Farming and Bend the National Husband

In the morning of the next day, Xia Jiusheng and his parents put the vegetables they had picked up into fresh-keeping boxes and carried them to the container truck, but they saw a few men with big bellies standing behind the truck, and they didn't know what they were talking about.Xia Guoqing, the village party secretary, stood at the end and seemed to be explaining to them.

Seeing them approaching, a young man who seemed to be the youngest came over and reached out to say hello to Papa Xia.

Last night, I heard from my son that the village party secretary had bad thoughts about his family's vegetable business. Dad Xia was also very angry, but he has always been used to swallowing his anger, and he can only hold his anger in his stomach. Practical way to solve this trouble.

"Hello fellow, my surname is Zheng, and I am the office director of the town government. Today, I accompanied the mayor of our town, Wu, to the village for research. I heard that your family has a good income from growing vegetables. I would like to ask you to do a job for the mayor of Wu. Special report." The young man said in an official tone.

However, his attitude was not bad, and he extended his hand to Papa Xia with a smile.

"Hello, Director Zheng." Father Xia hurriedly put down the fresh-keeping box in his hand, wiped his hands on his sleeves, and shook hands with the young man cautiously.

"You're welcome, fellow." The young man obviously followed suit, and he nodded reservedly, "Put the things in your hand away first, and follow me to see Mayor Wu!"

"Now? Mayor Wu?" Papa Xia was taken aback.

This is a great leader and cannot be neglected.He didn't care about loading the goods, and hurriedly followed the young man towards a fat middle-aged man.

Xia Jiusheng heard it on the side, and snorted in his heart, with such subordinates, the so-called mayor is not much better.If it were a sensible person, seeing that they were busy, they would definitely not care about waiting a few minutes longer, and then call them away when they finished their work.

The so-called research is not an urgent matter.

The mayor, surnamed Wu, is about 50 years old, with a short body and fair skin. He looks like a middle school teacher, but his belly is a bit big. He wears a wool suit and has his hair cut back. He looks more like a nouveau riche.

However, he spoke in a pleasant manner, and patiently asked Xia's father how many acres of land they planted at home?How many catties of vegetables can be sold every day?Have you encountered any difficulties?When he heard that a greenhouse has been set up and he can still grow vegetables like this in winter, he nodded and praised him for his brains and dedication.

Next to him was a small man wearing deep glasses, holding a notebook with a reverent face, and quickly recorded their conversation.

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Mayor Wu and his party had lunch at the house of the village party secretary Xia Guoqing, of course.

Last night, Mrs. Party Secretary prepared a native chicken and stewed it in a pot. She knew that Mayor Wu liked to eat stews with soup.So at noon, she fished out the chicken that had turned into dregs, filtered out the sundries, briefly boiled the clear yellow soup with vegetables from Xia Jiusheng's family, added seasonings, and served it out as the main course.

As for other steamed pork patties with salted egg yolk, grilled pork belly with fried tofu, stewed eggs with clams, fried eel with scallions, braised prawns in oil, stewed tofu with fish head, not to mention, they are all made with the best ingredients and carefully cooked. made.

Mayor Wu sat at the main seat, picked up a prawn with satisfaction, peeled off the brittle shell, put it in his mouth and took a bite, the strong aroma of seafood melted from his mouth.

This village party secretary was supported by him when he came to Zhangtang as the mayor. Although his ability was limited, after several years as the party secretary, the village's economy did not improve at all. Fortunately, he was obedient and sensible, and it was easy for him to direct himself.

Every time he went to the village, this Xia Guoqing lived up to his expectations, and could always find something he liked to entertain him just right, unlike other villages who didn't care at all and only knew how to serve him with big fish and meat.

Of course, only food is not enough. Xia Guoqing’s offerings to him every year are no less than those of other villages. It is rare to persist like this for a year.

"Mayor Wu, try this pot of vegetables. It tastes very special." Xia Guoqing sat at the end, watching them all eating fish and meat. No one realized that this pot of vegetables looks very ordinary. Why? To put it in the middle, I had no choice but to recommend it myself.

"Oh, is that so?" He had already seen the vegetables in the shallow pot in the middle.The bright green color is indeed very attractive, but this kind of dish is often grown in a greenhouse, and the taste is not as good as expected. Just now, Mayor Wu was still thinking about why Lao Xia brought such a dish here. Choose, would you rather eat vegetables grown by yourself in the countryside with worm eyes?

