Ye Xiangdong was not a person that Su Xiangyu had any influence on.
In other words, she had lived in the border town for six or seven years, but she didn't know that there was a person named Ye Xiangdong in the border town.
He looks like her idol, and is quite young, a handsome guy.
Su Xiangyu had no money. Her money was not even enough to buy 100 kilograms of coal, so it was definitely unrealistic to talk about giving her money.
And what she had now were chickens, five hundred of them, all ready to lay eggs for her at a single command as long as she became skilled in reforming them.
"Eggs, lots of eggs." said Su Xiangyu.
Ye Xiangdong clapped his hands together and laughed until he was almost out of breath: "Did I hear you right? You want to give me eggs, but I can only eat two eggs at most. What do you want? Raw stone powder, old lime, those things all cost money. Do you think I have to steal the country's raw materials from the chemical factory for you just for a few eggs?"
It seems that this is also someone who needs brainwashing.
"Comrade Ye, what do you think our border town lacks the most right now?" Su Xiangyu said.
"I'm short of everything, food, clothes and daily necessities, because I don't have tickets." Stamping his feet, Ye Xiangdong said, "Revolution does not distinguish between the rich and the poor." He used cotton thread to thread through Ye Xiangdong's rubber shoes. Obviously, there was a hole in his shoes, so he used the cotton thread to sew it together again.
"Look, I gave you eggs, not for you to eat. What's the use of giving you money? With the coupons in circulation now, you can't buy anything with money. But it's different with eggs. Eggs are in short supply. If you have five eggs, you can ask a fellow villager to exchange them for a pair of wool socks, right? If you have ten eggs, you can exchange them for a pair of cotton shoes, right? What if you have a basket of eggs? Have you ever worn a military coat, the green one, filled with cooked wool?" Su Xiangyu said, clasping her hands.
The air suddenly fell into silence and no one spoke.
"Can you really make chickens lay eggs in winter?" Ye Xiangdong finally asked hesitantly.
"There are 500 chickens, including 480 hens. It is completely fine for each hen to lay an egg every day." Su Xiangyu read out according to the instructions in the book.
"How much can you give me?" Ye Xiangdong's appearance was vaguely similar to Su Xiangyu's husband in her first life, who appeared to be gentle and handsome but had a heart as vicious as a snake and took away everything from her.
"If we can really reach 480 eggs a day, I can set aside 100 eggs in the early stage. After all, the chickens belong to the farm. If the higher-ups find out that we are secretly moving the eggs, Yu Lei and I will be punished. These 100 eggs will be divided equally among the three of us and will be counted as cost. The rest will be your profit." Su Xiangyu said.
You can't promise too much at once. If you promise too much, it will become troublesome to divide the spoils later.
Yu Lei originally thought that he had nothing to do with it, but when he heard that Su Xiangyu was still thinking about him when dividing the spoils, he immediately slapped his thigh and said, "I agree with this idea, Engineer Ye, if you agree, let's do it this way. Anyway, your limestone powder is not worth much, so bring a few more buckets for us to use. What if this thing succeeds?"
Judging from Ye Xiangdong's tattered felt hat and worn-out rubber shoes, his family should not be well off.
Poverty is the driving force of everything and also Su Xiangyu's hope.
"Then let's do it, Yu Lei, come with me to carry lime." Ye Xiangdong stamped the snow foam on his feet, suddenly took a deep sniff, and came over to look at Su Xiangyu: "Dumplings, it smells like pork and green onion stuffing."
He actually smelled the scent of steamed buns.
"That's not right, Engineer Ye. Why should I be the one carrying lime with you? Su Xiangyu shouldn't be the one carrying these things?" Yu Lei really wanted to resist.
After all, in a place like the border town, there is no distinction between male and female educated youth. In particular, female comrades should work harder than male comrades to prove that they hold up half the sky.
For a long time, male educated youth were proud of doing less work than their female comrades.
"If she can really make chickens lay eggs in winter, she will be our expert. Experts cannot carry lime. What if they fall or get hurt? Do you know how to feed chickens?" Ye Xiangdong said.
Do you still know how to respect professionals?
Su Xiangyu felt that she had a good start, at least she had two soldiers.
After they left, she started teasing her system again.
Since a bathtub cannot be delivered, a large washbasin will do. She doesn't mind taking a bath in a large washbasin.
[Attention, the host's reward balance is insufficient to buy the large basin. Please try again after the task has made some progress.] It was still the same cold words.
"Then you have to tell me what is meant by phased progress and the reward mechanism. How can you make the horse run without giving it grass to eat?" Su Xiangyu said.
