After the New Year comes the fifteenth day, and after the fifteenth day, it is the second day of the second month. In rural areas, the New Year is not truly over until after the second day of the second month.
Except for New Year's Eve, the first and second days of the Lunar New Year, the villagers didn't even take a rest on the afternoon of the 15th day of the first lunar month. What was there to rest for? Besides lying down at home, what else could they do to rest? Wouldn't it be better to work harder and earn more money?
After delivering charcoal to the county town for the first time, Guan Huashu and his fifth grandfather led the village transport team to deliver charcoal five times before the New Year and five times after the New Year, and all the charcoal was "exchanged" for food.
In Guanjia Village now, the overall mental outlook of the villagers is so good!
Let’s talk about the environment first.
In the past, upon entering the village, the ground was full of potholes and dust. When it rained, there were puddles everywhere, making it impossible to walk. Chicken, duck, and goose droppings were everywhere, and some children urinated and defecated everywhere.
Now, influenced by Guan Huashu, the whole village knows that building roads is the first step to prosperity. The wide, smooth gravel roads now in use are a delight for villagers to walk on.
There is a public toilet every 500 meters. There is a basin rack outside the toilet with a wooden basin and a piece of coarse cloth. Villagers must wash their hands after using the toilet. This is a strict rule that Professor Dong has set for the villagers.
At first, people resisted, so a reward system was introduced: if a report was verified, the reward was an egg. Later, people were afraid of being reported and remembered to wash their hands, and gradually people got used to it.
Looking around the entire village, there is not a single dilapidated building.
Let’s talk about human changes.
There used to be a large group of elderly people under the big poplar tree at the entrance of the village. They didn't work in the fields, but just sat there every day basking in the sun, telling lies, and talking nonsense. Sometimes, if a young girl walked by, they would make up a hundred unruly stories for you, and the most outrageous ones would even force a good girl to jump into the river.
Now, the big poplar tree is still the same big poplar tree, but the entire UN death squad has disbanded. They are all busy making money, so who has the time to pick apart lies?
In the first month of the year, 12 new brides were married in the village. The grooms gave a lot of betrothal gifts, and the brides’ families were eager to marry the girls off as soon as possible so that they could have more food at home.
A total of three girls were married off, and the dowries were all very generous. No mother-in-law would dare to be upset with them once they got married!
There used to be a few lazy people in the village who ate whatever they could and stole whatever they couldn't. Now, they've all been assigned positions suited to their strengths. One even married a second wife.
No one beats his wife, and no one bullies his son's daughter-in-law.
These little things are a manifestation of the village's prosperity.
In the blink of an eye, it is spring, the season of blooming flowers, the earth revives, and all kinds of wild vegetables are growing in succession.
Today, Professor Dong organized another meeting for the women.
Meetings used to be the most annoying thing for women, but now they love them because whenever they are in a meeting, Professor Dong will tell everyone about new production plans and new ways to make money.
The content of today's meeting is to set up a wild vegetable processing factory to process the wild vegetables in the mountains into pickles and sell them to the commune or county.
This is a business that can be done in three seasons. In spring, summer and autumn, there are so many wild vegetables in the mountains that you can't dig them all.
The project has been decided, and the next step is to organize it.
All the young people were assigned to the mountain-going group, responsible for digging wild vegetables in the mountains.
The older ones are assigned to the vegetable picking group and are responsible for the second step of picking vegetables.
Three experienced people with good pickled vegetable taste are selected to be responsible for the third step, processing.
Guan Huashu is responsible for the last step, sales.
Look, this is a piece of cake for those with experience, it’s that simple.
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