In July 1994, when the wind swept the golden wheat husks and flew in the sun, the United States World Cup had come to an end, the bell at the end of the college entrance examination was silenced in the laughter and crying of young people, the first large-scale celestial collision that mankind could observe since the invention of the telescope was already staged, 21 Sumakerk-Levy 9 comets were crashing towards Jupiter at a speed of 60 kilometers per second, it was like a long train running deep in the universe, and 2 billion atomic bombs were exploded non-stop.

Scientists say it provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for mankind to gain a deeper understanding of the mysteries of the universe and reveal the origin and evolution of life on Earth. However, more than half of the people in the East are illiterate, and there are still 1 billion people who do not know how to look up at the starry sky, they do not believe in God, they are down-to-earth, they work silently on the land, and they work hard in this era when life is gradually getting richer, completely eliminating illiteracy, explosively advancing a quasi-information society, and modernization is coming to the people step by step, and they can see the light and hope.

In July 1994, with harvest and hope, Lin Shiyu came to Yunxi Village.

She was commissioned by Zhang Yunqi to write a report about the Longjingyuan Canning Factory, but after a preliminary understanding of the Longjingyuan Canning Factory, she changed her mind and decided to write about Yunxi Village, which was thriving and full of hope in the documents.

At this time, Yunxi Village is in the best time of the year, the temperature is not hot or cold, the melons and fruits and grains have been ripe, the ditch and the mountains are full of deep and light green, a few days ago there was a heavy rain, the crescent river water is much more prosperous than in previous years, some narrow parts of the river flow waves, rumbling sound through the village in July, the autumn harvest has slowly kicked off: harvesting tobacco leaves, beating red dates, cutting rice, picking peanuts, picking soybeans...... Everywhere there is a bustling rural idyll.

Lin Shiyu and the photographer of "Xiangnan Daily" arrived in Yunxi Village on the same day, after eating, Zhang Haijun, director of Yunxi Village and chairman of the cooperative, took her to the planting base, the planting base is under the General Ridge, very large, relatively contiguous standardized planting area of 1200 acres, the crop is the famous Fangyuan pepper in Fengyang, now it is the pepper color change period, the green and red peppers are full of branches, the farmers recruited by the cooperative are harvesting, and the harvest will continue until November.

Zhang Haijun introduced to her that this pepper planting base is a key project of Yunxi Village joint-stock crop professional planting cooperative, which adopts the compound business cooperation model of "cooperative + company + base + farmers + land dividends + labor income", and all the peppers produced are sold to Liansheng's Longjingyuan canning factory.

At present, the income of farmers in Yunxi Village is divided into four parts, land dividends, labor income, stock dividends at the end of the year and the sales income of loose soybeans based on the underwriting contract of Longjingyuan Canning Factory, this year, deducting the income of farmers from self-planted tobacco, the additional average income of 68 farmers throughout the year will not be less than 3,000 yuan, and all the villagers of Yunxi Village will be lifted out of poverty by the end of this year.

Lin Shiyu smiled and praised: "The whole village has been lifted out of poverty, Village Chief Zhang, you, the leader of Yunxi Village, have made great contributions." ”

Zhang Haijun hurriedly waved his hand: "What kind of leader can I be, our village can have today, it all depends on Yunqi's doll, he is our leader, a great hero!"

Lin Shiyu shook his head with a smile, a little resentful in his heart.

Zhang Yunqi that guy tricked her into doing this report last month, and said that he would come with her, but the person who turned back was gone, listening to his father Zhang Laohan, Zhang Yunqi is now in the hospital every day with a girl named Chujian, I thought that he, the big boss, was working day and night for the grand blueprint of Liansheng, but I didn't expect it to be a child's love......

The next day, Lin Shiyu participated in the coordination and docking meeting for the construction of Longjingyuan Processing and Production Park led by Fengyang County Government and led by Liansheng and Longwan Town.

Li Jilin, general manager of Liansheng, made it clear at the meeting that he would invest 10 million yuan in the early stage of this project. He also introduced Liansheng's future planning, docking three production lines, building a pig breeding base and a Lingwu duck breeding base, and next year will launch Fengyang jar meat in the national market, Jiangchuan Lingwu duck series of characteristic new products, so that it and Zhang Jiqi Fengdu fish powder together, become Jiangchuan's three business cards for external publicity.

Based on this goal, Longjingyuan Canning Factory will be based on the Yunxi Village joint-stock crop professional planting cooperative, radiating 18 administrative villages in Longwan Town, 42,878 farmers, and ordering 1,600 tons of soybeans and 300 tons of peanuts from farmers in the town in the underwriting contract + bulk planting mode, benefiting no less than 1,000 farmers, with an additional annual income of not less than 1,000 yuan per farmer, providing thousands of jobs, driving the development of surrounding supporting industries such as catering industry and transportation industry, and helping nearly 10,000 farmers to initially solve the problem of food and clothing.

This plan is not grandiose in the poor and white Longwan Town, the government leaders present are very excited, and constantly emphasize that the government level will fully cooperate with Liansheng, improve the roadbed and facilities from Longwan Town to Yunxi Village, and plan to transfer a 150-acre site within half a month to connect with Liansheng, level the land, build a production and processing park, and fully support Longjingyuan to build a pig breeding base and a Lingwu duck breeding base plan.

