Chapter 103 Off-season Vegetables
Lu Xiang returned home, found paper and pen, and wrote carefully. If she was really selling out-of-season fruits and vegetables, fruits would be secondary.
Fruit cultivation is very demanding. There are also some environmental and yearly restrictions, so you can take a long-term view. However, if you want to see returns in a short period of time, then vegetables are the best choice.
Who doesn’t want to eat vegetables?
Lu Xiang thought for a moment and wrote down on the paper things like bok choy, broccoli, Chinese toon, loofah, pumpkin, okra, persimmon, asparagus, eggplant, winter melon, and yam. These are vegetables that are available in all seasons. They are all nutritious and popular vegetables.
Lu Xiang thought about it and went to see the village chief again and said that she wanted to go to other brigades to take a look.
Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle.
The village chief was worried she wasn't serious, and seeing she'd just taken office, he already had some ideas. He was eager to support her and said, "Tell your aunt to go with you!" He was referring to his wife, the head of the women's department.
When Lu Xiang heard this, she thought it was a rare opportunity.
It’s a good opportunity to visit other villages and take a look at their local characteristics.
The director of the women's department has some reputation in this area. In addition, some villages have poor communication, so manual messaging is needed.
The women's director is familiar with other village cadres.
The harvest is almost over, and there's not much work to do in the fields. I'd like to go out with her when I have time, and chat about family matters. Her daughters are all married in other villages, so I might as well take this opportunity to visit them.
Lu Xiang followed her and benefited greatly.
The director of the Women's Department has prestige and status, and Lu Xiang is also respected, especially after learning that she became a cadre at such a young age.
In other villages, the aunts' eyes would light up: "Is such a good girl married? If not, I will introduce one to you!"
The director of women's affairs laughed and said, "Why not? Her partner is a college student from our school."
Everyone knows about the college student who came from Dayu Village.
That would be a great thing to be on the list of successful candidates!
Not many people can pass the exam, and when they heard that Lu Xiang's partner was him, they gradually gave up the idea.
These two people, one is a college student and the other is a female cadre. They are of equal status and look handsome and beautiful. I don’t know who to envy!
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For more than ten days, Lu Xiang went to visit the surrounding villages every day, leaving early and returning late.
Except for Fu Qinhui, no one else in the family knew what she was doing.
Through chatting about family matters, Lu Xiang went to the fields and found that the vegetables people generally had were very simple, and they just ate the same few kinds over and over again.
I've had enough and want to change the taste.
There are vegetable gardens in the village and wild vegetables from the mountains.
Even the people in the village have had enough to eat, let alone those in the county town.
The county people have even fewer vegetables in their diet than the villagers.
Lu Xiang increasingly felt that this market was quite large and had not yet been developed.
This is the first time that a female cadre has taken the lead in this matter.
Lu Xiang felt a little hot in her heart when she thought about it.
I rewrote the plan and showed it to the village chief.
After reading it, the village chief said, "If you think it's okay, it's fine. You young people have the final say on matters like this!"
Lu Xiang said, "I want to go to the county to make a report in the next few days."
The village chief became even more delighted and said, "That's good."
Lu Xiang is good at cooking, but her writing is not so good, so she asks Fu Qinhui to help her polish it.
Fu Qinhui took a look at it and rewrote it for her, and it looked more pleasing to the eye and professional.
Lu Xiang said, "I'm going into the city tomorrow."
Fu Qinhui said: "Well, if you have any trouble, come to me."
Lu Xiang said: "That's not necessary!" This kind of thing is a blue ocean, a promising market, and there will be no setbacks.
Besides, if this can be accomplished, it will be more convenient for the leaders to eat, which will benefit everyone.
She took out the blue dress she had bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, but wore pants instead of a skirt, which made her look more professional and capable.
The next day Lu Xiang went to the county.
She went to look for the county leader, but was told he was not in. He was very busy every day, sometimes in various factories, sometimes away in meetings, and it was impossible to find him.
The clerk was also very impatient with her: "What do you have to tell me?" County leaders don't meet with everyone.
If it weren't for the fact that Lu Xiang was wearing new clothes, he would never have let her in to talk and would have simply stopped her at the door.
Clerk Zhi's attitude was a bit arrogant, but Lu Xiang didn't care. She just said, "When will the county leaders come back?"
The clerk was a little unhappy when he saw that Lu Xiang didn't say what it was about. He frowned and said, "I don't know!" His attitude was much more blunt than before.
The clerk had just brushed Lu Xiang off when he turned around and gave an exaggerated greeting: "Director Li?"
Following her voice, Lu Xiang glanced at Director Li. He was a middle-aged man with a serious demeanor.
Director Li always looked arrogant. Lu Xiang walked up to Director Li and said, "Do you still remember me? I was an advanced element before." Director Li also attended that meeting.
Director Li glanced at Lu Xiang. He was still very impressed by her. "Why are you here?" he asked.
The clerk, who had been rather arrogant just now, became a little nervous when she saw Director Li being so polite to an ordinary woman. She had no idea that Lu Xiang could actually talk to the director.
He immediately said enthusiastically, "This young comrade has come from the countryside to do something!" He then added, "Young comrade, my name is Xiao Liu. From now on, if you need to see a senior leader or the director, I will run errands for you."
This guy changes his expression pretty quickly.
Director Li knew Lu Xiang was looking for a senior leader. Surprised, he said, "He's at the steel mill. He should be back this afternoon. Come to my office first. I want to hear what you have to report."
Last time, Lu Xiang left a deep impression on everyone. Both the steel plant and the fertilizer plant wanted to hire her. Because she had not been successful in various things, she was considered a rare rural talent.
Lu Xiang immediately went over to report to him on the progress of the village's work, and then talked about her idea of growing off-season vegetables.
I hope the county can provide some technical and financial support.
Lu Xiang's words were very polite, but Director Li rejected them outright: "What off-season vegetables? This is not good."
"Vegetables should follow the laws of nature. Food produced out of season won't taste good!"
"Besides, vegetables are available every season, so as long as they are edible, that's enough. Wasting money and resources just to improve the taste sounds like something capitalists would do."
This was difficult to understand in the 1980s. Lu Xiang's proposal, based on her understanding of the future, aimed to achieve vegetable freedom. Whatever you want to eat, you can have it whenever you want. It's not like today, where you can only store radishes and cabbages and eat them day after day.
Director Li thought Lu Xiang would talk to the senior leader about something, but it turned out to be about this matter.
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