Although the people in the village couldn't get used to Mrs. Meng's behavior, there were still many people who came to help because they could get a few yuan after the house was built.

There's no way, everyone is poor these days, and they can't eat, so how can they care so much?

Meng Youyou didn't have any dissatisfaction, after all, this matter was a personal choice, and it was a matter of love to be able to help them, and if she didn't want to come, she was not qualified to blame.

specially asked Lu Yizhou to exchange a lot of meat tickets, and explained that Wu Qingmei had to give some meat to the people who came to help them every lunch, and in addition, more coarse grains should be prepared, and the work consumes physical strength, at least to make people full.

Meng Youyou rode a bicycle to the meat factory early in the morning to buy a few catties of meat and came back, and there were a lot of pigs in the water, and when he arrived at the head of the village, he met Wu Qingsong and Wu Qingbai.

"Uncle, second uncle," Meng Youyou shouted, pedaling his bicycle to speed up to catch up with them, "Second uncle, are you back?" ”

"No," Wu Qingbai smiled, "I know you had a holiday yesterday, so I came back to congratulate you." ”

"Yoyo, you are so amazing, we couldn't even think of the first place in the national English competition, but we didn't expect you to do it," Wu Qingsong also followed.

When he arrived at the thatched house, Wu Qingsong jumped out of the car and continued, "This is a gift that I asked your second uncle to buy for you in the city, and it is a reward for you, so you can't accept it." ”

He specially rushed to speak in front of Wu Qingmei, who greeted them, for fear that she would refuse directly.

Wu Qingmei smiled helplessly, "Yoyo, take it." ”

Meng Youyou responded, took it and opened it to see, there were two pieces of floral fabric inside, which were the most popular colors at the moment, whether she could see it or not, just this piece of mind was enough for her to remember.

"Thank you, uncle, thank you, second uncle."

Wu Qingmei thought that Wu Qingbai was doing carpentry for people, and maybe he also studied the house, so she took him to the newly demarcated land to see and build a house.

Wu Qingsong wanted to follow, but was stopped by Meng Youyou, "Uncle, I'll show you something good." ”

Wu Qingsong put down the bicycle and followed her to the edge of the fence, and saw that the two little piglets he had caught were lying on the edge of the fence at the moment, and he couldn't see the shadow of before.

Comparing himself with the piglets in his own house without giving up, Wu Qingsong was shocked, "Are these really those two piglets?" I'm afraid it's about two hundred pounds, right? ”

It's only been a few months of hard work, just eating feed has grown like this, compared to his pigs are a lot bigger, at this rate, it will definitely be slaughtered at the end of the year, and the weight will not be too light.

"No, they are really strong," Meng Youyou nodded, "They have always eaten feed, and they have never eaten pigweed." ”

"How much does it cost to eat feed every day?" Although Wu Qingsong was surprised that the piglet grew up quickly, his mind was still clear and he asked the most critical question.

So many families in the village are raising pigs, and there are few families who are willing to feed the pigs, and everyone has already tacitly agreed that the children who are not allowed to do farm work in primary school at home go to collect pigweed every day after school, so that the pigs are full and not hungry.

It turned out that making the pigs full and eating well are two different things, and Wu Qingsong then understood.

Meng Youyou beckoned him into the house to rest, and said as he walked, "Uncle, it costs about fifteen yuan to buy a piglet, and it was about eleven or twelve catties when you bought it, right?" ”

Wu Qingsong nodded.

Meng Youyou continued, "The little piglet can only be fed at the beginning, a bag of 20 catties, enough to eat for about a week, a bag is a piece of three cents, and it will cost about ten yuan to eat for two months." ”

"You can eat ordinary feed later, a bag of fifty catties, at the beginning it was said that you can eat for a week, the more you eat later, it takes seven or eight bags a month to become it, this is a bag of one dollar."

