Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1685 Courtyard Economy
Bai Puting originally thought that the chief had talked to them and it was considered a deal, but he didn't expect to come here in person.He had never entertained such a "big official" as the elder, so he couldn't help but panic.He hurried back to the main room and asked his wife to take out the guest's clothes.Again and again, he asked his eldest daughter to throw all the chickens into the cages, and then sweep the yard.

While busy, Liu Yuanhu brought tea.This tea is not unusual, it is "Li Mushan Oolong" bought from the county, it is said that this tea is the favorite of the chiefs, Fan Shier specially bought it to treat the cadres who came to the countryside to use.Unexpectedly, it came in handy.

Han Daoguo frowned and said: "Yuanhu, I told you to look at that old man, what are you doing here! What if that old man ran out?"

Liu Yuanhu said: "The village chief told me to send it! I'll go back right away!"

"Go, go, watch closely!" Han Daoguo was afraid that the old lady Cao would "block the sedan chair and cry for injustice", and the ugliness would become serious.It would be even more terrible if the head of the chief wanted to be the "grand master of the blue sky".

Liu Yuanhu ran away, and Yun Suji had already entered the door. Seeing that the courtyard was cleaned and Bai Puting was dressed cleanly, he said: "You guys are too detailed, so there is no need to do this .”

Bai Puting bowed his waist: "When the chief comes to my house, it's because of the virtues accumulated by my ancestors. This... this... is full of splendor!"

Yun Suji was amused by him: "Unexpectedly, you also know idioms!"

"Yes, yes, I went to private schools for several years when I was young."

Yun Suji looked at the yard of this "grain household", and it was indeed different from other homes!

In terms of the courtyard, it is actually not too big.The standard villages are all built according to several blueprints. The houses are similar in size, structure and style. The only difference is that there are three types of houses, large, medium and small, according to the number of people in each household.Because of the large population, the Bai family is classified as the largest type, with an area of ​​about 150 square meters.

The courtyard walls in Standard Village are neither masonry nor planks, but hedges of fast-growing shrubs, which have grown to the height of a person in two or three years.These shrubs are carefully selected, and the pruned branches are used as firewood.

The yard is not big, and the design is very compact. In the middle of the yard, there is a row of five or six houses facing south. They are all brick houses, and the windows are inlaid with glass windows, shining brightly.There are no side rooms in the front yard, and in the middle of the yard is a path paved with gravel for adults. The open space on both sides has been opened up as a bed, one side is larger for various vegetables, and the other side is only piled up with soil——Yun Suji knew that this was an earthworm bed, specially used to raise earthworms.

The corridor in the middle was not wasted either. Pillars were erected on both sides of the road, and bamboo poles were used to build a shade trellise above the corridor, and the loofahs were planted.On both sides of the road, wooden boards and bricks are used to make stepped three-tier flower stands, with many flower pots planted with honeysuckle, jasmine and daylilies.

Yun Suji has entered a dozen or so households in this model village, and he has never seen such a meticulous care of the courtyard of a household. Although the layout and planting of the courtyard are obviously guided by the Tiandihui, if the head of the household does not take good care of it, There will never be such a prosperous situation.

In front of the main house, there is a small open space paved with bricks and stones. There is a small table of white stubble wood and a few bamboo chairs. They are all washed clean, which is very comfortable for people to look at.Yun Suji nodded: "Okay, it's really well cleaned up!" He saw a well circle under the eaves, and went to look at it with great interest. It turned out that it was not a well, but a water cellar. The rain under the eaves The rainwater received by the trough is discharged here.

Yun Suji praised: "Okay, this is a good idea, and it's much more convenient to have a water cellar to water the garden. Why don't other people have one?"

Fan Twelve hurriedly said: "This is Lao Bai's own making. It's not worthy of building a house."

Yun Suji nodded, and asked again: "It probably cost a lot of money." The repair of the water cellar requires cement, which can only be obtained by Tiandihui, and the cost will not be low.

When Bai Puting heard the chief asked about the money, he couldn't help being a little nervous, and said vaguely: "Not a lot, not a lot."

Fortunately, the chief didn't ask any more questions, Bai Puting wanted to invite him to sit in the main room, Yun Suji waved his hand, "No hurry, you still have a backyard here, let's go and have a look."

Bai Puting originally thought it would be good for the chief to sit down and talk, but he didn't expect to look at it so carefully, and it was inconvenient for him to refuse, so he had to take Yun Suji around the yard.

The back yard is smaller than the front yard, and a few Chinese toon trees, jujube trees and other trees are sparsely planted along the hedge. One side is a chicken coop surrounded by a bamboo fence, and the fence is covered with pumpkin vines.On the other side is a cowshed.It was the first time Yun Suji saw a farmer raising cattle in the village, so he walked a few steps over to have a look.

The bullpen was built in compliance with the specifications, and no expense was spared on the materials used.There are two hybrid breeds of Simmental cattle, one big and one small, and local yellow cattle.Simmental cattle are multifunctional cattle that can be used for meat, milk and service.Breeds hybridized with local cattle are the key promotion objects of Tiandihui.However, due to the small quantity and high price, ordinary farmers seldom raise buffaloes, and many people still raise buffaloes that are strong and resistant to rough feeding.

