aircannonsinc Chapter 201
Chapter 201
Meng Haisheng brought Momo out to pay New Year's greetings one morning, and Momo received a bag of candies and a handful of red envelopes.
"Dad, when you buy me clothes next year, let's buy a coat with a bigger pocket. This one is too small, and it's full of candies after just a few pieces of candies."
Momo touched her bulging pockets and felt a little regretful.
"You little devil, you only know how to eat all day long. Dad has already bought you a lot of candies, why are you still thinking about the ones outside."
"You can never have too much candies."
"Be careful of eating too much candies and getting cavities. You love candies, and the little bugs on your teeth also love candies."
"Ah, how can there be little bugs on your teeth."
Momo looked at Meng Haisheng with a little fear.
"Remember to brush your teeth every day in the future. The little toothbrush and toothpaste that Dad bought you are not for you to show off. You have to brush your teeth sooner or later to avoid little bugs."
Momo nodded very seriously.
"I will brush my teeth seriously after eating candy in the future."
The father and daughter chatted as they walked home.
Today was the first day of the new year, so someone must have come to visit. The door of Meng Haisheng's house was open, and Dabei and Xiaobei were tied in the doghouse, not allowed to come out to scare people.
As soon as Meng Haisheng walked to the gate of the courtyard, he saw a lot of people sitting in the main hall.
"Haishen is back from paying New Year's greetings."
"Yes."
Meng Haisheng asked Momo to sit by the stove and warm herself by the fire, and he sat at the table to chat with everyone.
"After the New Year, it won't take long for the ice to thaw, and then we can go to the mountains to dig Bupleurum and catch ground beetles."
"Haisheng, are you still collecting here?"
Ma Jinying looked at Meng Haisheng with a happy face.
Her question touched everyone's heart.
"There are no big Bupleurums in our mountain now, so don't go digging. The small ones are worthless and laborious. Let the Bupleurums on the mountain grow and then we can dig them."
"As for the earthworms, we will definitely collect them."
"Okay, since you said so, we will go to the mountain to catch earthworms in the spring."
Having tasted the sweetness, Ma Jinying couldn't wait to go to the mountain to dig earthworms now.
"Auntie, when you caught earthworms before the New Year, didn't you feel that you couldn't catch too many?"
"It's a little, but it can sell for a lot of money."
Meng Haisheng smiled indifferently.
"After the spring, there will be more people going to the mountain to catch earthworms. Our mountain is quite big, but it can't bear the fact that people from ten miles away and eight villages go to catch earthworms."
"If you are willing, why not raise rabbits with me, whether it is meat rabbits or long-haired rabbits, raise ten or eight litters at home, and you can make money without much care."
When Meng Haisheng said this, the women present all pricked up their ears.
"We used to raise rabbits, but the big rabbits didn't sell well. The meat rabbits in the market were only 30 or 40 cents per pound, which was not enough to keep us busy."
Pork was only 90 cents per pound, and rabbit meat was only 30 or 40 cents, so there was basically no room for improvement.
And rabbit meat is easy to have a fishy smell if it is not cooked well. If no one in the family can cook it, few people will go to the market to buy rabbits to eat.
Usually they are sold to restaurants.
But there are only a few small restaurants nowadays, and they can consume a few rabbits.
Over time, the villagers would rather raise more chickens than rabbits.
"If you trust me, follow me to raise Angora rabbits. I can buy rabbit hair at 75 yuan per pound."
"What? 75 yuan per pound for rabbit hair? So expensive?"
Ma Jinying couldn't help but raise her voice, and the others present were also surprised.
No one expected that rabbit hair would be so expensive. No wonder Meng Haisheng raised so many at once.
"Haisheng, is this job feasible? Don't let us raise rabbits, and you won't buy rabbit fur."
"When have I ever lied to you? If you don't believe me, after the first month of the lunar year, if anyone wants to raise rabbits, they can sign a purchase agreement with me."
