1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 220: Regarding the localized Rex Rabbit project, let’s vote!

early morning.

The thin mist had not yet dissipated, but smoke from the Pingcun Brigade's cooking fires was already rising from the adobe roofs.

In the Su family compound.

Su Wenchen yawned and pushed his bicycle out of the house.

"You're not going home to eat this morning!" Father Su said with some disappointment as he watched Su Wenchen push the cart out.

Su Wenchen nodded.

"Now I don't light the stove, and I don't like to move in the morning."

Then he looked at Su's father, who had already been sitting in the yard, stretching his body and lighting a cigarette, and joked directly.

"Dad, you just finished your activities this morning and haven't even eaten yet. You're not afraid of getting lung disease if you order this directly."

Father Su glanced at Su Wenchen unhappily.

"You know nothing. I just smoke a cigarette before dinner. The smoke is so strong."

Before Su Wenchen could say anything, his mother's roar was heard in the room.

"You old man, you have so many crooked ideas. You have nothing to do in the morning but sit in the yard smoking. You think you are right."

"There's no water in the jar. Quickly pump a bucket of water in, or we won't be able to make porridge."

Hearing that it was Su's mother's roar, Su's father had no choice but to stand up and slowly walk towards the pressurized water well in the yard that was not allowed to be installed in the first place.

But he was still muttering to himself.

"You old woman, you always boss me around, and you're drinking porridge so early in the morning. How can you have the energy to work if you don't eat something?"

Su's mother walked out of the yard and said to Su Wenchen who was pushing the cart.

"Youngest, do you want to eat at home?"

Su Wenchen waved his hand immediately.

"Goodbye, Mom. I'm going to the cafeteria to eat. But our family is not in bad condition now, so there's no need to drink corn porridge every day. At least add some steamed bread. Look, my father is so hungry that he comes to me for a meal."

Su's mother glanced unhappily at Su's father who was pressing water.

"What do you know? Is your father hungry? He is just greedy. He just wants to eat white noodles and rice porridge."

He turned around and said to Su's father in the distance.

"Every day you're like a kid, going to any restaurant that has delicious food. It seems you can't move anymore."

But Su's father disagreed.

"It's only natural for me to eat at my son's house. I won't go to someone else's house. Besides, if I don't eat a few bites now, what else can I eat when I can't move?"

Seeing this, Su Wenchen said directly.

"Then Mom will wait for me to come back in the evening and bring you a few dozen kilograms of flour."

Su's mother waved her hand immediately.

"You are such a fool, you only know how to spend money recklessly. You even bought dozens of kilograms of flour. What kind of flour do we have? Keep it for yourself!"

Father Su also said this.

"There's no need to give me food. Your mother and I are able to work hard now, so we still have plenty of work points. Besides, your eldest brother isn't that well off right now."

"Keep it for yourself! I'll just take a couple of bites if I feel hungry."

Su Wenchen also knew what his father was worried about.

After all, he is not married and has no children, plus he has a salary, various ticket subsidies from the field, and canteen meal ticket subsidies.

In fact, it doesn’t cost much now.

Even after the farm became wealthy the following year, Su Wenchen asked Miao Yuan to recruit a great chef from the city.

They didn't have a separate small canteen, they cooked directly in the big canteen. Although the taste was not as good as the individual stir-fried dishes, they had the money to spend on the ingredients, so there was actually not much difference.

So ever since Jiang Li left, he hardly ever fired a shot on his own.

But his eldest brother and second brother's families now have one more mouth to feed, and even the eldest sister-in-law is still thinking about having another one.

If Su Wenchen provided food, naturally the other two families would have to follow suit, and the expenses would naturally go up. Although the two families were better off than the other villagers, they were still no match for Su Wenchen.

So when he saw Su's father refuse, he didn't say anything else.

"Okay, wait until I make something delicious and then I'll call you."

Father Su immediately nodded with a relaxed look.

"Okay, since you're going to the cafeteria to eat, just go!"

"Wait a minute, there will be no food."

Su Wenchen nodded when he heard this.

I opened the gate outside the yard and just moved the bicycle over the threshold.

A timid voice came from the corner of the side wall.

"Hello, Director Su!"

Su Wenchen was startled and turned around immediately.

A young girl, who looked quite young, was standing by the wall of their house, trembling slightly.

Judging from the white frost between the other person's eyebrows, he had obviously been there for quite a while.

Su Wenchen frowned slightly. Judging from the voice, the other party should be the person from last night.

However, because it was dark yesterday, Su Wenchen didn't see clearly, but now it seems that the other person should not be very old.

