"Goodbye, brother, if it's too late to descend, come to me at the pig farm, I have a flashlight, I can lend it to you!" shouted Old Lou.

"Okay, if it's too late to see the way down the mountain, I'll go to you to borrow a flashlight! Thank you, Brother Lu!" Lu Yao replied.

Now that it was not dark, Lu Yao did not go to the pig farm to find Lao Lu to borrow a flashlight, he walked slowly down the mountain on crutches.

At this time, Lu Yao was refreshed and full of ambition. After dropping out of high school for one semester, he raised chickens at home during the two years he worked as a farmer. Because the transportation in my hometown is really inconvenient, it is not realistic to open a large-scale chicken farm, and it is still possible to raise dozens or hundreds of chickens.

At that time, he once calculated that it would take half a year to hatch a litter of chicks in his hometown, and it would take half a year to raise them to be slaughtered. The cost of free-range breeding is minimal, around a dollar per chicken. When slaughtered, each chicken can be bought for about two yuan, and the profit is about one dollar. If you slaughter three to five hundred chickens a year, you can earn three to five hundred yuan a year. It only takes a year to make a fortune.

Under Lu Yao's mobilization, his parents went to the neighborhood to borrow 60 eggs. Lu Yao used the chicken raising techniques he learned from books and lectures on the neighbor's radio to start hatching chicks for the first time, combined with the local incubation techniques passed down from generation to generation by his mother. As a result, only 32 chicks were hatched, and the shell breaking rate of his mother's incubation was much higher than that of the new technology he learned.

What hit Lu Yao the most was that the survival rate of the hatched chicks in a week was less than 50%. In less than a month, there were only five chicks left, and there were still two chicks in it who dozed off standing from time to time. Experience told him that after two days, only three chicks remained.

After the failure of their first venture, it took them a year for their family to pay off the eggs they borrowed from their neighbors.

What Lu Yao is thinking now is that when he comes to the chicken farm tomorrow, he must perform well, strive for the success of the trial work, and seriously learn the technology in the chicken farm. After accumulating a certain amount of chicken raising skills, he will return to his hometown to open a modern chicken farm. As long as you really learn your own skills, you will go directly to the town and rent a piece of land on the side of the road to open a chicken farm.

Just now in the chicken farm, the boss saw him walking on crutches and his left foot with a thick belt. After the boss asked him about the situation, he immediately pulled out a medical kit from the cabinet under his desk. The boss opened the medicine box, took out disinfectant water, band-aids, disinfectant gauze, alcohol cotton balls, cotton swabs, tweezers, healing medicine, etc., and asked Lu Yao to untie the belt on his feet, he wanted to personally help Lu Yao treat his injuries.

Lu Yao learned the knowledge of dealing with wounds when he was in school, and he was hurt by a ceramic piece in the center of his left foot, so he asked his boss to help deal with the wound, and he was a little unhappy. So he politely refused the boss's kindness. He used the medicine tools provided by his boss to clean the wound again, sprinkled it with white powder for healing, bandaged it with gauze, and put on the rubber shoes that had already dried, and felt much more comfortable.

Lu Yao walked back to the shed on crutches, and it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

When he was full of energy, he appeared at the door of the dormitory in embarrassment, which scared Ning Hao and Wu Jingsheng. After he explained the whole situation, Ning Hao hurriedly took the basin to the faucet outside to fill a basin of water, brought it to the door of the dormitory and put it down, and asked Lu Yao to wash his face. Wu Jingsheng took the food left for Lu Yao and went to the kitchen to heat it.

After Lu Yao finished dinner, Wu Jingsheng said: "First of all, congratulations on finding a job in a chicken farm with an injury! I deeply admire your perseverance and perseverance. But I have one more good news for you, just for your reference to choose. This afternoon, the construction worker of the head office went to the construction site to inspect it, and he asked our boss to help him recruit an orchard hoe, and the boss recommended you at that time.

After work, the boss also talked to me personally, and he said that the construction worker had contracted a lychee orchard on the hill behind the airport, and his wife was currently managing it. Since his wife is pregnant again and has four children to bring, he urgently needs a responsible and well-behaved weeder. The first month's salary is one hundred and eighteen, and after three months, each month is ten dollars. The salary for a full year is 300 yuan per month, and then there is no longer a long salary. You think about it, you decide, I'll go tell the boss right away. ”

"Then what else is there to consider? It must be to hoe grass in the construction worker's orchard! Not to mention the high salary, the air in the mountains is very good, much better than the dust we eat every day. Weeding is not very technical, we can do it with our eyes closed. The most important thing is that after you got close to the company's construction staff, you also got in with our boss. It's much easier for you to come back and work with us later. Cousin, you go and tell the boss now, tomorrow Lu Yao will go to the construction man's orchard to work as a weeder!" Ning Hao said.

"Lu Yao, have you thought about it?" Wu Jingsheng saw that Lu Yao was still hesitating, so he asked.

"I had planned to raise chickens for a few years, and after learning the technology at home, ······"

"Hey! Do you still want to go back to your hometown to open a chicken farm? In the deep ravine of our hometown, the traffic is blocked, and we have to climb mountains and wade through rivers to get back to the market, and it will take two days, which is not suitable for breeding at all! The lesson of your failure to raise chickens last time is painful enough, right? Haven't you woken up yet? It seems that you only paid off the six eggs you borrowed from my family a month before we left our hometown? Lu Yao, be realistic! The construction worker gave you the first month's salary of 18, which is 30 more than my salary. And the chicken farm only gives one hundred and two, which is a difference of sixty! Even if you work in the chicken farm for one year, you will not get one hundred and eight salaries per month! This is really real money here, do you still need to think about it?" Ning Hao asked.

What Ning Hao said is very realistic, but it is also very reasonable. The purpose of our coming out is to earn money, try to earn as much money as possible in the shortest possible time, and send it back to our hometown to change the lives of our families. Things that are too far away in the future, I suggest not thinking so much about them for the time being. The most important thing is that the orchard hoeing work you will do by yourself and do not need to learn. The chicken farm not only has to try the work, but also to learn the technology, and there are unstable factors.

Also, when you get close to the construction worker, it will be of great benefit to our future development. I have learned from other workers that our company has undertaken most of the civil works at the airport, and there are more than 60 engineering teams under the company, which are basically working at the airport. It will take at least 10 years for the airport to be fully completed. If a few of us can work steadily in the company for ten years, do you think we can return home in a beautiful way?" Wu Jingsheng approached Lu Yao's ear and asked in a low voice.