Reborn to be rich

Chapter 122 Beekeeping and Flue-cured Tobacco Seedlings
On January 16th, Zhang Guodong received a call from Ouyang Xinlan. Her grandmother was out of danger. He would not return to Zhangjialing Village until the crew came back, and told him that the photos she took would be washed out in a few days. Time to bring them back together.

After the Lantern Festival, the New Year is basically over, and the children have to go back to school after the winter vacation. The third sister, Zhang Ping, will take the senior high school entrance examination in July this year. Her grades have always been in the top five of the class. There is nothing to worry about. Zhang Xiaoyue is also a school student now. The top grades are just Zhang Guorui's relatively high weariness of studying.

Rejecting his parents' request to send his fifth younger brother to school, Zhang Guodong walked ahead and let his younger brother follow, while he sent Zhang Guorui to school by himself.

Zhang Guorui is not afraid of his parents, but he is very afraid of his elder brother. I don't know why he is more introverted. As long as Zhang Guodong is at home, he doesn't talk much.

When he arrived at the school, Zhang Guodong signed up his younger brother, and the registration fee was only 5 yuan. Looking at the completed Zhangjialing Primary School, the village brigade had invested a total of 21 yuan.Education is really a money-losing thing!

"The village chief, are you here?"

"Hi village chief!"

The school teachers who saw Zhang Guodong on the road all said hello to him. Now the teachers in Zhangjialing Village are all around 20 years old. Young people are enthusiastic and capable of learning. Many school teachers are students who graduated from demonstration universities. Now it is not easy to enter Zhangjialing Primary School. .

"Village chief, are you here?" Principal Zhou saw Zhang Guodong walking from the laboratory building all the way.

"Principal, isn't the school starting this year smoothly? I just saw some teachers who were unfamiliar." Zhang Guodong said.

"This year... since the school started yesterday, the number of applicants has exceeded 960. I estimate that the school will have at least 1200 students this year, which is double the number of the township central primary school!" Principal Zhou said hesitantly.

"So many people?" How many children have there been in our village in recent years?

"Our village is about 200." Principal Zhou said after thinking about it.

"There are at most 500 children in Caojiazhuang, Liujiacun, Beizhuang Village, and Zhaojiayuan. The other 500 children live far away from home. It will be difficult for them to go to school every day." Zhang Guodong thought for a while and estimated the surrounding villages. According to the number of people, he can calculate that more than 500 students have to walk for more than an hour to go to school in the morning.

"Now more and more people in rural areas pay attention to children's education. Our school is now well-known in Yongkang County. Many villagers near Ganjing Township send their children to our school. Some of them have good financial conditions and rent in our village. However, most of the children have to go to school one and a half or two hours earlier every day." Principal Zhou said.

"Let's go back to the village committee and discuss it! Let's build a student dormitory for the school! Although the school is a money-losing industry, it plays a big role in driving economic development and enhancing the influence of our village. The kindergarten will be built in the second half of this year, and then we will discuss it. Can we build a junior high school? The teaching quality of junior high schools in our village is too poor. Less than 30% of them can get into high school every year. Our village middle school will be fully closed in the future. It will be separated from the primary school at that time. All teachers will be hired from the city. Ten years In time, our goal is to build a key junior high school in Qin Province."

Zhang Guodong saw that Zhangjialing Village was developing into the educational center of Ganjing Township, so he said it.

"That will cost a lot. Will our school fees also increase at that time?" Seeing that the elementary school has invested so much in the village every year, Principal Zhou is actually very distressed. The more people come, the more the village will pay.

"At that time, the school will set the score line, and those who get the score will pay the accommodation fee. If the score is not enough, it will start at 300 per semester. We don't want the school to make money. These children who leave the school are likely to become the main force in the construction of the village in the future."

Principal Zhou nodded. The village brigade is not short of money now. If the village can establish a junior high school, then the central position of Ganjing Township will definitely be transferred to Zhangjialing Village.

Zhang Guodong watched the natural room, music room, and library of the lower school. These are all gradually opened this year. On the school playground, the teachers are leading the students to name and assign classrooms. Zhang Guodong feels that the school will have to expand again in two years.

Seeing the brand new football field, basketball court, table tennis field, and rubber track, Zhang Guodong is still a little proud, even though the county high school does not have all the sports equipment that Zhangjialing Village Primary School has.

Coming out of the school, Zhang Guodong saw Zhang Wenbin's shuttle bus at the entrance of the brigade. Today was the day when the first batch of women went to Chang'an for a ligation operation. Sister-in-law Lianhua, as a member of the village committee, was also assigned to the first batch of surgical personnel. Accompanied by the elderly in the village.

