For Wang Manyin, the wild duck eggs were just a surprise.

After checking, he went into the scorpion pool again.

As soon as I took two steps, I was startled by a lot of grasshopper larvae. In the wild environment of the Loess Plateau, grasshoppers can reproduce twice a year.

However, this is obviously not the case for them in the space, at least three times a year, which is just enough to provide enough food for the scorpions in the space.

Of course, those pheasants and native chickens also benefited a lot, after all, locusts have wings and will fly everywhere.

When he walked to the stone pile, Wang Manyin uncovered the stones one by one, and saw a few scorpions running away with their teeth and claws below.

He was quick with his eyes, and in an instant he picked one up with a thin wooden stick and put it into the can.

Then, start catching the second one......

As the stones were uncovered, the number of scorpions in the jar increased rapidly.

In almost half an hour, Wang Manyin easily caught more than 200 of them. That's enough...... It hasn't been long since the scorpions came out of the cracks in the soil, so I can't let the number be too exaggerated.

When he was about to leave with the crockpot in his hand, he suddenly stopped and looked at the lush sweet potato field in front of him. In the late spring and early summer of last year, in order to breed scorpions, Wang Manyin specially opened up an area to transplant sweet potato seedlings.

After all, this sweet potato seedling has been growing for almost a year.

Outside, it takes about six or seven months from planting to harvesting spring sweet potatoes, while summer sweet potatoes are harvested in just four months.

As for the ones in the space, the growth cycle is shorter, and it only takes three months to plane and eat. Wang Manyin originally thought that the sweet potato seedlings in front of him would dry up last winter.

It wasn't until today that he suddenly discovered that this plant was very abnormal.

The vines are still growing, and the leaves are green and thick, showing no signs of decay.

So, sweet potatoes are actually perennials?

Thinking about it, it seems to be like this, he himself is a subtropical plant, but after being introduced into the country, it was gradually planted in the north and became a year-round plant.

If the temperature is right, sweet potatoes should theoretically continue to grow.

It's like chili peppers, which are one species a year in the north, but in the south, they become perennials, which can grow into two or three meters tall pepper trees, which can be picked endlessly.

Thinking of this, Wang Manyin was a little excited.

If sweet potatoes can do the same, you won't have to work hard to grow them in the future. When you want to eat it, dig a few directly from the roots, then cover it with soil and let it grow automatically.

He immediately turned back and fetched a nail rake, and found a sweet potato root to excavate.

Of course, before excavation, you need to tear off the surrounding sweet potato seedlings to prevent scorpions from hiding inside.

As the loess is shaved apart, an incomparably large dark brown sweet potato takes shape.

Big, incomparably bulging!

Although Wang Manyin expected it in his heart, he still didn't expect that the size of the sweet potato dug up was beyond imagination, and it was three points larger than the watermelon that ordinary people eat. Rough estimates, at least more than 20 catties, the skin is rough, cracked out of the wood.

The key roots bear not just one sweet potato, but five, about the same size.

A vine bears hundreds of catties of sweet potatoes, which is definitely a big satellite.

One acre of land is planted according to at least 600 plants, and the yield of sweet potatoes is 60,000 catties. If all the eight or nine acres of land in the space are planted with sweet potatoes, it will reach five or six hundred thousand catties.

Wang Manyin was shocked by this exaggerated figure, and he didn't dare to continue thinking about it!

You must know that last year, all the members of the second team of Jar Village received only two or three hundred thousand catties of sweet potatoes. In this way, it is enough for hundreds of people to eat for more than half a year.

The space you have is an amazing thing. It's just that in his hands, it didn't play its due role at all.

It's a pity that even if you can really produce so much, you can't take out sweet potatoes and share them.

After sighing, Wang Manyin remembered that he hadn't tasted the taste of the big sweet potato yet. I don't know if the more time passes, the more flavorful it will be. He took another woodcutter and fell directly on the surface of the large sweet potato.

With a click, cut off only the palm-sized piece. It turned out that it was not a fresh white or red core with juice in it, but a light brown wood fiber.

One more slash, and still.

Wang Manyin chopped the whole sweet potato a few times in succession, and found that the whole sweet potato was completely lignified.

He tried to pick up a piece and put it in his mouth to chew, his mouth was full of wood dregs, with a slight hint of sweetness, but more astringent and bitter, obviously inedible.

Cut the remaining sweet potatoes one by one, and it makes no difference.

It seems that I have thought too much, sweet potatoes grow too long, and the roots will be completely lignified. The yield is indeed amazing, but I am afraid that there is no use for eggs other than feeding pigs.

Before, Bai was excited.