[Mission objective: Change the living environment of the border town and save the educated youth and the people in the border town]
[Task Body: All actions that change people's livelihood, the lives of educated youth and the people count, and the host can get rewards for this. The rewards are exchanged with gold coins. Saving a life can get 5,000 gold coins, sending an educated youth to college can get 50,000 gold coins, changing the living conditions of the educated youth in the border town can get 1,000,000 gold coins, and if the entire border town can be transformed, making it prosperous and the people happy, the host will get a million gold coins.]
[Task process: Please perform on your own]
Su Xiangyu originally thought that she came here to defeat her charming sister and turn her life around, but unexpectedly, the system asked her to change people's livelihood, save lives and become a bodhisattva?
The hat was so big that Su Xiangyu almost couldn't react for a moment.
"It sounds very tempting. How do I exchange gold coins for RMB?" Su Xiangyu said excitedly, rubbing her hands.
[5,000 gold coins are equivalent to 50 yuan, and this is based on the price of goods 40 years later.]
"This is not called gold coins, it's Zimbabwe dollars, right? Five thousand gold coins are only equivalent to fifty yuan? Then what am I doing and how can I eat?" Su Xiangyu was extremely angry.
[As your merits accumulate, you will make more and more money, come on.] This crappy system is so light-hearted.
"I can use all the remaining reward value I have to buy the cheapest plastic bucket and fill it with free hot water. I want to take a shower," said Su Xiangyu.
After a while, a large bucket filled with hot water, probably bought from the night market, appeared under the table.
Even a simple scrub is very difficult nowadays. Su Xiangyu gave herself a bath before putting on new underwear.
Of course, the situation happened so fast that she couldn't react in time.
"Hurry up, we need help." Yu Lei was still outside the wall, shouting loudly.
The farm wall is not very high and there are gaps in many places. Of course, everyone can go in and out as they please.
Su Xiangyu followed and ran to a collapsed wall, and saw Yu Lei and Ye Xiangdong coming back carrying a large iron bucket that was half the size of a person.
One lifted the front and the other lifted the back. Yu Lei was so tired that the veins on his neck were throbbing.
Ye Xiangdong was tall and strong, so his condition was slightly better, but looking at his waist, it was almost broken.
"Sister Su, do you know how tiring it is to carry a metal bucket for five miles?" Ye Xiangdong kicked the bucket over and said angrily, "You have to carry it on your own for the rest of the journey."
"I'm really tired." Su Xiangyu stepped on the bucket, and the bucket rolled over.
"But, since you can't lift it, why not just roll it?" These two people's brains must have been eaten out by zombies. Since the bucket is round, they can just roll it over. Why do they have to carry it five miles?
With another kick, the iron bucket rolled directly to the door of the chicken coop, shook twice and then stopped.
Ye Xiangdong looked at Yu Lei, and Yu Lei looked at him. The two guys were like idiots. They picked up the bucket again and started to take things out of it.
Coal, black coal. Ye Xiangdong didn't bring much, only twenty pounds at most, but this took up the most space. The two nylon bags of white powder below were what Su Xiangyu really needed, the stone powder and old lime that could help the hens synthesize eggshells.
You just need to build a simple stove with a few bricks and put it in the chicken coop, and the temperature of the chicken coop will continue to rise.
It is surrounded by bricks to prevent some chickens that have had enough of life and feel hopeless from rushing in and voluntarily turning into a delicious roast chicken.
Quickstone powder and old lime should be sprinkled into the chicken feed.
As soon as the temperature rose, the five hundred chickens immediately became different.
Chickens were jumping around in the shed, shaking their feathers, especially the big, colorful and high-spirited roosters, which were walking their sexy buttocks and swaying around the brick wall outside the stove.
You can tell at first glance that it's not a serious rooster.
Yu Lei, who was mixing the food, watched Su Xiangyu add stone powder and old lime to the wheat bran and beans, and couldn't help but worry: "These things are not edible. Don't feed them today. A bunch of chickens will die tomorrow. Su Xiangyu, then we will probably have to stay in Harlem Farm forever. We might even be sentenced to a labor camp for killing chickens."
"Not only should you not have such concerns, you also have to start imagining from now on. When you become an expert and others come to you for help, how will you explain the methods and techniques of feeding chickens?" Su Xiangyu did not hide anything in front of Yu Lei and told him the reasons and process of eggshell formation.
"Will you let me tell you then?" Yu Lei took the chicken feed bowl and put his hand directly into the lime powder without any gloves to protect his skin.
