Chapter 21 Going to the county seat

Nowadays, the chicks are too young to find food on their own, so they rely on Lan Dazhuang to feed them every day.

More than a hundred chicks have to eat a lot every day. The wheat they distributed from the labor union last year and the wheat bran they saved from peeling and grinding have now been reduced to less than half.

As these chicks slowly grow in size, the remaining wheat bran will not last long!

So the biggest problem at hand is that the chicks are running out of food -

Lan Shu had not noticed this situation before.

She had no idea about the food storage situation at home, let alone the amount of wheat bran stored.

Now that she heard her elder brother talk about the difficulties, she should solve them in time.

When Lan Dazhuang came back in the evening, Lan Shu gave all the more than 1,400 yuan left by their brother and sister's investment to Lan Dazhuang.

"Brother, we don't have wheat bran at home, so go collect some from other people in the village."

Previously, all this money was managed by Lan Shu.

It was the first time for Lan Dazhuang to see so much money.

An ordinary person would probably have eyes wide open, but Lan Dazhuang has no interest in money. He is now preoccupied with the food rations for his chicks.

He pulled out a few from the stack of happy reunions, and stuffed the rest back into his sister's hands.

"Wheat bran is cheap. You can get it for sixty-seven cents a pound. This money is enough to buy a lot. You can keep the rest, little sister. I won't be able to spend it if you give me too much."

Lan Dazhuang said so, but Lan Shu didn't see the relaxed expression on his face at all.

"Brother, is there anything else?" She looked at Lan Dazhuang doubtfully.

If nothing happened, Lan Dazhuang wouldn't be worried anymore.

When asked, Lan Dazhuang sighed.

"Although we have money now, it is not easy to harvest wheat bran."

"In the past few years, every village has been short of food. A large part of the village's annual farmland harvest has been paid to the public grain, and the rest will be divided among each household based on the centimeters accumulated by everyone working in the fields."

"In the village, children have no ability to work, and women have little strength, work less, and don't get many centimeters. In this way, after a year, the food distributed at home is not enough for many people, so they mix wheat bran into their rations.

Eat it together, although the texture is a bit coarse, but it can fill you up!"

So, in her family, wheat bran is something to feed the chickens, but in other people’s families, it is food to fill their stomachs?

After hearing the news, Lan Shu immediately understood the reason for her eldest brother's worry.

Those who can sell wheat bran for money must have good conditions and don't have to worry about food.

But there are not many such families in the village.

"I'll try to watch as much as possible these days." Lan Dazhuang sighed again.

From his tone, Lan Shu could easily tell that her eldest brother didn't have high hopes.

As for this matter, Lan Shu had more long-term thoughts.

Their free-range chicken farm now only has more than a hundred chicks, so they have to worry about food. In the future, they will expand the scale and raise a thousand, ten thousand, or even more chickens, which will require wheat bran.

The quantity is astonishing!

Without low-priced wheat bran to feed the chickens, their free-range chicken farm plan would not be able to proceed.

So this problem must be solved!

The current situation is that if the village cannot collect it, it will go to other villages to collect it. Maybe there will be food for the chicks in a short period of time, but that may not be the case in the future.

But there are more than a hundred chickens on the mountain who are not hungry.

Suddenly, Lan Shu thought of a way -

It’s actually not difficult to harvest wheat bran in large quantities. You just need to go to a county where every household has no shortage of food. Isn’t it true that you can harvest as much as you want?

Lan Shu had originally planned to go to the county town because of the sanitary napkin matter.

Now she is taking this opportunity to prepare to go ahead of schedule!

When he learned that his younger sister was going to the county town, Lan Dazhuang didn't feel relieved.

In the evening, when Lan Shengli and Chang Chunfang came back, they also heard that their daughter was going to the city.

The two of them immediately worried that their daughter would go to the county alone and have no one to rely on. What if she got into trouble or was bullied?

Lan Shu had already thought of a way to deal with this.

"I'm not going alone, Xiaobai is going with me." Lan Shu said in front of her family.

Xiaobai only learned about this from Sister Lan before Lan Shengli and Chang Chunfang came back tonight.

Sister Lan wanted to go to the county alone, and even he was worried, so when Sister Lan asked him to accompany her, Xiaobai agreed!

As for the fact that he has relatives in the county, there is actually no need to worry.

The county is so big, so as long as he doesn't take the initiative to walk near the other party, the chance of meeting an acquaintance on the road is negligible.

Because Xiaobai was there, the Lan family and his wife felt relieved instantly!

Lan Dazhuang took a deep look at Xiaobai and murmured in his heart that although Xiaobai didn't look like he had much flesh on his body, he was really strong. If my little sister goes to the county town with him, there should be no problem in terms of safety.

Early the next morning, Lan Dazhuang drove his sister and his companion Xiaobai to the county town on a tractor.

He has to go back to take care of the fruit saplings in the back mountains and sow a new round of winter wheat in the village, so he can't delay too long.

So he and his little sister agreed on a place to meet in the county town three days later.

Three days is almost enough for Lan Shu to collect a load of wheat bran...

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The county town is much more prosperous and lively than the village.

This place is not like in the village, where many families live in houses with mud walls made of straw mixed with clay.

Here, blue brick houses can be seen everywhere.

Although Lan Shu had gotten used to the life in the village during this period, after coming to the county town, she still felt that the environment in the county town was more comfortable and comfortable for her.

Although she was an orphan in the past, she also grew up in the city. The place where she had been accustomed to for more than 20 years could not be erased in just one month.

This feeling is not just for Lan Shu.

By her side, Xiaobai also felt that he was more familiar with the county's environment.

Was the place where he used to live in the county seat?

No, he vaguely remembered that the place where he lived before looked better than here!

On Lan Shu's side, because she and Xiaobai would stay in the county for at least a few days, they had to find a place to live first.

If they are staying in a guest house, they need a letter of introduction from the village.

When Lan Shu came out, she had no intention of staying in a guest house. She planned to rent a house in the county town.

Renting a house is not expensive, only a few yuan a month, and it also gives her a place to store the wheat bran after she collects it.

Moreover, her harvest of wheat bran is a long-term business. As long as her free-range chicken farm keeps raising chickens, the demand for wheat bran will not stop.

So after all this calculation, renting a house is actually not a bad idea.
Chapter completed!