It was Tao Dayong who came to buy squashed melon seeds.
His father, Tao Jianshe, asked him to come over to buy the tractor before. He insisted on waiting and seeing. When Li Jianguo bought the tractor, he believed that he could make a lot of money by harvesting melon seeds. When he came to buy again, it was too late. No more.
Fortunately, Tao Daqiang found out that the Li family still had shriveled melon seeds, so he thought about it again and again and felt that they could still be bought.
The saying that it is a flat melon seed is actually just relative to the melon seeds that are sold. In fact, it was not empty, but not that full. Li Jianguo used a dustpan to remove the empty and immature ones.
“If you sow those deflated melon seeds, they may not grow.” Li Jianguo planned to winnow these deflated melon seeds and keep them for frying and eating in the winter. He really had no intention of selling them.
"Uncle Jianguo, just sell it to me." Tao Dayong begged, "I was just slow before, but you won't have it now. I also want to make some money next year!
At the end of this year, too Just following your Xiaolong family can earn two more dollars, but the family expenses are also quite high. I also want to be able to ride a bicycle next year... Just sell it to me. If it doesn't happen, it's my fault. I won't blame you!"
"It's not my fault. As seeds, it can't use melon seeds like this." Li Jianguo couldn't laugh or cry.
In fact, when Tao Dayong told him to buy seeds, he did want to buy them, but his wife Ma Chunhong stopped him and asked him to wait.
Now Ma Chunhong also heard the news about Li Jianguo buying a tractor, and knew that he regretted it. Then he asked him to go to his father and asked his father to give half of the seeds to his family, because Tao Jianshe had already bought ten acres of land. of seeds.
Tao Dayong slapped his wife.
Before, Ma Chunhong blocked him from buying it, and he didn't come over either. Later he regretted it. He didn't blame his wife, and he himself wasn't firm at the time.
But his wife asked him to go to his father and ask his father to give her half of the seeds. If he did such a thing, then he would really be a coward.
Tao Dayong slapped his wife, and then Tao Dayong came to find Li Jianguo.
He thought very clearly that as long as there are kernels in the melon seeds, the seedlings will basically be able to sprout. Maybe the seedlings are inherently deficient, so they can take good care of them the day after tomorrow.
The worst case scenario is that if someone else gets a pound of fat, he will get two pounds of fat. If someone else contributes one, he will contribute two.
Others can harvest 200 kilograms of melon seeds from one acre of land, but he can harvest 100 kilograms.
Let alone one hundred kilograms, if he can collect fifty kilograms, he is grateful to Li Jianguo!
Fifty kilograms, one kilogram is more than two yuan, which is more than one hundred yuan, and ten acres of land is more than one thousand yuan!
Hey, if you can make money, which farmer is worried about not having the energy to work at this time?
As for asking his father for seeds, he might have had this idea before last year. After last year, seeing his younger brother becoming more and more promising, Tao Dayong no longer had such an idea.
Such a big man has to drag down his fifty-year-old father in everything. Is he still a human being?
Li Jianguo was helplessly pestered by Tao Dayong, and finally sold those deflated melon seeds to Tao Dayong.
"One dollar per kilogram, I won't sell you for nothing." Li Jianguo made it clear in front of Tao Dayong:
"You are Daqiang's brother, and the relationship between our two families is Leave it here, among these fifteen kilograms of deflated melon seeds, there are five kilograms of good melon seeds.
After walking out of this door, I don’t recognize these words. Just know this. If you really want to plant it, you can plant less next year. If you have any management matters later, come and ask me. If you really make money, take care of your family and be filial to your father. "
There is a small bag inside the bag of melon seeds for Tao Dayong. Li Jianguo naturally has a surplus of melon seeds for his family, so naturally he cannot tell others about this.
Tao Dayong This grown man listened Li Jianguo's eyes felt a little sore at that moment.
He walked back with the bag and met Ma Jinbao halfway. Ma Jinbao laughed at him:
"Hey, Tao Dayong, you are not. Do you want to see it again? Why don’t you buy Li’s melon seeds too? Does he still have one? ”
"No more, let me bring the remaining shriveled melon seeds!" Tao Dayong raised his arm, "What else should I do? I don't have your flock of sheep. If I want to make money, I can only make money!"
"Can he still sell those deflated melon seeds? Can that thing be grown?" Ma Jinbao said loudly, as if he had discovered another gossip point, which immediately attracted the attention of others nearby.
