In the blink of an eye, the eleven-seven-day holiday passed.
Wang Lidong began to go to the fields to earn a living on October 5th.
At the beginning, I was a little uncomfortable. After all, after all my life, it was really my first time to be a farmer.
However, his predecessor was a little expert in farming, and with his own planting skills, he became a senior farmer in half an hour.
While weeding, I looked at the Chinese cabbage in more than 5 acres of land. This input-output is a bit low. It only costs tens of thousands for a full harvest in a year.
"Qinglai, it's time to eat."
Wang Lidong looked up and saw Xingfu coming down the slope with two bags in his hands.
"Come right away."
After he finished weeding the current row of land, he carried the hoe to the simple shack built by his family.
I put the hoe away, scooped some water from the bucket, and washed the handle.
"What did you cook for today?"
"I have the braised pork you like."
Wang Lidong opened the lid, and the smell of meat penetrated his nostrils.
"It smells so good. Hey, why are there so many dishes and so much rice packed in today? I can't eat so much."
In the enamel pot, most of the pot was filled with rice, and there were 50% more vegetables than in the previous days.
Xingfu opened the thermos bucket, poured two bowls of soup, and placed one bowl in front of Wang Lidong.
"My parents went to the service center to handle pension matters around ten o'clock, but they haven't come back yet. I left some food for them and came over to eat with you."
"oh."
Wang Lidong picked up the soup bowl and took a sip. He looked up at Xingfu and found that his wife was also holding a soup bowl and drinking soup.
"Xingfu, how did you come up with the idea of stewing oxtail soup?"
Xingfu said in surprise:
"Ox tail soup? Mom told me it was beef bone soup."
"Didn't you make this soup?"
"No, mom started stewing this soup very early in the morning. She said it was beef bones. The stewing time was too short and the flavor couldn't come out. Qinglai, don't you like beef bone soup?"
Wang Lidong said:
"No, it's just strange. We rarely make this soup at home."
He is a top chef. As soon as he tasted it, he knew that there were many Chinese medicinal materials in the soup. The main function of this Huangjing, Wolfberry and Oxtail Soup is to nourish the kidneys....
Fortunately, my mother stewed it. She probably wanted to have a grandchild soon. If my wife stewed it...
I ate the braised pork. It was glutinous and fragrant. It tasted really good.
"Happiness, with the cooking skills of you and your mother-in-law, if you open a small restaurant, the business will definitely be good."
Xingfu said:
"Our village is not Wanjiazhuang. Someone once opened a small restaurant near the road. The food cooked by the boss tasted no worse than my mother's. But after two months of operation, there was no business, and in the end I had to close the door."
Wang Lidong wanted to say that he could open a small restaurant in the city, but thinking about the situation in the city...
"Now I know why my mother likes you."
Xingfu said doubtfully:
"Why?"
Her mother-in-law treats her well, and she can feel this.
"Look, my mother has become much more relaxed as soon as you come here. You take care of three meals a day and the hygiene of the new house. How can she not like you?"
After hearing this, Xingfu paused, looked at Wang Lidong who was chewing braised pork, and said tentatively:
"Qing Lai, the work at home won't take much time. I want to find something to do."
"Didn't Secretary Wan personally agree that after the health care product factory is built, you will go in and become a worker?"
"Good morning. I heard that we have just contacted investors. It is not certain whether it will be successful or not. Even if the negotiation is successful, it will take time to build a factory or something, at least a year and a half."
When Wang Lidong saw that the soup in Xingfu's soup bowl was almost finished, he picked up the thermos bucket and refilled more than half of the bowl for her. This stuff is also good for women. Drink more and gain weight.
"Daughter-in-law, what do you want to do?"
Xingfu put down his chopsticks and pointed to several wastelands not far away:
"Qing Lai, why are those pieces of land so vacant? Whose family do they belong to?"
Wang Lidong was stunned for a moment, then said:
"The places you mentioned should belong to the Chunxian, Guancai, and Fusheng families. All three of them have the surname Wan, so as long as they reach adulthood, the group will allocate jobs.
In the past few years, I would scatter handfuls of seeds from time to time, but in the past two years I have been too lazy to take these steps."
I didn't expect that the plot started to deviate, but after thinking about it, I thought it was normal. My wife's name is He Xingfu, and she would feel uncomfortable if she didn't cause trouble.
Happy eyes lit up:
"Can it be contracted? How many acres will it be?"
"It shouldn't be a problem. You won't gain anything if you leave it uncultivated anyway. It's about 15 acres for three families. If we rent it out, what do you want to plant?"
Xingfu said:
"Growing vegetables, Qing Lai, your skills are so good, it would be a waste to just plant a few acres of our land."
Wang Lidong said:
"I don't object to this, but I still have to convince my parents. Just contracting out these lands will cost a lot every year, plus the cost of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, etc., my mother should be fine, but my dad... it's difficult
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Happiness said to Wang Lidong:
"Qing Lai, help me ask these three families if they can do it and at what price. I will convince Dad for the rest."
"Then tell me first. If you can't convince me, my dad will definitely not work."
"Qing Lai, can't you sell the organic Chinese cabbage for more than 2 yuan?
You said that if we build greenhouses, we can earn more than 10,000 yuan from one acre of land a year, and from 20 acres of land, we can earn almost 200,000 yuan a year after excluding the cost of land parcels, seeds, organic fertilizers, etc."
The more I talked about happiness, the more excited I became. I stopped eating and put down the bowl in my hand.
Wang Lidong looked at his daughter-in-law, whose eyes were shining, and she looked like a little money addict. However, she said that growing organic Chinese cabbage was not very reliable. What she grew in the past could only be regarded as green vegetables at best.
Real organic vegetables are not pesticide-free, and there are a few insect holes on the vegetables.
Instead, it requires certification from relevant agencies, and a certain fee must be paid every year. For such a small amount of land, it costs about 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
The most important thing is that the sales volume of organic vegetables in their city is really not good. There are still some sales in only a few first-tier cities in the whole Sihai Kingdom, but because of the confusion in certification, consumers are not very willing to buy it, otherwise they specialize in organic vegetables.
Lao Zhang, the second-rate dealer, won't be able to keep doing it.
Happiness continued:
"In winter, we can also grow off-season vegetables, cucumbers, and leeks... Then our annual income can be tens of thousands more."
Wang Lidong nodded:
"Then have you calculated how much it will cost to build a greenhouse? There are also more than 20 acres of land, seeds, fertilizers, etc. How much investment is required in total?"
"If the other three families really want to take over all of our land, which totals just over 20 acres, then the cost of building a greenhouse will be more than 300,000 yuan. Including seeds, fertilizers and other expenses, it will be almost 400,000 yuan. After all,
It will pay for itself in almost 2 years.”
Wang Lidong found that the theory of happiness was very clear:
"Happiness, how do you know it so clearly?"
"In the past, I wanted to build two greenhouses in Hejia Village, but you also know the situation of my family."
"It's more than 400,000, and the difference between the family's savings is a bit big, so we need to borrow money. There are certain risks, but the earnings are a bit small. It's a bit uncertain to convince my dad."