After lunch, the members who had not received food were still going on, while Zhou Yang took Li Youwei back home.
After returning home after being tired all morning, Zhou Yang asked Li Youwei to rest first.
And he came to the backyard alone with a shovel, preparing to clean the cellar.
A cellar is an underground building found in every rural household. It is a special storage room that utilizes the thermal inertia principle of soil to achieve the effect of keeping warm in winter and cool in summer.
In the days before refrigerators, cellars served a wide range of purposes.
Not only can it store some foods and vegetables that can be stored for a long time, such as potatoes, radishes and Chinese cabbage!
You can also put away fruits that you can’t eat to extend the shelf life of these fruits.
In most good cellars, the potatoes and sweet potatoes stored in the cellar in October will remain fresh and delicious until February or the Chinese New Year of the next year.
Therefore, a cellar, like a well, is one of the two essential items in a rural yard.
It's just that the cellar is generally not used in the summer. Firstly, it's because summer is a rough time and there is nothing to store.
Secondly, the temperature in summer is too high, so even if it is placed in a cellar, it cannot be stored for long.
In the Saibei area, cellars are most commonly used after the autumn harvest to store potatoes, cabbages, radishes, etc. returned by the production team!
When Zhou Yang came to the cellar, he first lifted the lid and let it ventilate.
Because a cellar that has been sealed for a long time will produce a large amount of carbon monoxide. If there is no ventilation, entering the cellar rashly can easily lead to carbon monoxide poisoning.
In the past few years, because ordinary people did not understand these things, people died in cellars from time to time. Therefore, some people also called cellars a "cellar" for cannibalism.
After letting the air flow for a while, Zhou Yang lit the lantern and then hung it into the cellar with a rope.
After waiting for another ten minutes, Zhou Yang lifted the lantern up and found that the light inside was still burning.
Zhou Yang knew that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the cellar had dropped and people could go down.
The cellar is not deep, only less than three meters deep!
There are small holes specially dug for stepping on both sides. Northerners call this "kiln"!
Step on the small "kiln" all the way down to the cellar!
After Zhou Yang carefully checked and determined that there was no danger, he started shoveling along the floor of the storage room with a shovel.
The floors of the storage rooms on both sides of the cellar are all ordinary dirt. Last year's rotten potatoes and the dirt that fell from above are all piled up, so the dirt and garbage must be cleared out before use this year.
After shoveling for a while, Zhou Yang gathered all the dirt and garbage in the cellar together, planning to lift it out in a basket later.
At that time, after the cellar becomes a little dry, the potatoes can be put into the cellar.
Whenever you want to eat it, you can just pick it up from the cellar!
Zhou Yang was still busy when he suddenly heard someone calling his name above the cellar.
When he looked up, he found that it was his wife.
"Didn't I let you take a nap? Why did you come out again?" Zhou Yang frowned.
"It's Teacher Qin who's here, saying he has something to do with you!"
As soon as Li Youwei finished speaking, she saw Qin Xueyi leaning towards the entrance of the cellar, and then said with a smile: "Zhou Zhiqing, I want to talk to you about something, so I came here!"
Zhou Yang smiled and said: "Haha, since you're here, help me clean out the dirt in the cellar first, so I don't have to find someone to help!"
"Hahaha, you are quite good at catching strong men!"
With that said, Qin Xueyi asked Li Youwei to find a basket, and then use a rope to move the basket down to the cellar.
As for Zhou Yang, after the basket came down, he immediately shoveled the dirt and garbage gathered together into the basket one shovel after another!
Then, Qin Xueyi lifted the basket full of dirt and garbage with force and dumped it outside the wall.
After several trips like this, the garbage in the two storage rooms on the left and right of the cellar was cleared out.
Afterwards, Zhou Yang returned to the ground.
After coming up from the cellar, Zhou Yang shook the dirt off his body, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then said with a smile: "Teacher Qin, please excuse me!"
"No trouble, not much!" Qin Xueyi responded with a smile.
"By the way, Teacher Qin, you just said you have something to do with me. What exactly is it?" Zhou Yang said again.
"That's right, I plan to go back to the provincial capital!" Qin Xueyi said.
"Go back to the provincial capital?"
"Well, I have been in Babaoliang Village for two and a half months. After observing during this period, I found that the biologically fermented feed you developed, Zhou Zhiqing, is particularly in line with the growth needs of Landrace pigs, so During this period of time, I took this as a topic and conducted some research!”
Then Qin Xueyi continued: "Right now, my research has entered the most critical moment and I need a batch of experimental equipment, so I plan to go back to the Provincial College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry."
"And there are some things I plan to talk to you about before I leave!"
"No problem, Teacher Qin, just tell me if you have anything to do?" Zhou Yang said.
"Zhou Zhiqing, I want to talk to you about promoting biological feed first. Although I know it is not appropriate to talk to you now. After all, your feed business has not started yet..."
However, before Qin Xueyi finished speaking, Zhou Yang said: "There is nothing inappropriate. Compared with our feed mill business, I think that through the hands of your College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, this kind of cheap and efficient feed will be provided to the general public." It means more if you promote it!”
"Zhou Zhiqing, do you really think so?"
"Um!"
"To be honest, your ideological consciousness makes me, a scientific researcher, feel ashamed. You are really great!" Qin Xueyi said sincerely.
"Haha, greatness is out of the question!"
Zhou Yang said again: "When a man is alive, he should do something and something not to do! I just think that the promotion of biological feed is related to Saibei Province, and even the development of the national animal husbandry industry. It is related to whether hundreds of millions of people can eat meat. The interests of hundreds of millions of people cannot be affected by the interests of Babaoliang Village!"
"That's great, thank you Zhou Zhiqing..."
Before Qin Xueyi could finish speaking, Zhou Yang raised his hand to stop him.
In his previous life, he had heard such words so many times that he had already developed immunity.
Then Zhou Yang asked: "Teacher Qin, when are you leaving?"
"I plan to leave in a day or two!"
"When will you come back?"
"It can take three days at the earliest, and it won't take more than a week at the slower time. In addition, when I come back this time, I will also bring back several of my students." Qin Xueyi said.
"Then I wonder if Teacher Qin can do us a favor?"
"What are you busy with?"
"When I leave, I will bring you a sum of money, Mr. Qin. After you return to the provincial capital, go to the Chemistry Department of Saibei University to find Director Yang Yunzhao Yang and ask him to help purchase a batch of biogas power generation machinery and equipment for us. Specific details He knows the model number!”
Then Zhou Yang continued: "If possible, please ask Teacher Qin to bring it back for us!"
"Okay, the second thing I said is that I suggest you get a batch of piglets from the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry College or a breeding farm to raise!"
"Are you in such a hurry?" Zhou Yang frowned.
"It's not too urgent!"
Qin Xueyi said again: "In this way, the first batch of piglets will just come out of the market, and the second batch will be half-grown, so there won't be a long gap in between!"
Zhou Yang thought for a while and said: "You also know that our village earned more than 6,000 yuan from selling pigs this time. After buying bones and scraps and other expenses, we can still have a balance of 4,000 yuan. How many piglets do you think we can buy? young?"
Qin Xueyi immediately said: "If I come forward, I can buy almost 600 heads, or even more!"
"Okay, I'll discuss it with a few other village cadres later to see if I can use the money to buy piglets first!" Zhou Yang said.
"Well, then I'll wait for your news!"
"OK!"
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