Liu Guihua didn't throw away the duck and goose feathers, and there was a whole sack.
Liu Guihua was not selfish, even if she looked down on Liu Qing, she thought that everyone had a hard life and told Liu Qing when Ye Fan said that duck and goose feathers could be sold for money. Liu Guihua also kindly reminded her that duck feathers and goose feathers should be kept separately.
Liu Qing said that Ye Fan even farted and Liu Guihua said it smelled good, which made Liu Guihua so angry that she wanted to scold her. But the two were neighbors, and they fought together. How could Battalion Commander Gao and Deputy Commander Niu get along with each other? Liu Guihua said you don’t want to give it all to me.
Not only did Liu Qing give the ducks and geese she ate to Liu Guihua, but several people who were close to her killed the ducks and geese. She also specifically reminded them not to throw them away because Liu Guihua liked them.
Liu Guihua's expression was complicated entirely because she had been holding this breath for nearly a year. Liu Guihua breathed a long sigh of relief and said: "I didn't throw it away. The old cow wants to throw it away every day, and I can't bear it anymore."
Ye Fan: "It's pretty clean, right?"
Liu Guihua nodded: "It's very clean. There are no stray hairs or weeds. It just has a strong fishy smell. I'm afraid it will get dirty if I put it outside, so I put it in the corner of my kitchen. My two children will hate it to death."
Ye Fan: "I won't mind it after selling it for money."
Liu Guihua: "How much can it be sold for?"
Ye Fan shook his head: "It's hard to say, you get what you pay for."
Liu Guihua actually doesn't care how much she sells. In her hometown, duck and goose feathers can only be thrown into the manure pit for retting. In her opinion, every dime she can sell is a profit. She cares about whether she can sell it. Seeing Ye Fan's confident expression, Liu Guihua stopped bothering her.
On the morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Liu Guihua killed the goose again and carefully collected the soft feathers. Her son and daughter rolled their eyes and looked speechless. Liu Guihua slapped each one: "Clean up!"
Captain Niu was not at home, and there was no one to protect him when he was beaten. The two children had to clean up their hair even if they didn't want to.
After lunch, they went to play with Liao Miaomiao. As soon as they arrived at Liao's house, they complained that Comrade Guihua was collecting goose feathers again. Zhuang Qiuyue was also at home, comforting the two children and selling duck and goose feathers to buy them candies.
Neither the Niu family nor the Liao family children took it seriously.
Three days later, in the evening, Liu Guihua received 80 yuan and Zhuang Qiuyue received 45 yuan, and the whole family area was boiling.
Zhuang Qiuyue's duck and goose feathers can be sold for so much money because of Ye Fan and Wan Siqin. Ye Fan looked down on the money, and Wan Siqin didn't believe that Mao could be sold for money, so he gave Zhuang Qiuyue everything he wanted.
When Wan Siqin heard that the duck and goose feathers were coming, she couldn't believe it, so she even arrived at the food factory before Zhuang Qiuyue. She saw with her own eyes the buyer leaving by boat with duck and goose feathers. As if in a dream, she grabbed Zhuang Qiuyue's arm and asked, "Is it really the money you get from selling duck and goose feathers?"
Zhuang Qiuyue suddenly felt that the money was hot and hesitated for a moment to give Wan Siqin twenty. Wan Siqin refused: "You deserve it. Don't do this. It's not like you and Accountant Ye didn't tell me at the time. I just can't figure it out, why is it so expensive?"
Liu Guihua pushed aside the military wives who were asking her questions and came to Wan Siqin: "Not many. I heard from Accountant Ye that my duck and goose feathers can make a big quilt of two meters by two meters. I can sell it for one hundred and eighty. If I make two more narrow ones, I can sell one for one hundred and fifty. But my duck and goose feathers can sell for eighty because they are clean.”
Zhuang Qiuyue nodded: "Mine is also because it is clean."
Wan Siqin pinched her arm: "Then, those fishermen who sell ducks and geese to the Yongcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative, won't they make a fortune?"
Liu Guihua shook her head: "There is a commune member who has one sack more than me, and he only sells it for more than 30 yuan. It's just because it's too dirty and people don't want it."
Wan Siqin took her arm again and asked, "Will you come to collect it again in the future?"
