Baiyue Cave Master

Looking at Wang Yuanchao's back as he walked out carrying the tofu, a ripple flashed across Widow Du's eyes. After taking a deep breath, she continued to sit on the small stool and started washing the vegetable leaves.

After returning home, Wang Yuanchao took out a piece of pork belly from the static space, cut it into small slices, chopped the lean meat into minced meat, then took out three large pieces of almost solidified pig blood, and cut the pig blood and tofu into slices.

After lighting the stove and waiting for the big iron pot to heat up, Wang Yuanchao put a piece of lard into the pot, waited for the lard to thaw in the pot, and after it was heated, he put the fat into the pot and stir-fried it.

After the fat is fried until both sides are browned, add the lean meat, soy sauce, salt, shredded ginger, and chili pepper, and fry until fragrant.

Pour two large scoops of well water, cover the pot and bring to a boil.

Add pig blood slices and tofu slices, add salt and MSG, adjust the seasoning, cover the pot and start cooking.

While waiting for the pig blood and tofu soup to be cooked, I took out five eggs and a handful of green onions from the space, smashed them in a bowl, added salt, MSG, and chili powder and began to stir.

After mixing it, he took out a handful of hot peppers and the wild boar oil residue left over from the last oil pressing, and a handful of red sweat vegetables.

After the pig blood and tofu soup was ready, Wang Yuanchao fried an omelette with green onions, stir-fried chili peppers with oil residue, and stir-fried red sweat vegetables.

After bringing the dishes to the dining table in the kitchen and taking out the hot rice from the space, Wang Yuanchao happily enjoyed his lunch.

When Wang Yuanchao first moved in, he found it difficult to cook, so he usually just made do with one meat and one vegetable.

Now, Wang Yuanchao started to cook more dishes for every meal.

After all, I have my own quiet space. If I have leftover food, I can just put it into the space and continue eating it at the next meal. It is not troublesome at all and it is very convenient.

Two days were spent in Wang Yuanchao's leisure.

Early in the morning, Wang Yuanchao was notified to come to the village committee.

I waited with several village cadres until 10 a.m., and the construction materials donated by the Provincial Electric Motor Factory finally arrived at the door of the village committee.

Wang Yuanchao followed the village cadres with a smile, stepped forward to hand out cigarettes and greet them.

"Come on, have a cigarette, have a cigarette first. You have worked really hard today, comrades. It is with your support that our Red Flag Brigade will have a good life."

"Haha, comrade, you are too polite. We are all working for the revolution. Workers and peasants are like one family. It is not hard, not hard at all."

"Yes, you farmers have to work in the fields every day and still don't have enough to eat. This is really hard work."

Well, Wang Yuanchao simply ignored the sense of superiority from the worker elder brother and said:

"Comrade worker, the site for our breeding farm has already been chosen. How about you trouble the worker brother for a while and help us transport the materials to the breeding farm?"

"Hey, it's no problem, little brother, get in the car and show us the way, we'll take you there directly."

"Okay, thank you two workers, thank you so much."

After saying that, Wang Yuanchao directly opened the passenger door of the truck and climbed in.

It is convenient to have big trucks. Soon, several large trucks of cement and red bricks were transported to the farm.

In two days, Hu Zhengwu and the village laborers dug out the wall and the foundation of the house.

Just waiting for the construction materials to arrive. Now we are waiting for the red bricks and cement to be unloaded from the trucks.

Hu Zhengwu wasted no time and led the villagers to start building the wall.

More than a dozen people were mixing cement, more than a dozen people were moving bricks, and more than twenty people were building the wall. The wall of the farm was built very quickly.

After Wang Yuanchao and his team moved the materials donated by the provincial motor factory, they did not follow Secretary Zeng and his team back to the village committee.

Instead, he took the construction drawings that the Academy of Agricultural Sciences had urgently produced based on the terrain provided by the Red Flag Brigade, and while carefully looking at them, he supervised the villagers' construction quality.

Secretary Zeng saw that Wang Yuanchao was not going to return to the village committee and was planning to stay at the construction site, so he pulled Wang Yuanchao aside and said:

"Wang Zhiqing, since you are going to stay at the construction site, in addition to supervising the quality of the project, the provincial motor factory will also deliver red bricks and cement this afternoon and tomorrow. How about you accept them here at the construction site when the time comes?"

"No problem, Secretary. Don't worry."

"Okay, I can rest assured that you can do the work."

