Li Wen flipped the melons and chewed the steamed buns. The little guy had a great time.

At this moment, Li Wen found a small figure lying in the haystack and crawling quietly towards the ground.

Huh! Li Wen pretended not to notice and coughed twice. He was so frightened that the figure stood up and ran away. The steamed bun also barked when he saw it.

"I've seen you, Qiangzi. Why are you running? Come here." Li Wen looked at Li Qiang's thief look with a smile.

"Ah! It's Brother Wenzi. When did you come back?" Li Qiang stopped immediately when he heard Li Wen's voice.

"You guys, you are so greedy? You skipped lunch and went to the fields to steal melons. It just so happened that I was the one to look at the melons today. If it were your fifth or twelfth uncle, then you kid would have to wait for your ears to be twisted."

"Hey! The day before yesterday, my mother-in-law gave me a melon. I took a bite. It was very sweet and so delicious."

"Today I told the school that your melons are very delicious, but my classmates didn't believe me. I just wanted to come over and pick one secretly and show it to them at school." Li Qiang scratched his head and laughed.

"Don't you kid give me eye drops, isn't it because you want to take it yourself? It's such a big detour." Li Wen looked at Li Qiang who was crawling dirty in the grass and cursed with a smile.

"You sit in the shed first, and I'll pick a crooked melon for you to eat. Although the crooked melon doesn't look good, the split dates on the crooked melon are delicious." Li Wen greeted and walked towards the field.

Steamed Bun did not follow Li Wen, and kept lying on the ground looking at Li Qiang, daring to take Li Qiang as a trophy.

"Come and eat. You can finish it in the field and don't have to show off when you go back." Li Wen took out a crooked melon the size of a fist and handed it to the little guy.

"Brother Wenzi, this puppy is very funny. Can I play with your dog in the future?" Li Qiang was squatting on the ground, teasing the steamed bun with a piece of dogtail grass.

"It has a name, it's called Steamed Bun. From now on, Steamed Bun will be kept at home. You can come to the house to play with it anytime you want."

"When the steamed bun grows up and gives birth to a puppy, I'll catch one for you." Li Wen said with a smile.

"Really! When will that steamed bun grow up and give birth to a baby?" Li Qiang's eyes widened with excitement, and he didn't even bother to eat the melon.

"Steamed buns are still young. By this time next year, steamed buns will be able to give birth to puppies. If you have more delicious food to eat, steamed buns will grow faster." Li Wen said with a smile in his heart.

"That's no problem. From now on, if I have a bite to eat, I will have a bite of steamed buns." Li Qiang stood up and patted his chest as he assured.

"Eat the melon quickly and don't eat the seeds. If you keep it and pretend to go home to your mother, you can plant it at home next year." Li Wen reminded with a smile.

The center and seed parts of the melon are the most delicious, so when people eat melon at this time, they eat both the seeds and the melon.

However, the seeds left behind after eating the melons are of average quality, with more shriveled seeds and not many nests of seedlings.

"Then I have to keep it and ask my mother to breed more for me next year." The little guy quickly spit out the seeds in his mouth carefully.

"Get out of here after you finish eating! Don't come here sneakily in the future, be careful of your sister A Ping picking up clods of dirt and hitting you." Li Qiang and Li Wen looked at Li Qiang and Li Wen who were still reluctant to leave after finishing the melon and drove away.

"Okay, I'm leaving. I'll give you steamed buns to eat tonight." The little guy said and ran back home.

After Li Ping finished her meal, she came to exchange for Li Wen. Li Wen left the steamed buns directly in the field for Li Ping to relieve her boredom.

When Li Wen returned home, the adults had already gone to work, and the little ones had also gone to school. The old lady was the only one left at home.

"Awen, there are cold noodles left for you in the kitchen pot, and there is meat sauce on the table. You can make some for yourself. I am cutting clothes."

"Okay, I understand, grandma!" Li Wen responded and went directly to the kitchen.

In the summer, we couldn't put too much meat, so my mother cut some of it and fried it into minced meat, and the rest was made into bacon and smoked in the kitchen. (The mice couldn't eat it, and there was a plate above the hanging wire.)

After finishing the cold noodles with meat sauce, Li Wen took the melon out of the basket and put it in a wooden box. Li Wen put a thick layer of wet grass around the box to prevent the melon from being smashed.

We had just finished our meal at noon, the sun was shining, and there were not many people on the streets in the village. Li Wen rode his bicycle smoothly.

"Comrade Li Wen, why are you here? You're such a rare visitor!" Most of the staff at the purchasing station knew Li Wen. When purchasing cans last year, they were all assigned by the county to help.

"I'm here to sell melons." Li Wen said as he propped up his bicycle and picked up the box.

"The melons you have are really good, but they are a little short!" Director Zhou, who was sitting at the table, felt a little regretful.

"If there is less this year, there will be more next year. Then my family will leave some more seeds for the village, and there will be no problem in harvesting several thousand kilograms next year." Li Wen replied with a smile.

"Then our purchasing station will be waiting! If there are several thousand kilograms, we will directly come to purchase next year." Director Zhou smiled happily.

"Xiao Liu quickly helped weigh the melons. In the afternoon, he will transport the agricultural products purchased today to the county town." Director Zhou said to the buyer on the side.

"There are 32 kilograms in total, but two of the melons were smashed." Xiao Liu sorted out the melons from the wooden box and weighed them.

"Let's keep the smashed melons. Sister Liu, don't you mind?" Li Wen said with a smile.

"Why are you so disgusted? I haven't eaten this melon very often. Last time it was your dad who gave it to us to try, and it was the first time I ate it." Sister Liu, a purchaser in her thirties, said with a smile.

