Chapter 94 Reporter Xiaoxue is in the newspaper!
No one expected that the little guy would stuff this thing into his mouth, and Qi Fang stepped over immediately.
Yan Xue reacted quickly and grabbed her son's hand, but it was still just a little bit away from her mouth.
The little guy didn't get to eat it, and he stretched out his tongue to lick it, but Yan Xue quickly took it away with her other hand, "You can't eat this."
Qi Fang hurriedly took it from Yan Xue again. When the little guy saw it, he made a few "ah" sounds in protest.
There was no point in protesting, as his father was much quicker than him and had already opened the drawer. Then he thought about it and went to the cabinet to look for his small box.
After putting the things in and locking the box, the man looked at his son and slowly put the box into the cabinet.
The little guy was protesting even more. He didn't know what he was saying, but he was drooling a lot.
"I told you not to eat it, why do you still want to have a fight with your father?" Yan Xue helped him wipe it, and then asked Qi Fang about what happened just now.
Qi Fangren was still leaning against the table, watching the mother and son. "Secretary Qu told you to get ready. There might be reporters coming in a couple of days."
This surprised Yan Xue. "Reporter?"
"Yeah." Qi Fang said, "He contacted someone to sign up for the first modification training session and came to try it out."
"It seems that Secretary Qu is not only good at getting things done." Yan Xue couldn't help laughing.
People who can get practical work done are usually suitable for doing things, but they may not be suitable for being officials. At least if you don’t take credit for many things, who will know?
Qu Mingli is a very interesting person. He wants to take credit for what he has done and even thinks of finding reporters. If he doesn't get promoted, who will?
But they are currently in the same camp. The better Qu Mingli behaves and does things, the better. Yan Xue smiled and said, "Then I will be prepared when the time comes."
In fact, there was nothing to prepare. The busiest vaccination period of the pilot project had passed, and the harvest period had not yet arrived. She had everything in her mind and was ready to answer reporters' questions at any time.
Qi Fang hummed, looked at the fat boy in her arms who was already a little restless, and lowered his voice, "Let him go to bed early tonight."
Everyone knows what this means, but whether the little fat boy is willing to go to bed early at night is not necessarily up to them.
Anyway, when it was time to turn on the lights at night, his father looked at him, and he looked at his father, and they were very energetic, really very energetic.
In the end, Yan Xue chatted with him for a long time, and Qi Fang even carried him to the main hall and walked around several times before he gave his parents time to learn how to use the small paper bag.
The research results show that this is a pack of two, slightly thicker in texture and slightly smaller in size, and is a version that can be used repeatedly.
In order to study it as thoroughly as possible, the couple diligently tried both of them. The man then washed them, applied talcum powder on them and put them away.
Anyway, the next day was Labor Day, and it was a holiday, so it didn't matter if Yan Xue stayed in a little longer in the morning.
Afraid that the fat boy would disturb Yan Xue's rest, Qi Fang took him out early in the morning. When he brought him back, he had played with him so much that the wolf teeth on his neck fell out.
When he came back and saw Yan Xue still lying there, he gestured with his little hands, pointing outside, and came over to pull her, probably asking Yan Xue to go in too.
Yan Xue helped him tuck the wolf's fangs away, and the man over there diligently took apart the sheets and mattresses, washed them, and hung them in the yard.
The second old lady saw this and said to him, "You only have two days off, and you go back to work as soon as you get back."
Then Qi Fang glanced at Yan Xue and said, "It's okay. I'm in good shape. I'll do more."
Yan Xue felt that this sentence sounded familiar at the time, and then she thought, wasn’t this what Qi Fang said during the blind date that day?
This is truly a top student's excellent memory. He remembers everything clearly, whether he should remember it or not...
The second old lady didn't know about this. When she saw Qi Fang finished his work, she asked, "Xiao Qi, you're going back to town to work tomorrow. Are you pressed for time?"
Qi Fang knew that the old lady was in trouble as soon as she heard it. "It's okay, grandma, just tell me."
"I've hatched quite a few chicks this year," the old lady said. "I just wanted you to tell Qiufang they're ready to sell."
Last year, the old lady had great success in hatching chicks in the nursery. This year, she saved some more breeding eggs and hatched hundreds of chicks.
