Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

Not long after the children left, Li Xingjia returned from the capital. The reason why it took so long was that the decoration was done by him and Tiedan alone. Tiedan had to work during the day and couldn't disturb others at night, so the progress was slow.

"All the houses have been rented out." Li Xingjia smiled, as if he had finally resolved a problem.

Zhang Xiuhua was happy for him after hearing this, "Then how much subsidy do you need every month to make up for the loss?"

Li Xingjia did some calculations and said, "About fifty yuan will be enough. Tiedan will be provided with shelter, and he can save on food. He will suffer for a while, but once my ginseng is sold, Tiedan will be much more relaxed."

A few days after this, Li Xingjia came to Li Jianguo to borrow money.

"My family's ginseng seeds are not easy to sell. Planting crops on the family's fields is not profitable. So I'm going to find another way." Li Xingjia analyzed the use of combine harvesters with Li Jianguo. "When I came, I happened to meet Zhang Sanxi. He said that the agricultural machinery station had developed a combine harvester, each of which cost 50 yuan. It can harvest at least mu a day. I carefully calculated the account and felt that this business is profitable."

Fifty mu a day, five yuan per mu, that's 250 a day, autumn harvest is 40 days, almost yuan. The north harvests once a year, but Hubei and Shandong have two harvests a year. You can earn yuan a year. In addition, the government also provides subsidies. The government can subsidize half of the yuan machine cost. In other words, if he works harder, he can earn back all the money he spent on the machine in a year and a half.

Zhang Xiuhua listened on the side and thought that this business was more profitable than running a brewery. There was only one brewery in their county now, and there would definitely be a second and third one in the future. But the combine harvester was different. In the future, manual harvesting would become less and less common, and machine harvesting would become the mainstream.

Especially in the north where the land is vast and the population is sparse, manual harvesting is exhausting, and young people have gone to work in the south, and few stay in their hometowns. The elderly who stay at home are too busy to handle the harvest, so they would rather spend some money to harvest and use the time saved to do something else.

After listening to his analysis, Li Jianguo also thought it was feasible. "That's good, but do you have the money?"

He just bought a house and still owes a lot of money to the village. His wallet must be empty, right?

Li Xingjia said directly that he had nothing and was here to borrow money. He said openly, "I am here to discuss something with you. I have two options. One is that you lend me money and I will give you 12% interest every year. The second is that we can become partners, you pay the money and I work hard, and we will split the profits - after deducting the gas money."

Zhang Xiuhua thought he was really brave. He actually dared to owe 25,000 yuan in this era. This was not a small amount of money. Wasn't he afraid that he couldn't pay it back?

Li Jianguo thought so too, and he asked the same question.

Li Xingjia's face was full of arrogance. "When the ginseng in our village is harvested, my ginseng seedlings will surely sell well. By then, I can pay off all the money I owe to everyone. Tiedan is working in the capital now, and the pressure is too great. I want to relieve him a little. Let's give it a try. To be honest, if we don't work hard in the countryside, our future prospects will become smaller and smaller. I'm already this age, how many more years can I still fight for?"

After listening to him, Li Jianguo nodded and said, "It's a good idea! But you must be very tired after cutting for more than ten hours by yourself, right? How about finding a helper?"

Li Jianguo couldn't bear to let such an expensive machine just sit there idle.

Li Xingjia has already made up his mind, "My wife will go with me."

This is a bit of a lot of money. Li Jianguo said he would think about it carefully. Li Xingjia was not in a hurry. "Okay! Think about it carefully."

After Li Xingjia left, Li Jianguo discussed with Zhang Xiuhua, "What do you think of his proposal?"

Zhang Xiuhua sighed, "We owe him a favor. Whether it's a loan or a partnership, we have to repay him for it."

When Zhang Xiuhua wanted to plant fruit trees, Li Xingjia helped her with many ideas. Li Xingjia also taught them how to plant ginseng in advance. He also helped them analyze the planting methods of forest ginseng. Although Li Xingjia wanted to sell ginseng seeds, he originally planned to wait until he had a harvest before teaching the villagers. The first time the ginseng was sold, the price would probably be lowered.

Li Jianguo did not refuse just now because of this consideration, "Do you think it's a loan or a partnership?"

"I think he's under a lot of pressure. Let's form a partnership. That way he'll have less pressure." Zhang Xiuhua felt that Li Xingjia's life was not easy. He spent his whole life trying to fulfill the notice left by his parents. If his son didn't make it, he probably wouldn't be able to rest in peace.

Li Jianguo thought about it and agreed.

Early the next morning, Li Jianguo met Li Xingjia at the entrance of the village and told him the answer.

Li Xingjia excitedly held Li Jianguo's hand and said, "Don't worry, I will never let you lose money."

Li Jianguo laughed and said, "We have been neighbors for so many years, how can I not trust you?! Come on! I will take you to get the money. After we pay the money, when can we get the car?"

