"That's right. You and your wife should discuss this."
When he said this, Luo Youlong sighed helplessly. He felt that everything was not going well this year. The rice harvest was average, not enough for the villagers to eat, and the pigs were not raised well. Hey, if there is really no food sales next year...
While he was looking worried, Su Jianmin suddenly thought of something and said, "By the way, Captain Luo, can you find out which production team nearby lost a pig? There were two more pigs in my pigpen this morning. I don't know.
what happened."
"What? Two more pigs?" Luo Youlong thought he heard wrongly.
Su Jianmin nodded, "Captain Luo, if you are okay now, you can come to my house and see me."
Luo Youlong has been in the village for decades and has only heard of pigs being lost or dying. He has never heard of pigs increasing in number.
Others in the production team felt strange after hearing this, and couldn't help but want to go to Su's house to see the excitement.
After Su Jianmin and Luo Youlong left, everyone gathered together to chat.
"I heard that there are two more pigs in the Su family."
Most people don’t believe it, “What? Two more heads? How is this possible?”
"I heard that Su Jianmin and our captain said this. If this is true, then the Su family is very lucky, right? Previously, we picked up a big turtle that had lived for more than ten years, and now we raise pigs at home.
, there are two more ends..."
This word quickly spread throughout the production team. One of the members went to fetch water from the river. When he met people in the village, he couldn't help but chat. He said about the two extra pigs in the Su family's pig pen, "I am also concerned about it."
From what other people said, I don’t know if it’s true or false.”
At this time, Luo Youlong had already walked outside the Su family's pig pen. He carefully counted the number of pigs and found that there were two more pigs. He said in disbelief: "This pig pen is sealed with mud. How did they get in?"
From the pigsty?”
"Maybe I squeezed in through the crack of the door. There is still a little gap on this side."
After Su Jianmin said this, he didn't want Luo Youlong to delve any further, so he changed the subject and said: "Captain Luo, please take some time to ask other production teams. They must have lost this pig."
"Oh, okay, I'll ask you when the conference is held in two days."
When he spoke, his eyes focused on two of the smaller pigs, feeling that they were extra.
Although the appearance and color are similar, the weight is estimated to be only fifty or sixty kilograms, which is much smaller than the eighty kilogram pig weighed yesterday.
"Let's mark the two little ones," Luo Youlong said, "so that they don't get mixed up."
Su Jianmin agreed: "Yes, otherwise it won't be clear when the time comes."
When he went home to find Wennian to get his paintbrush, Luo Youlong thought of his previous proposal to let the Su family advance money to buy pig feed, and planned to discuss it with Su Jianmin's wife.
He had heard before that men in big cities didn't care about money, and that women were in charge of the family's money. He didn't believe it at first, but now that he saw that Su Jianmin usually asked his wife about everything, he completely believed it.
Bai Lu was currently turning the soil in the yard with an old hoe, planning to fertilize and sow vegetable seeds.
The old hoe was lent to her by Luo Zhongqiang for her to use temporarily. Although it was a bit old, there was still no problem in growing vegetables.
Bai Lu originally thought that her family would have to buy a new set of farm tools, but Luo Zhongqiang said that there will be a market in town next month, and there will be many people selling farm tools setting up stalls on the street. Buying with them is not only cheaper, but also
You can still negotiate the price.
When Bai Lu heard about going to the market, she thought she could save a little, so she didn't rush her husband to buy new farm tools.
While digging the soil, a voice rang from beside her, "Hello, wife of the Su family, um, I have something to discuss with you, about the pig feed..."
Bai Lu stopped what she was doing and raised her hand to wipe the thin sweat on her forehead.
"Pig feed?" She asked doubtfully, and she reacted first, "Oh, you mean buying bran?"
"That's right, because this year's rice harvest is not very good, the production team can't afford so much money to buy chaff. I was wondering if your family could put aside the money for pig feed first, and then wait..."
Before he could finish speaking, a little girl jumped out of the house and said directly: "No!"
Jinbao walked to the yard and said, "Uncle Luo, if this pig doesn't weigh 150 pounds, won't it be sold?"
"Ah? This, yes, yes, the public slaughterhouse only accepts pigs weighing more than 150 kilograms. If the pigs do not reach this weight by the end of the year, then these pigs can only be kept for their own consumption, and there is no way to sell them to others."
Jinbao asked: "In that case, how are you going to repay the money my family paid for feed? You don't have any money to buy feed now. You can't wait until the end of the year to have the money to pay us back, right?"
Being questioned by a little girl several times in a row, Luo Youlong was speechless for a while. It took him a long time to think of a way and said: "If you can't pay it back, then I will give you the pig. A pound of pork will be counted as fifty cents..."
"There are only six people in our family. Two kilograms of pork is enough for one day. We can't eat that much meat at all."
Speaking of this, Jinbao made another calculation and said: "I heard that pigs over 90 kilograms need to eat more than forty kilograms of bran every month if they want to grow fat. Once they exceed 120 kilograms, they need to eat at least
It eats sixty pounds of bran, and the bigger the pig, the bigger its appetite becomes.
There are still three months before the end of the year. If we want to meet the target of raising pigs during this period, if fifteen pigs weigh more than 150 kilograms and five pigs weigh more than 200 kilograms, then our family will have to spend at least 500 yuan on raising pigs. This is still
Least case.
500 yuan is not a small amount of money. Many people in the factory do not have 500 yuan for two years' salary, let alone ordinary farmers. Although we came from the city before, we are all farmers now, and there is not much division of labor.
Uncle Luo, you can't let us be taken advantage of just because we have good intentions and want to help share the work of the production team."
Although the little girl's voice is soft and soft, her words are sonorous and powerful.
Luo Youlong felt guilty after hearing this, and cold sweat began to break out on his cheeks, "I'm sorry, I really didn't want you to be taken advantage of. It's really... Hey, uncle, I can't do anything about this, out of helplessness.
If the production team can afford five hundred yuan to buy pig feed now, I will definitely give the money to you directly."
"Let's do this," Jinbao suggested. "We can advance the money, but when the pigs are sold, no matter how much the twenty pigs are sold for, after deducting the cost, our family will share half of it. Why?
Sample?"
"Excluding costs?" Luo Youlong frowned slightly.
Jinbao explained: "Your production team must have bought feed for raising pigs for nine months before. This is considered a cost. The feed my family paid for in advance is also a cost. After excluding these costs, if we make 600,
Our family is divided into three hundred.
Of course, if the pig does not weigh more than 150 kilograms and cannot be sold and loses money, this is our family's responsibility, and we will not need to pay for the feed during this period. Uncle Luo, what do you think?"
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The last chapter was blocked for no reason, which made me mad.