The family couldn't support all of this, so when Shan Qiufang came to see the child last year, the old lady made an agreement with her that she would send the goods over by train and help sell them.
Qi Fang also knew about this, and when he heard it, he said simply, "How much do you want to sell for the first batch? I'll send it directly to you."
"Won't it delay your work?" The old lady was obviously hesitant.
Qi Fang's eyes were serious. "It won't delay me. I'm going to work late anyway."
In fact, it’s not that the machine repair shop works late, but everyone knows that he has to go home and will be a little late that day.
When the old lady heard this, she felt that it was indeed safer and more reassuring to entrust it to him than to ask someone else to take it, so she said nothing and went back to pick out a batch of chicks.
The next day, Qi Fang boarded the train with a large basket of chicks, and went straight to Shan Qiufang's house after getting off the train.
Shan Qiufang was genuinely surprised when she saw it. "Didn't you say to send it by train? Why did you deliver it here?"
"I'm on secondment at the machine repair factory, just stopping by." Qi Fang's answers were always concise and to the point.
Shan Qiufang didn't waste his time after hearing this. As soon as the others left, she went to the house opposite and asked, "Sister-in-law, didn't you say you wanted to buy some chickens?"
"What's wrong? Has your relative hatched?" The sister-in-law next door came out to take a look and was a little surprised. "It's this big?"
The chicks in the basket were yellow and furry, huddled together and chirping. They were indeed quite large.
Shan Qiufang laughed when she heard this. "She incubates them in a greenhouse. If they're well cared for, how could they not grow big?" She then asked, "How are you? Do you want one?"
In those days, most of the chicks sold were hatched by the family's old hens, and were sold a few days after the eggshells fell off. My sister-in-law had never seen so many hatched at once.
But if the chicks were small, she would still hesitate, fearing that she would not be able to raise them. Now that they are this big, she can let them go free-range after raising them for about half a month.
The sister-in-law immediately went back to get the money and said, "Then pick ten for me. I want four males and six females."
"Okay." Shan Qiufang quickly picked out ten large and lively ones for her, then went to ask other neighbors, "Auntie, I have some chicks here, do you want some?"
"We're not selling wood ear mushrooms this year, we're selling chicks instead?" The neighbor came out, wiping his hands. Upon seeing them, he remarked, "This big?"
Before the day was over, Shan Qiufang ran to the machine repair shop with an empty basket to find Qi Fang, "Here, chicken money, take a look and see if it's right."
The old lady had agreed with Dan Qiufang that the price was 28 cents per piece. She didn't care how much Dan Qiufang sold it for. Qi Fang just glanced at it and asked, "Are they all sold out?"
"They're all sold out," Shan Qiufang said. "Auntie, these chicks are so big, everyone wants them. We still don't have enough to sell."
She asked Qi Fang, "Can you send a message home? I need some more. Ask Auntie to send another batch over."
"Okay." Qi Fang wrote a letter that day, put the money in the letter, and sent it back together with the basket.
The second old lady was illiterate, but she knew the word "money". When she opened it, she knew what was going on.
After hearing Yan Xue's thoughts, she realized that there was someone who wanted her, so she picked up little Yan Yu and said, "When great-grandmother makes money, I'll save it to marry you off."
Yan Xue laughed when she heard this, "Grandma, aren't you going to save money for Jigang to get married?"
"I'm going to save them all." The old lady smiled so brightly, "I'm going to hatch a few hundred more and sell them in town."
Seeing the little guy rushing for the money, he quickly took it away and said, "Oh, you can't eat this. It's dirty."
The next day, the second old lady brought the second batch by train, and the sales volume was still impressive. On Qi Fang's side, people from the machine repair factories in various towns who wanted to participate in the training also arrived one after another.
Not only several towns, but also people from the machinery factories in the three counties of the city came, including this county which had come for modification before.
It was Master Hong who came. As soon as he saw Qi Fang, he asked, "I heard you also tinkered with the crane? How did you modify it? Will you teach it during this training?"
This is purely an interest in modifying machines. After all, compared to bulldozers and excavators, cranes are not so urgently needed at the moment.
Therefore, Qi Fang did not plan to teach crane modification in this first training session. "No, this time we will focus on excavators."
