Chapter 13: A Busy Day on
Since all the pigs were in place, Tian Fei found that he had become a pig nanny, and he had to revolve around these "hums" all day long.
Tian Fei had to get up before six o'clock in the morning every morning, and then he began to carry water with a bucket, because the pigsty he borrowed did not have running water. The ten pigsty are all two by two, and each pair of pigsty has a large bucket that needs to carry two loads of water. The bucket Tian Fei used to carry water is a plastic bucket, which is about 120 catties when a load is full, fortunately Tian Fei is a rural baby, and he has been used to farm work since he was a child, otherwise he would have to stop cooking.
Five groups of pigsties, the farthest from the well more than 100 meters, the nearest from the pigsty also has forty or fifty meters, first of all, to the well to draw water, the well is an ancient well that people in the village are using, the water level is more than four meters deep from the ground, Tian Fei first has to carry a small point of bucket tied with a rope and slowly put it into the well, when it is almost to the surface of the water, throw the rope, and then the bucket will be buckled in the well water. Then lift the bucket that is slowly filled, and you need to beat it four times to fill a load.
One hundred and twenty catties is not very heavy for Tian Fei, but it is not easy either. In order to ensure that the water is not spilled during the process of carrying water, it is necessary to hold the two hooks of the flat pole with both hands, and then walk slowly and steadily. Tian Fei's habit is to take a deep breath, and then carry the water to the pigsty in one breath without resting.
The water has reached the pigsty, and the matter is not finished, and the water has to be poured into the tank. Because the large water tank is also placed on a one-meter-high shelf, plus the height of the water tank itself, this height is about one meter eight, and Tian Fei can't reach it with a bucket. So Tian Fei put a 30-centimeter stone pier next to each water tank.
Tian Fei first stood on the stone pier, then bent down to lift the bucket full of water, and then straightened his waist, leaning against the water tank on his left side. With your left hand and your right hand on the bottom, take a deep breath and lift the bucket over your chest. Lift it up again, then pour the water into the tank with your right hand outward and your left hand inward. Rest for 10 seconds, then lift another bucket of water and repeat the action you just did before you finish a load of water.
Six or seven minutes have passed since such a series of procedures were completed. However, Tian Fei could not rest yet, and he had to complete the workload of ten loads of water before breakfast. This was repeated ten times, and the time had reached seven o'clock, and the sun had risen. Tian Fei came home with sweat-soaked clothes and started eating breakfast.
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Home is a warm harbor, and Tian's mother usually cooks Tian Fei's favorite breakfast - egg scrambled noodles and eats a bowl of thick white rice porridge.
After breakfast, Tian Fei didn't have time to rest, so he had to start preparing to feed the pigs.
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First of all, it is necessary to bag the feed prepared last night at home, which is about 300 catties a day, and can be packed in six bags. Tian Fei used a big shovel to load the feed into a snakeskin bag, and then carried four of the bags to a small cart used on the construction site, and then Tian Fei pushed the cart to the rice factory.
When he arrived at the rice factory, Tian Fei changed into clothes and rubber shoes and began to clean the pigsty. First of all, use a broom to sweep the pig eating area, and sweep the leftover residue and manure to a pile. After cleaning such a pigsty, Tian Fei climbed over the railing to another pigsty to clean. It's not an easy process, and the smell of feces is not to mention, just the piglets that have been biting your trouser legs around you will annoy you, and you need to clean them while using your feet or a broom to drive them away. And so, this process is repeated twelve times.
After cleaning the pigsty, it's time to feed the pigs. Since the road in the middle is left at one meter six, Tian Fei can push the car in, which can save a little effort. Open the two bags of feed and put them on the trolley upright, and then Tian Fei used an aluminum spoon to dig two spoonfuls of feed and sprinkle them on the floor where the pigsty had just been cleaned, and then the piglets would immediately come around to eat. Tian Fei's happiest thing was to watch the little pig eat so happily. That's it, pushing the cart and feeding it one by one.
Feeding is not the end of the matter, and the feces that have just been swept up must be cleaned up. At this time, Tian Fei would carry a dung bucket into the pigsty and shovel the manure to the dung bucket with an ocean shovel. Every time you clean a circle, you have to go like before. Carry the bucket over the railing and go to another lap to clean it. That's another round down, but fortunately, at this time, the pigs are all going to eat, and you won't be the only one biting your trouser legs.
At this time, it was Tian Fei's most relaxed moment. A soft skin hose is connected to a pressurized pump, a bit like a high-pressure water gun for a car wash. Opening the valve, Tian Fei began to scour the pigsty, especially where the manure had been shoveled just now. Pigs are actually very clean animals, if the pigsty is not clean, they will not sleep well, and they will naturally grow slowly. In addition, it is easy to breed mosquitoes and flies in dirty places, and it is not very good for the growth of pigs.
While rinsing, you also have to observe the piglets eating. If you don't eat it, you have to take your temperature and get an injection, which is troublesome. Fortunately, Tian Fei did a good job of prevention, and there is no such situation now.
Finally, the feces that have just been cleaned up are dumped on the outside drying lawn.
In this way, the matter of the rice mill came to an end. But Tian Fei couldn't stop to rest, because there were ten pens of local pigs waiting to be fed.
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Tian Fei rushed to his home non-stop, and then brought a bucket of pre-prepared feed to the rented pigsty, and he really didn't even have time to wipe his sweat!
Generally speaking, Tian Fei starts feeding in the order from far to near. The feeding process is pretty much the same, but there are some differences. There is no running water in these pens, so there are no more high-pressure water cannons for rinsing. Tian Fei often carries a bucket and a spoon, and uses the spoon to scoop a bucket of water into a tank on a wooden rack before lifting the water into the pigsty. Splash water with a water spoon and sweep with a broom. In this way, the pigsty can be cleaned quickly, but there is no high-pressure water gun to save effort.
In this way, the remaining nine pigsty were cleaned up, and the time was already more than ten o'clock and almost eleven o'clock. Tian Fei's morning work was finally done.
Generally speaking, at this time, Tian Fei can rest until lunch. But the pig farm is often not so easy, every three or five days, the pig farm inside and outside to do a disinfection, and the old farmer to spray pesticides on the dealer, Tian Fei has to carry a kettle full of potion, spray the pig farm with disinfectant, every corner is not let go.
Or if there is a pig that does not eat, Tian Fei has to measure the pig's body temperature and inject it.
So in the morning, Tian Fei basically didn't have idle time.
Fortunately, I was able to eat the hot food prepared by my mother. It's also happiness at home, especially for single men. Tian Fei is such a person, in addition to being busy with the pig farm, he can be regarded as a jacket to reach out for food and open his mouth!