Now that Xia Guoqing said it, maybe there is something special about it?Wu Zhen gently picked up a cabbage heart, the color was really beautiful, without cutting, there were only three or four leaves, a thin and tender one.Mayor Wu put it in his mouth, and before he started chewing, a fresh scent stimulated the saliva in his mouth, which was desperately secreted.

After chewing vigorously for a few mouthfuls, the sweetness of vegetables filled his mouth immediately, Mayor Wu narrowed his eyes in comfort.

"How is it? Is this dish okay!" Xia Guoqing asked obsequiously.

"It's more than enough, this is the most delicious vegetable I've ever eaten." Mayor Wu swallowed the vegetable and exclaimed loudly.After speaking, he picked up another chopstick, quickly put it in his mouth and eagerly ate it. "Old Xia, how do you cook this dish, why does it taste so scary?"

"There's nothing special about it, just stew the soup with a native chicken, put the washed vegetables down, and cook them." Xia Guoqing looked at Mayor Wu and other town leaders, and stretched out their chopsticks. To the vegetable pot in the middle, proudly.

"Lao Xia, just make it up." The deputy mayor in charge of agriculture next to him curled his lips and said in disbelief: "A local chicken with some vegetables can taste so delicious, so not all the chefs in the hotel I'm about to lose my job."

The deputy mayor is a famous eater. He often goes to the major hotels and restaurants in Yucheng to taste their signature specialties. He has a very tricky mouth. It can be said that in terms of food, there is no one present here. More knowledgeable than him.

"How dare I lie to the leader? This dish is delicious because of its own taste, which is very tender and crisp." Xia Guoqing saw that they still didn't believe it. "These dishes are grown by Xia Jianjun, whom I met this morning, because they taste very good. All the vegetables used in the International Hotel in Yucheng are purchased at his house—"

"It's no wonder that the purchasing personnel of the National University of China are willing to come to such a remote place. It turns out that their food is better than others'." Someone said thoughtfully.

"Yes." The corner of Xia Guoqing's mouth twitched inaudibly, "Because his family grows vegetables well, many people in the village go to his house to buy seedlings and grow them together. The taste of vegetables is better than those bought in the market. It’s good to arrive, but if you want to say the best, it’s still his home.”

"Since his food is so good, it must be sold at a cheap price to NUS?" Someone thought of another question.

"Then who knows—" Xia Guoqing said unwillingly.

"Hotels like Guoda buy high-end dishes at least twice the price of the market, and send out such a quantity every day, at least 2000 more a day—" The deputy mayor knows better than them about this, and he thumbs up And the little finger, made a gesture of six. "At least seven or eight million a year—"

"Hiss—" Someone made a toothache sound.

80 million a year, at least 60 net profit, which is equivalent to the income of an enterprise.

Mayor Wu didn't make a sound.

He did not expect that such a cornucopia was hidden in such a poor village.

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Xia Jiusheng turned on the computer after lunch.

Suddenly remembered that yesterday in the space, I picked up those flowers and birds from the flower and bird market, and took pictures of the flowers and plants I didn't know.Just turn on the computer, look up professional websites, and see if you are lucky enough to find some valuable plants.

It was a professional network of flowers, plants and trees, which covered almost all the flowers, plants and trees that could be seen. Xia Jiusheng clicked on one page after another according to the classification and guessed types, and checked the text and pictures.

To his surprise, they matched a lot. Unfortunately, most of them were common species in the market. There was only one inconspicuous small tree, which was actually a yew. It was said on the Internet that it was a panda in the plant kingdom, but unfortunately it was still young. Not worth a few bucks.

There is also a potted plant that looks like Lanfeilan, which is also confirmed to be Heiqimolan, but after checking the price, it is only a few dozen yuan.

Xia Jiusheng was a little discouraged. Aren't ornamental plants valuable? Why did he pick up so many? The price quoted online was only a few dozen yuan a plant.

Forget it, he closed the computer and stopped checking this. The more he looked at it, the more annoying he became. He thought that he would be lucky, and maybe he would find a treasure with a price of over ten thousand!

But for some bonsai, the prices set online are a bit high, and they are all hundreds of thousands. There are also two of this kind of tree in his space. It looks like an oak tree, but its shape is very beautiful. Regardless of its value, before the Chinese New Year, it would be nice to buy a few beautiful flower pots and plant them at home for decoration.

"Yangyang, come and see this." Mama Xia shouted in the living room.

"What?" Xia Jiusheng walked over quickly and sat beside his mother.

"Look," Xia's mother pointed to the TV.

It turned out to be an ad.