Seeing that Master Hong was obviously disappointed, he added, "But I can show you the modification manual."
Master Hong was very happy. "Do you need my help? After all, I came to see you last time and I know how to do it."
Then when the people from Liuhu Town arrived, they found that the engineer from the county machinery factory was helping Qi Fang, and they were shocked at the time.
With Master Hong there to provide support, the people from the other two county machinery factories did not dare to look down on Qi Fang just because of his young age, and the training atmosphere was unprecedentedly harmonious.
With so many people present, Qi Fang first found a blackboard and briefly explained the theory and structure of the modification to everyone.
He spoke in a very easy-to-understand manner. At least after he finished speaking, he called on a few people to ask questions, and they were able to answer most of them without anyone looking confused.
Although most of those who were able to attend the training were skilled workers in the factory, Qi Fang's work at the grassroots level over the years was not in vain.
Perhaps Su Changqing asked him to come to Chengshui not just to avoid disaster, but also because he really wanted him to look at these machines and the people who deal with them from a different perspective.
After the theory, the truly important practical part begins. On the day when the things began to be assembled, Qu Mingli also brought the leaders of the town forestry bureau.
After all, it is a training organized by my own bureau, so I have to show up and show my attention.
Even Director Liu was acting out of character, with a smile on his face. When he saw Qi Fang, he gave him some kind words of encouragement.
This is the only one of its kind in the city, and it is held in their Chengshui Forestry Bureau, which is so prestigious.
Moreover, people from the machinery factories of the three counties came. In the past, how could a county machinery factory come to a town machine repair factory to learn?
After Qu Mingli left, he would hold another session, a bigger one, and invite people from the city newspaper to come and report on it.
At that time, this will be his political achievement. Anyway, the newspaper cannot specifically write that there was a previous training session and who hosted the previous session.
Just as I was thinking about it, someone from the Security Department suddenly came over and said that a reporter from the provincial newspaper had come outside to interview the modification training.
The smile on Director Liu's face froze at that moment. He never expected that Qu Mingli had also thought of it and immediately invited the provincial newspaper.
Once this newspaper is published, even if he does it again next year, everyone will know that he is just copying others and no one will care about him anymore.
However, after being surprised, the others immediately started to think about how they would answer if the reporter asked them, and their eyes looked at Qu Mingli differently.
This guy is really good at making trouble, and the key is that he has connections. Their small town forestry bureau can actually ask the provincial newspaper for help.
Yan Xue was a little surprised that Qu Mingli would directly invite the provincial newspaper. After all, this first modification training was only conducted in the city.
But when the reporter came to her house, she still received him as usual, took him to visit the wood ear farm and cultivation room, and told him stories about the process of wood ear cultivation.
The reporter who came was a young man in his twenties. He was pushed to him because others were reluctant to come because it was too far. He didn't expect the amount of information to be so huge that his brain was a little overwhelmed.
But no matter how young he is, he is still a journalist and has some news acumen. After coming for an interview, he knew that the Chengshui Forestry Bureau did have something to report.
First of all, these modified bulldozers and excavators are in short supply in Jiangcheng City, not only other cities in the province, but also in other cities in the province.
There is also the artificial cultivation of wood ear mushrooms. I have never heard of wood ear mushrooms being grown before. This is probably the first case in the province, not to mention in the country.
I didn’t expect that although Chengshui Town is not a big place, there are so many things going on, and none of them are trivial.
The wind direction has changed recently. Some things are really sensitive to report. However, if you report things related to people's livelihood, you will definitely not make mistakes.
The reporter listened and took notes all the way, and his pen was almost leaving afterimages. Finally, he took a few photos of Yan Xue and the pilot.
He was writing furiously all the way back to the provincial capital by train, and soon after he returned, he handed the manuscript to the editor-in-chief.
Seeing that he submitted the paper so quickly, the editor thought that he did not take the interview seriously and just wrote something casually. When he frowned and looked at it, he wanted to frown even more.
"What are you writing about? A modified training class is fine, but you're also artificially growing wood ear mushrooms, producing thousands of kilograms a year?"
When the editor-in-chief sent someone over, he had no idea about this and could not help but whisper, "This isn't 1958 or 1959 anymore. We don't want to make false announcements."
