Era: I was a farmer at the foot of Yaoling Mountain

Chapter 16: Wild Boar Tracks

My sister-in-law is not a pushover either, and she's just as sharp-tongued.

Fang Wei felt a headache after hearing this, so he simply went into the house and took the two little guys to his own residence.

Such situations are not uncommon in the village. For an egg or a bundle of firewood, people will curse at you with all kinds of nasty words.

Fortunately, they won’t fight easily. They just curse and quarrel and that’s it.

After a few days, everyone will pretend that nothing happened and continue to joke around as usual.

After a while, the eldest brother came over and called Fang Wei and the two little ones to go back for dinner. No one mentioned the matter at the dinner table.

"Sister-in-law, I want to raise some chickens myself. Please keep an eye out for me and buy some chicks."

Nowadays, it is definitely not possible for individuals to make money by engaging in breeding, but it is still allowed to keep a few laying hens at home.

Fang Wei suddenly remembered that he had already separated from the family, so raising a few chickens in the backyard would make the house seem more lively.

"It's fine to buy chicks, but unfortunately people are starving these days, and raising more chickens would be a real hassle."

Tian Guihua looked at the other person strangely, wondering in her heart, is my little brother craving for eggs?

There are a few chickens at home. A rooster not only crows but also waits for the New Year to have meat to eat.

The hens are naturally for laying eggs, and their production is not high. They are occasionally fed to the two boys, and the rest can be taken to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange for money to supplement the family income.

The adults in the family rarely eat eggs throughout the year.

"It's okay, just buy me a few so I can afford them."

Chickens are omnivorous animals and can eat grass, wild vegetables, insects, and bran, but they still need to be fed a certain amount of feed.

Fang Wei plans to plant some more corn in the valley. Although the main corn-producing area is in the north, this crop is highly adaptable and can also be grown in the south.

After dinner, he went back home and built a simple chicken coop in the small yard behind the house.

[A simple shed, unable to be evaluated.]

【Have you designated this place as a chicken coop? 】

Two lines of prompts floated by, and Fang Wei's mouth twitched.

The shed was indeed very crude, but it should be fine as a chicken coop, right? It wasn't like we were building a villa.

So he designated the place as the home.

[Owning Facility] → [Production Facility] → [Chicken Coop]

【Facility Level: (Level 1, 0\10)】

[Facility attributes: disease prevention, strengthening, accelerated growth, increased egg production, nesting]

[Raising chickens in this building will increase all attributes by an additional 10%]

After a busy day, Fang Wei clapped his hands, feeling very satisfied.

Now everything is ready except for the chickens. Once the chicks arrive, the yard will be more lively.

In this era, he can only find joy in suffering, otherwise he will really have no way to survive.

Two days passed.

Tian Guihua went to the brigade and actually brought him back three chicks.

A chick cost ten cents, and Fang Wei gave his sister-in-law three cents in total.

He brought some cornmeal from his eldest brother's house. When Fang Tao and Fang Tingting learned that he had started raising chickens, they would often catch some small insects to feed the chickens.

Fang Wei was worried that the chicks would be difficult to raise, so he spent 10 points to upgrade the level of the [Chicken Coop] to level 2.

[Owning Facility] → [Production Facility] → [Chicken Coop]

【Facility Level: (Level 2, 0\50)】

[Facility attributes: disease prevention, strengthening, accelerated growth, increased egg production, nesting]

[Raising chickens in this building will increase all attributes by an additional 20%]

There are 195 points left.

The attributes of [Chicken Coop] are very good, but one of them is "Love Coop".

He was originally worried that the chickens he raised would be "too homebound", but after a few days of observation, he found that these chickens liked to run around the yard during the day, but in the evening they would burrow into the "chicken coop" and not come out.

An old horse knows the way, a young chicken loves its nest, which is probably the same idea. After working for a few days, Fang Wei went to the cowshed to find Wu Maosheng again.

This was Zheng Xianfa's request. He would be given work points for coming to study in the team. Only a fool would not come.

Current rice breeding is all conventional breeding, and no one is currently researching "hybrid rice" technology.

Even Mr. Yuan has not started research in this area yet.

The other party did not start researching this topic until 1964, and in 1973, he led his team to successfully cultivate the world's first practical and high-yield hybrid rice variety [Nanyu No. ].

So what Wu Maosheng talked about was conventional breeding, and the key to it is the screening of seed sources.

"The rice grown in the team is of average variety. If we want to get high-yield rice seeds, it's best to import them from outside."

After all, Professor Wu is still not optimistic about his own breeding.

"Mr. Wu, we can give it a try. Summer sowing is over, and there are very few seeds left in the team. I'll ask the captain for some, and we can try to screen them."

Breeding is a long process and the sooner you start the better.

Fang Wei actually has his own plans. If he were to do the breeding, he would definitely take a different path.

After all, he has a "golden finger" ah, the accumulation of various properties will naturally produce rice of good quality. The only problem is that we don't know whether these characteristics are hereditary stable.

So he needed to experiment.

"I think it's okay."

Wu Maosheng thought for a moment and agreed to the other party's proposal.

Fang Wei's main purpose in studying with Wu Maosheng was to get him to "endorse" him. With his endorsement, he immediately went to Zheng Xianfa and made a request:
"Mr. Wu hopes the team can provide some rice seeds, and we will start breeding attempts from now on."

"Oh? So soon? The team doesn't have many seeds. You can take two kilograms for research first."

A small amount of rice seeds was naturally nothing, so Zheng Xianfa wrote a note and let Fang Wei go and get them himself.

After Fang Wei got the seeds, he handed them to Wu Maosheng. The next step was to select the best ones and then start growing seedlings.

Select high-quality rice seeds, raise seedlings, and then find a place to plant them.

The team provided a small piece of paddy field, only about one mu of land, nominally for Fang Wei to conduct experiments.

[An ordinary paddy field used to grow rice]

【Have you designated this area as a planting area? 】

The reminder came suddenly, and Fang Wei thought about it for a moment before he understood the reason. This was because he was nominally in charge of this small experimental plot.

Therefore, this paddy field can be temporarily designated, but unfortunately his current planting area is limited and it cannot be done for the time being.

We'll have to wait and see.

morning.

Fang Wei called Zheng Hu and others over because he was going into the mountains.

"Huzi, take two people to plant these seedlings and try to be as regular as possible."

"Brother Fang, don't worry."

Fang Wei asked Zheng Hu and a few others to do something, and these people were actually very happy.

They found that Third Brother Fang's attitude towards them was better than before, so they worked even harder.

Fang Wei was not worried that they would not do a good job. In the countryside, these young boys could already be used as strong laborers. They were good at transplanting rice seedlings and harvesting wheat.

He took advantage of the morning and went into the mountains with his elder brother, each carrying a gun.

Arriving in the valley, the two were stunned to find that the fence surrounding the valley had collapsed. Fortunately, the sweet potatoes had just been planted and there was nothing edible inside, so the fence was not damaged much.

"Brother, it looks like a wild boar."

Fang Wei was so angry that he quickly checked the traces and concluded that the place had been visited by a wild boar.

Wild boars are annoying creatures. They like to dig up the ground and often come down the mountain to damage crops.

"It's a wild boar! If we hadn't planted so many thorns in front of the fence, the whole field would have been infested."

Fang Ping was also very angry, but fortunately the fallen fence was only a short section and was repaired in less than half an hour.

Afterwards, the two brothers transplanted a large number of thorns. These plants were not only covered with thorns, but also had mild toxins.

(End of this chapter)