Xu Daming worked tirelessly all night and finally managed to harvest half an acre of wheat. He was obviously stronger now than he was twenty years ago, but how come he couldn't lift his arms after swinging the sickle a few times?
Farming is really too hard. He has been in Beijing for so many years and can barely make ends meet, but why doesn't he return to his hometown? Because he doesn't want to be a farmer anymore.
Looking at the string of blisters on the base of his thumb, it turned out that money was hard to earn and the work was hard to do. He was just not cut out for it!
He lay on the straw pile and simply fell asleep. He didn't wake up until he heard the rumbling sound of machinery coming from the field next door, rubbing his sleepy eyes.
Seeing the huge machine coming over there, Xu Daming was greatly surprised. Is mechanical farming also used in their area?
The driver was none other than his neighbor Santong, whom he had been looking for nowhere yesterday. Xu Daming quickly put on his clothes and ran over there, waving as he ran: "Santong, Santong".
The roar of the seed drill was too loud, and the owner of the land was watching eagerly from the side, so Xu Daming had to stop and step aside. He did not stop Santong until the land was sown.
I wanted to chat for a while, but now I've been in the sun for a while and feel a little dizzy, so I asked Santong directly: "Are you sowing seeds? Do you have a harvester? Are you willing to take on the job of harvesting wheat?"
Santong went home yesterday and listened to her mother's exaggerated complaints about Xu Daming for a long time. She didn't have much affection for this childhood playmate. She was busy at the moment and had no time to chat, so she took out a business card and handed it to Xu Daming:
"This is the town maintenance team's vehicle. They also have a harvester, but I don't know which village they're harvesting in today. Call and ask. If someone nearby has already made an appointment, maybe they can harvest your land today as well. If you're the only one, you'll probably have to wait in line. The quantity is too small, and you have to make a separate trip. People probably won't be willing to take on such a small job."
After saying that, he declined the cigarette handed to him by Xu Daming, jumped into the car and drove away.
Xu Daming murmured, "There are farm machines, then... that's not bad either."
Mechanized harvesting is fast. Xu Daming worked on half an acre of land for an entire night and was exhausted. But the harvester came and finished the remaining nine acres in less than an hour. It threshed the grain directly and charged two hundred and ninety yuan.
The young man Xu Daming who was driving the harvester looked unfamiliar, probably from another village. However, he did know the man who was driving the farm vehicle to transport the wheat grains. He was a cousin of theirs. This cousin usually worked in transportation outside, and only came back to help transport grain by driving the farm vehicle during the busy farming season. He didn't know Xu Daming's "reputation", but when he saw that Xu Daming had been harvesting wheat with a sickle for half the night, he introduced him to the business of the town's maintenance team.
Through his introduction, Xu Daming bought 50 kilograms of corn seeds and made an appointment for Santong's seed drill.
For Ermin's sake, Santong even got him a ploughing machine so he could deep-plow the land before sowing. By the next day, when the corn was finished, the wheat had dried out under the scorching sun.
The wheat seeds at that time were not as high-yielding as those in later generations. The Xu family only harvested 5,000 to 6,000 kilograms of wheat from their ten mu of wheat. There were large trucks from other places collecting wheat on the roadside, and the price was only 65 cents per kilogram. Xu Daming imagined it, how could he pack 6,000 kilograms of wheat into bags by himself?
Well, forget it. I just had the wheat harvester's truck load it and sell it at the pump. I got 3,800 yuan in cash.
After the sowing was completed, only two hundred yuan was left of the one thousand yuan given to him by the branch secretary.
After waiting in the village for a few more days, there was no sign of his younger brother Ermin. He realized that Secretary Wan must know Ermin's address, or at least Ermin's phone number, but this small village official was very powerful and refused to tell him.
He weighed the four thousand yuan in his pocket and decided to leave first and come back during the Spring Festival. Then he and his brother would settle the four thousand yuan and the demolition compensation.
He packed a few clothes in the luggage bag he brought with him, and looked at the keys in his hand. Forget it, he would just keep it. If he returned it to Secretary Wan, he would have to explain to him that he was leaving. If Secretary Wan suspected him of embezzling the money for food, he would have to explain himself to him, which was unnecessary.
But just as he locked the door with a click, Secretary Wan's voice rang out behind him: "You need to get out, Damin."
Xu Daming froze, and he forced a smile before turning around. He was about to tell the secretary that his wife had called and something had happened at home, so he had to rush back and not wait for Ermin to come back. But before he could finish his words, he saw a large group of people following the secretary.
Xu Daming was terrified. He waved his hand towards the Party Secretary with difficulty, "Uncle, no...it shouldn't be that serious, right? I, I was just selling some grain for my brother, how could so many police officers be alerted?"
If he had known this earlier, he wouldn't have gotten involved. He hadn't considered it illegal before selling it. But he still had half of the land.
Secretary Wan ignored him and said to the group of people behind him, "This is Comrade Xu Daming."
Someone in the crowd immediately stepped forward and showed him their police officer ID: "Hello, Comrade Xu Daming, I am Jiang Fanmao, deputy captain of the Chengde City Criminal Investigation Brigade. This is my ID. We recently cracked a case of trafficking women and children, arresting dozens of criminal gang members. Among those rescued were your two abducted daughters. I'm here because we have comrades from the TV station who are here to follow up on this case."
Officer Jiang pointed to the left, and Xu Daming noticed that there were people holding video cameras and video cameras.
Officer Jiang continued, "We are also returning your two daughters to you to protect the health and safety of the rescued people."
After saying this, he pointed to the right again. Xu Daming looked over and saw two female police officers holding two girls with dry hair, pale faces and skinny bodies.
Xu Daming: "I, I didn't, I wasn't, that what..."
Secretary Wan immediately stepped forward and held his arm, then pinched it, causing Xu Daming to scream in pain.
Secretary Wan: "He's so excited. Slow down, let him slow down. You don't know, over the years, to find these two children, their entire family left their hometown and traveled all over the country. Did you see that dilapidated yard with so much weeds when you first entered the village? The one that collapsed, that's his family's. Over the years, whenever there was any ambiguous news about the children, they immediately rushed there. Their family has suffered a lot to find these two children. The children's grandfather broke his leg on the way."
Xu Daming: "Hey——?"
Secretary Wan: "Good boy, now you are finally reunited as a family. Human traffickers are so despicable. Buying and selling children is a serious crime. Police comrade, how many years will those bad guys who sell and buy children be sentenced to?" He emphasized the words "buy" and "sell" and emphasized his tone, pinching Xu Daming's arm while speaking.
Jiang Fanmao said sympathetically, "Don't worry, the case has now been handed over to the procuratorate. We and our colleagues at the TV station will continue to follow up on the case's progress and will not let any bad guys go. We also welcome the general public to monitor and pay attention to the work of our public security, procuratorial and judicial organs."
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