Chen Limin went to Yao Shuigen's house again that night to 'learn from the scriptures'. The two of them already knew each other quite well, so they didn't speak so seriously.

Yao Shuigen said: "Teacher Chen, I'm afraid you have stolen almost everything from me, but why have you been 'unapologetic' to your master so far?"

Teacher Chen Limin found a bamboo chair and sat down and said: "How can I 'steal' anything from you, even if I steal these 'things', I won't 'rob' your job with you, what are you afraid of?" Besides, since it's 'stealing', there's no need to give you gifts, right? ”

Yao Shuigen took a puff of dry smoke and said with a smile: "Look, look, is this a scoundrel?" I've taught you so many 'routines' that you can't even afford to buy me a pack of shredded tobacco to smoke, and it seems that in the future, I have to beware of you literate people, all of whom are very shrewd and miserly. ”

Teacher Chen Limin laughed loudly and said, "I have also thought about sending a little gift to you to express my gratitude, and I am thinking about what to send over?" Since you brought it up today, I'll send you a pack of shredded tobacco tomorrow. However, to be honest, I did this voluntarily, and it is clear that you are here to 'solicit bribes' to deceive me. ”

Yao Shuigen also smiled heartily and directly: "Teacher Chen, stop, stop, eat your pack of tobacco, and let me go to the 'class room'?" I'm too lazy to 'ask for a bribe' from you, forget it, I'm exempt, I can't afford this crime." ”

After the joke started, he naturally cut to the point again, Chen Limin came empty-handed every time he came over, and he returned with a stomach. This time too, the toilet reform work is about to come to an end, and the next step is to ask Yao Shuigen how to bid for the production team. Mr. Chen doesn't know how much the school bid is more appropriate, although Yao Shuigen has said last time that the winning bid price should be around 150 to 180 space, but how to make the school bid naturally has some tricks, and these tips still need to refer to the opinions of many people.

Teacher Chen said: "Captain Yao, the school toilet has been renovated soon, and then we are ready to conduct bidding activities for the village production team. And how many production teams do you think will come to bid? ”

Yao Shuigen said: "The scope of the school's calibration must be in line with the actual situation, and the price cannot be blindly lowered, let alone sky-high. The school should transfer a part of the benefits to the winning bidder, so that the production team will create more and more sustainable benefits for the school. My reference price is more suitable within 200 yuan a year, and your school will study and decide on its own, as for how many production teams will come to participate, I can't say this, my team will not consider bidding for the time being, but if there are no teams to participate in the bidding, or all the teams have failed to bid, you come to me again, let my team to contract is no problem, that is to say, I will give the school the last layer of insurance. ”

Teacher Chen Limin was very helpful after hearing this, so he said: "Captain Yao, I am encouraged by your strong support for the school, and I am also very happy. In this way, no matter whether there is a team to bid, and whether or not you can win the bid, we will thank you for your efforts, don't team win the bid, the school is naturally happy, if you don't win the bid, I will suggest that the school lower the bid to give you a discount? ”

Of course, this is good, the reason why I don't participate in the bidding, I also said, it's not that I don't think about the school toilet will fail the bid, I hope that other teams will also improve the quality of production, we farmers don't want to be prosperous and rich, but a picture of food and clothing should be the minimum requirement.

Yao Shuigen continued to sigh: "Some production teams, since the emergence of urea, nitrogen fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer in agricultural production, some captains are always greedy to save time and effort, so blindly rely on urea, nitrogen, phosphate fertilizer, etc., so the damage to soil fertility is very serious, the main destructive force is that the soil is becoming more and more compact, air permeability is getting worse and worse, and over time the compaction of the soil will lead to the lack of nutrient absorption and oxygen supplementation of the root system of crops, so as to reduce the yield per mu. What's the use of spending the most money on fertilizer in this way, you can't find out the crux of the problem, everything is in vain. ”

Teacher Chen Limin said: "Since you are so expert, you should publicize the benefits of applying human and animal fertilizer to their team, so that they can learn from the advanced team and learn the production process." ”

Yao Shuigen smiled bitterly and said, "Maybe you are not as strong as them." In addition to ensuring that the soil has a stable fertility, there is a lot of work to be done, crops and human nature are the same, only by truly understanding the nutrient needs of crops at different stages can the grain yield per mu be steadily increased. ”

Mr. Chen learned a lot from Yao Shuigen tonight: soil fertility, the long-term effect of human and animal fertilizer on soil, and the application of plant ash in soil.

