatty Lu.

"By the way, Mom, after you finish eating, go to the village to find some people. We have work to do tomorrow."

Zhang An thought about digging plantains and told his mother Wang Fang. After all, as the family's personnel manager, Wang Fang was always in charge of hiring people.

And this time we were invited to dig plantains, and we had to invite some women. Men basically couldn't do this job.

So most of them have to invite Wang Fang’s group of old sisters.

"Is there any other work at home? Why do you need to hire someone all of a sudden?"

Wang Fang thought about it for a while and felt something was wrong. She had just finished her work at home and it was basically nothing important. Why did she start hiring people again?

"It's like this. Fatty Lu has a friend who buys medicinal materials. This time he needs a large batch of plantains. He knows that we have a lot of plantains in our orchard, so that's what he just called to talk about."

"Hey, can that thing still be sold for money? We used to cut a lot of it to feed pigs."

Wang Fang heard that someone could buy the plantains in the orchard, and it sounded like they could be sold at a high price.

I feel a little distressed at the moment. I didn’t know how much I harvested before and fed it to the livestock at home.

"Isn't this strange? Plantain is a kind of medicinal material. Mrs. Wang used to dig it all over the fields to boil water for her husband."

Things like plantain, field pepper and dandelion are actually often used to treat diseases in rural areas.

It's just that some people don't pay much attention to it, so it's not very clear.

"Anyway, they need it urgently. Mom, please ask for more. Anyway, there is not much work these two days. It is convenient to hire people, and try to hire some women. After all, this kind of work requires those macho men to do it carelessly."

"Then after I finish eating, I go out for a walk, and then let them come and dig it tomorrow?"

These two days are not busy farming season. As long as Wang Fang goes out for a walk, there will be as many people as he wants.

The last time Zhang An's family invited people, many people wanted to come, but Zhang An's family couldn't ask for so many people, so many people couldn't come, which was quite disappointing.

This time it's better, this time Wang Fang can call out all those who have never thought about it.

(End of this chapter)