Reborn to be rich

Chapter 13 The Joy of Harvesting

"We are from Yongkang County. We came to find some work around Chang'an. Life at home is hard. There is no way!" Zhang Guodong said to the young man.

"Yongkang County is one of the poverty-stricken counties in Qin Province! It's really not easy. My wheat harvest is about a week away. If you are willing to go, I can help you find work. Last year we paid 5 yuan for an acre of land there! I don't know what's going on this year."

Hearing that one mu of land can earn 5 yuan, everyone couldn't help but feel a burst of joy. An old Mike can only harvest more than two acres a day, so a day's harvest is 10 yuan, which is a rare good thing for farmers.

Zhang Guodong has been acquainted with the young people about the recent market conditions in Chizhi and Huxian. These two counties are the two wealthiest counties directly under Chang'an, and they are also their main destination this time.

The young people got off the bus when they arrived in Xiaozhai, and got on the dirt road after passing the bus in Xiaozhai. It is hard to imagine that the prosperous Xiaozhai in later generations still looks like a wheat field at this time.

Fortunately, after exiting the main road, we arrived at Chengnan Passenger Station. The Chengnan Passenger Station is still just a piece of grass. Several 20-seat minibuses are waiting to solicit customers. If anyone approaches, the driver will come up to negotiate with you.

"Laoyu Township, Huxian County, if you want to go for one yuan, get on the bus quickly... Where are you going, Huxian can't go together." A driver saw a large group of people coming from Guodong.

Laoyu Township is located in the southwest of Hu County. It is the place where summer wheat is first ripened in Hu County. The road passes through several townships such as the county seat, and there are several times a day.

11 people boarded the car, and Guodong paid 16 yuan. This time, everyone’s round-trip fare was kept by Zhang Guodong.

It is more than 30 kilometers from the south of the city to Laoyu Township, Huxian County. One yuan and fifty cents is already very affordable. Guodong remembers that Ganjing Township opened to traffic in the early 90s, and it costs 10 yuan for a 2-kilometer journey. The roads and transportation in Huxian County are developing. At this time, it is much better than Yongkang County.

Coming out of Chang'an City, the asphalt road along the way was very flat. Heizi used to feel uncomfortable seeing the cars, but this time he felt better. When he passed Hu County, Zhang Chenglin stared at the bustling streets and buildings in the distance, and his mind fell into deep thought.

"Dad, this Hu County is close to the provincial capital. The land is flat and water canals are built everywhere. There are many ways to get rich. Our county is similar to the townships we just passed. We only have two ways to get rich!" Zhang Guodong began to guide his father's thoughts.

"What method?" Hearing his son's words, Zhang Chenglin, who was a little downcast at first, had a glimmer of hope in his heart. He originally thought that as long as it was a farmer's family, the situation should be similar.Are you still a farmer if you don’t lack food and clothing?But when he was sitting in the car, he saw that all the people here not only had better clothes and complexion than those from his own village, they seemed to live in a different world from him.

"First, after leaving Yongkang County and earning a lot of money outside, set up a factory for the village. Everyone around the village will have money and everything will naturally catch up."

"What about the second method?" Zhang Chenglin shook his head. If the first method works, there will be no second brother who will not come back after going out.

Grandpa's second son is the most promising in Zhang Jiacheng's generation. He is already the deputy director of the production workshop of the Qin Province No. In the later period, he was always facing bankruptcy, and in the end, the second uncle could only hang up a idle job in the province for more than ten years before retiring.

"The second is to develop local advantages, create their own characteristic industries, occupy the market in the initial stage of reform and opening up, and then develop Zhangjialing's famous brand, and finally just make the famous brand bigger and stronger." Zhang Guodong said with a smile, Zhang Chenglin heard Confused, although he couldn't understand, he probably understood what his son said.From a farmer to a village cadre in Zhangjialing, all he thinks about is how to keep the villagers from starving, how to get everyone to pay the public grain, and how to cause the task of building roads and canals issued by the countryside.

"Ugh!"

Thinking of this, Zhang Chenglin took a deep breath. He didn't think he had the ability to solve the current poverty problem. If his son had it, he would help his son realize it.

"To be honest, if you want our village to develop as well as here, which way would you choose?"

"I will make money by myself first, make a lot of money, and then tell everyone how I make money, so that everyone can make money with me!" Zhang Guodong laughed out loud.

