Chapter 39 Spring Ploughing

On this day, the wind is beautiful and the sun is shining. The Shuangjiang town government held a spring ploughing production site office meeting, and Secretary Wang and Mayor Li led the village secretaries and village chiefs to go deep into the fields to inspect the spring ploughing production of the masses.

The group came to Guangming Village, where the terrain was slightly flat.

Guangming Village is located in the Pingba area at the foot of the mountain, and a large paddy field is stored with bright water. The newly renovated paddy fields and backs of the paddy fields are exposed with ochre-red soil, exuding a fresh earthy smell. The muddy water reflects the bright sunlight and shines.

There are old men, women and children planting rice in paddy fields with their backs hunched. In the Momo paddy fields, they are like dancing notes on the earth.

Secretary Wang and Mayor Li led everyone to watch while walking. When I came to Xiaojiagou, I saw that there was a weedy paddy field in the ditch that had not yet been ploughed, and under the sun, the whole ditch looked eye-catching and dazzling.

Secretary Wang asked the secretary of the Guangming Village branch and the village chief what was going on. Sun Yong, the head of Guangming Village, saw Secretary Wang's question, and immediately called to ask about Captain Xiaojiagou.

The captain replied that the family had been out for many years, and their fields had been cultivated by Mr. Wang. Wang Laohan is sick this year and doesn't want to have more. So, the field was abandoned.

Secretary Wang asked Sun Yong again, in such a situation, how many are there in Guangming Village? Sun Yong was hesitant and couldn't answer for a long time. Obviously, he didn't do his homework enough.

Secretary Wang was very angry, and said in a loud voice, at the spring plowing and production meeting in the town, Mayor Li made arrangements and arrangements early, asking you to do a good job in planting spring crops. If you dare to love you, you should all turn a deaf ear.

Village Chief Sun, you immediately go and count how many abandoned fields there are in Guangming Village. Report in writing to the town government.

As soon as everyone heard that Secretary Wang was angry, they all knew that the town leaders were really coming. The spiritual village party secretary and village chief immediately secretly called and arranged for the team leader to do everything possible to plant all the fields of the team.

Secretary Wang led everyone to look at the ravines and ravines in Guangming Village, and found that there were many abandoned paddy fields in the deep ravines far away from the highway that had not been ploughed. It was immediately decided to hold a spring ploughing production supervision meeting in the office of the Guangming Village Village Committee.

Secretary Wang knocked on the desk and said that Mayor Li made detailed arrangements for the town's spring ploughing and production meeting, requiring all villages and societies to be fully planted.

Judging from today's inspections, it is clear that one thing was said at the meeting, and another was implemented. The two committees of the village branch of Guangming Village obviously did not implement the spring plowing and production meeting in the town.

It is true that a large number of peasant households are now going out to work, and the situation of land abandonment is becoming more and more serious. However, the cadres of our village branch and the two committees must take the initiative and find a way to solve the problem.

You can coordinate with the families in the village who are rich in labor and cultivate the fields of migrant workers. In order to encourage surplus labor to cultivate more and more crops, we can adopt methods such as direct grain subsidies being distributed directly to farmers.

I believe that as long as we are willing to think of a way, we will certainly be able to do a good job in rural work.

After Secretary Wang finished speaking, Mayor Li stressed that after today's meeting, all villages should urge peasant households to do a good job in spring plowing and production. Tomorrow, the town government will continue to supervise and inspect the villages.

The two committees of the village branch of Guangming Village were warned and dealt with by the town party committee and government because their work was not implemented, and the village secretary and village head made a written inspection.

Tang Xiaohong and Wu Sifu listened, and fine sweat oozed from their faces. It seems that this agricultural and rural work must not be fake.

After lunch, Secretary Wang and Mayor Li led everyone to take off their shoes and socks, go down to the field, and personally help the people plant seedlings.

Secretary Wang told everyone that doing this today is by no means a show. The working comrades of our organs, who sit at their desks all day long, are unfamiliar with the work in the fields and have distanced themselves from the peasants, and only when they are given more participation in the work in the fields can they understand the weal and woe of the common people and not be out of touch with agricultural and rural work.

Tang Xiaohong and Wu Sifu discussed while planting seedlings, starting tomorrow, the two committees of our Zhucun Village Branch will also begin to inspect spring plowing production one by one, and urge the masses to plant and plant.

