You've come just in time, thought Old Lady Feng, we're talking business.
The village chief walked in leisurely with his hands behind his back.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw the Lu family.
"Hey, Sister-in-law Lu is here too. Should I come back later?"
The village chief said this while stealing glances at Lu Fengming.
Old Lady Feng smiled and said, "Don't leave. Let's talk business. This is the younger son of Mrs. Lu, who works as an official. The leader just asked why our village had such a poor harvest last year..."
The village chief's brow sweated. There were two reasons for last year's poor harvest. One was indeed the weather. The other was that he had concealed the harvest. He hadn't concealed the harvest to enrich himself, but rather because the villagers were running low on food. If he hadn't concealed the harvest, everyone would have starved to death.
"Village chief, the grain output of our Wangjia Village has always been this high, so why was there a poor harvest last year? If that's the case, then there would be poor harvests every year!" said Old Lady Feng.
"Yes, yes!" the village chief quickly replied, "If it weren't for the poor harvest last year, I don't know how much other places can harvest, but here we have about the same yield every year. If the weather is bad, the yield will be even lower."
Lu Fengming seemed lost in thought. Although he had been away from the countryside for many years, he had grown up there and probably knew a little about what the crops looked like.
Old Mrs. Lu quickly tried to smooth things over: "Village Chief Wang, you are right. This is also the situation in our Lujia Village."
"Yes, yes, yes." The village chief quietly wiped the sweat from his head.
"What are your plans for this year? Can you increase grain production?"
This year……
The team leader suddenly remembered the purpose of his visit: "Well, leader, this year I want to have everyone reclaim some wasteland in addition to the basic food supply. The sandy land in our village has been barren for years. I want the villagers to grow sweet potatoes. This way, everyone will have more food rations and some leftovers. This way, we can hand over more grain to the country."
"That's a good idea." Lu Fengming nodded.
"Besides that, I plan to make full use of the mountains. There are a lot of kudzu root and other crops in the mountains. I'll have the members plant kudzu root and yam, and all those with high yields that can be used as staple food will be planted to ensure that the members don't suffer from famine."
"Good, good, good! You are a good village chief!" Lu Fengming praised the village chief.
"But there's one thing: we don't have enough potato seedlings and sweet potato vines!"
The village chief looked at Lu Fengming expectantly.
Although Lu Fengming was only passing through, he was the deputy mayor of the prefecture-level city above Xinxian County, in charge of agriculture. It should be no problem for him to help the village chief solve these rice seedling problems.
"Okay, then I'll go back and tell the comrade in charge of the seed station and see if I can find a way to solve this for you."
The village chief immediately smiled like a chrysanthemum: "Thank you, leader! Thank you, leader! All of us in Wangjia Village are grateful to you."
Lufeng’s name... is a bit too exaggerated.
Village chief: No, no, no, this is life-saving food!
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