In the village committee office, Huo Qianli looked at Gu Chengde rubbing his hands in anticipation, thought for a moment, stood up and said, "Wait a moment."

As he said this, he walked out of the room and saw a man standing at the door.

Huo Qianli was surprised and asked, "Huh? Brother Zhan? What are you doing standing here?"

Zhan Baoxing, the leader of Team 2 who didn't have time to dodge, smiled awkwardly and said, "No, I just arrived and heard you guys were chatting so I didn't come in."

"You are too polite!" Huo Qianli smiled, "Is there anything wrong?"

Zhan Baoxing hesitated, glanced at Gu Chengde, and said awkwardly: "If nothing unexpected happens, we should be doing the same thing."

Unexpectedly, Huo Qianli did not hold back and offered him a seat. "Then go in and sit down. I'll be right back."

Soon Huo Qianli came back with another person behind him.

Gu Daqiang.

Gu Daqiang looked at the two of them and asked directly, "Do you want to use farm machinery too?"

Zhan Baoxing and Gu Chengde both looked at Huo Qianli with resentment, "Young man, you've made things awkward!"

Seeing that the two were silent, Gu Daqiang frowned, "Is that so? You are so shy, is this because of your wife's family?"

Gu Chengde nodded and said, "Machines are definitely more vicious than humans. If they can..."

"no problem!"

While Gu Chengde was still racking his brains to organize the most tactful words, Gu Daqiang had already agreed readily and neatly.

"What are you watching me for? Officer Huo said it well. Although I am the leader of Group 3 and the head of the cooperative, I am also the head of the entire Hushan Village. No matter whether it is Group 1, Group 2 or Group 3, we are all villagers of Hushan Village. How can I possibly stop something like this?"

Gu Daqiang's words made Gu Chengde and Zhan Baoxing give him a thumbs up. "You are worthy of being the village chief! Well said!"

After giving a few more instructions, Gu Daqiang sent the two people away in high spirits. He looked at Huo Qianli and said, "You can just sell this kind of favor directly. Why bother asking me to come forward?"

Huo Qianli shook his head. "You are the village chief, it would be better for you to say it."

???

Gu Daqiang looked at Huo Qianli suspiciously. Huo Qianli wanted to build roads and dig canals. Wasn't this a good opportunity to negotiate terms?

Why didn’t he do that? Did he…give up?

Gu Daqiang was stunned, and then he felt inexplicably lost.

It's like seeing a brave warrior laying down his sword, or seeing a magical wizard losing his magic...

The following village was bustling with activity.

The cooperative's land has been completely renovated, with large square tracts of earth and the slopes cleaned neatly. New mud from deep inside has been turned up and leveled, and there is not a single weed to be seen.

In the eyes of the farmers, it was like a painter seeing a famous painting, a calligrapher seeing a famous calligraphy, or Huo Qianli seeing Jiang Qingyue.

As long as the land of each family in the village was vacant, they made use of it as much as possible.

Normally, they would not do anything if they were asked to rent a machine. But if someone rented it and let them take advantage of it by only paying for the gas, they would rush over without any mobilization.

That evening, Tieniu slowly returned home and sat under the eaves to drink water and smoke. Erniu's mother, wearing an apron, came over with a basin of unprocessed vegetables. While picking vegetables, she asked, "You must have been exhausted these past few days. I heard that almost all the vacant land in the village has been worked by agricultural machinery."

Tie Niu shook his head. "Those are all done by machines. It's not tiring. It will be tiring in a couple of days."

"What's the matter?"

Tie Niu took a sip of strong tea and said, "Expert Hu will give a lecture to our cooperative the day after tomorrow on how to grow Salvia miltiorrhiza well and produce a high yield."

"Why do I need to teach you?" Erniu's mother pursed her lips, "Which of you hasn't been farming for decades?"

"You know nothing!" Tie Niu rolled his eyes at his wife. "Expert Hu specially asked people to send us photos of salvia miltiorrhiza from other places. Yesterday, he asked Hai Tao to go to the town to get them. He showed them to us. The growth and yield of other salvia miltiorrhiza are far behind ours!"

He snorted. "What Expert Hu said is that the soil in our village is good. Otherwise, with our backward planting method, no one would want the crops! But if we do as he said, they will grow as well as in the photos."

"So fierce? The lecture will start in a while, I want to go and listen too!" Erniu's mother became interested.

"Just stop fighting." Tie Niu waved his hand. "Cadre Huo said that in order to ensure the effectiveness, only one representative from the cooperative will be allowed. Otherwise, the quarrel will be like a vegetable market."

Erniu's mother looked disappointed.

Tie Niu picked up the big teapot and took another sip, then glanced at his wife and said, "Just put on a gloomy face. You won't understand what I'm saying anyway, so it's useless to go."

Erniu's mother looked at him, suddenly pinched his arm, and said angrily: "Look, I've been here for a long time, and you don't even give me a hand?"

Tie Niu looked at her speechlessly, then yelled at the top of his voice: "Er Niu! Where the hell have you been! You don't even know how to help your mother! What's the point of raising you? All you know is to eat dry rice all day!"

......

"Brother Baoxing! Brother Baoxing!"

A villager from Group 2 also rushed into Zhan Baoxing's house, shouting loudly. Looking at Zhan Baoxing who was weaving bamboo strips, he said, "Brother Baoxing, I heard that the cooperative is causing trouble again?"

Zhan Baoxing pulled out a long thin bamboo strip from the pile at hand, shook it, and said lightly: "What does the cooperative's affairs have to do with you?"

"It matters, it matters a lot!" the man said anxiously, "I heard that old man Hu is going to teach them the secret recipe of growing salvia miltiorrhiza. With that secret recipe, the quality of salvia miltiorrhiza will be much higher, and the yield will be several times higher!"

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