Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 3 Sixth Uncle
Yu Yang said goodbye to the two secretaries and returned home with his elder brother.

The huge yard looked like it had been robbed.

Not only did the three old jujube trees disappear, but even the roof of the main hall was gone.

"Is this the debt collector who came to our house and ransacked it?"

"Brother, why didn't you stop him?"

After Yu Yang finished shouting, he turned around and saw his second brother swinging an axe and chopping the dismantled beams.

"Oh, you took it apart. That's fine."

I was immediately surprised to find that my second brother had broken through the east wall of the main room and extended the kang and chimney of the east room over there.

[Improved farmland: primary, area 3 cm (20 square meters), can speed up the growth of crops, currently planting soybeans, if there is sufficient sunlight, it is expected to mature in 30 days.]
"Good job!"

What’s even more amazing is that for such a long flue, no blower is needed.

The problem is, without a roof, what should we do when it snows?
Unfortunately, the eldest and second brothers did not say anything about this and continued to build the chimney, as if they were planning to turn the entire yard into a kang.

Yu Yang looked at the remaining earth wall of the main hall, then looked up at the dim sky, and suddenly thought of the plastic greenhouse.

"Looks like I need to buy some bamboo strips and plastic sheets tomorrow to put up the roof."

"Also, there's not enough firewood. Buy some charcoal."

Yu Yang found a notebook and wrote down everything he needed.

After finishing the work, I took out the hot meat buns and ate them while thinking about my plan.

At the beginning, there are two farmers on one field, a bit like Civilization, Warcraft, and Age of Empires.

The operating instructions are similar.

and so……

"Recruiting farmers!"

[The current population has reached the upper limit. Please build more houses to accommodate more people.]
Farmer: 2/2, masters farming, construction and other skills, consumes 20 servings of food per day, and can also solve the problem on his own.

Tip: You must have enough houses to recruit this unit.

“Build a house!”

[You have not yet obtained a town center, and cannot perform further operations.]
"No wonder it always felt like something was missing. It turns out there's no town center."

"But where can I find that thing?"

Yu Yang looked around and glanced at his eldest and second brothers.

"I wonder if we can increase the population limit by building our own houses."

In deep thought.

A friendly shout came from outside the yard.

"Three yuan!"

Yu Yang looked up and saw that it was his sixth uncle whom he met at the market. "Hey, sixth uncle, why are you here?"

"Come on, come on, sit at home for a while."

"Ah? Look at me, I'm quite busy."

"It's okay, I'll let your two brothers come and help."

Without waiting for Yu Yang to agree, Yu Laoliu held his arm and walked into the alley, straight to the courtyard on the south side. Before he even stepped into the main hall, he shouted, "Let's have dinner!"

As she spoke, Aunt Six walked out of the kitchen carrying a large pot of chicken stewed with mushrooms.

Following behind was my eldest cousin, who was holding a tin wine jug in his left hand and a few small wine cups in his right hand.

Behind him was my little cousin, who was holding peanuts, cold lotus root slices, and stir-fried pork with garlic chives, with a pack of General cigarettes between his fingers.

Yu Yang turned his head and took a quick glance, only to find that his sixth uncle had already pinned him down on a long bench.

The same round table, the same old rammed earth house, no different from home.

However, the main hall of my sixth uncle's house was decorated with busts of great men, the side walls were covered with congratulatory notices and certificates of honor, and there was also a bucket-shaped honeycomb stove under the beams.

Reflecting the shining orange light of the light bulb, a tin chimney as thick as a bowl spanned half of the house and led directly to the window wrapped in plastic paper, but it still couldn't block the cold air pouring in from outside.

It was not until then that Yu Yang woke up.

October in this time and space seems a bit cold.

the other side.

After the food was served, Uncle Six asked his two cousins ​​to help. He picked up the tin wine pot and poured out the warm white wine.

Seeing this, Yu Yang quickly grabbed it and said, "You are the elder, this job belongs to me."

"What are you talking about? You are the guest today." Uncle Liu refused, took back the wine pot, and changed the subject, "Sanyuan, am I your uncle?"

"Sure!"

There are eight brothers in the Yu family.

The eldest brother is Yu Jiandang, the younger brother is Yu Jianjun, and the third uncle is Yu Jianguo.

My fourth uncle is Yu Jiefang, my fifth uncle is Yu Aiding Korea, my sixth uncle is Yu Yuejin...

If we follow my grandfather’s words, our family is the living modern history of the East.

Unfortunately, my seventh uncle and eighth uncle died in South Vietnam.

My eldest uncle and third uncle stayed in southern Xinjiang.

My fourth uncle and fifth uncle ran away to the Great Northern Wilderness.

Only Lao Liu and his father returned to Yujia Village after retiring.

"As long as you treat me as your uncle, it will be easy."

Yu Laoliu smiled with wrinkles on his face after receiving the affirmation. "Look, your two cousins ​​have been staying at home since they graduated from junior high school. They work on the farm during the busy farming season and on the construction site during the slack farming season. If they continue like this, they will have no future."

"Didn't my father let them go to technical secondary school? They could become accountants when they come back."

"The brick kiln collapsed. Where can they work as accountants? Besides, they are not cut out for it."

