"Awen, you can do this very well. You can just exchange candy for pigweed. The second uncle sitting next to you said with a smile."

"Second uncle, it only costs a few cents. By then, we can collect hundreds of kilograms of pigweed, enough to feed the pigs for a month. The most I can collect for several months is only one yuan. It's very cost-effective. Li Wen did the math.

Account."

"It's true, but everyone can't bear to part with it. Only you little guy can spend so much money," Second Uncle Li Dezhong smiled.

"I'm also planning to go to the production team in a few days to buy some bran. There must be a lot of bran from the recent summer harvest. I went to sell a few hundred kilograms of bran, which is enough for the pigs to eat until they are slaughtered. Li Wenyu said incredulously."

"Ah! A pound of bran costs one penny. You can get twenty or three yuan for a pound of two or three hundred pounds. Awen, you are so invested in raising a pig. The second aunt brought out the rice bowl from the kitchen."

"We raise pigs by catching piglets at the beginning of the year and killing them at the end of the year. They are raised naturally at home. The pigs eat boiled pigweed most of the time, and occasionally add some bran. The nutrition is very limited. The pigs will grow hungry all day long.

It’s slow.”

"My method is to combine pig grass with bran, feed it when it is full, let it sleep when it is full, and eat when it is full. The growth rate will definitely be faster," Li Wen said with a smile.

"That makes sense. Father Li Deyou nodded!"

"Anyway, we don't care. You can raise this little piglet yourself. Don't feed my two big pigs raw grass, which will cause diarrhea," said the old lady Guo Xiuyun.

"That's for sure. Is this the only way to see the difference between the two methods of breeding?" Li Wen said with a smile. "

"However, I have to use some of the big tanks at dad's house after the fish are processed tomorrow!"

"Okay, you can use it however you like, as long as you don't break it, you'll be fine."

"That's not possible, Li Wen smiled."

After eating, everyone started to work. Today is the last day of the summer harvest. The wheat field finished work early in the afternoon. The production team had to distribute wheat bran and some crushed wheat straw.

The wheat bran obtained by grinding wheat, and the broken wheat straw production team do not need it, the villagers can take it home to burn firewood. Although the wheat bran may not look soft, it is a good starter for burning the kang in winter. It is resistant to burning and has sufficient firepower. The villagers are

like very much.

Li Wen's family was allocated two sacks of wheat bran. His father and second uncle carried one bag, and his eldest brother and second brother carried another bag.

Wheat chaff is very clear as to why it is carried. The main reason is that the wheat chaff plums have a lot of awns, which can hurt people. Since they don’t have tools to pull the wheat chaff home, they have to carry it.

In one afternoon, a large pile of pigweed had been piled up in the backyard. When Li Wen came back, there were children carrying small backpacks one after another to hand over the pigweed.

"Brother, the candy you gave us is not enough. There are still more than a dozen people who haven't received their share," Li Min said, pointing to the dozen or so little guys who were not leaving in the backyard.

"Oh! Wait, I'm going to get the candy right now."

Li Wen returned to the room and made a gesture, took out a large handful of candies and handed them to his younger brother Li Min.

Li Min distributed the candies to everyone, and the children dispersed.

"Here, Xiaomin, you have done the most credit today. I'll give you three toffee. Ayong and Atao are also good, two for each. Li Wen handed a few candies to each of the three little guys standing in front of him and said with a smile."

"Brother, here's me. I also supervised the pigweed they delivered today. Little Li Juan, who was lying in the pig pen looking at the piglets, immediately ran over and stretched out her little hand."

"Haha, how could you forget our little sister? Come and give you two toffees."

Li Wen picked up the little guy and stuffed two candies into her arms.

Let a few little ones play, then go to the backyard to spread out the pig grass with a wooden fork, and let it cool down at night to remove the moisture.

Looking at the little pig that had started eating, Li Wen took out a handful of corn kernels from the space and sprinkled them quietly in the pig trough. The two big pigs in the pig pen next door saw them and kept shouting towards them.

The little piglet had to eat it in several bites quickly for fear of being robbed.

It started to protect the food. Yes, there were two big pigs fighting for it next to it. They would definitely be easy to raise in the later stage. Li Wen nodded.

"Xiao Min, A Tao, you guys, you should pay more attention to my brother's piglets. During the day, when my brother is away, you can add some dried pigweed and bran to the pig pen every few hours. There will be rewards when the time comes. Hear me

No, Li Wen said with a smile when he came to the yard.

"Okay, I understand, brother, your method of raising pigs is too simple. You don't need to boil pig food. We will help you feed it later," Li Yong said first."

Li Wen smiled and nodded!

"Awen, it is indeed more convenient for you to raise pigs. If you raise pigs like this, it will be much easier to raise pigs in the future, the second uncle said with a smile."

"Yes, uncle, raising a pig is actually very simple. To put it bluntly, we just provide him with food and accommodation, let him sleep when he is full, and take good care of himself," Li Wen smiled. "

"Then let's wait. We want to see how your kid's pigs are doing. My second uncle was lying on the deck chair smoking a cigarette and laughing."

"Oh, by the way Wenzi, what do you want the big vat for?" Brother Li Wu asked in confusion.

The grass collected today will be cooled overnight to remove the moisture. Tomorrow I will chop it into pieces and put it into a large vat. I will put it there for half a month to a month to let the pigweed ferment. Then it will be better to take it out and feed it to the pigs.

