Chapter 198

"I didn't go to Wucheng to receive the supplies, but the Red Army and the Red Soldiers went. I heard that most of the supplies on the seven or eight large cargo ships were donated by Ningning personally. There was a large shipload of supplies sent to our Linhe Brigade alone. The brigade secretary and the accountant went to receive and distribute them personally. Every household received 100 to 200 kilograms of rice and clothes. The clothes were brand new, as well as shoes and school bags. These alone were worth a lot of money, not to mention the two ships of supplies. I heard that the Qianshui Brigade, Xiangqian Brigade, and Hongqi Brigade next door all donated supplies. Some capable guys in the village followed the volunteers from Beijing to supervise the fleet distributing supplies, and ran all over the disaster-stricken areas of Wujiang City!"

The more Uncle Jiang spoke, the more he clicked his tongue.

He had not seen the supplies himself, but heard about them from the kids in the village who went to help with the disaster relief work, especially the three kids in his family, who boasted excitedly after coming back that the supplies on eight large cargo ships had almost doubled to twenty or thirty. He knew about it, but he did not have any deep feelings about the money, nor did he feel that the money Jiang Ning spent was real money.

It was as if they were listening to a story that was very far away from them. The Jiang Ning in the story was not the Jiang Ning they had watched grow up together, but the protagonist of the legendary story in the storytelling they had listened to, who was out of their reach.

Uncle Jiang was so excited when he spoke, just like his sons who came back to brag. Now the news that the golden phoenix that had flown out of the mountain nest of Jiangjia Village in Linhe Brigade had returned to help his hometown and bring back disaster relief supplies for the elders in his hometown had spread to every corner of Wujiang City. Even people in neighboring cities, the next city, and even the provincial capital had heard about it and were extremely envious of the people of Wujiang City.

Who doesn’t want his hometown to produce a person like this, to benefit the fellow villagers and fellow countrymen?

And this is not fake.

Not only Wucheng TV station, but also Wujiang City TV station and neighboring city TV stations broadcast the news for several days in a row, using these positive stories and news to calm the emotions of the disaster-stricken people and give them hope. The provincial TV station also spent more than a minute on the 60-minute news every evening to report on this incident.

So, people all over the province knew that Wujiang City had such a female college student. She was admitted to university and flew away for a year, and she brought such changes to her hometown.

In fact, Jiang Ning has brought more changes to his hometown than these.

Because of the flood this year, all the fields were submerged. The affected people in Linhe Brigade had nothing to do except fishing all day long when the fish from the Shahe River flowed into their rice fields. Mayor Jiang and Jiang Guotai came back and discussed with the people in the Linhe Brigade to plant tea trees on the mountain.

The highest mountain behind Linhe Brigade is actually an enormous tea mountain. The mountain is covered with tea as far as the eye can see. In addition, there is abundant water resources on the mountain, with a body of water sandwiched between two mountains and plenty of sunlight. After brewing, the tea on the mountain has a sweet and clear tea soup, which is the first choice for local people to give as gifts when visiting relatives and friends.

However, the tea from Wugong Mountain is only famous among the locals. Its fame has not spread outside the city. Even many locals outside Wucheng County don't know much about it. Many people only know Wugong Mountain and the Wugong Temple on Wugong Mountain, but don't know Wugong tea.

The mountain behind them is not Wugong Mountain, but a branch very close to Wugong Mountain. There is a huge natural stone on the top of the mountain, which is arranged in a staggered manner to form a natural boulder in the shape of a "small stove" in the saying "green ants and new wine, red mud small stove". When the locals look up at the mountain from afar, they see a small stove sitting on the top of the mountain. No matter how far they are from home, they can see the unchanging small stove between the clouds from afar, so the locals also call this mountain "Luolu Mountain".

When I was young, many children did not understand. When they read Su Shi's "I don't know the true face of Mount Lu, because I am in this mountain", they all thought that this Lushan was the other Lushan. Gradually, "Huolu Mountain" became "Lushan".

In the local area, only the top of Huolu Mountain is planted with tea trees, but the surrounding mountains are covered with various weeds and trees. When Mayor Jiang and Jiang Guotai and his companions came back, they started with the first thing they did.

Plant tea!

If you want to plant tea trees on the mountain, you can't just do it with a simple move. The brigade must hold a meeting first. If other villages are unwilling to join, then Jiangjia Village can start first. Anyway, the large mountain range behind belongs to Jiangjia Village, and other villages have their own mountains.

If the people of Jiangjia Village agree, they have to pay money, and the village brigade will go to the provincial agricultural university and provincial agricultural bureau to invite experts back to find suitable tea varieties and plant tea trees scientifically under the guidance of the experts.

This point alone was opposed by many people in the village, because in Jiangjia Village, and even in the neighboring Shijian Township and all the nearby villages, almost every household planted tea, some with one or two plants, and some with five or six plants. Every year, they could not drink all the tea leaves from their own tea trees, and they could not sell them either. There was already too much tea to be wasted, and they were not happy about planting more tea, or spending money to plant tea. Besides, do they need to learn how to grow tea? Do you still need to hire an expert? Growing tea, isn't that something anyone with hands can do?

Won't tea leaves grow on their own if you just leave them there?

Many families are unwilling to spend money to grow tea.