Liu Guihua: "I don't know. Accountant Ye said that if it's too far away, I might just come here this time. Because it's too inconvenient on the island. But it's not troublesome to save it, just in case it can still be sold."
Wan Siqin nodded: "That's the truth."
At the same time, the members who had received the money also asked Ye Fan if the people from the clothing factory were still coming. Ye Fan also said that he didn't know, just think of it as a windfall from heaven. Worried that the members of each brigade would blindly expand after seeing the money, Ye Fan asked Su Yuanhang to distribute the money. She called the captains of the ten brigade to the empty warehouse for a meeting and said directly: "I emphasized to the members that this is a windfall. Keep an eye on who you are when you go back. There is no guarantee that people from the clothing factory will come next year. The three trains of leather, duck and goose feathers sent to Shanghai cannot be concealed. It will not be long before they reach the countryside of Shanghai. By then, people nearby will have collected enough, and we may not be able to sell them at a discount. Easy to sell.”
The captain of the Lotus Brigade said: "Everyone thought they could only sell it for one or two yuan, but it turned out to be ten times more. I went back and said that this time it was sold for ten years."
Ye Fan: "Aren't there people who often come ashore to deliver goods? You can ask them to ask the citizens if they know where to buy duck and goose feathers. If anyone wants it, leave the address of the food factory. I'll talk to them."
Members also dare not buy or sell privately. If a jealous person finds out and files a complaint with the Revolutionary Committee, the food factory may also be implicated. This principle can be understood by all the dim-eyed old people in their seventies and eighties, as well as by the ignorant children as young as three or five years old. This matter is easy for the captain. Ten people agreed without hesitation.
Ye Fan thought about it carefully and dismissed the meeting if he had nothing else to do.
When several team captains came outside, they muttered: "Young people are still quick to do things. Just a few words and it's all done. Today, I will be replaced by a secretary who won't be able to get off in half an hour."
The captain of the Shanxi brigade said "ha" behind a few people. Several people were startled by the thought of being a thief. When they turned around, they saw that he was an old boy. They pulled his arms and legs and took him to the vegetable market, where they told him to buy grouper and large yellow croaker.
Captain of the Shanxi Brigade: "Close the stall!"
The vegetable seller immediately said: "No. Today will be postponed until eight o'clock. Accountant Ye said that if we pay today, everything will be sold out."
The captain of the Shanxi brigade couldn't help but clicked his tongue: "Accountant Ye will still do business. Let me see what there is."
Several brigade captains asked him to come out with five yuan.
Ever since Ye Fan sold seafood, the captain of the Shanxi brigade has blindly believed in her. Ye Fan said that duck and goose feathers could be sold for money, so he asked his wife to collect them. I didn't eat much, so I got up in the middle of the night, killed ducks and geese, cleaned them up, and sent them to the shore to sell more, but they were not very clean, and they sold for ninety-six yuan. He simply took out all the six yuan change and said that he still had old wine at his house. After buying it, he would go to his house and have a few drinks.
The average age of the several captains is in their early forties, and they yell like children.
Liu Guihua and Zhuang Qiuyue were startled when they came in. They were very happy to see them. Zhuang Qiuyue whispered: "Let's buy more to make the children happy."
Liu Guihua took out ten yuan, and Zhuang Qiuyue couldn't help but ask: "Can you finish eating?"
Liu Guihua laughed: "No way. Two or three yuan is enough. I have to buy a large yellow croaker for Accountant Ye. I don't know if there are any more. If not, I will buy a few small yellow croakers tomorrow morning."
Zhuang Qiuyue: "I'll buy two seabass. The day after tomorrow. Accountant Ye bought groceries this morning."
Liu Guihua nodded: "Then I'll buy it tomorrow." Then she walked inside and ordered everything she saw except the fruits and vegetables she had at home. In the end, the two of them couldn't carry it anymore, so they borrowed a bamboo basket from the vegetable market to carry it back.
Geng Zhiye and the chief of staff were in the army, while Commander Niu and Political Commissar Liao were at home. The two of them saw such a pile of things one after another and exclaimed: "It's too much?"
Zhuang Qiuyue took out forty yuan: "Duck and goose feather money."
Political Commissar Liao didn't believe it: "You are fooling the devil!"
Zhuang Qiuyue: "There are more osmanthus flowers than me. It's almost time to catch up with Accountant Ye's three-month salary plus bonus."