Seeing Zhang Guodong coming over, the noisy crowd gradually quieted down. A total of 20 people went for surgery today, and hundreds of family members sent them away. The ideological work in front of them has been done. Zhangjialing Village has done a good job in family planning work. When it was in place, Zhang Guodong explained a few words to the leading village committee, and the bus drove away.

The same scene appeared in various towns in Yongkang County, but the work of other villages was not as smooth as that of Zhangjialing Village, and all kinds of farce were beyond words.

In the afternoon, the county family planning commissioner arrived, and Cao Haiyang, Zhang Guodong, and Zhang Chengzhi greeted her together.The commissioner inquired about the implementation of family planning in Zhangjialing Village in detail, and after learning that all 96 pregnant women in the village had agreed to undergo sterilization, they recognized their work, but no one was happy about this recognition.

On the 17th of the first month, Zhang Wenbin sent the second batch of 20 women to be vasectomyed to Chang'an City. The 20 women who underwent surgery yesterday were all very successful, because the surgery did not have such a big impact on the human body, and they could be discharged after 5 days.

Zhang Guodong asked Zhang Wenbin to tell the village committee member in charge of the hospital not to be afraid of spending money, to stay as long as possible for a few days, and to take good care of the accompanying elderly.

On the 21st, the woman who was due to undergo surgery had just finished the operation, and Lianhua’s sister-in-law rushed to pick her up in the village. On the 23rd of the first lunar month, Zhang Wenbin went to bring back the first batch of women who had undergone surgery, and the whole Zhangjialing Village saw her. My wife came back in good health, and everyone felt at ease.

The family planning in other villages is still struggling. The 96 women in Zhangjialing Village who have undergone sterilization have returned from Chang'an.A total of 66000 yuan was spent on this trip to the village. No need to be troubled by family planning issues anymore, the whole village began to slowly regain its vitality.

On the 26th of the first lunar month, the willow trees on the bank of Laochi slowly began to sprout new shoots. Zhangjialing Village purchased tobacco seeds provided by Xiongji Tobacco Company from the village. Tobacco planting in Zhangjialing Village is the key this year, and now is the time to raise seedlings.

In order to cultivate the best tobacco seedlings, the Zhangjialing Village Brigade put the tobacco seedling cultivation site next to the experimental garden of the Provincial Agricultural University. The teachers and students of the Provincial Agricultural University have returned to the experimental garden a few days ago. They can help the villagers grow Better quality tobacco seedlings.

The cultivation of tobacco seedlings requires careful maintenance. The site must be selected on a flat terrain with sunshine. The village plans to cultivate tobacco seedlings. According to the tobacco planting area of ​​the eight teams, the tobacco seedling cultivation land is divided into countless small squares, and the village brigade collectively purchases them. For the plastic shed for cultivating tobacco seedlings, everyone only needs to dig out a few cultivation pits to turn over the soil, fertilize, set up sheds, sow seeds, and irrigate according to the regulations.The originally somewhat complicated work was done in an orderly manner by such a group, and the entire Zhangjialing Village villagers began to get busy.

The Zhangjialing family has planted 6 mu of rapeseed this year, and the remaining 14 mu of land is reserved for planting tobacco. As the village head, Zhang Guodong must take the lead to believe that the whole village of Zhangjialing is expected to have a total of more than 600 mu of tobacco this year, with an average of [-] mu per household. This is not a small number.

On the 7th day of the first lunar month and the second day of March in the Gregorian calendar, today is a Saturday. Zhang Guodong’s family of [-] are busy in the tobacco seedling cultivation field. A small piece of plastic is built with four tree roots. When the plastic is removed, some small tobacco seedlings have been unearthed. , densely packed.

There are five such small plastic sheds in Zhang Guodong's family. Zhang Guotao is using a tractor to pull a box of water, and is watering, weeding and fertilizing tobacco seedlings.

How to cultivate tobacco seedlings and fertilization methods are all learned last year. After the completion, teachers from the University of Agricultural Sciences will guide them. There are more than 300 people working together in the entire tobacco seedling farm, and the scene is very lively.

"Guess who I am?"

A pair of delicate little hands covered Zhang Guodong's eyes, and he heard his girlfriend's voice.

"Xinlan, why are you back? Didn't you say you came back with the crew?" Turning around, Zhang Guodong looked at Ouyang Xinlan's delicate face and asked happily.

"Isn't it afraid that you miss me without me! I'm coming back, aren't you happy?" Ouyang Xinlan said mischievously.

"Of course you'll be fine when you come back. How is your grandma?" Zhang Guodong asked.

