0p0 Chapter 238 Overcapacity
Chapter 238 Overcapacity
Raising dairy cows was not popular in that era. Usually, people with spare money would buy a yellow ox to plow the fields. No one had ever heard of any family raising dairy cows, so when Lin Chuyi came back with such a black and white cow, it naturally aroused their curiosity.
Many passers-by did not know Lin Chuyi, so even if they were curious, they just looked at him a few more times and no one came forward to ask. But the villagers of Qingshan Village were different. They and Lin Chuyi were not only villagers from the same village, but also in a cooperative relationship. In their eyes, Lin Chuyi was "one of their own", and when they encountered such curious things, they chose to ask directly.
"Girl, don't you have a cow at home? Why did you buy another one? And why is the color of this cow so strange? Is it sick?" The person asking the question was Aunt Kang who lived at the east end of the village.
Lin Chuyi shook her head and explained, "Aunt Kang, this cow is not sick, it just looks like this. This is a dairy cow that produces milk. My aunt found it especially for us and asked me to bring it back to nourish us."
When everyone heard Lin Chuyi say that the cow was not sick, they wanted to try it out, but when they heard her say that the cow was a gift from her aunt, the wife of an official, they subconsciously thought that the cow must be a precious one, so they did not dare to touch it, for fear of causing trouble and ending up in a bad way.
They followed Lin Chuyi for a while, then found it boring and gradually dispersed.
Lin Chuyi led the cow home and handed it over to Grandpa Huang to take care of. She then went to get a clean wooden barrel, cleaned it, and demonstrated to Grandpa Huang the process of extracting milk. Then she left the cow alone.
After putting the tools she bought into the utility room, she carried a large bag of iron hooks to check on the soaked bamboo strips.
Lin Chuyi pulled out a bamboo stick, looked at it carefully, and thought it was about ready, so he took out all the bamboo sticks in the bucket, built a small fire in the yard, moved a small stool and sat in front of the fire, and began to roast the prepared bamboo sticks.
Lin Chuyi focuses on the middle part of the bamboo strips when baking. After being heated, the bamboo strips will become tough and not easy to break. They can also be bent into a desired arc according to one's own wishes.
Lin Chuyi set the curvature of the hanger to 120 degrees according to the curvature of modern clothes hangers, and stopped when it was bent to the same degree and waited for it to be finalized.
In order to save time, Lin Chuyi nailed three nails on the ground, and then fixed the baked and bent bamboo strips on the three nails. When the temperature above cooled down, the shape of the bamboo strips was fixed.
After completing the baking and shaping work, Lin Chuyi began to drill holes. She drilled a small hole in the middle of each bamboo strip that could accommodate an iron hook. There was no electric drill at that time, but people at that time also had their own drilling tools. With the help of tools, Lin Chuyi's work went very smoothly.
There was no technical requirement for threading the hooks. Lin Chuzhi only took two quarters of an hour to finish the work.
After threading the hooks, this batch of simple bamboo clothes drying racks is completed.
Lin Chuyi explained to Aunt Huang and the others the functions of these clothes hangers, and then asked them to wash and dry them before hanging them in the closet for use.
After the two agreed, Lin Chuyi went to see the progress of Mr. Huang.
When Lin Chuyi went over, Grandpa Huang had already squeezed out a large bucket of milk.
This cow is a high-quality dairy cow produced in the space, and can produce 50 to 80 kilograms of milk a day.
Lin Chuyi left three cows and a bull at Qilixiang's place, which was more than enough to meet Qilixiang's milk needs.
The reason for bringing a dairy cow home was that Lin Chuyi wanted everyone in the family to drink milk every day.
Cow's milk is rich in nutrients and drinking more milk is very good for the body.
But the problem now is that cows produce too much milk. Even if we drink the milk like water every day, the people in the family cannot finish it.
Lin Chuyi planned to go to the head of the village in the afternoon to discuss the matter and explain the benefits of milk to the children in the village and see if they wanted to drink it. If they did, each child would pay 15 cents per month and could go to her house to get a bowl of milk every day, which would be considered a welfare she provided to the villagers.
If no one wants to drink it, she will make all the remaining milk into milk candy and ask Lin Wu to send someone to deliver it to Qilixiang to sell, so that it won't be wasted.
Lin Chuyi took the freshly squeezed raw milk to the kitchen and boiled it in a pot, then gave a bowl to everyone in the family. Seeing their frowns, Lin Chuyi knew that they were not used to the taste of milk.
Lin Chuyi scooped sugar into their bowls while saying earnestly, "You'll get used to it after drinking it for a long time. If you're not used to it, just add more sugar. This stuff is good for your health."
"Second Miss, I'm already this old, I don't need to drink this, give it to the younger ones." Aunt Huang's facial features were all wrinkled, and resistance was written all over her face.
"No." Lin Chuyi ruthlessly rejected Aunt Huang's proposal, "Everyone has to drink it. Don't feel reluctant. The cow is very capable. It can produce dozens of kilograms of milk a day. You can drink it as water for a long time."
Aunt Huang had no choice but to take another sip with a deep resentment. You know what, it tastes much better with sugar added.
Under Lin Chuyi's strong pressure, the other adults had to accept this result even though they were reluctant.
On the contrary, the little ones in the family all accepted milk well and wanted to drink more after finishing it, which saved Lin Chuyi a lot of trouble.
The next morning, after Lin Chuyi finished her breakfast, she went to inspect her pepper field. The peppers were growing well and had already bloomed. They would be ready for harvest in more than a month.
Lin Chuyi strolled to her orchard again. Thanks to the unremitting efforts of the village head and a group of strong laborers, all the fruit seedlings she brought back had been planted in the barren hill she contracted.
Seeing that there was no one around, Lin Chuyi checked the planting of fruit trees while injecting diluted nutrient solution into the land of the barren mountain to provide nutrients.
Perhaps it was because the head of the village did a very good job of supervising, or perhaps it was because the strong laborers here were honest people who worked seriously, every fruit tree planted was straight, the soil around the fruit trees was very moist, and the leaves of the fruit trees fluttered in the wind, looking very vibrant. In addition, with the diluted nutrient solution she had just injected into the barren mountain, it was preliminarily estimated that the survival rate of this batch of fruit trees should be able to reach 80%.
Lin Chuyi was very satisfied with the prediction result. When planting trees on a barren mountain, an 80% survival rate was already very high. Any higher would easily arouse suspicion.
They are not in the south, but they are close to it, with sufficient sunlight and suitable temperature, which is very suitable for fruit cultivation. Lin Chuyi brought all orange saplings this time. If nothing unexpected happens, they should be able to bear fruit next year.