Rebirth in Famine: She Thrives by Lucky Space

Chapter 1018: Busy Days

Since that’s the case, the two of them went straight to the transportation company. Since they had worked with them a few times before, they readily agreed. So the truck followed them back that day.Everyone saw that another truckload of pesticides was being transported away, and they hurried even more. What does this mean? It means that the pesticides are selling well, and everyone can continue their work.

Now that the villagers have money, several families are building houses for their sons, approaching Li Yungui to order bricks from the brick factory. They all want to build houses with blue bricks and big tiled roofs.

After planting all the large fields in the village, both tractors headed out. This time, Red Army went along. His skills have become very mature now. With one tractor and two drivers, they can work the fields at night and sow seeds during the day, significantly speeding up the process.

Wang Shulin also requested a tractor from Li Yungui. The area of Jin Family Village is more than twice that of Li Family Village. One tractor is simply not enough, so they had no choice but to accept the cost.

Li Yungui arranged for the village elders to work in the chicken farm. Now the chicks can run around in the yard.

Jiang Xinyu had instructed them not to feed the chickens anything random, only chicken feed. In a little over ten days, they could move the hens into the chicks’ cages to let them adapt. At first, the roosters will also be in the chicken cages. When the chickens grow bigger and the weather warms up, they can be free-ranged.

The eight sent-down youths were also working here. They were satisfied and even worked in the fields for a few days. At their age, the work was quite strenuous, so they cherished the opportunity to work at the chicken farm even more.

Jiang Xinyu suggested discussing with Wen Zhenzong. Breeding must be done scientifically. She worried that the village elders lacked knowledge and might feed the chickens as they used to when they were raised freely in households.

"Xiao Jiang, my voice doesn’t carry much weight, but I will definitely persist."

Jiang Xinyu understood their situation. Fortunately, Liu Xuefa is a doctor, although a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, he should understand pharmacology.

She approached Li Yungui, and the two held a meeting with the village elders. Jiang Xinyu repeatedly emphasized hygiene, medication, and scientific feeding.

"Xiao Jiang, we know you’re worried. Don’t worry, we will definitely follow your instructions strictly."

Only then was Jiang Xinyu reassured. To be honest, if it comes to vitamins, shell powder, and oxytetracycline—these basic medications—if there’s an outbreak of an epidemic, then it would truly become an unsolvable problem.

"Everyone should listen to Doctor Liu Xuefa more in the future. He understands pharmacology. Be attentive daily, and if there’s anything unusual, inform Village Chief Li in time, and we can seek help from the county’s veterinarian."

Everyone understood. They knew that the chicken farm now had six hundred chicks, whether roosters or hens, and they couldn’t afford any losses.

Wei Kaiyun was busy managing cotton with more than ten others. By the end of May, the entire village would mobilize to plant cotton saplings.

Li Yungui couldn’t close his mouth at the sight of the sturdy cotton saplings.

Thinking of last year’s snow-white cotton from the Wei Family, he felt a surge of warmth in his heart.

One hundred mu of cotton was planted in two days. Then it was time for irrigation. Diverting water wasn’t too difficult, especially since Li Yungui cared deeply about this hundred mu of cotton, using the village’s best-irrigated land.

People in the village had all become slightly darker in complexion due to the recent work. Jiang Xinyu too, with the help of the three older children and He Shangzhenkun, planted crops on their family’s private plot. This year it was still an acre of cotton, but they added soybeans and an acre of peanuts, as well as an acre of potatoes.

This was reserved for family consumption. The remaining acre was used for vegetables, quite mixed: three-fifths of it for carrots, with the rest for green onions, ginger, garlic, Chinese cabbage, and all the remaining space for peppers. This year, they planned on making more spicy sauce.

Standing at the edge of the field, Li Yungui saw that all the land was planted, except for the sweet potatoes, which was still a bit early. In about ten days, it should be ready.

This year, it was Li Yunqiang who went to check on Jiushang and the others, because Li Yungui had too many things to handle.

This time, Wei Kaiyun went to the city’s plastic factory and ordered five hundred sprayers.

The plastic factory saw this as a good business opportunity and spoke directly to Wei Kaiyun. Besides the five hundred ordered by them, for each subsequent production, Wei Kaiyun would earn three yuan. It might not sound like much, but the quantity would make up for it.

Of the five hundred sprayers, two hundred were sent to the Capital. Coupled with the pesticides, this could definitely lead to great profits for Han Xiangjun.

Li Yunqiao also started urging because the citywide meeting was about to start, and all the village chiefs and technicians were to be demonstrated the use of sprayers and the effects of herbicides and pesticides.

Since the tractors hadn’t returned, Wei Kaiyun went straight to the transport company. The truck loaded with sprayers was placed at Old Yang’s house.

Then they took fifty sprayers back to the village, returning with a truckload of pesticides to the city.

Jiang Xinyu chuckled, thinking it was somewhat like a trade fair.

Wei Kaiyun instructed the truck driver to load the hay he had prepared in advance onto the truck. This was for the experiments the next day.

This time, both Li Yungui and Wei Kaiyun went along.

"Mom, Dad has started to get busy again."

Jiang Xinyu nodded. Yes, it was indeed time to get busy. There was no choice; people have to keep moving forward in life.

A truckload of pesticides was directly unloaded into the courtyard, and Li Yunqiao locked the gate immediately, then invited the two of them inside.

Lu Fengzhen was already nearly six months pregnant, with a noticeable belly, though she was in good health.

"Why don’t you two stay at home tonight?"

Wei Kaiyun smiled and shook his head, "I’ll stay there; someone is responsible for watching the sprayers, and I want to take a look too.

Tomorrow morning, I’ll take two with me directly."

Considering it, Li Yunqiao didn’t insist, and Li Yungui stayed over.

After dinner, Wei Kaiyun rode off on Li Yunqiao’s bicycle, intending to walk with his brother the next day.

"Second brother, this time it’s sure to succeed," Li Yunqiao said with a smile.

"Yeah. Our village was pretty laid-back last year. With tens of thousands of catties of stored grain, the pesticides played a big role. Although we still had to pull weeds, we could definitely manage it."

"I’ve seen those pesticides; they’re highly toxic. There wouldn’t be any harm to our villagers, right?"

"Xiao Wei explained it to me. Actually, these chemical materials can be made by ourselves, which would lower costs significantly, but Xiao Wei didn’t do that. We just mix them directly, and all the protective measures use those waterproof rubber gloves. I believe there should be no harm.

Moreover, Xiao Wei and I discussed that the pesticide formula will only be guarded for two years. After two years, a pesticide factory can be established in the city, and the village will stop."

"Oh? Why?"

"Xiao Wei said we should find other ways to make money; relying on this isn’t sustainable. I think he’s also concerned about everyone’s health."

Li Yunqiao nodded, acknowledging that Wei Kaiyun was indeed a sensible person.