After Uncle Six finished speaking, he picked up the wine cup and said, "Let's go."

Then he said, "Here's what I thought. Let them help you with the bean sprouts."

"It's not that difficult to make bean sprouts. We have a kang in our kitchen. We can just soak some soybeans." "You're being distant with your uncle, aren't you?"

Yu Laoliu narrowed his eyes and lit a cigarette for the two of them.

He asked around at the market for a long time and thought that bean sprouts were indeed a rare item sent to the capital.

But after I came back, I kept checking the roof, thinking that it was going to snow heavily soon.

Who would have thought of climbing up and taking a look.

Wow, the beams in the backyard were pulled out to build a kang, and through the skylight in the east room, the kang was covered with green bean sprouts.

This rare thing was obviously grown.

Logically speaking, if you have a kang at home, you can do it.

But as a farmer, Yu Laoliu knew very well that soaking bean sprouts requires skills.

Otherwise, the roots will rot, insects will appear, the plants will grow slowly, and the germination will be uneven...

Growing bean sprouts in winter is even more difficult.

So not everyone can do profitable business if they want to.

So Yu Laoliu thought of the "technician" who went to the market with Yu Yang.

Isn't this an opportunity?
As the saying goes, a nephew is half a son, there is no need to beat around the bush.

Yu Laoliu said bluntly: "Sanyuan, to be honest, uncle wants to make a lot of money."

Yu Yang understood that in the front and back yards, his sixth uncle must have discovered the bean sprouts on the kang.

But bean sprouts are the product of our own cheating, and the planting process cannot be seen in public.

However, only under the care of farmers can the growth of crops be accelerated.

Without the farmer, crops would grow back to normal.

This is the conclusion I came to after asking my second brother to stop in the morning.

Out of consideration for the relationship, suppose we give Uncle Six the entire piece of farmland and have the farmer come over to 'check' from time to time, under the name of technical support, and control the growth rate of the bean sprouts throughout the process, keeping it similar to the growth rate of soaked bean sprouts, which should take about three to five days. Uncle Six should not find anything.

So, a row of bean sprouts grown on a kang can be sold for three hundred yuan, and if harvested ten times a month, it can be sold for three thousand yuan. After deducting factors such as costs and price reductions, the minimum monthly profit is two thousand five hundred yuan.

In this era when the average income is 600 to 700 yuan, they are definitely considered a high-income group.

When the time comes, we can ask Uncle Six for a technical fee of one thousand yuan. That’s not too much, right?
In other words, if we give a piece of land to Uncle Six, we won't need a farmer on a regular basis, and we can still get a thousand yuan from him every month.

Yu Yang took a puff of cigarette and said slowly, "Sixth Uncle, you have also seen the man who went to the market with me."

"Ah."

"That's a technician. I hired him at a high price."

"I understand. Craftsmen are valuable."

"I pay them one thousand yuan a month."

"so tall?"

"To be honest, the bean sprouts I sold today only took me three days to grow, and I sold them for three hundred yuan."

"Hiss... So, after deducting the technical fee, we can earn two thousand a month?"

"Not that much. We have to deduct the cost. I'll probably get fifteen hundred."

"Done!"

Yu Laoliu raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp.

He immediately motioned Yu Yang to come closer and whispered, "Sanyuan, we have to be careful and learn the skills first. Then we can kick the technician out. Wouldn't it be possible for us to earn 2,500 yuan a month?"

"Makes sense!"

Yu Yang picked up the wine cup and whispered in the same tone: "This monthly salary of 1,000 yuan must be paid in advance."

"Give it in advance?"

"If you don't give me money, I won't work."

Yu Laoliu felt very painful as he had to pay one thousand yuan before making any money.

But thinking of the profitability of Dou Miao, he took out 10 blue Great Man banknotes from the cabinet on the spot.

Yu Yang hadn't seen this version of banknotes for a long time. Holding it in his hand, he became more and more pleased the more he looked at it.

Yu Laoliu was a little drunk, "Sanyuan, when do we start work?"

“When the money is in place, the people are in place.”

After Yu Yang finished speaking, he ran to his own yard and called his eldest brother, asking him to give his sixth uncle an entire piece of improved primary farmland.

With a kang as the foundation, construction can be done very quickly.

The banquet lasted until 9 o'clock in the evening, and the "skylight" in the kang room of my sixth uncle's house opened.

We drank until 10 o'clock in the evening, and the kang was covered with soybeans.

After drinking until the early morning, the improved primary farmland was built and the soybeans sprouted...

At this time, Yu Laoliu excitedly held Yu Yang's hands.

"Sanyuan, I'll leave your two brothers to you."

Yu Yang listened to the familiar words and became drunk. Under the dim light, he seemed to have returned to another time and space.

That year, his sixth uncle was critically ill, so he specially called him, who was working on the project, to his side, held his hands tightly, and said, "Sanyuan, I leave your two brothers to you."

Yu Yang was overwhelmed with sorrow when he heard this, "My old sixth uncle, you can't leave."

"???"

……

"Brother, what did I do last night?"

"You cried for your sixth uncle, but he was fine. He was actually quite happy. But your sixth aunt thought that your sixth uncle was hiding some illness from her, so she rolled on the ground crying."

"Quit drinking!"

(End of this chapter)