Chapter 37 Vegetable Garden
Xiang Jianming said to the villagers: "Everyone should do what they are supposed to do. Just go to work normally and leave one person at home. Let's look at the vegetable fields."
That's what he said, but who wants to go to work now? Now that he has met the president of the supply and marketing cooperative and the reporters from the county, they all know that the cooperation must be true.
Now I wish that the vegetables from the Shuangshui Brigade would be favored by the supply and marketing cooperative, so that my family would have some income.
On weekdays, in addition to going to work, the villagers would take mountain wild vegetables to the black market to exchange for some money. In the past few years, the inspections were strict, and those who speculated were arrested and sent to labor camps or to eat peanuts.
In the past two years, the control has been a little looser, but if you are caught or reported, you still have to be sent to the farm.
Therefore, the villagers of Shuangshui Village now see the hope of making money. They all look at Su Qingyue and others with eager faces, hoping that the village can cooperate with the county supply and marketing cooperative.
Xiang Jianming and Su Qingyue took President Zhang and Reporter Chen to visit the vegetable garden, followed closely by a large group of villagers.
Leading the way to the captain, the first family to go to was the Su family.
Su Qingyue smiled brightly, "President Zhang, Reporter Chen, this is my vegetable garden, take a look."
Zhang Dongfeng's eyes suddenly lit up. The vegetable garden in the Su family's backyard was more than an acre, neatly divided according to vegetable varieties.
The cucumbers are tender and raw, there are large pieces of green beans, the cowpeas are like long noodles, the tomatoes are hanging on the branches, the spinach and rapeseed are green, the eggplants are so dense, the peppers are red and green, and there is a pumpkin and a loofah. A big match!
Not to mention Zhang Dongfeng, even the people in his own village dare not say that their vegetable plot is managed as well as the Su family's.
One look at it shows that it is watered every day, weeded and fertilized regularly.
Chen Yanfeng quickly took out a small black box from his bag with a big round lens on it.
When he raised his SLR camera to take pictures, the villagers gathered around him out of curiosity. Su Zhuangzhuang opened his eyes wide and asked, "Uncle, what is this?"
Chen Yanfeng explained with a smile: "This is a camera that can take pictures of your vegetable garden."
With a click, the photo is taken.
The villagers who had never taken pictures were all excited. It turned out that this is what taking pictures with a camera is all about.
Zhang Dongfeng looked at the abundant vegetable garden and smiled so hard, "Oh, how many people are in your family? I'm afraid you won't be able to finish all the vegetables, right?"
Su Qingyue introduced her family members one by one to President Zhang and Reporter Chen, "We are a family of six, and we really can't finish these vegetables. My sister-in-law will dry the vegetables and make pickles."
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Zhang Dongfeng asked Captain Xiang again, "How many such vegetable gardens are there in our village?"
"Many of the 130 households in Shuangshui Brigade grow vegetables in their backyards, private plots, and fields. In previous years, they were worried that there would be no vegetables to eat in winter, so they dried them in the sun for the winter."
Zhang Dongfeng probably knew it in his heart, "Our county has a population of 400,000, and these numbers are far from enough for the county's supply."
Everyone's heart skipped a beat when they heard this.
Su Qingyue had thought of it a long time ago. She handed the freshly washed cucumbers and tomatoes to President Zhang and Chen Yanfeng, and said calmly: "President, don't worry, Shuangshui Brigade is just the first village for our experiment. Let's go first." Try it with a small amount of vegetables, and if the effect is good, spread it to Shuangqiao Commune and other communes!”
Li Zilan and Su Qingxi both looked at Su Qingyue with admiration, feeling like she was glowing when she talked.
With a smile on her lips, Su Qingyue continued: "As long as we can open up cooperation between rural areas and counties, in the future our supply and marketing cooperative will have more supplies of other agricultural and sideline products in addition to fresh vegetables. For example, the Qingshan Brigade is good at cooking tofu, Yunxi brigade has a pig factory and Pingshu brigade has high grain output;
In addition to vegetables growing well in our village, there are also a lot of mountain products in the mountains. Black fungus and wild mountain fungi are all over the mountains. Chestnuts, walnuts and hawthorns are all available in autumn and winter.”