Political Commissar Liao still didn't believe it.
After a night, Deputy Commander Niu was still unwilling to accept the reality. When he arrived at the unit, he asked Geng Zhiye whether it was because he had been on the island for too long or something else, and how duck and goose feathers could be sold for money.
A long time ago, duck and goose feathers could be exchanged for snacks, and they must have been sold for money. However, since the street vendors disappeared, Geng Zhiye had never heard of anyone selling duck and goose feathers. Besides, Geng Zhiye hadn't been home for a long time. He didn't know that someone was collecting duck and goose feathers after lunch yesterday. How could I help him solve his doubts, so he asked him to find Accountant Ye.
In the evening, Deputy Captain Niu really went to Ye Fan and asked her if she hadn't lied to his old lady whom he had never met.
Ye Fan was speechless: "My sister-in-law is only in her early thirties. Secondly, the food factory also takes a 2% commission. Because it has to pay wages to temporary workers, as well as rent cars and boats."
Deputy Captain Niu patted his head to clear his head: "Just say it was more originally?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Don't look down on your sister-in-law in the future. Your family's oil and salt money will come out by the end of the year."
Deputy Captain Niu said to himself, I won’t dare to look down on you in the future!
"Thank you!" Deputy Captain Niu hugged his fists and went home with confidence.
Dabao was very confused: "Mom, why don't Uncle Niu and Uncle Liao believe that duck and goose feathers can be sold for money?"
Ye Fan: "Because I don't understand. Every other line is like a mountain. It's like my mother's abacus beads ring so loudly, but she doesn't know how to drive a warship. It's like if you learn Tai Chi, you can do it twice, but my sister needs to learn it for two months."
Erbao nodded: "Brother doesn't know how to flick his tongue."
Dabao patted his sister on the back: "Don't talk."
It didn't hurt. Erbao didn't slap him back, but just pushed his hand away: "Just say it!"
Ye Fan told him "no fighting" and went to cook fish, which was a large yellow croaker given by Liu Guihua.
The next day, Zhuang Qiuyue sent two sea bass. Ye Fan didn't want it, Zhuang Qiuyue said that Wan Siqin's family also had it, and she bought it herself.
Ye Fan made one at noon and planned to make one at night.
In the evening, Ye Fan took the fish to the pressure well and Geng Zhiye came back. When he saw the fish, he asked: "Did Sister Zhuang next door buy it?"
Ye Fan nodded: "You know?"
"Old Liao said it." Geng Zhiye rolled up his sleeves: "I'll do it."
Ye Fan gave him the scissors: "Political Commissar Liao and Deputy Commander Niu will be on duty instead?"
Geng Zhiye subconsciously recalled whether he had mentioned the schedule: "How do you know?"
Ye Fan: "They are often together. Just a guess."
Geng Zhiye nodded and skipped the topic: "How much did it cost? Lao Niu is like Fan Jin who passed the exam."
"My three months' salary."
Geng Zhiye almost cut his hand: "Is it so expensive?"
Ye Fan shook his head: "If we weren't on the island and so far away from Shanghai, Sister-in-law Osmanthus could sell it for ten yuan more, and next door she could sell it for five yuan more. Maybe more."
Geng Zhiye: "Why don't you negotiate the price if you know the market? It's not like Ye's accountant style."
Ye Fan: "Aren't you afraid that people won't come again?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Thoughtful and comprehensive, this is the Ye Fanfan I know."
Ye Fan scratched his waist a few times. Geng Zhiye instinctively ducked: "I don't have any itch. It's useless to scratch here." He winked with a meaningful look.
"Don't talk nonsense." Ye Fan tied the pony to him, "The big treasure and the second treasure are playing at the door and may come in at any time."
Geng Zhiye laughed: "My thoughts are not pure! Ye Fanfan, you said you have two children, what are you thinking about every day?"
Ye Fanfan grabbed his ear, and Commander Geng immediately dared not say anything: "Let go, it will be seen as shameful."
"You still know how to be embarrassed?"
Captain Geng held the fish in one hand and the scissors in the other. Both hands smelled fishy and he couldn't reach out. He tilted his head and tried to push away Ye Fan's hand with his shoulder: "I am the leader. We don't want to look at the monk's face. Buddha’s face.”
