After the grain is fermented and then steamed, the wine comes out, but the grain is still there, but it has become the residue, that is, the lees.

If there are modern technology and equipment, these distiller's grains can be recycled and recombined to produce biogas, digestate, and biogas slurry, produce organic fertilizer, and then be used to grow food. In other words, the distiller's grains will eventually be turned into organic fertilizer and returned to the farmland.

Supply food for growth, forming a circular chain.

But now, there is no need to think about it.

This kind of distiller's grain cannot be eaten by humans. However, it is rich in crude protein and crude fat, has high heat energy, and can be used to feed livestock.

As Xu Jiaojiao knows, beef cattle love to eat distiller's grains mixed with straw feed. After eating it, they become faint and grow strong and fast. The meat is of good quality, fine fiber, fresh color and toughness.

But how can any rural household feed beef cattle?

If it is towed to other places, it would be very difficult given the current transportation conditions.

Anyway, these lees will be useless for a while.

Xu Jiaojiao thought for a while and said, "Mom, even though these look like grains, they have no nutrition, let alone have shells. Even without shells, it will be difficult for people to digest them. And after

Without fermentation, there are also some harmful bacteria in it. People who eat it may get into trouble, so don’t think about eating it, just feed it to the ***! If you can’t feed it all, you can also let the people working in the winery,

Take some back to feed the chickens."

Thinking about it again, I still feel that it is not safe.

"No, we still can't let people take them back. If they take them back, if their family eats these as staple food, they will be bad for their health. We have good intentions, but we can't do bad things. Mom, it's our family

You can feed the chickens and pigs, but if you can’t finish feeding them, just fertilize the fields.”

When Xu Zhang heard this, she thought this was too extravagant.

Go to the fertile fields!

People use manure to fertilize their fields, and their families use grain to fertilize their fields. This is so wasteful.

Not to mention this, what if it is taken to the fields to fertilize the land, and those short-sighted people steal it back and eat it, and get sick and blame it on the old Xu family?

That won't work.

Xu Zhang came up with a plan and said, "Let's do this, old girl, let's feed more chickens at home. No, feeding chickens won't do the trick. The chickens can't eat much. Let's feed a few more big fat pigs at home. Do you think it will make any difference?"

? With so much grain scraps every day, I think ten pigs can survive! I asked your father to expand the pig pen again. Our family will feed more pigs. When the pigs are out of the pen, they will be taken to the county town to be sold.

Ordinary pigs eat grass and grow slowly, but our pigs will definitely grow faster by eating grain residues. By then, they will be able to grow into a pig in five or six months, and a big fat pig can be sold for more than two taels of silver..."

(Hey here is a dialect, meaning to feed)

When the time comes, if we sell ten heads at a time, we will earn more than twenty taels in half a year.

Xu Zhang seemed to have seen a great business opportunity.

Xu Jiaojiao heard what Xu Zhang said, "What Mom said is feasible. The pigs grow faster after eating the distiller's grains. It's okay to feed the pigs. However, feeding a dozen pigs is very tiring. Mom, can your body bear it?"

live……"

"It's okay, my body can't bear it. Don't I have several daughters-in-law? The elder's family, the fourth family's family, and the unlucky one Yuan Chunhua. After feeding the pigs, the pig manure can be used to fertilize the fields. They are not afraid of people.

If you eat it secretly, our family's food harvest will be even better next year."

"That's okay. Just as Mom said, did Mom have the money to buy the piglet? She didn't go to the wine shop to pay some money."

"Yes, mom does. Little piggy doesn't cost a few taels of silver, so you can show your respect to mom. If she squeezes you, she will still get you."

That's what the mother and daughter decided.

Then, Xu Zhang discussed it with Xu Youde, and Xu Youde agreed, which was a good thing.

Other people in the family also said that the free ready-made grain scraps are perfect for feeding pigs. If nothing else, feeding the pigs will make the family more comfortable eating meat in the future.

Maybe, at the end of every year, we can kill a big fat pig to celebrate the new year.

Pig manure can also fertilize the fields, so why not do it?

These are real benefits. Regardless of whether Xu Jiaojiao's wine shop can sell wine in the future, raising pigs can at least benefit the family.

If one batch is produced every six months and two batches are produced a year, ideally, one can earn more than forty taels of silver, which is equivalent to a huge sum of money for the old Xu family.

How can you grow so much just by farming all year round?

Therefore, everyone agrees very much.

Mrs. Xu Zhang said, "Since we all agree to feed the pigs, okay, if we have something to do in the future, we have to take care of some piggies. I can't do anything by myself at my age, and you have to be here

Do you know that you have to work hard in the winery and feed the pigs at the same time? Don’t find people when you are working, just rush here when you are spending money. Nothing is so cheap!"

Naturally, everyone agreed in succession.

Within two days, Xu Youde and his family enlarged the pigsty in the backyard. It was built very simply, with stone walls, wood fences, and some straw on top.

Mrs. Xu Zhang went to buy three or four piglets and came back to try feeding them first.

Of course, you can't buy more. These piglets are not particularly small piglets, but the kind that are half as big.

Because, sows are generally bred every spring, when piglets are born. The weather is warmer, the survival rate is high, and they are easier to sell. It is almost the Chinese New Year now, the weather is very cold, and there are very few piglets.

After selling it, it’s good to be able to buy these half-sized piglets.

When spring comes next year, we will catch a few more.

Of course, everyone in the village knew that Lao Xu's family had expanded the pig pen and caught so many pigs. They came to watch and were envious.

Time flies very quickly, and soon the first batch of spirits in the winery is brewed, blended and packed into the cellar for storage.

The winery also began to pay wages for the first time, using a monthly payment system, with wages calculated based on the number of days worked.

Even if they have never learned arithmetic, village women know clearly how much a day costs, how many days they work in a month, and how much they are paid once a month.

Wages are not equal for everyone. The lowest wage is twenty cents a day. If you work thirty days a month, that will be six hundred cents.

But there are very few people who have been there for thirty days.

After I went to Li Zheng to buy a spring last time, Li Zheng gave Xu Jiaojiao a very good suggestion.

The idea is to recruit a few more workers, let them work in turn every month, and give each person an average of ten days of work time per month. In this way, everyone can get wages and money, and more needy families can be helped.

Xu Jiaojiao thought for a while, and it was okay. Anyway, as long as it was not a technical job, it would be the same for anyone working in other ordinary positions such as transportation.
Chapter completed!