He even thought that the other person was no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, and looked quite handsome.

He asked directly and tentatively.

"Are you an educated youth from the brigade? What do you want to talk to me about?"

Hearing Su Wenchen's words, the other party carefully took the two boiled eggs in his hand and handed them to Su Wenchen.

"Director Su, I just want to ask if you are still hiring?"

Su Wenchen looked at the other person seriously and refused the egg handed to him.

"Are you a sent-down youth? Why did you come down here at such a young age?"

After hearing Su Wenchen's words, the other party immediately explained.

"I'm fourteen, not fifteen. I came here voluntarily."

As if he heard some talking outside, Su's father also walked out of the yard.

After seeing Su Wenchen and the little girl, Su's father sighed.

"Girl, it's no use for you to come to the youngest brother. It's not that easy to find a job!"

"Just stay in the team peacefully!"

After hearing what Su's father said, the other party shook his head.

"Captain, thank you, but I can't make any money, and she will really sell my sister out."

"Director Su, are you really not hiring anymore? I can endure the hardship, as long as I can earn a salary."

When Father Su heard this, he didn't say anything else, because enduring hardship was not really a special ability in the countryside.

If you could make money by working hard, then rural areas would have been the richest areas long ago.

After hearing this, Su Wenchen roughly understood that the other party was short of money and wanted to find a job to earn money.

However, this kind of matter is still a bit tricky for Su Wenchen. With his current position, it is indeed possible to hire an ordinary worker, especially since the rabbit house is now going to expand.

But what he was afraid of was that if it got on his hands, he wouldn't be able to get it off.

After all, many times, it all starts with thanks, but as time goes by, thanks tend to deteriorate.

Besides, it was hard for him to tell whether what the other party said was true or false.

So after a moment's silence, Su Wenchen spoke directly to the other party.

"We are not hiring for the time being, but the commune may be hiring. You can go to the commune and ask the deputy director in charge of your group of educated youth."

"She is usually responsible for this kind of thing."

Su Wenchen finally gave this opportunity to be kind to Jiang Li. After all, the tanning workshop behind the commune and the sewing workshop they planned to set up later were both recruiting workers, so there shouldn't be any big problems.

Moreover, even if there are difficulties with the local educated youth, it should be the commune that comes forward to help resolve them.

Hearing Su Wenchen say this.

The little girl's eyes darkened, but then she still showed a happy expression.

"Director Su, are you talking about Director Jiang from the commune?"

Su Wenchen nodded.

"Well, but even if they are recruiting, it's an open selection, so don't get your hopes too high."

The other party shook his head.

"I understand. I will try my best. Thank you, Director Su, for telling me the news."

"Captain, can I take a day off today?"

Father Su waved his hand.

"Ask for leave and follow your captain. I don't care about these!"

"But you should find out clearly and don't spread rumors outside, especially in the educated youth center. If you prepare more, your chances of being selected will be higher."

The other party nodded his head seriously.

"Yes, Captain, thank you for your reminder, and Director Su, I will leave first."

As he was about to turn around and leave, he took a few steps and immediately ran back, put one egg in the pocket of Su Wenchen and Su's father.

"Director Su, I'm not asking for information in vain. Thank you."

After saying that, he ran away immediately.

Su Wenchen took the egg out of his pocket, but there was no chance of returning it to the other party.

Thinking of Su's father's last instructions to the other party, Su Wenchen asked Su's father curiously.

"Dad, it seems like you have a good impression of this girl. You even specifically told her not to say anything nonsense."

"This is not the style of a captain like you who treats everyone equally."

Father Su said unhappily.

"I'm not trying to be fair. I didn't know the commune was hiring. What does this have to do with me?"

He said and sighed.

"This little girl is the youngest among this group of educated youth. To be precise, she is only fourteen years old, still a half-grown child. She was not originally assigned to our team."

"It was the county educated youth office who decided to move him to our village because they saw that he was too young."

"After all, we have collective industry. Even if this girl is no longer capable, our team can still afford to support one more person."

"But I didn't expect that this girl is quite capable and smart. If it weren't for her family reasons, she would probably marry into a good family."

"Now!" Father Su shook his head and didn't continue.

Su Wenchen was also a little confused.

"I heard her say earlier that her mother wanted to sell her sister? Didn't she think of reporting it to the police?"

Seeing Su Wenchen's doubts, Su's father sneered.

"This kind of thing is not that easy."

"Even if you report it to the police, unless the traffickers are caught and the person identifies her, her mother will just say she's lost. What can you do?"

Su Wenchen frowned.