Because it is winter, the temperature is low, and the cows are covered with straw-woven cow clothes, and they are chewing the feed slowly.

Yun Suji leaned over and took a closer look: the cow's fur was smooth and its muscles were strong, probably it was taken care of very carefully on weekdays.He casually picked up the feed in the feed trough, smelled it through his nose, and there was a sour smell of grass.He put the feed down and asked, "You're using silage?"

"Yes, yes, the agricultural technicians from the Tiandihui taught me to do it. Cows love to eat, and they get fat."

"Silage with what?"

"Weeds from the wasteland, safflower plants from the ground, aquatic plants from the river, and grain stalks, just need a little more labor..." Bai Puting said regretfully, "The place here is too small. Some, the silo can’t be dug too big, the cowshed can only be so big, and it’s still worth raising three or four cows.”

"If you raise more cattle, you can use the big farm machinery you want."

"There are more than these benefits," Bai Puting said when he talked about the production, "There will be a lot more cow dung in the circle, and after it is cooked, first go to the earthworm field to raise earthworms, and then raise it to eat It is a good fertilizer in the field, which can raise chickens and harvest a lot of grain!" He shook his head again, "It's a pity that there is no place!"

Yun Suji also looked at his family's silo and the biogas digester used for composting. The Bai family's investment in farming is really not small!However, it can also be seen from the side that the family's income from farming is much higher.

Back in the front yard, Bai Puting wanted to let him in, Yun Suji said, "I think we should sit here." Then he took a chair under the gourd stand and sat down, "It's airy and bright, It’s cool to talk about it!”

Fan Shier and Bai Puting were polite a few times, and then sat down.The eldest daughter of the Bai family brought tea, and Yun Suji saw that in front of him was a fine porcelain tureen, which also exuded an aroma of oolong tea, and knew that he was treating himself as a guest, and said, "What are you doing with this again?" Immediately, he pushed away the gaiwan in front of him, picked up a rough porcelain tea bowl, poured a bowl from the teapot by himself, took a sip, but it was mountain jujube leaf tea.He said with a smile, "This tea is good, refreshing and brightening."

Everyone also catered together, saying: "good tea".

Yun Suji said: "Old Bai, I think you have a good way of serving the crops, and it is also a good way in your hometown, right? You are probably a grain householder?"

Bringing up the past, Bai Puting couldn't help sighing, and said: "It's hard to say, my hometown has hundreds of acres of land. Although there is a lot of land, farming is far worse than here. Since my great-grandfather began to grow hair, generations have been digging food from the soil. Accumulate a starting-point family business, say that you are a grain household, but in fact it is pitiful! One mu of land in good weather can only be harvested for a hundred catties, how can it compare with this place!"

"Your family's courtyard economy is doing well. I have been to a demonstration farm, and their courtyard economy is nothing more than that." Yun Suji praised, "If every household can do this, it will be the well-deserved No. [-] farmer in the county. It's a model village!"

Fan Twelve smiled awkwardly, and was about to speak, when Bai Puting said: "This is all done with the help of Tiandihui, otherwise I, a farmer, would not know all these tricks! Let's talk about the feed silage for cows, which is in my hometown. Not to mention that some people know it, but no one has even heard of it—isn’t raising cattle to eat grass when there is grass, and hay when there is no grass? Who would have thought that grass can be stored for feeding, and cattle love to eat it! Zhang Daochang is right: the chiefs are really living gods who know the world!"

"In your village, are there many people like you who spend their own money to ask Tiandi Society to be a guide?"

"Not much," Bai Puting said, "generally people can't afford the money—then secondly, there are loans in the world, and I was the loan at the beginning. But everyone is unwilling to borrow, for fear that they will lose the land. Many families here were originally from tenant households and had no land of their own, but the chief finally gave them the land, so they all look like top-notch people."

"It's still you who are bold and aggressive."

"I'm not very courageous, so I just think that Lao He's farming is so promising?" Bai Puting felt that the chief of Yun's speech was very honest, and he spoke the words of the peasants, so he couldn't help talking too much, "At the beginning, everyone went When I visited the demonstration farm of Tiandihui in the county, I thought that Tiandihui is also a human being, and I am also a human being. Why can I not do what others can do? When Tiandihui promotes agricultural loans, everyone is afraid that the debt will be repaid. I have another idea: the chiefs have worked so hard to rescue us from the ice and snow, fed and clothed us, and sent them to Hainan Island to build a house and divide the land. What are we trying to do? You always say yes Do not?"

Yun Suji smiled and said: "Yes, yes." He thought to himself that this person can be a landlord in his hometown, but he has become a rich family here, and his heart is higher than that of ordinary farmers.He asked again: "Do you still owe Tiandihui the agricultural loan?"

"It will be paid off this summer." Bai Puting was in high spirits. "If it weren't for the progressive tax, I'd like to borrow another sum of money to open up dozens of acres of wasteland!"

(End of this chapter)