"What are you listening to?" Tao Dayong knew that Ma Jinbao had no good intentions, so he scolded him, "Are you stuffing donkey hair in your ears? I said I brought it over, but what about Uncle Jianguo's deflated melon seeds? Didn't ask for my money!
I said whether you can grow these melon seeds or not, that’s my business. I smashed a few, but there were still melon seeds in them, but they were not very full.”
Ma Jinbao recalled, it was like Tao. Dayong didn't say buy it, he said take it.
Everyone else looked at him like a fool.
If you want to see other people’s jokes, will you see it on yourself this time?
Tao Dayong ignored him and walked into his yard carrying the bag.
Just as he was about to put the bag in the spare house and put it away, he heard someone calling him:
“Dayong!”
Tao Dayong turned around and saw his father, Tao Jianshe, holding a bag in his hand.
"Dad, why are you here? Come in and drink water!"
"No more," Tao Jianshe waved his hand at the door of the courtyard, "Here are eight kilograms of melon seeds. You can take them. "I'll plant it next year."
"What about you?" Tao Dayong asked hurriedly, not expecting his father to bring melon seeds.
“Just plant less.”
"That won't work." Tao Dayong didn't take the melon seeds, "I got the seeds from Uncle Jianguo."
"What can you plant with your deflated seeds? You need good seeds to grow melons." !" Tao Jianshe shook his head, "You can't be fooled!"
"Dad, I'm not fooled!" Tao Dayong looked around and whispered, "Uncle Jianguo, for the sake of you and Daqiang. , gave me some good seeds.
You can take your seeds back, but don’t tell anyone else about it. I have a lot of sandy land to plant next year. , if you manage it well, you can make money.
Besides, Daqiang is going to have a baby, and the family will be burdened next year. You should take care of them and leave me alone. I’ll be fine.”
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Hearing what Tao Dayong said, Tao Jianshe was still dubious.
Tao Dayong turned around and took out a handful of seeds from the bag at the door of his spare house and showed them to Tao Jianshe. Tao Jianshe saw it before he believed it.
"Okay, if you don't understand anything when it's time to plant, remember to ask Li Juan's father!" Tao Jianshe went back with the bag again, "Keep these melon seeds well, it's best to hang them Get up, you have to be careful about mice in winter."
"I understand." Tao Dayong felt hot in his heart.
When he encounters concern from his elders twice a day, no matter how useless he is, he still has passion.
Ma Chunhong did not return to her parents' home after being beaten by Tao Dayong. She knew she was being mean again. Since those incidents last year, Tao Jianxiang and Tao Daqiang have become her husband's enemy and cannot be touched.
It’s just that sometimes I can’t control myself, and there’s really nothing I can do about it.
Tao Daqiang put the melon seeds away and entered the house. Ma Chunhong asked hurriedly:
"Did you get the melon seeds back?"
"Get them back."
"Is it really flat?" Ma Chunhong still had hope, "I just heard dad talking outside, was it..."
"It's flat. Dad wanted to give us melon seeds, but I didn't ask for them." Tao Tao Dayong tells the truth.
"How can you not want it? Dad gave it to me on his own initiative!" Ma Chunhong shouted all of a sudden.
Tao Dayong glared over, and Ma Chunhong stopped screaming immediately.
“Knock it yourself.” Tao Dayong took out three or five melon seeds from his pocket and handed them to her, “Take a look.”
Ma Chunhong took the melon seeds half-believingly, and they looked quite normal.
She cracked one open to see if the melon seeds inside were good.
Looking up at Tao Dayong.
"This is the flat melon seed that Uncle Jianguo gave us." "Where is it flat..." Ma Chunhong, "This is not..."
"Still talking?" Tao Dayong glared at him.
Ma Chunhong immediately stopped talking and asked:
"That is..."
"It's worse than what was sold." Tao Dayong said, "But it's all It’s kind, but not too full.”
“I know, I know!” Ma Chunhong suddenly became excited, “Hey, now...next year...”
Tao Dayong ignored him. He knew what his wife was like. I seemed to be like this before.
Alas, stupidity is sometimes a disease. You have to wait until you get better. It cannot be cured.
After Ma Chunhong was excited, she finally became a little suspicious. Why did the Li family take care of their own family? Is there something wrong with this seed?
