Huichuan County Party Committee Office!

Just as Deputy Director Zhang saw off two reporters from the provincial capital, a torrential downpour began outside!

In an instant, Deputy Director Zhang's heart sank.

Didn't the experts in Yanjing say that according to the weather map, there wouldn't be any rain for the next month or two?!

What's going on?

Deputy Director Zhang hurriedly ordered the driver to drive back to the office. The driver turned around and asked, "Aren't you going home? Your wife has been waiting for you for days..."

"Stop talking nonsense! Drive!" Deputy Director Zhang was a little nervous.

He made a promise to his superiors that he would deliver 400 jin of grain per mu as public grain!

What if the wheat harvest is reduced due to heavy rain? What will we use to pay for it then?!

Deputy Director Zhang dialed the number of the expert in Yanjing City with trembling fingers. After a long while, he heard a "hello" from the other end, a low and hoarse voice, and there seemed to be a woman's moaning in the background.

"Teacher Jia! I'm Director Zhang from Huichuan County! Ah, it's me!"

"Didn't you say last time that Huichuan County wouldn't have rain for a month or two? How come it's pouring rain today?!"

The expert across from him seemed oblivious to Deputy Director Zhang's urgency, anger, and accusations, saying calmly, "Oh dear, weather forecasts can be inaccurate!"

Deputy Director Zhang almost vomited blood from that innocent tone!

"So what do we do now? Will it rain again tomorrow?" Deputy Director Zhang asked, suppressing his anger.

"Maybe, but you can't say for sure!"

After saying that, he hung up the phone!

Damn it!

Deputy Director Zhang grabbed a teacup and threw it hard against the wall. The teacup shattered with a crash, and the tea spilled onto a large wet patch of the wall.

...

Yanjing City.

As the expert stroked the woman's beautiful face beside him, she asked in a sweet voice, "Who is it?"

Expert Jia snorted coldly, "A deputy director from some backwater place, someone I met at dinner last time, thinks he can boss me around just because he gave me some cigarettes and alcohol? Hmph, he even comes to confront me?!"

"Where did this fool come from, haha!" the woman giggled, wrapping her arms around Jia's neck again...

Deputy Director Zhang sat silently at his desk, like a stone statue, motionless for a long time.

You can't rely on expert Jia!

We didn't know how long the rain would last, so we had to mobilize all the people to harvest the wheat in the rain. After the wheat was harvested, we spread it out to dry. Although we lost some of it, we were able to save most of it.

Everything was planned perfectly.

According to expert Jia, the wheat ripening period is divided into three stages: milk stage, waxy stage, and full maturity stage. Wheat is harvested at the full maturity stage, which results in the highest yield and the least grain loss. Harvesting it even slightly earlier will affect the yield.

The weather map of Huichuan County shows that the past month or two have been sunny with wind.

In addition, he wanted to leave a deep and good impression on his superiors before the farmer from Yibai Mountain took office, and also to promote himself in the provincial newspaper. Otherwise, once he became the second-in-command, how would he have a chance to rise in the future?

A decision is never made for a single reason, but rather by a combination of factors.

It's not like no one had told him it might rain, but he decided to take the gamble!

He has lived his entire life of gambling for over thirty years. If he hadn't dared to gamble, he would still be farming in Longshui Village!

So he took the gamble!

However, he wouldn't have reached this position if he had only relied on gambling; he had to plan everything thoroughly.

Therefore, Deputy Director Zhang's mind raced, and he quickly came up with a solution.

However, this means the common people will suffer even more.

...

While commune members across the county were waving sickles in the rain to harvest wheat, only in Lijiapo Brigade were families filled with laughter and chatter, pondering what to cook for dinner to improve their lives.

It's a rare rainy day, so we don't have to go out. The whole family is here, and this year's wheat harvest is a bumper crop, so we'll definitely make some good food that we usually can't afford to eat.

At Li Xiangdong's home, the whole family is sitting around the kang table eating a bottle of canned lychees.

The white, round, peeled lychees are soaking in sugar water. Take a bite and the fragrance lingers in your mouth!

"Second brother, what's this?"

Li Ping had just reluctantly swallowed the lychee flesh in his mouth, and the sweet, fragrant taste still lingered there.

"Yes, I've never eaten canned food like this before!" Li Jiabao's mouth was full of lychees, making him look like a little squirrel.

“We usually have canned peaches and hawthorns here, I’ve never seen canned fruit like this before!” Zhao Sufang said.

Li Jin pointed to the red background and black lettering on the canned food jar, "Isn't it written here? Lychee canned goods!"

"Xiaoping, Xiaojiabao, you two have wasted your education!"

Li Jiabao was unhappy, "The teacher only taught us the character '枝' (zhi), not '荔' (li)!"

“That’s right! I can vouch that Jiabao is right!” Li Ping interjected.

"You two are like two sworn brothers, always arguing when you see each other, but missing each other when you're apart!" Li Zhen joked.

After finishing a jar of lychee preserves, everyone was still a little hungry. Little sister Li Yan insisted on going to the cabinet to get another jar, but her attention was drawn to a piece of milk candy by Zhao Sufang.

Li Jin opened his mouth several times but couldn't say anything. He thought, should he send the remaining bottle to his mother?

His mother has been crying to him whenever she has a spare moment these days, saying that she was blinded by greed and that she was like a person under a spell, which is why she did the foolish thing of arranging a marriage between her granddaughter and her husband!

Li Wanshi first admitted her wrongdoing, then recalled the good things she had done for Li Jin over the years, and finally complained that she had been so ashamed that she couldn't eat or sleep every day. After several such complaints, Li Jin softened.

These two rare cans of lychee were brought back by Li Xiangdong from Dongfang City. They had never been seen in Huichuan County before, and he wanted to give one to his mother as a token of his filial piety.

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