Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1720: Changes in the Mountain Village

Above the waterline of the Meigu River, several white houses and white walls have been built, and saplings have been planted inside.

It is said that those saplings are very valuable, as they are transplanted from the only two mother trees in the country. However, Lianhe Township may really be the authentic place for cherries and pomegranates, especially pomegranates. According to the female scholar who usually wears a white coat and Elbow, based on the growth of pomegranate trees in Lianhe Township, there is a great possibility that they will bear fruit and layer high branches a year in advance.

High branch layering is a technique for growing trees on trees. These national experts are truly amazing.

The potatoes have been harvested, the buckwheat harvest is about to come, and the corn will take more than a month. This year, the people of Lianhe Township already have some money in their pockets.

These incomes come from two aspects. One is the wages for building roads and houses for the country, which can earn six or seven hundred yuan a month. It is said that the construction company did not want Yi people to be workers at the beginning, and it was the two kids Elbow and Renzhong who made trouble and finalized the deal.

As the chief Bimo, he naturally knew how difficult it was for the Yi people to learn to abide by the rules, but the two kids did it. Even the people from the construction company gave them a thumbs up in the end, saying that their work was no worse than that of the Han workers.

This income is a lot for the Yi people. In the past, they could not even make two or three hundred yuan a year. Now one month's salary would take two or three years' worth of the past.

Then there is the income from planting trees. This income cannot be directly calculated as money, but there is a septic tank behind every house. Above the septic tank is a toilet with solidified ground. The toilet is not big, but the solidified ground is not small. Elbow said that it was prepared for the future conversion of the pigpen.

A few carefree families in the village have already started repairing the pig pens, mainly because they are jealous of the pigs that Abi helps Elbow raise.

With the family toilets, the village seems much cleaner. Things that could not be enforced in the past even after repeated warnings are now enforced without anyone having to ask.

Because there is forage grass intercropped in the orchard, even if raising sheep is difficult, raising chickens and rabbits is no problem.

The chickens have not been slaughtered yet, but the rabbits are multiplying very quickly. The main thing is the market. With the market for pork elbows, it will be easier to export the products from the village.

After harvesting the dried ferns, we start harvesting mushroom oil, and after harvesting the mushroom oil, we start harvesting potatoes. We also collect eggs and send them to the chicken farm for artificial hatching. When we have nothing to do, we let the kids go up the mountain to collect rosin, as if everything can be exchanged for money.

Even the flints dug out from septic tanks by each household and the flints dug out during road construction were collected for a fee.

Trucks come to Lianhe Township every week to transport goods. I heard from Renzhong that Elbow has many connections in the provincial capital and can always find a way to sell the goods in the township.

The biggest change in the village is that people started eating three meals a day.

  Eat three meals a day! In the old days, this was something only the toast family could do!

In the past, in Lianhe Township, except for the school-going children who had a simple lunch, almost every family had two meals a day, morning and evening.

It’s no longer possible now. Men go out to work, and women have to take care of farm work at home. They also have to go up the mountain to pick ferns and mushrooms. There are also a bunch of chickens and rabbits to feed at home, and they really can’t stand skipping lunch.

So at noon, smoke starts to rise from every household in the village.

Every time this happened, Lao Chi Ri would feel grateful towards Zhou Zhi.

Potatoes and corn are actually very high-yielding crops, but they have a serious problem: they are not resistant to storage.

For example, potatoes can only be kept for three months if stored in a pile. If they are stored in a cellar, the shelf life can be extended to two months, but this requires a cave dwelling and is prone to danger.

Another example is corn. Corn is usually dried and hung on beams, or threshed into kernels, but both methods can only store it for half a year.

As national reserves, grain stations will collect some, but not too much. The rest will be collected by the state as commercial grain, but the price will be quite low.

There is no other way. If you can’t store it, you have to sell it or replace it with buckwheat, sorghum, millet and other grains that are easy to store.

The villagers of Lianhe Township have basically been through this all along. The impact of the scissors gap on agriculture, rural areas and farmers has affected even a remote mountain village like Lianhe Township. The machine brought by Zhou Zhi came in handy.

The key is that electricity is free and you generate it yourself.

Therefore, the Lianhe Township Grain Station recently launched a "welfare policy" to provide villagers with machines to cut potato chips and crush corn.

In Elbow's words, the reason why potatoes and corn cannot be stored for too long is that they are still alive, will consume their own nutrients, sprout, take root, and become sick and rot.

The way to deal with them is to kill them and then dry them.

There is no problem in drying crops in Lianhe Township. There are more than 300 sunny days a year, and God only likes to rain at night.

The way to kill it is either to cook it or to crush it.

But doing this in the past would have been too labor-intensive.

Now, the elbow machine can come in handy, the corn can be removed from the sprouts and then ground into corn grits; the potatoes can be washed and cut into potato slices.

Wages are also paid in the form of potatoes and corn grown from their own farms, and together with potato peels and corn germs, feed for the chicken and pig farms is provided.

Don't underestimate this trick. With it, the villagers can preserve their food for two more months, and have surplus food for nine months a year. Together with melons and vegetables, not only can the needs of people be guaranteed, but even poultry and rabbits can be developed.

Those who are more courageous are already considering raising pigs or sheep.

With surplus food and income, every household was no longer stingy about electricity. Taking advantage of the opportunity provided by the country to provide electricity to two scientific research bases, Elbow and Renzhong also ensured that everyone had electricity at home.

The changes in the mountainous villages can be described as changing with each passing day. Water has come, electricity has come, roads have been opened, there are more green spaces and trees, children are wearing new clothes, adults are smiling more, and the village has become clean and tidy...

Old Chi Ri would come here and stay for a while every day. He could never get enough of seeing these claw-shaped valleys and the turbid and turbulent Meigu River.

Elbow once planned a vision for himself. He said that after the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in his hometown, everyone worked hard and every family had surplus food in a year. They had chickens and ducks at the end of the year, and they started to raise fat pigs in two years. By the third year, life was very comfortable.

He said Lianhe Township is actually possible, and now it seems that it is really possible.

However, Lao Chi Ri was still a little worried. No matter whether it was Elbow or Renzhong, they could not stay in Lianhe Township forever. Zhou Zhi also mentioned that this business must be operated by an experienced person in the future, who at least needed to understand the machines that Elbow was playing with now.

There is probably only one person in the entire Lianhe Township who could be the possible cause, and that is his beloved granddaughter, Jike Azi.

Not to mention Lao Chi Ri's joy at the changes in the mountain village and his worries about his successor, Tu Liangzhi is now so busy that he is almost exhausted.

In today's Lianhe Township, Lao Chi Ri is the stabilizing force and an idol that the Yi people can believe in blindly.

No matter what the matter is, as long as you say "the senior Bimo thinks it's okay", then you can push it forward without any extra effort.

However, Lao Chi Ri does not need to show up for ordinary matters. He just walks around the village with his hands behind his back every day, chatting with people casually, which is enough to calm people's hearts.