Bai Puting originally thought that the chief had talked to them and it was settled, but he didn't expect that he would come over in person. He had never entertained a "big official" like a senator before, so he couldn't help but panic. I quickly ran back to the hall and asked my wife to take out the clothes for the guest. He repeatedly asked his eldest daughter to push the chickens into the cages and sweep the yard.
While he was busy, Liu Yuanhu brought tea. This tea is unusual. It is "Li Mu Mountain Oolong" bought from the county. It is said that this tea is the favorite drink of the chiefs. Fan Twelve bought it specifically to entertain the cadres who came to the countryside. Unexpectedly, it came in handy.
Han Daoguo frowned and said: "Wonhu, I told you to watch that old guy, what are you doing here! What if that old guy runs out?"
Liu Yuanhu said: "The village chief asked me to send this! I'll go back right away!"
"Go, go, watch carefully!" Han Daoguo was afraid that Old Lady Cao would "stop the sedan chair and complain", which would make things worse. It would be even worse if this chief wanted to be the "big master of Qingtian".
Liu Yuanhu ran away in a hurry. Yun Suji had already entered. Seeing that the courtyard was clean and Bai Puting was dressed neatly, he said: "You are too careful, there is no need to be like this." .”
Bai Puting bowed and said, "When the chief comes to my house, it's because of the virtues accumulated by my ancestors. This... this... is full of brilliance!"
Yun Suji was amused by him: "I didn't expect you knew idioms!"
"Yes, yes, I went to private school for several years when I was a child."
Yun Suji looked at the yard of this "grain farmer". It’s really different from others!
Speaking of the courtyard, it is actually not very big. Standard villages are uniformly built according to several drawings, and the houses are similar in area, 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 its large population, the Bai family was assigned the largest type, with a homestead area of approximately 150 square meters.
The residential courtyard walls in Standard Village are neither bricks nor wooden boards, but hedges composed of fast-growing shrubs. In two or three years, they have grown as tall as a person. These shrubs are carefully selected, and the pruned branches are used for burning firewood.
The yard is not big. The design is very compact, with a row of five or six houses facing north and south in the middle of the courtyard. They are all brick buildings, with bright glass windows inlaid on them. There is no wing room in the front yard. In the middle of the yard is a gravel-paved corridor for people to walk. The open space on both sides has been opened up into a border garden. On one side, various vegetables are grown in larger areas, but on the other side there are only piles of soil in ridges - Yun Suji knew that this was an earthworm bed, specially used to raise earthworms.
The corridor in the middle was also not wasted. Pillars were erected on both sides of the road, and bamboo poles were used to set up a shade scaffolding above the corridor, and loofahs were planted there. On both sides of the road, wooden boards and bricks were used to make three-tiered stepped flower stands, with many flower pots planted with honeysuckle, jasmine and day lilies.
Yun Suji entered a dozen households in this model village. I have never seen a family's courtyard taken care of so carefully. Although the layout and planting of the courtyard are obviously guided by the Tiandihui, the owner of the household would not take good care of it. There will never be such a prosperous situation.
In front of the main room, there is a small open space paved with bricks and stones. There is a small low table of white stubble wood and a few bamboo chairs. They are all clean and clean, making people feel comfortable just looking at them. Yun Suji nodded: "Okay, the cleaning is really good!" He saw there was a well circle under the eaves. I went over and looked at it with great interest. It turned out that this was not a well. It is a water cellar, where the rainwater collected by the rain gutters under the eaves is drained.
Yun Suji praised: "Okay, this is a good method. It will be much more convenient to have a water cellar to water the garden. Why don't other families have it?"
Fan Twelve quickly said: "This is Lao Bai's own fault. It's not worthy of building a house."
Yun Suji nodded and asked again: "It probably cost a lot of money." To build a water cellar requires cement, which only Tiandihui can provide, and the cost will not be low.
When Bai Puting heard the chief asking about money, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous, and said vaguely: "A lot, a lot."
Fortunately, the chief did not ask any more questions. Bai Puting asked him to sit in the main room. Yun Suji waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, you have a backyard here. Let's go to the backyard and have a look."
Bai Puting originally thought that the chief would just sit down and talk, but he didn't expect to see him in such detail. He couldn't refuse, so he had to take Yun Suji around from the side of the yard.
The backyard is smaller than the front yard. There are a few toona trees, jujube trees and other trees sparsely planted along the fence. On one side is a chicken coop surrounded by a bamboo fence. The fence is covered with pumpkin vines. On the other side is a bullpen. It was the first time that Yun Suji saw a farmer raising cattle in the village, so he walked a few steps over to take a look.
The cowshed was built in compliance with the standards, and no materials were spared. There are two cross breeds of Simmental cattle and local cattle, one large and one small. Simmental cattle are multi-purpose cattle that can be used for meat, milk and draft. Breeds that are hybridized with local cattle are the key promotion targets of Tiandihui. However, due to the small quantity and high price, farmers rarely raise buffaloes. Many people still buy buffaloes from Li District that are strong enough to tolerate rough feeding.
