Chapter 14: A Busy Day
After lunch, Tian Fei actually wanted to take a nap, but he just thought about it.
For piglets, the emphasis is on a small number of meals. If the big pig is two meals in the morning and evening, the small pig must be fed, and a small amount of food must be fed at noon.
Since the day's feed was transported to the pig farm in the morning, Tian Fei could also walk leisurely to the pig farm at noon. Even if the sun is shining, it can't prevent you from looking at the scenery along the way, and the cicada chirping of "know, know..." is also pleasant.
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Taking the work clothes hanging on the wall and changing into them, Tian Fei walked into the pig farm. Listening to the "squeak" sound of opening the door, lying on the ground "hum...", the sleeping pigs all stood up, looked at Tian Fei with expectant eyes, and urgently wanted to eat.
At this time, the pigsty is still very clean, and there is no need for Tian Fei to clean it again. Tian Fei didn't bother to push the cart, so he directly dug a large spoonful of feed with an aluminum spoon and splashed it on the ground where the piglets were eating, which was also to form a habit for the piglets.
After feeding, because the weather is relatively hot, Tian Fei will turn on the high-pressure water gun and shoot some water into each circle, and even the piglet's body to cool down the piglet.
After finishing the rice mill, I had to go to the other ten pigsties. It's still those few things, feed and splash some water.
The noon work is relatively easy for Tian Fei, so it should be regarded as a way to consume food after meals.
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In the middle of the hot summer, the sun is so hot that everyone can't get interested. Tian Fei is the same, at this time, Tian Fei often goes to the west of the Menqian River to soak for a while. Just after the summer vacation, many children in the village will also soak there, and the water is not very deep, and the parents are also relieved. Sometimes Tian Fei will also bring a fishing net, and he can always catch a few small fish scurrying around. Tian Fei has liked to do this since he was a child, and the fish he caught is stewed in a pot, how tasteless it is!
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At three o'clock in the afternoon, it was time to feed the pigs dinner. Raising pigs is such a repetitive process, as in the morning, into the circle to clean, over the other to continue cleaning, and then to ...... , and then feed. The pigsty during the day is always cleaner than the pigsty after the night, and they are all piglets, so there is no need to clean up the manure in the afternoon, which also saves Tian Fei a lot of trouble.
After doing this, Tian Fei will plug in the water pump and fill the water tower with water. When the water is stored, Tian Fei is not idle, and he usually habitually checks the wooden railing around the pigsty to see if there is any loose or broken, and finds that Tian Fei will repair it himself.
After filling the water, Tian Fei had to rush to the other ten pigsty to repeat the work just now.
It was so busy until the evening.
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Back home, Tian Fei had to continue to be busy.
It's really not a moment to be idle, because the feed prepared last night is eaten today, and tomorrow's feed has to be prepared today.
Since he did not have his own mill and machinery, Tian Fei could only use his own tofu factory.
The tofu workshop was a bit small, and the big bags of corn couldn't fit at all, so Tian Fei piled the corn in another empty room next door. When you want to grind the flour, first turn on the mill and replace the sieve with a corn sieve with a large hole for grinding tofu.
The feed is 55% maize, 10% rice, 5% wheat bran, 20% dried okara, 4% premix, 6% sugar and fishmeal, and a small amount of salt.
300 catties of feed are needed every day, so it is necessary to grind 165 catties of corn flour and 30 catties of rice flour.
Tian Fei first had to go to the storage room next door to carry two bags of corn kernels, then weigh 165 catties with a scale and pour them into a pile on the ground of the mill. Then 30 catties of rice were loaded in a dustpan and poured on this pile of corn.
Before you start grinding, you have to close the door, put on a mask, and sometimes plug your ears. Turn on the machine, and then Tian Fei dumps the corn kernels into the funnel of the mill with a dustpan.
In Tian Fei's view, this work is the most tiring and bitter part of the day. The machine is old and has little power, and the result is that it is noisy and slow. Because the grinding is powder, you can't turn on the fan and there is no air conditioning, plus the room is completely enclosed. Tian Fei had to endure multiple tests of noise, dust, heat and heavy physical strength.
After grinding these two hundred catties of material with a bang, it takes more than half an hour to talk. When Tian Fei came out of the mill, his whole body was covered in dust, especially his hair, which looked like he had walked through the gray snow.
After a little dusting, it's time to start the official feeding.
Tian Fei first weighed 15 catties of wheat bran, and then poured down from the tip of the flour pile with a dustpan to cover it evenly. After that, 60 catties of dried bean dregs, 12 catties of premix, 12 catties of fish meal, two catties of soup and a small amount of salt.
When these are all piled up, Tian Fei is going to start mixing them together. It's the same as mixing cement and sand at a rural construction site: use an ocean shovel to pick up the feed from one side, and then keep shoveling off one pile to form another. Wait until this pile is all done, and then start to shovel another new pile. In this way, the shovel is turned over and again, repeated five or six times, until all the ingredients are fused together, and the feed is ready.
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With a body of dust, Tian Fei came to the river in front of the door again. He didn't have to take off his clothes, he plunged into the river, and then jumped out of the river for a long time before he came out of the water. It's almost enough to wash away the fatigue of the whole day.
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After dinner, Tian Fei couldn't relax yet, he had to take a flashlight and go to the pig farm. See if all the pig food in a pen is eaten, whether the pigs are fighting, and then you have to light mosquito coils in the pigsty.
There will always be mosquitoes in the pig farm, especially in summer, and it is necessary to light mosquito coils. Of course, in order to prevent rats from scurrying around and hitting mosquito coils and causing fires, mosquito coils are generally fixed with wires.
If it's a rainy day, Tian Fei has to go to see if the drainage ditch is blocked, and if it is blocked, he has to communicate the water to prevent the rainwater from pouring into the pigsty.
In this way, they inspected all their pigsty in turn. Tian Fei's busy day was over.
Sometimes Tian Fei also thinks that if he pursues a girl when he is in college, and then treats this girl like his own pig, the girl may become Tian Fei's child and mother now.
In the last life, Tian Fei was just a salesman in a feed factory, although he visited countless farmers, but he was not a squatting point, and he could not understand the hard work of farmers at that time. For a small farm owner, he is both a breeder and a veterinarian, a worker and a repairman...... , it's so versatile that I'm so tired that I have no friends.