Ye Fan let go: "The three Miao Miao siblings, as well as Captain Niu's two children, are all afraid of Political Commissar Liao and Captain Niu. Do you think Dabao is not afraid of you?"
Geng Zhiye: "I guess because Sister Zhuang and Sister Liu are afraid of Lao Liao and Lao Niu, you are not afraid of me."
Ye Fan: "...It's really good! Everything can be involved in me."
Geng Zhiye smiled and motioned with his eyes to bring the trash can over. Ye Fan put the trash can opposite him, and Geng Zhiye threw the fish scales and fish guts in: "Actually, Lao Liao and Lao Niu's family are both loving fathers and strict mothers. Miaomiao is afraid that her father is not that Lao Liao is more powerful, but that he is different from Lao Liao. Familiar. Old Liao is better than us. She got married early, and Miao Miao couldn't join the army until she was eight years old, and she didn't see her father very much. He was in another place at that time, so it was inconvenient to go back there, just like I went back once every two or three years before we went on a blind date."
Ye Fan asked while pressing the water: "Is it Captain Niu too?"
Geng Zhiye: "Lao Niu has a straight temper. Before I listened to his wishes, Sister Liu was more upright and could spank children better than him. When I came here, I was afraid of embarrassing Lao Niu, so my sister-in-law restrained herself a lot."
Ye Fan thought about it carefully: "I have never heard of quarreling with others."
Geng Zhiye: "I'm afraid that Lao Niu will change her job because of her. Lao Niu's hometown is poor, and Sister-in-law Osmanthus will never go back if she can get out. But Lao Niu doesn't care. In his words, he didn't starve to death before, and now he is much better than before, and he can still afford it. ”
Ye Fan: "In the past, it was either a big pot meal or a collective commune, or like fighting for work points on the island, and you will have food to eat when you work. It's hard to say in the future. During the few days we went back, didn't you also hear that there were meetings every three days?"
Geng Zhiye is also worried that the policy of one day at a time will be more chaotic in the future: "Our capabilities are limited, just guard this island. Accountant Ye, don't let yourself be too tired. You are not the Guanyin on the opposite island. If you are not happy, resign, I will support you .”
Ye Fan couldn't help but smile and rolled his eyes: "I know. On the day we went on a blind date, you said that you can't guarantee that you will be with me every day, but you can guarantee that I will have no worries about food and clothing. Hey, Commander Geng, I want to ask you, with my mother You can support her and me with just one person’s salary, how dare you say that?”
Geng Zhiye: "I don't have much advantage over you. Besides, my mother-in-law won't let you join the army or go to the countryside. Isn't it because she is afraid that your body will not be able to bear the hard work? If you go back and say that you will have food and drink with me, my mother-in-law will not let you join the army or go to the countryside." I definitely have no objection. It turns out that I was right. But now it seems that you are better.”
Ye Fan: "She is overly nervous. It must be because I used to get sick a lot. The immunity of a few years old is definitely different from that of a teenager. When I grow up, her worries about me are still the same as those of more than ten years ago."
Geng Zhiye: "Why don't you care more about Chen Xiaohui when you have so much time to worry about you?"
Chen Xiaohui doesn't want her to care. If Chen Xiaohui acted coquettishly with Comrade Tao Chunlan every day, "Mom, I want to eat this, I haven't had it in Shanghai before." or "Mom, I want to buy that, and my colleagues show off to me every day." Tao Chunlan would also have to fight for a breath. Buy it for Chen Xiaohui.
Tao Chunlan was either busy going to the vegetable market or the department store, so naturally she had no time to care about Ye Fan. But Chen Xiaohui not only reported good news but not bad news, she also always felt that she was very smart and could withstand everything. Tao Chunlan had nothing to do and was naturally worried about Ye Fan, whom she had worked hard to raise.
Ye Fan didn't know these things clearly: "Chen Xiaohui was twenty-five years old when she came to mom. She is a little taller than mom. It seems she doesn't need her."
Geng Zhiye looked at the clean fish and asked: "How to eat it?"
Ye Fan shouted "Geng Dabao" outside.
Dabao was playing hard with paper cannons and shouted in annoyance: "What are you doing?"
Ye Fan was startled and asked, "Is your son itchy?"
Geng Zhiye: "Hit!"
