The prosperous era of courtyard houses

Chapter 14, Investigation and Breeding

At noon the next day, we walked in front of the restaurant on Gulou East Street.

Zheng Shan went to the joint restaurant to wait for almost an hour.

There is no way, life is really tight during this period, and I am eager to find some work.

At 12 o'clock, Li Weiguo asked for leave and arrived at the joint restaurant on Gulou East Street on time.

When he arrived at the door, he waved his hand to Zheng Shan and motioned for him to follow.

We walked into the restaurant and asked the waiter for a small private room.

After sitting down, I started to order from the service staff: "One portion of twice-cooked pork, one portion of sour Chinese cabbage, one portion of crucian carp and tofu soup, and ten steamed buns."

"Two for one piece, 3 taels for meat stamps, and 1 catty for fine grain stamps." The waiter quickly pulled off a list and placed it on the table.

After the waiter left, Zheng Shan took out his previous ID from his pocket and handed it to Li Weiguo.

A certain reconnaissance company of a certain division, squad leader of the 1st platoon corporal, Zheng Shan.

The worn certificate and the steel seal on it confirmed that it was genuine.

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Tell me about your situation."

After a moment of silence, Zheng Shan slowly explained his situation.

Zheng Shan, 24 years old, joined the army in 53 and was later assigned to the reconnaissance company. He was discharged in 57.

There are five people in the family, including my mother, my wife, and my son, who is just over three years old. My father passed away at the end of last year.

I was doing pretty well and was given an allowance of more than 300 yuan when I was discharged from the army.

The street also arranged a job for him in a food factory.

The reason why he was so miserable was because his father spent all his savings on medical treatment when he was still alive.

At that time, he was diagnosed with uremia. He spent all his savings on treatment and owed hundreds of yuan in foreign debt.

After that, you can no longer borrow money.

With no choice, he sold his job in the food factory.

I was in a hurry, so I sold it for 400 yuan and used it to treat my father's illness.

He himself makes a living by doing odd jobs.

After half a year, the money ran out.

At the end of last year, his father failed to survive and passed away.

At this moment, the family still has a foreign debt of nearly 200 yuan that has not been paid off.

My wife is in poor health and has to buy some medicine from time to time.

My wife doesn't have a job, but on weekdays she works as a street dealer for Matchbox, earning ten or eight yuan a month.

Since I no longer have a formal job, I can only do odd jobs, earning only about ten yuan a month.

After hearing about Zheng Shan's situation, I couldn't help but lament that fate plays tricks on people.

A good man was made to look like this, and he didn't even have any decent clothes left on him.

It is really difficult for a rich man to be a man without money.

Not long after, the restaurant waiter brought the food to the table.

Li Weiguo said nothing more, pointed to the food and said to Zheng Shan: "Eat, I will tell you something after eating."

Seeing his posture, Zheng Shan knew that he was a man who was not short of money, so he was not polite. He grabbed two big steamed buns with his left hand and took a bite, and kept picking up vegetables with his right hand.

After eating for only two minutes, Zheng Shan stopped eating. Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, he probably wanted to take some back to his family.

Li Weiguo didn't care, and waved his hand: "Okay, this table is all yours. If you don't finish eating, pack it up later."

Zheng Shan was overjoyed immediately, thanked him profusely, and even took the food with him, which made him feel quite embarrassed.

Since Zheng Shan didn't want to eat, Li Weiguo didn't waste any time, took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to him.

Said: "I need you to help me find a person. He is the security officer of the rolling mill. This is his personal information."

"I suspect that he took advantage of his position to collude inside and outside the steel rolling mill and steal public property many times."

"If he is not clean, his tracks will definitely show up. I need you to keep an eye on him for a long time until you confirm whether he has stolen public property."

After saying that, he took out 5 big black tens and put them on the table and pushed them to Zheng Shan.

Said: "This is the deposit. After the matter is completed, all the money will be paid to you at once."

Zheng Shan took the 50 yuan, patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I also hate this kind of moth that steals public property. As long as he does this, he can't escape my eyes."

Li Weiguo nodded and said: "Well, if you have any situation, you can find someone to send me a letter. My name is Li Weiguo, and I live at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang."

After the two exchanged everything, they left.

It's okay if Zhang Biao's butt is clean. If it's not, I'll deal with him sooner or later.

But how to bring down Zhang Biao and others requires long-term planning.

After all, he is just a powerless security guard now.

Soon, another week passed.

The food in the secret space has ushered in the second round of harvest.

