Love in the Siheyuan: Starting from Jia Dongxu

"Hmm? Director Yang, what kind of pig feed do you need? Can I just chop corn stalks and straw into small pieces?"

Jia Dongxu asked hurriedly after hearing this.

"Sure, but there's still one more step to go. It needs to be ground!" Upon hearing this, Director Yang quickly stood up and said, "Come on, I'll go with you to see where your village is."

"Huh? If we go to the village now, it will be evening when we come back, right?" Jia Dongxu asked.

"Then come back tomorrow and bring back the young people from your village." Director Yang said with a smile.

"Sister Wang, how about you come with us to take a look?"

"No, I have two little boys to take care of at home, so I don't have the time to go out." Director Wang pushed the cart and was about to leave.

"Don't ride your bike. Let's take a pig truck and drop you off at the steel mill first." Director Yang asked the driver of the pig farm to drive the pig truck to the city.

"Director Yang, why don't you buy these things in Tong County?" Jia Dongxu asked with a smile.

"Hey, it has to be chopped up and ground finely before it can be fed to pigs, otherwise the pigs will get sick after eating it." Director Yang said, "They think pushing the mill is tiring and they can't grind much in a day, so they might as well go and earn some other money."

"Oh, in that case, we can really make this money." Jia Dongxu said with a smile. If the young people in the village work together, the efficiency will definitely be higher than if they work alone.

Since feed can be made in this way, these young people should raise pigs in the same way in the future.

After dropping Director Wang off on the main road near the steel mill, Jia Dongxu handed the approval slip to Director Wang and asked her to help pass it to Zhang Weimin.

Then he pulled the pig cart directly to Changping.

"Director Yang, if it's appropriate, we can start making a batch of feed tonight and bring it back tomorrow." Jia Dongxu said, "But how do we calculate the cost? How are we going to deliver this feed to you in the future?"

"Well, that's a problem. How about 1 cent per pound? Once you're ready, we can just come and pick it up." Director Yang said with a smile.

"This is really cheap, only 1 yuan, no wonder no one sells it to you!" Jia Dongxu said with a smile, not to mention chopping the straw into pieces, it also needs to be ground with a mill, which does take a lot of manpower. The money earned is not enough to eat.

"Yeah, there's nothing we can do about it. It's just a human cost."

Director Yang said embarrassedly that the main problem in the factory now was that there was a shortage of manpower and pig feed.

"Director Yang, I've already told you that the young people among us who are going to study here should not be assigned to grind feed." Jia Dongxu said, wondering why he didn't grind feed the last time he went to learn how to feed pigs.

After hearing this, Director Yang touched his nose in embarrassment. He really had such a plan. He would take two people to learn how to raise pigs, and the others would grind feed.

"Since you are selling the feed for money, I won't take advantage of you."

"Haha, I will go to the village today to arrange for some people to grind the fodder all night long." Jia Dongxu said with a smile, "The village will arrange some people and we will directly use human power to grind the fodder.

When Jia Dongxu and Director Yang arrived at Jiajia Village, it was still light.

Jia Zhenye and Qin Dahe also led people to reclaim the wasteland between the two villages.

Jia Dongxu stopped the car and asked, "Second uncle, have we finished the mountain?"

"Well, there is strength in numbers. We finished the work this morning and are now building the greenhouse. I'll bring some people over here and fire them at an 80% discount. Let's quickly plant spinach and chives."

Jia Zhenye said this, looking at Jia Dongxu and another middle-aged man.

After they greeted each other and got to know each other, Jia Dongxu told Director Yang about his purpose.

"Uncle, we got our piglets from Director Yang." Jia Dongxu said, "Director Yang wants our village to urgently make a batch of pig feed and take the young people who are going to learn how to raise pigs with us tomorrow."

"In the future, the pig farm will buy feed from us, and the price is 1 cent per pound."

"That's no problem. Dongxu, decide what you want and I'll arrange it for you." Upon hearing that he could make money, Jia Zhenye quickly said.

Jia Zhenye and his colleagues came to the newly built pig house. After watching Director Yang explain what to do, they arranged for people to bring a few mills, and then started cutting the straw and grinding it.

In this way, under the four stone mills, Yang Chang looked at the feed being ground with surprise and nodded to Jia Dongxu.

“That’s the kind of feed that is.”

Then he pointed to the chopped straw not far away and said, "If you feed the pigs chopped like this, they will become thin and more susceptible to disease."

"Also, the straw must be clean, and cannot be moldy or have a peculiar smell."

When Jia Dongxu saw the ground feed, he quickly called the young pig farmer to try feeding the piglets. Sure enough, after mixing it with water, the piglets ate more happily.

Director Yang watched the feed being ground, but was worried that there was nothing to put it in. Without saying a word, Jia Zhenye found a basket and loaded it directly.

"Director Yang, let's arrange some people today to make feed without stopping." Jia Zhenye said, patting his chest.

With pig feed, pig farming can now be considered legitimate.

"By the way, Director Yang, do you need vegetables? If you do, you can bring some back when you pull in the feed every day. Our vegetable workers here pay the steel mill 4 cents per pound. If you want some, it's also 4 cents per pound."

Jia Dongxu took Director Yang and his driver to Jia Zhenye's house for dinner, but the two had not eaten yet.

"Yes, as long as they provide vegetables, I will take them!" Director Yang said happily, "Although there are not many employees in the pig farm, it is no problem to consume 50 kilograms of vegetables every day. The uneaten ones can be regarded as welfare and allowed to be taken home by employees. Now that the season has begun, there will be no fresh vegetables soon."

"Here, that's 50 kilograms of vegetables every day." Jia Dongxu said with a smile. After the cigarettes are returned, he can slowly pay back Xiaozhu's money.

It depends on how much feed can be ground in a day. One hundred kilograms is 1 yuan, so at least several hundred kilograms can be ground in a day.

If that doesn't work, just arrange for another kid to come and do it. Those guys are just playing around now that they are full.

Jia Dongxu thought about it and smiled, "Director Yang, I have to go to help grind the feed tonight, shall we go together?"

"Okay, but I can't stay with you all night. I have other work to do tomorrow." Director Yang agreed with a smile. He also noticed that the people working in the pig farm were all young guys and the adults were not there.

"Dongxu, let me discuss something. I will provide you with some more piglets, and you can provide me with feed in the future." Director Yang thought of the breeding pigs in the factory and had to process a batch of piglets every once in a while.

There is really no feed, so we can’t raise so many pigs.

"No problem. We are short of piglets now, but they can't be too expensive. If they are too expensive, we can't afford them."