1980: I have a spiritual spring

Chapter 8 Imminent
The next morning.

A tractor drove into Qiaojiawan and stopped in front of Qiao Erhe's house. The poultry farm had delivered chicks to the Qiao family.

The news that Qiao Erhe's family was going to raise 1000 chicks had already spread throughout the village. When the poultry farm delivered the chicks, the villagers who weren't working in the fields all flocked over to watch the spectacle.

After the poultry factory employees got off the truck, they said to Qiao Erhe, "Comrade Qiao, we've brought you some chicks. Where do you want to raise them? We'll help you move them over."

Qiao Erhe laughed and said, "Comrades, you see this ditch? We just need to put these chicks in this open space inside the ditch."

An employee nodded and said, "Comrade Qiao, there are 20 cages on this tractor, and each cage contains 50 chicks. When we release these chicks, we hope you can count them to see if there are 1000."

Qiao Erhe agreed, and the two employees of the poultry and egg factory then unloaded the chicken cages from the tractor and opened them.

Upon seeing this, the chicks rushed out of the coop.

The Qiao siblings and the villagers who came to watch the excitement all stared at the chicks and started counting them.

Soon, 20 cages of chicks were released, exactly as the two employees of the poultry farm had said, with 50 chicks in each cage, not one more and not one less.

After Qiao Erhe settled the payment, the two employees of the poultry and egg factory drove away in a tractor.

After seeing the two employees of the poultry and egg factory off, a villager asked, "Erhe, how much did each of those chicks you bought from the poultry and egg factory cost?"

Qiao Erhe readily replied, "One cent each. If you need any in the future, you can buy them directly from the poultry factory."

"These chicks aren't expensive."

Villager A nodded. Eggs were about four or five cents each, and chicks were ten cents each. The prices were indeed quite reasonable. He said, "Let me see how well you and your brother are raising them. If you can really make money, then I'll raise a thousand or eight hundred chicks and give it a try."

Villager B chimed in, "Yes, let's see how well you and your sister Erhe are raising livestock. If it really makes money, we'll follow suit next year."

Villager Bing remarked, "Erhe is really bold; they sent 1000 chicks right off the bat."

Villager Ding nodded and said, "My family bought twenty chicks to raise this time, but I'm worried we won't be able to raise them well!"

The villagers gathered together and chatted amongst themselves. Everyone admired Qiao Erhe's courage. After all, in this era of restricted thinking, to start raising 1000 chicks right away was a bold move that not just any rural person would have.

While the other villagers were chatting together, Aunt Qiao spoke up again, saying, "Erhe, raising chicks requires extreme care. Only by taking good care of these chicks can you achieve an 80% or 90% survival rate. If you don't take good care of them, the survival rate will be low, and every chick that dies is a loss. You siblings must not be careless."

Qiao Erhe nodded and smiled, "Understood, Third Aunt. We will definitely take good care of these chicks."

Aunt Qiao had already shared her experience in raising chickens and ducks with her nephews and nieces, so she didn't have anything to say now. After giving them a few more instructions, she said, "Then I'll go back to work. Call me if you need anything."

"Okay." After seeing Aunt Qiao leave, the other villagers also dispersed.

Next, the Qiao siblings got busy with their own tasks. Qiao Dajiang was responsible for buying corn from the surrounding production teams, while Qiao Sanduo and Qiao Sihai were responsible for digging trenches. The trenches they had dug before were just a temporary measure, and were far from being deep or wide enough.

As for Qiao Erhe, he went to the well to fetch water. While pouring the water into the trough, he secretly added some spiritual spring water.

Now, Qiao Erhe has been back from his rebirth for several days, and he has figured out some of the wonderful uses of the spiritual spring water.

The known effects are that drinking the spiritual spring water can not only strengthen the body, but also treat various diseases, and it is estimated that it also has the function of prolonging life.

He has been drinking a cup of spiritual spring water every day for the past few days, and the effect is truly immediate. He is now not only sharp-witted and quick-witted, but also as strong as an ox. His previous deficiencies and hidden injuries have long since disappeared without a trace.

Since this spiritual spring water is so beneficial to the human body, it must also be of great use to animals. This can be seen from the fact that just a few drops can lure the fish in the river to rush towards it.

Sure enough, as Qiao Erhe poured some spiritual spring water into the trough, the chicks that were originally wandering around the open space rushed towards the trough like flies that smelled excrement.

Although the spring water was diluted at least a thousand times, it still held a deadly attraction for these chicks.

After all 1000 chicks had drunk the diluted spiritual spring water, Qiao Erhe observed them carefully and found that the effect was quite good. The chicks that had been sickly before were now full of energy and their vitality was much stronger.

If you give them some diluted spiritual spring water every now and then, even if chicken plague strikes, it probably won't be able to harm them.

Seeing this, Qiao Erhe couldn't help but sigh again. It was a pity that he couldn't be reborn and go back to three years ago. If he could go back to before his father passed away, no matter how serious his father's illness was, with this spiritual spring water, his father could easily recover his health.

Thinking of his father's illness, Qiao Erhe suddenly had an idea. Since the effects of his spiritual spring water were so strong, could he make some incredibly effective medicinal wine?
The medicine isn't the key; the key is the wine. He can use this spiritual spring water to brew wine, and the effect will definitely not be worse than drinking the spiritual spring water directly. In this way, even if relatives and friends get a serious illness, he won't need to reveal the existence of the spiritual spring water; he can just use the medicinal wine to treat them directly.

With such an effective medicinal wine, he could make huge profits whether he used it to expand his network or sold it directly.

Moreover, it was 1980, and my country had not yet listed tigers as a Class I protected animal. If he could find a way to get some tiger bones and tiger penises, he could use them as a cover and claim that they were tiger bone wine and tiger penis wine made with a unique secret recipe.

Qiao Erhe became more and more excited as he thought about it. It seemed that he needed to find someone to learn how to distill alcohol.

Also, the matter of building a new house for the family needs to be put on the agenda.

After all, he had to keep such a powerful medicinal wine under his control. But now he only had three rooms in his house, and he didn't have his own room. Even if he managed to get the medicinal wine out, there was nowhere to hide it.

In addition, my older brother is getting married, so we'll need at least one room.

Therefore, building a new house is now an urgent matter.

(End of this chapter)