Ye Fan hit him: "When we were together, Dabao asked you to hug him, but you were still impatient. It's your leisure to hit the child for such a trivial matter." He glared at him, supported his shoulders and stood up to go out. , "Geng Dabao, what are you having for dinner?"
Dabao: "Whatever."
Ye Fan asked from a distance again: "Er Bao, where are you?"
Erbao squatted on the ground and played with stones. He didn't care anymore and waved his little hand: "Erbao likes everything mom likes."
Ye Fan: "..."
Back in the courtyard, Ye Fan said helplessly: "Your daughter's mouth will make people die without paying for it!"
Geng Zhiye came over with a basin: "Make soup?"
Ye Fan: "I didn't buy old tofu. Steaming it doesn't have much flavor either."
Geng Zhiye: "Isn't fresh enough? Then braised in braised rice and steamed rice!"
"You have to steam rice before going on duty in the army. You didn't eat it that time, so you steamed it again this time. No rice in the army?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "There is rice, but no braised fish. It consumes too much oil and is too troublesome. Some comrades from the north are not used to eating sea fish and do not know how to eat fish. They will get stuck every time they eat!"
Ye Fan has seen such a person - the cashier of the Capital Haidian Supply and Marketing Cooperative. This year, when she and Geng Zhiye went home to visit relatives, Geng Zhiqin told the cashier at Geng's house that every time she would buy seaweed, kelp or small shrimps to satisfy her cravings. Sometimes I buy some ready-to-eat dried fish. I dare not buy dried eels.
Geng Zhiqin told her that she wouldn't touch him even if he didn't stab him.
Ye Fan: "Can't you also make hairtail?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Okay, steam it, you can see the little thorns at a glance. Make the soup and drink the soup. You just said Lao Doufu, ask them to make some Lao Doufu later."
Ye Fan couldn't help but ask: "Have you never done it yourself? How much does it cost to buy everything?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "I'll think of a way. Other troops raise pigs and can eat a few pieces of pork belly in ten and a half days. We can only eat a few pieces of pork belly once a month at most." He gestured and felt sorry for himself.
The next day, when he arrived at the army, Geng Zhiye went to the cooking class and asked the squad leader for his opinion.
Eating seafood every day sounds good, but the more you eat, the less likely you are to eat. The old squad leader couldn't bear it and agreed without hesitation. Then he realized that there was not enough manpower and asked for more manpower.
There is no problem with manpower.
The standard regiment at the headquarters has 1,500 people, and some have 2,000 people. Geng Zhiye has more than 2,000 people. Geng Zhiye didn't know so much at first. After going to the island to get the roster, driving class, cooking class, communications class, etc., and adding them all together, he realized that this was to strengthen the configuration of the independent regiment. Geng Zhiye was very happy, but what followed was a supply problem. The island has many mountains and little land. He can't compete with the people for land, so he can only find ways to save money. But there is a patrol mission, and the thin soldiers cannot be knocked down by the wind.
Geng Zhiye asked the squad leader: "Are ten people enough?"
Squad leader: "Exploding mountains to open up wasteland? Missing."
Geng Zhiye wanted to say something, but he forgot it. He raised his hand and said, "Let me think about it. By the way, can vegetables be grown in the sand?"
The old squad leader is from the countryside and knows how to grow vegetables. He nodded subconsciously: "Yes. No - leader, are you talking about sand or beach?"
Geng Zhiye: “Of course it’s the beach!”
The old squad leader opened his mouth and really wanted to say, no wonder someone said something about you before: "Captain, the sea water is salty. Do you use salt water to water vegetables? Also. What should you do during high tide? Feed the Sea Dragon King?"
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Geng Zhiye was a little embarrassed, but he was the leader and he must not admit his ignorance: "If you don't understand, you don't understand. Is it still reasonable? Just wait! I'll find someone knowledgeable." After saying that, he saw a transport truck idle, and he drove go home.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is over, and duck and goose feathers are also sold. Accountant Ye doesn't have to go to the food factory for the time being, she must be at home.
Sure enough, when Geng Zhiye arrived home, Ye Fan was cleaning the vegetable patch in the yard. Besides her, there were Liu Guihua, Zhuang Qiuyue and Wan Siqin. Those who didn't know it thought Ye Fan had three acres of land. In fact, the entire courtyard of Ye Fan's house is less than two cents.
When Geng Zhiye entered the hospital, Ye Fan asked: "What happened?"