Because it was winter and the temperature was low, the cows were all covered in straw coats and were chewing feed slowly.
Yun Suji leaned over and took a closer look: the cow's fur was smooth and its muscles were strong. It must have been taken care of very carefully. He picked up the feed in the feed trough and smelled it with his nose. There was a sour smell of grass. He put the feed down and asked, "Did you use silage?"
"Yes, yes, the agricultural technicians from the Tiandihui taught me how to do it. Cows love to eat and gain weight."
"What's the silage made of?"
"Weeds from the wasteland, red flowers planted in the ground, aquatic plants fished out of the river, and straw for grains. It just takes a little more labor..." Bai Puting said with a bit of regret, "The space here is too small. Well, the silage cellar can’t be dug very big, and the cowshed can only be so big, and it’s still affordable if we don’t have to raise three or four cows anymore.”
“If you raise more cattle, you can use the big farm machinery you want.”
"These are not the only benefits," Bai Puting said with enthusiasm when talking about the production. "Just the cow dung that is circled will produce a lot more. Once it is cooked, go to the earthworm field to raise earthworms, and then take them out. It’s good fertilizer when it’s in the ground, so you can raise chickens and get a lot more grain!” He shook his head again, “It’s a pity there’s no room!”
Yun Suji also saw that his family's silage cellar and composting biogas tank were used. The Bai family's investment in farming was really not small! However, it can also be seen from the side that the income of this family from farming is much higher.
Back in the front yard, Bai Puting wanted to let him in. Yun Suji said, "I think you can sit here." Then he pulled a chair under the gourd stand and sat down. "It's ventilated and bright. It’s also refreshing to talk!”
Fan Twelve and Bai Puting were polite for a few times and then sat down. The eldest daughter of the Bai family brought tea. Yun Suji saw that what was in front of her was a fine porcelain tureen, and it also exuded the aroma of oolong tea. She knew that she was being treated as a guest and said, "What are you doing with this?" Immediately, he pushed the tureen in front of him, picked up a coarse porcelain tea bowl, poured a bowl from the teapot, and took a sip. It was mountain date leaf tea. He smiled and said, "This tea is good. It's refreshing and brightens your eyesight."
Everyone also followed suit and said: "Good tea".
Yun Suji said: "Old Bai, I think you have a good way of serving the crops. You are also good at it in your hometown, right? You are probably still a grain farmer?"
Mentioning the past, Bai Puting couldn't help but sigh and said: "I can't put it into words. There are hundreds of acres of land in my hometown. Although there is a lot of land, farming is far from what it is here. My great-grandfather started to grow his hair, and he dug into the soil for generations. To save a starting point for the family, even if you say you are a grain farmer, it is actually very tight! If the weather is good, you can only get a hundred or so kilograms from one acre of land, how can it be compared to here!"
"Your family's courtyard economy is very good. I have been to a model farm, and their courtyard economy is nothing more than this." Yun Suji praised, "If every household can do this, it will be a well-deserved No. 1 in the county." A model village!"
Fan Twelve smiled awkwardly and was about to speak when Bai Puting said: "This is all done with the help of the Heaven and Earth Society. How else would I, a farmer, know so many tricks! Just talk about silage for feeding cattle. In my hometown, Not to mention that some people know it, no one has even heard of it - raising cattle for food does not mean eating grass when there is grass and eating hay when there is no grass? Who would have thought that you can save grass and feed it, and cows still like to eat it! Zhang Daozhang is right: the leaders are really living gods who know everything about the world!"
"Are there many people like you in your village who pay for guidance from the Heaven and Earth Society?"
"It's not much," Bai Puting said. "Most people can't afford the money. This is second to none. There will be loans from heaven and earth, and I was the one who took out the loan. But everyone is unwilling to borrow, for fear of losing money if they can't pay it back." Many families here were originally tenant farmers and had no land of their own, but the chief finally gave them land, and they all looked at it like they were top-notch people."
"You are still brave and enterprising."
"I'm not very courageous, but I just think how much future does Lao He have to farm like he used to do?" Bai Puting felt that Chief Yun's speech was very practical, and he spoke the words of farmers, so he couldn't help but talk more, "When we all went When I visited Tiandihui's demonstration farm in the county, I thought that Tiandihui is also a human being, and I am also a human being. Why can't I do something that other people can do? When Tiandihui promoted agricultural loans, everyone was afraid of incurring debt and repaying it. I have another thought: The leaders worked so hard to rescue us from the ice and snow, gave us food and clothing, and then sent us to Hainan Island to build houses and divide the land. What are they trying to do to trick us? You always say yes No?"
Yun Suji smiled and said: "Yes, yes." He thought to himself that it was no wonder that this man became a landlord in his hometown, and then became a wealthy family here, and his mind was a bit higher than that of ordinary farmers. He asked again: "Do you still owe the agricultural loan from Tiandihui?"
"It will be paid off this summer." Bai Puting said with great interest, "If it weren't for this progressive tax, I would like to take another loan and open dozens of acres of wasteland!" (To be continued)
