1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 218: You were just dreaming! You made me happy for a long time
After leaving the chicken coop, Su Wenchen walked towards the pigpen.

The pigpen was made entirely of cement and covered with a layer of hay. The sun was shining obliquely on the roof. Four large pregnant black pigs were lying on the hay, humming leisurely with a look on their faces.

Another white boar in a separate pen was searching around in the pigpen, even sticking his head out of the pen, as if he wanted to reunite with his beloved wives.

Vanderford was hunched over, using a bamboo broom to clean up the pig manure that had just been produced.

"Master Fan, why are you here to clean the pigsty yourself? I heard from Old Tan that the pig farm has specially arranged cleaners, right?"

Vanderford shook his head and said to Su Wenchen with a smile.

"There are only five pigs in total. There is no need for so many people. I discussed it with Section Chief Tan and decided that only four people, including Xiao Zhou and I, will be enough."

"Usually, each person takes care of one child, split into two shifts, morning and evening. To be honest, I think this is too much."

"Normally, after feeding and cleaning the pigsty, there's basically nothing else to do."

"The pigs snore soundly at night, so there is basically nothing to do except the night shift for delivery."

“I feel like I’m just getting paid for nothing.”

Su Wenchen smiled and said jokingly.

"That's not good. Don't worry, there will be more pigs in the future."

After taking a look at the condition of the sows, all four sows looked comfortable.

It can be seen that the pigs are well taken care of and have completely adapted to this kind of life.

Then he turned to Vanderford and said.

"But now that this white pig has come to us, it can't eat our feed for free. Section Chief Tan will go out and find healthier sows to continue breeding with it. I estimate that we will have 20 sows here."

"You'll be busy then!"

"It's not just you who's busy, it's busy too!"

As he spoke, Su Wenchen glanced at the white boar that had already stuck its head out.

If it weren't for this white pig, we would naturally have to place our hopes on the four sows. But now that the breeding pigs have been brought back, we naturally cannot let them rest. We must breed them vigorously and squeeze them until there is not a drop left.

Only in this way can we repay his hard work along the way.

Su Wenchen also asked Tan Liwei to find different sows from different regions and bring them back. He also wanted to see what differences there were between the sows from different regions.

Because only when the samples are large enough and extensive enough can we select the best ones!

Hearing Su Wenchen's words, Fan Defu looked over and immediately smiled.

"Be busy, be busy!"

"Otherwise, I always feel uneasy about the salary I receive from the field."

"And look how anxious it is!"

As he said this, he looked at the boar with a smile, and the boar immediately shrank its neck because of his smile.

When Su Wenchen heard what Fan Defu said, he knew that there were still a lot of people like him. If you really left them idle, they would feel uneasy and have nothing to do.

Su Wenchen saw that the sows were fine and spoke directly to Fan Defu.

"Okay, go ahead and do your work. I'm going back to the office first. If you need anything, just call me. If I'm not here, you can usually look for me in the rabbit hutch."

Return to your office.

Su Wenchen is preparing to sort out the development ideas for the Rabbit House.

Although the first batch of baby rabbits have just been produced.

But rabbits give birth too quickly. Even if we take the more conservative approach of waiting one month after birth for the baby rabbits to be weaned before breeding, there will be six litters a year, and one rabbit can give birth to more than 30 rabbits.

This is the production quantity under the premise that Su Wenchen does not develop rabbits for breeding.

Su Wenchen is still very optimistic about several breeding attributes of breeding rabbits. Whether it is to increase the growth rate of offspring or to improve their disease resistance and tolerance to roughage, they are all extremely useful attributes.

On the contrary, the several attributes bred in the direction of fur rabbits improve the purity of fur color, which Su Wenchen finds a bit unintuitive.

What does this mean? Change color?
What's the use?

However, Su Wenchen feels that the area of fur at the back is still more useful, because the larger the fur, the better.

Due to the properties of fur, it is not as intuitive as a hen that can lay eggs directly. Su Wenchen can only wait and experiment a little bit at a time.

