Chapter 198: Wanting to Achieve Pork Freedom

"Okay, okay, Boss Zhang, we only want half. You tell me what you want to exchange with me. Anything Xidaying Village has is fine. Let's say it in advance, we are not allowed to ask for big girls or little boys, we don't exchange people."

It sounded like a joke, but Ma Changshou's tone didn't sound like he was joking at all, which made Zhang Su think a lot for a while.

"Don't worry, I can't afford to raise too many people. But Old Village Head, I've taken a fancy to your big fat pigs. Give me a cheaper price, just give me four sows that have been bred!"

Zhang Su directly stated the price.

This time, Ma Changshou's response speed was significantly slower. He was silent for a full minute before there was an echo: "Boss Zhang, your words have stunned me. I specifically checked with the village just now, where are there any big fat pigs? There are only a few sheep. How about I give you four sheep? Winter is coming, eating mutton is good for the body!"

Zhang Su's mouth twitched, and he said faintly: "Old Village Head, I didn't haggle with you on the quantity, why are you playing tricks with me here? Four sows, bred, can it be done? If not, forget it. It's not like Lianhe Village doesn't have any. I'll go trade with them, you guys go to the city to find medicine yourselves."

"Don't, don't, don't, Boss Zhang, let's talk slowly..."

Ma Changshou knew that big fat pigs were very valuable in this world, but they were still not as valuable as medicine, especially life-saving medicine. He pinched his nose and said: "Boss Zhang, look if this works. You want bred sows for breeding, right? I have a batch of sows here that were bred before the disaster broke out."

"Counting the days, there's less than a month left before they give birth. Even if that period of coma isn't counted, it's just delayed by half a month. This helps you save two months of breeding time. Three, how about it? This is very cost-effective, really. You are a top student, calculate it and you'll know, it's cost-effective. Time is money, my friend!"

Ma Changshou had the tone of an old goblin. Zhang Su suspected that the old guy was a WOW player!

Everyone also looked at Zhang Su with doubtful and happy eyes. For the vast majority of people in the Celestial Empire, pork was simply too important. How many people were those who couldn't live without meat? Just the four words "pork freedom" were enough to be exciting.

Cooking a big pot of steaming vegetable dough soup, paired with various meat canned goods and pickled vegetables, saving enough shares, everyone could be allocated an egg today. Looking at the entire Qincheng survivor camp, that was also a very sumptuous existence!

"Oh, oh, it turns out what Boss Zhang said before was heart disease. Don't worry, don't worry, I don't have heart disease. My heart is very healthy, fifty-eight years old, twenty-eight-year-old heart, hahaha."

Pork was even a weather vane for people's livelihood and economic trends. Once there was a sharp fluctuation in price, the state level had to intervene!

Zhang Su didn't sell the pass and told everyone about the exchange with Xidaying Village.

"It's not too late to pick when I arrive. By the way, prepare a van for me to load the pigs, and I'll give you ten more nitroglycerin tablets." Zhang Su said.

Ma Changshou didn't hide the anxiety in his heart.

At the dining table, Zhang Su said: "Tell everyone a piece of good news, in the near future we will be able to achieve pork freedom!"

Zheng Xinyu and Zhong Xiaoshan knew about this, but they wouldn't go around blabbing. Such a big thing naturally had to be announced by Zhang Su. The two sat on the side eating happily.

Zheng Xinyu also very cleverly played the straight man: "Brother Su, what do you mean? Where did the pigs come from? Why don't I know?"

Zhang Su found it funny. Seeing that Tan Huajun and the others had already prepared breakfast, he didn't dawdle and agreed to Ma Changshou's request, put down the walkie-talkie, and happily went to the restaurant to eat.

"That's no problem, absolutely, how about it, Boss Zhang, have we reached a deal? If we have, I'll call someone to help you prepare the pigs, let's complete the trade as soon as possible."

"Right, right, eh, no..." Ma Changshou agreed all the way, but found it was a pit at the end, and hurriedly said: "Boss Zhang, the pigs are definitely healthy and can eat and drink now. As for a smooth birth, I can't guarantee that, I really can't guarantee that. I can guarantee a C-section..."

