After the children timidly approached, Wenxi gave each of them two White Rabbit milk candies, and then chatted with them in the open space in front of the door.
After some investigation, Wenxi gained a basic understanding of the village. It turned out to be a small village with only about thirty households and a small population.
This is in the mountains, where water is scarce. Everyone goes to a mountain spring to fetch water for drinking. Wenxi thinks that if the spring dries up, everyone will have to move away from here.
There is no land here. Everyone has carved out terraced fields on the mountain to grow crops, such as millet, sorghum, corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, as well as some other vegetables.
However, the crop yields here are low, so people still can't fill their stomachs.
Thinking that Qin Mi would live here in the future, Wen Xi decided to transform this place into a place suitable for humans to live in for a long time. So Wen Xi asked the children to take him to the village chief.
The children ate her candy and were particularly fond of her; it was such a small thing, they naturally wouldn't refuse.
So Wenxi, led by the children, arrived at the village chief's house. She saw an old man with a full head of white hair sitting in the yard eating breakfast. Wenxi was a little surprised, not expecting that the village chief was so old. But soon a big boy came out of the house. Wenxi then realized that the big boy was the village chief, the old man's grandson. The old man had raised his grandson.
“Village chief, hello, do you know Qin Mi?” Wen Xi stepped forward and introduced herself, “I am Qin Mi’s family member, my name is Hao Liangliang.”
The village chief nodded. "I know Qin Mi. I didn't know Comrade Hao came to see me so early. What brings you here?"
"Village Chief, it's like this, I have a few ideas that can help everyone improve their living conditions. I wonder if you're interested, and if you'd be willing to work together with us?" Wen Xi said.
The village chief became interested and invited Wenxi to his home to sit down and have a good talk about improving everyone's living conditions.
"Village chief, do you know what a watermelon is?" After sitting down, Wenxi took the teacup handed to her by the village chief and asked.
The village chief nodded. "I've heard of it, but I've never eaten it."
After all, he was a rare educated person in the village, and he knew some things.
“I know how to grow watermelons, and I can get watermelon seeds. I can lead the villagers to grow watermelons and get rich by growing watermelons. But I have one request. Of course, my request is very small, not the kind of big request that is difficult to achieve,” Wen Xi said.
"What are the requirements?" the village chief asked curiously.
“I will provide watermelon seeds, watermelon planting techniques, and methods for selling watermelons. I don’t want anything else. I just want you to give Qin Mi a quarter of the watermelon income as a share, and the remaining three-quarters to the village. You can distribute it however you like, but we must give us a quarter. That is to say, for every four yuan of income, we only need to give one yuan.”
She was going to leave, but Qin Mi was going to stay and live here, to give him an extra source of income so that he could live a better life in the future.
The village chief carefully calculated in his mind that planting watermelons was ultimately their advantage, and they should have taken the small share. But now the other party was leaving the lion's share to them, which was a good thing for them. If he didn't agree to such a good thing, would he still be human?
“The village chief can prepare as many acres of land as he wants to plant watermelons. I can provide the seeds. If the village chief really decides to let me lead everyone to plant watermelons, then I will bring the profit-sharing agreement tomorrow so we can sign and seal it as evidence, so as not to hurt our harmony because of unequal distribution of money,” Wen Xi said.
The village chief happily saw Wenxi off, as if he could see a bright future ahead.
It was still early, so Wenxi asked the children to take her to the fields. Since she wanted to help the village get rich, she needed to understand the village first so she could come up with a better way to help the village chief get rich.
Growing watermelons is as simple as growing vegetables. It's estimated that you can only make money in the first few years. Once everyone has collected seeds and grows them at home, there will be more watermelons on the market, and the price of watermelons will be driven down.
Although they can still make money, they certainly won't earn as much as before, and people have more choices now, so they don't necessarily have to buy watermelons grown in their village anymore.
Therefore, if you want to grow watermelons, you should also look at other profitable industries.
However, the mountains and terraced fields were lush and green at this time of year, a beautiful and refreshing sight. Wenxi took a quick walk around the fields and then went back, because when it was time for everyone to start work, they would definitely ask who she was and what she did.
From the children's chatter, Wenxi learned that there were also educated youth settlements in this village, and that there were constant conflicts within these settlements. Several village cadres were called in almost every day, but the young village chief did not want to deal with these troublesome matters, so he arranged for the village cadres to go in shifts.
Wenxi thought that most of the people in the educated youth settlement had taken a fancy to this young village chief, which was why they kept making trouble to get him to come over. If they could marry the village chief, they wouldn't have to work in the fields anymore.
Back at Qin Mi's house, Wen Xi sat down at the kang table, took out paper and pen, and began to write a cooperation agreement. After finishing the agreement, Wen Xi had the sign-in system add restrictions to it, so that they wouldn't have to worry about not sharing money with Qin Mi in the future.
Qin Mi's workplace is far from here, so he didn't come back at noon. He didn't return until very late. Wen Xi brought him a plate of fried rice noodles and a plate of fried rice.
While eating, Qin Mi happily said, "Liangliang, I've taken seven days off, so I can spend seven days with you."
Wen Xi was somewhat surprised, "So long?"
"Yes, because I've hardly had any rest in the past few years, so I still have a lot of time to rest. I'll rest for seven days for now, and if you're still here after seven days, I'll continue to rest." Because Wen Xi wasn't here, Qin Mi used work to numb himself, so he rarely rested.
No matter how dissatisfied Uncle Wang was with him, he couldn't be harsh on him in this regard, after all, he had worked diligently and conscientiously over the years without making any mistakes.
"Liangliang, I'll take you up the mountain to play tomorrow," Qin Mi said expectantly.
Wenxi nodded excitedly, "I see a lot of toon leaves here. Tomorrow we'll bring a basket and pick more toon leaves. Toon leaves stir-fried with eggs are delicious."
Although Qin Mi didn't know what it was, he still smiled and nodded. No matter what she wanted to do, he would accompany her.
The next morning, the two of them ate breakfast and went out with baskets. Qin Mi accompanied Wen Xi to find the village chief first, and the village chief called over several village cadres.
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