Datang: My father is the head bodyguard

After a busy morning, neither Yuchi Baoqi nor Li Shimin felt tired. The experience of using the agricultural machinery was simply unparalleled.

Li Shimin and Yuchi Baoqi sat on the huge threshing floor owned by Fan Zhu's family, watching Fan Zhu carefully drive the tractor and use the sledge to spread the wheat.

"The machinery is really wonderful. How many acres of land have you harvested so far?"

Yuchi Baoqi drank the cold water from the bowl, his eyes in trance: "Sixty or seventy acres, I can't remember clearly. There are about a hundred acres of wheat, about fifty acres of rice, and the rest are some small ones. Vegetable patch.”

"Potatoes are about one hundred acres. Harvesting potatoes with agricultural machinery is more convenient than harvesting wheat. The tractor operator is just a little tired."

Li Shimin was obviously shocked by this number: "I thought about harvesting a lot of acres, but I didn't expect so many! So wouldn't this mean... I can't finish it all?"

Yuchi Baoqi raised his eyes and glanced at Li Shimin: "How is it possible? No matter what level the agricultural productivity reaches, there will be a day when the food is finished. The reason is waste."

"Don't look at the people now. It hurts to waste a little food. If you look at it three generations later, the people will think that the food is so cheap and it is a waste."

"So, this requires the consensus of the entire society. Not to waste food must be engraved in everyone's bones. Education and society must play a role in persuasion."

It was rare for Yuchi Baoqi to be serious when she was alone with Li Shimin. Li Shimin listened very seriously and began to think crazily in his mind.

"Husband! Xiaobao, Lao Litou, it's time to eat!"

Yuchi Baoqi, who was still discussing with Li Shimin, disappeared with a "whoosh" as soon as he heard that dinner was about to begin.

"Sister-in-law, what are you having for lunch today?"

Cuifen served rice to several people with a smile: "Rice and some home-style stir-fries, don't blame me for cooking."

Yuchi Baoqi sat down at the table with a rice bowl and waited for the food to be served. Li Shimin and Fan Zhu also followed. Cuifen finished the rice and went into the kitchen to serve the food.

"Vinegar potato shreds, rotten eggplant strips, braised pork belly. There are also a few leftover leek boxes from the morning."

Li Shimin didn't understand: "Although the weather is not that hot, it can be said to be cool. When did you buy it? Will it last?"

Cuifen covered her mouth and chuckled: "Where? Just now, the uncle of Li Shangzhuang drove a bullock cart to sell it. I told the uncle that we have visitors, and there will be more tomorrow."

"My husband and I were originally in Luoyang. When we hired someone to do some work in our village, we had to have braised pork belly. We can't do anything to you."

Fan Zhu had already eaten and his mouth was full of oil: "Before, the manager of Baoli Food Store mentioned it to me when he was collecting the food. He said that when there is a refrigerator in the future, the meat can be frozen as soon as it is put in the refrigerator. It can’t be broken.”

Although driving a harvester to harvest wheat is not very tiring, and Li Shimin driving a tractor is not tiring, the food after working is always more delicious, especially the dishes with heavy oil, meat and salt, which are satisfying to eat.

Fan Zhu held the rice bowl: "We harvested seventy-two acres of land in the morning. This year is considered a good year. The combined yield is 1,100 kilograms per unit area, and the wet grain is about eight or nine hundred kilograms when dried. Seventy-two acres of land, totaling 60,000 kilograms Less than a pound."

Li Shimin had always had the impression that the low price of grain hurt the farmers. He had no idea about the number reported by Fan Zhu, so he had to ask insinuatingly.

"How much money can you make in Northland this year?"

Fan Zhu clapped his fingers: "The fields are rent-free and tax-free. Three applications of pesticides per acre cost fifteen cents. The sowing was done by operators sent by Baoli Grain Co., Ltd. using my own farm machinery. It cost no money. It only cost me fifteen cents." Just sell the grain to Baoli Grain first.”

"There is no need to pay for the remaining plows and rakes such as rotary tillage. The agricultural machinery we bought has a twenty-year warranty, and there is no need to pay for refueling. As long as the seeds are grown using the planting method of Baoli Grain, one pound It’s only a little over a penny, haven’t you thought about it?”

After thinking about it, Fan Zhu seemed to have no other necessary expenses except buying seeds and pesticides.

"How much can one acre of land be sold for at 800 kilograms?"

Fan Zhu walked to the cabinet next to him, took out last year's grain collection voucher and handed it to Li Shimin: "Uncle Li, I'm illiterate. The grain collection clerk at Baoli Grain Store gave it to me. You know how to drive an agricultural machine. I'm sure you can drive it." Literacy.”

Li Shimin read it out directly: "Two cents per catty, twenty cents for selected grains. Is this price high or low?"

Yuchi Baoqi went to add another bowl of rice: "It was considered high before, but it is normal now. The food of Baoli Grain Store, you can say wheat, grinding it into flour and transporting it, how many labor and processes are there, and finally it reaches the people." It’s like five cents a pound in my hand.”

Li Shimin finally believed that Baoli Grain Store really had no possibility of making a profit, and Fan Zhu took the grain receipt voucher from Li Shimin.

"One acre is worth more than one tael of treasure money, and then planting a round of soybeans is close to one tael of treasure money. One acre of land a year can contribute less than three taels of treasure money."

Yuchi Baoqi clapped his hands: "Congratulations to Brother Dazhu, your hard work has not been in vain this year."

Fan Zhu grinned cheerfully: "Other people farm with a miserable face all year round, but smile when the harvest comes. I am different. I smile from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. What I like most is to be with my wife in the mature fields. Look at those grains, how beautiful they are."

Yuchi Baoqi picked up another leek box and took a bite: "By the way, Brother Dazhu, you have so many farm machines. After you learn how to operate the farm machines, you can help other families harvest them. If they don't have farm machines, they can still get treasure money by using them." Bar?"

Fan Zhu nodded: "Of course, one acre of land is worth forty-five cents. According to me, a high-ranking person, I can do more than a hundred acres a day, which is four to five cents."

"My disadvantage is that I am illiterate. I heard that literate people learn to use agricultural machinery very quickly. The functions of the buttons on it are all written. It's a shame that we can't understand them."

Yuchi Baoqi took a wooden spoon, scooped two spoons of the braised pork broth into a bowl, and had a meal of mixed rice: "To be honest, it is much easier to learn agricultural machinery after you are literate, but Brother Dazhu, you have a quick mind and you won't learn it." Nope."

Fan Zhu sighed: "Brother Dazhu understands what you said, Xiaobao. The main reason is... well... you literate people don't understand us, blind people like us. We are afraid that if we ask more questions, we will be resented and offended." Those who are scolded have not learned their true skills.”

"The clerks and agricultural machinery operators at Baoli Grain Store are all good. We also know that they will definitely not do this, but... tsk... I can't get over that threshold."

Cuifen walked to Fan Zhu and gently touched her lover's shoulders with her hands, trying to comfort her husband.

"How about Xiaobao, if you help your brother Dazhu, you will definitely not look down on brother Dazhu. In the past two days, your brother Dazhu and I both know that you father and son are good people."