So now Su Wenchen decided to take a batch of them for an experiment to see how big the difference is between the offspring of breeding rabbits and ordinary offspring.

Also, what changes will occur after breeding in the direction of fur, and is it worth breeding in this direction?

After all, this kind of feed cultivation involves two kinds of medicinal materials. Although neither of them is particularly expensive, Su Wenchen still needs to spend energy to communicate with the state-owned medicinal material purchasing station.

Just as Su Wenchen was lying on the table and concentrating on planning, time passed by little by little.

Suddenly a red song sounded, Su Wenchen raised his head and looked out the window.

The setting sun indicated that it was time to get off work, but normally at this time the workers would gather in groups and walk out of the premises.

But now, he could only vaguely hear bursts of slogans coming from the chicken coop.

It lasted for more than ten minutes before it gradually stopped. Then groups of employees gradually appeared in Su Wenchen's sight and walked towards the door.

Su Wenchen opened the office door and walked to the door.

Looking at Zheng Xianghong walking towards me with a document under her arm.

"Coach Zheng, it's okay for you to organize these activities, but please don't make too much noise. After all, we are a livestock farm, which is different from a factory. Once the animals are frightened, it will still affect our production."

Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Zheng Xianghong nodded.

"Director, you are right. I was indeed inconsiderate today. I will organize the staff to speak more quietly later."

Uh!
Su Wenchen was a little stunned for a moment. This person actually admitted it directly?

Did she expect that if she gave in, I would stand on her side?
The other party can't be so naive!
Seeing that Su Wenchen was dazed for a moment, Zheng Xianghong also knew what Su Wenchen was thinking.

However, after two attempts at the beginning, including trying to win over Liang Hong from the production department, they failed.

After all, even Section Chief Liang Hong, who was most likely to be won over, had a smiling face and was very respectful, but he didn't say much except about work.

She knew that the possibility of her taking control of this place was very low.

However, Secretary Zhou's initial instructions were to keep an eye on the production situation at the chicken farm.

To avoid the recurrence of the egg shortage that occurred when the previous secretary was in office.

So her mission has actually been accomplished, but she just wasn't willing to accept it. After all, who wants to be second when you can be the boss?

But now, she didn't hit anyone with her two axe strikes at the beginning, so she could only calm down and start thinking about integrating into the group first before doing anything else.

The first thing he naturally did was to show goodwill to Su Wenchen and ease the stereotype formed by the conflict during the day.

Although Su Wenchen didn't know Zheng Xianghong's specific thoughts, he still didn't want to get close to this person.

"Well, Coach Zheng, you go ahead and get busy. You should go home early after get off work!"

"After all, you just arrived, so you still need to clean up the dormitory!"

Zheng Xianghong smiled and nodded.

"Thanks for the reminder, Director. I really need to go back and clean up after get off work."

After saying that, he took the documents and walked towards his office.

Su Wenchen looked at the other person's back suspiciously.

What does this person want to do? He is now a little confused about this fickle woman.

Look back.

Su Wenchen walked to the enamel basin in the room, ready to pour some water to wash his hands before leaving get off work.

Looking at the reflection of my young and handsome face on the water.

I was shocked for a moment.

Oh my god, she can't be interested in me!
I want an old cow to eat young grass!

Then he would have to stay away from her in the future, and Su Wenchen felt that if he slept in the same bed with a woman like this, he would have to sleep with one eye open at night.

Otherwise, I don’t know when it will be sold.

After packing up, Su Wenchen pushed his bicycle out of the venue.

Look at the sunset.

I found that it was still quite early, so I rode my bike directly to the commune.

"Jingle Bell!"

Accompanied by the crisp sound of bicycle bells, Su Wenchen rode against the crowd and headed towards the commune compound.

Of course, when we say crowd, it is just a few dozen people. After all, it is impossible for the commune to support so many idle people.

Because this time Su Wenchen was wearing normal clothes.