Wang Manyin remembered that the sweet potatoes in the village laid eggs and produced abundantly, and they also buried the sweet potatoes in the soil for two years, and I don't know if they will also be lignified.

If that's the case, it's a fool's errand.

Busy, almost eleven o'clock.

He originally planned to dig up some Yuanzhi Chai Hu and bring it back, so he simply gave up for the time being.

Out of the space, he rushed to his house with Rhubarb.

Not long after leaving, I heard what seemed to be a child calling his name. With doubts, Wang Manyin quickened his pace.

Turning over the mountain beam, I really saw Mao Dan, Shanwa, and Pingwa running from afar.

They shouted as they ran: "Uncle Man Yin (brother), come home soon, your house is a visitor." ”

"Who's coming?" After walking in, Wang Manyin asked out loud.

"I don't know, I forgot to ask the name. The man is very rich, let's come to you in the mountains, and give five cents for each of us to run errands! Mao Danxian took out the banknote in his hand.

Shanwa nodded and added: "That's right, riding a bicycle, wearing clothes with four pockets, and a pen!" I also brought two catties of pork to your family. ”

Speaking of pork, a few broken babies sucked straight into their saliva.

After listening to the description, Wang Manyin immediately thought of Liu Qingli.

Then it was denied.

If Liu Qingli wants to send pork, he can wait for the orchid to come back when he gets off work, and there is no need to make a special trip.

Puzzled, he took the rhubarb and hurried towards the village.

When I got home, I found my old teammate Dong Gang standing on the sidelines.

The other party is no longer the embarrassed appearance of the last time they met, and at the moment he is wearing a brand-new Mao suit, with leather shoes under his feet, and a phoenix bicycle parked next to him.

"Manyin, you're finally back! I waited for a long time before I had to let the children look for it. Dong Gang walked up to him and greeted him warmly.

"Brother Dong, are you ...... All right? As Wang Manyin spoke, he took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it over. A few years ago, the other party made a lot of noise, and he almost got into trouble when he took him to the county seat to visit Aunt Dong.

And now it is being strict, cracking down on speculation everywhere, and even Guo Kuiwa has been arrested.

Dong Gang resold second-hand bicycles, and the problem should be more serious.

"Don't worry, it's already fine. I don't dare to swagger to your house if there is something! If we have time today, let's have a few drinks! Knowing that your house has a consignment point, I didn't take anything else. As he spoke, Dong Gang pointed to the two bottles of Xifeng wine hanging on the handlebar, plus two catties of fat pork.

"Brother Dong, see outside, come into the house and sit ......down" Wang Manyin hurriedly opened the door and let Dong Gang into the house to sit.

After the other party looked at it, he asked casually: "I didn't see my brother and sister last time, and I still work in the supply and marketing cooperative?" ”

"Hmm," Wang Manyin nodded in response.

Immediately, he poured a glass of boiling water and brought a plate of melon seeds and sugar from next door.

"Man Yin, thank you last time, this is borrowed from you." After a few words of gossip, Dong Gang took out the prepared money and food stamps early.

Wang Manyin excused himself twice and accepted it.

"I heard from my mom that you were thinking about giving half a bag of cornmeal years ago. When the buddy didn't have an accident, he was also beautiful, surrounded by seven or eight friends, and one of them was called 'brother'. It is really difficult to see people's hearts, and the people who shouted affectionately in the past are nowhere to be seen, and they don't come to the door for half a year. Speaking of the past, Dong Gang was very embarrassed.

"Brother Dong, it's all in the past, why are you still mentioning this. Your business is really over. Wang Manyin asked curiously.

"Well, one of my uncles works in Huangyuan City, and he used to buy second-hand bicycles through his connections. After knowing that I had an accident, he asked a friend to find the people from the former West County Working Group......"

After listening to Dong Gang, Wang Manyin knew about the bend when the other party was reselling the bicycle.

Dong Gang changed to left-handed writing every time he filled out the freight bill. As for the need for a personal stamp when picking up the goods, he carved several stamps with fake names.

It was precisely because of this caution that when the working group went to the freight department of the railway station to investigate, it did not find any bills related to Dong Gang.

Coupled with his uncle's matchmaking, the matter ended up in the end.

However, after this incident, the sale of second-hand bicycles could not be done at all.

Then, Dong Gang said with a little smugness: "I originally wanted to come to you earlier, but I waited for a recruitment quota in Huangyuan City some time ago, and I was not available until now." Take a look at my work card, a buyer at the Huangyuan State Weaving Factory. ”

With that, he took out a brand-new small red crust book from his pocket.

