Chapter 16: Stepping Stones

"Take Lei Feng's gun, Lei Feng is a good example for us; took over Lei Feng's gun, and tens of thousands of Lei Feng are growing.

Learn from him, infinitely loyal to the people; Learn from him, show no mercy to the enemy; Learn from him, dedicate his youth to the motherland, fight for [***] for the rest of his life, have no self-interest, specialize in benefiting others, and be a screw that will never rust.

Be modest and prudent, always revolutionary, and be a good student of Chairman Mao. ”

Fang Dajun carried a hoe, looked at the green land, and couldn't help but sing a song "Take Lei Feng's gun", which is a compulsory song in the current junior high school textbooks!

One of the sentences: "Exclusively for self-interest, not for the benefit of others." He was very approving!

There are two pieces of land behind the house that add up to more than 100 square meters, which is the family's self-reserved land, that is, the land that is not within the scope of national measurement, so the things grown on the self-reserved land do not need to be handed over.

My parents and second sister are diligent and take good care of this bit of land, one is planted with green vegetables and radishes, and the other is now planted with sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes, corn, wheat, this is something that is grown alternately. Corn from March to August, sweet potato from June to October, and wheat from October to May of the following year. Depending on the weather, there may be a slight difference between sowing and harvesting times.

Sweet potatoes can be planted next to the roots of corn, that is, they can be planted on top of each other in one field, and sweet potatoes and wheat do not conflict at the same time, so sweet potatoes are really good!

The time of corn and wheat just conflicted for more than two months, and there was no choice but to postpone the time of corn sowing, which would lead to the loss of part of the corn harvest.

Thirty years later, the tradition of corn transplanting is still preserved in most parts of Kawachi! In addition, before the sweet potatoes are planted in June, the seedlings are also cultivated before transplanting. When the wheat arrives, it is directly pit and sown into the soil.

And if you want to plant rapeseed and squeeze rapeseed oil (clear oil), you can only give up wheat, because the planting cycle of rape and wheat is basically in conflict, and there is no way to reconcile!

Of course, if you don't need to be troublesome, you can drain the farmland and plant rapeseed, and after harvesting the rapeseed in May, you can quickly change the dry field to paddy field to grow rice, which should have been planted in April, so that a part of the rice harvest will be lost.

Although each has its own losses, it is still much better than planting a single crop, and if the villagers see the vacant land, they will definitely find a way to use it.

The solution is figured out by people, and where there is a will, there is a way!

Although it is only September now, in fact, the sweet potatoes can already be dug up, but they have not grown full, and they are still relatively small, Fang Dajun walked into the soil and cut the soil at the root of a sweet potato plant with his hands.

"Well, it's a little smaller, but it's ready to be used!" Fang Dajun showed a satisfied smile.

Immediately start work, hoes are not used, directly with hand planing, each plant only dig out one sweet potato, so that it will not affect the remaining sweet potatoes continue to grow.

"Brother, what are you doing!" Suddenly, a scream of anger broke the table.

Fang Dajun instinctively shuddered, turned his head and shouted, "Second sister, you came just in time, come and help me!" ”

"I'm also helping you, why are you digging so many red roots, if you want to eat and dig one or two!" Fang Yan's face turned white with fright, if the old man knew about this, it would not be her brother who was scolded, but her.

Fang Dajun said with a smile: "It's okay, I can't suffer a loss, I'm going to send it to Yang Chuntao, that is, Secretary Wang's daughter-in-law." Listen to me, you can't afford to lose. ”

"Give it to her? Will people be rare in our family? Fang Yan asked angrily.

"Hehe, of course it's not uncommon to just send red roots, you'll know later, and I want you to help. If you want to go to high school and college in style, then listen to me! Fang Dajun said confidently.

"What the hell do you want to do? If you don't make it clear, I won't let you dig up the red roots. Fang Yan found that he couldn't see through his younger brother more and more, how could he seem to be reborn after being buried in coal once.

Fang Dajun was helpless, so he had to explain: "I'm painting a cake for Yang Chuntao, how much is a pound of red lotus now?" ”

"I don't know, who will sell red lotus, and I can't sell it if I want to." Fang Yan held his mouth and said, the red lotus does not need to be handed over to the state, this thing is not easy to preserve, and the common people still have to rely on the red lotus to survive, if even the red lotus is handed in, then everyone can only drink the northwest wind.

Of course, this is also the late stage of the People's Commune, and in the early years, the red lotus also needs to be handed in!

"So does anyone use sweet potatoes for starch?" Fang Dajun asked again.

"Starch? You mean red lotus powder, only Beidou will make a little bit of it, and use it to mix cold powder and sell it to those cadres to eat. Fang Yan replied.

"What about sweet potato vermicelli?" Fang Dajun smiled.

"Vermicelli? Only during the New Year, there are sales in the town, this is a New Year's goods, very expensive, four or five cents a catty. Do you want to? Fang Yan was extremely surprised.

Fang Dajun said with a smile: "That's right, I just want to make vermicelli, and I don't do it alone, I let the entire production team make it together." ”

He is still satisfied with the price of vermicelli, and after 30 years, a better vermicelli can be sold for about 9 yuan, which is two to three times that of rice. Now the rice is more than a dime, and the vermicelli is also three times as much, which seems to be very interesting.

"The production team makes vermicelli together? Is this possible? Fang Yan asked in disbelief.

Fang Dajun thought for a while and explained: "Based on what I have learned, a hundred catties of sweet potatoes can produce thirty-five catties of half-dry starch, and it will shrink by half after drying, and one catty of dry starch can produce one catty of two taels of vermicelli, that is, one hundred catties of sweet potatoes can produce twenty catties of vermicelli, let's calculate it according to four cents a catty, which is equivalent to a hundred catties of sweet potatoes can be sold for eight yuan, and a catty of sweet potatoes can be sold for eight cents a catty, do you think it is a profit or a loss." If the vermicelli can be sold for five cents or even six cents, then the sweet potatoes can be sold at the same price as aged rice. Moreover, as long as the vermicelli is not dried too dry, there will be some more weight. ”

Fang Yan opened her mouth wide and asked incredulously, "How do you know so clearly?" Do you know how to make vermicelli? ”

"Hehe, that's right, once I went to the town to play tricks, and ran to the canteen of the town axe to steal what I learned." It's true that he went to the cafeteria to play, but that's because there's a walnut tree outside the cafeteria, and he went to hunt walnuts last month.

"Then tell me how you planned it?" Fang Yan is interested, if sweet potatoes can be sold at the price of rice, then everyone will be able to share a lot of money, and with money, she can really concentrate on studying.

Fang Dajun smiled, "The plan is very simple, if you want the production team to make vermicelli, you have to nod the commune cadres, I can't get in touch with the big cadres above, but now I can pass Yang Chuntao, you now understand why I want to dig sweet potatoes in advance!" ”

"Do you want to make some vermicelli for Yang Chuntao to send over now, and then lead to a plan to make a lot of vermicelli?" Fang Yan's eyes lit up.

But Fang Dajun just wants to use vermicelli as a stepping stone, and coal is his ultimate plan, which is a business without capital, and the profits are amazing.

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