Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The one who came to buy the shriveled melon seeds was Tao Dayong.

His father Tao Jianshe asked him to come and buy it before, but he insisted on waiting and seeing. After Li Jianguo bought the tractor, he believed that he could make a lot of money by picking melon seeds. When he came to buy it again, it was too late and they were gone.

Fortunately, Tao Daqiang heard that the Li family still had deflated melon seeds, so after thinking it over again and again, he decided that he could still buy some.

The so-called shriveled melon seeds are actually only relative to those sold. In fact, they are not empty, but just not so full. Li Jianguo winnowed out the empty and unripe ones with a winnowing basket.

"Those shriveled melon seeds may not grow after being planted." Li Jianguo planned to winnow these shriveled melon seeds and save them for frying in the winter. He really had no intention of selling them.

"Uncle Jianguo, please sell it to me." Tao Dayong pleaded, "I was just slow before, and now you have nothing. I want to make some money next year too!

Throughout the year, I can only earn a little extra money from your little dragon, but the family expenses are not small, and I also want to ride a bicycle next year... Just sell it to me. If it doesn't sprout, it's my problem, I definitely won't ask you for help!"

"It's not a question of whether to find me or not. You can't use these melon seeds as seeds." Li Jianguo was a little amused.

In fact, when Tao Dayong's father told him to buy seeds, he really wanted to buy them, but his wife Ma Chunhong stopped him and asked him to wait.

At this moment, Ma Chunhong also heard the news that Li Jianguo bought a tractor, and realized that he regretted it. Then she asked him to go find his father and ask his father to give half of the seeds to her family, because Tao Jianshe had already bought seeds to plant ten acres of land.

Tao Dayong slapped his wife.

Before, Ma Chunhong stopped him from buying, and he didn't come. He regretted it later. He didn't blame his wife, but he himself was not firm at the time.

But his wife asked him to go to his father and ask him to give her half of the seeds. If he did such a thing, he would be a real coward.

After slapping his wife, Tao Dayong came to find Li Jianguo.

He thought very clearly that as long as there was a kernel in the melon seeds, the seedlings would basically sprout. Maybe the seedlings were born with deficiencies, so he just had to take good care of them.

At most, if others contribute one pound of fertilizer, he will contribute two pounds; if others contribute one pound of effort, he will contribute twice.

Others can harvest 200 kilograms of melon seeds per acre of land, but he is happy with just 100 kilograms.

Not to mention 100 kilograms, he would thank Li Jianguo if he could collect 50 kilograms!

Fifty kilograms, at a little over two yuan per kilogram, that's more than a hundred yuan, and ten acres of land would be more than a thousand yuan!

Hey, since you can make money, which farmer would be afraid of not having the strength to work at this time?

As for asking his father for seeds, he might have had this idea before last year. But after last year, seeing that his younger brother was becoming more and more successful, Tao Dayong no longer had such an idea.

A man of such a big stature has to drag down his fifty-year-old father in everything. Is he still a human being?

Li Jianguo was so pestered by Tao Dayong that he had no choice but to sell the shriveled melon seeds to Tao Dayong.

"One yuan per kilogram. I'm not selling it to you for free." Li Jianguo made it clear in front of Tao Dayong:

"You are Daqiang's brother. Our relationship is here. Among these 15 kilograms of shriveled melon seeds, there are 5 kilograms of good melon seeds.

I won't admit what I said after I leave this house. Just know this. If you really want to plant, you can plant less next year. If you have any management issues in the future, come and ask me. If you really make money, take care of your family and be filial to your father. "

There was a small bag inside the melon seed bag given to Tao Dayong. Li Jianguo naturally had a surplus of melon seeds left for his family, and this matter naturally could not be told to others.

When Tao Dayong, a grown man, heard what Li Jianguo said, his eyes felt a little sore at that moment.

He was walking back with the bag and met Ma Jinbao on the way. Ma Jinbao laughed at him:

"Hey, Tao Dayong, didn't you say you wanted to take a look? Why did you go buy Li's melon seeds? He still has some?"

