Siheyuan: I Raised Ten Thousand Wild Boars

The farm in winter is beautiful and full of hope.

Under the silver embellishment, the workers were working hard in the fields, and little birds, coming from nowhere, were chirping on the branches as they basked in the sun.

There are now more than 30 people on the farm, so the previous rooms can no longer accommodate them.

Fortunately, thanks to Yuan Fu's advance reminder, before winter, everyone went to the city to pull a cart of blue bricks, and then went to the Chaoyang Commune Brigade to exchange them for a lot of tiles. They rebuilt a dozen houses along the north wall, and now men and women could finally live separately.

Because the new house was rough and had no floor, it was not suitable for storing supplies, so it was given to the men to live in. The women soldiers continued to live in the old house, and the spare rooms were used as offices and storage rooms.

With so many people, management became a big problem. In order to avoid conflicts among people at work, Li Guohua divided them into several working groups.

The first is the logistics team, led by Jiang Dongmei, Zhang Xiuxiu, Zhou Xiaohu, etc. They are mainly responsible for the farm's money, food, living discipline, meals and other issues.

Jiang Dongmei did not disappoint him and handled everything in an orderly manner.

The second is the production team, which consists of three teams: Team Zhao Yutian, Team Zhang Zhiyong, and Team Zhou Dahu. Both of them are veterans of the farm and they know their own tempers and will not act recklessly.

The first two groups are mainly responsible for growing vegetables and crops, and have the largest number of people, with ten people in each group.

Zhou Dahu's team is relatively small, with only him, Wu Guoquan, and Liu Fuhan, who are mainly responsible for the chickens, ducks and other poultry on the farm. There is not much work, but shoveling chicken and duck manure is tiring and dirty.

Then there is the general affairs team, led by Yuan Fu. Although it is called a team, it is actually similar to the production team. They usually work with the production team, except that they have the additional job of guarding and patrolling.

This is also because Li Guohua took into consideration that Yuan Fu is old and cannot work as hard as a 20-year-old boy, so he can be lazy openly.

When we arrived at the farm, as usual, a GAZ car was parked on the concrete ground at the entrance.

He Fei, Zhou Dahu and others were loading vegetables. On the side, more than 20 people were crowded together, basking in the sun while weaving straw mats. The straw was exchanged from the surrounding communes.

There is no way. The weather in Beijing is as cold as -10 to 20 degrees Celsius in winter. In the fields, apart from cabbage, radish, some green onions, celery, or scallions and leeks, nothing else can survive.

These straw mats are used to build greenhouses. In addition to those that are being made, there are already several greenhouses in the field, and Chinese cabbage, tomatoes and cucumber seedlings are planted in them.

By then, the workers will be able to eat out-of-season vegetables in the cold winter, and the leaders will probably be even more shocked.

"Guohua, now that you're here, do you think our greenhouse will work? Should we try building some small greenhouses first?" asked a young man in his twenties.

He is Zhang Qing, whom Li Guohua met at the Grain Bureau. When he heard that Li Guohua was building a greenhouse, he came over to study the feasibility of large-scale greenhouse cultivation.

Who would have thought that Li Guohua would be able to do such a large scale at once? Even before any trials, he had already built more than a dozen greenhouses, and basically planted them all.

"What's the point of doing something small? If we want to do something, we'll do something big. Don't worry!"

In fact, small greenhouses already exist. Some people are building them around Beijing, small ones at a time, and some have professional teams in charge.

The reason why Li Guohua actively cooperated with him in his work was because he got a lot of good things from him.

There was no other way. His teacher was from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, so he had the ability to do so. He had all kinds of grains, soybeans, sugarcane, fruit trees, tea trees, authentic West Lake Longjing tea, and even a few ginseng seedlings.

My own little world can be said to be full of wealth. It saves me a lot of effort compared to collecting things everywhere by myself.

"Okay!" Zhang Qing was convinced.

You can't help but accept it. In this winter, most people's fields are planted with cabbages before the snow falls. In this guy's farm, there are still people turning the soil and planting cabbage seedlings. Who can you complain to?

I also got some vegetable seedlings to study, and found that despite their unprepossessing appearance, they have tremendous vitality, are resistant to cold and heat, grow very fast, and taste good.

However, after the second generation of cultivation by the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, all these advantages have disappeared. Now the Academy of Agricultural Sciences no longer studies vegetable seedlings, but has started to study farm soil, which is really unscientific.

After He Fei and Zhou Dahu finished loading the car and gave Zhou Dahu some instructions, Li Guohua began to inspect his farm again.

"Zhao Yunlong! What are you doing?"

Li Guohua shouted loudly, scaring 5-6 people in the distance away and causing them to scatter.

Speaking of these two cheap brothers-in-law, after coming to the farm, they worked impeccably, were able to endure hardships and were willing to work hard, but they also caused a lot of trouble.

When he first arrived, Zhao Yunhu didn't know whether he had been hungry for a long time or had never eaten enough, but he ate the big steamed buns with all his might and finished twelve of them in one go (each weighing two taels).

After eating, he fell directly to the ground, scaring everyone else so much that they were at a loss what to do. He finally lay flat for a while before he recovered. He didn't eat properly for several days afterwards.

After hearing this, Li Guohua was really afraid that he would be stuffed to death, which would be a huge joke.

A few days ago, Zhao Yunlong was greedy and wanted to eat Zhao Yutian's almond cakes. He bet with him that he could eat almond cakes without drinking water. As a result, he ate most of the box and got a sore throat and tonsillitis. It was Li Guohua who took him to see a doctor at the textile factory.

Two wonderful flowers, simply amazing!

Fortunately, my eldest cousin Zhao Yunying is not like them, otherwise I would be worried endlessly.

"Run, run, my brother-in-law is here!" When Zhao Yunlong and Zhao Yunhu saw Li Guohua, they turned around and ran away like mice seeing a cat.

But they could not run faster than Li Guohua and were knocked down by one kick each.

"Tell me, what are you doing?" Li Guohua asked sternly.

I just saw them digging the soil. Don't do anything bad in the farm vegetable fields.

Playing is playing, making noise is making noise, but if anyone dares to joke about work, he must be kicked out, even his own brother-in-law. This is the fundamental issue and also his bottom line.

"Nothing!" Zhao Yunlong patted the snow off his body and said with his head turned.

"Yunhu, tell me, if you don't tell me you won't be allowed to eat tonight!"

You have to work during the day and you can't skip meals, but it's okay to skip a meal at night. Zhao Yunhu is a big eater and he is not afraid of anything except hunger.

"I say, brother said that with a larger space and more fertilizer, the vegetables will grow better. We just buried the two mice that Saihu killed in the soil!" Zhao Yunhu said in a low voice, secretly observing Li Guohua out of the corner of his eye.

They have also been on the farm for some time, learned some knowledge, and combined with some experience in the countryside, they began to explore scientific methods of growing vegetables, which led to today's exploration.

"Hey! Next time you have an idea, ask others first. If they don't tell you, then ask me. Don't figure it out on your own!" Li Guohua sighed and said with a dark face.

Although your idea is right, this method is disgusting, asking them to dig out the rat and throw it away.

In the end, one person gave him a kick, and the matter was settled.

Watching the two people leaving with a quarrel, Li Guohua smiled bitterly and shook his head. This is what young people do. He himself seems a bit old-fashioned.