"Your master is too lenient to take care of the piglets raised by the tenant family. Can you not only treat people but also treat pigs?" Ma Ye couldn't help laughing when he heard what Li Xiu said that he was going to see some abnormal piglets in the tenant family.

"Uncle Ma, don't laugh. In fact, the principles of treating people and treating livestock are the same. Human diseases are more difficult to treat than livestock diseases. And you must not underestimate those piglets. You will know the importance of those piglets in the future." Li Xiu smiled at this time, without explaining too much.

"Wait, your tenant's piglets?" Mr. Ma suddenly seemed to remember something. He frowned and thought carefully, and finally slapped his thigh and shouted, "I remember, Lao Qiao mentioned it to me last time that you asked the eunuch in our mansion to help you castrate the piglets in the tenant's family. Could it be that those piglets have problems, right?"

"Manager Qiao is really a big mouth. Uncle Ma, you heard about it too." Li Xiu was stunned at first and then smiled. The incident of his pig castration was actually spread on the same day, especially many surrounding villages ran to Li's village to watch it. It took several days to calm down. However, people who knew about this thought that Li Xiu was making trouble. After all, pig castration was unprecedented. Can pigs grow fatter if they lacked a piece of meat on their bodies?

"Haha, I'm really curious why you castrated the pigs too. Let's go and see your eunuchs and pigs!" Ma Ye's interest was also attracted by the castrated pigs, and he threw down the fishing rod and wanted to go with Li Xiu.

Li Xiu had no choice but to go to Lijiazhuang with Ma Ye. Since the pigs were castrated, Li Xiu asked Boss Liu and the others to pay more attention to the situation of the piglets and report any abnormalities to him. After all, this is the first batch of castrated pigs, and he will have to rely on them to spread the castrated pig technology in the future. Naturally, no accidents will occur.

Li Xiu was not at home yesterday. After he came back, he heard Yue Chan say that Boss Liu had come to him at noon and said that the piglets at home were a little abnormal and he couldn't figure out what the situation was, so he hoped Li Xiu would go and take a look.

In a short while, Li Xiu and Ma Ye came to Lijiazhuang. Although the busy spring has passed, the work in the farmland will never be completed. It is now afternoon, and most of the tenants in the farmland have gone to work. There are only a few elderly people sitting at the entrance of the village. Occasionally, some children can be seen running around in the farmland.

The eldest daughter Liu and the aunt of the Liu family were not at home. Only Su Niang brought her two younger brothers to chop pig grass in the yard, which was to chop the cut pig grass with a guillotine, so that it would be convenient for feeding the pigs. When she saw Li Xiu and Ma Ye coming in, Su Niang immediately stood up shyly, rubbed the corners of her clothes with both hands and said, "Hello, Lord!"

"Well, Su Niang, please be busy. Uncle Liu said that the piglets were a little abnormal, so I'll take a look!" Li Xiu showed a gentle smile to Su Niang and said, Su Niang is good at everything, but she is too brave to be very shy when she sees him.

When she heard that Li Xiu was visiting the piglets, Su Niang followed her and led Li Xiu to a corner of the yard to build a brick pigpen and said, "Master, I have always been feeding the piglets at home, and it is also the first time I found that the piglets were a little abnormal. You can tell if you look at them!"

Li Xiu and Ma Ye came to the outside of the pigpen and looked inside. Although it was a pigpen, it was very clean and the smell was not that heavy. I saw three piglets in the pigpen. They had not seen each other for a while. They had grown much older than before. At this time, they were all lying on the thatch in the pigpen and basking in the sun, closing their eyes and humming from time to time, as if they were very enjoyable.

Li Xiu looked carefully at the three piglets and found that their appearance looked normal, with oily and black fur, and did not look sick. He asked strangely: "It seems that nothing unusual about this?"

Hearing Li Xiu's question, Su Niang said again: "Master, you don't know that I used to raise pigs in my family, and it's the same today, but these piglets have been since that day."

When Su Niang said this, her little black face turned red. After all, she was an unmarried girl. I was really embarrassed to mention that Li Xiu asked him to castrate a pig that day. However, Ma Ye laughed and said, "Little girl, tell me what changes have happened after these piglets were castrated!"

When Ma Ye said the word "castration", Su Niang's little face turned redder. She was so shy that she couldn't speak for a long time. Finally, she finally whispered: "The piglets were very active, but the host said that we had built a pigpen and wrapped them. Now it's not a big deal, but when they grow up, they will definitely arch the pigpen."

When she said this, Su Niang paused for a moment and then said, "But after that day, the three piglets were still as active as before in the first few days. After eating, they ran around in the whole circle. But later, I didn't know what happened. I seemed to have become much lazy and lay down to sleep after eating. At first, I didn't care much, but later I found that they were always lazy, and the piglets in the Big-eyed Uncle and their families were almost the same. I felt something was wrong and I was worried about whether they were sick, so I asked my father to tell the owner."