You can also reserve it in advance in late autumn. Then the pigs will have enough pigweed to eat and they can grow more meat in winter.

"Is this method of yours okay? We have never heard of it," Li Wu asked doubtfully.

"Whether it works or not, we'll know when the time comes. I haven't tried it yet. It doesn't take much trouble anyway. Just give it a try," Li Wen smiled.

In fact, this is a simple silage storage method. Because there is no plastic paper, and raising pigs at home does not require much silage, the only way to try it is to seal the large tank.

"Yes, it won't be a big deal if you try. Every winter, the pigs have nothing to eat, so they have to be killed in advance. If Awen's method works, he can raise it for an extra month. It's good to have a few more kilograms of meat. My father, Li Deyou,

He flicked the cigarette ashes."

"It's time to eat. After dinner, there are still things to do in the evening. Mother brought dinner and said."

"If anything happens, I'll go too," said Li Yong, who had a sharp ear on the side, raised his hand.

"Would you like to go to Zizucao?" Li Wen patted the little guy's forehead and said with a smile.

"Why don't you go? I'm exhausted from playing pigweed all afternoon. I want to go to bed after dinner," the little guy said immediately.

Haha, everyone laughed at the little guy for being so naughty.

After dinner, it was still early, so a group of adults came to the courtyard to chop pigweed. When the little guys saw that they were really working, they all went back to their rooms to sleep.

"Awen, how big is this pig grass?" said the second aunt.

"Everyone chops them casually. There is no requirement. It's about as long as one finger. It's mainly for the convenience of dressing. A lot of these are too scattered. It won't be easy to fill the big vat after a few fillings, Li Wendao."

"Well, we know, this is easy to make, just chop it up as long as it's scattered," the second aunt said.

Everyone started working together. In more than an hour, hundreds of kilograms of pigweed had been chopped into small pieces and spread out to dry in the yard.

It was already eleven o'clock. Everyone had rested and was ready to go. My father came to the front yard dining room and asked Li Wen and others to start setting off.

Everyone went to the cellar to wash their faces and put all the remaining fish catches into sacks and shipped them out.

It was divided into six and a half sacks, and my father's second uncle and his eldest brother each carried two and a half sacks, so it was easier for each person to weigh more than 100 kilograms.

Li Quan is also following tonight. The scar on his head has scabbed and the gauze has been removed.

"Li Wen, Li Quan, you are watching one after the other, and we are following in the middle," said father Li Deyou.

"Everyone be careful tonight. There are a lot of things. Safety comes first. Second Uncle Tan will put out the cigarettes in his hands."

Let's go, set off, the five of them climbed over the courtyard wall and hurried towards the county seat.

"Shhh! Stop, there are militiamen patrolling ahead. It seems they caught a few people going to the black market to exchange things."

Li Wen heard the noise in front of him from far away, took a look quietly, and hurried to his father to tell everyone to hide.

Several people hurriedly hid in the grass beside the ditch. Fortunately, the weeds grew very tall in summer. Just three to five minutes after they lay down in the ditch, a group of militiamen on bicycles roared past the road.

Several people were so frightened that they did not dare to come out. They waited for more than twenty minutes before crawling out of the ditch.

"It's so dangerous! I almost fell down today, my second uncle took off the grass on his body and whispered."

"The summer harvest has just ended in the past few days. Some production teams have divided the grain. There must be many people secretly coming to the black market to exchange for things. After all, the price of grain on the black market this year is so amazing that it is worth the risk, Li Wen said softly."

"Yes, a pound of flour costs more than a dollar. I want to go to the black market to make a fortune. This ten-fold profit must have led to a large number of people taking risks. Anyway, if they are caught, they will be detained for a few days at most, or they may go to work in the stone quarry," the second uncle chuckled.

road."

"Let's go. We just took a rest. Everyone hurried on. My father, Li Deyou, said as he picked up the sack and walked forward."

Twenty minutes later, everyone arrived at the aunt's house without any danger.

"Why are you here today? There are many black markets in the city today. My aunt looked at the people sitting in the living room and said."

"Alas! We almost ran into patrolling militiamen on the way here. Fortunately, Awen's ears were tingling and we hid. My father took a sip of cold water and cleared the way."

"That's really good luck. From ten o'clock tonight, for some reason, there are patrols and police officers checking the black market everywhere." Auntie said with a sigh of relief.

"This is our luck. My brother-in-law came to see the fish. There are six sacks. Each bag weighs sixty or seventy kilograms, which is almost four hundred kilograms of fish. My father opened the sack and smiled."

"Yes, yes, you can rest assured now. I will rush to arrange for us to change it tomorrow. The summer harvest grain has been a little loose these days, so I am afraid that the quota will go off," said my eldest uncle Zhao Hongjun with a smile.

"Including the 50 jins that were liberated, the total is almost 470 jins of fish. There should be more than ten or twenty jins. Brother-in-law, you will help us change them all to cornmeal when the time comes. Father smoked the flue."

"That's it. It just so happened that several friends didn't make arrangements a few days ago. I gave them some points. My eldest uncle nodded and responded."

"Yesterday I exchanged the 100 kilograms for an agricultural machinery repair station. I have already obtained the quotation."

As he spoke, the eldest uncle took out a piece of paper, with the name area blank on it.
Chapter completed!