Wu Sifu not only has to urge other families to do a good job in spring plowing and production, but also has to plant his own one-third of an acre of land. Because the climate on the mountain is later than that of Pingba, the paddy fields at the foot of the mountain have not yet been ploughed.

Thinking of this, Wu Sifu suggested to Tang Xiaohong, let's hold a captains' meeting first, let the captains of each team count how many families go out, and then distribute the fields that no one cultivates to those who work at home.

Tang Xiaohong felt that Wu Sifu was reasonable, and the next day he convened a short meeting of the captains of each team to convey and implement the spirit of the town's spring ploughing production meeting and the spirit of the secretary's and mayor's on-site office meeting.

At the meeting, Wu Sifu told everyone that land is the foundation of our farmers' survival, and there is no need for leaders to urge everyone to plant.

In view of the different situations of the phenomenon of migrant workers in each team, and the situation of land abandonment is also different, so each team should be flexible in handling it, mobilize people living at home to cultivate more and more crops, and try to achieve full planting.

Barren hillside land can be seeded corn and planted with red roots. Now is the time to sow corn, and all teams should earnestly organize personnel to do a good job in spring plowing and production.

When he returned home after the meeting, Wu Sifu was busy again, serving chickens, pigs, etc., and finally cooked a bowl of rice for himself, and ate sour radishes, pickles, etc.

In the afternoon, Wu Sifu greeted Zhou Jueming and carried the cultivator to the foot of the mountain to plough the paddy fields.

Due to the inconvenience of his legs and feet, Wu Sifu was responsible for shoveling the back of the field and stirring the field, and Zhou Jueming was responsible for plowing the field. The two worked together, and in the afternoon, Wu Sifu's family and Zhou Jueming's fields were all ploughed.

In the gap between plowing the fields, the two sat on the stones by the field to smoke and rest, Wu Sifu seemed to think of something, and said to Zhou Jueming: "We still have uncultivated fields in our team, it is better for you to plant more, and you will not worry about food if you feed chickens and pigs in the second half of the year." ”

Zhou Jueming thought for a while and said, "Yes." However, at the moment I don't have the money to buy fertilizer. ”

"Plough the fields first. As for the fertilizer, we went to the town on credit. Wu Sifu said.

After a while, Wu Sifu said again: "You and Liu Rong can go to my bamboo forest and pick chicken manure into the field, which is better than chemical fertilizer." It's just a matter of putting a little more effort into it. ”

Zhou Jueming thought about it, this method is good. He and Liu Rong have the strength to do this little work. Besides, there are few fields in the mountains, so it is naturally good to be able to grow more.

Wu Sifu got up early and was greedy for darkness, tending to the family's livestock, and then went to the fields to tending to the crops. When he was free, he had to go to the village with Tang Xiaohong to supervise the production teams to cultivate the fields.

In the process of supervising spring ploughing and production, Tang Xiaohong saw that some women and old people were breaking bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest with their backs, so he asked Wu Sifu: "Do these people break bamboo shoots to eat themselves or carry them to the market to sell?" ”

"Most of the time I eat it myself. Even if you carry it to the market and sell it, it is estimated that no one will buy it. Zhuxian County is full of bamboo, who doesn't have bamboo shoots? Can you buy it? Wu Sifu replied.

After listening to Wu Sifu, Tang Xiaohong thought that bamboo shoots are coarse fiber dishes, high protein, low fat, fragrant and refreshing.

If you can contact the restaurants in the city, the villagers of Zhucun can take advantage of this season to harvest a sum of money.

Tang Xiaohong told Wu Sifu what he thought in his heart. Wu Sifu also feels that Zhucun has a large area of mountains and forests, and there are rich and diverse varieties of bamboo, so if the villagers dig bamboo shoots scientifically, they can indeed earn a lot of income.

However, marketing is a problem.

Wu Sifu also remembered the largest Dongmen farmers' market in the county, which specializes in selling vegetables and poultry eggs. If a stall can be set up at the East Gate Farmers' Market to sell, it is estimated that the bamboo shoots in Zhucun will be marketable.