The guard didn't stop him at all and even greeted him.

"Director Su, you're here to see Director Jiang again!"

"I heard Director Jiang moved back to the dormitory. Is he here to smooth things over after a conflict?"

Su Wenchen smiled and waved his hand.

"What's the contradiction? Isn't this a job requirement?"

"Okay, I won't talk to you anymore. Please take a look at the car for me! Don't let anyone steal it!"

Hearing Su Wenchen say this, the other party patted his chest.

"Director Su, don't worry. I, Wang, may not be good at anything else, but I have a pair of eyes. I can recognize anyone's bicycle at a glance."

"Can it be my turn to guard the gate of our commune?"

"Okay, thank you Master Wang for your help."

After parking the car in the carport, Su Wenchen walked inside carrying a bag of glutinous rice noodles that he had just bought from the non-staple food area of the supply and marketing cooperative.

The office space of the commune is actually not much better than their site.

They are all rows of small brick and wood bungalows. The most they have are the wooden doors and windows at the entrance, which are painted with a layer of green paint. However, they seem to be quite old, and a lot of the paint has peeled off.

Su Wenchen just walked to the front of the first row of townhouses and asked where Jiang Li's office was.

After all, there are several rows of townhouses and he really doesn't know which one it is.

But He Feihuai happened to walk out from inside.

"Hey, how come you have time to come over here? I heard that all the factories in the city are in a turmoil because of this instructor."

"I heard that your scene has been arranged, why aren't you busy cleaning up that mess instead of thinking about love!"

Su Wenchen rolled his eyes.

"Secretary He, what you are saying is not about love. We are cultivating revolutionary feelings."

"You won't understand at your age."

"Besides, he is just an instructor. How can this be difficult for me? Isn't it easy to control me?"

He Feihuai was a little surprised to hear Su Wenchen say this.

"You probably picked a soft persimmon over there. You don't know that there was a big commotion in the city's textile factory. It even stopped production for a while."

"Several factories have united to protest! No one is looking for you."

Su Wenchen shook his head.

"No, we only sent someone here yesterday. I guess they don't think highly of us!" "After all, we are so far away from the city, we can't go over to protest!"

He Feihuai nodded.

"Yeah, it's better not to participate. Anyway, no matter what, no one can find you to blame. Otherwise, even if Secretary Zhou really withdraws everyone, he will have to settle the accounts one by one later!"

"Let's just focus on production and not get involved in other things. How are the rabbits in your farm?"

"Let me tell you, the nitrate workshop in our commune has been built, and the textile workshop has also found good people."

"But we are counting on the rabbit skins in your farm. Now all the wild rabbits around here have been caught clean."

Seeing this, Su Wenchen said directly and confidently.

"Secretary He, you can just put your mind at ease. The female rabbits in our farm have already given birth to the first batch of baby rabbits."

"Once these baby rabbits grow up, we will basically have an endless supply of baby rabbits."

"How many do you plan to raise in your commune?"

He Feihuai sighed.

"We sought the opinion of the county, and finally the county decided that in order to prevent people from making trouble, they decided to follow the same rule as raising chickens, with each household being limited to raising no more than five chickens."

"But we allow each brigade to open a collective breeding farm to generate income. After all, the risk in this regard is much smaller than allowing members to raise the fish themselves."

Obviously, due to the ever-changing situation in the city, the county must also be conservative.

Otherwise, if others use this as an excuse, it would be counterproductive.

So after hearing what He Feihuai said, Su Wenchen didn't say much. After all, they now had a large supply of forage.

We can raise a batch of more Rex rabbits, so we can have enough supply.

"Okay, Secretary He won't chat with you anymore. It will be dark if we continue chatting. Which office is Ali's?"

After knowing that the rex rabbits in Su Wenchen's farm had started to reproduce, He Feihuai felt relieved.

After all, in the first half of this year, their commune had been focusing on the two industries of the nitrate production workshop and the sewing workshop.