Zhangtang Town has newly developed a real estate project, which is being promoted on Yucheng TV Station. It is a neat row house, three stories high, and the area is not small, at least two hundred square meters. It is a model house with exquisite decoration and beautiful settings. , it has a great impact on people, especially the design of the open-air balcony on the third floor is very unique, and it has the feeling of being in a wealthy family like in the movie.

However, Xia Jiusheng is not very interested. Since he wants to farm at home and has money, he might as well build a villa in the village. Isn’t this popular in many mountain villages now?

And the price of this row house is not cheap, more than [-] per square meter. This is Zhangtang, not Yucheng.

"Why, don't you like it?" Mama Xia asked strangely.

"Yes, if you have money, why not build a single-family villa in the village, which is much better than this kind of row house. The price is only 40 to [-] yuan, and you can buy a luxury car after building a house?" Xia Jiusheng calmly settled the accounts for his mother.

"That's true." Xia's mother just watched too many Korean dramas recently. When she saw such a beautiful house, she was attracted to her eyes. After hearing what her son said, she also felt that it made sense.

If you build it yourself, you can build a big yard, plant flowers and plants, potted plants, put some stones, put up a fountain, put up some lanterns, put up a wooden chair, and put up a swing. Isn’t it the same as on TV?

The person from the courier company shouted at the door, it turned out that the traditional Chinese medicine seeds ordered yesterday had arrived.

Xia Jiusheng took it upstairs, entered the space, soaked the ginseng seeds in the package, waited for them to germinate, and then planted them in the ground. As for the seedlings, he found a space and planted them.

The space is now prepared with a hoe, and the soil is soft, so it can be planted quickly.

Relatively speaking, goji berries are the easiest to survive. He is not worried at all. Dendrobium is said to be picky about the environment, and Xia Jiusheng is not sure that it can grow well. As for Polygonum multiflorum, it really looks like sweet potatoes, so it is probably not a big problem.

Tian Qi had already been planted on a large scale, and Xia Jiusheng ignored them after watering them.What he cares most about is still ginseng. If there is a ginseng that is more than a hundred years old at home, it is a treasure. In movies and TV novels, even if someone wants to buy it, there is no market for it.

Coming out of the space, he washed his hands and decided to go to the backyard to have a look.

Now when he is free, he spends most of his time sitting on the stones by the gutter, watching the fish swimming around freely.

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Mayor Wu and others were walking towards Xia Jiusheng's house under Xia Guoqing's guidance.

Everyone looked at the small farmyard in front of them. The vine roses that covered the courtyard wall were still pink flowers hanging all over the branches. Another village of surprises.

"The environment here is really good." The deputy mayor praised.

"That's right, an undeveloped village and a small courtyard overflowing with fragrance of flowers give people the illusion of entering a paradise." Someone commented humanely.

Mayor Wu didn't say anything, but his eyes became deeper.

"Wow, woof, woof——" Two half-grown Dalmatians suddenly rushed to the gate of the yard and barked loudly at them.

"Jianjun, Aijuan, Jiusheng, is anyone home?" Xia Guoqing shouted straight.

Isn't this the voice of the village party secretary? Why is the ghost lingering, and he came to the door again.

Xia Jiusheng calmed down his anger, waved his mother to go upstairs, avoided them, and walked to the front yard by himself.

Looking at the village party secretary and several town cadres standing at the gate of the yard, Xia Jiusheng stopped the two puppies, put on smiling faces, and welcomed them into the house.

After making tea, several people saw that the adults at home were not there. Xia Jiusheng looked like a kid again, and suddenly stood up unceremoniously, looked around, looked at the huge latest LCD TV on the wall, and the rural family in the living room. The side-by-side double-door large-capacity refrigerators that are hardly seen all nodded meaningfully.

These people are all knowledgeable, so they naturally know the prices of these electrical appliances.

When chatting at the village party secretary's home, it was just a guess that the family could make money, but now I have a more intuitive understanding.

"Jiu Sheng, the town leader wants to visit your greenhouse, can you show me the way?" Xia Guoqing asked kindly with a smile on his face.

"No problem, come with me." Xia Jiusheng stood up and said.

How to solve this matter, Xia Jiusheng has no idea yet, the town leader said he wants to visit, he has no reason to refuse.

The backyard looks bigger than the front yard, and it looks like plastic sheds one after another, stretching far away.

This is all a cash cow. In the eyes of some people, it is all stars of money.

Walking to the gutter and seeing the fish swimming in the water, some people couldn't help thinking, if this is their own yard, they would take a deck chair in summer, lie under the tree to fish and read books, get some iced watermelons, and listen to operas. , how comfortable it should be.

After visiting a few greenhouses at random, everyone had an idea, chatted a few words, and left.