In the next few days, the four of them came to work on the farm every morning while the cattle were grazing, and then worked for another five days before finally building the Hope Farm according to the established plan.

This morning, when Niu Huahua and Niu Xiaodong were watering the vegetable field, Niu Xiaoqiang and Niu Xiaoyong, who had gone to the town to sell fish, came back.

Today was their last trip to sell fish, and if we added the income from selling fish a few days ago, they had earned a total of 313 yuan from the wild pond, and about 200 yuan left aside the expenses for buying building materials, vegetable seeds, and feed.

Niu Xiaoqiang divided the four fritters to Niu Huahua and Niu Xiaodong, and then turned his head to look at the whole picture of the farm.

Beneath the hillside is a one-acre vegetable patch, in which the small cabbage has sprouted after nearly a week of careful care. In order to make the growth of the cabbage better, Niu Xiaoyong also stole a little urea from home.

Next to the vegetable field is a pigsty and a shack, the pigsty and shack are built into a row, and camphor saplings are transplanted before and after, which looks like a little bit of large-scale farming.

Behind the pigsty and shack is the fish pond, after a few days of hard work, the embankment in the middle of the fish pond has been piled up, and the original large pond has been completely divided into two small fish ponds. In order to facilitate management, Niu Xiaoqiang numbered two small fish ponds, namely No. 1 fish pond and No. 2 fish pond.

It is said to be a small fish pond, but in fact the area is not small, the No. 1 fish pond has the size of three acres, and the area of the No. 2 fish pond is more than seven acres.

If it weren't for the fact that the central part of the pond happened to be narrow, I don't know how much more labor would have been required to build a dam to divide it.

At present, there is only a small amount of water in the fish pond, and all of it is gathered in the lower No. 2 fish pond. Niu Xiaoqiang has already released some of the fish fry that he has reserved, most of these fish fry are about three taels to one catty in size, and the bigger fish have been sold by him for money.

According to Niu Xiaoqiang's count, the total number of fish fry in this batch exceeded 400. Although there is not much water in Pond 2 at present, there is no problem in storing this part of the fry.

The remaining part of the fry were all less than three or two seedlings, and most of them were only about one or two, and there were about three hundred of them, all of which he kept in captivity in a deep puddle dug improvised. Niu Xiaoqiang plans to wait until the fish pond is filled with water after the rain, and then release these small fry to the No. 1 fish pond.

He had planned it all in advance. According to his plan, the turnstile of the No. 2 fish pond is responsible for raising large fish, and the No. 1 fish pond is responsible for raising small fish fry, so that a stepped aquaculture can be formed and will not be broken.

Niu Xiaoqiang retracted his gaze and said with a smile: "The general framework of the farm has been basically completed, and the rest is to plant fruit trees and buy poultry and piglets, I think we should buy the cubs back first, and the early breeding can also be slaughtered and sold early, and the remaining money is about two hundred yuan, let's set off this morning, and don't forget to ask for leave from home after you go back later." ”

To buy poultry and piglets, you need to go to the agricultural station more than 30 miles away, which is a bit far, and you can't do it without half a day. In order to spare time, Niu Xiaoqiang had already made an excuse for everyone, and told his family that he was going to school to help with work.

In this era, it is very common for students to help the school, and parents not only do not have any opinions, but think that it is due, so this excuse is likely to work.

The three of them agreed, and after eating the fritters, everyone picked up their shovels and went to dig a pit on the hillside, ready to keep it for planting fruit trees.

At 7:40 a.m., when they got home, they each proposed to their parents that they would go to school to help the teacher, and they also said that the other three friends would also go. When the parents heard this, they were not suspicious and readily agreed.

After breakfast, the four of them gathered under the willow tree at the entrance of the village, Niu Xiaoqiang whispered: "The distance is a bit far, and I have to bring the cubs back, so I think it's best to ride a bicycle, otherwise walking will tire people to death, which of you can get the family bicycle out?"

Niu Xiaoyong and Niu Huahua immediately raised their hands, indicating that they could complete the task. Niu Xiaoqiang nodded: "Two bicycles are just enough, you guys go and go back quickly." ”

The two nodded and left, and without much effort, they pushed the family's 28 bars back. The two of them rode out of the village in a car, and then picked up the large basket that had been hidden in the woods earlier, and hurried towards the agricultural station.

The agricultural station is located in the outskirts of the county, and is mainly responsible for agricultural epidemic prevention work, so it is also called the agricultural epidemic prevention station. In addition to epidemic prevention, the agricultural station will also carry out poultry and livestock breeding work, and Niu Xiaoqiang's piglet was purchased here.

The four of them had never been here, and after inquiring all the way, they finally found their destination. Niu Xiaoqiang asked Niu Huahua to guard the bicycle outside, and took Niu Xiaodong and Niu Xiaoyong into the compound of the agricultural station.

Although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs. Although it is only an agricultural station, it is equipped with a variety of facilities, including microscopes necessary for scientific research.

Niu Xiaoqiang has always been doing things that need to be negotiated with people, and this time is no exception. After entering the house, he followed the sign hanging on the door to find the seedling purchase window, and asked a middle-aged woman sitting inside with a smile on his face: "Auntie, I don't know what procedures need to be gone through to buy seedlings?"

In this era, the service awareness of all kinds of window personnel is generally poor, even government departments are the same, things that can be done in a few minutes, let you run back and forth for half a month is worthy of you, and some of them may not be able to run for half a year.

The middle-aged woman was holding a newspaper in her hand, looking at it with relish, she didn't raise her head when she heard this, she fumbled and grabbed the form and pen on the table and stuffed it out of the window: "Fill out the application form first, and then wait for the notice." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang was a little stunned: "What?

The middle-aged woman still didn't look up, but her tone was already a little impatient: "Of course we have to wait for the notice, we are not specialized in breeding, do you think we have seedlings here at any time? If you want to buy them, you have to see if we have them here, understand?"

Niu Xiaoqiang couldn't help but sigh secretly: Alas, this is really easy to enter, and things are difficult to do.

He thought so in his heart, but he didn't dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction on his face, and honestly took the form to the windowsill on the side and filled it out. The content that needs to be filled in above is all family information, such as who is the surname, where you live, etc., which is more like going through a process.