Male Lead's Canon Fodder Wife - Chapter 174

Chapter 174: Pig Feed ( 2 )
Lu Jueyu nodded after listening to her husband’s words and tried to recall the knowledge about pig raising in her previous life. As a chef, she is willing to spend more energy to obtain good ingredients. Therefore, she often travels to the countryside in search of high-quality ingredients.

As the leader of the purchasing team, she visits several animal farms every year to check the quality of the meat before deciding whether to continue cooperation. So after a few years, she gained some understanding of animal raising. While her knowledge may not have been as good as that of a modern animal farmer, she knew how to mix the feed for optimal growth.

“Husband, how old is the piglet?” she asked.

“It is about 1 month old and weighs 3 kilograms.” Li Chenmo said.

Lu Jueyu was surprised that the piglet was weaned so early. Typically, solid feed is introduced through creep feeding to piglets while they are still suckling. They only stop suckling when they reach around 18kg.

It seems that she still needs to mix the pig feed herself. The pig feed produced in her space is aimed at pigs above 20 kilograms. Piglets and adult pigs require different protein values. After calculating the protein value, she decided to grind corn, soybeans, rice bran, broken rice, wheat bran and some grains.

As for water, Li Chenmo has built a bamboo water pipe to ensure that the pig can drink clean water throughout the day. So, she only needs to prepare pig feed.

After lunch, Li Chenmo and Li Chenze took the piglet to the pig pen. They already had a lot of hay stored in the pig pen, so they just spread it on the ground to make sure the piglets were warm. They also put the piglets in the same pen so they can huddle together for warmth.

While both of them were working in the pig pen, Lu Jueyu went to her space to get the ingredients needed for pig feed. She uses a feed grinder to mix everything. The crusher mixer can make 20 kilograms of feed at a time. Since the piglets are small and each piglet only needs 0.35 kilograms of feed per day, she only prepared one batch of feed that can be eaten for ten days.

After she was done, Lu Jueyu left her space carrying a bucket of pig feed. The pig feed has been mixed with pellets to ensure that the piglets receive adequate nutrition without the need to suckling. She left home and came to the pigsty via the bamboo bridge.

When she arrived at the pig pen, Li Chenmo and Li Chenze had just finished spreading hay and were checking the condition of the piglets. Seeing her coming with a bucket of pig feed, Li Chenmo walked over, took the bucket from her hand, frowned and said, “Wife, why are you bringing the feed? We agreed that you are only responsible for cooking the feed, and I will do the rest. ”

Lu Jueyu smiled when she heard this and said, “Husband, I’m not that weak. This is not heavy.”

Seeing that they were showing affection again, Li Chenze felt like he was being stuffed with something that made him feel uncomfortable and said, “Third brother, my wife is still waiting for me. I’ll take my leave now.”

When Lu Jueyu heard this, she quickly said, “Brother, I have packed up the braised fish. Help me bring it back to my sister-in-law and nephews.”

Then, she turned to Li Chenmo and said, “Husband, I’ll send your brother off first.”

“Okay. Brother, thank you for your help today.” Li Chenmo said.

“No problem, just come to me if you need help.” Li Chenze nodded to him and left.

Lu Jueyu and Li Chenze both returned to the house. She came to the kitchen, took out a bamboo basket from the cabinet, and put a bowl of braised fish in it.

“Brother, thank you for today.” She said as she handed over the bamboo basket.

Li Chenze took the basket, because he knew that his Third Brother and Third Sister-in-law would only be relieved if they accepted their food, and said, “It’s a small matter. Third Sister-in-law, your sister-in-law is making pickles. When it’s ready, I will send some over.”

“Thank you, brother.” Lu Jueyu said with a smile.

After a brief conversation, Li Chenze left. Lu Jueyu did not go to the pigsty again, but went to wash the dishes. She is in good health and cannot bear to let her husband do everything alone.

At the same time, the news that Li Chenmo had brought back four piglets from the brigade had spread throughout the production team. Chen Anwen and Wang Muxiao were sitting on the balcony mending clothes when several villagers came over carrying baskets.

Seeing the villagers coming, Chen Anwen smiled and said to them, “Aunts and sisters-in-law, you are here.”

Although she calls them aunt and sister-in-law, in fact they are neighbors and have no family relationship with the Lu family. It’s just a polite way of addressing them. The villagers smiled, sat down on the benches, and took out their clothes from the basket and started to mend it. Chen Anwen went to get the cups and poured them tea.

It is common for villagers to sit together and chat while mending clothes. It’s just that villagers rarely come to Lu’s house. Although Mother Lu is very kind to her daughter-in-law, she doesn’t like Chen Anwen and Wang Muxiao gossiping too much. This is why Mother Lu sometimes scolds Wang Muxiao.

As a person who likes gossip, Wang Muxiao clearly understands the purpose of the neighbors coming here today. She also heard from her father-in-law about her sister-in-law raising pigs. So when she heard the villagers talking about Li Chenmo bringing back four little pigs, she was just a little surprised.

She thought that since Lu Jueyu was in poor health, they could raise two pigs at most. But when she heard about the size of the pig pen from her husband, she knew that her sister-in-law had planned to raise more pigs from the beginning.