"I didn't lie." The young reporter didn't know how to explain it. After all, he was also shocked when he first heard it.
Words were really weak, so he simply took out the photos he had developed and said, "These are all photos I took at their pilot site. Would you like to take a look?"
Unsure which one to use, he took quite a few photos and quickly developed them all.
When the photo was handed over, although it was only black and white, the editor could still see the logs lined up all over the field, which was a spectacular sight.
"Is this the wood ear mushroom they grow?" He pushed his glasses and squinted to look at it carefully.
"They planted it by drilling holes in the wood." The young reporter quickly pulled out another photo. "I took a picture of it, this one."
The editor saw that there was indeed something growing in the drill hole in the photo, but it was obviously not wood ear. After asking a few more questions, he realized that the time had not come yet.
"Turning waste into treasure and actively creating is indeed in line with the rapid, efficient and economical construction of socialism and is worthy of a large space."
Things like the main version definitely cannot be occupied, so that will all be left to the speeches, spirit and policies from above.
There are obviously two pieces of news about Chengshui. It is really difficult to choose how to rank them and which one accounts for more and which one accounts for less.
Both are young comrades, and both are pioneering. One has made contributions to national engineering construction, and the other has made efforts to change people's lives.
The editor-in-chief hesitated for a while, wondering whether to ask Chengshui about it, when he heard the young reporter add, "I almost forgot, these two comrades are a couple."
He thought of it just in time. The editor looked at him and finally decided to merge the two news stories into one large page to tell the story of this revolutionary couple who made progress together.
When this issue of the provincial newspaper was published, apart from the main page, the most eye-catching thing was the two photos placed side by side.
The man in the photo is handsome, with a steel monster standing behind him; the woman is sweet and beautiful, standing among the neatly arranged earrings in the hall.
Reading the content, it's like reading a legendary story. Anyway, the people who read the newspaper don't know that tractors can be converted into bulldozers and excavators, and they don't know that wood ear mushrooms can be grown.
Others may think they are just reading a legend, but the people in Chengshui read it again and again with great relish.
The main reason is that it makes Chengshui proud. Normally, Chengshui would never be included in the provincial newspaper, and the content is so positive. They all think it is very impressive.
Shan Qiufang went to the small market to sell chicks and ran into a neighbor on her way back. "Is your pretty niece at Jinchuan Forest Farm?"
"Yeah, what's the matter?"
Shan Qiufang thought the other party was asking something, but then he asked, "Is your name Yan Xue?"
This surprised her a little. She didn't seem to have introduced Xiaoxue's name before.
But she nodded when asked, "How did you know?"
"Your niece is in the newspaper!" said the neighbor. "It's over by the post office, in the provincial newspaper."
"Is it true?" Shan Qiufang really didn't expect it, and hurriedly carried the basket to the post office.
In this era, if ordinary people wanted to know about the outside world, they mainly relied on newspapers. Although radio was faster, not every family had a radio.
Therefore, every unit would subscribe to newspapers from the post office and have them delivered to each office. They would also post a separate copy on the bulletin board at the door for employees to read.
There is also a bulletin board in front of every post office, on which all the newspapers published that day are posted for passers-by to read.
When Shan Qiufang rushed over, the bulletin board was already crowded with people. She could faintly hear people talking inside, "We've made it big! Our Chengshui team has even been featured in the provincial newspaper."
There were just too many people, and she was holding a basket, but she couldn't squeeze in after a long time, and was even pushed out by people coming from behind.
There was really no other way, so Shan Qiufang could only change the place and go to her husband's workplace. She thought there would be fewer people there than here.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she arrived, she ran into her husband coming out. He was stunned when he saw her and said, "I'm getting off work now. What do you want to see me for?"
"Who's looking for you?" Shan Qiufang glanced directly at the bulletin board. "Have you read today's provincial newspaper? Xiaoxue is in the newspaper!"
"Xiaoxue is in the newspaper?" Her husband obviously hadn't seen it yet, and he immediately turned back when he heard it.
There were fewer people here than in front of the post office. The couple waited for a while and finally squeezed in. They saw that it was true. Xiaoxue's lover Xiaoqi was also in the newspaper.
"I have to keep this as a souvenir." Shan Qiufang read it several times with great interest, then took out her pocket and went to the post office to buy a copy.