Since their commune itself did not have many resources, these two workshops also took a lot of effort from their boss.

If there is a problem with Su Wenchen and there are no subsequent products to process, it would mean that all their work in the first half of the year has been in vain.

Now that he saw that the progress was going smoothly, he pointed directly at the first row of townhouses and said.

"It's next to my office, the third one. There's a sign on it."

After saying this, he put his hands behind his back, hummed a red song, and walked towards the gate of the compound in a good mood.

Su Wenchen had been to He Feihuai's office several times before.

So go straight to the first room in the first row.

As soon as he walked over, he saw the door of the third house was open, and Su Wenchen looked up.

I found that in the two rooms in front, one was labeled "Secretary's Office" and the other was labeled "Director's Office".

The signs hanging in the rooms at the back indicate public offices such as the Civil Affairs Secretary's Office, the Women's Federation Secretary's Office, and the Youth League Committee Office.

Obviously, Su Wenchen could tell Jiang Li's status in the commune just from the layout of the rooms.

I seemed to hear some noise outside, but no one came in.

So when Jiang Li just walked to the door to check, she saw Su Wenchen appear in front of her carrying a bag of glutinous rice noodles.

A look of surprise instantly appeared.

"Hey, Achen, why are you here? What are you doing standing at the door? Come in."

As he said that, he immediately pulled Su Wenchen in and closed the door.

Su Wenchen said directly.

"I just missed you, didn't I? Are you hungry? I bought you some glutinous rice noodles."

Su Wenchen walked into the room and found that the whole room was not big, only about ten square meters. There was a table at the back and a cabinet for files next to it.

There are a few stools and a washbasin on the outside.

In Su Wenchen's opinion, it was still very simple.

At least in terms of conditions, their field is much better than here.

So Su Wenchen looked around the room and said.

"Your office is really small! It's not even as big as the office in our field."

Jiang Li opened the glutinous rice noodles handed to her by Su Wenchen, peeled off the outer layer of oil paper, rolled her eyes and said.

"Your farm is so rich, and you have funding approved by the city. Can our commune be the same?"

"Secretary He asked me to ask Uncle He for some financial support, but Uncle He said he would kill me, but the county didn't have any money."

"By the way, he also told me about you. He said that the city agreed at the time that most of the profits from your farm would be subsidized to the county."

"Later, Secretary Li said that if your farm wanted to develop, he would leave this year's profits to you. He then said that it would be used to subsidize two other industries in the county. But before the profits were fulfilled, the people were transferred away."

"Go find Mayor Zhai. Mayor Zhai told him to find Secretary Zhou."

"Uncle He said he would go find Secretary Zhou, but Secretary Zhou said he didn't know and told him to go find whoever made the promise."

He said this while covering his mouth and laughing.

"The county is now in a state of loss. Uncle He said that he has to split every penny he earns into three parts, so how can he have any money left to support us?"

"It's good that they don't ask us for money."

When Su Wenchen heard this, it was naturally impossible for him to take the responsibility of this matter.

"That has nothing to do with us. Well, Uncle He has to go to Secretary Li for this matter. Didn't he say he was going to be the deputy director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee?"

"We can definitely mobilize some resources. It's no small matter to supply the county."

"By the way, why haven't you gotten off work yet? Are you busy with things at the workshop?"

Jiang Li shook her head and walked to the table with a piece of glutinous rice noodle.

"It was not the educated youth who caused this. An educated youth from the Pukou Brigade reported him and his innocence was ruined."

Su Wenchen immediately looked at Jiang Li curiously. He knew that at that time many female educated youth were being taken advantage of.

But logically speaking, this place is not a remote mountainous area, and there is not only one person in each educated youth site, so no one should dare to snatch it away.

So I was a little surprised.

"There really is someone who dares to come here by force! Isn't he afraid of death?"

After all, the policy on this aspect was quite strict at that time, and sometimes there was no need to go to the farm to force women to do things against their will.

