The Women's Director of Wangjia Village was Wang Guifen. However, since the women in Wangjia Village had little to do, her position was essentially meaningless. Sometimes she even forgot she even held the title of Women's Director.

Just then, when Zhou Xinghong brought Yan Xiumei to see her, she suddenly remembered this.

When Wang Guifen heard they were going to establish a women's mutual aid organization, she gave it her all: "I support it! I absolutely support it! I've said long ago that we must respond to the call for gender equality. We women comrades can also hold up half the sky. For example, just take this cafeteria, I can hold up the whole sky!"

Wang Guifen is not at all modest.

I'm not bragging, she is the best cook in Wangjia Village.

"Aunt, we will have to trouble you more in the future. We will come to you if we have any problems!" Zhou Xinghong and Yan Xiumei are also good at speaking.

"Okay, okay, okay. First of all, let me thank you on behalf of the women of Wangjia Village!" Wang Guifen said, unable to suppress her gossipy nature. "What exactly are you going to do? Tell me first, so I can check it out for us women!"

It’s not a secret anyway. Besides, Zhou Xinghong knows that if she wants to spread the news as quickly as possible, she has to rely on Aunt Guifen.

After listening to the two people's introduction, Wang Guifen slapped her thigh and said, "Great! That's great! Oh, it's not just Jiaojiao who is smart, but also those city people, they are just extraordinary, we can't even imagine them!"

It's not surprising, but it's mainly because I don't have money. I can barely make ends meet, so how can I help others?

"We don't have that problem in Wangjia Village. As the director of the Women's Department, I'm not bragging, but the women in Wangjia Village still have a very good status in the family!"

Wangjia Village is indeed a role model in this regard. The status of female lesbians in Wangjia Village has always been very high.

"Then I'll let my daughter come back to study, okay?"

Wang Guifen gave birth to three daughters and two sons. However, the eldest son did not survive, so Goudan's father is the only one left.

All three daughters were married: two moved to the county town, and the younger one married an officer and joined the army.

"I heard that your two sisters married in the county town?" Zhou Xinghong asked.

"Hey, who cares where she marries? It's always good to have many skills! I've made an agreement with my son and daughter-in-law that we'll grow medicinal herbs in the future. If my two daughters want to come back and grow them together, I'll give them half."

Although my daughter is married in the county town, her life is not as good as theirs in the countryside. If they didn't help her every month, the ration they had wouldn't be enough to eat.

They didn't have formal jobs, but the eldest daughter was lucky enough to find a temporary job. Although she only earned about ten yuan a month, it was better than nothing.

The second daughter is not so lucky. She has to take care of the housework every day and take care of the food, drink, defecation and urination of more than a dozen people in the family. Fortunately, her parents are quite supportive and help her from time to time, otherwise the second daughter would have a hard time in her husband's family!

"Aunt Guifen, you are so open-minded! Usually, a married daughter would not have this opportunity. Your daughter-in-law is really good!" Yan Xiumei said sincerely.

If you were to ask which family dotes on their daughters the most, Wang Guifen would undoubtedly be the winner. She initially worried her two children would be dependent on the weather in the countryside, so she tried every possible means to marry them off in the county town. Unexpectedly, Wangjia Village has become increasingly prosperous over the years, and it's too late to regret it.

Fortunately, their family was well-off and could support their children. From time to time, she would ask her son to send some food to the county town for her two daughters, in exchange for special treatment from her two in-laws.

Yan Xiumei was extremely envious.

Zhou Xinghong couldn't help but sigh, "So the position of Women's Director of our brigade must belong to you!"

Wang Guifen was not modest and accepted the compliments from the two with a smile.

The Women's Mutual Aid Organization's office was also decided upon: it would be located within the brigade headquarters. Wang Guifen had secured an office specifically for them, which bore the sign "Wangjia Village Women's Federation and Women's Aid Office."

Yan Xiumei and Zhou Xinghong officially started working and became people with desks.

During the busy farming season, Xinjin County is bustling with activity. The peaches haven't been picked yet, and the harvest is coming up soon, keeping every household busy.

When school is on vacation, the children have to help the adults with work.

The Feng family's fields were always the first to be harvested. Without even saying hello, the neighbors would all go to the Feng family's fields to harvest their crops first, before harvesting anything else.

Jiaojiao had previously promised to prepare medicinal seeds for everyone, and during this period she took Dabai up the mountain every day.

After finishing the farm work, she was also busy here. According to Qin, a Chinese medicine doctor, Jiaojiao prepared perennial and annual Chinese medicinal herbs suitable for intercropping, which were both medicinal and edible, and had high economic value and could be used as gifts.

In order to make these medicinal herbs grow and be harvested faster, almost all the plants that can be grown into seedlings have done so.

In the mountains, Jiaojiao made several formations with spiritual stones, marking out the intercropping areas for ginseng, dendrobium, ganoderma lucidum, etc., to prevent wild animals or unrelated people from accidentally entering.

Zeng and Liu knew that the seeds were ready and quickly convened a meeting.

All the people who came to attend the meeting were women.

Zeng Shuwen read out the charter of the women's mutual aid organization and other matters, and then it was Qin Traditional Chinese Medicine's turn.

"For our medicinal herb planting, we can consider the following methods. One is planting on the mountain. Another is planting in our fields. Another is intercropping in orchards."

Almost every household in Xinjin County has peach trees, making intercropping them in orchards a perfect fit. However, no one has any experience growing medicinal herbs, and since peaches are crucial to foreign exchange, Dr. Qin is hesitant to invest in the orchards.

Zhou Meihong took a small notebook and carefully wrote down every key point that Dr. Qin said. There were a few other female comrades who took notes with pens like her, and more of them stretched their necks and tried hard to remember with their heads.

"Meihong, remember this carefully. I'll help you when we get back!" Everyone in Zhou Meihong's group nodded. Dr. Qin had said so much at once that they simply couldn't remember it all!

Fortunately, Dr. Qin probably didn't have any extravagant expectations of them. After he finished explaining the theory, he asked everyone to go out and get the medicinal herb seedlings.

Each brigade was assigned three technicians to provide guidance, and a large group of people surrounded the technicians and returned to their respective brigade.

Seeing the huge commotion, Li Xiucheng couldn't help but recall the scene a few years ago when he led several apprentices to grow peach seedlings in Daqing Mountain.

He cultivated saplings for several years, and his apprentices increased from three to dozens, which is why the entire county is covered with peach trees today.

The peach trees he planted last time increased Xinjin County's income by more than ten times. He believes this medicinal herb planting will definitely take the local economy to a higher level!