Wu Qingsong was startled when he heard that he had to spend seven or eight yuan a month, but he still asked, "How much does it cost to raise a pig and eat feed alone?" ”

Although he spends a lot of money every month, he believes that Meng Youyou specially spent money to buy feed to feed the pigs, not just to save trouble, but after careful consideration, so he specially calculated this account with him at this moment, so that he could understand the difference.

"I roughly calculated, if I continue to raise it like this, it is estimated that I will have to eat about 100 yuan of feed," Meng Youyou said truthfully.

In fact, she has already calculated this account, and because she needs so much money, many people can't take it out at all, so even if they know that pigs that eat feed grow faster and better, they are reluctant to spend money on pigs.

"A hundred bucks?" Wu Qingsong was shocked.

He works all year round, and at the end of the autumn harvest, the money in exchange for grain is not 100 yuan, how can he not be surprised when he thinks that a pig will have to eat 100 yuan for feed alone?

"We feed pigs with pigweed, which generally takes a year, and when we are slaughtered, it is generally two or three hundred catties that are good, isn't it?"

This knowledge was only understood by Meng Youyou after he specially went to find the information and studied it carefully, and he also asked Qian Fengying and Grandma Zheng before he dared to be sure.

"And if you eat feed, it generally only takes seven or eight months to be slaughtered, not to mention that the time is shortened, and the most important thing is that pigs can grow to four or five hundred catties."

Wu Qingsong's eyes lit up, and he quickly calculated an account in his heart, "Can you really grow to four or five hundred catties?" ”

If it can grow to four or five hundred catties, it can be sold for three or four hundred yuan when it is slaughtered, and when the time comes, in addition to the money for buying pigs and feed, it can also make a net profit of two or three hundred yuan.

If you raise a few more pigs, wouldn't it be worth thousands of dollars a year?

The more Wu Qingsong thought about it, the happier he became, as if he had seen the money beckoning to him, and he just wanted to go to the county seat to buy feed and follow Meng Youyou to feed the pigs better.

Meng Youyou knew what he was thinking, and couldn't help but splash a basin of cold water, "Uncle, you have to take into account that this is the most ideal state, if the pigs are raised too much, it cannot be ruled out that the pigs will get sick." ”

Scientific pig breeding is indeed to be promoted, but if you blindly pursue more money, then in the end the pig raises more, if a pig is sick, other pigs are infected, it will not be a blood loss.

That scene, Meng Youyou didn't want it to happen, so he naturally had to remind Wu Qingsong that everything should be done according to his ability.

Wu Qingsong remembered that there were sick pigs in the production team a few years ago, and then they died after not long after raising them, and he was a little worried for a while, "Then what do you say?" ”

Meng Youyou thought about it, the Wu family now has two big pigs and a small pig, a total of three pigs, let him take out three hundred yuan to buy feed, naturally he can get it.

"Uncle, you buy feed now, so that the pigs don't eat pigweed, I see that your two big pigs don't have to wait until the end of the year to be slaughtered, so it's not too late to take the money to buy piglets when the time comes to slaughter in advance."

Give a buffer time, so that you don't have to spend too much cash at once, saving Wu Fusheng and Wang Feizhi the two old people from worrying too much, and when they look back and wait for the pig to get the money, they will naturally understand the benefits of scientific pig raising.

"Cheng, I listen to you, I'll go buy feed tomorrow morning," Wu Qingsong couldn't wait and decided.

The family raises pigs every year, but he never knew that the difference between feeding pigs with feed was so big, and after seeing it with his own eyes this time, he was touched a lot.

"Yoyo, you're so smart, how did you think of that?" Wu Qingsong praised.

Meng Youyou smiled a little shyly, "There was an agricultural expert in our village before, and I followed him as an assistant for a while, and I heard him say that he wanted to raise pigs and grow rice scientifically." ”

"Scientific pig raising, scientific rice planting?" Wu Qingsong repeated it and laughed, "Well said, we are going to talk about science." ”

It seems that no matter what, you still have to have knowledge and culture, thinking of this, he decided that he must urge his two children to study hard in the future, and it would be better if they were like Meng Youyou.