My 1995 Small Farm.

Chapter 736

In the end, Xu Yingguang still couldn't get over his mental hurdle.

Actually, besides the fact that he's been a gang leader for so long and can't bring himself to lower himself, there's another reason.

It's just that today was a bit of a coincidence.

Just as he finished listening to what Chen Ling said, his blood was boiling and he was about to speak when...

Wang Laishun came over and called Chen Ling.

Wang Jusheng's aunt came again today, bringing people from the south of the city to the village to breed pigs.

Speaking of which, Wang Jusheng's aunt's family was quite well-off.

In Chen Ling's memory.

He sold medicine in a Western medicine pharmacy in the county town.

His uncle is very powerful; he is a director at the city's post and telecommunications company.

Saying it's a postal and telecommunications company is a bit vague, but if you say it's the future 'China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom', then it becomes impressive.

The current director, no matter which of the three major telecom operators he is transferred to, will at least become a bureau chief.

Chen Ling also found it hard to believe that someone like Wang Jusheng's aunt would organize something like coming to the village to breed pigs.

I only found out when Wang Laishun mentioned it on the way.

Although the old wild boar in the mountains had taken over many of the sows in the village and often went to the pigsty late at night to mate with them, the old wild boar was too old to mate with all the sows in the village.

When the large white breeding pigs came to the village, the village sows refused to mate with them.

Many of those old wild boars haven't found mates yet, and they haven't been coming around much lately. Several sows in the village have started to go into heat again.

Two days ago, when Wang Jusheng's aunt came, she heard about this and brought a local breeding pig with her today.

The local breeding pigs are black pigs, not the imported white pigs.

Why would Wang Jusheng's aunt care about this matter?

Actually, she initially came to the village to arrange a marriage for her nephew.

Since the beginning of this year, the girls and boys of Chenwangzhuang have been particularly popular.

As the aunt in the family, after her brother Wang Laifu passed away, she naturally had to worry about her two nephews.

“That girl doesn’t like Juying and Jujie, but she’s taken a liking to Er Mao’s son, Wenchao.”

"Huh? Xiao Chao? Hasn't Xiao Chao been working at my greenhouse these past few days?"

"Sigh, you've forgotten, haven't you? On the day of the market in the county, Professor Zhong called you away. You didn't have time to cook dinner that night, so Xiao Chao and a few others went to the county to buy food and drinks. That girl is a teacher at Xinling Middle School, and she bumped into them as soon as she left the school gate..."

"Oh, you took a liking to Xiao Chao at first sight."

"That's right. As soon as they found out whether Xiao Chao's pig had been bred or not, his daughter went back and urged her father to make arrangements. And now, there just happens to be a breeding boar in their village."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ling couldn't help but laugh.

That kid Wenchao is still focused on training dogs and chasing rabbits this year. Whenever he has free time, he takes a rabbit-catching net and wanders around everywhere.

With his playful nature, hunting is definitely more exciting than finding a partner. Chen Lingzhen never expected that he would have the mind to find a partner.

Unexpectedly, without him even looking for her, a girl took a liking to him.

Sigh, sometimes things in this world are just that—things you don't have to go out of your way to get.

"What did Xiao Chao say? Does he like that girl?"

"Of course he'd like her, what's there for him to be picky about?"

Wang Laishun glared and shouted.

In the eyes of the older generation, as long as the woman is acceptable in all aspects and has no major flaws, the man has no room to be picky as long as he is willing.

If the man is overly critical and picky, word will get out and no one will be willing to act as a matchmaker anymore.

"Let's go, why don't you check out those sows? And when the boars come, we'll have to see if they can mate."

This was the purpose of the village inviting Chen Ling over.

In some families in the village, the sows were bred by the old wild boars, but they didn't mate.

It didn't mate, but it believed that having a partner meant it no longer needed to be in heat.

That won't work either.

People raise it in the hope that it will have offspring.

How can we let the past go by?

Last time Lao Ba came over, he could tell at a glance whether a livestock was pregnant or not, and whether it could be bred. It is said that he told Chen Ling the secret to pigs.

We have to make him go and take a look today.

They forced those who weren't pregnant to conceive.

Such a thing was also quite rare for Old Wu and his group, and they followed suit shortly afterward.

Today, the pig breeding took place at the village entrance, north of the reservoir dam, in a small, dried-up fishpond.

The villagers remembered the last time Chen Ling helped Er Mao Lu's family catch their cow; he chased the unruly cow into the small fishpond before finally catching it.

This time, I thought that if some of the sows that weren't pregnant refused to mate, I would drive them into this low-lying area as well.

Domestic pigs are not as good as wild boars; they can't jump out.

We can't stop the boars from mating at that time.

"Wealth and honor are coming."

“Fugui is very busy. Lishan and the others were just at Fugui’s house, waiting for him to clean the ditch in the greenhouse and watch the pigs. Let him go and get busy.”

Wang Laishun addressed the crowd.

After he finished speaking, Wang Jusheng's aunt greeted Chen Ling with a smile and said, "Doesn't Lishan's family also raise pigs all year round? Why didn't he come along? If Fugui is busy, we can ask him to help out here later."

Chen Ling said, "They went to the mountains. There are people there filming red-crowned cranes. These past few days, those cranes have been fighting with swans or geese. It's quite a scene."

Behind him were Elder Wu and others, who had originally intended to go to the mountain lake as well.

But I've never actually seen a pig being bred.

They had already witnessed the red-crowned cranes fighting a couple of days ago, so they still came here.

"Ha, no wonder our village is so famous."

Aunt Wang Jusheng smiled proudly. Chen Ling smiled as well, said nothing more, parted the crowd, and went to take a look at the large breeding pig.

