The educated youth was reborn and wanted to disappear, but he was locked into a military marriage.

Before Chen Xudong answered, Lu Mingzheng had already waved his hand with a smile: "We are here on business this time, and it is also about the breeding base. Secretary Yan is also busy here, so I won't stay. I will bother you next time when you are free."

Yan Yimin heard that he was on business, so he didn't force him to stay. After the staff brought the two sums of money and wrote a receipt to Chen Xudong, he sent a few people out.

The tractor carried four people out of the county seat and all the way back to the village. Along the way, Chen Xudong briefly talked about what happened this month, his eyes full of light: "Before going to the countryside, I never knew that labor in the countryside It can be so fulfilling.”

Lu Mingzheng couldn't help laughing and shook his head: "You came at the right time. In the past years, there were only afforestation tasks, and our food was only the few crop fields around the village."

Chen Xudong also knew the situation of other brigades. He nodded and sighed: "This year our commune was originally divided into four educated youths, but later they seemed to think it was too difficult here, so they didn't come. They all went elsewhere through connections."

So there are no new educated youths this year.

Lu Mingzheng nodded, but he didn't care.

Meng Zihao's thoughts were all on the fruit trees, and reminded him: "You only care about peaches. There should be some apricot harvest this year."

"We have seen it, and although there are some apricots, there are not many. Xiaomin said that the sales of apricots cannot keep up with peaches, and we can't take care of them now. It is better to wait until they are ripe, and we can use them for other things. "Chen Xudong said immediately.

Hey, why did this guy change his name?

Lu Mingzheng turned his head and glanced at him.

Chen Xudong was in his own excitement and didn't feel anything strange.

"Doing something else? Dried apricots?" Meng Zihao asked, thinking about it and nodding, "Dried apricots can be stored for a long time, and they can still be sold at the end of the year, so that's fine."

Lu Mingzheng looked away and nodded: "Well, the price of making new year's goods is a little higher."

The four of them were chatting. The tractor had stopped at the edge of the threshing floor. Before they got off the tractor, they saw forty or fifty middle-aged and elderly women on the threshing floor.

Each woman sat on a mat with a pile of sunflower cakes piled beside her. The women chatted and peeled the sunflower seeds into the basket in front of them. When the basket was full, they called people to register and change them. Continue peeling the empty basket.

Someone took away the full baskets and spread them out to dry on the other side of the threshing floor.

Chen Xudong explained to the three of them: "These aunts and ladies come to work, and they all have their own tasks. Each task will be worth four work points, so every basket must be registered."

Zhao Zheng nodded and said: "This method is good, and it also prevents people from cheating."

Meng Zihao got out of the car and went to get another sunflower cake. When he saw that the sunflower cake was bigger than the basin, he nodded repeatedly.

The four people were talking. Two people from the brigade saw the tractor coming back and hurried down to pick up the load with him.

Back at the brigade headquarters, Lu Mingzheng and the other three took letters of introduction and went to Gu Mancang to report. Chen Xudong first went to Huang Xiaojuan to pay the bill. When he came out, he smiled at the three of them and said, "We are going to send these oil cakes to the base. Do you want to go together or not?" Are you going to settle down in an educated youth center first?"

Lu Mingzheng glanced at Zhu Xiaomin's office and saw that the door was closed. He was about to ask when Meng Zihao asked first: "Are you collecting sunflowers now?"

Chen Xudong nodded: "Today, Wu Jingyuan and Tian Jianyu are taking over as substitutes. Everyone else is collecting sunflower cakes at the base."

Lu Mingzheng immediately said: "Let's go to the base too." He picked up the luggage of three people and stored it at Xia Chunhua's place first.

Several people left the brigade headquarters and went directly to the breeding base. Looking up from the hillside, they could vaguely see the faint fruits in the orchards above.

Meng Zihao was moved by what he saw and suggested: "Let's go and have a look when we pick tomorrow morning?"

"Okay!" Zhao Zheng agreed.

He also wanted to see the results of the educated youth's busy work last year.

While everyone was talking, they had passed through the natural forest. In front of them was the original rocky slope. Now the sunflower cakes had been picked off, leaving a large piece of bare poles.

Zhao Zheng said: "The flowers just bloomed last time, and they turned golden under the sunlight. It's really beautiful."

Meng Zihao nodded: "The sunflowers are relatively sparsely planted this year, but just now I saw the growth of the sunflower cakes. Next year we can plant them more densely."

Chen Xudong was delighted: "Xiaomin also said that day that if we could plant more densely, the yield could be doubled."

As they spoke, several people passed through the sunflower poles and entered the base.

In the base, several sisters-in-law who were responsible for raising chickens were sitting in the shade, talking and weaving baskets. When they saw Lu Mingzheng and others, they shouted "Yeah", and one sister-in-law shouted happily, "Lu Zhiqing, it's you." "Throwing down the basket in his hand, he hurriedly went to the house to pour water.

Lu Mingzheng saw that the entire base was empty except for a few chickens hanging in the yard, so he asked, "Why is everyone in the field?"

The sister-in-law nodded, pointed in another direction and said, "Zhu Zhiqing and everyone are up there and won't come down until lunch."

Another sister-in-law smiled: "Lu Zhiqing, Chen Zhiqing will come up in a moment. Ask him to shout for you."

He was obviously asking about everyone, but these sisters-in-law knew that they were specifically talking about Zhu Xiaomin, so they were very discerning.

Lu Mingzheng smiled: "That's not necessary, we'll go up too."

"Hey, I don't want to wait even a minute." The sisters-in-law teased.

Chen Xudong went to put the crumb cakes and called to the three of them: "There is still a while before lunch, we can go up and have a look."

"Okay!" The three of them agreed, followed him out of the base from the other side, and walked along the path to the other side of the slope.

After more than half a month of picking, hundreds of acres of land on the hillside above the base to the north have been picked, and now it has been transferred to the other side of the hillside.

Zhu Xiaomin was wearing a straw hat and had just thrown a few sunflower cakes into the basket when she heard a shout. She looked up and saw Lu Mingzheng and three others following Chen Xudong. He said "ah" and said with a smile, "I guess you will be here soon." "Wipe your sweat and get out to greet him.

Lu Mingzheng looked at her with a smile: "I originally wanted to come at the end of the month, but I got stuck in a few days."

Zhu Xiaomin nodded and smiled: "It's good to be here." He greeted Zhao and Meng, and then said to Meng Zihao, "Comrade Meng came just in time. Take a look at our results. Are there any shortcomings?"

Meng Zihao said with a smile: "I saw flower cakes in the threshing floor just now, and they are longer than I expected." Having said that, he walked to the field where he was picking, nodded and said, "Well, the top The sunshine is strong, and the ripening will be earlier, so you are correct to harvest from top to bottom."

Among the sunflowers, the educated youths saw him and greeted him one after another. Xie Chengzhi smiled and said: "Comrade Meng will go to see the seeds we left in a while."

Meng Zihao nodded: "Chen Zhiqing talked about it all the way, let's go and have a look later." Seeing everyone picking the flower cakes one by one, his hands were a little itchy, so he rolled up his sleeves and went in to try it.