Jiang Li shook her head.

"It's not forced, is it? After investigations by the county police, we found that the young woman was proactive in the beginning, and she wanted to find a stable job."

"But now, after a few months, the accountant of the brigade no longer wants to give out food coupons."

"That's why this woman made the anonymous report in order to scare the accountant of the brigade."

"She thought she had kept it a secret, but who in the village could have kept it a secret? The county police revealed everything as soon as they arrived."

"The county has asked our commune to strengthen the management of production team cadres to prevent such incidents from happening again."

He pointed to the messy tabletop.

"I was originally busy with the work at the nitrate workshop, but now I have to come up with a plan to strengthen the management of production team cadres."

"I can only work overtime."

Su Wenchen said a little unhappy.

"Secretary He is too good at ordering people around. He left work early and left you to work overtime alone."

Jiang Li shook her head.

"That's not the case. The most I can do is write a plan. To carry out such an offensive thing, Secretary He has to do it himself."

"Otherwise, the leaders of those production teams would not be so obedient."

"By the way, how are the Rex rabbits in your farm? Our commune's nitrate workshop depends on you."

As he spoke, he seemed to remember something.

Jiang Li stood up and walked to the drawer to search.

After a while, he came over with several color pictures.

"This was sent to me by my friend in the name of the Foreign Trade Bureau because I often wrote to her about this Rex Rabbit skin."

"She now often pays attention to this information from abroad."

"These are the colors of Rex rabbit fur that are currently popular internationally."

"Look at what kind you have in your field. I tell you, the price will be much different if the color is different."

As she spoke, Jiang Li took out the top photo of a gray-brown rex rabbit.

"This color is called field mouse outside. The price that the Foreign Trade Bureau inquired about from international fur product merchants is eighteen to twenty dollars per piece."

"This is called purple-blue. Even though it looks the same as silver-gray to me, that's what they call it. It's the raw material for making high-end clothing. It was sold for thirty dollars a piece at an auction in Paris this year."

"Moreover, among these purple-blue Rex rabbits, there is a chance that some gray-blue Rex rabbits controlled by recessive genes will appear. The number of such individual mutant Rex rabbits is extremely small. The less mixed hair there is and the purer the color, the higher the price. However, my friend couldn't find out the specific price because the production is too low."

"This black Rex rabbit skin costs about 15 dollars a piece, but this color is popular in North America. Currently, our Foreign Trade Bureau has no trade relations with North America, so if it is this breed of Rex rabbit, we can only find a way to sell it domestically."

Looking at Su Wenchen who seemed a little dazed, Jiang Li waved her hand.

"what happened?"

"Are you stunned? The rabbits you imported can't really be black Rex rabbits!"

Hearing Jiang Li's words, Su Wenchen shook his head.

"That's not the case. I just know what it means to purify the fur of Rex rabbits."

After saying that, he took out the photo of the purple-blue Rex rabbit.

"Our country originally imported Rex rabbits from France in Western Europe. How could they be black like those from North America? The ones we farm are this kind of blue-purple Rex rabbits, but they are more like silver."

Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Jiang Li immediately showed a hint of surprise.

Ever since the Foreign Trade Bureau sent her the photos of these rabbits, she was most worried about the appearance of black.

Although there are rumors now that relations with the United States will be eased, no definite news has been given from above.

Even the Foreign Trade Bureau can currently only contact developing countries such as Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

So he breathed a sigh of relief and said.

"The purple-blue color is fine, but what do you mean by purified? Do you have any mutant gray-blue Rex rabbits in your farm?"

Su Wenchen shook his head.

“Not now, but there may be in the future, maybe even in solid colors.”

Jiang Li rolled her eyes and put a glutinous rice noodle directly into Su Wenchen's mouth.

"So you were just dreaming!"

"It made me so happy. It's a pure color. The purple-blue color we introduced is already pretty good."

"If this can only be controlled by some gene, and it all depends on luck, let's not speculate."

(End of this chapter)