novelaction Chapter 1 Pig Farming Wizard
Chapter 1 Pig Farming Wizard
At a certain agricultural university in the south, Gu Chang stood at the gate of the university, looking at the afterglow of the setting sun spreading over the streets and the people coming and going, his heart filled with emotion.
A month ago, Gu Chang, as a senior student, was busy preparing for graduation like everyone else. Fortunately, he usually had good grades and was well-liked by the teachers in the department, so he had decided to stay in school to continue his postgraduate studies.
The four years of college life were wonderful, and it was foreseeable that the next three years of graduate school life would be the same. The only thing that made people feel a little uncomfortable was that Gu Chang’s major was - Animal Husbandry and Breeding!
At the Agricultural University, this major is widely referred to as "pig farming professionals" by students because the department head of this major, Wang Linghai, is one of the best pig farming technology experts in the country, and the entire Animal Husbandry Department also has a preference for pig farming.
Gu Chang was admitted to the Animal Husbandry Department by accident. He had just worked all night in an Internet cafe the day before he applied for the college. When the system opened the next morning, he filled in the application form for his chosen major in a daze and went home to sleep. When the admission letter came, he found that he was admitted to the Animal Husbandry Department of the Agricultural University, which was his second choice. It turned out that he had filled in the wrong application form in a daze.
According to witnesses around him at the time, the moment he opened the notice, Gu Chang let out a heart-wrenching scream, and his wails sounded like a sow about to be slaughtered. At that moment, everyone felt that he seemed to have made the right choice of major!
I was helpless when I went to university. During a practical class on a breeding farm in my freshman year, I accidentally discovered that pigs seemed to understand some music, and would wag their tails if they were happy.
He told his classmates about this discovery as a joke, but he didn't expect that it was heard by Professor Wang Linghai, the head of the department who was present at the time. After experiments, he found that it was really useful, which made Wang Linghai admire this freshman very much and called him a "rare pig-raising genius."
Of course, I don’t know whether this name is more of a joke or a serious one.
In short, from that day on, Gu Chang joined Professor Wang Linghai's research team. At the same time, among all the students of the Agricultural University, he was awarded the shining name "Beethoven of Pig Farming"!
It is not known whether Gu Chang was really lucky, or as Professor Wang Linghai said, he was a "pig-raising genius", but in the research team, Gu Chang actually played a huge role. He suggested experimenting with different music for different breeds of pigs, and even treating boars and sows, adult pigs and piglets differently. Through repeated experiments, he selected dozens of pieces of music suitable for pigs of different breeds and time periods, and promoted them in farms across the country, with surprisingly good results!
Gu Chang became famous overnight and even gradually evolved into a legend, and was immortalized in the mouths of his younger classmates: A senior came to the pig farm for the first time and looked at the cute pigs locked in the pigsty. Although modern breeding technology has made the pig farm much cleaner and more sanitary, and balanced nutrition has made the piglets grow fat and strong, no one has ever considered whether the pigs are happy or not.
At this time, the savior, Senior Gu Chang, appeared. He keenly observed the pigs' sensitivity to music and creatively combined pig farming with music.
This creative change has brought about earth-shaking changes in the pig farming industry. People have shifted their focus from how to feed pigs to make them fat to how to make pigs fat happily!
Later, someone made the final judgment on Gu Chang’s contribution: If Gu Chang had not been born, the pigpen would have been in darkness forever!
For this reason, Gu Chang was deeply loved by Professor Wang Linghai, who treated him as his last disciple and taught him wholeheartedly. After four years, the relationship between the two was like that of father and son. Gu Chang was grateful for Professor Wang Linghai's recognition and hard work, while Wang Linghai was surprised at Gu Chang's performance. He did not expect that a joke he made at the time would come true. This kid was down-to-earth and serious, and had some keen observation of the various changes in pigs. He was truly a "rare pig-raising genius."
So the four years of college are about to end, and Professor Wang has already planned to let Gu Chang stay in school to continue his graduate studies with him!
Gu Chang was also very happy. Professor Wang was a great person. After four years, the relationship between the two could be described as a deep teacher-student relationship. Professor Wang Linghai had only one son, who settled down and worked outside after studying in the United States. He could only see his wife, Li Wenman, who was also a professor at the school, but had retired and was raising flowers and dancing in the square. Wang Linghai was also at retirement age, but because of his passion, he was still active in the forefront of pig farming technology reform.
Seeing that the old couple was getting older, Gu Chang would occasionally bring some vegetables and meat to Wang Linghai's house to cook and chat with the two old people.
Gu Chang's hometown is a small mountain village deep in the Qinling Mountains. His childhood memories are all mountains, one mountain after another, and there are mountains beyond the other. When he was very young, his mother died of illness, and his father raised him alone as both a father and a mother. In this desolate mountain village, the villagers had to get up early and stay up late to fill their stomachs, so when he was a child, Gu Chang's father was often so busy that he forgot to take Gu Chang to eat.
Children from poor families have to grow up early. Gu Chang started learning to cook and feed himself when he was very young. In addition, children have picky tastes, and he humbly asked the old ladies in the village for advice. Over the years, he has learned everyone's specialty, which has enabled Gu Chang to become a master at home cooking.
