When will I have a long tassel?

"It's moving, it's moving!"

A burst of excited shouts rang out on the threshing floor of Longdunkou Village, followed immediately by the sound of beeping firecrackers. As the smoke filled the air, excited smiles bloomed on the faces of adults and children. It's like a New Year's Day.

In the middle of the threshing floor, there is a bamboo shed with a machine placed in it. A strong man was stuffing a moso bamboo into one end of the machine. The machine made a gentle sound, slowly sucked the moso bamboo in, and then spit out smooth and delicate bamboo strips from the other end.

"It's so thin!"

“It doesn’t hurt at all!”

"It's such a pity that such good bamboo strips are used to make bamboo baskets!"

"Of course this is not for weaving bamboo baskets. Didn't the boss from Jingnan say that bamboo furniture and handicrafts are particularly popular in Southeast Asia, and we will do export business in the future."

"Haha, Master Genfu, didn't you always say that when you were young, you made a whole set of furniture out of strips? Now it's time for you to show off your skills."

The villagers passed around the bamboo strips, which were like handicrafts, and talked a lot, with joy and hope in their words.

"Don't forget, everyone, Shuidi was the first to learn how to operate this bamboo strip breaking machine. Brother Enping and Sister Yuehua will both enjoy Shuidi's blessings in the future!"

Someone reminded loudly, and everyone looked away from the strips and looked at a tall and thin girl next to the machine.

Sixteen-year-old Yang Shuidi was nervously controlling the handle of the machine, staring at several data on the dashboard, ready to make adjustments at any time. Feeling something strange around her, she raised her head and met countless eyes full of admiration, envy and blessings. Her face suddenly turned red, and she immediately felt moisture in her eyes.

She clearly remembered that day, when Aunt Yu from Dongye Province told her that she could learn to operate this machine tool and her destiny would be changed because of it, how shocked she was and how excited she was. hope. Unexpectedly, this all really came true.

Shuidi is one of the few children in Longdunkou who has attended high school, and she is the only one among girls. Unfortunately, her high school career only lasted for one year and had to be interrupted because her father Yang Enping fell ill.

Longdukou Village is a poor village in Fengxi Province. The state has corresponding poverty alleviation policies, but they are limited to helping villagers get rid of poverty. Yang Enping's treatment expenses were paid by the government, but the nutritional expenses required for recovery after the illness were not within the scope of poverty alleviation and could only be earned by his family.

Shuidi dropped out of school and returned home with tears in her eyes. While helping her mother cultivate the family farm, she also did some traditional bamboo strip weaving business like many people in the village, earning some meager side income to support her family. Her studies were clearly unsustainable.

Just when Shuidi gave up her hope of studying, a group of strange guests came to the village, headed by an aunt named Yu, whom others called Chief Engineer Yu.

The aunt who was the chief engineer brought a team to investigate the sideline development requirements in impoverished mountainous areas. When she saw that the farmers in Longdukou Village were still using bamboo knives to process moso bamboo, she claimed that she could provide them with a special broken knife. By installing bamboo strip machine tools, everyone can be freed from the tedious labor of breaking bamboo strips and focus on the weaving of bamboo strip products. This will increase the production efficiency of bamboo strip making in Longdunkou Village by more than ten times, and the grade of bamboo strip products will also be improved. A big step up.

The bamboo-breaking machine tool brought by Chief Engineer Yu was specially developed for farmers in mountainous areas, and its operation and maintenance have been simplified as much as possible. Even so, many villagers still couldn't understand the details, and were in a hurry when operating it, making various mistakes. As for if the machine breaks down, no one knows how to troubleshoot it, which becomes a major obstacle to the promotion of this type of machine tool.

I don’t know who mentioned it to the chief engineer aunt, saying that Shuidi had gone to high school, was educated, and was clever, and might be able to learn how to operate a machine tool. Aunt Yu, the chief engineer, came to Shuidi's house and saw Shuidi's father lying in bed recuperating from illness, as well as the high school textbooks neatly arranged in Shuidi's room.

That day, Aunt Yu, the chief engineer, called Shuidi outside the village and first told her about her own childhood experience. She said that she was also born in a poor family, and her father was sick at home all year round. When she was very young, she worked in a labor service company in the factory to earn a little money to support her family.

Later, she met an Uncle Tang, a Sister Xiao, and Uncle Fatty. These kind people helped her work-study, encouraged her to aspire, and tutored her in her studies. Then she was admitted to Tsinghua University, studied for a Ph.D., and became An engineer, and later became the chief engineer of a large machine tool group company.

Aunt Yu, the chief engineer, told Shuidi that poverty is not only a hardship, but also a wealth. As long as she has ambitions in her heart, there will always be a day when the clouds will clear and the moon will shine.

