The prosperous era of courtyard houses

Chapter 3, Taking care of the secret realm

When he got off the bus, Li Weiguo almost vomited.

The shuttle buses of this era had a really strong smell. The people in the car were packed together, which was comparable to taking a train. In addition, the road surface at this time was all dirt and uneven, which could knock people apart.

Also getting off the bus was a farmer from the commune. He was in his forties and a typical farmer.

"Hello, comrade, are you from the Red Star Commune?"

"Yeah, what's the matter with you?"

"Hello, I want to go to the commune and change some vegetables to grow back in my yard."

"Let's change vegetable varieties. Then you have found the right person. My name is Wang Mancang, you can just call me Lao Wang. My home is in Hongxing Commune. You come with me. I have a lot of vegetable varieties at home. If there are not enough, I will help You ask the villagers." Wang Mancang said enthusiastically.

As the closest commune to Forty-Nine City, it is normal for city residents to come out to exchange supplies.

Wang Mancang is accustomed to it, and even welcomes it.

Otherwise, where would the receipts for daily necessities such as cloth stamps, coal stamps, oil stamps, salt stamps, and match stamps come from? Rural people have no employer to provide them with benefits, so they still have to exchange them.

I followed Wang Mancang and walked on the dirt road for more than half an hour before arriving at Wang Mancang's house.

I chatted a lot with Wang Mancang along the way, but I didn’t expect that Lao Wang was actually the production team leader. Hey, this saves trouble.

It's easy to get to Hongxing Commune. The villagers are quite happy with Li Weiguo's exchange of vouchers for grain and vegetable seeds.

Without much effort, Li Weiguo obtained enough types of seeds from Wang Mancang and other villagers.

Food includes wheat, corn, and sweet potatoes. Each requires enough to grow two or three acres of land, but there is no more left. The country was communeized at the end of last year, and not much remains in private hands.

Rice was not found. The imperial capital likes pasta and grows little rice.

There are many kinds of vegetables, such as radish, cabbage, leek, lettuce, pepper, green pepper, beans, tomatoes, cucumber, eggplant, lettuce, soybean, onion, ginger and garlic.

Each household pieced together the basic varieties and asked for enough land for planting.

I only paid a small amount of cloth stamps, kerosene stamps and salt stamps.

All transactions were completed at Wang Mancang's house. The villagers exchanged the tickets they wanted, put down the seeds and left.

When there was no one else in the room, Li Weiguo asked in a low voice: "Brother Wang, can you get chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, piglets, and lambs?"

Wang Mancang was startled when he heard this, thought for a moment, and said: "Chickens, ducks, geese, and rabbits are very common, so there is no problem. But piglets and lambs are more difficult."

Disaster? Could it be the price issue?

"Piglets cost 10 yuan each, and lambs cost 8 yuan each. You can also buy tickets of equal value," Li Weiguo said.

Hearing the price, Wang Mancang did not hesitate: "Okay. I can only get you a few in small quantities. It's hard to get more. That is to say, life is difficult this year, and there is not so much food to feed poultry and livestock. Otherwise, I I won’t give it to you.”

Ten yuan is enough to buy twenty kilograms of pork, and a piglet can have several taels of meat.

Finally, Li Weiguo asked Wang Mancang to prepare ten pairs of chickens, ducks and geese seedlings, 3 pairs of rabbits, 2 pairs of piglets, and 2 pairs of lambs.

Chickens, ducks and goose seedlings are priced at 2 wool per pair, rabbits at 3 wool, piglets at 10 yuan each, and lambs at 8 yuan.The total price is 78.9 yuan.

At the same time, he asked Wang Mancang to pay attention to whether there were any fruit saplings in the village or in the surrounding mountains. If there were, he would like them. Counting 2 cents per tree, he only needed of each variety.

I first paid 10 yuan as a deposit and agreed to receive the goods half a month later.

