Rebirth 1980: Marrying my sister’s best friend at the beginning

Chapter 417 Villagers who are out of food!

Nianzishan Village. The Li family’s old house!

After driving for more than six hours continuously and plowing the fields for most of the night last night, Li Yi, who always felt that he was as strong as an ox, also felt a little tired.

So after a brief meal, he went to the west room and fell asleep!

He didn't know how long he had slept, but Li Yi vaguely heard the conversation of a man.

After a while, Li Yi slowly opened his eyes and climbed up from the kang.

Looking outside through the window, Li Yi saw that the sky had completely darkened.

Looking at his watch, it was already eight o'clock, and he had slept for more than three hours.

At this moment, Li Yi heard a burst of hearty laughter coming from you in the main room next door. The voice seemed to belong to Uncle Feng.

At the moment, Li Yi got off the kang and put on his shoes, then opened the door and walked towards the main room.

Sure enough, when he came to the main room, he saw Feng Kai, Zhang Tongfu and the village accountant Chen Wanzong all there.

These people were either sitting on the fire-burning bench, squatting on the ground leaning on the big red cabinet, or straddling the edge of the kang, listening with relish to their father's stories about the capital.

When they hear something happy, a few people will laugh heartily.

Seeing Li Yi push the door in, Feng Kai immediately asked with a smile: "Yi Wazi, are you awake?"

"Uncle Feng, Uncle Zhang, Uncle Chen, why are you here?" Li Yi asked with a smile.

"We heard that there was a car parked in your yard, so we concluded that your father and mother were back, so we came to take a look!" Feng Kai replied.

Li Shankui on the side smiled when he heard this, and then said to Li Yi: "Don't listen to Lao Feng's nonsense, he is not here to see me and your mother, but to come to you!"

"Find me?"

Feng Kai smiled and said: "Well, we came to you to discuss with you the selling of sheep in the village!"

"Can the sheep in the village be put out?"

"Okay, we asked someone to check it out. Most of the Jie sheep can kill fifty or sixty pounds of mutton, and they are ready for slaughter!" Feng Kai said.

Hearing this, Li Yi's heart suddenly moved, and he immediately asked: "How many sheep do we have for slaughter now?"

"More than 500!"

Li Yi thought for a while and said: "Okay, Uncle Feng, I will contact the capital tomorrow. If there is no problem, I will send the sheep to the capital! As for the money, I will settle the settlement with the village according to the market price."

"Okay! When the time comes, you only need to pay half of the settlement to the village, and the remaining half is yours!"

"Well, by the way, Uncle Feng, how are the cattle doing? When will they be released?" Li Yi asked again.

"The cow is not good enough. That thing grows too slowly. I guess it will take at least a year!" Feng Kai said.

"Do we have so much fodder in our village?" Li Yi frowned.

"The back mountain area is so big, with high mountains and dense forests. There are leaves everywhere, so you don't have to worry about forage. It takes more than a dozen strong people to herd cattle and sheep every day!"

Then Feng Kai continued: "In addition, the educated youth have basically left, and the village has lost a lot of strong laborers. I don't know if we can be busy with so many crops after the spring starts this year!"

Li Yi thought for a while and said: "Uncle, actually I think, if you are too busy, just plant some crops that are easier to use, such as corn, yam eggs, or beetroot, such as millet, millet, flax, and beans. Don’t plant it if it’s more troublesome and has poor yield!”

"If we don't grow these grains, what will the members of our village eat?" Zhang Tongfu, the production team leader, asked doubtfully.

"Haha, we can raise sheep and cattle by planting beetroot, and we can sell the cattle and sheep for money. If we have money, are we afraid that we won't be able to buy these grains?"

"Yiwazi is right. There are few people in our village. If we don't have enough manpower, we can't plant everything as before."

Then Feng Kai said again: "We will discuss what to plant or not to plant when we go back. The top priority now is to get rid of those Jie sheep that can be put into the market and renew the rations that are about to run out for everyone!" Oh, how many families in the village are unable to meet their food rations?" Li Yi asked in a deep voice.

