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Today is an important day for the villagers of Jiapigou: the first demonstration greenhouse will be born here.

Seeing that it was almost time for people to come, Liu Qingshan pushed the big guy next to him: "The big guy has been reading and studying for the past few days, and he has learned how to build a greenhouse. Let's just listen to him."

Captain Zhang has not given up on the idea of ​​letting his son join the army, so Liu Qingshan does not mind pushing the big head to the front desk to preside over the construction of the greenhouse and the subsequent planting management.

Although the big head's brain is not very bright, but the more this kind of person, the more concentrated he is when doing one thing, because he doesn't know what half-heartedness is at all.

This point can be seen from the red eyes of the big head. This kid spent the whole night reading last night, and basically didn't sleep much.

When things came to an end, the big head shrank a little.

Surrounded by the elders of the village, as well as his father, who also stared at him covetously, Datou became timid.

He muttered softly to Liu Qingshan: "Sanfenger, you should say it, I'm stupid."

"Cough cough."

Liu Qingshan coughed twice, and then spit out the word "expert" lightly from his mouth.

This time, the big head was really stimulated, staring at the scarlet eyes with a determined expression on his face.

Seeing Liu Qingshan thinking about it: Is this going to the battlefield?

But he knew in his heart that to Datou, the vegetable field in front of him was a battlefield.

So he patted the big head on the shoulder: "Big head, you can do it!"

Datou finally mustered up his courage, took out a piece of crumpled paper from his pocket, smoothed it out and said, "This is a sketch I drew. The walls around the shed are all built with adobe walls. The height of the north side is 1.2 meters, and the south side is [-] meters."

After finishing speaking, he scratched the back of his head nervously: "By the way, do you understand the whole truth?"

Seeing the people around shaking their heads together, the big head also gained some confidence: "Our Gada, the winter sun is in the south, so we have to be low in the south and high in the north, so as to ensure the light in the greenhouse."

Those present were all old-fashioned farming methods, and of course they understood such a simple truth, so they all nodded.

"Big head, it's smoother than Xiao Huang, an agricultural technician from the commune. The key is, we can understand it as soon as we hear it."

Da Zhang Luo gave a praise, which attracted the captain Zhang Guofu, with a smile on his face and a straight chest. For the first time in his life, he felt proud of his son.

The technician, Xiao Huang, had been to Jiapigou before, and his mouth was full of unintelligible technical terms, so he was not welcomed.

Encouraged by the big head, he will perform better in the future, and explain everything clearly, even including the heating problem in the greenhouse in winter, etc., all explained clearly.

In the end, imitating his father's example, he waved his arms vigorously: "Build a greenhouse first in every house, so that it will be easy to take care of, and if the benefits are good, we will expand it in the next year. Do you have the confidence?"

"Have!"

All the boys and girls booed and waved their arms together.

"Then let's do it!"

The big head yelled again, and then he was dragged aside by his father Zhang Guofu.

If it was the usual way, he would definitely be pulling by his ears. Today, Zhang Guofu was just pulling his son's arm.

He felt that the child seemed to have grown up suddenly, and he was not the half-grown kid who was shouting and drinking, so he had to save some face.

The work is not something that a half-sized man like Datou can command. Zhang Guofu has to go out, arrange groups, and assign manpower. It really looks like a father-son soldier.

Greenhouse planting seems simple, but it actually involves a lot of things. Liu Qingshan has already made a plan, and will organize several special trainings at that time.

He trained the big head first, and then the big head trained the villagers.

Soon, Zhang Guofu assigned good people: those who mixed the mud, those who stripped the blank, those who built the wall, those who built the pillars, those who tied the skeleton with bamboo chips, and those who finally covered the film, etc. Everyone performed their duties, and soon Just get busy.

Because it is the first greenhouse, the adobes assembled by each family are used; the remaining greenhouses will be built one after another, after all, it will take time to remove the blanks.

In fact, before building the greenhouse, the site should be prepared. However, there are still vegetables such as eggplants, cucumbers, and peppers growing in the yard, and they are growing vigorously.

Anyway, there are still nearly two months before we can start growing greenhouse vegetables, so let's grow them first.

Everyone started working together, they were all workers, and the speed was still very fast. After one morning, the front and rear walls and the gables on both sides were all up.

The pillars and the skeleton of the plastic sheeting above the shed are also all tied up.The places where the bamboo pieces are connected are wrapped with rags to avoid scratching the plastic cloth on top.

"Put it on plastic sheeting, then cover it with grass curtains, and you're done!"

