The price of ginseng rose rapidly in '85, and by the summer of '86, both ginseng households and ginseng fields were trying to expand the ginseng planting area.

In the past, those who planted 30 zhang now want to plant 50 zhang or even 100 zhang, and the county has also given strong support, and the policy has been relaxed to encourage farmers to plant ginseng.

As a result, all township and town governments and units at all levels have tried to find ways to develop participatory production.

For a time, township offices, enterprises, and forest farms participated in the field, and all kinds of fields sprung up.

Jia Kang Meilin has been growing ginseng since 83, and has planted 80 zhang in 83 Chinese New Year's Eve, 50 zhang in 84 years, and 80 zhang in 85 years.

In eighty-six years, Mei Lin was ruthless, directly bought 200 zhang of ginseng soil, hired someone to dig it out and sort it out, and went from a ginseng field to settle a lot of ginseng plants.

Ginseng cultivation can be in late autumn or spring, and both times have their own advantages and disadvantages.

In autumn, ginseng is dormant, and the reed head does not germinate, so the time can be appropriately extended, so there is no hurry.

However, when planted in the ground in autumn and directly wintered, the soil is loose and the roots of ginseng replanted are not integrated into the soil, which is easy to freeze and spoil, resulting in poor seedling emergence rate.

It's different when planted in spring, it will survive when planted in the ground, and after a summer, it will already have resistance, and it will not be afraid of freezing to death in winter.

However, when the ginseng germinates in spring, the buds in the reed head are very easy to break, and the planting speed is a little slower, and the ginseng shoots will break out.

The shoots are easy to break, and the slightest collision during the planting process will blind the ginseng plant.

Jiakang is still working, and the ginseng company has not found a suitable person to take over, and Jiakang is busy with two jobs, so he naturally can't take care of the work in the field.

Mei Lin has to bring people back to the thirty zhang ginseng she harvested at home, and she has to process it at home, and then she has to buy dry goods, and she can't be busy.

As soon as Qiaolian saw that her family was so busy, she directly wrote a letter of resignation, one of which was reported to the relevant departments in the province and one was given to the pharmaceutical factory.

She is fifty-six years old, and she is supposed to be past the age of retirement, so she should have retired last year.

Now there is nothing for her to worry about in the production of the pharmaceutical factory, and the southwest frontier does not need so many drug supplies, even if she resigns and goes home, it will not affect anything.

The pharmaceutical factory naturally wished that Qiaolian would not do it, of course, it was still necessary to go through the process of pretending, and the factory director and other cadres came to persuade him, expressing his reluctance to let Qiaolian leave.

How could Qiao Lian not know what these people were thinking? No matter who advises, they say that they are not in good health, and they really can't be tired anymore, and they want to go home to recuperate.

Qiao Lian insisted, and the pharmaceutical company pushed the boat along the way, and agreed to Qiao Lian's resignation application.

In this way, Qiaolian quit her job in the pharmaceutical factory and returned home to help Meilin.

Among the 30 zhang ginseng, 25 zhang are made this year.

Jiakang and Meilin served the ginseng with great care, and the yield was good, on average, it was almost twenty-seven or eight catties per zhang.

Twenty-five zhang ginseng came back with almost 700 catties of fresh ginseng, which was brushed and steamed, and had to be dried with a fork, just these jobs were a lot, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were too busy.

Fortunately, Qiaojuan Caiqin came to help, and they cleaned up together for several days, and finally they were all steamed and dried on the fork.

Before her own goods were dried, Mei Lin went out with the money to receive them.

The price is not the same as last year, and the purchase price has almost doubled.

Mei Lin's 400,000 yuan in her hand is estimated to be able to collect three or four thousand catties of dry goods, which is a bit not enough, so Qiaolian prepared another 200,000 yuan.

Not only did she prepare money, but Qiaolian also followed Meilin to Donggang, Wanliang, Quanyang and other places to receive goods.