She only kneaded one at that time, and didn’t dare to kowtow more - if she kneaded too much, there would be a few melon vines missing when planting next year, and there would be dozens less melons, and a few dozen melons would equal one kilogram. Melon seeds, that’s more than two pieces!
Then, she planted the remaining three or four melon seeds in a broken washbasin used as a flower pot outside the window. She had to pull out the sunflowers that were in the pot.
A few days later, a few seedlings came out of the flowerpot, and Ma Chunhong was confused again.
There’s nothing wrong with this?
......
The news that the Li family bought another tractor reached Jiang Zhiyu’s ears two days later.
Her journalistic nature was immediately touched.
What good news this is!
The total number of tractors in the entire township is less than five. The two brothers in the fourth team alone have two tractors. They were bought with the money earned from growing cash crops. This is a big news in the state daily. ah!
She immediately rode her women's bicycle and headed towards Team Four.
Must interview!
In fact, the framework and main content of the press release were already available when I received the news. My younger brother used a harvester to help farmers harvest wheat, saving time for summer grain storage and earning harvesting fees at the same time.
The elder brother planted cash crops while ensuring that he could grow grain, and achieved a bumper harvest and huge economic benefits. Both brothers bought tractors and became the leaders in getting rich in the village, and so on.
But she needs details.
Jiang Zhiyu is also an acquaintance of the Li family. She also knows the location of the Li family and goes to Li Jianguo's yard with ease.
Li Jianguo and his wife, Li Qingxia and his wife, were knocking oil sunflowers on the wheat field. The heads of the oil sunflowers (called sunflowers in the village) were cut off and brought to the wheat field, spread out to dry, and then The man took a stick and hit the sunflower head hard.
This is to use the principle of vibration to knock down the sunflower seeds on the sunflower head. Because sunflower seeds are more fragile than wheat, they are not suitable for hitting with a roller like wheat, as the sunflowers will be smashed.
The knocked down sunflowers will have some skins on the flower plates, and they have to be harvested at this time. The next situation is similar to that of wheat. After they are harvested, they are packed into bags, and then they go to the grain bureau to hand in the assigned tasks.
To hand over public grain is not only to hand over wheat, but also to hand over oil sunflower and corn. Some rice-producing areas also need to hand over rice - this village has the task of handing over public grain.
People who grow a lot of oil sunflowers have finished the sunflower tasks in the tasks, and the remaining part is pressed at the township oil press for home consumption, and part is sold.
The Li family does not grow much oil sunflowers. Basically, after removing the public grain task, the remaining oil is enough to feed the family and make a surplus.
Fortunately, Li Long often delivers burnt meat fat throughout the year, which saves a lot of oil.
Jiang Zhiyu saw that there was only an unknown woman in the yard, so he introduced himself:
"Hello, eldest sister, I am Jiang Zhiyu, the propaganda officer of the township. Is Li Jianguo here?"
"I Big brother and the others "I went to the wheat field to beat sunflower seeds." Chen Lirong pointed to the guide and said, "My eldest brother and sister-in-law are all gone."
"Oh..." Jiang Zhiyu saw the brand new tractor parked in the yard and immediately said. I took out my camera and took two pictures.
She was a little regretful. If Li Long's tractor was there, it would be nice to take a photo with the two tractors.
What a pity. What a pity.
Then she rode her bicycle to the wheat field.
It’s not just the Li family who are knocking oil sunflowers on the wheat field, there are five or six other family members. This Youkui always talks and knocks at the same time, and his mouth is not idle, cracking melon seeds, and most of his mouth is black.
Because the oil sunflower itself is black.
This stuff is more fragrant than sunflower when fried, because it produces more oil. It's just that it's small, and its mouth will turn black after eating too much, so it's only popular in rural areas.
In the summer, there are outdoor movies in the village. People usually fry a pot of sunflower seeds and put them in their pockets, and watch the movie while swatting away mosquitoes.
Usually after the movie is over, the place is covered with melon seed peels.
Jiang Zhiyu glanced at Li Jianguo's family and spotted Li Jianguo's family. She rode her bicycle over, got out of the car and was about to prop up her bicycle when Li Jianguo took the lead and said hello:
"Jiang Zhiyu" The director is here?”
