jdhmnovel Chapter 315 Buying Piglets
Chapter 315 Buying Piglets
The Luo family is quite enthusiastic, especially Luo's mother.
Although what they brought out were peanuts, red dates, and candies, the candies must have been stored tightly by Luo's mother, and as the weather warmed up, they were already showing signs of softening.
Even the water given was sugar water.
Although these are all we can take out, they have already been reserved for entertaining guests in the village.
When the other party saw Gu Qingqing finish a bowl of wine, he wanted to make more for her, but Gu Qingqing stopped him and refused to do so.
"Auntie, you see, I come here empty-handed to bother you. I've already drunk a bowl of brown sugar water, and it's sweet to the core! No, no, I drank a lot of water at home when I came here."
"You kid, have another bowl. Meihua always tells you how good you are to her when she comes home. Her father and I rarely go to your village, so we don't have a chance to see you. Now that you're home, you refuse to drink an extra bowl of water from your aunt's house?"
If she said that she didn't like sweet water, would it seem too Versailles?
"Then I'll do it myself. Although this is the first time we meet, I can tell from Meihua that you are definitely a hospitable and warm-hearted person." Gu Qingqing was quick to pour herself a bowl of boiled water, and that was it.
This time she didn't dare drink quickly, and just sipped it slowly.
After they finished chatting, Luo Meihua gave the eggs to her sister-in-law in front of her mother, and told her to eat more good food so that she would have strength when giving birth.
The pomegranate tree cannot be dug today. Luo's mother said we have to wait at least a month.
Gu Qingqing drove the donkey cart, taking the mother and daughter to the pig-raising family.
In fact, it is good to buy things in a village where you know people. On the one hand, you know everyone's background, and you basically know who is honest and who is cunning.
The owner of the house that Luo's mother took them to looked like an honest villager.
When they went there, there were about ten piglets in the pigpen that looked strong. After a month, each of them weighed a little over 20 kilograms.
"What's the price of this pig now?"
"Sister-in-law, Meihua is a married girl from our village. I will give her the change later. A boar is 20 wen per pound, and a sow is more expensive at 30 wen per pound. You can ask around in the village about the price. It's definitely cheap."
Gu Qingqing didn't know the price of pigs, but when Luo's mother nodded, she started to pick pigs with Meihua.
Luo Meihua chose a male and a female.
Gu Qingqing chose three males and one female.
This made Luo Meihua very anxious. She chose a male and a female thinking that they would be a perfect match. If the female could get pregnant this year, she would kill the male at the end of the year. Next year, when the female gave birth to piglets, not only could they be sold for money, but the sow could also be kept to continue giving birth. If she couldn't get pregnant, she could still kill her piglets in time.
When she came, we didn't ask her whether to buy male or female pigs, so why did she buy so many boars now?
"Sister-in-law, you said something wrong. You want three sows and one boar, right?"
Not to mention Luo Meihua, even the pig seller couldn't understand it.
In the past, most people who sold pigs to him chose sows. Some even chose a boar for breeding, while some simply didn't choose and would buy one and raise it before borrowing it from a family in the same village that owned a boar. After all, sows can give birth, and piglets can make money no matter how you sell them. So why did this woman choose to buy a boar?
This was also what Gu Qingqing had in mind when she came here. To put it bluntly, she didn't expect to raise such a sow to give birth to piglets, just having one would be enough.
She was planning to raise the castrated pigs.
After the pigs are castrated, they not only grow faster, but their meat is also more delicious and less fishy.
By that time, if she goes to town to sell braised meat, can her business be bad?
But she can't say this now, it's so scary.
"No, I want three males. Males are voracious eaters, but they grow faster than sows. I want to sell braised meat at the end of the year." This was how Gu Qingqing temporarily explained to her.
Seeing that she had made up her mind, Luo Meihua didn't say anything more.
She had two pigs, the male weighed 22 jin and was short of two taels, and the female weighed 19 jin. The pig seller took the change and asked Meihua to give him one tael of silver.
They were raised in the same litter. The boar that Gu Qingqing chose weighed about 22 kilograms, and the sow weighed 18.5 kilograms, totaling 12,871 cents. The other party gave her 11 cents directly.
Because they had things to do at home, Gu Qingqing and Luo Meihua had to go back after giving the money.
According to Gu Qingqing's suggestion, they should send Luo's mother back first with a donkey cart and then they can go back. However, Luo's mother said, "Why do I need you to send me back? You should go back quickly. I just want to take a walk in the village."
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On the way home, she explained to Meihua why she wanted to buy a boar.
Luo Meihua asked in fear, "Is there such a thing? If the pig was raped, would it still be alive?"
There was no one else around, but Gu Qingqing saw it yesterday, so she leaned close to her and whispered, "Aren't eunuchs in the palace also..."
Gu Qingqing raised an eyebrow at her when she said this.
Luo Meihua still felt that this was too horrifying, and then said, "How can a pig be with a human?"
"Why can't they be compared? They both have two ears and one mouth."
"My family doesn't dare to do that. We have spent hundreds of dollars." Luo Meihua paused here, and then said, "Your family should come first. If it really works, I will tell Yuzhu that next year's pigs will also learn from your family. However, I haven't heard of anyone doing this in the neighboring villages? Who are you going to find to start with?"
Gu Qingqing smiled mysteriously at her, "I won't tell you. Just wait until the second half of the year to see whose pig grows bigger."
After arriving at the village, she first sent Luo Meihua home. Seeing that only Niu Li was at home taking care of the children, she casually asked, "Did Shuhe Yuzhu go to the fields again?"
"They went up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots."
Gu Qingqing didn't react for a while. When she returned home, she saw Uncle Zhang He and Niu Yuzhu coming out of their house carrying bamboo baskets. Niu Li's words "go up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots" suddenly hit her right on the forehead.
"Uncle, what about you?" Gu Qingqing hurriedly jumped out of the car.
Niu Zhanghe said cheerfully, "You and Meihua are going to make pickled bamboo shoots, right? Yuzhu and I are at home with nothing to do, so we went out to dig some bamboo shoots this morning. It's a good opportunity for you to come back, so let's see if there's enough. If not, we can go dig some more."
"Hey uncle, why am I asking you for help? I'm just free and want to find something to do with Meihua. Look at you two." Gu Qingqing didn't know what to say. Knowing that they would help, she asked one of Zhao Dong and the others to do it.
Since there wasn't much work to do, she thought the two girls could just do it for a while and be done with it. However, she didn't expect that while she was away, they had already dug up all the bamboo shoots.