"Haha! We haven't grown this melon here yet. This year's quantity is too small, most of it needs to be saved for seeding. Next year there will be a good harvest, Sister Liu, you can eat it." After Li Wen said this, everyone laughed.

"Comrade Xiaowen gives you a money ticket, ninety-six yuan, and two food stamps." The assistant on the side calculated the account and handed the money ticket to Li Wen.

"Are there any non-staple food stamps?" Li Wen said in surprise as he took the money stamp.

"This melon is a rare thing. I gave it to you in order to estimate how much you weigh. As long as your village grows more varieties next year, we will also subsidize some additional bills." Director Zhou said with a smile.

Li Wen knew that Director Zhou was selling his favor, but he didn't point it out.

"Thank you, Director Zhou. I will talk to the captain and the others when I get back and treat this matter as a task." Li Wen smiled and shook hands with Director Zhou.

After coming out of the purchasing station, Li Wen did not stop and rode directly back to the village.

After work in the evening, brigade secretary Li Juncai, production team leader Li Junli, and accountant Li Desheng came to Li Wen's house.

It can be said that all matters in the village can be decided by these three people sitting together and discussing it.

Today all three people came to represent the village. Wang Chunmei specially cut a few plates to entertain them.

After three rounds of drinking, Fourth Grandpa Li Jun said: "Awen, the idea you gave your dad today is really good. These two ridges of melons only have so much. If everyone wants it, there will definitely not be enough. It is coordinated by the village.

Okay. You’ve really grown up!”

"Haha! Fourth Master, we are planting scattered crops with mixed results, and we won't be able to create much value."

"If the brigade plants the crops in a unified manner, there will be a bumper harvest next year, and the brigade will also be rewarded with a moving red flag from the commune." Li Wen said with a smile.

"Awen, you are such a long-term thinker! Why didn't we think of this?" Li Junli, the production team leader on the side, patted his thigh and sighed.

"Yes, we will try to continue to hang the mobile red flag in our village next year. This year's mobile red flag has brought a lot of benefits to our village, and many applications have been given the green light." Li Junli said excitedly.

"Today I went to the town to sell melons, and the director of the town gave me two non-staple food stamps last week. He said that if the village's output is large next year, it will be bought door-to-door, and there will also be some stamp rewards." Li Wen talked about what happened this afternoon.

After Li Wen finished speaking, the three giants in the village looked at each other.

"Then it's settled. Your uncle and I are in charge of production. Next year our Sanxing Village production brigade will earn another mobile red flag for everyone to see." Li Junli clapped his hands and said.

"Deyou, don't sell the remaining good melons at your home to the purchasing station. Keep them all for the brigade." Fourth Master Li Juncai said.

"When the time comes, you just tell me if you need money or food, and the team will provide it to you directly." Li Desheng, the eighth uncle of the accountant on the side, also said with a smile.

"Fourth Master, since all the good melons are left to the village to make seeds. Small melons and crooked melons cannot be sold to others at the purchasing station."

"Otherwise, you can notify the village, and then the small melons and crooked melons will be left to the village. If anyone wants it, just twenty cents per catty or two catties of cornmeal. Do you think that's okay?" Li Wen said directly.

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"You kid, how can you sell Waigua and Xiaogua to the villagers?" Li Deyou on the side patted Li Wen's head and said.

"Why are you beating the baby? Awen is right. I will inform you tomorrow." The fourth master glanced at Li Deyou and said.

"Let's do this, Fourth Uncle. The villagers will give you a dime or a pound of cornmeal. You can't eat the melons you plant, and you will be scolded if you harvest too much." Li Deyou said with a smile.

"Dad, you can pick the melon when it's ripe. Leave it at home for four or five days and you can peel out the seeds. Then you can keep the seeds and the melon can still be eaten."

"Grow melons in the ground and let them dry out. The seeds left in this way will not be of good quality. And there will be no way to weigh them at the time." Li Wen said.

"I have been planting seeds all my life and I don't know how to save seeds? Leave me alone, kid." Li Deyou scolded.

"I learned this from books and consulted professors at the Agricultural University. The old method of saving seeds has a too low germination rate." Li Wen retorted helplessly.

"Brother Deyou, please stop talking about the child. I will go to the county agricultural bureau tomorrow to ask a technician to come over and see what they say professionally." Li Junli said directly.

"That's right. The technicians at the Agricultural Bureau are professional, so let's not open our eyes and talk nonsense. Maybe what Awen said is the correct method." The old man also smiled and nodded.

"That's it for today, let's go back first." With that, Fourth Master stood up first, said hello to the old lady in the yard and left.

After a few people left, Li Deyou sighed, "As long as the village is notified, it will save our family a sinner."

"Yes! My sister-in-law and I were surrounded by people when we went to the wheat field today. They were all asking for melon seeds." Second Aunt Cui Yanzi said with a smile.

"You are a hottie, and you are surrounded by people." The second uncle on the side said with a smile.

"Go, what nonsense are you talking about!" The second uncle suddenly felt a sharp pain in his waist.

"The melons from this few acres of land were only sold twice for 20 yuan, but they cost only 50 or 60 yuan when sold out!" Wang Chunmei, the mother on the side, said happily.

"Yes! I didn't expect to earn so much money from cultivating such a small amount of land." Li Deyou also smiled after doing the math.

"That's why farmers have been the poorest since ancient times, and growing grain makes the least money. If you want to be rich, you can't just grow grain." Li Wen laughed.

"If you don't grow food, what will you eat? You'll starve to death, you little bastard." Li Deyou scolded with a smile.

"well!"
Chapter completed!