Mayor Jiang and Jiang Guotai originally wanted to lead the entire Linhe Brigade to grow tea together, but other villages were unwilling to participate. Mayor Jiang even went to talk to them several times, but even the brigade cadres who served as cadres in the brigade headquarters were not enthusiastic about this matter. Jiang Guotai didn't care. Anyway, he only had Jiangjia Village in his heart. As for other Xujia Village, Shijia Village, and Wujia Village, what did they have to do with him?

After confirming that there was only Jiangjia Village, tea planting in Jiangjia Village was not so smooth.

Jiang Guotai didn't have the good temper and patience to reason with them, so he said directly: "This matter was initiated by Ningning. You know Ningning's ability. She is the Wenquxing from heaven, the real golden phoenix of our village."

Such outrageous and superstitious words were spoken by Jiang Guotai in Jiangjia Village, and no one refuted them and everyone dared to believe them.

Jiang Guotai is particularly superstitious.

The people in Jiangjia Village were originally reluctant to follow suit in planting tea trees, but when they heard that it was Jiang Ning's suggestion and that she was the one who took the lead, and that the most promising people in the village, Mayor Jiang and Jiang Guotai, agreed to do this, they felt that they were not as capable as Mayor Jiang and Jiang Guotai, but if they said they could do it, then they would just do it.

Mayor Jiang and Jiang Guotai are both from the Third House, so once they give a call, everyone in the Third House will respond. Everyone in the Third House agrees at once and can't wait to start working. Especially the three brothers Jiang Hongjun, they are eager to get started and are particularly active.

The people from other branches were close to the third branch and trusted Mayor Jiang and Jiang Guotai. The village chief of the second branch, who was mainly superstitious about Jiang Ning, was the first to make the decision to support the decision of Jiang Ning, Mayor Jiang, and Jiang Guotai. He led his three sons to be the first to sign and agree to this matter. When the people from the second branch saw that the village chief's family agreed, it must be a good thing, so they also signed and agreed to this matter. Only some people from the first and fourth branches were still hesitating.

The second and third rooms live closest to each other and have the best and most familiar relationship with each other. The first and fourth rooms live at the two ends of the village respectively, with the second and third rooms in between. The people of the fourth room have always been invisible in the village and never get involved in anything. They just go by whatever the village chief and the team secretary say.

Seeing that the village chief of the second branch and Mayor Jiang brought the third branch and they all agreed, the little-known people in the fourth branch couldn't figure out whether the matter was good or bad. Those who had extra money at home followed the crowd, while those who were more tactful wanted to wait and see what they were up to.

Only the people from the big family have been united and have been living outside the village. They think that they are the big family and are the most powerful. They have never been convinced by the other families. After going back to discuss for a while, they felt that this matter was pointless and were unwilling to join, nor were they willing to pay.

However, there were some smart families, such as the family of the electrician who was in charge of the Linhe Brigade Hydropower Station, and the family of the brigade cadre and his brothers in the brigade headquarters, all of whom joined in.

Mayor Jiang said, "Since you all agree, Guotai and I will handle the rest. You can pay whatever you are supposed to pay. We won't ask you for more. Since this is our Jiangjia Village's business, we won't entrust the brigade secretary to do it. We will do it ourselves."

After all, the brigade secretary is from Xujia Village. If the people of Xujia Village do not join the tea mountain planting plan, it will not be convenient for the brigade secretary to participate, after all, it involves a lot of money.

Mayor Jiang said, "Guotai, the village chief and I have discussed this matter. We will first divide it by headcount, including those with children. Each household will get one acre of land per person, and we will draw lots to decide which plot of land we get. The subsequent tea varieties and planting will be unified. If you have no objection, then that's how it will be done." He looked at the people in Jiangjia Village. No one had any objection. A woman also raised her hand and said, "Then the mountain land we have divided is not together. Can we exchange it?"

Mayor Jiang glanced at her, then looked at the others present and said, "Of course you can change it, but after the change, if anyone regrets it, we will not recognize it."

After Mayor Jiang said this, some people who were thinking of swapping the tea fields together for easier management also gave up the idea. After all, everyone who has planted tea trees knows that the taste of the tea will be different if the tea field faces the sun or not. Although the lottery has not yet begun, don't exchange your good tea field for a bad one. Even if the locals drink tea every day and cannot live without tea for a day, they won't be able to taste the difference, but they just feel there is a difference.

After this was decided, Jiangjia Village began to clear the mountains and forests in a hurry during the flood, because August to November is the tea planting season, and this season is just right for them to plant tea trees.

They did not clean up blindly, but cleaned up the surrounding areas around "Huolu Mountain", starting with the clumps of thorns. These old thorns that had grown for many years grew in large patches and were densely packed.

After clearing the thorns, there was no rush to deal with the trees, but instead all kinds of debris were removed from the surface of the mountain.

On the other hand, Jiang Guotai also asked his son and daughter-in-law to go to the provincial capital's Agricultural Bureau and Agricultural University to find experts to measure the soil there and see what variety of tea trees are suitable for planting.

The people in Jiangjia Village are actually very puzzled by this. With such a large area of ​​tea trees on their tea mountain, of course they would plant the existing ones. Why would they choose other varieties?

But this was Jiang Ning's suggestion, so Jiang Guotai listened.