With the clattering old long-distance bus slowly driving into the station, at four o'clock in the afternoon on December 1, Zhou Yang's family finally returned to Yunshan County.
After being away for more than 20 days, Zhou Yang felt something cold as soon as he got out of the car!
Compared with Ning City, which is a hundred kilometers away, and Beijing, which is hundreds of kilometers away, the temperature in Yunshan County is much lower.
As soon as he got out of the car, Zhou Yang couldn't help but shiver in the cold wind.
Zhou Yang immediately reminded Li Youwei that she and Baoer should wear cotton-padded clothes to keep warm.
The family walked out of the bus station carrying large and small bags. Zhou Yang originally planned to go to the county public security bureau not far away to find Lu Youming and ask him to help deliver them off.
If it were Zhou Yang himself, he would definitely not trouble others, but now that there are Li Youwei and Bao'er, Zhou Yang will naturally not be polite.
But as soon as he walked out of the bus station and walked a few steps on the street, he heard someone calling his name.
Looking up, I saw a donkey cart parked in front of the county hospital on the right, with a man and a woman standing next to the cart.
The man is Niu Dazhuang, and the woman is Liu Lu.
After seeing the two of them, Zhou Yang immediately walked over with his wife and daughter.
"Why are you two here?" Zhou Yang asked in surprise.
Liu Lu said immediately: "It's Bai Yang who is sick. We sent him to the county hospital and we just finished the operation!"
"Surgery? What's wrong with you? Is it serious?" Zhou Yang asked hurriedly.
"Fortunately, it's just appendicitis!" Liu Lu said.
"That's okay. As long as the doctor is sent to the hospital in time, appendicitis is not a big problem!" Zhou Yang immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said.
"Well, that's what the doctor said too!"
Then Liu Lu asked again: "Zhou Zhiqing, sister-in-law, have you just come back?"
"Well, I just got off the car and was planning to go back to the village!" Zhou Yang said.
"Then let's go together, we are also preparing to go back!"
"Is there anyone taking care of you at the hospital?" Zhou Yang asked immediately.
"Yes, Cui Qian is here!"
"Okay, let's go back today. I'll come see him someday!" Zhou Yang said.
"Um!"
Afterwards, the group of people got on the donkey cart and walked towards the village.
Not long after leaving the county town, Zhou Yang saw mules and carriages pulling crop straws everywhere on the gravel road, and they were walking in the same direction as them.
Zhou Yang immediately asked with some surprise: "Dazhuang, Liu Zhiqing, are these mules and carriages going to our village?"
Niu Dazhuang immediately said: "Yes, since our village suddenly said half a month ago that we can exchange straw for food, the surrounding villages have started to move, delivering firewood to our village day and night."
"Now half a month has passed, and even the people in the township communes near the county have heard about this and have taken action."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yang knew that the village's plan to build a large feed factory must have begun to be implemented.
"How did the village obtain these straws? How much straw did a pound of grain cost?"
"Not necessarily. If it's green oats, it's 50 kilograms for one kilogram of grain. If it's wheat straw or something, it's 80 kilograms for one kilogram!" Niu Dazhuang said.
Zhou Yang nodded immediately, the price was quite reasonable.
Green oatmeal refers to the kind of oats that have not yet grown. This type of straw has green oatmeal feathers on it, so it can be said to be the best fodder for livestock, and the price is relatively high.
Wheat straw refers to the straw left after harvesting wheat. This stuff is usually used to make fires or feed large livestock. Pigs generally do not eat this stuff.
Of course, that was before there was biological feed.
Now with the fermentation technology of biological feed, any plant straw can be fermented after being crushed, and can be used as feed for pigs.
It’s just that the straws are different and have different nutritional levels!
Afterwards, Zhou Yang asked them some more questions and immediately knew that the village had changed a lot during their absence.
According to Niu Dazhuang and Liu Lu, a large amount of straw has been exchanged in the village, and the threshing floor at the east end of the village has even been piled full.
Moreover, there are still a large number of vehicles transporting straw to the village every day.
In addition, the village also hired a large number of idle young men and women from other villages to come to the village to help with work.
At most, there were more than 2,000 people working in the village.
Not only has a new feed mill and bone meal factory been built in the village, but a large number of fermentation tanks have also been dug.
Even the roads inside and outside the village have been rebuilt. In short, the changes are very big.
Zhou Yang and Li Youwei also listened with great interest. They did not expect that the cadres in the village were so courageous that they even employed people from other villages.
But listening to Niu Dazhuang and Liu Lu, they still didn't feel much.
When the donkey cart was about to arrive in the village, Zhou Yang felt the changes in the village.
First of all, the road leading to the village has been smoothed out a lot. The previously bumpy road was covered with gravel, which has obviously been carefully repaired.
Secondly, there were a lot more mules and carriages coming in and out of the village.
In less than ten minutes, Zhou Yang saw at least 30 mules and carriages coming out of the village.
These mules and carriages all have unfamiliar faces, and each carriage has a bulging bag, which must have just been exchanged for food with the village.
According to the price Niu Dazhuang just said, a cart of straw can be exchanged for more than ten kilograms of grain.
Although there is really no comparison in terms of size and weight, this is definitely a good thing for those places where food harvests are poor or production is cut off.
After all, if we put aside previous years, these straws would either be fed to the large livestock of the production team, or they could only be distributed to the members as firewood, and would never be turned into food.
The question is how much can the big animals eat? When people's rations are seriously insufficient, who cares whether the big animals have anything to eat?
At this time, Babaoliang Village is exchanging straw for grain. For most villages, this is definitely great news!
After the news spread, many Junzi couldn't wait to bring all the straw in the village, except for the rations for big animals, to exchange it for food!
After entering the village, the changes were even more obvious.
Not only are there a lot of unfamiliar faces in the village, but more importantly, there are people from the village directing traffic at the main intersections in and out of the village.
Can you believe that ordinary villages in the 1970s needed specialized people to direct traffic?
Apparently, this is because there are too many vehicles entering and exiting the village, often causing congestion, so we have to do this!
This also reflects the current busyness of Babaoliang Village.
In addition, as soon as Zhou Yang entered the village, he heard the roar of machinery in the distance.
For a time, the neighing of mules and horses, the noise of people, the roar of machines, and the crowing of chickens and dogs intertwined into a lively rural symphony!
Before he could express too much emotion, Niu Dazhuang drove the donkey cart outside the gate of Zhou Yang's house.
Later, after Li Youwei said thank you, she took Bao'er into the yard and opened the door.
Zhou Yang, with the help of Da Zhuang and Liu Lu, moved the things in the car into the yard one by one.
At this point, their trip to the capital has finally come to a successful end!