In the days that followed, Aunt Yu, the chief engineer, personally taught Shuidi how to operate the bamboo stripping machine and how to maintain the machine. There are dozens of natural villages in the town where Longdukou Village is located, all of which use similar machine tools, but there are no personnel in the town who can do machine tool maintenance.

Shuidi has studied physics and can understand some mechanical principles. Mrs. Yu's lectures were very clear and taught her almost step by step, which allowed her to quickly master the basic maintenance of several different types of machine tools.

The staff of the town Poverty Alleviation Office told her that she would be hired as a full-time machine tool technician at the Poverty Alleviation Office and could earn an adult's salary. This salary is more than twice the current total income of her family. With this income, her family's financial situation will be greatly improved. She can even save some money. When her father recovers from illness, she can continue her own business. of studies.

Knowledge can change destiny, this is what Chief Engineer Aunt Yu said to her before she left. In fact, she had heard this sentence from a teacher at school a few years ago, but only now did she really feel the weight of this sentence.

"I really can't believe that a girl like Shuidi can have such a future."

"She went to high school and certainly knows more than us."

"Oh, Enping and his wife are still far-sighted and willing to spend money to let Shuidi study. Why don't I have this insight?"

"Just pull them down. Are those two boys of yours the material for studying?"

"No, if you go back and beat them up, you have to let them study hard. It's different after they study..."

The villagers' discussion gradually changed direction. They saw something different from the machine and Shuidi, which was the power of knowledge and the power of industry.

On the other side, a boss named Zhang from Jingnan was talking about export orders with cadres from the town's poverty alleviation office and bamboo craftsmen from Longdukou Village.

"This is a pattern we found from some countries in Southeast Asia. Can you make bamboo handicrafts like this?" asked the boss surnamed Zhang.

Jingnan is the province with the best private economy development in the country, and its counterpart in Fengxi Province has also introduced private power in poverty alleviation. The boss surnamed Zhang himself is engaged in the export trade of handicrafts. In the early years, he exported wood carvings, bamboo weaving and other handicrafts to Southeast Asia and made a lot of money. In recent years, Jingnan's labor costs have continued to rise, and handicrafts are labor-intensive products. The rise in wages has caused a significant decline in his export trade profits.

This time, he responded to the call of the government's poverty alleviation department and came to Fengxi Province, preparing to open a handicraft processing factory in Fengxi, which would not only help local farmers get out of poverty, but also find a new source of supply for himself.

He inspected some villages such as Longdukou and found that local farmers had traditional bamboo weaving skills and were able to make a variety of beautiful bamboo weaving utensils and handicrafts. He asked people to take some samples to Southeast Asia to test the sales, and they were widely welcomed. He then decided to specialize in selling local bamboo products overseas. The only obstacle he faced was that the efficiency of preparing local bamboo products was too low to provide him with sufficient output.

The equipment poverty alleviation plan organized by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission has brought opportunities to the boss surnamed Zhang. This simple bamboo strip breaking machine tool developed by Linji Group can greatly improve the efficiency of bamboo strip processing, and the processed bamboo strips are of high quality. Local craftsmen only need to use ready-made bamboo strips for production, and the output of bamboo products can be significantly improved.

"Such a bamboo strip tiger can be sold for 5 US dollars, or 30 yuan, in Indonesia. I only charge 10 yuan, which includes shipping, packaging, and sales fees. The remaining 20 yuan will be left to you as a gift. Processing fee. How about it, I think it’s interesting!”

The boss surnamed Zhang said boldly to the local poverty alleviation cadres.

"The processing fee is so high!" The bamboo weaver on the side exclaimed.

This kind of bamboo strip weaving tiger has no difficulty for the bamboo strip craftsmen of Longdunkou. But this thing is both inedible and unusable. On weekdays, everyone just makes up one occasionally to coax their children. Unexpectedly, it can be sold at such a high price. Weaving this kind of thing itself does not take much time, but because it is a toy for children, the processing of the strips needs to be very precise and polished without any burrs. This is the most labor-consuming part.

Now that there are bamboo strip breaking machines, the work of processing bamboo strips has been completely replaced. If you use ready-made bamboo strips to weave a tiger, you can't weave 10 tigers in a day. Do you have the nerve to say that you are from Longdunkou Village?

The processing fee is 20 yuan per piece, and if there are 10 pieces per day, that’s a full 200 yuan. After paying the cost of the bamboo strips, it should be no problem to earn 150 yuan a day. Countryside people don't pay much attention to weekends or anything like that. If you work 30 days a month, you can earn 4,500 yuan. This level is almost what a labor force earned in a year in the past.

"Great, we can sign the contract right away! Mr. Zhang, don't worry, the quality of our products will never be a problem!"

The eyes of the poverty alleviation cadres were shining.

Sure enough, you can't get rich without working. Just by making some handicrafts like this, your income is many times higher than by farming. It can be said that local farmers will become rich just around the corner.