As units mentioned in the provincial newspaper, the machine repair factory and Jinchuan Forest Farm subscribed to several extra copies, and Secretary Lang even kept one copy in his office.
Xiao Yan is not the only one who appeared in the newspaper. Isn't there a Jinchuan Forest Farm before her pilot project?
It is extremely difficult for a forest farm to be published in a provincial newspaper. You may never know if it will happen in your lifetime. He is the only one in the city.
Afraid that some of the employees' families in the field were illiterate and didn't know the good news, he found a broadcaster to broadcast the news several times in the field.
Now the whole forest farm knows that Technician Yan and Master Xiao Qi have been reported to the provincial government, and the whole province knows how powerful Technician Yan and Master Xiao Qi are in their forest farm.
One day after school, Yan Jigang secretly came back and told Yan Xue that his classmates wrote essays, some of whom said they wanted to become technicians like her in the future, while others said they wanted to become Master Qi.
Of course, the Jinchuan Forest Farm can see the newspaper, and other forest farms can also see it, but not everyone is so happy after seeing it.
Anyway, Qin Ling's face turned pale when she saw it. When she took the bucket back to feed the pigs, the wooden bucket hit the pig trough with a loud noise and some food spilled out.
The people around him frowned and said, "Do you know how to work? Corn husks are not food?"
Some people were also sarcastic, saying, "How can they be the same as us? They used to be regular employees, how could they have done this kind of work?"
Qin Ling was indeed a formal worker before, responsible for measuring the scales in the logging team. She started working early and was lucky enough to catch the forest farm's last recruitment.
But the job of checking rulers was easy, but the salary was low, and she had to stand in the cold wind and snow in the middle of winter, so she found a way to transfer to the ear field.
Who would have thought that because of Yan Xue, she lost her formal job and could only work as a temporary worker in the agricultural team, feeding pigs.
Secretary Zhao and the person Niu Laiwang he sent were both good-for-nothings. They didn't do their job and fired her as soon as something happened, as if they knew nothing about it.
These people in the forest farm are all fools. They blame all the losses of the forest farm on themselves and keep talking nonsense all day long...
Qin Ling was so angry that she couldn't sleep at night, so she secretly got up and went out.
The next morning, Secretary Zhao's wife came out to open the door and immediately covered her nose. "Who gave birth to a son so poorly that he threw feces at my doorstep?"
Even after the discussion of the newspaper incident died down in the forest farm, the smell at Secretary Zhao's doorstep had not dissipated. The family flushed the door with water several times, but it still smelled bad.
Qu Mingli received several calls from people in other cities asking him about tractor modification. He soon organized a second training session in early June.
In addition to inquiring about training, some people also wanted their machine repair shop to modify a crane, saying that they could pay for the modification.
Apparently there was a project needed there, and it was needed quite urgently. As a result, after the training, Qi Fang only stayed at home for half a month before he had to go on a business trip to town again.
By the time he was almost done with his work, the little fat boy at home could sit by himself, and the wood ear mushrooms at Yan Xue's place had entered the harvest season.
The yield of the crops planted last year has increased significantly this year. In addition to the new crops planted this year, Yan Xue hired several more people, but they still have to get up early every morning to harvest.
But she still took a day off to go to the County Commercial Bureau to quote a price. As soon as she entered, she was recognized by someone. "Aren't you the one who was in the newspaper?"
Not much time had passed, and Yan Xue's face was so beautiful and recognizable. Moreover, she was the first one to come to the Commercial Bureau to quote for wood ear mushrooms.
Although it was recognized, this year's wood ear mushrooms still could not be priced high, mainly because the output was too high.
The Commercial Bureau lowered the retail price by 10 cents to 3.4 yuan per catty, and the wholesale price by 9 cents to 3.18 yuan per catty, all because their products are of really good quality.
Yan Xue had expected this. Even if other forest farms did not plant this year, they sold so much last year that the price would probably have to be reduced by 80%.
What surprised her was that when Liu Weiguo took this year's new quotation to the supply and marketing cooperative and the vegetable and non-staple food store to discuss cooperation, the store staff asked him in surprise: "Haven't we already ordered the goods? Why are you here again?"
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