Chapter 434 This is probably called the New Year atmosphere

Many villagers had contributed money to support Su Mei's schooling.

Although she was not short of money at the time, the villagers did not know this and they all spent all their savings.

Su Mei will never forget the scene of having those wrinkled Mao Zedong notes stuffed into her hands.

Because that scene was so unforgettable, Su Mei always felt a sense of familiarity when facing the faces in the village.

Seeing that the villagers were eager to know about the reform, she simply invited everyone in the village to come in.

Then she served sweet water mixed with rock sugar to everyone in the village, and then began to talk in detail about reform and opening up.

These villagers couldn't understand those complicated things.

In order to help them understand the policy more quickly, Su Mei only talked about things they could understand:

"The biggest change that reform and opening up has brought to our rural areas is that we can now decide what crops to grow in the fields. In previous years, we could only grow corn, wheat, rice, sorghum, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, which were the prescribed grains.

In the future, we can make use of our own land in a diversified way, for example, we can grow a variety of vegetables, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages...all kinds of vegetables and fruits, we can grow them and sell them legally in the market.

Also, we were not only allowed to raise three chickens before. In the future, there will be no such requirement. We can raise as many chickens as we want. If you have the ability, no one will care if you raise three or five hundred. We can open our own farms in the countryside.

In addition to these, our craftsmen can also freely make furniture, tables, chairs and benches and sell them on the streets. If you can weave things like hats and backpacks, you can also weave them and sell them on the streets.

Anyway, there are still many opportunities to make money in our rural areas. Reform is a particularly good thing. It can make all of us rich. "

After Su Mei's detailed explanation, the villagers finally understood the general meaning of the reform.

The villagers surrounded Su Mei again and asked some confusing questions.

After chatting for almost two hours, Su Mei finally sent everyone out of the house.

After everyone left, Su Mei stretched her body vigorously. She had never thought that when she returned to her hometown to grow medicinal herbs, she would also take on the task of popularizing science reform.

This time, Du Erniang's incident was a blessing in disguise. She promoted the pace of reform and opening up in the local county and also dispelled Su Xuanhu's concerns.

It was late at night, but the village was not as quiet as usual.

Lights were on in every household, as if everyone was discussing reform and opening up.

While others were discussing things, the Su family started to sit down and eat.

It was already late at night after dinner, and the family did not sit down to eat as usual. Instead, they went back to their homes to sleep.

The next day was a repetitive day. Bai Xiaofang stayed at home to take care of the guests who were building houses as usual, while Su Mei continued to take people up the mountain to collect medicinal herbs.

They spent several days turning their own forest upside down.

It was not until their own forest was no longer worth searching for that the family entered other forests to look for medicinal herbs with the permission of the owners of other forests.

In this way, the whole family was busy for ten days.

With the concerted efforts of the whole family, several acres of land were almost planted with medicinal herbs.

For the last three acres of land left, Su Mei did not continue looking for medicinal herbs to plant. Instead, she asked her brothers to plant potatoes.

Because the Chinese New Year is approaching, the house has been completely built and Su Mei has to start preparing New Year's goods to welcome Chen Yillong to her home to celebrate the New Year.

I no longer have the energy to care about medicinal materials.

Anyway, plants can be continuously divided, transplanted and planted.

With these two acres of medicinal materials, the Su family will be able to develop large tracts of medicinal fields in three years.

At present, the nearby forests have been almost completely destroyed, so there is no need to go to the mountains to look for medicinal herbs in the middle of winter.

Five days before the Chinese New Year, Su Mei, Huo Jianguo, their parents and several brothers and sisters-in-law went to the street to buy New Year's goods.

In order to give her family a lively New Year, Su Mei would buy whatever delicious food she saw.

The Su family wanted to stop her, but they couldn't.

The reform has begun to show results, and the streets are full of country people setting up stalls to sell agricultural products.

Su Mei bought a chicken, a pork leg, a piece of bacon, as well as some snacks and side dishes for herself and her brothers' families.

When we went home, everyone had their memorized contents fully memorized.

Although it seemed that she bought a lot of things, the agricultural and sideline products were not valuable things, and Su Mei did not spend much money in total.

Even my brothers and sisters-in-law felt embarrassed. They felt that Su Mei was buying gifts and preparing New Year goods. They had no idea how to return Su Mei's gifts.

Carrying their things, the family took a break while walking back home on the mountain road.

Since crossing over, Su Mei has walked the mountain road again and again, but he still gets exhausted and out of breath every time he walks.

She finally understood what "The mountain road here has eighteen bends, and the waterway here has nine rings" meant.

The family met many people on the way, and some acquaintances also followed the Su family.

Unfortunately, they ran into Du Erniang and Yang Laosi on the road.

The couple acted stealthily. When they saw the Su family, they stood up and walked towards them, looking as if they wanted to keep away from strangers.

They were worried that other people in the village would find out that they had babies at home, so they deliberately kept a distance from the villagers.

But it was this deliberate distance that caused them to miss a lot of key information about reform.

Today they went to the market to find out about the market conditions.

At the market, they saw people selling wooden combs, handmade cloth shoes, shoe soles, and pot lids and slop buckets.

This made them more confident that reform would come.

After seeing the scene at the market, the Yang couple decided to go to the largest market in the county two days later.

They were going to the county town to buy some necklaces, bracelets and the like.

Those things were expensive and the country people couldn't afford them, so they decided to take them to the city to sell them so that they could have a lively New Year.

Today is the last episode that can be caught in town.

That's why Su Mei bought all the things needed for the Chinese New Year.

In the next two days, Su Mei prepared New Year's food with Bai Xiaofang, making tofu, making mixed rice cakes, frying crispy pork, stewing bacon and kelp, stewing chicken and duck, and killing fish.

In rural areas, people prepare a lot of dishes in advance for the New Year to make the celebration lively and exciting.

In the past two years, during the Chinese New Year, Su Mei just waited for dinner.

This is the first New Year preparation that Su Mei has personally participated in since she came back.

It was because she personally participated in the preparations that she was able to truly experience for the first time what the strong flavor of the New Year was!

She also understood what her colleagues meant by the New Year atmosphere of their childhood.

The whole family gets together to hang lanterns, prepare New Year's goods, and look forward to the arrival of the New Year... This is probably what we call the flavor of the New Year!