After watching Secretary Zeng and his party leave, Wang Yuanchao moved a few red bricks, came to the shade of a big tree, put a stool under it, and sat on it to start drawing a blueprint.

The entire Quantan Farm is built according to the terrain with a width of 3000 meters and a length of more than 5000 meters.

The entire farm is built with a road in the middle, connected to the wall, and rows of pig pens are built on both sides, with 20 pig pens in each row.

Each pig house has an area of ​​about 6 square meters, and it is expected that 10-15 pigs will be raised in each pig house.

All pig houses in the entire farm are planned and designed to be located in a sheltered and sunny location to reduce the direct impact of the cold wind on the pigs.

At the same time, dry, soft bedding, such as straw, sawdust, etc., will be laid in all pig houses.

This provides a warm and comfortable environment for the pigs to lie in, while helping to keep the floor dry and preventing disease.

Wang Yuanchao counted them: one row, two rows, three rows, a total of 33 rows of pig pens, chicken, duck and goose pens, plus temporary dormitories for staff at the entrance of the farm, a kitchen for cooking pig food, a warehouse for pig grass and grain, a public toilet, etc.

After Wang Yuanchao calculated the specifications of the farm, he took a deep breath. This was a breeding base that could raise tens of thousands of poultry. This was really a big deal.

At this moment, Wang Yuanchao's heart was trembling. After being stunned for a long time, he quickly looked at the drawings to check the waterways for excretion and sewage in the farm.

If this thing is not fixed properly, you can imagine what it will smell like when the entire farm moves in.

After looking at it for a long time, Wang Yuanchao decisively found Hu Zhengwu and pointed at the drawing and said:

"Comrade Hu, I just looked at the blueprint carefully. The drainage channel of our farm is still too small. This drainage channel must be widened to one meter, and cement must be used to form a drainage channel from top to bottom from the foot of the mountain.

Otherwise, if we don't keep the poultry excrement and hygiene clean in such a large farm,

Not to mention that the poultry in the farm are prone to getting sick, even us villagers who come here to work can't stand the stench.

I also think the septic tank at the farm’s drainage outlet should be larger, so that it will be easier for the farm to expand its breeding scale in the future.”

Hu Zhengwu was just a foreman at the construction site. Since the village had let Wang Yuanchao take charge of the management, he naturally did whatever Wang Yuanchao said. So he smiled and said:

"Wang Zhiqing, don't worry. I will do whatever you arrange, exactly as you wish."

“Okay, Comrade Hu, the drainage channel will be arranged like this. Please trouble Comrade Hu.

Another question is, can we solve the problem of installing water pipes in our farm?"

"There is definitely no technical problem with laying water pipes. We can just build a taller water tower next to the spring pond to supply water to the farm.

The main problem now is that the problems with pumps and steel pipes are difficult to solve.

If these two problems can be solved, we can have running water in the farm."

Wang Yuanchao knew that it would be very troublesome to get the water pump and steel pipes, but no matter how troublesome the task was, he could always give it a try.

After confirming that Hu Zhengwu knew how to lay the water pipe, Wang Yuanchao decided to ask Secretary Zeng to go to the provincial electric motor factory to find a solution.

After all, although pumps and steel pipes are not controlled materials, they are also very scarce materials.

It is very difficult to apply for the Red Flag Brigade alone.

Therefore, the only way to solve this problem is to see whether the provincial motor factory is willing to contribute.

After all, the farm does not need many pumps and steel pipes, one horizontal and one vertical. You only need to lay a T-shaped pipe in the farm, and then open a few more faucets. It doesn't take many steel pipes.

So Wang Yuanchao thought about it and said:

"It would be difficult for our Red Flag Brigade to get the water pump and steel pipes, but if the Provincial Electric Motor Factory can help, the problem can be solved.

Comrade Hu, please take the trouble to draw up a rough plan for the construction of a water tower and the laying of water pipes.

I will go find Secretary Zeng and ask him to contact the Provincial Electric Motor Factory to see if we can get these supplies.

If we can get it, we will start construction immediately. If we really can’t get it, we will think of other ways to use the water.”

"Okay, Wang Zhiqing, I have no problem. It's no big deal. We are old friends. Just let me know if you need me."

"Okay, then go ahead and do your work. I'll do what we agreed on and I won't disturb your time."

"Okay, Wang Zhiqing, you continue your research. I'm going to go draw a sketch first."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

"Hey, it's not hard."

