1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 13 No one knows more about raising chickens than me! (Please save! Please read!)
"So the total investment in a chicken farm is about 150 yuan?" Su's father asked.

Su Wenchen thought for a while and replied, "It shouldn't be that difficult. We still need to build a chicken coop. Since they are fed with feed, I don't plan to raise them in the wild. Raising them in the wild is not conducive to hens laying eggs!"

"Building a chicken coop doesn't cost money, just work points. It's the brigade's property, so who wouldn't dare to contribute?"

Su Wenchen agreed. Since it is a collective industry, it is natural for everyone to contribute.

"Then there shouldn't be any problem!"

Father Su said longingly, "With these fifty chickens, can we earn two hundred and thirty yuan a month?"

"That's two thousand seven hundred dollars a year."

hiss!
This is more valuable than those ten fat pigs in the pig farm.

The amount of pigs they sell to the meat processing plant each year generally weighs around 150 to 200 kilograms.

So even if all ten pigs were counted, the total would be less than two thousand yuan.

However, the meat processing factory will also give some receipts as compensation.

Su Wenchen disagreed.

"Dad, you are too timid. This is just the beginning. My goal is 5,000 or 50,000!"

"Snapped!"

The loving slap of a father landed on Su Wenchen's head.

"Don't be too ambitious, you still have 50,000 chickens, why don't you go to heaven?"

"In the next county, there's a chicken farm that big, but at most there are only over 10,000 chickens!"

"At that time, there was a chicken plague, and almost all the chickens in that guy's chicken farm died. We lost a lot of money at once! We dare not do such a big thing. The county chicken farm can bear the loss, but our brigade cannot bear such a big loss!"

"I'm not a fool. How could I have such a large scale at the beginning? Just take it slow. First, raise 50, then 500, 5,000! Then set up branch farms, and slowly increase the number in the future!"

After hearing Su Wenchen's plan, Su's father also felt that there seemed to be no problem.

Fifty chickens can earn two hundred and three yuan a month, five hundred chickens can earn two thousand three hundred yuan a month, and if there are five thousand chickens, wouldn’t that mean you can earn twenty-three thousand yuan a month!
hiss!
He had never seen 20,000 or 30,000 yuan at one time in his life!
By then, won’t their brigade be able to build brick and tile houses for every household just like in the city?

Thinking of this, Father Su stood up.

"Let's go to the brigade. If the brigade wants to build a new industry, it needs a vote from everyone!"

Su Wenchen also understood that although Su's father had authority in the brigade, this was an era where the working people were in charge, and it would not be enough to just convince Su's father alone.

Father Su was the first to get up and leave the house.

On the way to the brigade headquarters, he hummed, "Through the sea of forests, across the snowy plains, with his spirit soaring to the sky."

Obviously he is in a very good mood!
Team headquarters.

After receiving the notice from Su's father, the current leadership team members of the brigade soon arrived at the team headquarters.

After a while, the whole room was filled with thick smoke.

In order to keep warm, the rammed earth walls of this era had small windows, so it was naturally more difficult for smoke to dissipate!
Su Wenchen couldn't stand it anymore and had to go to the door to breathe some fresh air.

Hu Caihua, the women's director of the brigade, walked to the entrance of the brigade and saw Su Wenchen, who looked like a door god.

"Xiaochen, what are you doing standing at the door? Come in!"

Su Wenchen waved his hand, "Aunt Hu, you'll know when you go in!"

Hu Caihua suddenly thought of something and strode into the room with Su Wenchen.

A deafening roar suddenly rang out in the brigade headquarters.

"I've told you so many times not to smoke during meetings. The whole room is filled with smoke and people who don't know would think the brigade is on fire!"

"Put out your cigarettes! Otherwise, don't blame me for throwing all your cigarettes into the pit and leaving you with nothing to smoke!" Although the other members of the brigade were not happy, they would not go against Hu Caihua!
But someone just mumbled something quietly.

"How can a female comrade be so overbearing that she doesn't even allow people to smoke? If you don't know me, you would think you are the secretary of the commune!"

"What did you just say?" Hu Caihua's voice rang out.

The person who had just spoken suddenly shrank his neck and started to criticize in his heart.

She can hear all this, this woman has really good ears!
After waiting for a while, the smoke and dust cleared, and Su Wenchen found a long bench and sat down!

Father Su coughed lightly, "Ahem, the reason why we gathered everyone here today is this, Comrade Su Wenchen."

"I was given a suggestion to build a chicken farm in the brigade. What do you think?"

After Su's father finished speaking.

The whole place was silent!

Several members of the brigade looked at each other and looked at Su's father in disbelief.

It seems that you never expected that Su Jianye, a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would be so blatant to open a back door for your son.

Su Wenchen’s reputation was not very good in the past, and his name as a second-rate person was known to many people in the entire commune.

However, since the others had a good relationship with Su's father, most of the people present just looked at each other but did not say anything.

To everyone, this is really not a big deal.

Didn’t the team leader just arrange a more comfortable job for his son that could earn work points?

So most people are still willing to give face to the captain.

Gao Zhongwei, the brigade secretary who was sitting next to Su's father, saw that no one was willing to step forward, so he had to jump out himself.

After all, he was sure that Su's father was an old rival. As long as Su's father agreed, he would definitely oppose it, not to mention that in his eyes, Su's father was blatantly benefiting his family.

"Well, let me say a few words. Everyone here knows who Su Wenchen is. Asking him to raise chickens? I think it's like asking a mouse to manage a granary. No matter how many chickens there are, they won't be enough for him to raise!"

"When he secretly eats a chicken, he says that it was taken away by a weasel. Who of us knows whether it is true or not? So I don't agree with letting Su Wenchen raise chickens!"

After Gao Zhongwei finished speaking.

Su Wenchen knew that he had to clear his name, because he had been labeled as a second-rate person long enough, and this was a good opportunity to tear the label off!
He stood up and said, "Everyone here is the leader of the brigade, and also my uncles. You can say that they all watched me grow up!"

"Although I, Su Wenchen, was ignorant in the past, when have I ever stolen a chicken or an egg from one of our members' homes?"

"Excuse me, Secretary Gao, you said I was like a rat in a granary. What evidence do you have for your statement? Did I steal your chickens? Or did I touch your eggs?"

After Su Wenchen finished speaking.

There were bursts of laughter all around.

"Haha, Lao Gao, your wife watches your chicken coop more strictly than anyone else. If your house was robbed, I guess your wife wouldn't be able to stand it for even a minute and would start cursing all over the street!"

Gao Zhongwei said angrily.

"Even if you haven't stolen anything, you're not a hard-working person. There are so many hard-working people in the team, why should we let you raise chickens?"

Su Wenchen smiled confidently.

"Of course I have this skill!"

As he spoke, he placed the list he had compiled earlier in front of everyone.

"My dear uncles, this is the brief plan for the future chicken farm I made. From the initial cost to the approximate income, I have listed everything in detail in the table!"

“I can confidently say that no one knows more about raising chickens than I do!”

(End of this chapter)