Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Old Looks for a New Look

After several months of hard work, the Sanjiangkou berm project was finally completed. After the completion of the project, Sanjiangkou, Xia Chen, Jinge, Zhengjia, Zheng Ying, Baidai several close to the brigade benefited, and other far away from several surrounding villages also benefited, whenever the Qiantang River rises at high tide, the water will no longer overflow the embankment, and dozens of surrounding villages will not be flooded in the future. (Later, the Fengqiao River and the Xijiang River were diverted, and the water flow did not pass through the Sanjiang estuary, and floods rarely occurred.) )

In the blink of an eye, in the spring of 1979, it was the farming season again, and Ouyang Shu recorded that Secretary Sun drove the motorcycle given to him by his son and ran around dozens of brigades in Diankou Commune. I saw that the pastoral land at the mouth of the Sanjiang Estuary, which had been washed away by the flood, had been restored, and it was much better than the original, and there was no longer the original twisting and twisting appearance. The cultivated area of Sanjiangkou has reached 1,894 mu, including 1,776 mu of paddy field and 118 mu of dry land. Before 1978, the cultivated land area was less than 1,000 mu, and there were 8,900 mu of wasteland and chaotic beaches, and there was no fixed field every year. Now it has become a fixed farmland, and it has almost doubled. The other brigades that were destroyed by the flood also changed dramatically, and since the river no longer flooded, the reclaimed fields later became the inherent property of the village.

Secretary Sun smiled and pointed to the newly reclaimed fields and said: "Secretary Ouyang, look at these newly reclaimed fields, they are neat and tidy, each new field is flat and square, and those ridges are so wide that you can push a wheelbarrow back and forth to transport things, how convenient it is! The middle road can still be opened to traffic, if our commune buys two tractors and drives them over to collect grain during the harvest, how convenient it is!"

Secretary Ouyang simply stopped the car, turned off the fire, and walked down to greet the busy members: "Comrades, is the newly cultivated farmland okay? Is the soil loose, and is the sand content high?"

When the members of the Han family team saw Secretary Ouyang and Secretary Sun coming, they all shouted happily: "Secretary Ouyang, Secretary Sun ······"

Secretary Ouyang and Secretary Sun responded while walking into the ridges.

Han Laosan was holding a pot of fertilizer and spreading it in the field, and when he saw Secretary Ouyang coming, he hurriedly returned to the ridge and put down the fertilizer. took out a dry tobacco stick from his satchel and greeted him affectionately: "Secretary Ouyang, Secretary Sun, you two are here, and you don't say hello, look at this newly reclaimed farmland, it's pretty good, the sand content is not high, the soil is relatively loose, it should be a good field for growing rice." You guys come and try it, experience it!" As he spoke, he handed the dry tobacco stick to Secretary Ouyang, and handed him the tobacco by the way, shouting: "Come to a bucket!"

Secretary Ouyang took the dry tobacco stick, filled the tobacco pot with tobacco, drew a match and lit it, smoked it with a click, and returned the dry tobacco stick after smoking. Take off your shoes, pull up your trousers and go down to the paddy field, sweep back and forth with your feet a few times while walking, feel that the soil is not only soft, but also soft, some sandy, but not a lot, a lot of sand, it will be compacted, the soil is not aerated, and the water storage is not good, the yield is not high, if the soil has a proper sandiness, then increase the air permeability of the soil, so that the root system of the seedlings develops quickly, and there are more tillers, so that the seedling stem of a rice tree is more, and the grain yield is high. Secretary Ouyang felt that the soil was very breathable, so he shouted: "Secretary Sun, you can also experience it, and see if this Xintian is breathable!

Secretary Sun listened to Secretary Ouyang's happy appearance, also took off his shoes, pulled up his trouser legs, walked to the field, swept a few times in the mud with his feet, and slowly felt the soil, which was indeed very good, and then changed places, continued to feel, changed several places one after another, and felt the same, in addition to the soft soil, it was also "rustling······ when stepping on it" As soon as the feet came out, muddy water poured over and filled most of the footprints. He said, "Good field, this field will definitely have a bumper harvest!" I can guarantee it!"