After seeing Hu Zhengwu off, Wang Yuanchao did not go to find Secretary Zeng immediately. Instead, he picked up the drawings and continued to study them carefully to see if there was anything else that needed to be changed.

The entire farm has two main internal roads, one horizontal and one vertical. Each row of pig houses is distributed on both sides of the horizontal main road.

There is a two-meter path in front of each row of pig houses, and a row of feeding troughs in front of the pig houses for feeding live poultry.

If a row of faucets are laid along the horizontal road, water can be sent directly to each pig house through leather pipes. This way, it will be very convenient to clean the pig houses and feeding troughs.

Then Wang Yuanchao took the blueprint and walked around the entire planned farm, looking at the blueprint and found nothing else.

Wang Yuanchao returned to the big tree and silently said in his heart:

"Drinking water hygiene, pig house hygiene, pig house warmth, disinfection, deworming, feed."

After silently going over all the things that needed attention in breeding on the farm and making sure there were no omissions, Wang Yuanchao stood up and walked towards the village committee.

"Secretary Zeng, I was just at the farm, looking at the architectural drawings and sorting out all the details. I found that there is still a problem that needs to be solved urgently, so I came here to report the situation to you."

"Come on, come on, Wang Zhiqing, sit down and have a cigarette.

What is the problem? Go ahead and solve it."

Wang Yuanchao took the economic cigarette handed to him by Secretary Zeng, took out a match, lit it, took a puff, and said:

"As for the water supply issue, I carefully studied the instructions on the blueprint and found that the most important thing to pay attention to in large-scale breeding is the sanitation of drinking water for live poultry and the sanitation of piggeries.

As long as these two are taken care of, there will be no major problems in other aspects of breeding.

Comrade Hu Zhengwu and I just learned about the situation.

From a technical point of view, there is no problem in laying running water in the breeding farm of our Hongqi Brigade.

The problem now is that there is a lack of pumps and steel pipes needed to lay tap water.

No, this problem is beyond my scope and cannot be solved at all.

Now I can only ask you, Secretary, for help."

When Secretary Zeng heard Wang Yuanchao's question, he was also embarrassed. After taking a few puffs of his cigarette, he frowned and said:

"Wang Zhiqing, the problem you mentioned is also very difficult for our Red Flag Brigade to solve.

The country is very poor and in a difficult situation now. Let's not talk about the water pump for now. We applied to the commune, but the commune would not agree.

Even if the commune agrees, we don’t know when it will purchase and distribute the goods to us.”

Wang Yuanchao naturally knew this situation. He smiled bitterly in response to Secretary Zeng's bitter face, swallowed his saliva, and said with an embarrassed look:

"Secretary, I know this is difficult, but we have already taken 99 steps towards the construction of our breeding farm. No matter how difficult it is, we can't fail at this last step, right?"

When Secretary Zeng heard this, he realized that this was the truth. He hardened his heart, closed his eyes, and said:

"Wang Zhiqing, do you have any ideas?"

"Secretary Zeng, this matter is very difficult for our Red Flag Brigade to handle.

But for the Provincial Electric Motor Factory, it was not a difficult matter.

After all, if the provincial motor factory helps, they can produce the pumps and steel pipes themselves.

So this matter still depends on you, Party Secretary."

Secretary Zeng reacted immediately, raised his finger with a look of confusion, pointed at Wang Yuanchao in the air, and said:

"Okay, you are great, Wang Zhiqing. You are giving me problems and setting traps for me."

Wang Yuanchao saw this and did not pretend to be stupid. After all, no one was stupid. Anyone who pretended to be stupid was really stupid. So he spread his hands, smiled friendly and said:

"Secretary, you know me well. Everything I do is to improve the breeding base and for the people of our Red Flag Brigade.

But I have no selfish motives. If it weren't for the pump and the steel pipe, I really would have no other options, and I wouldn't want to trouble you, Secretary."

Secretary Zeng naturally knew Wang Yuanchao's thoughts, and recognized Wang Yuanchao's actions of serving the people wholeheartedly. He laughed and said:

"Alright, alright, Wang Zhiqing, I still understand you.

Our Red Flag Brigade needs young people like you who work seriously and serve the people wholeheartedly.

Don't worry about the pump and the steel pipe. Even if I don't want my old face anymore, I will beg you to give it back. Don't worry."

Wang Yuanchao really admires the cadres of this era. Not only are the vast majority of them honest and upright, they are also not afraid of difficulties or hardships, and take the lead in doing practical things, truly serving the people with their actions.