Small talk is also a good way to kill time, and before you know it, the sunset has slanted on Qi Jingtao's cheeks facing the west. The sun is about to set, and the day's flue-cured tobacco buying is coming to an end.

Inside and outside the tobacco purchase site outside the stationmaster's office, there are still people buzzing and lively at this time. Looking out of the window, there is not much change in the number of tobacco farmers who come to sell their tobacco leaves. The open space outside the tobacco station is still crowded with farm vehicles, tractors, horse-drawn carts, mules and horses. Judging from these appearances, Lao Luo and their work today seem to have made little progress.

Tonghongdian Township is a alpine mountain township, and most of the flue-cured tobacco here is planted in the mountains, and most of them belong to the mountainous flue-cured tobacco. This kind of mountain flue-cured tobacco, both in quality and output can not be compared with the flue-cured tobacco in the dam area, and the flue-cured tobacco up the mountain is also a good direction for the development of the new tobacco area. The tobacco farmers in the dam who have a good economic development and have other ways out are increasingly reluctant to plant flue-cured tobacco, which is too troublesome, too labor-intensive, and too torturous.

In order to facilitate farming and field management, the village often allocates mountainous land in a centralized manner. If a family is distributed together, it may be assigned to several hillsides or this one mountain depression or valley. In places where the water and soil conditions are suitable for planting flue-cured tobacco, tobacco farmers in many mountain villages can plant more than ten acres, or even twenty or thirty acres of mountain tobacco.

In order to reduce the labor intensity of carrying green tobacco leaves back and forth, many flue-cured tobacco growers simply build a roasting house next to their tobacco fields and roast tobacco leaves on the spot. To build a roasting house in the mountains, the tobacco company has a uniform construction standard and a corresponding subsidy.

The baking of flue-cured tobacco requires a large amount of fuel, generally using coal, but also using firewood. The mountains are simple, there are trees on the mountains, cut them! High-quality wood is used for other things, and those ordinary wood are used to bake flue-cured tobacco.

The roasting house is built in the mountains, and it is also very convenient to cut flue-cured tobacco firewood, and it also saves coal money, how good, more convenient, how cheap, and more economical. Anyway, planting flue-cured tobacco for half a year, there is nothing to do at other times, so I go up the mountain to chop firewood. If the trees are cut down, they can also be used to open up wasteland and continue to be transformed into flue-cured tobacco land.

The area of Tonghongdian Township is not small, with undulating mountains and rugged mountain roads. Each village goes to a tobacco station to sell tobacco leaves, and the distance of each family is different. During the flue-cured tobacco season, a large number of people are needed at home, and those who should be mobilized must be mobilized to work, and it is impossible to run to the tobacco station without anything.

After the flue-cured tobacco is harvested and baked, tobacco farmers need to preliminarily grade it at home. After accumulating a certain amount, these mountain tobacco farmers will use agricultural vehicles, tractors, mules and horses and other means of transportation that are convenient for their own use and can use, and carry the flue-cured tobacco to the tobacco station for sale.

In such a centralized way of tobacco farmers, the workload of the staff of the tobacco station is considerable. Even if the tobacco farmers have preliminarily sorted and classified them in their own homes, because the tobacco farmers are not really familiar with the grading standards, the sorted flue-cured tobacco grades are messy and unqualified.

Even though they are very familiar with the grading standards, they deliberately dope the higher grade tobacco leaves with inferior and inferior tobacco leaves. Some tobacco farmers deliberately wrap sundries when bandaging and bundling. Without him, it is all to be able to sell more money and increase the economic income of the family.

Therefore, in order to purchase flue-cured tobacco fairly and reasonably, the grading personnel must check the rating of all the flue-cured tobacco sent for sale one by one (bundle more than a dozen tobacco leaves into a handful) when sorting and inspecting the grade, so as to prevent tobacco from confusing the grade of tobacco leaves.

The season of flue-cured tobacco buying is a variety of interesting cat and mouse games. In the process of playing this cat-and-mouse game, it is often the tobacco farmers who are injured. Cats have times when they nap, but cats can play tricks, can be tough, and can set the rules of the game.

Moreover, the grade of flue-cured tobacco must also be under natural light to accurately judge the color difference and fairly judge the grade of flue-cured tobacco. The grading standard for flue-cured tobacco is very complex, divided into forty-two grades, and the price of each grade varies greatly.

The inspectors recruited and trained by the tobacco station are inspected separately, and a grading inspector can't actually sort many tobacco leaves in a day. It's a test of your eyes, hands, and hands, as well as your physical strength, patience and calmness.

The process of flue-cured tobacco grading is the most likely to cause contradictions and disputes in the acquisition process, and it is also the most likely to get tired. Anyone who has sold agricultural products knows it. If you don't understand, you must be a person who has never sold agricultural products.

Seeing that the sun was about to set, the day's purchase work began to come to an end, and there was a commotion among the tobacco farmers who were still waiting in line to sell flue-cured tobacco. Hearing the movement, Stationmaster Luo immediately got up and walked out of the office to deal with it, and Song Yushi and Qi Jingtao followed to watch the situation.

"I've been queuing for two days, I can't hand it in today, and I'll have to queue up again tomorrow. Lao Li, can you please help me finish collecting and then get off work?" a thin black man shouted loudly to the person who was busy inspecting the cigarette grade.

"yes, yes, how many more?"

"If you want to collect it, you will collect a few more, and I have been waiting for a day. “

"You said you got it, and you didn't wait for another night on the street. ”

"It's getting dark, there are so many people waiting, follow the rules, don't make other names. ”

"Otherwise, let's put our cigarettes in the cigarette station and line up, so that we don't have to squeeze again tomorrow." ”

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There was a lot of gossip in the crowd, and the scene was chaotic. Luckily, to catch the last train, those tobacco farmers who are being graded are full of joy. They didn't speak, they didn't participate in the crowd of onlookers. Those lucky people helped the acceptance staff carry their own tobacco leaves, and at the same time accompanied the smiling faces and said good things, hoping to get a satisfactory grading result.

Those who were almost in line were impatient, and the voices of pleas and complaints rang out, and they shouted and shouted from afar to join in the fun, knowing that they would not be able to sell them in time today.

Laughter and schadenfreude mingle together. The scene is a little chaotic, there are people who say anything, but they don't dare to be loud and domineering, and they name and scold the mother of the flue-cured tobacco purchaser at the tobacco station, this is not that someone wants to make trouble, it is that everyone is poor and happy.

Looking at the familiar scene in front of him, Qi Jingtao was full of emotion. People at both ends are very embarrassed, especially the tobacco farmers are helpless. They are all natives of their hometown, and they basically know each other.

They don't dare to offend the people at the smoke station, they can't afford to offend at all. Are you still coming to sell your family's flue-cured tobacco? Flue-cured tobacco is a monopoly product, and the flue-cured tobacco in this township can only be sold here to the tobacco station, and you can't go anywhere else. When you go, no one will collect your flue-cured tobacco. Selling to someone else, you are breaking the law, and confiscating your flue-cured tobacco is the least punishment.