Chapter 400 Set of Seals
Everything in the old house has nothing to do with Tong Huaqiong.
She had no energy to pay attention to the old house at all; all her attention was on the pigpen.
A few more pigs were sold from the pigpen.
The remaining pigs have basically been reserved in advance by butcher shops.
When Tong Pandi was feeding the pigs the day before yesterday, he found that one of the pigs in the pigsty was in poor condition.
Tong Huaqiong's heart was pounding with fear, she was afraid of contracting swine fever.
If that were the case, then those pigs that were sold would harm people.
If a plague were to break out in the whole city, not only would the reputation of her family's pork be ruined, she, Suifeng Xiangjun, would probably become a sinner in history books.
Tong Huaqiong doesn't want to "go down in history" in this way.
Tong Huaqiong and Tong Pandi have been looking after the pigs day and night for the past two days. She went into the space to read a lot of breeding knowledge.
Fortunately it was a false alarm.
The pig looked listless simply because it was full.
After the false alarm, Tong Huaqiong did not dare to be careless.
What aquaculture fears most is plague.
A plague would not only cause huge losses, but the livestock and people in the entire village would also be affected.
When Tong Huaqiong set his sights on using the dilapidated temple as a pig farm, he saw that the temple was located on the outskirts of the village and would not pollute the village's water source.
This false alarm made Tong Huaqiong even more determined that there must be no problems in the pig farm. She personally took Tong Pandi, Cao, Gu Dahan and others to carefully check every corner of the pig pen.
Every day, Cao was asked to spread quicklime on easily contaminated areas for disinfection.
The pigpen is flushed clean with water every day and pig manure is cleaned up in time.
"You should separate these newly arrived piglets from the previous pigs and raise them for seven days. Once you are sure there are no problems, you can raise them together again. Use this method for all new pigs that come in from now on."
"These seven little pigs belong to Fenglelou."
Gu Dahan purchased another batch of piglets from the next village. After unloading the piglets, Tong Huaqiong instructed Tong Pandi, a management trainee in the pig farming industry.
"Don't worry, aunt." Tong Pandi said, and wrote something on the paper.
Tong Pandi learned to read with Chen Sufen and Liu Yue'e. She was very diligent and practiced every day. When she didn't know something, she would ask Master Su who came to the village from time to time. Now she can write quite a few words.
Under Tong Huaqiong's training, Tong Pandi has developed a scientific farming mindset and has written down various problems encountered in the pig farm on paper.
According to Tong Huaqiong, this is the pig farming diary.
"Auntie." Gu Ruinian entered the pig farm.
Tong Huaqiong frowned.
Intuitively, she didn't like Gu Ruinian.
"Why are you here?" Tong Huaqiong asked indifferently.
"I was passing by here and came in to take a look." Gu Ruinian said, his eyes constantly looking at the pigs in the pigsty.
Tong Huaqiong said: "What's so good about raising pigs? It's dirty and smelly."
Gu Ruinian said, "Auntie, your pigsty is so clean that I can't even smell it when I pass by. How do you do it?"
It seems unintentional, but in fact it is an attempt to trick people.
Tong Huaqiong smiled but said nothing.
Tong Pandi said: "How did you do it? By being diligent. I don't know how many times we clean this pigpen every day."
It turns out it’s done manually.
Gu Ruinian felt disdainful.
He had always wanted to find out Tong Huaqiong's background. How could a country widow open a shop and a pig farm and make a lot of money?
You have to know that this modern top student always fails every time he tries.
Before he had time to go to the pastry shop in town, he first walked around the village to see Widow Tong's pig farm.
Gu Ruinian clung to Tong Huaqiong and called her "Auntie" affectionately.
"Where is Brother Jingzhe? I just passed by your house and wanted to ask him a question, but he was not at home." Gu Ruinian said.
In fact, he didn't even knock on the door.
Tong Huaqiong said, "He went to the private school in town. By the way, you said you were going to the private school, so why didn't you go?"
Gu Ruinian put away his smile and said, "I think studying is not about the classroom, but about yourself. I will review at home first, and then go to the private school in a few days."
What he didn't say was that his family couldn't afford the money and they were trying to find a solution.
He wandered around the village these past two days and discovered that there was actually a private school in the village, where the coachman from the eldest family was teaching a group of children.
Gu Ruinian listened through the window and was very worried about the teaching quality and student source in this era.
I guess the private schools in town are not that good either.
If the students are bad, it’s useless no matter how good the teacher is.
He originally wanted to go to the town's private school to recruit a few aspiring scholars as his followers, but now it seems unnecessary to waste that energy, and it is enough to develop Gu Jingzhe into a die-hard fan. In addition, he also heard that there is a Wanliu Academy in Ningcheng, the capital city, and half of the Jinshi of this dynasty came from Wanliu Academy.
He planned to go to Wanliu Academy to recruit new followers after passing the imperial examination.
Tong Huaqiong ignored Gu Ruinian's thoughts and went to see an old sow that was about to give birth.
Gu Ruinian quickly followed and asked questions.
Tong Huaqiong realized that this nephew was here to test her identity.
If it were anyone else, Tong Huaqiong would reveal where she came from.
But it was obvious that Gu Ruinian was trying to trick her...
Tong Huaqiong still wanted to reveal his origins without making any noise.
"Auntie, why did you think of raising pigs instead of sheep? Pork is not as delicious as mutton." Gu Ruinian asked.
Pork in this era is so smelly, which wealthy aristocrat would be willing to eat it?
Tong Huaqiong said: "My family has an old sow that gave birth to more than a dozen pigs. I couldn't bear to sell them, so I just kept them."
Gu Ruinian asked, "Who do you sell these pigs to, Auntie?"
Tong Huaqiong said: "When the butcher comes to collect the pigs, who knows who the meat is sold to."
Gu Ruinian couldn't help but feel disappointed.
The old lady's business ability is not that advanced, it's too plain and simple.
"Don't you think pork tastes bad? It smells fishy."
"No ordinary family eats meat every day. No one can afford mutton or beef. It's good enough to have pork."
"Auntie, do you want the pork to taste better? It just has to be less smelly."
"Do you have any idea to make it more delicious?"
"I don't know either. I just want to ask if you know."
"Then I don't know."
Gu Ruinian tried to test Tong Huaqiong many times but failed to get the information he wanted, so he was unwilling to give up.
Suddenly he thought of an important piece of news. On the day he just arrived at Qinghe Bay, he heard the clan leader mention that his aunt-in-law had been awarded the title of Xiangjun by the Emperor of Shengjing because she had formulated a pesticide that could cure some disease on corn, which led to a bumper harvest of corn in the entire Ning City.
He wondered at the time how an ordinary peasant woman who had spent most of her life in Qinghe Bay could prepare pesticides?
She must be hiding some secret. She is most likely from the modern era like him, and is using information asymmetry to configure pesticides.
It's just that she was luckier than me and she succeeded.
Thinking of this, Gu Ruinian discussed the crops in the fields with Tong Huaqiong as if they were chatting.
After discussing for a while, he calmly asked, "Auntie, I heard that you were named the Lady of the Village because you invented a pesticide called insect repellent corn. How did you come up with it?"
Tong Huaqiong thought to herself that this was just another way to find out where she came from.