After all, there is no food for feeding at the moment. There is enough space to harvest three rounds of food in half a month. By then, it will be basically no problem to develop the breeding industry.

Spring wheat is harvested in 80-90 days, sweet potatoes are harvested in about 120 days, and corn is harvested in about 120 days.

Harvest times vary slightly in different regions and seasons.

In space, the four seasons are like spring, the land is fertile, and the time flow rate is 24 times. If you plant something, you can basically harvest it in about 5 days.

On the car back to the city, Li Weiguo focused all his attention on space.

Simply divide the 10 acres of space.

The vegetable garden is planned to be half an acre, which is enough. After all, vegetables don’t sell for much, and everyone can buy them with or without a ticket. You don’t need to plant too much, just enough for yourself.

The medicine garden is half an acre, and the space should be set aside first to grow some valuable medicinal materials later.

The orchard is also 1 acre. Fruit is considered a luxury product, and the business is relatively eye-catching. Just collect more than a dozen kinds of fruit trees to meet your needs for eating and giving gifts.

The remaining eight acres of land are all used to grow food. It would never go wrong to have more food.

You can eat it yourself, breed it, or sell it. Only when you have food in hand can you not panic.

As for the large lake on the south side of the 10 acres of farmland, you can raise some fish, shrimps, crabs, turtles and other aquatic products to enrich your dishes.

Go back and find a fish pond or reservoir outside to collect some, and just cultivate a small amount.

After all, in an era when oil, water and seasonings are scarce, fish and aquatic products are not very popular among the people. At most, they can satisfy their appetite.

Don't you see, the third uncle never eats the fish he catches, but sells them all. Why?

Cooking fish consumes too much oil. This amount of oil and water is enough for a month. Most families can’t afford it.

With a thought in his mind, Li Weiguo turned over the 10 acres of land in the space and planted various seeds according to the planned area.

Wheat, corn, and sweet potatoes account for three-thirds of the land, and the rest of the vegetables are mixed together, occupying half an acre of land.

After one harvest, there will be enough seeds to slowly fill all the land.

At the same time, the space is also set with commands for regular rainfall, timely harvesting, storage, and reseeding in each area.

The secret space is like a certain farm or pasture, and the set commands can be completed one by one.

This just makes it easier for Li Weiguo to manage the secret realm. Otherwise, the time flow rate would be 24 times different, and it would be embarrassing to miss the harvest in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that the space had been taken care of, I felt relieved and stopped paying attention.

When we returned to the courtyard, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Weiguo, are you at home?"

A middle-aged man's voice came from outside the door, and then the door was pushed open and someone stepped in.

Short hair, beer belly, in his forties, exactly the bangs of the second uncle in my memory.

"Hey, the second uncle is here. Please sit down and I'll get you a glass of water." Li Weiguo greeted with a smile.

"When I came back, I heard Lao Yan say that you were much better today, so I came over to take a look. It seems that you have come out." Liu Haizhong sat down and said with a smile.

"Don't worry, Second Uncle, I'm fine now. I've thought about it."

"Well, that's right, life has to go on." Liu Haizhong said with relief.

Li Weiguo found it incredible that the second uncle Liu Haizhong suddenly came to comfort him. In his memory, he didn't seem to have much friendship with the second uncle's family.

I didn't know what the old man wanted to do, so he asked: "Second uncle, are you here for something today?"

"Haha, it's like this, Weiguo, when you come back from the army and change jobs, the street is responsible for allocating work. As for your father, although he died, he can still fill the positions in the factory. What are your plans? Do you plan to go Take up the post, or let the streets be assigned again?" Since Li Weiguo was straightforward, Liu Haizhong took advantage of the situation and asked.

"Well, I haven't thought about this yet. Does the second uncle have any advice?"

Hearing what Liu Haizhong said, Li Weiguo remained calm on the surface, but became wary in his heart, wondering what this old boy wanted to do.

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