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Today is a good day.

After the meeting, everyone returned to their assigned rooms, made their own beds, and sorted out their clothes.

There is a row of wardrobes in each room, and each person can get a wardrobe with a door. It fits the look of a modern dormitory.

Small but complete.

There is also a small wooden shelf on the other side, on which you can put daily necessities, face towels, etc. As for the toothbrush, it is really difficult to take it out and use it, so I will use it secretly once, and other times I will follow the trend and use substitutes of this era, such as wicker.

The production of toothbrushes can only be considered later. Everyone actually has a lot of ideas, but it will take time to realize them.

Everyone has their own thoughts and is full of imagination about the future.

For dinner in the evening, Liu's father arranged a sumptuous welcoming dinner.

Two square tables were borrowed, and together with the two square tables at home, there were four tables in total. Not to mention nine plates and twelve bowls, each table also had eight dishes, three meat dishes, three vegetables and two soup dishes.

Father Liu specially invited the village chief's family, Wan Tongsheng next door, and Aunt Wan's family who had been friends with him and were staying with him. Most people in this village have the surname Wan, and he couldn't tell them apart at first.

Apart from these three families, no one else was invited because there was simply no room for them at home.

Secondly, those people are indeed not very familiar to me.

Introducing Lin Weizhong, Luo Hong and others to the village chief will also make things easier for them in the future. The girl will be introduced to the village chief's wife.

Although men and women in rural areas of this dynasty were not prohibited from seeing men outside the court like in the imperial palace.

There are still certain rules. Although there is no requirement for men and women to sit at different tables when eating at home in the village, one still has to follow the rules when eating out.

These families were relatively sensible. They were couples who brought their eldest son and grandson to visit. If a family of more than a dozen people came to the banquet, there would be no space at all.

Father Liu also understood this rule and knew that these families abided by the rules. If he encountered a scoundrel who insisted on having more than a dozen people in his family eat for free, he would have no choice but to never have any contact with them again.

"Village Chief Wan, we are all here now. We ask you to take good care of us in the village from now on. Of course, if there is anything we can do that will benefit the village, we will do it without hesitation."

"Ren Yi, we are neighbors from now on. It's hard to say anything else about our village, but the relationship between neighbors is pretty good. There are a few other scoundrels and the like, but except for stealing an egg or pulling a cabbage from the field occasionally, they don't dare to cause any big trouble in the village."

After chatting for a while, they talked about pig farming. Father Liu would definitely need a lot of pig grass and pig feed to feed pigs in the future. The pig feed produced by the little mountain land they have is definitely not enough.

"Village Chief Wan, does every household in our village raise pigs?"

"Every family raises one or two pigs. Why do you want to raise pigs too? Well, with so many of you, raising pigs is a relatively stable source of income. In the second half of the year, we can basically guarantee an income of two taels of silver per pig from selling the pigs at home. As long as the piglets don't get sick and die. Raising pigs is a relatively good business."

"I want to build a large pig farm in the back. You're right. We have a large population, so we must find something to do. So in addition to raising pigs, I want to raise chickens, ducks, and geese in the swamp next to it, and build a fish pond to raise fish."

"Renyi, it's not cost-effective to raise fish. We are close to the mother river. The fishermen in the river make a living by fishing every day, which can basically meet the needs of the county. You are competing with others for business by raising fish, which is not cost-effective."

Father Liu also knew that the fishmongers at this time only sold fresh fish, and since it was not near the sea, they could make dried fish. It was also more troublesome to make dried fish from freshwater rivers.

Father Liu thinks more long-term. Fish can be made into dried fish, canned fish and other cooked foods.

"It's okay. Even if we can't sell them, we can still eat them ourselves. As for the chicken, duck and goose chicks, we'll have to trouble the village chief to recommend some sellers for us."

"That's no problem. Basically everyone in our village keeps seeds, and when the weather warms up in the new year, we'll hatch chicks. As for ducklings and geese, we have to find specialized vendors. We can only ask in the city. Almost no one in our village raises ducks and geese. We can ask the village in front. There's a tributary running through their village. It's more convenient to raise ducks and geese if the tributary is fenced off. The river here is too wide and too deep."

"Thank you for the reminder, Village Chief Wan. I'll ask them to be more careful in the city. Also, how do we usually deal with the pig grass for feeding pigs? If I raise too many pigs, pig grass will definitely be a problem. Do we grow a lot of sweet potatoes in our village? Besides rice, what do we grow in the fields in other seasons?"

"In addition to rice, we also grow radishes, cabbages, and sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are usually grown in mountainous areas. The land here is only vacant for about a month in winter, and the rest of the time we grow things all year round."

“Why not grow more sweet potatoes?”

"In the past two years, we have planted more sweet potatoes because of the famine. When the harvest is good, we won't plant as many. After all, we have rice to eat, so who wants to eat sweet potatoes every day?"

"Village chief, if, I mean if I collect sweet potatoes and sweet potato vines from the villagers, do you think they would be willing?"

"What? Harvesting sweet potatoes and sweet potato vines. Sweet potato vines can be used to feed pigs. What do we need so many sweet potatoes for? Eating that stuff every day gives me heartburn and choking!"

"Sweet potatoes can also be fed to pigs, and pigs grow faster after eating them!"

If Village Chief Wan says so, their village will also feed some rotten sweet potatoes to pigs, but wouldn’t it be a waste to feed all the sweet potatoes to pigs? “It should be possible as long as you pay for it.”

"As for soybeans, we are also willing to purchase them in large quantities."

"Of course, you can, but you have to make sure you harvest it. I'll tell the villagers. You can't just not harvest it after they've grown it."

"Don't worry, we have settled here now. If we don't accept it, we can still survive in the village. We can also write a contract in advance. If you breach the contract, you have to pay money, and we can use our house as a guarantee. You can rest assured now, right?"

Village chief Wan was actually happy when he saw what Liu's father said so confidently. If someone could collect these, they could grow some sweet potatoes in the nearby mountains and wastelands as long as they had the energy, and they could earn some money.

Normally, no one cultivates those wastelands because they can't grow any good crops.

Sweet potatoes are easy to grow, and no one would plant too many unless it was a year of famine. The yield of wasteland is indeed too low.

But it is better to have something than nothing. The strong laborers in the village can earn hard-earned money by going out to the dock to move goods.

Farming is something everyone is good at, and if you take care of it carefully, it might be better than moving goods to the city.