Chapter 58

In the following days, Su Xinghui still accompanied Professor Rao to Wild Boar Gully every day. Not only did he go to guide the construction of the breeding farm and teach breeding technology, but Professor Rao also liked to walk around the mountains. This could be considered his professional habit. When he arrived at a place, he would learn about the local customs from various aspects.

One day, Professor Rao told Su Xinghui that there were many treasures on the mountains in Wild Boar Gully. Not only could they engage in special breeding, but they could also engage in special planting. For example, wood ear mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms could be planted, as well as Chinese medicinal herbs. He had been here for so long and had discovered many species that could be planted.

Professor Rao said that although he didn't specialize in botany, he wasn't unfamiliar with it. He felt that engaging in special planting here also had great potential. If Wild Boar Gully wanted to engage in special planting, he was willing to help contact experts from their school who specialized in botany to come over.

Professor Rao's suggestion was exactly what Su Xinghui wanted. He was just looking for an opportunity to suggest to Professor Rao that he help contact some plant experts, but he couldn't appear too abrupt. Now that Professor Rao had taken the initiative to bring it up, it couldn't be better.

Su Xinghui told Professor Rao that he would bring it up to the village cadres of Wild Boar Gully. He also had another idea: Meng Hu Ling was full of mountains, and the natural environment was similar to Wild Boar Gully. Since Wild Boar Gully could engage in special breeding and special planting, other places should also be able to.

Su Xinghui said he was prepared to suggest to the township government that Professor Rao find a few more experts to conduct a comprehensive inspection of Meng Hu Ling to see what breeding or planting projects were suitable for development here.

Professor Rao had spent these days with Su Xinghui very happily. He had a good impression of this young man who was eager to learn and willing to work hard. This young man cared about the common people, and he was very willing to help Su Xinghui.

He immediately agreed to Su Xinghui, saying that as long as their township government agreed, he was willing to help them contact and conduct this inspection. For these people, it could be considered applying what they had learned.

Su Xinghui was very happy and immediately told the village cadres of Wild Boar Gully. The village cadres certainly had no objections. The more ways to get rich, the better; how could they think there were too many?

Returning to the township government that afternoon, Su Xinghui reported this matter to Chen Hongfu and Dong Jianshu one after another. The two of them had no objections to this, and could even be said to be eager for it. However, they both had a concern: was the step taken too big? They felt they could take Wild Boar Gully village as a pilot first, without spreading it to the whole township.

Su Xinghui understood their concerns. This was mainly because Meng Hu Ling township was really too poor. If they engaged in special breeding and special planting projects in the whole township, the required investment would be quite large, which the township finance couldn't bear. Moreover, if these projects didn't go smoothly, taking Wild Boar Gully as a pilot first wouldn't cost too much.

This couldn't blame them for being timid or short-sighted. It was really that there had been no precedent for this in Meng Hu Ling or even the entire Shangjun County. Many things looked simple more than a decade later, but in that era, they had to be the first to eat crab, bearing huge risks, so the determination wasn't so easy to make.

However, Su Xinghui told them that Wild Boar Gully could be a pilot first, but now they could let the experts conduct an inspection of the entire Meng Hu Ling, save their inspection materials and conclusions, and after the special breeding and special planting in Wild Boar Gully succeeded, they could spread these projects to the whole township based on these inspection materials.