"Boss, what did you say at the meeting today?"

“.”

After a long silence, Zhang Daniu finally spoke: "The boss from Haishi wants someone to help him plant that ghost, and if he signs the contract, he will buy it for sixty-two yuan a pound after he grows up." ”

"Yikes! Isn't that a good price for such a high price, have you signed up? ”

"But as long as there are 50 households, and we need to build greenhouses, we will produce the first batch before the Chinese New Year this year."

There was silence again.

"Daughter-in-law, how much do we still owe to the people in the village?" Zhang Daniu brought the hookah that was leaning against the wall and had slurry on the surface because of frequent use in front of him.

"Twenty-three thousand two hundred and forty-six yuan, no, I sold some vegetables this morning, and paid back fifteen yuan to Zhang Chun's family, and now I still owe twenty-three thousand two hundred and thirty-one pieces."

"Greenhouse, one acre of land costs thirty or forty thousand"

As he spoke, Zhang Daniu's thick knuckle fingers landed on a milky white plastic bag, and a small pinch of golden tobacco was twisted from it.

"Why are there so many, I rushed to the market today, but I inquired, a greenhouse is one or two thousand, why has it doubled?" Zhang Daniu's daughter-in-law's voice was full of suspicion, and her eyes also showed a slightly meaningful look: "Is it difficult?"

"What are you thinking, Secretary Li said, there are 10,000 or 20,000 greenhouses, but the kind of snow is not resistant, and when it snows, all the things in the greenhouse are finished, so we have to use greenhouses."

The golden color is stuffed into the mouthpiece of the hookah.

"So, what do you think?"

Zhang Da Niu picked up the matchbox, took out a match and rubbed it on the red and black sandpaper, the flame on the match lit the tobacco, the mouth was tightly attached to the top of the hookah, the abdomen exerted force, slowly and far inhaled, the hookah came from the 'purring' sound of water, and a few wisps of white smoke overflowed from the corners of Zhang Da Niu's mouth.

"Daughter-in-law, let's go to Secretary Li to sign up!" Zhang Daniu spit out a long puff of smoke and said resolutely: "Let's build a greenhouse and worry for the boss from Haishi!" ”

". However, the more than ten plants you dug down from the mountain were sad, and one of them survived. If anything, then we will have to carry more than 60,000 debts! Although Zhang Daniu's daughter-in-law was a little excited, she still didn't say the word 'failure'.

"If there are more lice, it will not itch, and if there are more debts, it will not be worried. Owing 20,000 yuan is owed, and owing 60,000 yuan is also owed, and there is not much difference. Zhang Da Niu paused, and a trace of fanaticism appeared in his slightly cloudy eyes: "But in case, if the planting is successful, even if the success rate is only half of Secretary Li's mouth, then it will only take more than a year, and we will be able to repay all the debts!" ”

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There are no cameras in the village branch, and everyone has never noticed that anyone has entered and exited the village branch, and the matter of who sent the chickens and fish has become an unsolved case.

However, Li Sixin didn't have time to dwell on this problem, and less than an hour after eating, villagers came over one after another.

Zhang Daniu, Li Mutou, Li Hai.

The villagers who came to sign up in the first wave were all poor households in need, with debts on their backs, a total of 11 people;

The second wave came from the poor households in the village, who had no debts but no savings, a total of twenty-seven people;

The third wave of people came in all sorts of ways, including Li Yanfu, who was considered the richest person in the village, and villagers who belonged to the middle standard of living in the village, a total of eight people;

At eight o'clock in the evening, Li Sixin sent a villager who came to the village branch office at 7:50 a.m., stood outside the door for a full eight minutes, and only stepped into the room to sign up for the last two minutes to send out of the village branch.

When the time comes, the registration deadline, the number of applicants, forty-nine, one person is full.

Li Sixin watched the flashlight light get farther and farther away, farther and farther away, and finally completely disappeared from view, before the world fell into darkness, a few small fireflies flew on the field, and the faint light flashed and flickered.

Hey————

After sighing deeply, Li Sixin turned around and walked into the room, turned on the old computer that was 'sizzling', put his hands on the keyboard, and knocked and beat until two o'clock in the morning

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Early the next morning.

Hongshan City Poverty Alleviation and Development Leading Group Office.

"Comrades, if you continue to be busy, I'll just say a few words!" A middle-aged man closes the office door and walks slowly between his desks.

"It's late September now, only about ten days away from October, and there are more than two months left before the end of this year, but our poverty alleviation task this year is far from meeting the expectations at the beginning of the year."

The middle-aged man's tone was very calm and his attitude was very gentle, but these words fell on everyone's hearts, but they were a little heavy.

If you are poor, you will think about change, and no one wants to be poor for a lifetime.

But when there is no hope, everyone's hearts will be cooled and their enthusiasm will be reduced.