"It's almost healed. My grandma does this every winter. She suffers from tracheitis and is afraid of the cold. After the Lantern Festival, she will gradually recover! Is this a tobacco seedling? It's so small." Ouyang Xinlan saw Zhang Guodong cleaning it up. She also learned to help the weeds among the tobacco seedlings.

"Xinlan, don't move here, just watch from the sidelines. Son, go play with Xinlan, you are not needed here." Hu Yue'e didn't want her daughter-in-law to do farm work.

"Auntie, I'm capable, and working is also exercise! Do you think the grass I'm pulling is right?"

When Ouyang Xinlan came back, the house was really lively. Zhang Xiaoyue surrounded Ouyang Xinlan and kept asking her questions. She was very interested in the things in the city.But Zhang Ping is the opposite of Zhang Xiaoyue, she rarely speaks in front of Ouyang Xinlan.

During lunch, Zhang Guodong went to the chicken farm to buy some eggs. These days, the chicks hatched by the chicken farm in October last year have started to lay eggs. Now the chicken farm lays nearly [-] eggs every day, and there is a truckload of eggs every day. Send it to Chang'an Chengdong Farmer's Wholesale Market.

It is rare for a hen to produce soft eggs for the first time. Zhang Guodong went to the chicken farm and was lucky enough to get more than 10. Zhang Guoqiang also gave Zhang Guodong a few ecologically farmed soft eggs. eggs, but they are all laid in the grass in the wild, it is very troublesome to collect eggs, and the eggs received every day have to be taken to the incubator. The fertilized eggs of this kind of ecological breeding are much better than the chickens hatched from fertilized eggs in captivity .

On the way back from the chicken farm to Guanlukou, Zhang Guodong saw his second brother’s truck pulling a load of beehives heading west from Guanlukou. Bees were buzzing around the beehive. The bees he bought totaled 200 boxes. Zhang Guodong did not expect to be able to raise bees by this time.

Last winter, the village brigade put the development of local products in Zhangjialing Village into the village planning. All the villagers in the village were assigned specific tasks. Bee breeding alone was assigned to 4 families. They had to raise more than 50 boxes of bees every year. , if the honey produced cannot be sold, the village will help find a market, or directly buy it from the village brigade.

Except for beekeepers, Xigou fruit trees and nut trees have all been distributed to households. Villagers either enjoy the dividends of these fruit trees, or pay a sum of money to directly buy the output of a forest in the next few years.

Back at Guanlukou’s home, Zhang Guodong cooked two dishes himself. After the meal, Ouyang Xinlan took Zhang Guodong to practice with her. Her acting skills were much better than when she first started, but in terms of acting skills in the crew, she could only It is considered average. After a year, she has a new understanding of the female lead of "Spring Breeze". Zhang Guodong accompanied her to try out a few scenes, but she did not expect that she could easily handle this role, and some of her own subtle movements Let this character become more colorful, and Zhang Guodong finally saw what acting talent is. He used to act with Ouyang Xinlan and it seemed that his performance was poor. Now that the other party's strength has improved too fast, he feels that his acting is clumsy and fake.It seems that I have no talent in acting.

When Ouyang Xinlan came home, her mother always had a smile on her face when she went out. When it came to Zhang Guodong's beautiful wife, she would always happily chat with others for a long time.On the surface, Ouyang Xinlan looks like an urban intellectual female image, but she still likes rural life very much in her heart.There is still a period of time before the filming again. Ouyang Xinlan is like a kite flying in Zhangjialing Village every day. Everyone in the village knows that she is the future daughter-in-law of the village chief and respects her very much.

On the [-]th of the first lunar month, this day in the countryside is a day of playing poles, which means that after this day, the New Year will be completely over, and everyone is ready to work when spring comes.

After Ouyang Xinlan finished washing in the morning, she heard Aunt Wu say that the crab seedlings would be released after today, so she dragged Zhang Guodong to go to Xigou to see crabs together.

Zhang Guodong came to Xigou with his girlfriend and saw a group of workers on several trucks carrying boxes down. He walked over and saw that there were densely packed small crabs the size of fingernails. There were a total of 2 boxes of these on two trucks. Crab.

It was also the first time for Zhang Guodong to see crab breeding. He had heard that Qin Province raised crabs in his previous life, but he had never seen it himself.The water in this [-]-acre crab farm is relatively shallow, the deepest one is only more than ten centimeters deep, and the water is full of various large rocks.In many places, there was no water under the rocks, and the small crabs were thrown into the water and immediately scattered. Within a few minutes, they did not enter the grass or under the rocks. After all the crabs were released, the gates of the farm were closed. Zhang Guodong was worried about what to do if these crabs were pulled out from the cracks in the fence.

(End of this chapter)