Uncle Jiu and Heizi's father burst out laughing when they heard this. They never expected that when everyone talked about this chat decades later, they all agreed that it was Zhang Guodong who brought them out this time and changed their minds. Promise that they will firmly stand on the side of Guodong on the road they choose many times in the future, so Ganjing Township can step out of poverty, enter a well-off society, and eventually become a tourist destination in China.

In the vicinity of Hu County, the wheat looks a little green, but after entering Laoyu Township, the wheat began to turn yellow. Some farmers have already pulled weeds in their own wheat fields to harvest wheat. This time everyone came at the right time.

"Laoyu Township is here, everyone get off the bus! Those who want to go to Chang'an leave here every morning at 8:2, 6:[-] noon, and [-]:[-] pm." A young man who was following the car reminded a group of people who looked like Mike.

Zhang Guodong recorded the time silently, Wen Bin took everyone's bedding from the roof of the car, and everyone turned their attention to Zhang Guodong.

"It's almost two o'clock now. Let's find a cool place to eat some buns. In the afternoon, we will continue to walk south. We will stay at night when the harvest starts. Someone will call us to harvest the wheat tomorrow morning."

It is normal for a group of people dressed in rags to pass by and give strange glances. It is the first time for people who have never traveled far to see farmers who live differently from them. In addition to envy, there is also a little jealousy in their hearts.

Zhang Guodong didn't care what other people thought. He asked who could measure the ground most accurately, and at the same time introduced them to the methods of communicating with people and doing business. Everyone listened very carefully.

Finding a cool persimmon tree, everyone took out the pot helmets they were carrying and began to eat carefully. In Zhangjialing Village, pot helmets are a luxury, and they are usually only made at home when they go out. Rural people go out without coarse grains. According to the custom, a group of big men gnawed on the pot helmet one bite at a time, not even letting go of a little steamed bun.

"Come on, let's eat some of the rice this morning, as well as stewed rabbit meat." Zhang Chenglin took out two oilcloth bags, and when he opened them, there were delicious rice and stewed rabbit meat. Everyone couldn't help drooling.

"Come share some, don't be too polite! Tomorrow, when we have work, we will take care of the meals, and then we can have a good meal of steamed buns and big bowls of noodles!" Zhang Chenglin put the things among everyone, and said with a smile By the way, Zhang Guodong had already told everyone when he came that the wheat harvester would take care of a lunch at noon.

The others were a little embarrassed. After all, it was Guodong and his son who came out to earn money this time. Everyone already relied on them a lot, but Wen Bin didn't care about it. When his family ran out of food, the whole family was eating at Sanbo's house. To eat, take out a piece of pot helmet and eat it with stewed rabbit meat.

With Wen Bin taking the lead, Heizi and Uncle Shiba couldn't help it, and everyone surrounded them.

The people who ate lunch were satisfied, and the water in the kettle was running out. Guodong asked a family to fill up the kettle. The farmers are very kind and simple, and they are very enthusiastic to ask everyone in Zhangjialing to fill up the water and return it for analysis. The approximate sequence of harvesting wheat in their nearby villages.

The 11 people set their goal and headed west on foot. Every village they passed was already preparing for the summer harvest. Every time they came to Guodong, a village, they would stop to ask about the wheat harvest here. Now there are more and more wheat guests in Hu County, and most of them They are all farmers near Qin City.He also bought a pack of Golden Monkey cigarettes for [-] cents in a store he passed by, and asked about the price of last year's harvest.

Last year in Laoyu Township, large wheat harvesting farms paid five yuan per mu of land, and there were also four and five yuan for harvesting. Most of the small farms started at six yuan.

What is a big field and a small field?

In the big field, Mai Ke usually works for more than one day, at least one good meal a day, until the other party has harvested all the wheat.

Small farms just don’t have enough work for a day, or if the wheat fields are located in remote locations and the terrain is not good, they need to increase the price. Small farm owners generally don’t care about food.

After walking more than 10 kilometers to the south, it was already close to the foot of the Qinling Mountains. The village began to become sparse and the slopes began to increase. Guodong came to a village that looked quite large and stopped at the roadside wheat field.

"There must be people who will harvest wheat tomorrow, let's stop here! I'll ask you about the situation later." Everyone has a strange fear of everything outside, and only Guodong can easily communicate with the local After negotiating with people, to be honest, Laoyu Township is much better than Ganjing Township in terms of prosperity and public security. At least Guodong didn't see many idlers wandering on the road along the way.

Zhang Guodong saw an uncle walking towards him pulling a shelf cart, and before he could speak, the other party spoke first.

"Are you harvesting wheat? I have 2 points of land already yellow, do you want to harvest it?"

