Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 4: Going to the Market to Buy a Donkey, the Village Chief

The next day, it was just dawn.

After waking up, the second brother dug a lot of fermented manure from the pit, spread a thin layer on the surface of the kang in the east room and the main room, then sprinkled water and planted soybeans.

The eldest brother who stayed in the outer room added water to the earthen stove, ignited the firewood, and pulled the bellows.

In a short while, the large kang that connected the east room and the main room was steaming and emitting a strange smell.

Yu Yang sobered up.

I was stunned for a moment. I had originally planned to heat up the meat-filled steamed bun left over from yesterday, but now I was surrounded by the strange smell and suddenly lost my appetite.

The eldest brother ate very happily and went to his sixth uncle's house whenever he had time. He punched in and out, and was back in less than a quarter of an hour.

With a monthly salary of one thousand, I can live a carefree life.

Yu Yang squatted beside the earthen stove and studied his own hanging again.

Last night, while building farmland at Uncle Six’s house, a series of prompts suddenly popped up in my field of vision.

[You occupy a house.]
[Farmer limit +1, farmland limit +1 point (66.6 square meters)]
[You recruited 1 farmer.]
Farmer: 3/3, one of them is on the way.

Farmland: Each farmer holds 1 mu of land (66.6 square meters), and currently 4 mu has been built.

"It turns out that occupying houses can also increase the population limit."

Yu Yang muttered to himself and turned his gaze to his neighbor on the west side, his second grandmother's house.

My second grandmother's children work away from home and have not returned for many years, so she is considered a lonely old woman.

As people from the same village, as juniors, and as outstanding young people of the new era, we must take care of each other.

Yu Yang stood up and called his elder and second brothers, rushed into his second grandmother's house, carried the sleeping old lady and her bed to the earthen stove in the east room of his house, and stuffed a soft and distilled meat bun into her hands.

"You eat first."

Soon, they built a kang and established farmland in the second grandmother's house.

[You occupy a house.]
[Farmer limit +1.]
[You have recruited a farmer, and he is on his way.]
"Occupy a house and increase the population limit by 1."

"You can automatically recruit as many people as you want based on the upper limit."

Yu Yang understood.

He turned around and told his eldest and second brothers to carry his third grandfather, who had not yet gone to the village entrance to bask in the sun, over.

Then I rushed into my third grandfather's house...

[You occupy a house.]
[Farmer limit +1.]
[You have recruited a farmer, and he is on his way.]
Farmer: 5/5, one of them is on the way.

"I see!"

Before Yu Yang had time to feel happy, his uncle and his cousin rushed into the yard.

"Sanyuan, put my father down!"

"Get lost, I'm here to take Third Grandpa to eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks."

The next moment, the father and son were beaten so badly that they ran away in panic.

"You are not even willing to give a steamed bun to your third grandfather, and you still treat him as your grandson."

Yu Yang was indignant and was about to continue carrying people on his back, but when he looked up, he found that the bean sprouts had grown, so he quickly asked his second brother to harvest them.

The two of them first tore the soybean seedlings with tangled roots into small squares of varying sizes of 20x20cm.

Then spread it on the grate that my eldest brother made last night, and then put it layer by layer into a large woven basket.

After the expansion of the kang, the planting area tripled and the output also tripled.

Before, I could harvest 4 baskets of bean sprouts in one morning, but now it has become 10 baskets.

The second brother wanted to test the limit of his strength, so he picked up 10 large baskets of bean sprouts, but the newly bought shoulder pole was not enough to support it.

In desperation, Yu Yang could only ask his second brother to carry four large baskets and leave the yard.

Then he ran through the highway bridge tunnel and headed in the opposite direction of Shiliying, running all the way.

Because today is the thirteenth day of the lunar calendar.

The 258th day of the lunar calendar is the market day in Shiliying.

The next one, 147th, is the turn of Hangai Township in the west.

By the 369th day of the twelfth month, it was the turn of the Buddha Temple Township in the north.

This can be considered a custom that has been formed imperceptibly.

……

the other side.

Shiliying Police Station.

The eldest brother, Zhao Qian, came to apply for a temporary residence permit with his second brother's ID.

Left not long ago.

Three more men came in.

"Where are you from?"

"Bashu", "Southern Xinjiang", and "Northern Zhejiang".

"What are you doing here?"

"Delivering food to Metro in Beijing, the truck overturned."

"Overturned again?"

"Yeah, it flipped over while driving."

"Where's the car?"

"When the three of us woke up, even our clothes were stripped off. Where is the car?"

"Too arrogant!"

When the director received the news, he wrote a report to the county on the spot.

Rollover is a traffic accident and is not under the jurisdiction of Shiliying.

Let’s first clearly divide the responsibilities.

Finally, I thought of the four wheels lost from the bank.

"What a troubled time!"

……

Yu Yang and his second brother took more than an hour to reach Hangai Township.

The "gai" in Han Gai's name is not pronounced as "gai" locally, but as "hai".

Its meaning is also different from "sea", it should be a small city wall made of adobe.