"Twenty tablets, a new car bought at the beginning of the year, and I'll bring you half a tank of gas!" Ma Changshou fought for it.

"Three sows with less than two months left in their pregnancy, no damage, no hidden diseases, guaranteed smooth birth, right?"

Zhang Su also felt that this request was a bit difficult, so he said: "Then how about this, when the pigs give birth, lend me a technical person in this area, no problem, right?"

Yu Wen held his bowl and laughed loudly. A good body had always been something he was proud of. In the physical examinations organized by the school every year, all his indicators were very standard, with few arrows pointing up or down.

"Just a little bit of medicine tablets for three sows that can give birth to piglets. My god, how is this value calculated!"

Lu Yubo counted on his fingers with a confused face, having learned a new value system again.

Zhang Su waved his hand and said: "Bozi, don't worry about so much, haha. In short, telling everyone this is to say: Teacher Yu, you take a few people and hurry up to pick a place to build a pigsty."

"No need to build another one. I suggest modifying the guest rooms of Qingfeng Xiaozhu. Using only one floor, you can plan a breeding scale of forty pigs. Is that enough?"

Yu Wen's enthusiasm was very high.

Qingfeng Xiaozhu was a reinforced concrete structure, similar to a residential apartment building, stronger than the houses where Zhang Su's group lived, but the location was not ideal and lacked facilities, so no one lived there.

"Enough, enough!" After drinking the last mouthful of dough soup in the bowl, Zhang Su ordered: "Go, hurry up and help unload the grain and coal from the car first!"

"Are we going to pull the pigs?"

Qi Xiaoshuai asked hurriedly, full of excitement.

Zhang Su shook his head: "It's not just going to Xidaying to pull pigs. The zombies in Xiangzhuang were killed by us. Lianhe Village promised not to move the materials in Xiangzhuang. In case some stragglers find the empty Xiangzhuang, every catty of rice they take belongs to us. Let's go over and sweep it first, take whatever important things there are first!"

"Brother Su is right, I'll help!"

Guo Dachao drank the dough soup with a *slurp*, wiped his mouth, and stood up. After joining the camp, his motivation was very sufficient.

"Hmm, go, follow me to unload the goods after eating!"

Zhang Su waved his hand and walked out of the restaurant first.

The person most qualified to rest was Zhang Su, and even he was busy, so how could others have the face to rest? They all finished eating hurriedly, walked out of the restaurant, and participated in the transport work.

The luxury RV became a cargo truck. Flour, corn kernels, rice grains, and dirt clods were scattered on the exquisite and luxurious carpet in the carriage. In the garage behind were pitch-black coal blocks, the largest of which weighed over a hundred catties!

After unloading the goods, Zhang Su drove the car and took people away from the camp. He didn't drive two cars because the manpower for transport was limited. Even if they could load that much stuff, there was no one to move it onto the car, which was futile and wasted oil.

In the camp, those who moved materials moved materials, and the others continued to clean up the zombie corpses.

Near noon, all the zombie corpses on the mountain road were piled up in the fields at the foot of the mountain. A pile of corpses covering a full hundred square meters looked both spectacular and made people feel uncomfortable.

"You say, if these corpses slowly settle, can they fertilize the land? Can we farm on this?"

Liu Tianji asked with a thoughtful look.

Zhang Ya rubbed her sore arms and said: "I don't know if the land can be farmed, but eight hundred corpses piled here are easy to breed germs. It might be okay in winter, but when spring comes next year, it will be terrible..."

Yu Wen pushed his glasses and said: "Burial is impossible. Clear a firebreak, as Mr. Zhang said, burn it. Dust to dust, earth to earth."

"Hmm, I also think we should burn it. It's so annoying to look at when going in and out."

"This is our proud battle record, what's annoying about it? This is called glory!"

"Forget it, I'd rather not have this glory... I just hope there won't be any zombie horde attacks on us in the future."

"Burn it, burn it clean."

Finally, everyone unanimously decided to burn the corpses, but before that, they had to clear a firebreak around them, otherwise, the fire would rage in the fields, and the entire mountain wilderness would probably suffer!

Everyone worked together, and soon a five-meter-wide firebreak was cleared around the pile of corpses, enough to deal with the fire.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 199 =====