Wu Sifu told Tang Xiaohong what he was thinking. Tang Xiaohong felt that this method was feasible, so she thought that she would go back to her unit and the Poverty Alleviation and Immigration Bureau to inquire about the village road plan in the near future, and by the way, she would go to the Dongmen Farmers' Market to find a stall to sell fresh bamboo shoots.

After Wu Sifu and Tang Xiaohong discussed the matter of bamboo shoots, he asked Zhou Zhou Jueming, Liu Rong, Li Dacui and others to dig bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest first, and he wanted to try the sales first.

At the end of the day, each person dug one or two hundred catties, and the bamboo shoots with shells were piled up in the yard like a hill.

Wu Sifu was faced with a hill-like bamboo shoots, and remembered the business card given by the woman who guarded the store when he bought chicken, so he took the liberty of calling the store owner and said that his bamboo shoots were now on the market. Chicken stew with bamboo shoots is a perfect match, can you get your own bamboo shoots to sell in your store?

The owner of the chicken shop thought that stewed chicken with bamboo shoots was indeed a good dish. If there is a pile of fresh bamboo shoots next to the store, is it better to sell your own running pheasant?

After hesitating for a while, the shopkeeper promised to let them sell in his store.

Wu Sifu contacted Tang Xiaopeng again and asked if his truck had passed through Shuangjiang Town recently, and asked him to bring some bamboo shoots to the Dongmen Farmers' Market in the city to sell.

Tang Xiaopeng runs transportation, and it is possible to pass through the national highway that crosses Shuangjiang Town at any time. Hearing Wu Sifu say this, he immediately agreed.

In order to facilitate transportation and reduce labor, Wu Sifu asked Zhou Jueming and Li Dacui to peel off the bamboo shoot shells, leaving only the white and tender bamboo shoots; After packing it in a clean nylon bag, it was shipped to the city.

The next day, Wu Sifu transferred Quan Wa's tricycle and transported more than 200 catties of fresh bamboo shoots to the side of the national highway. Wu Sifu asked Li Dacui and Zhou Jueming to follow Tang Xiaopeng's truck into the city to sell.

Zhou Jueming felt that he and Li Dacui went to the city to sell bamboo shoots, as if it was a major life event, and he was afraid that his clumsy tongue would not be able to sell bamboo shoots, so he had to go with Wu Sifu.

Wu Sifu thought that his pigs and chickens could not be separated, so he said to Zhou Jueming with a lecture: "I have contacted the boss, you go to the east gate and move the bamboo shoots directly to the store."

If someone wants it, they sell it, and if no one wants it, they just sit there and wait. I don't want you to shout, and I don't want you to sing, what are you afraid of? And then there's the big emerald. ”

Li Dacui saw Zhou Jueming's cowardice, looked down on him from the bottom of his heart, and wanted to ridicule with a sharp mouth. Thinking about last year's holiday, I endured the words again. muttered vigorously in my heart, you deserve to be poor as you are worthless.

Zhou Jueming saw that Wu Sifu was reluctant to go, and saw Li Dacui with a look of disdain, so he stopped making a sound. had to follow Tang Xiaopeng's truck into the city with Li Dacui.

Coming to the outside of the Dongmen Farmers' Market, Zhou Jueming immediately moved the bamboo shoots bag by bag to the Running Pheasant Store.

The young woman in the pheasant store saw that the bamboo shoots were fresh without any preservatives, fresh and white, and when she put them on the tip of her nose, she smelled them, and a pure and natural fragrance came to her nose.

The young woman immediately took out her mobile phone to take pictures of the fresh bamboo shoots, and then took two pictures of running pheasants, and posted a circle of friends in her WeChat.

The young woman found the megaphone and personally recorded a voice of "Running pheasants meet fresh bamboo shoots, the taste is fragrant and good", and played it on a loop outside the store.

After a while, old women and old men came to watch. The young woman took the opportunity to shout: "The fresh bamboo shoots in the mountains that have just arrived are pure and natural without any additives or preservatives, and they taste very good." ”

When the old man and the old woman heard that it was a new fresh bamboo shoot, they squatted down to pick it out. They know that bamboo shoots with crude fiber have a good inhibitory effect on the three high diseases such as hyperlipidemia and hypertension in middle-aged and elderly people.

Zhou Jueming asked Li Dacui softly, how much is the right price for a catty?