"I'll be able to pick it up soon." Li Xingjia got on Li Jianguo's tricycle. "After I pick up the tricycle, I'll practice first. When I've mastered it completely, I'll go south. There are many places in the south that grow rice, and the harvest is half a month earlier than in the north. Then I'll go all the way north, and by then the harvest time may be more than forty days."

Li Jianguo nodded, "Okay! I'll listen to you."

After withdrawing money from the savings bank and arriving at the agricultural machinery station, Zhang Sanxi was so shocked when he learned their purpose for coming that he was stunned for a long time.

Their agricultural machinery station built this combine harvester in response to the requirements of the higher authorities, but after manufacturing it, they encountered a problem of how to sell it. It was too expensive, and now the production was contracted to each household, not the production team, and the village chief had no power. The villagers had no money and were not willing to pay for it together. The stationmaster thought that this harvester would be a waste of money, but who would have thought that it was actually sold.

Zhang Sanxi took them to see the stationmaster. When he saw the 50,000 yuan, he was so happy that his face beamed with joy and he immediately took them to go through the formalities.

Having money doesn’t mean you can buy a machine right away.

First, you need to go to the service hall of the county agricultural and rural bureau to sign up for agricultural machinery training, obtain a qualification certificate for agricultural machinery driving and practical operation, and then go to the agricultural machinery window of the county service hall to sign up to buy a certain type of agricultural machinery, that is, a combine harvester. The agricultural machinery operator who buys the harvester must bring the purchase invoice of the agricultural machinery, his/her ID card, bank card and photocopy and other related documents to the rural service window to handle the subsidy procedures for the combine harvester. (From the news)

If a local combine harvester wants to go to another province, it needs to apply to join the local agricultural machinery cross-regional operation service team. The county-level agricultural machinery service company is responsible for organizing and contacting cross-regional combine harvester operation tasks and signing agricultural machinery service contracts with the operation task areas. The agricultural machinery operators will be issued relevant agricultural machinery certificates by the county-level agricultural machinery service center before they can follow the cross-regional agricultural machinery service team to the agricultural machinery service area to engage in agricultural machinery services. (From the news)

Li Jianguo heard that it was so troublesome, so he went back first, "Call me when you pay the money!"

Li Xingjia did not expect that the process of purchasing a combine harvester would be so difficult. He felt a little embarrassed and said, "I was too impatient."

Li Jianguo shook his head and said "It's okay", and he went straight back to the brewery.

Li Xingjia bought the combine harvester half a month later.

As soon as the machine entered the village, it immediately caused a sensation. It was so big that the ground shook as it passed by.

The villagers, whether in the fields or at home, all ran out to watch the fun.

Many children gathered around the machine to watch the fun, while the adults were more curious about the uses of the combine harvester.

Li Xingjia told them, "The combine harvester can harvest wheat, corn, cotton, soybeans, rice, rapeseed, sunflowers, etc. It can thresh and separate the grains while harvesting, which can save you a lot of time."

Someone raised his hand and asked, "If we harvest soybeans, can we get soybean rice directly? Not the stalks?"

Li Xingjia answered patiently, "Yes! Our hand tractors can only cut the stalks, and we have to pull the stalks home by ourselves, and then use heavy objects to pound out the soybeans, and the combine harvester will harvest the soybeans. The soybean stalks are pounded into powder and left in the field as fertilizer. You can also pull them back and use them as firewood."

Aunt Li Si squeezed to the front and asked, "Can corn be husked into individual grains?"

"Yes! But the corn core will be broken into pieces. The corn stalks will also be broken." Li Xingjia explained with a smile, "We can leave them in the fields as fertilizer. We don't need so much firewood."

When everyone heard this, they said, "Oh, it's all broken into pieces. How are we going to make a fire?"

Li Xingjia laughed and said, "It burns better if it's broken into pieces. Besides, how much firewood can we burn in a year? Wouldn't it burn better if we use charcoal or coal balls?!"

The villagers thought about it carefully and it was almost the same. They couldn't afford chemical fertilizers, so using poles as fertilizer was the same. As for the lack of firewood, didn't they have dead branches in the orchard? They could also go to the remote forests to collect firewood.

In a blink of an eye, Li Xingjia spent another half a month to process the documents.

In early August, Li Xingjia and Wang Honghua traveled south to Shandong, just in time for the rice harvest.

The villagers' attitude towards Li Jianguo's purchase of a combine harvester was to watch the show. In fact, they had seen a combine harvester before, there was one on the farm. It was bought in the 1980s. I heard it was very expensive.

It doesn't require manual operation and can be harvested quickly, but it has one disadvantage: the loss is greater than that of manual labor. This is why Youcai and a group of children went to the farm to pick soybeans.

When they learned that the machine cost 50,000 yuan, the villagers were secretly shocked, thinking that Li Jianguo was too wasteful and that it would take him forever to earn back the money he spent on the machine.

Li Jianguo knew nothing about this. He had to work during the day and when he came back at night, everyone was already asleep.

When Zhang Xiuhua heard everyone's doubts, she just smiled and didn't take it to heart.