Looking at the brand-new greenhouse rising from the ground, Datou was also very excited, and wiped it vigorously under his nose with his arm.

Zhang Guofu next to him quickly added: "By the way, after the beginning of autumn, we will have to cut grass to make straw curtains."

The surrounding villagers also looked at this semi-finished shed cheerfully. This thing carried their hopes.

Zhang Guofu waved his hand again: "In the afternoon, let's start making adobe with all our strength, and get everything ready, let's go away."

After finishing the work, they all go back to their own homes to eat, without providing food.

The crowd withdrew in twos and threes, but a person staggered over.

While wiping the pimples from the corners of his eyes, Zhang Ganzi asked, "Where are we going to eat at noon? Isn't our cooperative eating big pots of rice?"

Everyone had been working all morning, but he was lucky to wake up.

"Eat, eat, eat shit."

His second uncle, the old branch secretary, was so angry that he went over and kicked Zhang Ganzi's ass hard.

While dodging, Zhang Ganzi muttered, "If I had known that I wouldn't eat big pots, I wouldn't have joined the cooperative."

Seeing this scene, Liu Qingshan blinked at the old party secretary, who nodded calmly, and then said to Zhang Ganzi.

"You're lazy and complain about strange things all day long. After research by all the members of the cooperative, I found you a good job."

After finishing speaking, he saw Boss Zhang coming happily driving a donkey cart. He let out a "sigh" and parked the donkey cart on the road in front of Liu Qingshan's home.

Zhang Ganzi's eyes lit up immediately: "Drive the car, this job is good, it is light and can ride in the car, thank you second uncle, you still love me."

Everyone followed suit to see, this car is quite special, the compartment is welded with iron sheets, airtight, and there is a big cover on it, which is tightly covered.

There is also a large iron spoon with a long handle next to it.

Zhang Ganzi still picked it up, hahahaha, and waved it in his hand a few times: "I am General Iron Spoon, so I will give you a general name, and the nameless ghost will never die under my spoon, wow——"

Two years ago, Liu Lanfang's Yue Fei Biography was popular all over the country, and people were fascinated by it. When it was one o'clock, children would stand under the radio speakers at home to listen.

Zhang Ganzi learned this from storytelling.

Seeing that this guy was still in the dark, Liu Qingshan suppressed his laughter, if Zhang Ganzi knew, he was the one who came up with this idea, and he would have to put a spoonful on his head.

The expression on the face of the old party secretary was also very exciting, and he roared: "Whatever you want to play, I am willing to play, and you will play every day from now on."

Only then did Zhang Ganzi regain his magical powers, turned the big iron spoon upside down, and leaned on the long handle of the spoon with his hand: "Second Uncle, what do you want me to do?"

"Uncle Ganzi, your job is the most important. Without you, the harvest of these greenhouses in our village will be affected."

Liu Qingshan first sent a high hat over, and made Zhang Ganzi smile. After all, the more lazy he is, the more he wants to be recognized by people.

He slapped his chest loudly: "Don't worry, I promise to complete the task!"

After finishing speaking, he turned to the old branch secretary, "Second Uncle, tell me quickly, what kind of mission is it, I am so anxious to death?"

The old party secretary thought about it: "Pole, we rural people have an old saying that every crop is a flower, and the family depends on dung."

A bad feeling welled up in Zhang Ganzi's heart, and he looked at the big iron spoon in his hand: it looks familiar, doesn't it?

"We have to use farmyard manure to plant greenhouses, so the arduous task of collecting fertilizer is up to you."

There is a sense of mission in the voice of the old party secretary.

What, collect fertilizer?

Zhang Ganzi jumped up violently: "Didn't that tell me to dig out the dung every day? Why does this spoon look familiar to me? Isn't this the dung spoon for scooping up dung soup!"

After finishing speaking, like a hot potato, he threw the dung spoon on the ground and looked at the old party secretary angrily: "You are really my second uncle, good second uncle, assign this work to me!"

"This spoon hasn't been used yet, it's not dirty, it's not dirty."

The old branch secretary bent down and picked up the big spoon: "Gaozi, your parents are dead, you are over 30, and you are still a bachelor. Let me introduce you to some little widows. People think you are lazy."

"Second Uncle assigned you this job, just to show everyone that the Zhang Pole of our old Zhang's family is neither too dirty nor too tired. With you, there is food to eat."

"There is still food to eat, so there is shit to eat, anyway, I won't do it, and I won't do it even if I'm killed!"

Zhang Ganzi also smashed the pot and squatted on the ground, as if a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water.