"No more, let me get all the remaining sunflower seeds!" Tao Dayong raised his arms, "What else can I do? I don't have your flock of sheep. If I want to make money, I have to think of a way!"

"Can his family still sell those shriveled 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 bad intentions, and he scolded him, "Is there a donkey hair in your ear? I said I took it, but Uncle Jianguo didn't take my money!

I said whether the melon seeds can be grown or not is my business. I cracked a few and there were still melon seeds inside, but they were not very filling. "

Ma Jinbao recalled that it seemed that Tao Dayong did not say buy, but took.

The others looked at him like an idiot.

Want to laugh at others? Now you've laughed at yourself, right?
Tao Dayong ignored him and walked into his yard carrying the bag.

Just as he was about to put the bag away in the empty room, he heard someone calling him:
"Dayong!"

Tao Dayong turned his head and saw that it was his father Tao Jianshe, holding a bag in his hand.

"Dad, why are you here? Come in and have some water!"

"No more," Tao Jianshe waved his hand at the gate. "Here are eight kilograms of melon seeds. Take them and plant them next year."

"What about you?" Tao Dayong didn't expect his father to send him melon seeds, so he asked hurriedly.

“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 those shriveled seeds? You need good seeds to plant melons!" Tao Jianshe shook his head, "You can't fool around with the land!"

"Dad, I'm not kidding!" Tao Dayong looked around to see if there was anyone around, and whispered, "Uncle Jianguo gave me some good seeds for you and Daqiang's sake.

Take these seeds back with you, and don't tell anyone else about this. I'll have some to plant next year. The land I allocated has a lot of sandy land, so you can plant some and make money if you manage it well.

Besides, Daqiang is going to have a baby, and the family will have a heavy burden next year. You should take care of them and don’t worry about me. I’m doing fine here!”

After hearing what Tao Dayong said, Tao Jianshe was still skeptical.

Tao Dayong turned around and took out a handful of seeds from the bag at the door of his idle house and showed them to Tao Jianshe. After Tao Jianshe saw them, he believed them.

"Okay, if you have any questions when you plant them, remember to ask Li Juan's dad!" Tao Jianshe went back with the bag, "It's best to keep these melon seeds well and hang them up. Be careful of mice in winter."

"I understand." Tao Dayong felt warm in his heart.

If he receives concern from his elders twice a day, no matter how useless he is, he will be full of enthusiasm.

Ma Chunhong did not return to her parents' home after being beaten by Tao Dayong. She knew that she had been mean again. After those incidents last year, Tao Jianshe and Tao Daqiang had become her husband's weak spot, and they could not be touched.

But sometimes I just can’t control my mouth, there’s really nothing I can do about it.

Tao Daqiang put the melon seeds away and went into the house. Ma Chunhong asked hurriedly:

"Did you get the melon seeds back?"

“I got it back.”

"Is it really deflated?" Ma Chunhong still had hope. "I just heard Dad talking outside. Is it true..."

"It's deflated. Dad wanted to give us melon seeds, but I refused." Tao Dayong told the truth.

"How can you not want it? Dad gave it to you!" Ma Chunhong suddenly shouted.

Tao Dayong glared at her, and Ma Chunhong stopped screaming immediately.

"Try 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 with some doubt, they looked quite normal.

She cracked one open and checked to see if the seeds inside were good.

Look up at Tao Dayong.

"This is the shriveled melon seeds Uncle Jianguo gave us." "How is it shriveled..." Ma Chunhong, "Isn't this..."

"More to say?" Tao Dayong glared at him.

Ma Chunhong immediately stopped talking and asked:
"That is……"

"They are worse than those sold," Tao Dayong said, "but they all have kernels, but the kernels are not very 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. He seemed to be like that in the past.

Alas, stupidity is sometimes a disease. You have to wait until you get better; it cannot be cured.

After Ma Chunhong was excited, she became a little suspicious. Why did the Li family take care of her family? Is there something wrong with this kind of seed?

