Zhang Xiaoliu returned home with a heavy heart, while Zhao Zheng cleaned up the ashes burned in the past few days in front of the house, and piled them with the chicken manure cleaned up every day to accumulate manure.Sitting by the door, Xiao Song was having a great time by himself. =

"Brother Liu, you're back!" Although Zhao Zhengze was working, he saw Zhang Xiaoliu just now when he glanced at the road from afar.At this time, just seeing him approaching, he said loudly very happily.

"I'm back. Ah Zheng, did you chop the firewood again so quickly?" Because of his lack of strength, other adults could carry a load of firewood, while Zhao Zheng could only divide a tree several times, carrying the trunk first. On the second day, go to bind the cut side branches.Such a speed also meant that he would have to go up the mountain almost every day or two, and would also spend hours chopping firewood.In Xiaba Village alone, each family has enough firewood to burn for half a year.

"It's done... Brother Liu, what do shopkeeper Huo think of those wines?" Zhao Zhengze had also tasted those wines, but he had never drank wine before, so he couldn't compare them.If you want to talk about it, that's naturally very good.

Hearing his question, Zhang Xiaoliu put aside the matter of raising chickens for the time being, smiled and said, "Of course it is possible, we have signed a contract, and from now on, we can make [-] Dou of wine every month and sell it to him."

Zhao Zhengze's eyes lit up too. He had heard Zhang Xiaoliu's calculations. If he could sell wine every month in the future, he would be able to sell more money than the grain harvested in the fields.

"That's great!"

"Yeah, don't be too busy, the sun is so bright, come in and rest, and do it in the rest of the afternoon."

Now that Mai Mai has gone to school, the work of cooking at noon falls back to Zhang Xiaoliu.Zhao Zhengze really wanted to help, but it looked like an inexperienced way of chopping vegetables, and Zhang Xiaoliu always grabbed it as soon as he saw it.

"Ah Zheng, what do you think if you want to raise hundreds of chickens in the village?" Zhao Zhengze entered the house and carved pictures on the stones he picked up. Zhang Xiaoliu asked while washing vegetables.

"Hundreds of them?" Zhao Zhengze stopped his hands and looked at him, saying, "Brother Liu, it's good to raise chickens, but with hundreds of them, we have no place to put them, and the food at home is not enough... "

"So if you want to raise chickens, you have to build a shed first, have a field to grow some food, or buy it from others. Even if you take hundreds of eggs, it is impossible to hatch all the chicks, and there are not so many hens brooding... ..." Zhang Xiaoliu counted slowly, not so much to tell Zhao Zhengze, but to list the possible problems and weigh the pros and cons.Calculated in this way, even in the initial stage of raising chickens, a lot of investment is required. I don't know if anyone from Dashun and Cao'er is willing to invest in this risk.

"Forget it, let's talk to them first and then think about other things!" He said to himself, and then asked: "Ah Zheng, can you go to the carpenter to order something this afternoon?" You need to prepare some bamboo dustpans first, the big ones are used to cool the glutinous rice, and the small ones can be turned upside down on the pottery vats. Speaking of which, the pottery vats used for fermentation in his two brewings were originally used to hold water, and Don't know when I'll be able to buy another one.By the way, you can make a wooden barrel with a lid, which is good for holding wine in a short time, and it is also convenient to pack it in wine jars later.

"No problem, what do you want to do?" Generally speaking, Zhao Zhengze is familiar with many people in the village. After all, he can meet many people every day when he goes up the mountain or goes down the field.

Zhang Xiaoliu told him in detail, and added another set of tools for making tofu.He felt that such a convenient tool might be useful when making tofu during the New Year's Eve, but it would be inconvenient to borrow it if other people wanted to make tofu.Now that he has money in hand, he will not be stingy about buying some things.

In the afternoon, the two split up. Zhao Zheng went to the carpenter's house in the east of the village to order some items. Zhang Xiaoliu took his younger brother to find someone to discuss raising chickens.Since Dashun's house was close, he went over to ask their opinion.

Fulai's wedding day is set in October, and there are only two months left to prepare, so Dashun has been very troubled recently.As big as inviting someone to make a banquet, as small as the decoration of the new house, all have to be carefully considered.When Zhang Xiaoliu came over, he had just sat down in the room and made a cup of tea.

"Dashun?" Xiaosong knew that he was going to come here to drop by. He broke away from his brother's hand and ran over while he was still on the road. He opened the door and shouted at the people inside with a small face.

"So it's Xiaosong," Dashun waved at him, squeezed his face when he came over, and picked him up.Thinking of Fulai's elder brother passing through the family, I might have a grandson who is a little younger than him in a year or two, and my heart is both happy and troubled.Of course the joy is that there is a new addition to the family and that they can enjoy the joy of playing with children and grandchildren; the worry is that there are too many people, but the family income is still only so much every year, and life is getting worse and worse.

Xiao Song was pinched by him so that his whole face was wrinkled together, looking at him with watery eyes, he put aside all other things in his mind, and asked, "Where's your brother?" Even if his father When he was not there, the two elder brothers in the family also protected him tightly and rarely let him go out alone.

