Volume 1 Chapter 0055 Leek
There are less than sixty children in the village under the age of sixteen who are old enough to eat popsicles.
When Nan Ruoyin came back, she was still sucking a piece of cream ice cream in her mouth. Obviously, this was not the first one.
"Which piece?"
"The third one."
"to be honest."
"The fourth one."
"You can't eat so much ice at once, be careful of diarrhea."
"Well, Dad, if can we eat ice cream every day?"
"There is no necessary connection between the refrigerator and ice cream. Whether you can eat ice cream depends on my mood. I will inform you now that I will not be in a good mood in the next few days. Therefore, you will not have ice cream to eat."
"So how can you feel better?"
"I'll go weed the fields with my dad tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and I'll feel better."
"No, I want to go cut grass for the pigs. Last time I went to help cut grass for the pigs, Grandpa Xian gave me three work points. He only gave me one work point for weeding, which is too little. I won't go."
"Hey, you're still so picky. Go help with the composting tomorrow."
"Hey, dad is lying. A child can't do the job of fermenting manure."
"You, you only know how to use your smartness on your dad. Eat quickly, and then we'll blow bubbles."
"Uh-huh."
The next day, early in the morning, Nan Yi took Nan Ruoyin to the reclamation team to help.
The reclamation team is the farming team of the Wenchangwei Brigade. On the seventh day of the first lunar month, after Nan Yi held a meeting at the brigade headquarters, the brigade started to move and organized those who were unwilling to go outside into a farming team.
Later, Nan Yi officially named the team the Reclamation Team, with Ge Cuizhu as the team leader.
"Nan Yi, why are you here again? You come to work, but you won't be given any work points." Ge Cuizhu said as soon as she saw Nan Yi.
"It's okay, Auntie, just give her work points." Nan Yi pointed at Nan Ruoyin.
"Of course Ruoyin has to be credited, she's a good worker." After that, Ge Cuizhu said to Nan Ruoyin, "If you work for a day today , grandma will give you five work points, okay?"
"Well, thank you, grandma."
After sending Nan Ruoyin to pull weeds, Ge Cuizhu started chatting with Nan Yi.
"Nan Yi, the reclamation team is full of old, weak, sick and disabled women. The early rice harvest is not ideal, and the late rice doesn't look good either. After paying the imperial grain, the remaining grain is not enough for everyone in the team to eat until next year."
"Aunt, you are calculating the average of everyone, right?"
"Yeah, shouldn't it?"
"In fact, we don't need to count all of them. Those who have already gone out will eat outside most of the time. They can get less food from the team and more money from them."
"Oh, I forgot. Not everyone needs to eat that much. If we calculate it this way, there will definitely be enough food. However, it's just enough, not too much."
"It's okay. We have just started semi-mechanized planting and haven't figured it out yet. It will be fine once we get the hang of it. We don't need to deliberately pursue yields. We should stick to the principle of not using pesticides and only applying organic fertilizers.
If there is really not enough food, just buy it from outside. With money and tickets in hand, it is impossible to go hungry.
After this year, we will continue to grow crops in paddy fields, and as for dry land, we will select a few literate people to learn how to grow vegetable greenhouses.
In addition, our climate can also cultivate oyster mushrooms, pleurotus geesteranus, enokitake mushrooms, king oyster mushrooms, and enoki mushrooms. The reclamation team must change their mindset. Our goal of farming should not just be to fill our stomachs.
You may not be able to grow gold in the soil, but it is not difficult to grow silver.
While there is not much work on the fields now, we will pick a few smart people and go to a place within half a day’s drive of a truck from Wenchangwei to see what vegetables are sold in the grocery stores in other cities.
Keep good records and come back to discuss together what dishes are acceptable to people in Guangdong but are not sold outside or are difficult to buy.
As long as the vegetables can be grown here in Wenchangwei, please plant them for me. I won’t have any trouble selling them.
In addition, you can also grow bean sprouts. This is easy to make, bean sprouts are not prone to diseases, the cycle is short, and you don’t have to plant them in the fields. You can do it directly in front of or behind the house.”
