Chapter 1360 Ready for Market
"Village Chief Li, you have to be responsible for delivering these pigs to the slaughterhouse."
Li Yungui shook his head, "Director Wu, you have to find a way yourself. You understand, we’re currently in the middle of spring planting and really can’t spare a vehicle.
I estimate that both the county and county supply agencies will be visiting the slaughterhouse."
"Okay, I’ll call them."
"Director Wu, you send someone over to our village directly to weigh and settle accounts. We probably won’t be free until July.
But in half a month, we’ll have to go to other places to bring back piglets."
"Alright, no problem."
"Thanks for understanding, Director Wu. There will definitely be no shortage of pork supply for you."
"Now I can rest assured."
Everyone is astute. How Wu Qiang makes arrangements is his business, but once the pigs are taken away, payment must be made. It’s all worry-free.
"Tomorrow I’ll send someone over. Roughly one pig every two days."
"Director Wu, each pig weighs over 300 pounds, even after processing there’d be over 200 pounds of pure pork. Our pig farm only has about 200 finished pigs, so I think it’s best to have one pig every three days, that way there wouldn’t be any interruption in supply."
"Three days, just under 100 pounds per day." Wu Qiang felt it was too little.
"Director Wu, steady streams last long. Now the half-grown pigs are just about 150 to 160 pounds, really afraid of not being able to keep up with supply. The county supply agency only gets one pig every five days."
"Alright then, one pig every three days it is. But still, it’s tomorrow. Don’t worry about me here, we’ll settle accounts at your place, payment is fine."
"Alright, then Director Wu, I’ll head back, things at home are really busy."
Wu Qiang warmly sees Li Yungui off and secretly slips him two packs of cigarettes.
Li Yungui directly went to his elder brother’s house, estimating he should be home now.
Li Yunqiao saw his younger brother coming over and quickly asked Sister-in-law Wu to prepare another meal.
"No need, just eat whatever’s at home."
Lu Fengzhen heard the commotion and came out. "I’ll fry some rice." Today’s lunch was a mix of rice and millet.
"Why did you come to the city today? It’s the busy time now."
"The pigs at the farm are all over 300 pounds. Today I notified the supply agencies at the county, town, and city that the pigs can be sold."
"It’s really fast."
"Yes, and they’re particularly fat. Now I’m just hoping for Xiao Wei to hurry back. We still need to go to M City to bring back piglets."
"Estimate it’ll be soon, within ten days he’ll surely be home."
"Yes, hoping for them to return soon, really wish they wouldn’t have to go out this year."
Egg fried rice was quick, along with a bowl of shrimp and Chinese cabbage soup.
"Big brother, I’m heading back. Estimated day after tomorrow we’ll have electricity. Faster than expected."
"Did you clarify whether we need to prepare the electrical wires ourselves?"
"Already asked, the power bureau has them. When the time comes, the village just needs to pay."
Li Yunqiao laughed, now the village is financially robust. Each pig represents over 200 pounds, and there are 200 pigs. That’s 40,000 yuan. Excluding all expenses, the remaining over 10,000 yuan is easily earned.
Li Yunqiao went to the county supply agency to pick up a vehicle, only to be stopped by Zhao Manjiang.
"Wu Qiang from the city called me. We’ll go together tomorrow."
"Okay, don’t worry, everything is arranged, just waiting for you guys, make sure to bring money, payment upon leaving the pig farm."
"Look at you being stingy."
Both felt closer in their relationship. Actually, it’s just about his elder brother being at the power bureau and having asked before, everything’s already arranged. There was the previous matter of setting up a chicken farm in the county. These are mere gestures, but people still remember. Such people are truly worth befriending.
In the evening, Li Yungui rang the bell to hold a meeting, announcing that starting tomorrow, they would begin selling fat pigs. Everyone laughed heartily, genuinely from the heart.
"Also, in a couple of days, the power bureau can supply electricity to our village. Household wires, the brigade pays for them, and the light bulbs are purchased collectively by the brigade. Each household gets three, if it’s not enough, find a way yourself."
"Village chief, all good news!"
"Hehe, there’s a third piece of good news, Mr. Lv Zhiqing’s father is relocating to our village. Our village is going to build a distillery, so work hard this year, and also clear that piece of hillside to plant sorghum, then we’ll have easy access to liquor."
"Village chief, does the distillery need workers?"
"Of course, however, this matter needs Xiao Wei and Mr. Lv to return for discussion. Anyway, it’s beneficial for us."
Truly one joy after another. Everyone excitedly gathered, disregarding fatigue.
"Quickly head back, need to work tomorrow."
"Captain, don’t worry, tomorrow’s work won’t be delayed."
The next day, Li Yungui finished breakfast and went to the pig farm to wait.
The layout of the pig farm is similar to the chicken farm, initially entering is where workers rest.
But the main gate was locked from inside.
Two pigs are scheduled to leave today, so these two were separated, not fed this morning.
"Gui Zi, the number of half-grown pigs is probably insufficient."
"Uncle Li, that’s inevitable, we’ve gone through numerous villages and bought only this many piglets. It cannot be forced."
"When is Xiao Wei coming back?"
"Estimate in ten days or so."
"Tell your wife to hurry up and learn how to cook for his family, so when Xiao Wei returns he can go to get piglets."
Li Yungui silently looked at Uncle Li. He’s even more anxious than I am.
"Right now Xiao Li goes over every day to cook for them."
"Gui Zi, we have twenty sow pigs, all segregated. By Mai Qiu, they’ll be ready for mating."
"Then next time we won’t need to get piglets?"
"Certainly not, we still have to go. Estimate next year after autumn we won’t need to go, by then we’ll have enough, but I’ll wait for Xiao Jiang to return and discuss whether to segregate the sows?"
"Then just build another pigpen?"
"Not enough manpower, every household is lining up to build houses?"
"It’s fine. If it’s for building a pigpen, they’ll accommodate. Wait for Xiao Jiang to return and discuss."
As they spoke, a knock on the door was heard.
This time Zhao Manjiang came personally. The city sent the supply agency’s accountant.
"Director Zhao, Accountant Ding, welcome. Can’t invite you to see inside, it’s a rule, I’m not allowed in either.
But rest assured, these two pigs weren’t fed last night or this morning."
"We wouldn’t doubt Village Chief Li handling matters, but this pig farm really looks clean."
"It’s alright, someone is responsible for cleaning here." Li Yungui spoke modestly, but his face was full of smiles.
Uncle Li started driving the pigs after they arrived, soon enough, four people drove out two big fat pigs.