Zhuang Qiuyue couldn't help but ask: "Why did you come back suddenly?"
Geng Zhiye: "It's not a big deal. Fanfan, do you think these things can be grown in sandy land?" He pointed to the vegetable patch.
The four of them nodded together.
Wan Siqin reacted first: "You mean the beach, right?"
Ye Fan: "What's wrong with the beach?" Suddenly he thought of a report he accidentally read in his previous life, "Okay."
The three clever women looked at her in unison and asked, "Does the eldest lady know what she said?"
Geng Zhiye smiled, Ye Fanfan did not disappoint him.
Liu Guihua couldn't help but ask: "How to grow it? Accountant Ye, you are doing business, and all of us, including Captain Geng, are not as good as you. When it comes to the work in the fields at home, you three are not as good as one of me."
Ye Fan: "It's definitely not possible to plant it directly." He asked Geng Zhiye, "Did you clean up a lot of rotten mud and leaves when you swept the tomb?" He pulled out a small green vegetable that had just grown, "Look, there are only so many roots. It will grow up to ten centimeters at most. Just clean the leaves and put them 20 centimeters apart. If it's not enough, just pull out the mountain bark. Although there are stones, be careful when planting so that you can plant more vegetables every month. , and you can also raise a few pigs.”
Ye Fan had never worked in the fields, which Geng Zhiye was sure of. To be on the safe side, he asked Zhuang, Liu and Wan what they thought.
Liu Guihua sighed: "Accountant Ye is still smart."
Ye Fan: "You can also build a swamp pond to improve and fertilize the soil. If you don't understand, you can go to the city and hire experts. By the way, first ask if there are experts in this field in each brigade. I once heard the captain of the Shanxi brigade say that there are several provinces The experts from the city were sent to the next-door brigade. "
Geng Zhiye nodded: "I'll go over and ask. If the solution works, I'll give you a credit later."
Ye Fan rolled his eyes at him: "Are you giving me an award?"
Geng Zhiye waved his hand: "We'll talk about it then."
Ye Fan muttered: "Draw me a cake again."
Liu Guihua didn't understand: "What do you mean?"
Ye Fan: "The painted cake is too good to be eaten."
Liu Guihua was happy: "Didn't you ask him to raise pigs? Ask him to give you a piece of pork belly."
Ye Fan won't be greedy for the government's food if he doesn't eat it: "Let's talk about it. Sister-in-law, can we plant cabbage now?"
Several people immediately taught her how to grow vegetables.
Last year, when Ye Fan was tidying up the vegetable patch, a few people were not so enthusiastic. However, Ye Fan didn't complain. He wasn't familiar with her before, and he didn't have any relatives. He didn't expect Geng Zhiye to help her husband get promoted and make a fortune, so there was no reason to help her.
As for Geng Zhiye, he drove eight kilometers to the northern end of Hengshan Island, found an expert on decentralization, and asked him to get on the bus without asking what he was doing. By the time the Shanxi brigade reached the southeasternmost part of Hengshan Island, the transport truck was almost full.
The people in the car looked at each other, feeling uneasy and depressed. No one dared to speak out for fear of new torture waiting for them.
Naturally, Geng Zhiye couldn't recruit people into the army. Driving to the other side of the army, where there is a large beach and mountainous area, Geng Zhiye stopped the car and asked everyone to come down.
Geng Zhiye did not yell loudly, and he was the only one, so everyone felt a little relieved. When Geng Zhiye said that he planned to grow vegetables and raise pigs here, a group of people were dumbfounded.
Geng Zhiye frowned: "No? How about I pull soil and spread it on top?"
Everyone finally came to their senses and brought them here with great fanfare not to criticize them, but to ask them for advice. Some of these people really don’t know how to farm. But there are some people who have been dealing with fruit trees from farmers every day in recent years, and they are agricultural experts. Those few people said yes.
Geng Zhiye asked if he could build a swamp pool high up there. He was worried that Xiu Taichai would be sent back to the Dragon King's hometown in a typhoon.
The knowledgeable expert tentatively said: "I need to go up and have a look."
Geng Zhiye nodded: "I just had this idea. There's no rush."
Everyone used their feet as rulers and their heads to record the traces of the rising tide. They had a rough idea in their minds and said they could give Geng Zhiye a layout plan tomorrow.