"There's so much to do, the team is overwhelmed."
"We are working on semi-mechanical work, so how can we be too busy? We can gather people together, pool our wisdom, visit and inquire about which jobs can be assigned to machines and what other machines can be used in Wenchangwei.
Anything that can be replaced by a machine will be replaced by a machine.
Aunt, you are 79 this year, 80 next year, and there are still 29 months left until the end of the year after 81.
According to my plan, in two years and five months, the reclamation team will be reorganized into a reclamation company, and then gradually expanded into a reclamation group.
In 29 months, you must pay me at least 500,000 yuan in profit. Otherwise, I will approve your entry into the pension security system in advance, so you can go home and lie down and wait for food."
"Nan Yi, aren't you embarrassing me? I'm only in my early forties. If you ask me to go home to retire, people in the team will gossip about me." Ge Cuizhu said anxiously with a red face.
"So, use your brain and don't let yourself live too comfortably. Go out and watch carefully, learn carefully, and think carefully. I have already told you roughly what to do. Auntie, if you still can't do it well, it only shows that your ability is limited."
"Okay, okay, I'll do it. I'll definitely work hard. Two and a half years, right? I'll give it my all."
"Two years and five months."
Nan Yi's reminder was a bit of a letdown, but he still said it.
In fact, if Nan Yi were to do it, it would not be difficult for Wenchangwei to earn a million yuan a year just by growing vegetables.
As long as we open up channels to deliver vegetables to the other side of Shencun Bay and slowly build up an organic vegetable brand, it would not be too difficult to achieve, even if it costs tens of millions, if not millions.
If you are a little bit ruthless, you can still go public.
Let the leeks see for themselves what it means for vegetables to be kidnapped; what it means for vegetables to come back, not only by themselves, but also with their husbands and cubs ; what it means for the account books in the finance department to spontaneously combust; what it means for the accountant to abscond with the money; what it means to suffer losses year after year...
Perhaps you can also cooperate with pharmaceutical companies that produce stents and introduce potential customers to them on a regular basis.
This leek needs a stent, that one needs a heart bypass, tsk tsk…
He went to the fields, bent over and pulled weeds. Since Nan Ruoyin often made things worse for Nan Yi, Nan Yi's weeding speed was not fast. By the time he was about to stop work at noon, he had only pulled out a few acres of the sparse rice grass.
"Dad, I want to have fried eggs with leeks for lunch."
"Okay, go tell Grandma Ge, and we'll go to her vegetable garden and harvest some."
"Um."
Nan Ruoyin nodded and trotted to Ge Cuizhu's side.
"Grandma Ge, I want to eat leeks."
"If you want to eat leeks, ask your dad to go to grandma's vegetable garden to pick them."
"Yes, Grandma Ge, I won't take your leeks for nothing. I'll send you a fish this afternoon. A very big fish."
"Okay, okay, then grandma is waiting to eat your fish."
Nan Ruoyin ran back to Nan Yi and said, "Dad, Grandma Ge agreed."
"Okay, let's go cut it."
He took Nan Ruoyin to the river to wash the mud on his legs, passed by the cowshed of the third team, took a sickle from it, and went straight to Ge Cuizhu's vegetable garden.
"You can cut as much as you want to eat, but don't pull them out. Leeks are very stupid. Once you cut them, they will grow again."
"Yes, I'll do it. Leeks are easy to cut."
Nan Ruoyin took the sickle and ran towards the leeks, humming as she cut them, "Leeks, leeks, good baby, stand up one by one; leeks, leeks, good baby, grow well one by one; leeks, leeks, good baby, please don't lie down..."
"Dad, is this enough?" Nan Ruoyin cut the leeks and showed them to Nan Yi.
"That's enough. There's enough for two pots, my chive hero."
"If there are too many, make leek boxes. I heard that leek boxes and leek heroes are a better match."
"Well, Leek Man, come up, and Bottle Man will take you to fly back." Nan Yi squatted down and bent over, and Nan Ruoyin swooped down and pounced on Nan Yi's back.
"Take off, Bottle Man!"