She only knocked one at that time and didn't dare to knock more - if she knocked more, there would be a few fewer melon vines when planting next year, and then there would be several dozen less melons. A few dozen melons would mean a kilogram of melon seeds, which would be more than two yuan!
Then, she planted the remaining three or four melon seeds in a broken wash basin outside the window, pulling out the sunflowers in the pot.

A few days later, a few seedlings emerged from the flowerpots, and Ma Chunhong was confused again.

There's nothing wrong with this kind of seed, right?
……

Two days later, Jiang Zhiyu heard that the Li family had bought another tractor.

Her journalistic nature was immediately triggered.

What great news this is!

There are less than five tractors in the whole township, but the two brothers in Team Four alone have two tractors, which were bought with the money earned from growing cash crops. This is definitely big news that can be reported in the state newspaper!

She immediately rode her women's bicycle to the fourth team.

Must interview!

In fact, the framework and main content of the press release were already there when I received the news. My younger brother used a harvester to help farmers harvest wheat, saving time for storing summer grain and earning harvesting fees at the same time.

While ensuring that they grew grain, the elder brother planted cash crops and achieved a good harvest, bringing huge economic benefits. Both brothers bought tractors and became leaders in getting rich in the village, and so on.

But she needed details.

Jiang Zhiyu was also an acquaintance of the Li family. She also knew the location of the Li family and went to Li Jianguo's yard with ease.

Li Jianguo and his wife, and Li Qingxia and his wife were both beating sunflowers in the threshing floor. The heads of the sunflowers (people in the village call them sunflowers) were cut off and pulled to the threshing floor, spread out to dry, and then each person took a stick and beat the sunflower heads hard.

This is to use the principle of vibration to bounce the sunflower seeds off the sunflower heads. Because sunflower seeds are more fragile than wheat, it is not suitable to hit them with a roller like wheat, which will crush the sunflowers.

The knocked down sunflowers will have some skins on the flower disk, so they need to be winnowed at this time. The following situation is similar to that of wheat. After winnowing, they are bagged and then the task is handed in at the Grain Bureau.

The public grain payment required not only wheat, but also sunflower and corn. Some rice-producing areas also required rice - our village had the public grain payment task of paying rice.

Families who grow more sunflowers will complete the sunflower task in their assignment, and use the remaining oil in the village oil press for their own consumption, and sell part of it.

The Li family doesn't plant many sunflowers. Basically, after deducting the grain tax, the remaining oil is enough for the family to eat, and there is some surplus.

Fortunately, Li Long often sent braised meat oil throughout the year, which saved a lot of oil.

Seeing that there was only one unfamiliar woman in the yard, Jiang Zhiyu introduced herself first:
"Hello, sister. I'm Jiang Zhiyu, the propaganda officer of the village. Is Li Jianguo here?"

"My eldest brother and his friends went to the wheat field to knock out the sunflowers." Chen Lirong pointed to the south and said, "My eldest brother and his wife are both there."

"Oh..." Jiang Zhiyu saw the brand new tractor parked in the yard and immediately took out his camera and took two pictures.

She felt a little regretful. If Li Long's tractor was there too, it would have been nice to take a photo of the two tractors together.

What a pity. What a pity.

Then she rode her bike to the wheat field.

The Li family was not the only one tapping the sunflowers in the wheat field. Five or six families were tapping the sunflowers. They chatted as they tapped the sunflowers, and their mouths were busy cracking the seeds. Most of them had black lips.

Because sunflower itself is black.

This thing is more delicious than sunflower when fried because it produces more oil. But it is small in size and will make your mouth black if you eat too much, so it is only popular in rural areas.

In the summer, when there are open-air movies in the village, people usually fry a pot of sunflower seeds and put them in their pockets, then crack them and swat mosquitoes while watching the movie.

Usually after the movie is over, you'll see the field covered with melon seed shells.

Jiang Zhiyu spotted Li Jianguo's family at a glance. She rode over on her bicycle, got off the bike, and when she was about to lift it up, Li Jianguo had already greeted them:

"Is Director Jiang here?"