“Hello, Comrade Li Jianguo, hello everyone!” This was not the first time Jiang Zhiyu met Li Jianguo’s family. After greeting him, he went straight to the topic:
"Comrade Li Jianguo, I heard that you planted melons on ten acres of land, earned nearly 10,000 yuan, and then bought a new tractor, so I came over to have a look and interview you about your experience and feelings about getting rich."
< br>"Mr. Jiang, who did you listen to this nonsense? How can there be nearly ten thousand yuan? It's only five thousand yuan." After hearing this, Li Jianguo hurriedly denied, "If it's so much money, You can get so much money from harvesting melons, haven’t others already started growing them?”
“Well, everyone spreads it so exaggeratedly because I really didn’t expect that farming can have such high economic benefits.” Jiang Zhiyu himself. What she said was a bit exaggerated. She took out her small book, threw out the prepared questions one by one, and began to interview Li Jianguo.
Li Jianguo also told the truth. The idea came from Li Long, the seeds were bought by Li Long, and the technology was consulted by Li Long from a professor at the Bayi Agricultural College, and he even made a special trip to ask for advice.
Jiang Zhiyu was particularly interested when he heard this. This is technology wealth! At present, farmers basically rely on experience in farming. The most they can do is to go to the county Agricultural Broadcasting School for further education, or listen to the experiences of the students at the Agricultural Broadcasting School.
It is impossible for any farmer to think of going to a university like Bayi Agricultural College to ask professors about farming.
In the eyes of most people, including Jiang Zhiyu, university professors are all academics who take care of everything every day. How can they have time to pay attention to the demands of old farmers? Even if farmers come to ask for advice, I'm afraid they won't have time to receive them.
But the current example completely breaks everyone’s inherent ideas. This is good news!
What is news? Isn't the news just something that happened recently? For example, Li Jianguo harvested more than 500 yuan per acre from farming, which is more than ten times the income of ordinary people from farming. This is big news.
Li Long went to Bayi Agricultural College to ask for advice on farming techniques. This was also news. After all, everyone didn’t think of it and thought it was impossible, but he went and did it!
Jiang Zhiyu secretly said that this time he really came at the right time, otherwise he would not have known that such a thing existed!
If this was written, it would definitely be published in the Zhouzhou Daily. She even wanted to be bold and submit it to the Autonomous Region Daily!
At present, slogans such as science and technology, science and technology are the primary productive forces, etc. are shouted very loudly. If I name this manuscript something like "Science and technology bring huge benefits to farmers", there is a high probability that it will be The Autonomous Region Daily reported at the meeting.
Jiang Zhiyu was jealous that Ma Xiaoyan was able to write about Li Long in the Autonomous Region Daily. He also wrote about it, but could only go to the Zhouzhou Daily.
Before Shangzhou Daily was released, it was already a very big deal. After all, she was just a news officer in a township. This year, she has actually overfulfilled her task.
But if there was a chance to appear in the autonomous region daily, wouldn't she be willing?
That is simply too willing. Being published in the Autonomous Region Daily is not only a proof of your ability, but also a reward!
Jiang Zhiyu has begun to restructure the framework of this press release in his mind. He must highlight the central position of science and technology in guiding agriculture, and focus on writing about Li Long's visit to Bayi Agricultural College.
It's a pity that Li Long is not here, and Li Jianguo is not very clear about the specific details, especially Professor Wu's name, major, etc., nothing is particularly clear.
Jiang Zhiyu simply asked where Li Nong lived in the county, and planned to go to the county to look for Li Long tomorrow.
Although he knew that Li Long worked in the supply and marketing cooperative as a temporary worker, he was often away from the supply and marketing cooperative, so there was nothing he could do about it.
After Reporter Jiang left, Du Chunfang, who was slowly tapping the oil sunflower, asked a little worriedly:
"Is it okay for Xiaolong to be like this? If too many people know about it, will it affect him?" ?”
“They have already been commended by the autonomous region and have appeared in newspapers, radio and television in the autonomous region. What are you afraid of now?” Li Qingxia knew very well.
"Then why can't we see it on TV?" Du Chunfang's mind immediately turned to other aspects.
"Then our movies won't be broadcast in the autonomous region." Li Qingxia also knew a little about this, and he heard what Li Long said.
Li Jianguo just listened and laughed. It was fun to listen to his father and mother bickering.
Rural old men and women basically don’t suffer from Alzheimer’s disease at this time. They don’t have the energy and they are all working. If you live and work till you are old, you have no time to get these diseases.
It will be different from now on. (End of this chapter)