The bidding work of the school was carried out as scheduled, and the production teams signed up enthusiastically, and soon the winning production team appeared in front of them. The toilet in the primary school was the winning bid of the fourth production team in Huanting Village, and the toilet in the junior high school was contracted by the sixth production team. The difference between the fourth production team and the eighth production team is only five yuan. The members of the eighth production team are all scolding the captain for being a 'pig', and the difference of five yuan is defeated, which is unacceptable to anyone. However, the school has already signed a contract with the fourth production team, which has become a fact that cannot be changed. The school took into account the actual production situation of the production team, and agreed in the contract that the two production teams would pay half of the contract fee every six months, which was somewhat different from the initial bidding proposal to be paid once a year, and the other payments were strictly implemented in accordance with the established terms.

Harvesting early rice is a major event for each team at the end of June and early July of the lunar calendar, which coincides with the summer vacation of the school. The two acres of rice in the school have also matured, and the full ears of rice are golden and bent over their waists, golden and yellow. Captain Yao has reminded the school more than once that it must harvest as soon as possible, and cannot wait until the other teams have finished harvesting before taking action, so that the loss will be relatively large. One is that the ripe kernels are easy to fall off naturally; The other is the full force invasion of sparrows in the field. When all the sparrows come to the rice fields to feed, they will spoil the grain in the fields in a day or two.

Teacher Chen Limin has informed that he hopes that teachers or students who have free time will try to squeeze out time to come to the school to harvest rice with them.

The heat is unbearable, mainly because the scorching ultraviolet rays of the sun are too lethal. Teacher Chen first organized everyone in his family to participate in the voluntary participation. His wife and two daughters decided to come over to help, and the principal of the school, Yang Zeping, also came in advance, and he and Mr. Chen Limin needed some preparations before the rice harvest. The better the preparations, the less scrambling the harvest will be.

Statistical manpower work is a bit difficult. At this time, it is the golden time to rush to harvest and grab seeds, and no one will have a surplus of labor, and students will naturally need to get permission from their parents to come to school for voluntary labor.

Several female teachers in Huanting Village have actively signed up, saying that they can come over to help dry the water millet. Harvesting rice in the field requires manpower, and the grain drying field also needs manpower, which is an important part of the harvest and seed rush stage, even more important than the harvesting process. Harvesting is only the first step, but drying rice is the key of the key. Only if there are no problems in this link, this season's crops can be considered their own. Otherwise, once the millet harvested in the paddy fields is damaged, it will definitely make the peasants want to cry without tears and be unhappy.

Harvesting sickles, sacks, hand threshers on foot, wheelbarrows for transporting grain, and dustpans, baskets, and rope poles need to be carefully examined. It is the best thing for the school to have its own threshing machine, which saves a lot of trouble, and now the threshing machine is very difficult to find, and the production team is full of continuous rotation, and there is no spare machine to lend. The sickle must go to the agricultural machinery store to buy a new one, and now you can only buy an approximate amount, buy too much and waste it, buy too little and far from enough, waste the labor that is hard to come by.

The time for the rice harvest has been set, and it is tomorrow. For the arrival of this day, Principal Yang Zeping and Teacher Chen Limin have been running for three whole days, going to various villages to organize manpower, and going to agricultural machinery stores to buy harvesting tools, and to notify in advance the recycling work of the loaned barn, informing them that one day the school will harvest its own grain, hoping that they will do a good job of docking. All of these things are cumbersome and need to be detailed, and not a single link can be missed. Fortunately, both of them are the material to use the pen, record the things they need one by one, organize them into a table, and the things that should be done are clear at a glance, so that they can save a lot of time according to the map.

Today was a lot easier for these two teachers. Chen Limin pedaled his bicycle to the market to buy sickles, flour and rice, as well as other meat dishes. When he entered the agricultural machinery store, he didn't remember that he needed to buy anything else here, so he had to turn to the vegetable market. Chen Limin bought the meat, and there was not much money left in his pocket, so he hurriedly rushed back, got out of the market town, rode on the machine farming road, and his mood became relaxed.

Humming a ditty, he staggered to the school. In the afternoon, his wife will use flour to make steamed buns, and tomorrow there will be no time to make these things. When he arrived at the entrance of the village, someone greeted him on the road, who was a member of a team in Huanting Village, buying engine oil for the team.

At the mention of engine oil, Mr. Chen's eyes widened. That's right, how can I forget about such an important thing, oil lubrication is a hard indicator of the efficiency of the manual threshing machine, and I am afraid it will be too late to buy it tomorrow. Teacher Chen immediately called someone to stop him and asked him to help the school buy some back, who said, "It's okay to bring it for you, but you have to give me an empty bottle of engine oil, otherwise, how can I bring it up?" ”

Teacher Chen said, "Don't you have an empty bottle in your hand, you buy this bottle full, can we pay proportionally?" ”

The man said, "I have to ask the captain about this, I can't be the master." ”

Teacher Chen Limin had no choice but to say, "That's it, you wait for me here for a few minutes, and I'll go find a bottle and send it over, okay?" ”