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And the branch secretary's grandfather didn't say a word, just shook his head with a smile.

"Add [-] cents per catty, the boss will do it!"

After finishing speaking, the old party secretary Liu was also a little angry. Isn't this taking advantage of the fire and looting? It's too dishonest.

The grandfather of the branch secretary still shook his head, seeing that Secretary Sun of the commune felt a little too much. Just as he was about to speak a few words of justice in the middle, he heard the old branch secretary say:

"Rabbits don't even eat the grass by the side of the nest. Everyone belongs to the same commune, and they are all affected by disasters. Can Jiapigou earn your money without conscience? The cost price is fifty cents a catty, and we won't take advantage of it." That's it."

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and then they were all overjoyed:

"Old Zhang, you should be more particular about Jiapigou!"

"It's too righteous. If you need our Shoulin Village for anything in the future, just say hello!"

"It's the same with Xiangqian Village!"

Jiapigou immediately gained a lot of goodwill, and Secretary Sun of the commune also smiled, applauding the village cadres in Jiapigou for being human.

On the contrary, the villagers who came with the boss and the others were secretly a little unhappy: What about selling at a high price?

It's heartbreaking to calculate, if the piglets sell for an extra [-] cents per catty, it will almost pay back the money.

Who would not be willing to do business without capital?

Even if some piglets were damaged during the breeding process, it wouldn't be too distressing.

Only Liu Qingshan knew the inside story, and he laughed and said nothing. This strategy was researched by him, the party secretary's grandfather and the captain's uncle.

The rest was simple. The pigs were caught and weighed, and the piglets were put into large baskets. Then the village sent several large carriages to send them to the various production teams.

"It's almost noon, let's have a bite of rice in Jiapigou."

The branch secretary's grandfather greeted him, but everyone was eager to take the piglet back to the village, and they all refused. Even the secretary of the commune, Sun, rode a bicycle and went back together.

The trend of eating and drinking has not yet risen.

After the outsiders had left, the villagers began to complain.

"Don't worry, everyone, we still made money."

Liu Qingshan stood up and explained to everyone: "This piglet has been raised with us for more than a week, and it has grown several catties."

That's right, everyone suddenly realized that the piglet was almost twenty catties, and if such a big piglet went to the market, no one would buy it.

Even if someone buys it, the price will have to be pushed down hard.

Dazhang Luo's brain was active, and he quickly figured it out: "What's more, our pigs are full, so we can go directly to the scale, which is a lot of money."

Everyone continued to nod. Everyone has sold pigs at the buying station. After that, they will deliberately dry you for two hours, and wait for the excrement and urine in the pig's belly to empty before weighing it.

So after this calculation, I still made money, and I also won a good reputation.

Fame seems to be useless, but it is actually quite useful.

For example, when young men and women are introducing their partners, a master like Zhang Ganzi has a bad reputation, so naturally no one wants to talk to him.

And the good reputation of Jiapigou spread, and the girls in the surrounding villages were all proud to marry in Jiapigou, so the boys in the village didn't have to worry about marrying a wife.

Even if a girl marries to another village, she still feels righteous.

These can be regarded as the invisible benefits brought by a good reputation. It seems that the party secretary's grandpa is scheming and thinking long-term.

If you only covet the immediate interests and offend all the people in the villages, even if someone talks about marriage in the future, as soon as they hear that it is from Jiapigou, they will think of this and say a few frustrated words, maybe the marriage will fail. Woolen cloth.

After figuring it out, everyone stopped complaining and happily went about their work.

When the crowd dispersed, the old party secretary patted Liu Qingshan on the shoulder: "Qingshan, good boy, it's all thanks to you that we Jiapigou are so elated for the first time!"

Whether it is building a greenhouse or raising pigs, Liu Qingshan has been leading behind the scenes, and his credit is indispensable.

"Hey, Grandpa Branch Secretary, do you want to abdicate again?"

Liu Qingshan said jokingly.

"I want to think about it, but I'm afraid you're right. Qingshan, you're going to go to university in the future, and you'll be a national cadre after graduation. I'm afraid you won't want to go back to our Jiapigou."

The old branch secretary shook his head, feeling a little lost in his heart.

Liu Qingshan doesn't think so: "Grandpa Secretary, Uncle Captain, I think that going to university is not to be a national cadre, but to learn skills and gain knowledge. When I finish university, I will definitely come back and build our Jiapigou into the best Rich village!"

Really?

Looking at Liu Qingshan's determined eyes, he knew that he was not joking.