Three acres of wheat harvested 3 kilograms, and one acres of corn yielded more than 3000 kilograms of corn cobs.

From 2 acres of sweet potato land, the final harvest was 2 kilograms and thousands of kilograms of sweet potato seedlings.

After plowing the land again, Li Weiguo planted another 3 acres of wheat, 3 acres of corn, and 2 acres of sweet potatoes.

The wheat was shelled and ground to obtain 2100 kilograms of white flour and 900 kilograms of wheat bran.

The corn is directly ground into powder together with the cobs, and 4500 kilograms of corn noodles are made into corn noodles. In the future, in addition to keeping some corn for self-eating, the rest is ground into corn noodles and sold or used for farming.

After a week in the fish pond, 168 days have passed. After regular feeding, the fish and shrimp have grown a lot. The big ones weigh more than 3 kilograms, and the small ones weigh four to five pounds.

After a while, the fish and shrimp will lay eggs. As long as they are fed properly, the number of fish and shrimp in the fish pond will increase exponentially.

A bumper harvest means that breeding can begin.

I had made an appointment with Wang Mancang to trade for half a month, and now the agreed time has arrived.

So early on the weekend, Li Weiguo took the bus and went straight to Red Star Commune.

The Red Star Commune did not appear until July 58.

At that time, the "Communalization Movement" was launched across the country.

Implement the big pot rice system, where everyone works together, records work points, and eats together.

Farmers no longer raise poultry and livestock in their homes.

Poultry and livestock are collectively raised by dedicated personnel and are the common property of the commune.

That is to say, Wang Mancang serves as the production captain in the commune, otherwise he would not be able to trade these cubs.

While the whole village was having a big pot of rice together at noon, Wang Mancang led the bullock cart and first loaded the fruit tree seedlings in his backyard onto the cart.

He dug these fruit seedlings in advance and transplanted them to the backyard. There are twelve fruit seedlings in total, two of each type: apple tree, peach tree, jujube tree, walnut tree, cherry tree, and chestnut tree.

While loading, Li Weiguo asked: "Brother Mancang, how is the food in the big pot in this village?"

Wang Mancang was silent for a while and said: "Last year, I ate okay at first, but then I ate all the good food. Forget it, just don't talk about it." After saying that, he waved his hands with a gloomy face, unwilling to mention it again. .

Looking at Wang Mancang's appearance, Li Weiguo guessed something about the situation, so he didn't ask any more questions.

After loading the fruit seedlings, he took Li Weiguo to the commune breeding farm to pick up the cubs.

Load the cubs that have been caged in advance into the car, and then cover the cage with a layer of thatch.

In this way, the two of them led the bullock cart, sneaking around the large troops who were eating, and transported the cubs and fruit seedlings out of the village. They did not unload the cart until they were near the station and paid.

After Wang Mancang left, while there was no one around, Li Weiguo collected all the cubs and fruit seedlings into the space.

空间里养殖场显示的数字是：鸡场10/500；鸭场10/100；鹅场10/100；猪场4/20；羊圈2/100；兔场6/500

It seems that all animals have a breeding limit, and they will not reproduce when they reach the limit.

Only 500 chickens and 100 ducks can be raised at the same time, and so on.

Although it doesn't look like much, it can't last 24 times longer. When it grows up, it can be directly put into the static space, and the next round of breeding can be carried out.

At the same time, with a thought, Li Weiguo crushed the wheat bran and sweet potato leaves in the static warehouse, mixed them with water, and put them into the troughs of the chicken, duck, geese, and pig farms respectively, and then filled the troughs with water.

Sweet potato leaves and some vegetables are put directly into the troughs of sheep and rabbits.

In the future, as long as a certain amount of feed is put into the breeding farm in the space, the breeding farm will automatically feed and reproduce without requiring too much attention.

The wheat bran, sweet potato seedlings and a large amount of corn noodles and vegetables in the static warehouse are enough to feed chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep and rabbits. Not to mention their growth rate, by the time they reach the breeding limit, the space will have harvested several rounds of food.

After settling the poultry and livestock, Li Weiguo planted all the fruit seedlings.

These twelve seedlings only occupy a small amount of land for the time being. The tallest one is currently less than one meter. If they want to mature and bear fruit, they will have to wait at least 2-3 years, which is almost a month and a half outside.

After completing the planting and breeding arrangements, Li Weiguo breathed a sigh of relief.

Before, three years of famine were like a heavy stone weighing on his heart, and Li Weiguo couldn't help but feel nervous.

Having completed the basic goals of planting and breeding, I finally felt confident enough to face the upcoming three-year famine.