Era: Start as a buyer

Chapter 182 Things in villages and towns are a bit complicated

In September, the children have started school.

Luo Cheng has to go to the countryside again today, so there is no need to report to the factory. But the shuttle bus to town is at half past eight, so Luo Cheng can't get up too late. By the time he set off, there were no older children in the yard, except for a few three or four-year-olds with big farts.

He was carrying a rattan-style box, which was quite light and was given to Luo Cheng by someone else. Now others are Luo Cheng's connections, and when others make friends with him, he is also an important connection in the eyes of others. I learned that Luo Cheng often traveled between towns and cities, and every time he had to bring a change of clothes, someone gave him an exquisite rattan box, which was much lighter than a wooden box.

When he went out, he wore a white shirt with a pen hanging in his shirt pocket. The pen was given by the person named Peng whom he had met before. In his outfit, there is no trace of the boy from the countryside and mountains a few months ago.

At around ten o'clock, Luo Cheng arrived in the town, and his sister Luo Yan and her mother were already busy making lunch. His brother Luo Qiang's children were naturally there too. Not to mention how good the food at Luo Cheng's place was, but it was not a little better than that in the cafeteria. The faces of those who helped Luo Cheng looked much better than before.

Before, everyone had no flesh on their face, was very thin, and had dark and yellow skin. At least there is some flesh color now, and the spirit is much better than before.

Luo Cheng also has a straw shed on the side of his house because people often come to look for him when he comes back. This is a straw shed, which is cooler and more transparent than indoors. It's quite nice to sit in the shed, drink boiled water that has been cooled down, and chat with others or talk about things.

Now that Luo Cheng is back, as soon as he shows up, people from the commune will come looking for him soon. The commune's deputy captain Liu is now arranging people to raise chickens and feed eels and loaches. The eldest sister and Luo Cheng's father no longer fish for snails and small fish and shrimps. What they catch is simply not enough to feed them.

The eldest sister and Luo Cheng's father are also at the pond every day, responsible for the sorting work. Several new ponds have been built. Eels weighing more than one kilogram are put into a certain pond, and eels weighing more than two kilograms are put into a certain pond. In ponds, there are also distinctions between those weighing more than half a catty and those weighing less than half a catty. It will be convenient for Luo Cheng to make as much money as he wants in the future.

Now, every time Luo Cheng comes to pick up goods, he also cleans the pond where a lot of eels and loaches were put in before they were sorted. The current pond is being cleaned and re-planned at the same time. Fortunately, the rice seedlings have grown up a lot, and the area where we want to catch eels has been reduced to the edges of the fields and paths.

No matter how much we want to catch more eels, we dare not damage the rice seedlings and affect production. But for the eel-catching team, one person can catch twenty or thirty kilograms a night, and a team can catch about three hundred kilograms a night. Fourteen communes now have eel-catching teams. This amount will be sold in shops, distributed to restaurants in the future era, and given to poultry factories in our own era. On average, the water in the pond increases by about 2,000 kilograms every day. This means that a pond will have to be added for stocking in half a month, but in a month or two, when the weather is very cool during the day, the eel catching team can temporarily disband.

Calculated in this way, in fact, there are two shallow ponds a month, and up to four more shallow ponds can be added. But the real problem is that there are already a lot of ponds. Too many ponds are nothing. When it comes to feeding, Luo Cheng reluctantly found a temporary excuse, saying that feeding eels, loaches and snails to chickens and ducks is much better than feeding rice bran and other feeds. But I can’t use that much for the time being, so I’ll keep it temporarily.

But this can only be fooled temporarily. Once the breeding time is long, a lot of feeds such as eels and loaches will accumulate. Then everyone will feel that something is wrong. You must know that the feed Luo Cheng got can also be fed to chickens and ducks. The reason for catching eels and loaches is to feed chickens and ducks, so these things are feed, but they use feed that can feed chickens and ducks. It is understandable if there is a shortage or a small amount, but if it takes a long time, it is obviously not cost-effective. Luo Cheng couldn't explain clearly at that time.

However, Luo Cheng has already made other preparations in the future era. In the future era of his city, it will be easier to rent a pond or fish pond in the suburbs. Even as long as it is not cultivated land, you can temporarily get some vegetable plots or unused plots of land and dig a few ponds.

But in that case, people will have to be hired to feed them in the future era. Workers in the future era will be much more expensive than workers in this era.

When Luo Cheng returned home, he sat under the straw shed and checked various accounts. Luo Yan poured him a bowl of cold water directly. He had to handle many accounts. Now he came to the township to handle the accounts and transfer some eels, loaches and snails from the pond to the future era. Then I go to the road intersection in the early morning to get eggs, chickens and ducks. But based on the amount of eels caught in various communes now, it’s about three hundred kilograms a day, which only costs three yuan. Counting 30% of the exchange, it’s enough in one day. About two pounds of eggs are ready to be beaten. It takes a commune about half a month to get a basket of eggs.

But even if the rice eel can only be exchanged for about three yuan a day, no commune has said it will quit. It's more than three yuan a day, and about one hundred a month. The eel-catching team formed were all farmers, with about ten people. Rural people had no place to earn ten yuan.

And even a basket of eggs for half a month was something I didn’t dare to think about before. Coupled with the large number of those captured during rice transplanting, Luo Cheng was slowly settling the accounts.

As for the money, Luo Cheng already had the money to pay everything off, but he only gave about 20%. The eels, eels, and loaches are all still in the pond. The so-called poultry factory has not taken them away, but has given them to them. For eggs, chickens and ducks, I also paid about 20%. This discount of 50% is very reasonable. It would be abnormal if not.

Now Luo Cheng has to deal with all kinds of trivial matters every time he returns to town, so he feels a little bored. I can't go to bed until I finish getting the goods in the early morning. During the day, I have to arrange for people to fish the pond and reconcile the accounts. Hei Niu also has to do docking every time he comes back, and there is no sense of freedom at all.

But these things have to be done. Fortunately, eels and loaches are seasonal, so it is busy here until November, and then it becomes quiet. Then I would have a good rest and relax for myself. At that time, I, Er Gouzi and Chen Laizi would secretly set up traps and hunt in the mountains.

Hunting is no longer life for Luo Cheng, but a pastime. Instead of going into the mountains, just go outside. At that time, many animals in the mountains would come down to look for food in order to survive the winter.

"Yanzi, when I go back this time, you will go with me. Your second sister-in-law is pregnant now, and she always thinks about going to the movies with you. I will go and stay with her for a few days. When she gets pregnant in the next year, this Just forget about cooking and just stay at my place to take care of your second sister-in-law. See if that works."

"Second brother, I listen to you. But on my parents' side~~."

"Don't worry, I'll tell you when the time comes."

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　Chapter 12 was blocked because it described how many kilograms per mu could be produced, so the editor could only come during the day to apply for removal. I have modified it several times but it still hasn’t passed. Maybe I will pass it when I go to bed at night. But if this chapter is not published, it is equivalent to absence from work. I sent it but couldn’t connect to the chapter above. There is no way to delay sending until almost o'clock. I want to unblock it and send it again.

　　When I write about the yield per mu, I actually want to say that in addition to the drought, there are many human factors that led to the difficulties in the following years.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)