Chapter 28: The Cubs

In February, the ewes in the family begin to give birth. The most popular is the "big old and green", it is the largest in a group of sheep, Hao Hao gave it this name, this time gave birth to five lambs with flowers all over the body.

Grandma left a sturdy ewe lamb, which was fed to be a breeding sheep when she was raised. The rest is ready for my mother to ride a bicycle and sell it to the Zhangying Acquisition Station. The lambskin that has not been suckled is the famous "slippery skin", which is graded according to the natural pattern.

The whole body pattern is a level, and the price of lamb is 4.4 yuan. Some of the patterns are second-grade, and the price of lambs is 3.3 yuan, and the price of lambs without patterns is third-grade, and the price of lambs is 2.2 yuan.

The second grandmother came over to discuss with grandma: "Grandma Yoyo, leave two of your lambs for me, and you have to raise them for me for two days first, and after two days, my sheep will be born." ”

"Okay, you pick it, let Wanying sell the rest. ”

The second grandmother took out 8.8 yuan and handed it to her grandmother, and went to the sheepfold to pick up the little lamb. Grandma followed behind and said, "Then I'll take it." ”

The mother came back from buying the lamb and gave 8.8 yuan to the grandmother. Grandma muttered: "A big old green top half pulls a pig, why don't the breeding sheep left follow it, and there are no four in a litter." ”

It's not a problem, a litter of lambs sells for 4 lambs, which is 17.6 yuan, and two litters a year sells for 35.4 yuan. Feed the first 200 pounds of big fat pigs, only sell for 76 yuan, how many things have to be fed.

Youyou followed and asked, "Grandma, why don't we keep it, what are we doing when we sell it?"

"Silly boy, a sheep can milk two lambs at most. Besides, you can't feed it if you have too much. It's okay to say in hot weather, but in winter you have to rely on feeding. In other places, the grass in the field is pulled out in the summer, and in the winter, the sheep can be fed by sweeping some leaves, and a family can feed two or three sheep. Leave a lamb ewe to lamb quickly, and give birth to two litters a year. If you leave two, you will have to give birth to three litters in two years. ”

The rest of the ewes in the family generally give birth to 2-3 lambs, leaving one and selling the rest for the lambs. Keep the ewes with good patterns, keep rams with poor patterns, and feed them to be sold to sheep peelers in winter. The raw lambs have patterns on their bodies, and it is estimated that this batch of lambs can be sold for more than 50 yuan.

The size of the Yoyo's flock has increased again, and there are seven more lambs. When Grandpa was free, he drove them to the spring field to put them, and when they were not free, they looked for dried leaves in the woods to eat.

After three meals a day, they have to mix the chickens with warm swill, drink the sheep, and feed the sheep with baskets of dried leaves or hay, which seems to be not easy.

The third uncle came back from aiding the DPRK and brought good news that he could open a sales agency. The reason for the approval was to provide convenience for the migrant workers participating in the Yellow River embankment re-embankment project, and because the construction period was approaching, the commune supply and marketing cooperatives decided to conduct separate training for the grandmother. At present, the top priority is to prepare the house, and the shelves are uniformly configured by the supply and marketing cooperatives.

Grandma said the idea that He Youyou had thought of a long time ago: "Our village is small, and the business is not big, so the consignment point is set up in the house of Wei Hua and Wanying, let them go to the health room to live, and the consignment point is convenient and safe to open at home." ”

"It's good to open at home, but the boss requires two rooms. The third uncle said embarrassedly.

"The living can still suffocate urine, I'll go and discuss with a few of them to vacate the office for you. "Uncle and grandfather solved the problem of the house.

Grandma looked at her uncle and grandpa and said, "Brother, that's not good, you should be blinded again." ”

"Who can say nonsense, a few days ago, selling medicinal herbs, each family has dozens of yuan in income, and it is enough to feed a pig, which family will not accept your love. Uncle and Grandpa said indifferently.

The uncle also brought back a task, which was to mobilize the village to use ammonia for wheat fields. In order to increase food production, the county has built an ammonia plant to provide ammonia water to rural areas free of charge. It's a pity that the farmers saw that the ammonia water was pungent and pungent, and the smell was very bad, and they were afraid that they would smoke the crops, so it was difficult to accept it for a while.

A year later, the county issued the wheat topdressing quota to the commune, and seeing that there were still many unimplemented after the deadline, the commune leaders asked the uncle to go home and mobilize his father to take the lead. The uncle who went to an agricultural university just took the opportunity to harm the public and private interests, and openly sought personal benefits for his hometown.

Although my uncle was skeptical about the use of ammonia like other village cadres, he still trusted his own son. In order to support his son's work, he decided to use ammonia in all the wheat fields used, and asked his uncle to drive a tractor to the county to pull ammonia.

Yoyo and grandma discussed, took a hitchhike to the county seat, and by the way, brought the remaining fragrant aconite, so that Yoyo could cheat.

Grandma went to my uncle's house: "Brother, I want to go to the county seat with the car to open my eyes, this is going to be opened, and I don't have a number in my heart." ”

"It just so happened that the team went to pull ammonia, and I went if I wanted to, but when I came back, the smell of ammonia was so bad that I panicked. ”

After my uncle and grandfather finished speaking, I asked my uncle and grandmother to get five catties of food stamps for my grandmother. "Buy something to eat in the county seat, and don't go hungry when you go out. ”

Dad found out, so he asked Grandma to take the fragrant aconite to the medicinal herb company. As soon as the car was loaded, I realized that more than 3,000 catties had been accumulated.

I had breakfast in the dark, and I set off just after dawn. The road from Hantun to the county seat is still relatively stable, out of the village on the embankment, although the road surface on the embankment is a dirt road, but the trim is very flat.

Under the embankment is Zhangji, Zhangji to Hongcheng County is an asphalt road, more smooth. Although it is two lanes, there are few cars at this time, and the car is a public bus that runs twice a day. Even tractors are no more than ten in a commune.

You slept all the way in your grandmother's arms, and it was only seven o'clock when you arrived at the county medicinal materials company, and the staff had not yet gone to work, so the one who watched the gate let the sack be unloaded to the door of the warehouse.

I told my patriotic uncle to take the afternoon bus back and gather at the gate of the ammonia plant, and my uncle drove to the ammonia plant.

There were only two Yoyo Niang left at the door of the warehouse, and Yoyo hurriedly put more than 2,000 catties of fragrant aconite into the space. According to the calculation of one pound and one thousand yuan, two million arrived, and the great cause of time and space trade set sail.

Grandma went to chat with the old couple who watched the gate, saying that she wanted to buy a bicycle for her child and inquire about the location of the black market in the county seat. The main reason is to inquire about the situation in the black market, and by the way, sell some things, and have to earn the money of the two thousand catties of fragrant aconite.

When it was almost eight o'clock, the staff arrived one after another. One of them went to Hantun Village to collect incense aconite, and he enthusiastically helped his grandmother go through various procedures.

Because this batch of fragrant aconite is finished, the quality is different, with an average of three cents per catty. With the money in his hand, his grandmother declined his invitation to stay for dinner, and walked towards the black market with Youyou.

Youyou threw the invoice to Zhi Brain, arranged for it to imitate a purchase order of more than 3,000 catties, and went back to let his father pay the errand, and the funds of the rural medical cooperative were managed by the production team. As for the real invoice, it's a great collector's item.