Then they went to each household and drove the pigs out.

When they arrived at Er Mao Donkey's house, Xiao Chao greeted Chen Ling as "Uncle Fugui" and grinned foolishly, saying that he had a girlfriend.

Chen Ling patted him on the shoulder and told him to save money so he could attend his wedding.

Hearing this, the guy got even more excited, saying that the girl didn't care about money.

It's just that the brothers Wang Juying and Wang Jujie weren't there; otherwise, they would have been extremely upset to hear this.

Chen Ling was also taken aback, so she kicked him in the butt and said that even if you don't care about money, you still have to save money. What will you do if you can't afford to raise a child in the future?

Only then did he begin to look worried.

There's nothing I can do, this kid is just too playful.

However playful he may be, he is also aware of his own limitations. Given his circumstances, it wouldn't be easy for him to meet a girl like her.

“My brother told me that this is all thanks to Uncle Fugui. If it were just Uncle Fugui, our village wouldn’t have such a great reputation now. Now it’s easy for young men in the village to find wives.”

He followed Chen Ling, shouting.

The pigs in his family were raised by his older brother and sister-in-law.

Those donkeys and calves were raised by his father, Er Mao, because he and his two brothers couldn't handle such large livestock.

Too troublesome.

No pigs are easier to manage.

Of course, he wouldn't be willing to raise pigs either; this kid isn't as good at saving money as Liu Ni'er.

"Don't say you're benefiting from anyone's success. You need to be more ambitious in the future. Don't take over my old job and people will say you're a good-for-nothing lazy bum who only knows how to play around..."

Chen Ling glanced at him and went to help herd his pigs out.

Wang Wenchao chuckled. He wanted to say how much money he had made this year by catching birds and selling them to Yu Qi'an, but he couldn't bring himself to say it. He also knew that there were very few people like Uncle Fugui who could achieve great things simply by playing around.

Without some culture and knowledge, who can build a fortune just by playing around?
He's also quite naive, which makes things very difficult.

"Hey, it matches perfectly, it matches perfectly."

"Our local black pigs are really something else!"

"The foreign pigs from Kuliu County look so big, and they're so expensive to mate with. To be honest, they're all show and no substance."

"Look at our pigs here, they're not very big, they can go inside in no time."

When we arrived at the village entrance, there were already sows in the low-lying area being mated with breeding pigs.

Many villagers were there, enthusiastically cheering on the boar.

Old Wu and the others stood on tiptoe and craned their necks to see what was so special.

"Alright, Uncle Fugui, we've come all this way for nothing."

"It's alright, this trip wasn't in vain. Let your pig get to know the breeding pig better, so it can be mated another day."

Chen Ling smiled.

The reason we brought out all the sows from several farms today was to see which sow was the most cooperative, and then we would mate her with that sow first.

As for the rest…

Boars are not machines.

Each time you prepare one, you need to rest for two days.

This is also why the pig herders in Kuliu County used to charge fifty yuan per session.

These pigs are usually fed a fine diet, with eggs given to them every few days. In addition, there are relatively few foreign pigs in the mountains these days, and the price of piglets is good this year, so they are asking for an exorbitant price of fifty yuan.

The local black pigs now cost 20 yuan to breed once.

However, the advantage of being local is that the package comes with it.

"Alright, that's good. All the pigs from these families can be mated. Just wait for the rest to be mated."

"Alright, alright, then Fugui, you should go back and get busy. We won't bother you anymore."

Chen Ling nodded and turned to go home.

However, he was approached by many people today, so he couldn't get his own business done.

I had just gotten home and was halfway through unpacking the things I'd moved out of the bedroom when Professor Zhong arrived. I asked him for help taking Dujuan to the hospital.

I contacted him and Wang Susu about this the night before last.

As a pregnant woman's belly grows bigger, things become more difficult; getting out of bed, getting up, and turning over all become strenuous.

Du Juan herself said that if she hadn't come to the countryside to prepare for childbirth, and if it weren't for the nourishing prescription given by Wang Susu, she probably wouldn't have been able to keep her first child.

After all, no one could have imagined that Du Juan, who looked so healthy, would have such severe pregnancy symptoms.

Sister-in-law Xiufen also mentioned this. If Dujuan were replaced by a woman from the village, she wouldn't eat or be well cared for, and even if she got pregnant, she would miscarry.

Chen Ling wanted to drive there, but seeing Du Juan's discomfort, he was afraid that she would feel even worse if she got carsick in the car. After all, even if the road was repaired, there were still many ups and downs and turns on the mountain road.

So let's let the little white ox pull the cart.

The little white calf is steady, sensible, and knows what it's doing.

Wang Susu also cares about Du Juan, but she has two young children at home and cannot leave.

Chen Ling then called Yu Qi'an and his wife down from the mountain to help. In the next two days, Yu Qi'an would take Er Tuzi and two eagles with He Jiawen and others to the mountains, where He Jiawen and his group would stake out and photograph the red-crowned cranes.

Yu Qi'an and his men dug up bamboo rats everywhere to feed Er Tuzi.

With Chen Ling and Yu Qi'an, two young men, and Bai Huining taking care of her, Wang Susu felt much more at ease.

But I still went up the slope to take a look.

After Chen Ling and the others loaded Du Juan onto the oxcart and slowly left the village, they returned home.

"Is Professor Zhong's daughter-in-law about to give birth?" a woman asked Susu.

"She's about to give birth, sigh." Wang Susu sighed, still slightly worried as she recalled her sister-in-law Xiufen's words.

The old lady was very accurate in judging these things; she was genuinely worried that Dujuan might not be able to keep her first pregnancy.

"Go ahead and have the baby, your Rui Rui will never lack playmates in the future."