Su Xiangyu clapped her hands and turned to sit next to the stove. It was warm and comfortable. There was also someone who worked hard for her. Life was so comfortable.
Twenty kilograms of coal can be burned in just one day, but stone powder and lime can be used for a few more days.
The effect was amazing and the achievement was remarkable. After feeding the chickens with old lime for five consecutive days, Yu Lei got up early the next morning and entered the chicken coop. As usual, he had to check the bran nests specially for the hens to lay eggs.
The bran nest is made of wheat straw and covered with wheat bran. It is soft and when the hen feels the urge to lay eggs, she will naturally look for the bran nest and lay eggs in it.
This has been the habit of all hens for thousands of years.
Recently, I have been walking through the five small sheds in the chicken coop and the hundreds of chicken nests. It is a big surprise to find more than a dozen eggs a day.
But today, as soon as he entered, Yu Lei saw three eggs in a nest.
He resisted the urge to pick up the eggs, then swept through a few nests of chaff, where there were scattered eggs, some with one, some with two. He picked up one nest roughly, and Yu Lei had picked up 35 eggs in total.
Under normal circumstances, if he could achieve 35 in a day, he would have to claim credit and report the good news.
However, I have to resist the urge. What if there are no eggs in the other sheds? All my joy would be in vain.
However, as soon as he entered the second shed, Yu Lei almost knelt down. There were eggs in almost every nest, and not a single one was empty.
Without even looking at the third nest, Yu Lei rushed out the door and nearly broke two eggs: "Su Zhiqing, big surprise, today we can at least hand over 150 eggs to the higher-ups, which is normally the yield in spring."
With the farm's recognition and experts in sight, Yu Lei was already feeling very proud: "We have to go and claim credit right away."
But Su Xiangyu was wrapped in a quilt, how could she still sleep?
"If we go to show off our achievements now, all the eggs will have to be taken away by the farm. Have you forgotten that you still owe Ye Xiangdong money for coal and goods? Don't you want to continue to have coal and things sent by the chemical plant?" Su Xiangyu turned over and said patiently.
"What should we do? Should we keep these eggs?" Yu Lei was a little scared.
Su Xiangyu turned over again: "Report the usual amount to the higher-ups, hand in the eggs, and keep the rest. We have to make money from our investment first."
With the phased progress and victory, she had to call out her beloved system to improve her living conditions.
[Host, please note that so far, the task has not made any progress, and the reward value is 0! ]
Is this because she's not feeding her chickens well enough, or because they're not laying enough eggs?
"Crappy system, too many conditions!"
[Swearing will deduct one chance to get a reward, please respect yourself! ]
Wow, I didn't realize that this system actually has a temper.
"Sister, you're not really going to live here, are you? The conditions here are too harsh." Just then, a gentle voice was heard from outside.
Su Xiangxiu is here?
But it was Zhu Lin who opened the door, with her chin raised higher than her eyes. "Comrade Su Xiangyu, today is the mobilization meeting for the whole farm. The art troupe has rehearsed a program for the comrades digging the karez. Everyone must participate. You should take a look. As sisters, how does she behave? How do you behave?"
Rehearsing a show?
If Su Xiangyu remembered correctly, the mobilization meeting was very successful.
But in the end, all the young men on the farm were so excited when they saw the art troupe's hard work that they went to dig karez when the mountain was blocked by heavy snow. Three of them got lost in the blizzard and two of them froze to death.
"That's great. I also want to sign up for the show. Is that ok?" Su Xiangyu immediately climbed up from the bunk bed.
"Sister, you?" Xiangxiu hesitated and said, "I remember that you have been singing out of tune and your limbs have been out of sync since you were a child. How about, sister, you don't want to participate this time?"
Zhu Lin pursed her lips and said, "She probably thought that performing was like feeding chickens with your mouth raised. She thought that she could steal the limelight from this."
Saving the lives of a few male educated youth should be able to achieve a partial victory in the mission.
In order to make self-heating insoles, she also had to save those male educated youth who were about to freeze to death.
In her first life, Su Xiangyu did a lot of good things, but in the end she was hit and killed by a car.
In her second life, she brought the system with her and focused on studying. Even when her desk mate was so stressed out that she threatened to jump off a building, she didn't even blink. Study was the only thing on her mind, so she was admitted to Tsinghua University.
Of course, she lived the happiest life in her second life, because she never did anything helpful.
But now the system is forcing her to do good things, what can she do?
For the sake of self-heating insoles, she has to steal her sister's limelight.