Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 243 - 242 Pig Farming Expert

Chapter 243: Chapter 242 Pig Farming Expert

After studying multiple works such as "Pig Farm Operation Manual," "Effective Prevention and Control of Swine Fever Guide," and "Postpartum Care for Sows," Lin Nianhe felt confident in providing a reasonable guide for the prevention of swine fever.

The only difficulty was that the swine fever vaccine was still in the research stage, and widespread usage was like a fantasy.

Therefore, prevention had to come from the external environment.

Lin Nianhe’s advice to Li Dahe was: "Uncle Team Leader, it’s the changing of the seasons right now, and it’s easy for people to fall ill, the same goes for pigs. I suggest cleaning the pigpen inside and out. Things like the feeding troughs should be scalded with boiling water, and if possible, using disinfectant would be best."

"Also, for the time being, it’s best to improve the pigs’ diet. If they eat well, they’re less likely to get sick."

"Another thing is to partition off a separate room in the pigpen. If you notice that a pig is showing signs of illness, quickly isolate it from the others."

After listening, Li Dahe mulled it over and said: "Cleaning the pigpen and partitioning a room are doable, but feeding them better... that really isn’t possible."

People struggle to get enough to eat, let alone improve the pigs’ diet?

Even if they had the will, they didn’t have the means.

Li Dahe wiped his face, looking somewhat worried: "The autumn harvest is coming up, and every family has barely any surplus grain. What’s left has to last us through the harvest, or else we won’t make it."

Lin Nianhe had also considered this. She wasn’t overly surprised and nodded in understanding before saying, "Then let’s start with the environment. Even people get sick living in filthy places. Let’s clean up the pigpen before the harvest to make sanitary maintenance easier in the future."

"Alright," Li Dahe stood up, "just last night, Uncle Guan said that the chicken coop was fixed up, so he’s having Zhao Zhuangshi and a few boys take care of the pigpen... I’m going to the commune to see if I can get some, some disinfectant."

Lin Nianhe followed him out, reminding him as they walked: "Lime powder also works. If there’s none of that, white vinegar is fine too."

"Okay, got it." Li Dahe nodded and after a few steps, couldn’t help but ask her, "Girl, that casual labor thing you mentioned yesterday... can it really be done?"

Lin Nianhe looked at him innocently: "Can’t know for sure until I go to the town or the provincial city to check, right? How about this, Uncle Team Leader, you write me a letter of introduction and I’ll specifically handle this for you?"

Li Dahe: "Don’t push me to kick you."

"Hey, Uncle Team Leader, that’s not very nice of you. Who makes others work but doesn’t offer any benefits? How about this, I won’t mention going to the provincial city for fun anymore, and you stop being stingy—how about you approve an extra month for my New Year’s family visit leave?"

Li Dahe: "Why don’t you just fly to the sky?"

Lin Nianhe: "Buying a plane ticket... also requires a letter of introduction."

Li Dahe sized up the little bastard in front of him, guessing that if he gave her a kick, he might just send her flying straight into the health clinic.

He took deep breaths repeatedly, trying to suppress the surging anger.

But Lin Nianhe, being oblivious, inched closer: "Uncle Team Leader, think about it, will you? It’s idle time in the winter anyway. It’s annoying for you to see me around all the time, right? You see, it’s just one decision, it could provide the villagers with some extra household income and give you some peace. Isn’t that great?"

Li Dahe rolled his eyes in exasperation: "Little ancestor, the Educated youth’s family visit leave is calculated, and every mark has to be written in your file! Aren’t you afraid you won’t be able to go back to Beijing?"

Lin Nianhe was quite unfazed: "If I’m not given a quota to return to Beijing, so be it. It’s nice here, I’m happy to stay."

Li Dahe’s anger dissipated instantly at her words.

He straightened up unconsciously, his lips curling up involuntarily.

Lin Nianhe continued to propose: "Uncle Team Leader, I’m not being capricious. I really do have something to take care of if I go back this year. How about you advance my family visit leave for next year? That should work, right?"

Li Dahe looked at her perplexed, "What’s the matter?"

Lin Nianhe furrowed her brow slightly, her expression growing serious, "I can’t say, but it really is something important."

Li Dahe rarely saw her this serious and after mulling it over for a moment, he simply said, "If you don’t say, I won’t ask. We’ll talk about the leave for family visitation when it’s time."

"Sure, I’ll follow your instructions." Lin Nianhe knew this was no small matter, could it really be something Li Dahe would agree to just like that?

She didn’t dawdle any longer and waved goodbye to Li Dahe, then quickly headed back to the village school.

Li Dahe watched her retreating figure somewhat puzzled but then smiled.

He hurried home, grabbed his bicycle, and headed for the commune.

Lately, the swine fever in Victory Team was causing panic throughout the entire commune, everybody feared it landing on their doorstep, ruining their hard work of many months.

By contrast, Cao Manfu, the person directly involved, seemed to have a resigned attitude of someone who had seen through the worldly affairs.

The first time the disaster struck, he too panicked, fretted, and grew irritable, but the second time, the third time... God’s relentless grinding down of Victory Team had tired everyone, made them weary, resigned.

Compared to the landslide from two years earlier that buried half the fields, or the forest fire that scorched half the village, the swine fever somehow seemed less unacceptable.

Watching the commune’s veterinarians bustle ceaselessly, Cao Manfu returned home with his hands behind his back, gulped down half a storage jar of water, and after belching suddenly said, "It looks busy over at the pigsties, the work the Educated youth are doing isn’t substantial, send him to work at the pigsties."

Aunt Cao said nothing, but Cao Dayue screeched first, "Dad! Sie Yufei is so clean, how could he do the dirty work of the pigsties?"

Mere mention of Sie Yufei made Cao Dayue’s face blush.

Cao Manfu glared at her, "What’s all the fuss? Am I going to harm you or what?"

Aunt Cao also tugged at Cao Dayue and whispered, "What’s with all the fuss? So what if the pigsty is filthy? Isn’t that lighter work than fieldwork?"

Cao Dayue became anxious, tears almost falling, "How can that be the same, pigsties are full of manure, Sie Yufei is from Beijing, how could he go there?"

In Cao Dayue’s eyes, even Sie Yufei in a dirty tank top was the cleanest young man in the village.

Cao Manfu sneered disdainfully.

To him, the lad was too ungrateful. Without a little lesson, he wouldn’t learn to be honest.

He finished off the remaining half of the water jar and said, "If you want him to be your man, he’ll have to do this work."

Cao Dayue’s tears receded.

She mulled over it for a long while, her eyes brightened, and she cracked a smile, "Dad, you really have a way!"

Cao Manfu gave a grunt and also smiled.

A city kid, now in his hands, wouldn’t he be moulded as he wished?

When Sie Yufei heard the news about being sent to clean the pigsties, he was flabbergasted.

"Pigsties? Tending pigs? If I can’t manage them, can I slaughter them for meat?"

Youngest Master Sie licked his lips, his gaze aflame.