When Gu Chang went to Professor Wang's house for the first time, he found that the two old people didn't like cooking very much. After tasting the cooking of Professor Wang's wife, Professor Li, Gu Chang instantly understood. No wonder Professor Wang often had lunch in the school cafeteria. It was really because Professor Li's cooking skills were too bad!
After gritting his teeth and finishing a loving dinner prepared by his teacher's wife, Gu Chang bought large and small bags of vegetables for the second time and cooked a home-cooked meal for Professor Wang and his wife. Professor Wang burst into tears while eating the meal, and his teacher's wife kept praising the meal.
After the meal, Professor Wang said with emotion: "I haven't eaten such delicious home-cooked food for many years!"
From then on, Gu Chang would come to Professor Wang's house from time to time to cook a meal and improve the diet for the two elderly people.
In recent months, Gu Chang has not come to Professor Wang for a long time because his father is ill.
Gu Chang's father, Gu Jianguo, contracted a piece of barren hill in his hometown to plant fruit trees. Gu Jianguo was a hardworking and simple man who was not afraid of hard work or hardship. In addition, after Gu Chang was admitted to the Agricultural University, whenever there were any problems, big or small, with the fruit trees, Gu Chang would go directly to several experts and professors of the Agricultural College for consultation. The fruit trees grew better and better, and over the years, he made a lot of money.
Speaking of Gu Chang going to the Agricultural College to consult about the growth of fruit trees, several professors in the Agricultural College were very happy. They had heard that the Animal Husbandry Department had produced a "pig-raising genius" who was smart, hardworking, and often stayed in the pig farm all day with Mr. Wang, who treated pigs as his own sons.
You come to consult about fruit trees. Do you have any thoughts on changing careers? We need to recruit talented people. The pig farm is not as comfortable as our orchard. The melon fields are green, the peaches are red and the pears are ripe. You can lie down under the rice and sleep until noon. Just think how nice it is!
Later I found out that his father rented a mountain at home to grow fruit trees. I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but Gu Chang was a humble person. He called everyone "teacher" and "professor" when he went there. He always brought fruits and snacks when he went there. Over time, he became quite popular with the old professors.
With the help of several experts and the hard work of Gu Chang and his son, Gu Jianguo's fruit trees are full of fresh, crisp and juicy fruits, and are well-known locally.
Later, when the villagers saw how well Lao Gu grew fruit trees with the help of his son, they wanted to join in.
Gu Jianguo is not a stingy person. When Gu Chang was young, his mother died early and he received a lot of help from his fellow villagers. Now that he has the opportunity to repay his fellow villagers, Gu Jianguo is very happy.
So with Gu Jianguo's help, the villagers each contracted a part of the mountain land and planted some fruit trees.
The villagers are very enthusiastic and they all hope to be like Lao Gu and grow a mountain full of big, sweet fruits!
A few years later, the fruit trees grew up, and the branches were full of fruits, plump and ripe, very tempting!
The villagers were overjoyed, and then a catastrophic accident happened. The fruits looked so tempting, but the tastes were all kinds of strange. Some were extremely sour, some were unimaginably bitter, and some tasted like chewing wax. Only a very small part of them was very sweet, but the proportion of this part was too small!
And Gu Jianguo's fruits are still as abundant, fresh and sweet as before!
This left Gu Jianguo and the villagers puzzled. The villagers were extremely disappointed. Gu Chang contacted experts from the Agricultural University many times, and even several professors conducted field investigations together, but in the end they still couldn't figure out the reason. There was only a vague conclusion - these places are not suitable for growing fruit trees!
The desperate villagers lost their minds and vented their anger on Gu Jianguo. Some people said that Lao Gu had cheated the villagers and made them lose all their money. Others asked why the fruits on Lao Gu's fruit trees were all normal, but ours were problematic, and it must be him who was behind it...
People's words are fearful, and three people become tigers.
Gu Jianguo also couldn't understand it. He had good intentions and wanted to lead the villagers to work and get rich together, but in the end he ended up in the current situation.
Not long after, during a physical examination, Gu Jianguo was found to have health problems! The doctor directly asked him to be hospitalized.
Ever since his father Gu Jianguo fell ill and was hospitalized, Gu Chang took him to the Provincial Hospital near the Agricultural University for treatment since he was close to the hospital and could take care of him more conveniently.
Upon hearing that Gu Chang's father was in the hospital, Professor Wang Linghai offered a lot of help and contacted his old classmates in the hospital to help take care of him. When he heard that the money was not enough, he gave another hundred thousand yuan so that Gu Chang could focus on his treatment. Gu Chang burst into tears at that time and was extremely grateful to his teacher!
However, Gu Jianguo became ill due to worry and overwork. After staying in the hospital for more than a month, his condition worsened and he unfortunately passed away.
Before leaving, Gu Jianguo held Gu Chang's hand, his eyes full of regret. Gu Chang knew that he still felt upset.
He held his father's hand and whispered, "Don't worry, I will help you fulfill your regret."
Hearing this, Gu Jianguo finally closed his eyes in peace...
(ps: Don’t criticize me for being a saint, just read on patiently, there are… no spoilers, haha)