Secretary Ouyang played for a while, then returned to the ridge, sat on the ridge, and asked, "Han Laosan, how many new fields have your Han family team developed, and how many new lands?"

Han Laosan replied with a smile: "More than 800 acres of paddy fields and more than 100 acres of dry land! Our team used to have less than 1,000 acres, but now the total area is 1,894 acres, which has almost doubled! With the increase in the area of cultivated land, in the future, the grain production in our team will increase year by year! In the past, they always watched the Mujiawan brigade have a bumper harvest, and they had extra grain to raise pigs.

Secretary Ouyang smiled, smiled very brightly, and said jokingly: "Han Laosan, do you still remember crying desperately while hugging the county magistrate's trouser leg? This shout is shocking and crying ghosts and gods! This shout has almost more than 1,000 acres of cultivated land, you are amazing! I admire you! I admire you!" He said and gave Han Laosan a thumbs up.

Han Laosan smiled and replied: "Fortunately, Ouyang Old Ghost was very angry that day, and gave me travel expenses, otherwise I really didn't plan to go······?"

Secretary Ouyang couldn't help but ask: "I didn't call you to cry ghosts that day, why did you cry ghosts, why? I can't figure it out now! What kind of mentality did you have at that time?"

Han Laosan touched the back of his head, smiled innocently, and replied: "That's what I thought at that time, you gave me travel expenses this year, if I can't make it, I won't come again next year, then there will be no hope for our Sanjiangkou project! I feel sad from the bottom of my heart! This is related to the future fate of our Sanjiangkou, and I can only let it go! So the more I shouted, the more I shouted, the more sad I became, I didn't hide my sadness at all, I wanted to die at that time! Fortunately, Secretary Li came out······"

Secretary Ouyang immediately understood Han Laosan's mood at that time, and he was indeed out of the way.

Secretary Ouyang then asked: "Han Laosan, how is Zhujiawu and Shijiawu doing? Do you know the inside story?"

Han Laosan replied: "When Secretary Li saw that their water was good, he simply asked them to make fish and duck farming in the pond, saying that he was learning from the experience of the Wuyi Commune, and invited a technician from the Wuyi Commune!

Secretary Ouyang's eyes widened suddenly, and he shouted: "What, Secretary Li, Secretary Li went to the Wuyi Commune and brought the technology back, this is too awesome, right?

Han Laosan blinked and replied: "Secretary Ouyang, don't go, your son is now a celebrity, and he will go to the province for a meeting! It is estimated that it will take half a month to come back, and many places in the province will need him to be a technical guide! He is our fragrant gluttony in Zhejiang Province!"

"Ah, I've only been back for a few months, and that kid has become a celebrity in the province, this, this, this is simply incredible, even I, the old man, don't have a hunch!" Secretary Ouyang's eyes widened in shock.

"Old ghost Ouyang, your son is going to have a prosperous official fortune! He is not as simple as a commune secretary! Look at you, an old ghost, you have been a lifelong opponent with my old grandson, and in the end, both of you have played to the end! Alas! I have not suffered from your eyes in my life?" Secretary Sun said with a joke.

Han Laosan replied with a smile: "A few days ago, Secretary Li called to find Ouyang Jian, and the people from the Wuyi Commune said that Ouyang Jian went to the province to hold a meeting to get rich, look at my memory, anyway, it is a conference to get rich, and it will be held for half a month!"

"Then what did Secretary Li tell you to do with my son?" Secretary Ouyang couldn't help asking.

"It seems that it is engaged in the cultivation of medicinal herbs, and I don't really understand!" Han Laosan recalled.

"There are not many medicinal herbs in our Diankou Mountain, where is there any place to grow medicinal herbs?

"It's not our store, it seems to be the head of the line, or the two communes of Caota!" Han Laosan replied.