It is also called "Gaizi Moat", "Gaizi Ditch" and "Gaizi Wall". It is used to protect villages, towns, or the courtyards of wealthy families.

Its origin should be related to the local bandits in Dongshan. If they encounter an attack, they can resist one or two.

It has only been passed down for thousands of years, but it played a big role in the fight against the Japanese. The most famous one was Cheng Laowu, and later it evolved into tunnel warfare.

Arrived at Hangai Market.

Since it is a small market, there are not many people on the streets and the stalls are not very densely packed.

Yu Yang took a quick look and instantly found a perfect location - opposite the restaurant.

The slogan for selling bean sprouts this time has been slightly changed.

"There was a car overturn on the east highway..."

"This is sent to RT-Mart in Beijing and sold to rich people..."

Hawking for a moment.

The owner of the restaurant opposite was quite bullying and rushed over with a kitchen knife, intending to chase us away.

But facing his second brother who had arms as strong as a horse and a pile of red bricks that could be broken with one hand, he bought 50 yuan worth of bean sprouts and took them back.

Busy for a long time.

Yu Yang came to the cattle market and asked about the price of the donkey.

Donkeys are very cheap these days.

A small donkey from Guanzhong costs 450 yuan, and a large donkey from Dezhou costs 780 yuan.

Yu Yang didn't know much about donkeys, so he found a cow dealer, gave him 10 yuan as a reward, asked him to help bargain, and took a look at the quality of the donkey. In the end, he bought a small donkey from Guanzhong for 380 yuan.

Then he selected a set of harness, led the donkey to the sawmill, and ordered an extended raft cart to be made to order.

In this way, when going to market in the future, the bean sprouts will be pulled to the edge of the field by donkey cart, and then strong men will carry them around and sell them, or they will find a place to set up a stall, saving time and effort.

"As smart as I am!"

Wait till these are done.

Seeing that the market was becoming increasingly deserted, Yu Yang simply drove his donkey cart through the streets and sold the two remaining baskets for five yuan per two kilograms.

Well, it’s more expensive now.

After all, this is door-to-door delivery.

On the way back, he took out his notebook and looked at it, then went to Shiliying to purchase some goods.

Coal, bamboo strips, plastic paper...

By the way, he also bought a pig iron furnace on credit from the coal briquette factory.

This thing is more energy-efficient than an earthen stove, but I don’t know if it will affect the performance of farmland.

When I got home again, it was already evening.

First, I got acquainted with my third, fourth and fifth brothers. Then I took out the big meat buns I bought in Hangai Township, heated them in a pot, and distributed them to everyone one by one.

Including my second grandmother and third grandfather, they all ate the meat filling.

And after eating and drinking.

The five brothers worked together and quickly put the bamboo strips and plastic papers on the roof.

Although plastic paper cannot withstand strong winds, it can keep out the cold and snow, which is much better than open air.

Later, the earthen stove was replaced with a cast iron stove to burn charcoal.

It turns out that farmland performance is not affected.

So Yu Yang drove the donkey cart back to Shiliying and bought 5 stoves on credit.

I installed three at home, one at my second grandmother's home, and one at my third grandfather's home.

The old man and woman who were sent home lay beside the stove, feeling the warmth from the stove and chimney, and were so happy that they couldn't stop smiling.

In particular, you don’t have to cook it yourself, you don’t have to light it yourself, you don’t have to watch it yourself, and you don’t have to spend your own money.

"Sanyuan, a true grandson!"

By the time the furnace was installed, it was not yet eight o'clock in the evening.

Five strong men continued to tinker with the huge kang that occupied the entire yard.

Due to the large area, cast iron stoves were not used for heating this time. Instead, flues were set up underground and on both sides, a plastic shed was erected on the top, and deep pits were dug at the east and west ends to burn earth cellars.

For this reason, Yu Yang had to return to Shiliying again, knock on the door of the coal briquette factory, and use a donkey to pull a few carts of coal.

That night.

The donkey ran away.

ten minutes later.

Yu Yang brought five strong men to the village chief's house.

"Yu Yang, what do you want to do?"

"You stole my donkey."

"Nonsense! Your house has been ransacked, where did the donkey come from? Ouch, someone is being beaten!"

"I've long disliked you. You've been colluding with the bank and even want to get involved in my brick kiln. Brothers, hang him up and beat him!"

This night.

The whole village was shocked.

Even the Shiliying Police Station sent two officers.

"Sanyuan, stop fighting."

"Yes, Sanyuan, your donkey has been found."

"Sanyuan, go home quickly."

There are no adverse effects from beating the village chief.

Because this guy deserves a beating.

Just like when they were expropriating land for building the highway, this guy was the most active.

Later, the whole village did not enjoy the convenience of the highway, but the village chief built a small Western-style building with five rooms on the top and six rooms on the bottom, a total of eleven rooms, near the provincial road.

Everyone is living at the same poverty line, so how come you suddenly became rich?

Then there is.

"Where are the things that were confiscated from my house?"

"Especially the big color TV that Lao Yu bought when he was running a brick kiln."

(End of this chapter)