"It's really a bit abnormal. The two of us strangers are standing here, and these piglets are still lying there without moving. Although the pigs look stupid, they are actually smarter than dogs. Could these pigs in front of us be really sick, right?" Mr. Ma said with some doubt when he heard this.

Li Xiu did not rush to draw a conclusion at this time, but picked up a long stick next to him and then bucketed the piglets in the haystack. As a result, the piglet jumped up and ran in the pigpen a few times, then stopped. Then he stood there and hummed a few words at Li Xiu in dissatisfaction. The other two piglets were also shocked, but they did not react much, and they seemed to be very leisurely shaking their tails.

Seeing that the pigs had no problem with their reaction, Li Xiu smiled and asked Su Niang: "In addition to not being able to move, how do they usually eat? Have they reduced their food?"

"I don't have this one, I just don't like to move after eating. Unlike the pigs I raised before, running around is even more annoying than my two younger brothers." Su Niang thought seriously and replied.

"Haha, there is no problem. After the pig is castrated, it will become lazy. This is also the biggest benefit of castration. If you want the pig to eat and sleep, it will naturally become easy to gain weight. It is estimated that by the Chinese New Year, these pigs will definitely grow more than 100 kilograms, or even 200 kilograms!" Li Xiu said with a smile.

Before castration, the pigs raised in a year were at most seventy or eighty kilograms, and few were seen more than 100 kilograms. However, after castration, they could gain more than one-third of their weight. If bones and internal organs were removed, the net increase of meat alone was almost twice as high as before. This is also the main reason why Li Xiu paid so much attention to these castrated pigs.

"It's true or false. Can these pigs grow more than 100 kilograms in a year?" Mr. Ma said with some suspicion when he heard this.

"Uncle Ma, you can take a look at it yourself. These piglets have not been bought for a long time. They must grow faster than uncastrated pigs. If you don't believe it, you can find some piglets that are about the same size and compare them!" Li Xiu said confidently. The three piglets in front of him were already a little round. Unlike the pigs he had seen before, most of them were slim lean-type pigs.

"Yeah, the master is right. There are pig-raising families in the next village, and they bought pigs with my father. I saw the pigs they raised the day before yesterday, which are obviously smaller than my piglets." Su Niang nodded violently at this time.

When Ma Ye heard Su Niang's words, he finally dispelled his suspicion. He looked at Li Xiu in surprise and said with an incredible expression: "You kid can't be a monster, do you know anything like a pig? You know what else in the world you don't know?"

"Haha, Uncle Ma, in fact, castration is also a medical problem. After being castrated, people will suffer from lack of energy, weakening their strength, and prone to gain weight. The same is true for pigs. As the saying goes, one method is clear and all methods are clear, this is what it means!" Li Xiu said seriously, but no one can expose him anyway.

"It seems to make some sense." Although Mr. Ma was smart, he was more than a thousand years away from Li Xiu in terms of experience, so it was normal to be fooled.

Next, Li Xiu asked Su Niang about the usual behavior of piglets and other piglets. After he found that these piglets could eat and sleep, there was no major problem, he felt relieved.

When she left the last time, Li Xiu also told Su Niang about moving the day after tomorrow, and asked her to tell Boss Liu that the entire village tenants would go together to have fun. As a result, Su Niang's two younger brothers next to her heard that they were going to have a banquet again, they jumped happily and jumped out and ran out to spread the news. I guess the whole village would know about it in a short while.

On the way back, Mr. Ma was thinking about something, and finally said with emotion: "Boy, if your method of castrating pigs is really useful, that pig can produce dozens of kilograms of meat a year. If everyone raises pigs according to your method, the extra meat that will be released in that year is not a small amount!"

"Of course, the pig has not grown yet. By the end of the year, when the people around the village see the pig raised by the Li family farm, they will definitely rush to castrate their own pigs in the next year. By then, the Zhou Sanliang in your mansion will become a treasure, and everyone will rush to invite him!" Li Xiu said with a smile.

When Mr. Ma heard this, he also showed a thoughtful expression. After a while, he spoke: "I thought Zhou Sanliang was just a useless person, but he did not expect that he would become a treasure in your hands. With your ability alone, Uncle Ma, I have to say "convinced!"

Hearing Ma Master’s rare praise, Li Xiu couldn’t help laughing proudly. The two of them returned to the river again with laughter. It was getting late at this time. Ma Master packed up his things and was about to go back, but at this moment, suddenly a small boat was slowly sailing on the surface of the yellow canal, and the bearded guest was sitting cross-legged on the boat wearing a hat.
Chapter completed!