"The other party's grandparents don't care at all!"

Father Su looked at the smoke rising from every household in the village in the distance.

"You can tell from her name, Xiao Pan'er, that she is probably no different from us. A family that only wants a son would not care about their granddaughter!"

"If there are no relatives willing to take over, what can the police do? They can only take the person back and raise him themselves! Even if they know that the mother is unreliable, they can only let her mother take care of her."

"So for this little girl, going to the countryside may not be a bad thing."

"And this little girl is very smart. She first made a big fuss about the matter, and then asked the Women's Federation of the factory where her stepfather works to help keep an eye on her sister."

"She also told her mother that once she saves enough money, she will ask her mother to send her sister over."

"And what do you think it means that she stood at the door so early but didn't knock? And she even told you this kind of thing. What do you think she was planning?"

Su Wenchen raised his eyebrows.

"So this is to win my sympathy?"

"Dad, did you know this a long time ago? Then why did you help her earlier?"

Father Su said unhappily.

"Although she used some tricks, she didn't lie. I've read her file."

"There is also a letter from the Jinling Youth League Office to our Youth League Office, asking us to take care of them as much as possible."

"Plus, she didn't jump on you last night, so I have a better impression of her."

"Smart, thoughtful, but not always relying on others."

"She's quite a rare little girl. After all, who in this world can be more reliable than herself?"

"Okay, go to work! But you were right not to recruit her into your field."

"After all, who can tell for sure what people's hearts are like?"

As he said this, he took out the still warm egg from his pocket.

"Do you want to eat that egg? If not, give it to me. Your mom is getting more stingy the better off she is now."

"You couldn't even bear to give me an egg to eat."

Su Wenchen rolled his eyes.

"You, the captain, are openly soliciting bribes!"

But he still handed over the egg in his pocket.

After taking it, Father Su waved his hand.

"I'm not asking for a bribe. She gave you the egg to get information from you. What does it have to do with me?" "You're the one asking for it!"

"Anyway, the eggs are a gift from you to me. They have nothing to do with me."

"Besides, I have no control over the commune's recruitment."

After saying that, he went straight into the house with his hands behind his back.

Su Wenchen looked at the path in the distance leading to the educated youth point, and after a moment of silence, he shook his head and said.

"Forget it, let Ali decide for herself!"

"After all, how to employ people is also a problem she will have to face sooner or later."

When we arrived at the living area of the farm, workers carrying lunch boxes hurried into the canteen.

It seems as if he is afraid of not being able to eat if he is late.

Su Wenchen parked his bicycle and took a few steps towards the cafeteria entrance when Miao Yuan and a young man happened to walk over from the staff quarters at the back.

After seeing Su Wenchen, he immediately greeted him.

"director!"

"Hello, director!"

Su Wenchen looked at Miao Yuan and his son coming over and said in surprise.

"Why are you and your son eating in the cafeteria? I remember you always eat at home, right?"

Miao Yuan said with a smile after opening the door for Su Wenchen.

"I've arranged for his mother to stay at her parents' home for a few days, so she can come to the cafeteria to eat!"

"Director, the cooking skills of this chef I transferred here are pretty good! I tell you, his cold dishes are really amazing."

"Before Jianguo, he was an apprentice at a big restaurant in the city, specializing in cooking cold dishes. After the joint venture, he worked at the East District State-Owned Restaurant for many years. If his granddaughter hadn't happened to be an employee of our restaurant, even if the East District State-Owned Restaurant let her go, I might not have been able to transfer her here."

Su Wenchen walked in and nodded.

“The craftsmanship is really good.”

Then he pointed to a long line of employees queuing up for meals.

"To see whether the cooking skills are good or not, you can tell by looking at the people who come to eat here."

At this time, in the direction of Su Wenchen's finger, canteen staff wearing sleeves were busy filling lunch boxes handed over to them from the window.

The hot steam from the cornmeal porridge hit the glass window, condensed into boiled water droplets and spread down the glass. From time to time, the surrounding area could be heard, with employees shouting words like "give me more".

Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Miao Yuan's face also showed joy. After all, the canteen is also one of the main indicators of logistics.

But he still spoke to Su Wenchen with some distress.

"Director, this chef's cooking skills are good, but there is one downside. This canteen's expenses have increased quite a bit."

"Our meal ticket subsidies used to be enough, but now they are not enough. Many people have said that they don't have enough meal tickets, and they hope we can increase the number of meal tickets."

Su Wenchen shook his head.

"It's fine to increase it, but if there are not enough meal tickets, employees can buy them themselves."