The old branch secretary and the captain uncle reached out their hands at the same time, patted Liu Qingshan's shoulders heavily, and said at the same time:

"Good boy, when the time comes, I will give you the village party secretary!"

"Qingshan, you will be the captain when the time comes!"

Liu Qingshan's body was a lot shorter: "Grandpa Party Secretary, Uncle Captain, I can't hold two jobs at the same time. It's better for you to continue working, and I'll just beat the side drum along."

"Are you playing the side drum? Let me tell you, what are you doing in the band? You're just gesticulating with a wooden stick?"

Captain Zhang couldn't remember for a while, Liu Qingshan hurriedly said: "Is it the commander?"

Captain Zhang slapped his thigh vigorously: "Yes, yes, he is the conductor. Although he doesn't adjust any instruments, he can just make gestures with the stick in his hand. I reckon that if he is disobedient, he will definitely take it after he steps off the stage. Hit the skull hard with the stick!"

Haha... The happy laughter echoed over the pig farm, and Zhang Ganzi in the distance was refreshed: what's the matter, so happy, it can't be Wang Cuihua, the widow of Shoulin Village, who is going to ask me to go on a blind date again, right?

Chapter 62 Labor is the best

When all the greenhouses in the village were planted and the pig farm was back on track, everyone started busy cleaning up Qiu'er.

Picking up potatoes, cutting soybeans, breaking corn, cutting millet, and cutting millet, three springs are not as busy as one autumn.

After working hard for half a year, the crops in the field must be returned to the warehouse. All year round, I count on this harvest.

The primary schools in the village also have busy farming holidays, and not only the village primary schools, but also the schools in the commune, and even the schools in the county, also have busy farming holidays during this time period.

Because there are many students in the countryside, they can help the family with some work when they go home, and some teachers also have land at home, so they have to clean up Qiu'er.

It happens to be another season change, and students can change their clothes when they go home, killing two birds with one stone.

Seeing the second sister, Liu Yinfeng, happily entering the house with a tape recorder, the fourth and fifth children in the yard immediately jumped up cheering.

Liu Yinfeng handed the tape recorder to Liu Qingshan who came up to meet him, then took out two handfuls of candies from the pocket of the calico shirt, and stuffed them to Sifeng and Wufeng.

I haven't seen her for more than a month, and the second sister seems to have grown taller again, with a more slender figure. From Liu Qingshan's point of view, a proper big beauty is still pure natural.

So he praised: "Beautiful girl!"

Liu Yinfeng was taken aback for a moment, then pursed her lips and smiled: "A naughty boy."

Haha, there is progress!

Liu Qingshan was quite satisfied with the spoken language of the second sister, but he was not forgiving: "How can you be the second sister like you, I praised you as a beautiful girl, but you said I was a bad boy."

"Also, you shouldn't use the word naughty, which is really bad, but mischievous, which describes naughty."

Liu Yinfeng blinked her big delicate eyes. She really felt that her younger brother was more professional than her English teacher, because what she just said was taught by the teacher.

She said with a smile on her face: "Sanfeng'er, we are on a one-week agricultural holiday, and you are helping me with my English."

Liu Qingshan shrugged his shoulders: "The farming is busy, I have to be busy, I don't have time."

"Is there really no time?"

Liu Yinfeng stared at her beautiful Danfeng eyes, and twisted her fingers exaggeratedly.

Liu Qingshan immediately surrendered: "No matter how busy you are, you still have to help my diligent and beautiful second sister make up lessons."

whee!

Even Shan Xing couldn't help laughing while covering her small mouth.

Laughing and entering the door, seeing the second girl came back, Lin Zhi was so happy from ear to ear: "Sanfenger, hurry up and go to the warehouse, take out the matsutake you picked yesterday, only your second sister has never tasted it. .”

As a mother, every child is a favorite in her eyes, and the less she is around, the more she misses it.

Liu Qingshan also agreed with a smile. These days, the villagers occasionally use their spare time to go to the mountains to collect some mountain products. In addition to fungi, they also brought back a lot of hazelnuts, pine nuts, and hickory nuts.

After drying, save it for winter.In winter, I only eat two meals and add some nuts. Anyway, my mouth is not idle, and my stomach is somewhat comforted.

At dinner time, besides frying matsutake, Liu Qingshan also showed his hand: walnut kernels in syrup.

In fact, it is to bake the walnut kernels in an iron pan slowly over a low heat. After they are cooked, boil the syrup, and then hang the syrup on the walnut kernels.

White sugar is in short supply right now, and every family is reluctant to use it, so few people know how to boil sugar.

But to Liu Qingshan, this is nothing.

A large plate of walnuts was served on the table, sweet and crispy, everyone applauded again and again.