Hearing that there was work to be done when they first arrived, the second team was extremely excited. They all listened carefully to how Zhang Guodong talked about work, and regarded him as the backbone.

"Uncle, is the wheat field far away? Where is it?"

"It's not far, it's just west of that road, there's only two minutes of dry land on the beam, enough for one or two people!" said the uncle, pointing to the wheat on the far slope.

Zhang Guodong followed his uncle to look at the wheat in the field, while the others waited in place.

"This small field job is less than 6 yuan per mu and no one does it. You have more than two points, one yuan and five!"

"Okay, put this away quickly and it will be crushed tomorrow morning!"

After the discussion was completed, Zhang Guodong returned to the resting place, and everyone looked over involuntarily.

"It's a little more than two cents, who wants to go for one yuan and five?"

I thought everyone would rush to sign up, but everyone looked at Zhang Guodong and said nothing.

"Guodong, just let someone go!" Zhang Chenglin knew that everyone wanted to earn this one dollar, but he was too embarrassed to ask.

"Then you can go to Uncle Jiu's small farm first! Remember what I said, harvest the wheat cleanly, tie it to the edge of the field, and the owner will take it away by himself, and come back here to gather when it's over." Guodong knew that Uncle Jiu's heart was the worst It's urgent, just now he has been nagging about how many acres he can harvest in a day, the fourth grandpa's family is the poorest, when he came this time he only brought a pot helmet, it is estimated that the family has reached the verge of food shortage.

"Well, thank you! I want to bring your uncle together..." Seeing that Guodong left the first money-making job to himself, Uncle Jiu was happy and did not forget his brother.

"Okay, you can figure it out! Don't argue with others, come back and tell me if you have any problems, as long as you do the things I mentioned, nothing will happen..."

Uncle Nine took Uncle Eighteen away, and the others watched him leave enviously, but no one had any objections in their hearts. Didn't they see that Guodong and his son were still alive?
The first business was opened, but there were many people who came to inquire about the price, but there were no sellers. Some people ordered to harvest wheat for their own home tomorrow and were willing to pay a deposit, but Guodong didn’t accept it. He told everyone that he A group of people will always be here, and those who arrive early tomorrow morning will be cut first.

At around [-]:[-] p.m., Uncle Jiu returned home with a sickle in his hand, and he finished cutting two points of land in less than two hours. He was a little embarrassed to see that everyone was still idle.

"It's okay, everyone will start their scythes tomorrow morning, and they will come out a little faster by two minutes, uncle, are you still used to it?" Zhang Guodong asked the uncle, although he is senior and old, he is just like the second brother Most of the young people can't do the job of harvesting wheat.

"Okay! It's just that I'm too slow, and I don't harvest much. Let my brother do it all!" The wheat collectors work in partnership, and the final income is distributed according to work. He only collects one-third of the wheat. Uncle Jiu gave him 5 cents.

"Well, tomorrow we will take care of the older ones, Guotao, Wenbin, Heizi, Uncle Jiu, don't be alone, the sun is going down, prepare a place to rest at night!"

Find a clean place under the tree, borrow some wheat straw from the woodpile in the wheat field and spread it on the ground, let everyone spread the mattress on the wheat straw, cover the bed sheet, fix the wooden sticks around the bed, and use leaflets Wrap it up and a simple tent will do just fine.

A few young people lay in the tent happily discussing what they had seen and heard today, and discussed who would take turns to watch the night. Everyone began to eat pot helmets. Although the life was hard, it was nothing compared to the poverty at home. .

Mosquitoes entered the tent at night because of the gaps, and everyone chased away the mosquitoes in the middle of the night before going to bed. Fortunately, there were not many wild animals here compared to Zhangjialing Village, and the first night spent outside was safe and sound.

Zhang Guodong was not assigned a night watch. He woke up the next day when the last shift was changing. The sky was still dark. Guodong came to the side of the ditch to wash his face. Unexpectedly, everyone woke up.

More than a dozen men just wiped their faces by the ditch, and then stood by the wheat field and ate breakfast.

"You son of a bitch, you finally have white flour steamed buns today! Aren't you a fool to eat Guokui like this?" It is the time when the appetite is the largest.

Everyone who was still chatting and eating Guokui put down their food after hearing this. Rural people are short of food, which is not easy for Guokui.

"Don't listen to Heizi's father, it's already noon when the wheat harvester gives you dinner, and now there are still 8 hours until noon!" Although Zhang Guodong said this, everyone planned to save their stomachs for lunch.

(End of this chapter)