Chen Yanfeng gnawed on tomatoes, nodded, and recorded something in his notebook.
Zhang Dongfeng chewed the crisp cucumber. The more he listened, the more he felt that this cooperation was promising. When he returned to the city today, he took a cart of vegetables back to try it out.
Su Qingyue eloquently demonstrated the benefits of the Shuangshui Brigade, and the captain and all the villagers were moved. Although Su Qingyue was an employee of the supply and marketing cooperative, she was saying good things about the village both inside and outside.
Xiang Jianming took President Zhang and Chen Yanfeng to visit many vegetable fields. Finally, President Zhang held Xiang Jianming's hand and announced in public, "Captain Xiang, we have to cooperate!"
Xiang Jianming's eyes were red with excitement, "Let's go to the brigade office and sit down to discuss the details of cooperation."
He winked at his youngest son and immediately brought tea and water to Shi Shui. Du Ruoying, the village chief's wife, asked several women to cook with him.
"Zilan, come here, you are good at cooking. You will be the chef for this meal and cook all our fresh vegetables."
Wang Juqin was usually jealous of Li Zilan's good cooking, but now that this meal was related to the livelihood of the whole village, she didn't dare to break her tongue and quickly took care of it.
Liu Chunxing also took a shot of chicken blood, lighting the fire and helping to carry water.
Pei Huaimei was also helping to cut vegetables today, and kept praising Li Zilan for being lucky because her sister-in-law was so good that she could take advantage of her.
The brigade's office is actually an earthen house with a large table in the main room.
When finalizing the price, Su Qingyue kicked Captain Xiang under the table, and Xiang Jianming immediately changed his mind, "Cucumbers and tomatoes cost three cents, spinach five cents, and rapeseed six and a half cents."
The price of vegetables in the county is high. For example, cucumbers and tomatoes from the supply and marketing cooperative are sold for five or six cents per pound.
Xiang Jianming asked the supply and marketing cooperative to still make a profit at this price. Zhang Dongfeng thought for a moment and immediately agreed.
Su Qingyue smiled happily and quickly recorded the price. In this way, the commune would make a profit, the brigade would also make a profit, and she and the captain would still have profit margins.
After setting the price, several people discussed it and decided to send 500 kilograms of vegetables to the county for trial tomorrow.
Su Qingyue checked the promotional draft with Reporter Chen several times, "President, please read the draft. If there is no problem, Reporter Chen will publish it in the newspaper tomorrow."
Zhang Dongfeng nodded with satisfaction after reading. Chen Yanfeng was very professional and anxious to publish the newspaper. He left without even eating. He borrowed a bicycle from the team leader and Chen Yanfeng hurriedly took the manuscript to the newspaper.
The meal was served, a total of eight vegetarian dishes, cold cucumber shreds, tomatoes sprinkled with sugar, cabbage stewed with tofu, green pepper stir-fried eggplant, dry stir-fried beans, steamed pumpkin, loofah soup, stir-fried sour cowpeas.
Xiang Jianming was originally worried that the vegetarian banquet would be difficult to handle, but Zhang Dongfeng never stopped picking up vegetables with chopsticks, praising the freshness of the vegetables and the skill of the cooks.
Su Qingyue chuckled, "President Zhang, my sister-in-law made this dish, doesn't it taste good?"
“Not only is it not bad, it is simply delicious!”
Su Qingyue was busy praising her sister-in-law for how capable she was, and how she could go to the hall and the kitchen. Zhang Dongfeng wiped his mouth and said, "Qingyue, call your sister-in-law and then follow Captain Xiang to find some people to collect the vegetables quickly. I want to go back to the supply and marketing cooperative. Make arrangements for supply tomorrow morning.”
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