"Your logistics department just needs to recover the costs appropriately."

As they were talking, the two of them went to the lunch box washing sink in the cafeteria to wash their hands, and then they both held their lunch boxes and prepared to line up for food.

Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Miao Yuan nodded.

"This is the only way to do it. Otherwise, the cafeteria will always be overspent."

Soon it was Su Wenchen's turn in the queue, and this window happened to be where his sister-in-law Li Xiaohe was getting her meal.

The other party took a large iron spoon and knocked on the edge of the large aluminum basin.

"Next!"

After Su Wenchen handed over the lunch box, the other party scooped a spoonful directly. The next moment, after seeing that it was Su Wenchen, he immediately scooped another half spoonful.

Seeing this, Su Wenchen said directly.

"Alright, alright, don't fill yourself up too much, it's too much to drink!"

Li Xiaohe handed it over without caring.

"Is there anything I can't drink?"

Su Wenchen carried a lunch box full of cornmeal porridge to the serving window nearby.

Hand over your lunch box lid.

After the other party saw Su Wenchen.

I just scooped a big spoonful of the cold dish to go with the porridge. If the lid of the lunch box wasn't so big, I think the other party would have added another spoonful.

Finally, a golden steamed bread made of pure cornmeal is placed on top.

Su Wenchen looked at the full lunch box and could only carry it to the other side to pay for the meal ticket, feeling both amused and helpless.

And you have to walk very carefully, because if you move a little too much, it will spill.

I just found a bench and sat down.

After a while, Miao Yuan also came over with a lunch box. Su Wenchen looked at the other person and found that there was obviously less person than him.

When Comrade Xiao Miao finally came over with a lunch box, there were even fewer people than Miao Yuan.

Obviously, even though Su Wenchen said there was no need to fight more.

However, the employees who serve meals will still involuntarily give more to the leading cadres.

Su Wenchen shook his head.

Class is indeed everywhere, and no matter how much we emphasize it, we cannot eliminate it.

But he is not a saint, so naturally he will not always emphasize fairness.

After seeing his son sit down, Miao Yuan also said to Su Wenchen.

"Director, how do you plan to arrange Xiao Miao's work today?"

"Should we let him go to the mowing group first?"

Obviously, the reason he came to the cafeteria today was not because his wife went back to her parents' home or because he was greedy.

Otherwise it wouldn't be such a coincidence that the other party happened to turn around and bump into Su Wenchen just as he parked his bicycle.

Su Wenchen knew what Miao Yuan meant. Although he liked to make promises to others, he had never meant to go back on his word.

"Let him follow me during this time!"

"It just so happens that I'm going to conduct experiments on various breeding feeds for Rex rabbits during this period, so I'll let him help me!"

"Make some experimental records or something."

"By the way, your logistics department is purchasing a batch of wire cages separately. I will number them when the time comes so that I can observe and compare the effects of various experiments."

When Miao Yuan heard this, a look of joy immediately appeared on his face.

"Director, there's no need to purchase. I had thought in advance that we would expand the size of the rabbit house in the future and there would be a need for transportation, so I purchased more than a hundred additional wire cages."

Su Wenchen nodded.

"That's fine. Just have someone send a dozen of them to the rabbit house."

After breakfast, Su Wenchen came to the field.

After Zheng Xianghong arrived, morning meetings are now required almost every morning.

Su Wenchen walked into the meeting room with the documents.

Suddenly, everyone who was sitting stood up.

"director!"

Su Wenchen pressed his hand.

"Sit, sit, sit!"

After sitting down in the most central position, Su Wenchen coughed lightly.

"Well, at today's morning meeting, I will mainly talk about the arrangements for the rabbit house in the back."

"I decided to set up a new localized Rex Rabbit project, with the goal of breeding our own localized Rex Rabbit breed."

"What do you all think?"

Hearing Su Wenchen's words, everyone else looked at each other.

Even Miao Yuan was a little surprised, because although Su Wenchen said he wanted to do an experiment, he thought it was an ordinary experiment.

But I didn't expect that we would have to breed our own native Rex rabbits. This thing is just like white pigs, it's not that simple.

Moreover, this thing is not like a pig that can influence too many people. What’s the point of breeding it?

Isn't it no different from the Rex rabbits we raise now?
Why spend so much energy on it?

Just for a name?
Since Su Wenchen never mentioned foreign exchange in person, this rabbit house was developed as a side business from the very beginning.

So most people don’t know what Su Wenchen is thinking.

They looked at each other and said nothing!