Lin Shiyu made a brief record of these contents, and then interviewed them one by one, Liansheng's general manager and executives, the county magistrate of Fengyang County, the mayor of Longwan Town, and the village secretary of Yunxi Village, she listened to a lot of constructive words for the future, and the preliminary idea of fighting for the benefit of the people, but this was not the core she wanted very much, although she didn't know what she wanted specifically.

Lin Shiyu is a native of Lijin City, a provincial capital, and after being a reporter of the provincial newspaper, he often travels south and north, and he is not unaccustomed to his life in the countryside.

In the eyes of the people in the neighboring villages, the people in Yunxi Village seemed to be crazy, getting up early in the morning to harvest tobacco leaves, ploughing the fields and planting rice seedlings, grabbing the soybeans in the Tiantian at the right time, and filling the time arrangement.

All of this they did was to plant soybeans that the cooperative planned to deliver to households in the coming year, and as soon as they were free, they would go to the cooperative's pepper production base to work part-time to earn labor fees.

Yunxi Village Cooperative is the phoenix Zhang Yunqi who flew out of the mountain nest in his hometown, the first phase only benefited 68 villagers in the village, and the poor and idle neighboring villagers could not fall into these benefits, so they couldn't help but be a little red-eyed.

Everyone seems to be full of hope for the future development of Yunxi Village. This is how Lin Shiyu felt after interviewing many villagers. However, the life they are living now is not good in the eyes of Lin Shiyu, who is accustomed to a luxurious life, and it is also very vulgar, they don't seem to be enjoying it, but bearing it, working in the fields without knowing it is dark, and they are already satisfied if they can fill their stomachs, but they don't have the anxiety and uneasiness of the people in the city, and they still have clear eyes on their faces that have suffered from the vicissitudes of life.

Lin Shiyu is not a joyist, she is willing to progress.

One afternoon, she went to the land that was planning to build a processing park for Longjingyuan, and on the way back, she met a middle-aged man, who was lame, dragging a cart of soybeans, probably tired, took off his undershirt, and sat on a stone on the side of the mud road to smoke a dry tobacco stick.

It may be the nature of a reporter, Lin Shiyu subconsciously wanted to chat with him, walked over and sat on the stone next to him, and asked with a smile: "Big brother, where are you going to send these soybeans?"

The middle-aged man may also know that she is a big reporter from the provincial capital, but she is reserved, and stumbles: "Village, the cooperative in the village." ”

Lin Shiyu asked: "How much is the purchase price of soybeans, and how much can people in the village generally sell them?"

"1 yuan and 2 catties, how much money can be sold mainly depends on how much land you have, Yunqi doll takes care of the people in our village, how much you collect, like me, 3 acres and 2 centimeters of land, can produce more than 1,000 catties of soybeans, it is estimated that there are more than 1,300 yuan. ”

Lin Shiyu knew that the main purpose of talking about these was to create a comfortable chatting atmosphere, and she said with a smile: "This income is not low." ”

The middle-aged man waved his hand: "This is nothing, this is only a part, the chili base in our village has my land, and I can get land dividends, I also have a stake in the cooperative, and there will be dividends at the end of the year." ”

He said that he had some energy, and he was not restrained: "I have a bad leg and foot, and the village takes care of me and asks me to clean up in the cooperative, and I go there once a day in the morning and afternoon, and I don't delay the farm work if I have labor fees! Oh, speaking of which, our village has changed too much this year! Since the doll started this cooperative, every household has really had a head start." ”

Lin Shiyu smiled: "Then what do you think of Zhang Yunqi?"

The middle-aged man took a puff of cigarette and said with a smile: "What about this, if you bring someone out of the village, you can tell him a good story." In short, Yunqi's doll can do practical things for us hometown people, whether a person is crooked or good, and it also depends on how many practical things he has done. To put it more broadly, throughout the ages, which dynasty has relied on these things to achieve things? Our Chinese nation does not believe in God! But let me ponder, our country's more than 800 million peasants, if you say that if you don't work hard, you won't do practical things, and everyone will get up early and dig in the ground in the dark, and they still won't have enough to eat after a year, what is this, what is this called......

"There is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are still starving to death. ”

"Yes, yes! The middle-aged man kept nodding: "There is still a level of cultured people, there is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are still starving to death." We farmers have been growing crops in the soil all our lives, but we don't know how much hunger we have suffered. ”

Lin Shiyu asked, "Why?"

The middle-aged man grinned, a row of white teeth shining: "Where is this that we mud-legged people think clearly? I only know how to farm, but at the end of last year, Yunqi that doll said a sentence at the preparatory meeting for the establishment of the cooperative, I felt a little reasonable, he said, just because the whole country is running forward, you can't ignore these people who have been knocked down." ”

Lin Shiyu didn't speak for a long time.

It was not early, the middle-aged man rolled the dry tobacco stick into the soles of his feet and stepped on it, said goodbye to her, and then dragged a lame leg to push the rack cart, pulling the soybeans that were bulging all over the ground, and walked forward on the scorching road. On the road, the fathers and elders who returned to the cooperative after sending soybeans were like old cattle who had escaped from bondage, and their steps were very brisk and leisurely. The earth stretched endlessly, and weeds covered the slopes.

There are times when there is a time of withering glory, and there is no end to life.