Donggang is a well-known hometown of ginseng. The annual income from ginseng cultivation can reach 2 to 3 million yuan, accounting for about half of the total income.
It can be said that the ginseng industry is the mainstay of Donggang Commune’s income. From top to bottom, who in the entire commune does not pay attention to it?
No one wants the ginseng they have worked so hard to grow for several years to be stolen by thieves. If you have such a sharp ginseng viewing tool, why don’t you want it?
Under the siege of everyone, Yu Shouguang could not hold on and had to surrender.
“Yes, yes, I said it’s not okay?
Our team, a couple, moved here from Dongjiang River a while ago.
That young man used to watch ginseng in the Dongjiangyan Brigade, and he was the one who made the gun."
When Yu Shouguang said this, he looked extremely proud. Who wouldn't be happy if he picked up a treasure for nothing?
"Fuck, you old boy are so lucky. All the talented people have left for your team."
When everyone heard this, they all sighed, this is really incomparable.
The Second Brigade has a good reputation, and people come just because of the Second Brigade. There is no point in envying them.
"Hurry up and find this young man and let us meet him.
We don’t have that kind of fate like you, and if someone takes the initiative to defect, then at least we can ask them to do us a favor and equip several of our teams with guns.”
It's no use just being envious, let's be more realistic. Their ultimate goal is still to shoot.
What could Yu Shouguang say? Why not let him see him? This is not something that the Second Brigade can hide.
It's pretty good now. At the very least, we came here to discuss it. If we had put it aside before, it would have been an unconditional settlement.
"It's no problem to find someone to come and help you get a ground gun.
But there is one thing I have agreed upon in advance. I am just going to make the gun for you and be responsible for using it in the church. You have to give me points for your work, so you can’t use it in vain.
Also, if you borrow something, you have to pay it back. Don’t do what you did before, where the meat buns beat the dogs and never come back. That’s not okay.”
This kind of thing has happened before. The Second Brigade is rich, and other brigades have borrowed things in previous years, but most of them have been borrowed and disappeared.
Yu Shouguang was really worried that if this person borrowed something, he would not be able to return it.
That's not possible. He is still counting on Xu Shiyan to do the fermentation and top dressing of bean cakes in a while. This man must not let go.
When Yu Shouguang said this, several other people looked embarrassed.
"Oh, don't worry, can we do such a thing?
Besides, this is a human being, and his household registration is in your team, what else can we do?"
Now that everything has been said, what else can Yu Shouguang do? He has no choice but to ask someone to find Xu Shiyan.
After that, Xu Shiyan became a favorite and was seconded to other brigades and communes in turn to take part in the activities, leading people to make ground guns and other inspection equipment.
Not only were they given work points, but they were also responsible for two meals a day, serving delicious food and drinks until they had learned everything about how to make and install ground guns.
At the end of February and the first half of March, Xu Shiyan basically did nothing else, either in industry or in various brigade.
I took my apprentices to make ground guns and cannons, and taught them step by step how to load gun powder, gun sand, how to wire, and what precautions to take.
Everything was explained in detail, for fear that these people would not be able to understand it if they only knew a little bit about it. If they went back and made nonsense, something would be wrong.
Mainly because ground guns are too dangerous.
In the past life, there was a ginseng watcher who installed a ground gun by himself. One day, he drank too much and accidentally tripped on it. He collapsed and was seriously injured and was hospitalized.
Therefore, Xu Shiyan warned and warned that you must be careful when using it.
Fortunately, those who can be selected as apprentices are all smart young people who learn things quickly and are solid.
After Xu Shiyan finished teaching, he personally inspected the results and found that they were all done well, so he felt relieved.
Xu Shiyan is serious and careful in his work. He is skilled but not arrogant. He never looks up to the sky just because he has the ability.
He is very kind to everyone, speaks very calmly, and doesn't talk wildly at all.
During the days when he was seconded to work in other brigades, he was very popular.
The young men who followed him as apprentices were all convinced by him. When they were waiting to leave after teaching, the big guys were quite reluctant to leave.
They all said that if anything happened to Xu Shiyan's family in the future, he would ask them to take care of it.
In the blink of an eye, it is late March, the weather is gradually getting warmer, the snow on the sunny slopes has melted a lot, and the shady slopes are still covered with thick ice and snow.
At this time, the work of logging into the ground cannot wait, and we must seize the time to build the shed.
The column bases were all smashed last winter. Now we have to arrange for people to go up and nail the big couplet poles to the column bases, and then nail the mallet boards to the top of the big couplet poles.
Before the sticks are unearthed, cover the entire ginseng shed with thatch to prevent the ginseng from being exposed to rain.
Ginseng is too delicate and will rot when exposed to rain, which will reduce the production.
The work of field ginseng is always done by young and strong young men. In previous years, most of them along the Dongjiang River did not have Xu Shiyan's job.
Things were different when he moved to Donggang. The captain of a small team directly arranged for Xu Shiyan to work in the mountains.
Who wouldn’t be happy with the high pay for working in the fields?
So, Xu Shiyan, who had just finished working on the ground gun, happily followed others up the mountain to work.
It is not difficult to make a shed from the ground. First, use a saw to cut a V-shaped notch on the top of the column base, and then cut off half of the two ends of the large connecting rod.
Put two large joint poles together and just rest on the notch of the column foot, and then drive six-inch nails directly into it.
Then put mallet boards on top and nail them in place with nails.
Once the ginseng shed is ready, you don't just leave it alone for three years. In winter, you have to lift the wooden boards to let the snow fall on the surface of the ginseng pond.
For new planting, we need to build a complete shed. For freezing and making goods, we only need to re-nail the boards, thatch or linoleum paper.
So every time spring comes, work is very busy.
The Second Brigade is not Dongjiangyan. A total of 3,000 feet of sticks were planted here last year, which is more than the total number of Dongjiangyan in one year.
Just these new plantings will take a long time to build a shed.
"Captain, have we lost this big joint pole? We clearly remembered to pick up enough last year, so how come we don't have enough for this?"
After working for a few days, when the work was about to come to an end, I realized that there were not enough poles in the big joint, and there were still about a hundred feet left that were useless.
Wang Jiaren, the captain of the small team, came over to see what was going on.
There are only about twenty large joint poles left on the ground, and there are still a lot of useless ones at the other end.
"I can't tell, we are too close to the Songjiang River.
In the winter, no one is watching. If you don’t keep everything, you will be the one who owes it. If you don’t go to the forest to collect firewood, you will come and steal our things.”
Wang Jiaren sighed. "No idea. You guys bring axes and saws and go to the woods to pick up some more. What can you do?"
So, a small group of young people armed with axes and saws went into the forest to find suitable wood.
As a result, not long after entering the forest, I saw a group of brown-gray beasts on the hillside in the distance, running towards us.
"Roe deer, they are roe deer, hurry up and chase them towards the shady slope."
They are all people living in the forest area, how can they recognize the roe deer? Now, everyone became happy, and someone shouted loudly.