Riding the wind of rebirth

"But this radish has a problem. It tastes good, but the big ones tend to crack." Fifth Aunt said, "It's fine if you eat it at home, but if you want to sell it, you have to choose the small ones."

"Actually, the big ones that crack when touched are the best to eat." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "But people in the city don't have that luxury."

"Elbow, do you really want to take the seeds to Lianhe Township?" asked my fifth uncle.

"Really." Zhou Zhi said, "Lianhe Township is different from Dajing Township. The land there is a bit barren, and the people there didn't know how to farm before. They usually planted potatoes, pumpkins, and corn. As for vegetables, they relied more on wild vegetables, fern sprouts and bamboo shoots from the mountains in spring, mushrooms in summer and autumn, and Chinese angelica, kudzu root and other medicinal herbs. They raised a few sheep diligently, and lived like that."

"When planting potatoes, they often set fire to the mountains. After the fire is over, they dig a hole in the ashes and bury the potatoes and corn. That's it."

"How can this be considered tending to the crops? This is reclaiming wasteland." Fifth aunt was amazed: "It would be strange if we could get a good harvest this way."

"The situation is slowly changing now. The state has set up two fruit tree bases in Lianhe Township. The teachers there are doing a good job in expanding and promoting the seedlings while also teaching the villagers to farm scientifically. Legumes and forage grasses have been introduced to fertilize the soil, and mulch films and greenhouses have been used to cultivate some off-season vegetables using the sunlight." Zhou Zhi said, "Since I have good radish varieties at home, I thought I might as well take some over to plant and see if I have nothing to do."

"The radishes at home are not picky about the soil." Fifth Aunt said: "If there is enough manure, they can grow even on red mud."

"We're still eating, aren't we afraid that Xiao Miao will laugh at us?" Fifth Uncle frowned.

However, Mai Xiaomiao did not have these taboos, or rather, he did not understand his fifth aunt's pure Jiachuan dialect at all. He was concentrating on eating sweet potato vermicelli and was enjoying it so much.

Everyone's topic naturally shifted to other topics. Zhou Zhi talked about his grandmother, his parents and relatives in the city, the latest situation of Miss Rongshan, his fifth uncle and aunt, his second brother and his wife also introduced their situations, as well as the situation of his third sister and Datou.

Zhou Zhi was too busy recently and had lost touch with both of them. Only then did he know that Jinan Group had gradually expanded its business from anti-theft door locks and automotive electronic door locks to machine tool mold processing, and had now begun to enter the machine tool manufacturing industry.

Back then, Su Datou replaced the high-grade capacitor with an ordinary one. He used the electrical characteristics of the cheap capacitor to solve the problem of the cutting wire power supply waveform not being smooth enough, which had troubled many experts. He thereby doubled the life of the cutting wire, which impressed his cousin Anxin.

Later, he developed several types of fixtures to match machine tools, and he can be considered a little inventor.

Seeing that he had great potential in this path, cousin Anxin brought him to Shenzhen, where he received further training, was exposed to many advanced foreign technologies, and had the opportunity to conduct localized research. He did not have to become a workshop director as rumored.

"So he earns more than 10,000 yuan a month?"

"That's true." The fifth uncle nodded and said, "I also took care of him with peace of mind. I let him live in my own home, gave him housing allowance, and often picked him up to go home after get off work. I also gave him car allowance. Sometimes he slept in the laboratory, and it was counted as overtime for him."

“There’s overtime pay for working overtime all night?” Mai Xiaomiao was surprised when she heard that.

"That's the employee's treatment. You're a leader, so you can't calculate it that way." Zhou Zhi knew what Mai Xiaomiao was thinking and served her a bowl of soup. "The leaders who get their main income from dividends and bonuses are the owners of the company. They work for themselves, so they don't get overtime pay."

"Oh." Mai Xiaomiao thought there was nothing wrong with this logic, and lowered his head to drink the soup. "Xiao Miao left home so early to work?" Fifth uncle then remembered that Zhou Zhi had just said that Mai Xiaomiao was his colleague: "How much does Elbow pay you per month?"

Mai Xiaomiao felt embarrassed and said coyly, "I've spent a lot of his money recently, so I didn't feel comfortable asking for it. Anyway, I can't spend my own money just by eating his food and spending his money."

My fifth uncle was stunned when he heard this. It seemed that there really are wealthy bosses who keep beautiful girls, and they seem to call them "xiaomi".

But Mai Xiaomiao's innocent and romantic appearance is far from the legendary vixen. Moreover, with the Zhou family's family education and grandma's revolutionary tradition, could they allow Elbow to do such a thing? !

And you dare to put it on the dinner table and talk about it?

Seeing that everyone at the table was silent, Zhou Zhi knew that everyone had misunderstood, and quickly explained: "Although Xiao Miao is young, she is a great scientist. Her research direction is at the forefront of information science. She said that she spent a lot of money on me, but it was actually the cost of the group's preparation for a national laboratory. She is with me now to build and manage the laboratory efficiently and conveniently. There is indeed no place for her to spend money."

"According to the salary standard for the chief scientist of Clover Group, in addition to her annual salary, she also enjoys shares, dividends and many other benefits. It should be at least several hundred thousand."

"So many?" The second sister-in-law looked at Mai Xiaomiao in surprise as she was reaching her chopsticks towards the cured pork leg. She never realized that this little girl was so "valuable".

"This is only the portion that Clover gave her." Zhou Zhi continued, "In addition, there is her own IP income, as well as the external scholar allowance given to her by the country and Shu University."

After saying that, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "There's nothing we can do. If what we, the Clover, give you is not as much as what they earn, then we can't show how much we value talent."

Everyone at the table was shocked. What Elbow meant was that the hundreds of thousands given by Clover were not much more than what the girl had earned before. Even if the two were calculated equally, the girl's annual income would be hundreds of thousands multiplied by two!

The key point is that Mai Xiaomiao's childish temperament cannot be seen at all.

Zhou Zhi lovingly picked up a piece of wing tip for Mai Xiaomiao: "Xiao Miao has no idea about these. She is a person who is devoted to studying. It is precisely because of her pure mind that she can achieve what she has today. This is also what I like most about her and what I admire about her."

Now everyone understands that this girl is extraordinary. Even the monster Elbow respects her!

After a delicious farm meal from southern Sichuan, Zhou Zhi started to do what he did every time he came to his fifth uncle's house - packing.

The big radish with a smile on its face had just picked some green vegetables, including cabbage sprouts, baby cabbage, and lettuce from the fields, as well as some tender watercress dug from the edge of the field. They were put into several large woven bags and piled behind the guards.

I also asked for a packet of radish seeds.

My fifth aunt and second sister-in-law insisted on bringing some black chickens and old mallards for my grandmother, but Zhou Zhi refused on the grounds that Manzhou was in the process of building a civilized and hygienic city and even the stalls slaughtering chickens and ducks had been removed. As a result, my fifth aunt and second sister-in-law put a cured pork butt leg and a string of sausages in the car instead.

The big crucian carp caught at noon was not cooked, as it can survive in winter, so my fifth uncle asked us to take all of it to Manzhou to make crucian carp soup for my grandmother.

Zhou Zhi also took out a box of Laojiao Special Zone cigarettes that he hadn't used up yesterday and two packs of Yuxi cigarettes from the car. He told his fifth aunt to contact Su Datou and ask him to call him, and then he took Mai Xiaomiao and set off on the return journey. (End of this chapter)