"Most of them, some even live on bran, otherwise we wouldn't be so eager to sell those Jie Yang!" Feng Kai said.

"so serious?"

"Well, the per capita ration in our village last year was less than [-] kilograms. In addition, the grain grains are relatively flat. After grinding into flour, there is more wheat bran and less flour, which makes it unpalatable at all." Feng Kai sighed.

Zhang Tongfu also added: "Not only are the members not having enough to eat right now, spring plowing is just around the corner, and there are not enough seeds in the village, which is really worrying!"

"Who says otherwise? The entire production team has less than 300 yuan on its books and can't do anything!" Chen Wanzong also sighed.

Li Yi also realized the seriousness of the matter, and then nodded and said: "Uncle Feng, don't worry, I will handle this matter as soon as possible, so that everyone can get the money to buy rations!"

"Row!"

Afterwards, Feng Kai, Zhang Tongfu, Chen Wanzong and others stayed for more than half an hour before leaving the Li family.

After Feng Kai and others left, his father Li Shankui couldn't help but asked: "Xiao Yi, these are more than 500 Jie sheep. What are you going to do with them?"

"Of course it was sent to the capital!" Li Yi said.

"With so many sheep, where do you put them in the capital?"

"I asked my third brother to inquire about this before. There is a large state-owned cold storage on the outskirts of the capital. I plan to transport these sheep to the capital for slaughter and store them all in the cold storage, and then use them slowly in the store!" Li Yi said.

"This is the transportation cost and the cost of renting the cold storage. Will you lose money?" Li Shankui asked worriedly.

Li Shankui had no problem with his son helping the villagers in the village, but the prerequisite was that his son couldn't help him.

"No, Dad, you don't know. The beef and mutton we use in our store now need to be purchased at a high price. The market price of one ninety-one kilogram of mutton costs us two yuan and five yuan, and each kilogram of mutton costs six cents more!"

"A pound of meat costs sixty cents more?" Li Shankui was slightly shocked.

Others in the family were also shocked by Li Yi's words. You must know that a pound of good quality pork here only costs about one yuan, and not so good parts such as head and hoof bones only cost six dollars a pound. Seven cents.

I didn't expect that Li Yi's store in Beijing would cost so much more per kilogram of mutton. This means that buying a kilogram of mutton also costs an extra kilogram of pork.

"Yes, it's so expensive, and I don't have a choice!"

Then Li Yi continued: "Now when the business in the store is poor, more than 200 kilograms of mutton are consumed a day. When the business is good, it can reach five to six hundred kilograms. At the end of the day, a lot of money is wasted!"

"Once we use the sheep raised by our village, not only the quality of the mutton is guaranteed, but the price is also greatly discounted, and you will definitely make a profit!"

After hearing this, my father immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said, "As long as it doesn't cost you anything, it's okay for us to help others, but don't let yourself suffer too much!"

At this time, her mother Zhang Yuehong also echoed and said: "Your father is right, you can help others, but don't show off!"

Li Yi nodded and said, "I understand!"

At this moment, the second sister Li Lan suddenly said: "Xiaoyi, do you think we can get a cold storage in the capital?"

"Second sister, why do you have such an idea?" Li Yi asked with interest.

"I'm thinking that there are so many cattle and sheep left in the village, and your store in the capital consumes so much beef and mutton every day. In the future, the village will definitely need to provide beef and mutton for a long time. If we have our own cold storage, it will be much easier! Li Land said.

Li Yizhen didn't expect that the second sister would look so far ahead, and immediately smiled and said: "Haha, I have already been planning this, but the cycle from land approval to construction is a bit long, and I still need to rent a state-owned cold storage for a period of time in the early stage! "

"Ah, so we have an idea?" Li Lan said happily.

"Well, we call heroes seeing the same thing!" Li Yi said.

Hearing this, several people in the room couldn't help laughing.

For a time, the entire Li family's old house was filled with hearty and happy laughter!
(End of this chapter)