"Brother Dong, where did you get this, it's the same as the real thing?" Wang Manyin took the hard leather notebook and opened it, only to see that there was a striking photo pasted inside, and Dong Gang's personal information was written in detail.

He looked back and forth a few times, but he didn't see anything wrong.

"What fake, that's true...... I'm a worker now. For one place, this amount was spent. Dong Gang stretched out two fingers.

Although the other party didn't say it too clearly, Wang Manyin had already understood.

Now there are only two ways to become a worker: one is through recruitment. This seems simple, but in fact, the threshold is very high, and it must be recommended. For example, the two recruitment quotas allocated by Jar Village some time ago must be the identity of educated youth.

Even if you don't need the status of educated youth, it is difficult to fall on the heads of ordinary members, and they are generally divided at the commune level. In the original book, in order to win a place for Shaoping as a coal miner, Tian Xiaoxia ran to several departments in the name of her father.

As for the other method, it is to succeed the successor. To put it bluntly, there are regulations above, and employees of the unit can be replaced by their children after retirement or retirement.

Of course, the rules are the rules, and there is a lot of room for manipulation. If you don't have any children or your children are already working elsewhere, and you don't want to waste this place, you can let other relatives and friends take over, or even sell it quietly.

The quota that Dong Gang got should be the latter.

Even so, there needs to be a relationship to complete, otherwise the factory will not recognize it.

Wang Manyin was a little depressed in his heart. He now knows that the companions who participated in the activities together in the county back then have some relationship behind them. Liu Qingli's parents work in the county supply and marketing cooperative, and Hu Yongzhou has a cousin named Gao Fengge. I thought that Dong Gang was the same as himself, but he never thought that someone would have an uncle again.

After all, the predecessor belonged to ordinary people.

He was sighing with emotion, and Dong Gang said again: "Man Yin, you are kind to me." This time, I came to the door to give you a way to make money. Rest assured, nothing can go wrong......"

"Brother Dong, you talk about it first, I'll listen to it." Wang Manyin replied noncommittally.

He had already made up his mind that he would not do anything to make money.

Guarding the space, a year steadily and quickly breaking a thousand, Wang Manyin really has no intention of going out and running around.

"Harvest corn husks for our factory! Eight cents a pound, the factory will give you a certain percentage of the deposit every month, anyway, your family has a consignment point, it should be extra money. You just have to collect it, and when the time comes, you will tell me if you collect more, and the factory will send a truck to pull the goods. How? ”

"Brother Dong, are you kidding me, can corn husks be sold for eight cents a catty?" Wang Manyin's eyes widened and he opened his mouth in disbelief.

He is not a novice when he first crossed, and now he is clear about the price of rural grain. The grain depot only buys corn for eight cents a catty, how can corn husks be at the same price.

Corn husk refers to the outer layer of fiber skin on the corn cob, which is soft and flexible, and is often used by rural people to weave rope. In addition, it is also a good match.

If this thing can be sold for money, I guess the people in the village will be very happy.

"What are you lying to, of course I know that corn husks are used as matches in the countryside...... The key is also to do weaving. To tell you, now our factory uses corn husk to weave tapestries, carpets, cushions are very prosperous, exported to dozens of foreign countries, said to be environmentally friendly. ”

"Really?" At this time, Wang Manyin was even more surprised.

He didn't expect that foreigners in this era had begun to pay attention to environmental protection.

However, in his heart, Wang Manyin had already decided that Dong Gang was not lying. After all, the word "environmental protection" is not known to ordinary people now.

"Well, when I first started listening to it, I also thought it was nonsense, but foreigners rarely found this thing. Do you know how much a thirty-six-inch diameter round rug woven from corn husks is worth? Tell you, the purchase price in the factory is nine yuan, and the foreign exchange earned by selling it is higher. Inch knows? The length unit of a foreign country, you say that foreigners are not stupid hats......"

Wang Manyin naturally knows inches, 1 meter = 39.3 inches. In other words, weaving a corn husk mat the size of a pot lid can be sold for nine yuan.

Some of the villages are corn husks...... Wang Manyin became excited.

Dong Gang was still persuading: "Man Yin, listen to my brother, don't hesitate, do it." If it weren't for the relationship between the two of us, I would have found someone else a long time ago. Corn husks are not even counted as three types of materials, no one cares, as long as you tell the village. If our factory does foreign trade, it is possible not to purchase materials through supply and marketing cooperatives, and the service is relatively relaxed. I can say that in the factory, set up your village as a purchasing point, and you will be responsible for it when the time comes......"

"If you pay some money to the village every month, you will be considered to be both a worker and a farmer. As long as you buy enough corn husks, I guarantee that you can easily earn more than 200 yuan in a year!! ”