Liu Qingshan brought back a lot of hickory nuts these days, nearly half a sack, and he said while eating: "Walnuts nourish the brain, second sister, eat more."

"And big sister, you should also eat more. When you're pregnant, eat three walnuts a day, and the baby you'll give birth to is guaranteed to be a little genius."

"As well as grandparents and mothers, you middle-aged and elderly people should also eat more walnuts. This is the best calcium supplement."

Hearing that he couldn't stop talking, the fourth child became anxious: "Brother, what about Shan Xing and I?"

Liu Qingshan stroked her antenna braids: "You guys should eat more too, your little brains are getting smarter and smarter, and you will get [-] points every time you take the exam!"

The two little girls were so beautiful that they could not close their mouths from ear to ear, and Shan Xing even put a lot of walnuts in Yang Hongying's bowl.

Even though she was on vacation, Yang Hongying was not going to leave. Thinking about being free, she would go to the fields with Liu Qingshan and the others to do farm work the next day.

"Mr. Yang, you have never done farm work, you should help my mother cook at home, or you can help my eldest sister feed the chickens."

Liu Qingshan was a little worried. Yang Hongying was from the city, so she must have never done such a thing as digging in the soil.

And there is another thing that touched Liu Qingshan. Just yesterday, Yang Hongying went to the Post Office to contact her friend from the island country.

The other party also confirmed that when the wild vegetables on the mountain come down in the next spring, they will bring people over to negotiate the purchase of wild vegetables and the subsequent purchase of edible fungi.

It can be seen from this that Yang Hongying really regards this place as her own home; then of course Liu Qingshan also treats her as her family.

Yang Hongying didn't show any weakness: "You underestimate people, why don't we compete."

There was no other way, Lin Zhi could only hand her a pair of thick gloves, and said in her mouth: "Teacher Yang, come back when you are tired."

Originally, Lin Zhi also wanted to go to the fields to harvest crops, but was stopped by Liu Qingshan. He knew that his mother's body had been exhausted over the years, so he must not be tired anymore, and just cook at home.

And the eldest sister, who is pregnant with a child, can't do heavy work. Those chicks are enough for her to keep busy.

In the end, the workers, including Liu Qingshan, Liu Yinfeng, Gao Wenxue, and Yang Hongying, all set off with three-tooth scratchers and earthen baskets on their shoulders.

The fourth and fifth children followed behind, and the two little guys carried a big soil basket together.

In these days of autumn harvest, men, women and children of all ages are called to battle together.

Today we picked potatoes, and when we got to the field, the boss uncle had already driven the ox plow, and opened up all the ridges and terraces.

What Liu Qingshan and the others needed to do was to pick up the potatoes into baskets and then put them into sacks.

Of course, I still need to plan it with a three-tooth scratcher to clean up all the potatoes hidden in the soil.

Two men, Liu Qingshan and Gao Wenxue, were planing ahead with their three-tooth scratches.

Liu Yinfeng and Yang Hongying wiped off the soil on the potatoes one by one with their hands.

Sifeng and Wufeng picked up the clean potatoes into the basket, and when the basket was full, they poured it into the sack.

This autumn has been raining a lot, so there is more soil on the potatoes, which is commonly known as "mai tai qiu'er".

At the beginning, Yang Hongying was still in high spirits, but then it was boring repetition, squatting on the ground for a long time, her legs became sore.

The gloves she was wearing were already black and covered with mud, and her palms were still burning, so she must have turned red a long time ago, but this girl was also stubborn, so she gritted her teeth and insisted.

After all, Liu Yinfeng has been doing farm work since she was a child, so she was quite relaxed. Gradually, she also found out about Teacher Yang's situation, so she took the initiative to chat with Yang Hongying, ask some questions, or listen to Yang Hongying's interesting stories about going to college.

Chatting while working, Yang Hongying finally felt better.

After working for more than two hours, Liu Qingshan told everyone to go to the fields to rest and drink some water to quench their thirst.

When he came, he brought a thermos bottle, but the water in it was not boiling water, but cold water just drawn from the well.

Use the lid of the thermos to catch the water, take a sip, and let the cool water drip down all the way, feeling refreshed.

Yang Hongying also sat down on the ground in a very unimpressive manner, her whole body seemed to be falling apart, she really wanted to lie on her back for a while.

When she was a child, she also read the poem "the day of hoeing, the sweat drops to the soil", but only when she really participated in rural labor did she realize the hardships involved.

Little Lao Si and Shan Xing were both tired and sweaty, their little faces were dirty and turned into two cat faces.