Meng Haisheng's power is still limited.
Now Fan Zhenzhen's rabbit plague vaccine has been almost tested.
After the spring, if dozens of households in the village come to raise rabbits with him, within a few months, his rabbit fur production will increase by leaps and bounds.
There is strength in numbers. Meng Haisheng wants to mobilize people from his village and several other villages before the university starts.
He buys Angora rabbit fur at 75 yuan per pound, and Meng Haisheng sells it at 100 yuan per pound.
He can make a net profit of 25 yuan per pound.
But this 25 yuan is not so easy to earn. Farmers will come to him for advice when they encounter various problems when raising Angora rabbits.
If the rabbits died, Meng Haisheng might be scolded and asked to pay compensation.
But even so, Meng Haisheng still chose to raise Angora rabbits without hesitation.
His goal was not to make a small profit by reselling rabbit fur.
"Haisheng, tell me in detail how you raise Angora rabbits. I used to...I heard that Angora rabbits are delicate and difficult to raise. "
"It's not that rabbits are difficult to raise, but they are more demanding on people."
Meng Haisheng poured himself a cup of tea and slowly told everyone the precautions for raising Angora rabbits.
The rabbit house must be clean. Lazy people can't raise Angora rabbits. Its fur is worth 75 yuan per kilogram. If it gets dirty, it will be worthless.
Angora rabbits have a slightly weaker stomach and intestines. They need to be fed with more refined rabbit food. They can't just feed them a handful of vegetables. If they don't eat well, the quality of the rabbit fur will be poor.
"In the past, we raised rabbits in a self-management style. Raising Angora rabbits requires rabbit plague vaccination, and it must be done every year."
Hearing Meng Haisheng say this, Ma Jinying was amazed.
"I didn't expect that raising a rabbit would be so particular. ”
“Haisheng, where can I buy Angora rabbits? They are not sold in the market here.”
“I have them here. When I went out to buy breeding rabbits before, each rabbit was 10 yuan. Later, I found a connection and someone gave me a batch of rabbits for 5 yuan each.”
“I don’t want to make money from the villagers, so I will give them to everyone at 5 yuan each.”
“Oh, Haisheng, how embarrassing. "
Ma Jinying said she was sorry, and immediately ordered 6 Angora rabbits from Meng Haisheng.
She was calculating very fast.
The rabbits she bought now can start shearing and giving birth to rabbits in less than half a year.
According to the most conservative estimate, she will have a group of Angora rabbits in a year.
No matter how good Ma Jinying's calculations were, she was not as good as Meng Haisheng.
The rabbits that the textile factory gave her had already started giving birth to rabbits.
Now there are more than 30 litters of rabbits that are about to be full-month-old in the rabbit house, and there are also those that have just been born and are about to be born.
He sells them to the villagers for five yuan each, which is a sure profit, and even more than what he makes from selling rabbit fur.
A group of people were talking and laughing with Meng Haisheng, and the melon seeds and peanuts on the table were consumed very quickly.
Meng Haisheng then realized why What Lin Mucheng asked him to buy more melon seeds.
If you eat it this way, don't even mention the first month of the year, it would be good if you can eat it on the eighth or ninth day of the first month.
When the villagers heard that Meng Haisheng wanted to take the villagers to raise rabbits, they went to Meng Haisheng's house more frequently.
Who doesn't have a yard? Just get a few cages and start raising rabbits.
The family is growing some ancient hemp vegetables, and they will share some of the food for chickens with the rabbits.
It doesn't delay work, and the money is earned.
More importantly, raising rabbits is safe. The ground turtles in the mountains were almost caught last year. If you want to catch them this year, you have to go deep into the mountains.
It takes a day to go back and forth, and it's really a waste of work.
And how much you earn depends on luck. If you are unlucky, you won't make much money in a day.
With this comparison, the villagers are more concerned about raising rabbits.