When the poverty alleviation group was established, everyone was highly motivated, and the large and small villages in Hongshan City also actively cooperated.

They said that when fruit trees were planted, the barren mountains were cleaned up and seedlings of fruit trees were planted. They say that when they plant peppercorns, countless pepper trees will grow in the fields; They say that feeding chickens, ducks and geese will give them short-term returns, and every household will have a few more chicken pens, duck pens, and goose pens in their yards.

Sichuan pepper has grown stubble after stubble, chickens, ducks and geese have grown year after year, roads have been built one after another, fruit trees have also grown fruit, many villages have been lifted out of poverty, but there are many, many villages still struggling on the poverty line.

"There are a total of 2,234 villages in Hongshan City, and before the establishment of our poverty alleviation team, the proportion of poor villages was almost half; After years of hard work, 221 villages have been lifted out of the poverty line, but there are still 862 villages in Hongshan City that have not been removed from the title of "poor village". ”

The eyes of everyone in the office fell on the middle-aged man.

"These more than 800 villages, all of them are hard bones, we can't rely on inertial thinking, through building roads and bridges and other ways to solve problems, we have to have an in-depth understanding of the situation of each village, find practical ways, and help them take off this hat called [poverty]"

Sure enough, the task came, and it seems that the main task in the second half of the year is to visit more than 800 villages and write more than 800 reports.

In less than two and a half months, more than 800 reports, a team of 32 people, each of whom was in charge of an average of 26 villages, visited at least three villages a week to complete this task.

"Okay, that's all I have to say, next, everyone can do whatever they want, time is tight and the task is heavy, everyone hurry up!"

The middle-aged man picked up the water cup on his desktop and threw a few wolfberries into it, and after getting enough moisture, the shriveled body of the wolfberry slowly became rounded, and the color changed from dark red to bright red, and the transparent and colorless warm water was dyed red

Ahh————h

Putting down the water glass, the middle-aged man turned on the computer, and the moment he turned it on, all kinds of software were automatically logged in, and the message prompt of 'Ding Ding Dong' kept sounding. One of the most eye-catching is the pop-up box that deducts the email reminder, which appears so big at the bottom right of the screen.

The sender of the email is Li Sixin, Hezibao.

An email from Secretary Li of Hezibao?

The middle-aged man opened the email without hesitation, a blank web page appeared in the center of the computer, and the lines of information were loaded quickly, and the middle-aged man read the message in the email at a glance, and his eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Shabu-shabu? A restaurateur from Haishi? Sixty-two dollars a pound of purchase price?

This feels like a hoax no matter how you look at it!

"Xiao Song, you are a native of Hongshan City, do you know what shabu shabu is?" The middle-aged man looked up at a young man in the office and asked.

"Shabu-shabu?" The young man called 'Xiao Song' turned his head blankly and looked at the middle-aged man: "Haven't you heard of it?" ”

"Come here." The middle-aged man beckoned: "The secretary of Hezibao said that this is a special plant here, and he also attached a photo, do you recognize it by looking at the photo." ”

Xiao Song put down the pen in his hand, walked straight to the middle-aged man's side, bent down in front of the computer screen, carefully observed the photos on the screen, and showed a thoughtful look on his face.

"Ahh A fragment of memories appeared in Xiao Song's mind, and his tone carried a kind of excitement for discovering a new continent, and he said briskly: "This is indeed a plant from our Hongshan City, I can occasionally see it when I go into the mountains when I was a child, and we are called ghosts and sorrows here." ”

"This shabu. The ghost is not poisonous, can eat, can be used in dishes? ”

"No, I can't!" Xiao Song's eyes were full of horror: "I haven't seen anyone eat this thing, everyone went up the mountain and saw that they either avoided walking or smashed it directly."

"Can't you eat it?" The middle-aged man clicked the mouse, and a document appeared in front of the two of them: "But this restaurant owner from Haishi wants to cooperate with Hezibao to grow this ghost sorrow, which is mainly used for cooking lo-mei."

Xiao Song's gaze did not follow the mouse movement operated by the middle-aged man, but fell straight on a certain place in the document.

Xu's Lo Mei Shop, this name, feels so familiar!

"Brother Zhang, did you buy some lo-mei at an online store before?" Xiao Song suddenly straightened up and asked loudly, "What's the name of that shop?" ”

"Xu's lo-mei!" Brother Zhang replied without raising his head.

"The signature smell of that shop, what. What hell flavor, and what are the ingredients? Xiao Song continued to ask.

"I don't remember the name, it seems to be the hottest chili pepper in China."

The hottest in China?

The middle-aged man used two-finger Zen to enter this keyword in the browser, the web page jumped, and there were many reports of all kinds, and finally he found the relevant information in Du Niang's library.

The top five domestic chili peppers are ranked, and the first place is - shabu shabu spicy.

(End of chapter)