59 years after its opening, people are still in Nanluoguxiang.

When the children happily went back with half a frozen pear, the old patriarch soon arrived.

"Chief, please sit down quickly. These pears have just thawed." Grandpa smiled and handed a bowl to the old man. It was a little after four in the afternoon and the temperature was not high. It would take half a day for the frozen pears to thaw.

"Looks like I came just in time."

The old patriarch was not polite either. He was the tutor of the two brothers Zhou Fubao and Zhou Dinghai, so drinking a bowl of Zhou family's frozen pear juice was nothing.

The Chen family also has to give pork to Sha Zhu and invite Ran Qiuye to dinner!

If this happens in the future, parents will have to help teachers correct homework and submit essays after giving gifts.

"Xiao Feng, are you here to transport a pig back this time?"

Chen Feng also held a bowl and sat next to the old man. He nodded and shook his head when he heard the words.

"I am planning to keep one. The wild boar I hunted before is different from the domesticated pork. Domesticated pigs are tastier."

"But not now. I'm afraid if I come too late, all the pigs in the village will be bought by Tianjin. So I came here early and brought a piglet back to raise."

A sow's gestation period is usually 333, which is three months, three weeks and three days.

It has been more than three months since Chen Feng last delivered a wild boar at the end of August. The sow in the old patriarch's house is likely to give birth to piglets in the next few days.

"How does your family raise pigs?" the old man asked in surprise.

"This is easy to solve. There are many lakes in Sijiu City, and there are a lot of water plants and lake worms in them. Chen Hao and Fatty have nothing to do anyway, so they can go and cut some every day to raise pigs."

Chen Feng said with a smile.

The real reason is that he has space and there are plenty of sweet potato vines inside, enough for the pigs to eat their fill.

"Haha, that's true."

The three old men nodded together. In their opinion, there must not be many people raising pigs in the city now.

In fact, this is not the case. Before the three major reforms, many wealthy families in Beijing raised pigs. However, as everything became nationalized, this phenomenon quickly disappeared.

However, as regulations were relaxed, some people saw the huge profits from pig farming and rebuilt the old pig pens.

"Are there many people coming to the village to buy pigs?" Chen Feng asked.

The old man couldn't help laughing.

Just as Chen Feng thought, ever since the pigs in Zhoujiagou were secured and praised by the city, many buyers from various units and factories in Tianjin have come here to shop around, hoping to order pigs from a certain company.

Wait until around January at the end of the year, when the Chinese New Year is approaching and the pigs are at their best, and then sell them to them.

The reason is that if pork is not distributed during the Chinese New Year, life will be difficult for everyone!

Workers these days are really tough, beating and scolding their leaders is no big deal!

"Don't be afraid, we'll take our pig back for you and let Lily eat more. The little girl loves meat!" Grandma's face was full of smiles and love when she talked about her granddaughter.

"No, I thought it would be big, but it's still small now, so I'd better keep it for now."

Chen Feng replied with a smile.

He got one thing wrong, that is, the modified pigs of later generations can be slaughtered in three or four months, but now they are native pigs, which need to be raised for a year to grow up, or even longer before they can be slaughtered.

There is no way. The breeding methods are different, the feed is different, the pig breeds are different, and the growth cycles are completely different.

That's why the factories want to pay the remaining bills by the end of January.

"That's fine. Let's wait until they are fat, then we can kill them. That way, we'll have more lar

"Then you can raise the pig first. If you really can't help it, you can kill the pig first and eat it." The old patriarch suggested: "The pig is also delicious when roasted!"

Chen Feng agreed with a smile: "That's right, roast suckling pig is a famous dish, but it can't be done in Sijiu City now. If someone kills the piglet in advance and eats it, I'm afraid they will be scolded as a loser."

"Ha ha!"

The three old men smiled at the same time, all a little proud.

Because Zhoujiagou gave birth to a lot of sows this year!

He originally planned to come over and persuade Chen Feng to wait for a while, but seeing that Chen Feng was very rational, the old patriarch mixed a bowl of frozen pears and went back directly with the bowl.

He couldn't bear to eat it directly, so he wanted to save it for his children.

Chen Feng wanted to send a few out, since he still had several hundred kilograms in his space, but the old man just didn't want them.

"You've done so much for the village, I don't know how to repay you, please don't let me continue to owe you money!"

After hearing this, Chen Feng had to give up.

For a selfish person, he would like to have the best things in the world given to him, and he would take it for granted.

For people with a conscience, even a needle or thread owed to others must be repaid, otherwise they will not be able to sleep well at night.

Chen Feng would rather not give even a bone to people like Qin Huairu, but he is willing to share the best things with people like the old patriarch.

"Grandpa, I'm going to go see the piglet again."

Chen Feng didn’t think too much before he came. He just thought that after raising the pigs for half a year, they could be slaughtered!

But when I was talking to the kids just now, I realized my mistake.

When I arrived at the pigpen, my thoughts were confirmed again. The pig in the pigpen was indeed not big, weighing at most a hundred pounds (a traditional Chinese native pig weighs about 150 pounds at eight months old, and some ecologically free-range pigs can grow to pounds).

“I don’t know if there are any imported foreign pig breeds.”

In later generations, imported pig breeds from abroad could grow to 240 kilograms in six months, and they could gain one kilogram of meat for almost every 2.8 kilograms of feed they ate. Their digestive abilities were terrifying, and their absorption abilities were even more amazing!

Come out of the pigsty and go to the kitchen.

"Xiao Feng, if you keep it like this, the ice will probably melt soon."

Grandpa couldn't help but look at the frozen pears wrapped in ice in the wooden basin again. After a while, a layer of water had accumulated at the bottom, covering the wooden bowl in the middle with the frozen pears.

"It's okay. Just keep the temperature. At night, loosen the cloth and let the accumulated water freeze. It should be able to hold out for a few days."

Chen Feng had no other choice, as it was impossible to dig a cellar in Zhoujiagou for storage.

People in the Northeast can dig cellars and store frozen pears in them. That's because the temperature is more than ten degrees below zero in the winter, and the cellar is a natural refrigerator!

But in Zhoujiagou, not only is the groundwater line very low, making it easy for water to accumulate when digging cellars, but the temperature is also not high enough, so it is better to try to preserve it in this way.

"Tomorrow Dinghai and I will go to the reservoir to dig some more ice to prevent the ice from melting in the afternoon. As long as the ice is still there, the frozen pears will not melt."

"Grandpa, how many pigs did the old patriarch's sow give birth to?"

"Hehe." Grandpa said happily, "There are twelve little piglets. The wild boars you brought may not look big, but they are really powerful. Now the whole village treats them as fierce pigs and raises them like treasures!"

Chen Feng was also shocked.

Twelve heads!

The book says that old sows give birth to 6-10 piglets at a time. This little wild boar is quite fierce!

(The actual number of native sows also broke the record with 14)

"How do we divide these twelve heads?"

"No matter what, our family must have six boars. After all, you brought the boars here. Everyone in the tribe agrees with this." Grandpa sat down and said, "However, six boars are too many. I was planning to give four of them to other people in the village."

"If you want to raise one, then there will be three left."

Chen Feng whispered, "Grandpa, why don't we just raise one? Two is still a bit too much."

He feels sorry for his two cousins!

I raise two pigs, plus a big pig. How much water grass do I have to cut after school every day?