"Brother, here we come." Xiao Song said obediently, being hugged comfortably by him.Under Zhang Xiaoliu's order, Mai Mai hardly hugged him in the past two months.Besides, Maimai's strength is not as strong as that of an adult, and he is also short, so he can't compare to Dashun's feeling of holding him tall.

As soon as he finished speaking, there were several knocks on the door that had already been opened by Xiaosong, and then he was pushed open.

"Dashun, are you home alone?" Zhang Xiaoliu asked in surprise when he saw them when he came in.Fulai was strictly disciplined by Dashun, so he should be mending clothes or fixing shoe soles in the house at this time.

"I asked Fulai to send a message to my brother. Fulai's date has just been fixed. What, you are looking for Fulai?" Da Shunmomo raised Xiaosong and shook it around before letting it down.

"No, I'm here to find you!" The room was also bare, with a wooden bed, a table, and a bamboo box for clothes.Zhang Xiaoliu remembered that when he first came in, he had seen a big wardrobe that was about [-]% to [-]% new, and it might have been moved to the newcomer's room after tidying up.

"Oh, what's the matter? I heard you said that you still need to make wine, how is it going now?" Da Shun asked with concern, remembering what he said last time.

"The wine is not bad, what about Dashun, do you want to raise more chickens?" Zhang Xiaoliu thought about it, but he didn't have any way to beat around the bush, so he went straight to the point.

"Raise more chickens? I've already fed more than 30 chickens. They are all used when Fulai gets married. Why do you ask?"

"Well, it's like this. There is a restaurant in the town. They buy twenty or thirty chickens every day, so there must be someone who supplies live chickens on a regular basis. You know, some people don't have much land at home, and they specialize in raising pigs or chickens, etc. You can make money by selling things." Zhang Xiaoliu knew that none of them had any awareness of doing "agriculture and sideline business", so he explained it to him straightforwardly.

"Feed chickens for money?" Da Shun was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Brother Liu, you need a lot of food to feed chickens, and these have to come from the fields. How can you feed a big chicken?" How much money do you make?"

"You can't say that. If you are really determined to feed them, of course you can't let them only eat grain. One chicken may not make much money, but if you can sell thousands of chickens a month, it is not a small amount!" Zhang Xiaoliu said. After serious consideration, raising chickens now is of course not as good as modern times with various hormone feeds to promote ripening, and the real cost must be very high.But even if the profit margin is relatively small, there will be a restaurant to buy it directly after raising it, and it can make a lot of money.If it is fed well, the Donglai restaurant can't eat it, and there are other restaurants and food stalls in the town, maybe they can sell more.

Dashun was shocked again when he heard that there were thousands of them in a month.He thought carefully, three or four people are enough to take care of the fields at home now, and so many people are not needed during the slack season.When Fulai's brother came in, he and Fulai, including himself, had at least three other people who could feed the chickens...

"What does Brother Liu think?" After a while, Da Shun raised his head and asked.

Zhang Xiaoliu showed a smile and said: "The shopkeeper of that restaurant asked me if I wanted to continue, but Dashun knew about it, and we didn't have enough people to help at home, so I wanted to ask you. I listened to the shopkeeper. I said the general method, but how to do it may need to be discussed slowly.” He didn’t dare to say that he came up with it by himself, and he just moved Uncle Dong out to block it, and it was him who taught him how to build a shed. yes.After a pause, he added: "If you really want to raise them, I'm afraid not only the manpower for feeding must be considered, but you also need to buy a batch of chicks in the early stage, and then you will have to incubate the chicks yourself. It’s too manageable, so if I want to do it, I’m afraid I’ll have to cooperate with Cao’er Momo.”

Although Cao'er Momo might not agree, Zhang Xiaoliu still spoke out first.Otherwise, in the end, the cooperation between the two companies will become three, which is hard to say.

"It's hard to talk about it," Dashun smiled wryly, not for the sake of his partner, but because he was afraid that he would agree and end up losing money for nothing.

"I think I'm [-]% sure... But Dashun, you should think about it carefully. I will reply to people the day after tomorrow at the latest, and it won't work if it takes too long." More details can only be said after confirmation, Zhang Xiaoliu also I don't know what difficulties I will encounter, so of course I dare not force others to board the boat.

"I have to think about it carefully, and discuss it with them, or I'll talk to you tomorrow." No matter whether he agrees or not, Dashun can't make a decision so easily, he still has to discuss it with his family .

Zhang Xiaoliu naturally also knew that Dashun's heartbeat just now made him feel a little surprised, but such a big event still needs the support of his family.

Coming out of Dashun Momo's house, he said the same thing to Lin Cao'er's family again.Lin Cao'er frowned tightly enough, as if she felt that his idea was too bold, Li Sheng didn't speak at the side.On the contrary, Nanny Li asked a lot of details, and seemed to agree with his judgment.

Zhang Xiaoliu wasn't too worried about the outcome of the two of them's consideration.He didn't reject Uncle Dong at that time, mainly because he wanted to leave the opportunity to the villagers.If both of them refuse, he probably won't cooperate with other companies, but if someone hears the news and wants to do it, he will also tell Uncle Dong. As for the follow-up, it depends on his own ability.He is busy enough with the wine making business now, not to mention the long term, as long as he can do it for three to five years and earn money to buy more fields and livestock, life will never be more difficult than it is now.

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