In the later stage, Qiaolian learned almost, so she asked Meilin to take a batch of goods to the south first, she helped to receive the goods at home, and then sent them over when she received enough, which delayed the market.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law cooperated tacitly, one person received and shipped goods everywhere, and the other person sold goods in Guangzhou, and the money was quickly remitted to catch the goods.

was busy until mid-January, when Meilin came back from the south, calculated the accounts, and earned more than 200,000 yuan this year.

After all, like the first year, it was a special situation, and that kind of opportunity was not easy to come across.

In the spring of '87, Qu Weiyang retired, and the two of them had nothing to do now.

In the spring, she helped Jia Kang Meilin to plant two hundred zhang of ginseng in the ground, and then the two of them went to the capital.

I lived in the capital until June 10th, the weather was really hot and unbearable, and Xue Qing was going to take the college entrance examination, so the old couple was not worried about Xue Qing, so they hurriedly went back.

The college entrance examination on July 7, 89 and 3 days has touched the hearts of hundreds of millions of people, and all the parents of the candidates are worried and do not know what their children will do in the exam.

"The eldest granddaughter is tired, quick, the mung bean soup I cooked for you, put it in the refrigerator for a while, and drink it just right."

Qiaolian sat at the gate, saw Xue Qing coming back sweaty, hurriedly took a dry towel to wipe her granddaughter's sweat, and then brought out mung bean soup for Xue Qing to eat some.

"It's not raining these days, it's hot, and I don't dare to let you eat popsicle ice cream, for fear that you will have diarrhea if you eat too cold.

You will just have some mung bean soup, and when you finish the exam, tell your grandma what you want to eat, and grandma will make it for you. ”

Qiao Lian smiled lovingly and watched Xue Qing scoop a spoonful of mung bean soup and drink it. Mung beans are better than eating cold drinks directly.

"Well, milk, I know, this mung bean soup is really well cooked, a little sweet, but not greasy, the temperature is good, and it is comfortable to drink cold."

Xueqing knew that her grandmother had worked hard, so she naturally appreciated it, and drank a bowl of mung bean soup in one go, only feeling that her body was very comfortable, and all the heat and dryness just now were gone.

"Tired or not? If you're tired, go inside and rest for a while, your room has mats and fans, and it's not hot at all.

It's good to go back to the house and sleep for a while, and there is still a subject in the afternoon, right? I have enough spirit to take the exam. ”

In the past eight years, the college entrance examination has not adopted the three-plus-two model, and now the science subjects have to test the number of languages, physics and chemistry, and politics, and the liberal arts have to test the number of languages, history, geography and politics.

Xueqing is a science, and she has to take seven subjects, and she is very tired after three days.

This is the first day of the college entrance examination, and Qiaolian is afraid that her granddaughter will be tired, so she hurriedly takes the child back to the house to rest.

Qiaolian found eight or seven years of college entrance examination questions from the system, mixed them in other review questions, and let Xue Qing do it, and the effect was good, so Qiaolian was very confident in her heart and calmer than anyone else.

The questions that should be reviewed have been reviewed, and the questions that should be done have been done, and it is useless to blindly gnaw at the book at this time, so it is better to empty your mind and take a good rest.

"Oh, okay, then I'll lie down for a while." Xueqing knew that her grandmother was for her good, so she readily agreed.

After returning to the house, I turned on the fan and lay on the mat, which was really comfortable, and I fell asleep before I knew it.

Xue Qing was sleeping in the house, and Qiao Lian and Mei Lin hurriedly cooked.

Waiting for Xue Qing to wake up, lunch was ready, the light and delicious meal made people appetizing, and the family ate a lot.

"Eldest granddaughter, how was the first scientific examination?" After the meal was over, Qu Weiyang remembered to ask his granddaughter about the exam.

"Okay, those questions are not difficult, and I've done them all before.

It's the set of papers that you and my grandmother brought back from the capital, most of the questions are in it, and even the essays are quite similar, and I feel that I should have done well. ”

(End of chapter)