They say they are asking for everyone's opinions, but if you raise objections at this time, wouldn't that just be asking for trouble and making yourself uncomfortable?
So everyone looked at Zhang Zhenhua and Zheng Xianghong.

As for Han Yang, no one thought he dared to stand up and sing a different tune.

Zhang Zhenhua saw that his colleagues were all looking at himself and Zheng Xianghong.

Although he didn't agree with making his own Rex rabbit, he needed Su Wenchen's support now and couldn't object directly, so he spoke directly to Zheng Xianghong.

"What does Instructor Zheng think?"

After hearing what Zhang Zhenhua said, Zheng Xianghong nodded directly.

"I think the director's suggestion is very good. We should cultivate our own local varieties."

"Just like our industrial machine tools, although they are all imported from outside, our breeding industry should also be like the machinery industry. After learning other people's technology, we should also develop our own breeding varieties."

"Only when we have all the technology in our own hands can we avoid being restricted by others."

Although Zheng Xianghong also felt that Su Wenchen seemed to be bored to death, she really hoped that Su Wenchen would plunge into this bottomless pit.

After all, she had studied in an agricultural technical school for two years. Although she didn't focus on learning this, she had some understanding of the hybridization and breeding between various livestock and poultry breeds.

It is extremely difficult to crossbreed two different breeds of animals to produce a completely new breed without defects.

As for the pig breeding experimental farms in various places, with so many people working on improving and breeding for so many years, is the progress still slow?

Therefore, she strongly supports Su Wenchen's proposal, which has basically no results.

It would be best if the other party would fight this kind of thing to the end for the rest of his life.

Because she didn't take Zhang Zhenhua seriously.

On this side, Zhang Zhenhua felt uncomfortable after listening to Zheng Xianghong's words.

This made it impossible for him to oppose or agree.

As for what Zheng Xianghong said, in his opinion it was pure nonsense. How could machine tools be the same as breeding?

That thing can't give birth to babies even if you buy it.

However, this kind of Rex rabbit can give birth to cubs at will, and others cannot restrict it even if they want to.

That's why he didn't want Su Wenchen to focus his energy on such meaningless things.

Not to mention the waste of money and resources, what's the point even if it is developed?
At most, it just gained a little more fame. After all, rabbits are not the main livestock there.

He really feels a bit disappointed with his friend. You have such great talent, why does he have to stick to such meaningless things?

Su Wenchen looked at Zheng Xianghong and found that he was the first one to agree. He immediately knew what the other person was thinking.

After all, in the eyes of the other party, this is just an ordinary rabbit, and there is no point in creating your own breed.

In fact, the other party is right to think so. Ordinary breeds are really meaningless. After all, it’s not like there are no rabbits in their country.

It has to be a new breed of Rex rabbit that can produce high-quality leather, and it has to be a breed that can bring in foreign exchange and value to be meaningful.

As long as the leather is of high quality, whether they sell high-quality leather to other countries or introduce new varieties to their local area, the other party will have to pay the same price.

This is also what Su Wenchen hopes for. After all, the Rex rabbits he leads can bring more benefits to the country.

He will naturally gain more in other aspects.

Connections, background, support, everything will help him progress faster.

Of course, all this is because he has a golden finger, otherwise he would definitely not do this.

So Zhang Zhenhua couldn't understand that he knew it.

So Su Wenchen just followed the procedure.

"You all have no objections? Fine. I hereby declare the localization of the Rex Rabbit project at Blue Water Farm officially launched."

"I will personally preside over it, and the people from the rabbit house will assist."

"About allocating 10,000 yuan of project funds from the field!"

"Let's vote!"

After saying that, Su Wenchen immediately raised his right hand, and Han Yang followed suit after seeing it.

Seeing this, Zheng Xianghong immediately raised his right hand.

When the others saw that three of the four main leaders agreed, they naturally raised their hands to show their approval.

In the end, even Zhang Zhenhua looked at everyone else and saw that they all agreed, so he could only raise his hand to show his agreement.

After all, he still needs Su Wenchen's support. Since he can't oppose it, there is no point in offending Su Wenchen.

And ten thousand yuan is not a big problem in the current market.

Su Wenchen nodded.

"Okay, the vote is passed unanimously. The field office will go back and organize the meeting minutes for the record."

After all, Su Wenchen was planning to exhibit this kind of Rex Rabbit at the Canton Fair, so he would probably want to see these things then.

Because at this time, no matter what is to be exported, it must be carefully investigated.

Then Su Wenchen stood up.

"Do you have anything else to say? If not, then we'll adjourn the meeting!"

The others said no, and then walked out of the meeting room with different thoughts.

(End of this chapter)