The educated youth was reborn and wanted to disappear, but he was locked into a military marriage.

Thinking of the previous car accident, Xie Chengzhi hesitated, looked at Miao Shiwen, and finally nodded after a while.

Lu Mingzheng apologized: "Once Chengzhi and I leave, Sister Jiang will have to trouble you here again."

Mrs. Jiang waved her hands and said, "Actually, I just cook. It's not a big deal."

Zhu Xiaomin asked: "While I'm still on maternity leave, would you like to go home and visit Sister Jiang?"

Mrs. Jiang hesitated and looked at Lu Mingzheng.

Lu Mingzheng nodded: "If Jiang Ma wants to go back and take a look, you can go with me, but you have to come back by yourself."

Mrs. Jiang thought about it and shook her head: "I still won't go back. If there is something wrong, my family will write to me."

After things were discussed, Miao Shiwen would stay and wait until the weather got warmer, or wait for Zhu Xiaomin to go to the countryside to go back together, or Xie Chengzhi would find time to pick her up.

The most likely possibility is that Zhu Xiaomin went to the countryside, and Xie Chengzhi came to pick up several people back together.

Afterwards, Lu Mingzheng's vacation ended first and he returned to school, and then Xie Chengzhi also prepared to return to the village.

Before leaving, Zhu Xiaomin instructed: "Our team is going to plant a new improved variety of corn. When you go back, you can help me keep an eye on this matter. Remember, the corn field you choose cannot be surrounded by other varieties of corn, otherwise there will be cross-planting. When the time comes, you and Danqing will give me a detailed report so that I can apply for corn seeds with Comrade Meng."

Xie Chengzhi wrote down the details, stayed for two more days, said goodbye to a few people and went back to the village.

Half a month after returning home, a detailed report was sent to her. Zhu Xiaomin opened it and saw a hand-drawn topographic map at the beginning. It was exactly the location of the farmland of a brigade. One of the areas circled in red was the place selected for the experimental field, which was more than 80 acres.

Below is the description written in Chen Danqing's handwriting. The chosen place is on a hillside, far away from other farmlands, so it is easy to avoid other varieties of corn nearby.

However, the entire area covers a total of more than 80 acres. If 50 acres of it are planted with corn, the other 30 acres will have to be planted with other crops. Different crops require different irrigation frequencies, which is not very convenient. After Xie Chengzhi's repeated efforts, and corn is the main food crop of the entire Beishan Forest Farm, Xia Dongliang finally agreed to set up that area as an experimental field.

After reading the entire report, Zhu Xiaomin was very satisfied. Regardless of whether her maternity leave was over or not, she immediately copied another copy of the report and asked He Lanfang to help deliver it to Meng Zihao.

Meng Zihao saw that he was going to use 80 acres of land as experimental fields all of a sudden. He also saw that it was clearly drawn on the map that there was a rock fault between the hillside and other farmland, and that the farmland above and below were also planted with other crops. He was indescribably happy and submitted a report on the same day.

In March, the village had already started plowing the soil and applying fertilizer in preparation for spring ploughing. Zhu Xiaomin first contacted Zhao Zheng and asked him to go to the village to provide guidance on fruit tree grafting.

Zhao Zheng replied: "I have already contacted two experts in this area, but they are still doing a study. Once the study is finished, I will bring a few assistants with me."

Zhu Xiaomin confirmed: "It's already March, the peach blossoms on the mountain are about to bloom, we can't delay."

Zhao Zheng smiled: "Don't worry, their research will be completed in a few days, there will be no delay."

Zhu Xiaomin was relieved then, and submitted the report on each brigade's development of sideline businesses and the first brigade's experimental field, and applied to return to the village to provide guidance.

At this time, her four-month maternity leave had just ended. Seeing that she had done so much work during her leave, Lu Haigen praised her repeatedly and signed the report and sent it over.

During this period, He Lanfang helped to deliver the reports on the side businesses of each team. Pei Wenyuan also knew about this, and when he saw the reports coming in, he called He Lanfang to ask about the seeds.

He Lanfang nodded: "I helped deliver that plan to the institute. Comrade Meng said that this batch of newly improved seeds has been planted in the institute for two years and the harvests are very good, with a high success rate."

Pei Wenyuan smiled: "You seem to be very familiar with Xiao Zhu's work."

He Lanfang was a little confused: "It's...it's inconvenient for Xiaozhu to take the child with him, so I helped to pass on the information. It didn't...it didn't affect my work."

Seeing that she was nervous, Pei Wenyuan smiled and waved his hand, letting her go out.

Two days later, the application was approved. Except for some modifications to the side projects of each team, the application for the experimental field was fully approved. At the same time, Zhu Xiaomin was given an additional assistant.

Zhu Xiaomin received the approval and asked in surprise: "Xiao He? Be my assistant?"

Lv Haigen smiled and nodded, "You are a military dependent and you have a child. Director Pei considered that you might not be able to take care of the village by yourself, and it would be difficult to carry out the work over there if you hand it over to someone else, so he transferred Xiao He to be your assistant, and it was agreed that it would only be for half a year."

Zhu Xiaomin asked: "This... Xiao He is also willing?"

Lü Haigen nodded: "The administrative office has sought her opinion. Xiao He also wants to do some specific work. She said she will obey the organization's arrangements and report here in the afternoon." He encouraged, "Xiao Zhu, work hard. The district intends to use your place as a model."

Very good!

Zhu Xiaomin was also extremely happy.

It is unprecedented to provide assistants to secretaries.

As the news spread, Guo Hongtao came over quickly, looked at Zhu Xiaomin with an unpleasant expression and said, "It's not like we don't have anyone in our bureau. Why do you ask the administrative office for an assistant? This will make the administrative office think that we don't have anyone in our bureau."

Having not interacted with this person for several months, Zhu Xiaomin almost forgot her existence and asked directly: "Officer Guo, do you want to ask the bureau for an assistant? Who do you want? You? I dare not."

"What are you afraid of? Why can't I do it? Are you afraid that I will steal your achievements?" Guo Hongtao asked back immediately.

Zhu Xiaomin smiled and said, "We are all secretaries. Can Secretary Guo be willing to be my assistant and accept my orders? Aren't you so anxious now because you want to get results?"

Guo Hongtao's face turned cold: "Of course, work is done through discussion. You don't necessarily know everything. You just open your mouth and ask others to obey your orders. You don't want me to be with you. Isn't it because you are afraid that I will steal your limelight and take away your achievements?"

Zhu Xiaomin simply nodded: "Yes, it's my own limelight, why should I let you steal it? It's my own achievement, shouldn't I take the credit myself? Why should I share it with you? Do I owe you?"

"Alright, alright!" Jiao Xianglan couldn't bear to listen any longer. "Xiao Guo, don't say that Xiao He was the one who proposed it from the Administration. Even if it wasn't, if Xiao Zhu wants help, we have people in our department. We will never go to your department to ask for help."

Guo Hongtao blushed: "Sister Jiao, I didn't mean that. I just think it's our unit's job. It's too embarrassing for us that she has to bring an outsider as an assistant."

"Why should we lose face?" Yang Yiliang also said, "It's because we all have our own jobs and we all have to go to the countryside for the spring ploughing. No one can spare time, so the higher-ups sent another person here. What's so strange about that?"