"Well, hello, Comrade Li Jianguo, hello everyone!" It was not the first time that Jiang Zhiyu met Li Jianguo's family. After greeting them all, he went straight to the point:

"Comrade Li Jianguo, I heard that you planted ten acres of melons and earned nearly ten thousand yuan, and then bought a new tractor, so I came to see you and interview you about your experience and feelings of getting rich."

"Mr. Jiang, who told you that? How could it be nearly 10,000 yuan? It's only about 5,000 yuan." Li Jianguo quickly denied it, "If you can make so much money by growing melons, wouldn't others have grown them long ago?"

"Well, the reason why everyone spreads the news so exaggeratedly is because they really didn't expect that farming could have such high economic benefits." Jiang Zhiyu herself was a little exaggerated. She took out a small notebook and threw out the prepared questions one by one, and began to interview Li Jianguo.

Li Jianguo also told the truth. The idea was proposed by Li Long, the seeds were bought by Li Long, and the technology was learned by Li Long from the professors of the Bayi Agricultural College. He even made a special trip to ask for advice.

Jiang Zhiyu was particularly interested when he heard this. This is the wealth of science and technology! At present, farmers basically rely on experience to grow crops. At most, they go to the county agricultural extension school for further study, or listen to the experience of students in the agricultural extension school.

It is impossible for a farmer to think of going to a university like the Bayi Agricultural College to ask professors about farming.

In the eyes of most people, including Jiang Zhiyu, university professors are all great scholars who are busy with all kinds of affairs every day. How can they have time to pay attention to the demands of old farmers? Even if farmers come to ask for advice, they probably don’t have time to receive them.

But this example completely breaks everyone’s preconceived ideas, and this is very good news!
What is news? Isn't news something new? For example, Li Jianguo earned more than 500 yuan per mu of land, which is more than ten times the income of ordinary people. This is big news.

And it was news that Li Long went to the Bayi Agricultural College to ask about farming techniques. After all, no one could have thought of it and thought it was impossible, but he went there and did it!
Jiang Zhiyu secretly said that he had come to the right place this time, otherwise he would not have known that such a thing had happened!
If this is written, it will definitely be published in the state newspaper. She even wants to dare to submit it to the autonomous region newspaper!
At present, slogans such as "a strong country in science and technology" and "science and technology are the primary productive forces" are very loud. If I name this article "Science and technology bring huge benefits to farmers" or something like that, it will most likely be published in the Autonomous Region Daily.

Jiang Zhiyu was jealous that Ma Xiaoyan was able to publish news about Li Long in the Autonomous Region Daily, while he himself also wrote stories but could only publish them in the State Daily.

In the past, being published in the state daily was already a great thing. After all, she was just a township news officer, and this year she had actually exceeded her target.

But if there is an opportunity to be published in the Autonomous Region Daily right now, would she be willing to do so?
I am more than willing to do that. Being published in the Autonomous Region Daily is not only a proof of my ability, but also comes with rewards!

Jiang Zhiyu had already begun to reconstruct the framework of this press release in his mind. He had to highlight the central position of science and technology in guiding agriculture and focus on the content of Li Long's visit to the Bayi Agricultural College.

Unfortunately, Li Long is not here, and Li Jianguo is not very clear about the specific details, especially the name of Professor Wu, his major, etc. He is not very clear about anything.

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 we know that Li Long works in the supply and marketing cooperative as a temporary worker, he is often not there, so there is nothing we can do about it.

After reporter Jiang left, Du Chunfang, who was slowly tapping the sunflower, asked worriedly:
"Is this a good idea, Xiaolong? If too many people knew about it, would it affect him?"

"We've already been commended by the autonomous region and reported in the autonomous region's newspapers, radio, and television. What is there to be afraid of now?" Li Qingxia knew it very well.

"Then why can't we see it on TV?" Du Chunfang's thoughts immediately turned to other things.

"Then the movies in our area can't be received by the autonomous region's TV station." Li Qingxia knew a little about this, having heard it all from Li Long.

Li Jianguo just listened and laughed. It was quite 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, because they don't have the energy and are always working. They work until they are old and have no time to get these diseases.

Things will be different from now on. (End of this chapter)