The old party secretary also took the rammed goods and did nothing, so he could only look at Liu Qingshan.

Unknowingly, he already had some inexplicable sense of dependence on this half-grown boy.

Liu Qingshan also squatted in front of Zhang Ganzi, and handed him a cigarette.

Zhang Ganzi seemed to be really angry, he didn't even take a cigarette, Liu Qingshan forced it into his mouth: "Uncle Ganzi, have you heard of Shi Chuanxiang?"

"Who, I don't know." Zhang Ganzi still took two puffs of cigarette.

"He is a national model worker and has been received by the Prime Minister."

The old branch secretary had a look of hatred for iron and steel, and added a few sentences next to it.

Model workers, in this day and age, are definitely respected, let alone model workers across the country, the small mountain village of Jiapigou has never even had a model worker in the county.

Zhang Ganzi also expressed his admiration: "That's really powerful. What does he do? Is he a national cadre or an eighth-level worker?"

Liu Qingshan looked at Zhang Ganzi with a smile: "He is just an ordinary excrement cleaner."

Chapter 37 Touching the Mussels

Zhang Ganzi, still driving the donkey cart, went home cheerfully.

In addition to being encouraged by the old model worker, it is also related to Liu Qingshan's promise to him: as long as he is willing to work hard, within three years, he will definitely be able to find a wife.

Thinking of the beautiful life of his wife and children on the hot kang, Zhang Ganzi's lazy body is full of motivation.

Then from the next day, he drove the donkey cart back and forth between the county seat and Jiapigou every day, leaving early and returning late, rain or shine.

At that time, the county towns were all one-story houses, and all used dry toilets. Basically, every square residential area had one or two toilets.

Residents also often see a middle-aged man in rubber underwear, with a beard and a big dung spoon, scooping out spoonfuls of dung soup from the dung pit and pouring it into the donkey cart.

After filling it, close the lid and drive away. The smell must be unstoppable, and everyone hides away.

At this time, Zhang Ganzi would yell: "Why are you hiding, when you eat the vegetables poured in dung soup, each one of you will taste better than anyone else!"

He was so angry that someone wanted to beat him, but seeing the filth stains on his body, forget it, let's bear it.

When the dung water is brought back, it must be mixed with black soil and fermented. It is the so-called dung coating the wall.

Of course, this kind of work can't be done in the village, otherwise, the whole Jiapigou will definitely stink.

So a dung yard was built in the southeast outside the village. The southeast wind is rarely blown here, so the smell cannot spread to the village.

Don't look at Zhang Ganzi being disliked by others outside, but in Jiapigou, his status has risen rapidly. Farmers understand the importance of fertilizers, so they all look up to Zhang Ganzi.

Everyone greeted each other: "Yo, the general is back!"

General, um, is the abbreviation of General Shao, and also Zhang Ganzi's new nickname.

Zhang Ganzi, who originally wished he could not take a bath once a year, is now diligent, and has to take a shower every day when he returns home, otherwise, the smell would be too much for him to bear.

Everyone said: Dung soup can cure laziness.

Seeing this gratifying change, Liu Qingshan also purposely built a simple shower facility, and installed Zhang Pole next to his warehouse.

I just made a big bag out of plastic cloth and painted the surface with black paint to absorb the heat of the sun.

Throwing the big bag on the lid of the barn led to a shower head. Zhang Ganzi came back every day and took a hot bath, which almost made his nose soaked.

It attracted the envy of many women in the village, because after all, they are not like those middle-aged and old men who take off their clothes by the river, plop, jump into the water and take a bath.

But asking them to go to the bachelor Zhang Ganzi's house to take a bath is absolutely impossible, so the one in Liu Qingshan's house is in short supply all day long.

Such a good thing, of course I have to get one at home.

It's just that the shower head is not easy to get, otherwise, it is estimated that it will be popularized in the village soon.

In the past few days, Liu Qingshan has been working with everyone every day, and it is the most tiring job in the countryside: mixing big mud and removing big slabs.

After they dug more than one meter deep into the ground, the black soil layer will disappear and turn into yellow clay, which is just right for making mud.

In the loess, you need to add some broken firewood, the best is to use wheat fish roe, that is, the shell that has been removed from wheat, with awns in it, shaped like a small fish.

The wheat has not been confiscated this month, even if it is harvested, there are not so many wheat roe.

The guys beat bundles of hay from the meadow, cut it into pieces with a guillotine, and mixed it into the loess to increase the pulling force.

The adobe made in this way is relatively strong and can withstand wind and rain.