Geng Zhiye sent everyone back and asked each brigade not to arrange for them to do anything in the past few days.
In the past two years, the army often helped the team solve the problems of chickens, ducks, eggs, fruits and vegetables that were too much to eat and could not be sold. The brigade was very considerate of him, so they offered to give him half a month.
Geng Zhiye arrived at the army, had a quick meal, and then asked the political commissar to transfer twenty people.
The political commissar selected soldiers who had come in through trust connections but were not technically proficient and physically incapable of going to the battlefield. As a result, thirty people were transferred. Geng Zhiye said he wanted both. The next day, Geng Zhiye organized these people into a planting and breeding class. But first we need to dig soil, move stones and pave the ground to build pig pens and swamps. For the time being, the leader of the cooking class will also serve as the class leader. He will learn from experts and learn to be independent again.
Geng Zhiye can eat for an hour at home. Finished in ten minutes in the army. Just because he immediately entered the fighting state as soon as he arrived in the army, and he acted vigorously and resolutely no matter what he did.
Political Commissar Liao told Zhuang Qiuyue that the troops would grow vegetables in the future, and Zhuang Qiuyue told Ye Fan that only ten days had passed.
At the end of October, Geng Zhiye was not so busy and could have a solid meal at home. Ye Fan chatted with him for a few days: "I heard that the vegetables have been planted?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "A few transport trucks were parked non-stop to create five acres of land. It also cost a lot of money."
Ye Fan: "Gas money?"
Geng Zhiye shook his head: "There is also cement money. I am worried that the mud will be washed away when it rains. I will build an 80-centimeter stone wall downstream, half underground and half above ground. There is also a swamp pool, which costs the most. If it weren't for those few Experts say it can be used for several years, but I wouldn’t dare to approve it even if it is of great use.”
Ye Fan: "You can ask the fishermen to help you build the swamp pool. There will be enough left for you by then, and they can take away the fertile fields."
Geng Zhiye: "We were able to plant vegetables so quickly because of the help of the members of the Shanxi brigade. When we were repairing the swamp pool, the brigade leader even took a notebook and wrote down that he would build a cesspool based on the swamp pool in the future. Political Commissar Liao saw that his drawings were messy. , send him A book. I have read that book. It is an encyclopedia for farmers. It covers everything from raising chickens and ducks to fruit trees, wheat and rice, and household machinery maintenance. By the way, it also teaches accounting. aspects.”
Ye Fan couldn't help but ask: "What book is so omnipotent?"
"We should have it at home. Look for it." Geng Zhiye thought about it, "It's among my messy boxes."
After the meal, Ye Fan rummaged through the cabinets and found a bag containing several books, Geng Zhiye's military medal, and bullet casings, which must be of commemorative significance. Ye Fan put the other things back, took out the book, and took it to the office the next day, asking Su Yuanhang to study with Su Yuncheng, Su Duofu, Liao Miaomiao and Liu Guihua.
Zhuang Qiuyue and Wan Siqin heard about this from Liu Guihua and Liao Miaomiao, and they took notebooks and pens to study seriously as if taking notes at a meeting.
The office is not big, so many people are crowded inside. Su Yuanhang can receive the goods, while Ye Fan stays at home to knit gloves for Dabao Erbao.
Geng Zhiye came back and saw half-knitted gloves on the bench. He went to the kitchen and asked: "Knitted for me?"
Ye Fan: "You can wear it if you want."
Dabao nodded: "Dad, you can wear it if you want." Before his father could say anything, "Can you wear it?"
Geng Zhiye pulled him up, and Dabao screamed in fright. Geng Zhiye patted his butt lightly: "I won't hit you. Go out to the living room with your sister and wait while dad lights the fire."
Dabao: "Sister, let's wash our hands and wait for dinner."
Erbao jumped up and followed his brother.
Geng Zhiye looked at Erbao: "I used to fall down even if I walked fast. Now you dare to jump? Erbao grows up really fast."
Ye Fan opened the lid of the pot, took out the fish and steamed buns, cracked a few eggs into the pot and put a handful of vegetables. Geng Zhiye stood up and took a look, "Green vegetable and egg soup?"
Ye Fan nodded: "You can wash your hands now."
Geng Zhiye saw her putting a few drops of sesame oil into the pot: "I dare say that my father-in-law is not as good as us."
(End of chapter)