Chapter 40

When it's time to use them in winter, they are taken out one roll at a time in sequence.

The requirements for this stacking are quite high, making it difficult to mechanize; it is basically done manually and slowly.

Everyone was busy, and by a little after four o'clock in the afternoon, all fifty acres of silage corn had been harvested, and the silage rolls were neatly stacked in the silage pit.

Shi Wen promptly settled everyone's wages.

The harvesters bring their own harvesters and earn 1,500 a day; the skilled workers who come to help in trucks earn 800 a day; and the remaining laborers are paid 200 a day.

In pastoral areas, taking on odd jobs is also an important source of income; diligent people can earn 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year by doing odd jobs.

There are established rules for the price of different types of work. For example, Old Man Ma often comes to the Shi Wen family to help herd sheep, and he earns 150 yuan a day.

Shi Wen when settling accounts, it's done according to industry practice, and the settlement is very quick.

Shi Wen the bill, Shi Wen invited everyone to stay for tea.

Everyone politely declined, saying they had chores to do at home.

Shi Wen also had work to do; he had to go back to tidy up the livestock shed and feed the young pigeons.

I haven't spent the whole day with the Hu Zai, so I need to play with Hu Zai and help them develop their hunting skills.

Shi Wen the sound of things returning to the livestock shed, you can hear the clanging and banging from afar, even before you reach it.

He went inside and saw Yan Kexing making a wooden cage. Shi Wen over to help him. "You're making this—is it a pigeon cage?"

Yan Kexing nodded. "We were saying yesterday that we'd make two pigeon coops. I had some free time today, so I made them. We also have some wood for goose coops here, so we'll make those later too."

Shi Wen's geese are free-range in the ditches year-round. In summer and autumn, the water and grass are plentiful, so they don't need to be fed much. They've almost become wild geese and rarely come back to the livestock shed.

Since their feathers have already been clipped, they can't fly away anyway.

I often see that the geese are still there when Shi Wen graze them, and their numbers haven't decreased, so I don't pay much attention to them anymore. I just put a bag of millet in the area where they are eating every ten days or so, and replenish it when they finish eating.

However, that's how you raise them in summer and autumn. You definitely can't do that in winter when the weather gets cold.

Otherwise, the goose would freeze to death outside, and he would suffer a huge loss.

Shi Wen Yan Kexing skillfully hammer nails, Shi Wen asked curiously, "How do you know how to make pigeon coops? Did you learn before?"

Yan Kexing: "When you occasionally rescue wild birds, you need to prepare cages for them. You'll get the hang of it after observing them a few times."

Shi Wen Wenxiao: "You sound like you have a lot of experience. What were you like in the past?"

As Yan Kexing reminisced about the past, his gaze became distant.

He was Fierce Beasts for a long time, but later entered human society and Wanderer. He encountered some bad people, but also made some good friends.

Later, he lost interest in other humans and became a teacher, focusing on scientific research, which he still does today.

He gave a brief account of what had happened.

Shi Wen with rapt attention.

When Yan Kexing asked about his past, he told Yan Kexing his divorced parents, his broken home, the emails from the Abnormal Affairs Bureau, and his journey to the ranch.

Shi Wen chuckled. "Maybe I'd been dissatisfied with real life for a long time and wanted to leave. The email from the Abnormal Affairs Bureau gave me the opportunity to leave, so I ran away. Actually, being so impulsive is nothing like my personality."

Yan Kexing: "It's also possible that your bloodline influenced you."

Shi Wen, "Perhaps I'm actually quite glad I took a gamble and came to the ranch back then, otherwise I wouldn't have the life I have now, and I wouldn't have met you all."

Shi Wen silently thought to herself, "I'll never meet you again."

Yan Kexing paused, "It's truly something to be thankful for."

Chapter 40

After Shi Wen and Yan Kexing talked about the past, their relationship deepened.

It felt a bit like we went from being new friends to old friends.

Besides being friends, Shi Wen could also sense that there was something more intimate between them than just friends.

As for how this intimacy will develop, Shi Wen feels that only time will tell.

He is currently quite satisfied with their relationship.

Shi Wen had promised Zhang Deyuan that he would help select sheep, so he entrusted his cattle, sheep, pigs and other livestock to Old Man Ma and another herdsman Aini, to graze.

As for the two Hu Zai--

Shi Wen handed the two Hu Zai over to Yan Kexing.

Yan Kexing working from home today and can take care of his two Hu Zai and baby pigeons.

Zhang Deyuan was already working, and perhaps because he was hot from the heat, he was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt, revealing his well-defined muscles.

Shi Wen felt the biting wind howling outside and was made to question her own existence by his attire, "Is it really that hot?"

"Yes, yeah. Catching sheep this morning was exhausting. My sheep are such a handful, they knocked me over twice." Zhang Deyuan showed him his back. "Look, it's covered in sheep droppings. Be careful later, don't get knocked over."

Shi Wen raised sheep for so long, I've never been gored by one. "Are you alright?"

Zhang Deyuan: "It's nothing serious, we were all in the mud, the fall wasn't serious."

Shi Wen them going to the sheepfold.

Zhang Deyuan's family now has over ten thousand sheep, all of which will be distributed in the next few days.

Autumn and winter are the seasons for roasted and hot pot lamb, and his business is booming.

Shi Wen asked, "How should we divide it now? Just divide it up directly?"

Zhang Deyuan nodded. "I'll take the paint, and we'll divide it up one by one."

Shi Wen glanced at the sheep huddled together in the pen and said, "I'll look first, you spray them. Let's divide the work."

The sheep nowadays are no longer lambs; each one weighs 150 to 160 pounds.

Their buttocks are especially plump; two large, fat-filled buttocks sway back and forth, making them particularly noticeable when they walk, and they look and feel very nice to touch.

Shi Wen observed the flock of sheep for a while, then reached out and grabbed a large sheep, mounted it, and examined its skin and flesh closely.

Choosing a sheep is a very complicated matter.