Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 420 - 125: The Misjudged Bull No.31_1

Chapter 420: Chapter 125: The Misjudged Bull No.31_1

Gong Hanqing and Fang Xiaoqing were not around, leaving only the earliest members of the cattle farm. It was then that Yan Fei began to talk business.

"Brother Chao, brew more wine during this period, part of it is for selling during the New Year, and some of it I’m preparing to soak some new medicinal wine. The original medicinal wine, Aunt Mei should try to sell less in the future, and it would be even better if no one buys it. The ingredients used to soak the wine, one of the medicinal materials, may soon be out of stock. Unless it’s for a sick person, if anyone else wants to buy it, let them buy the new medicinal wine."

"The function of the new medicinal wine is to invigorate the vital energy and spleen, benefit the kidneys and vitalize the blood, and prolong life. It can also treat cervical diseases. I think it will have pretty nice effects if consumed long term. We should focus on selling this kind of medicinal wine."

"The secret bone meal for feeding the cattle should still be handled by Aunt Mei, or it could be kept by Master Cheng. Just like before, even if we have new people coming in, they will be like Gao Rui and Old Gong, seeing it is fine, but there’s no need to let them know what they shouldn’t know."

"As for the dosage, we used to follow the amount according to the book. I thought about it, from now on we should experiment ourselves, see if it would be more effective to increase the amount slightly. There are more cows now, let’s take a few more to try and compare the results. The pigs should also be tested. Perhaps we might find that the experience we gained on our own is better than what is written in the book!"

"If the animals get overfed, there’s no need to tell Zhang Hui the details when he comes. If it can be cured, cure it, if not, we can just slaughter it for meat."

Yan Fei was ready to risk losing a few cows to maximise the effect of his ’secret bone meal’.

Xu Xiaoyan often ate food from the Jurassic World and now there were significant changes. He thought that the effect of this bone meal must be far from limited to this, but of course, this needed to be determined by future experiments. Anyway, Yan Fei felt that as long as the most suitable dosage was mastered, there would definitely be no problem in improving the effects further.

The people at the cattle farm always took Yan Fei’s words as the guideline for their actions. He used to tell them how much to use, they never thought of disobeying his dosage instructions to try increasing or reducing it.

Now that he said he wanted to experiment, everyone would try according to his idea, after all, the consequence was just what he said; if it didn’t work, they would slaughter the animal for meat.

Everyone then discussed and decided to select five fattened cows and five small cows intended for breeding. They paired one big cow with a small one to form five groups in total. They intended to experiment with these cows with amounts that were 1.2, 1.4...times up until twice the original dosage.

They agreed on this for now. If they found out in the future that twice the dosage had the best effect, besides everyone being overjoyed, they would definitely have to continue with further experiments until they found the optimal effect.

Under the current situation, using five big and five small cows as test subjects was already a costly venture. If they went any further, it would be pure recklessness.

"Okay, that’s it for now. I’ll let you know if there’s anything else later." Yan Fei got up and asked, "Does anyone else have any other matters?"

"There’s a cow that seems to be growing especially slowly, our number thirty-one. It’s been raised for a while now, it wasn’t obvious before, but the more we fed it, the more noticeable it became, it’s just growing slower than the rest." Lin Yumei saw Yan Fei stand up and was afraid he would leave again, so she quickly got up and told him. "Zhang Hui checked it too and said there’s nothing wrong, he thinks it might just be the kind of cow that won’t fatten."

"Let’s go, have a look." Yan Fei was a bit annoyed.

The moment he heard the number, he knew that the number thirty-one cow must be one of the fattening cows he bought in the county town together with Heizi and Tian Dafu.

He made a judgement error!

Upon arriving at the cattle shed and seeing it for himself, Yan Fei confirmed: he had indeed made an error in judgement when buying this cow.

These cows were almost the same when bought, but after a month of careful feeding at the cattle farm, enriched by his secret bone meal, it was enough for changes to have taken place.

The one that changed the least was number thirty-one. It didn’t look much better than when he had first bought it. Perhaps it would seem like a good deal to others, to be able to feed it to this state within a month. But on the cattle farm, a cow like this is definitely considered a failure.

Since Zhang Hui had already inspected it and it was already being raised with the other cows, it meant it was not diseased. Now, with the same feed and feeding method, the other cows were all fine, only this one had problems. This could only mean it was naturally the kind of cattle that wouldn’t fatten, and under such circumstances, no one had a solution for it.

With just one look, Yan Fei didn’t feel like looking anymore. He gave instructions offhandedly: "Just keep feeding it as usual! Feed it until the New Year’s Day and then we can slaughter it for meat. The cattle farm has been open for almost a year, and we’ve never eaten beef from our own cattle farm. Can we seriously say we are cattle farmers without feeling embarrassed?"

Everyone was speechless with their young boss, this argument was pretty compelling. In the rural areas of Sancha River, there were probably more farming households raising cows than those who have not eaten beef. This was because beef was costly and ordinary households were either reluctant to or could not afford to eat it.

Although there were vendors selling beef offal soup on the streets, the marketplace was usually crowded and they didn’t sell that much every day. Moreover, whether beef offal counted as beef was debatable! If you say it is, well, it does come from a cow; if you say it isn’t, no one would argue with you.

Generally, people eat beef during the New Year, and it’s usually only by those with good family conditions. There weren’t many who sold beef on the streets, there were more selling boneless meat.

As the name suggests, boneless meat is made by butchering a cow and selling large chunks of meat in big cities. The leftover small pieces of meat stripped from the bone, which may look ugly and contain bits of bone, are sold cheaply. For households, this cheaper type of meat was quite popular.

Of course there will always be a wealth gap, there were definitely households which consumed large chunks of beef, but those were an extreme minority, so there’s no point discussing that.

Yan Fei took another look at the cow that Xu Xiaoyan liked very much. It was a late bloomer, and its growth was pretty good now. He tried to carry it to gauge its weight, and also tried carrying a breeding cow from the same batch. There was still a little regret, "It’s a bit lacking, it probably won’t be able to catch up with the other breeding cattle, it’s almost three hundred catties short."

Gao Rui, who had always been curious about Yan Fei’s strength but had never seen him use it before, saw this scene and could not help feeling glad: it was fortunate that his knowledge was broad and he knew the type of person not to provoke. If he had not quickly changed with the circumstances, he thought that he might have been carried and thrown over the fence into the river....

After Yan Fei had a look around, he didn’t involve himself any further. He told Heizi to look for him after lunch, and then he was off.