As soon as Xu Jianguo and Funiu arrived at the brigade headquarters, Li Mancang and Li Erniu walked towards them.
"Hello Uncle Mancang, hello Uncle Erniu!" Funiu greeted the two of them in a crisp voice.
"Oh, good, Funiu is so good!" Li Mancang said with a smile.
"Funiu is so polite, a good kid!" said Li Erniu.
"Uncle, I'm going to return the farm tools first. Please wait for me for a while." Xu Jianguo said.
"Okay, go ahead!" said Li Mancang.
When Xu Jianguo hurried back, he saw the little girl being held in Li Erniu's arms and playing with the "big plane". Her giggles infected everyone around her.
Xu Jianguo didn't understand, but he guessed that this might be what people used to call finding joy in suffering.
Several people walked towards the village entrance, and Funiu ran back into Xu Jianguo's arms, saying that she was "afraid that Uncle Erniu would be tired."
After waiting at the village entrance for more than ten minutes, Xu Jianguo saw Zhao Weiguo and his group walking from a distance.
Li Mancang also saw it and was the first to greet him. He smiled and said, "President, you are finally here!"
"Captain Li, come here, let me introduce you. These two are researchers from the County Agriculture Bureau, Comrade Lin Jianghai and Comrade Zhao Wenjuan." Zhao Weiguo pointed at the two young people beside him and introduced them.
Upon hearing this, Li Mancang quickly greeted them: "Comrades, on behalf of Sandaliang Village, I welcome you!"
When Lin Jianghai heard this, he quickly said, "Captain Li, you are so polite!"
"Captain Li, let's go quickly and finish the work early. We have other things to do in the afternoon!" Zhao Wenjuan urged from the side, her tone somewhat uncomfortable.
Xu Jianguo frowned and said nothing.
The group arrived at the brigade headquarters. On the way, Xu Jianguo walked behind them holding Funiu and listened to them quietly.
"Jianguo, report the matter about composting to the president and others again. While the two experts from the county agricultural bureau are here, let them check it for you!" After everyone was seated, Li Mancang spoke to Xu Jianguo.
"OK!"
"This is what happened..." Xu Jianguo then recounted the whole story under the pretext of going to the Xinhua Bookstore in the administrative office.
"Researcher Lin, Researcher Zhao, what do you two think?"
Lin Jianghai thought for a moment and said, "President Zhao, although I haven't heard of this method of composting, based on Comrade Xu Jianguo's description, I think it should be feasible. So I think we can give it a try."
"I don't agree! Food production is a big deal. If we take out some farmyard manure for experiments at this time, what if it fails and the food production decreases next year? Who will take responsibility for this?" Zhao Wenjuan said.
Zhao Weiguo, Li Mancang and others looked at each other in confusion after hearing what Zhao Wenjuan said, not knowing how to respond.
Although this woman's words were unpleasant, I have to say that what she said was right, but her ideas were a bit too outdated and needed to be updated.
Xu Jianguo said, "President, Uncle Mancang, don't worry. I prepared the compost for the experiment last night. I can take you to see it now."
"What? You're done?" Li Mancang asked in surprise.
"I couldn't sleep last night, so I thought about giving it a try, and now I've figured it out myself."
"Where did you get the farm manure?" Li Mancang asked seriously.
"I didn't use farmyard manure because I knew there wasn't much farmyard manure in our team, so I went up the mountain to find a lot of animal manure," said Xu Jianguo.
"Jianguo, you are amazing. You got things done quietly. Well done!" Zhao Weiguo was very happy and praised Xu Jianguo again.
Xu Jianguo couldn't stand it any longer, so he led everyone to the fertilizer composting test site.
Xu Jianguo walked in front holding Funiu. When passing by their house, he sent Funiu back home, took out a bottle of canned oranges from the space, poured it into the bowl, then took out the comic book again, poured her a glass of space well water, and finally called Xiao Hei in to let Funiu play with her.
Before leaving the house, Xu Jianguo changed Funiu's diaper and told her not to get off the kang without permission. Only then did he leave the house.
"Jianguo, your yard is really nice!" Zhao Weiguo said.
"My parents didn't leave behind many memories, and this yard is one of them, so it has been kept as it is and not cleaned up," said Xu Jianguo.
As they were talking, they soon came to the compost pit that Xu Jianguo had dug last night.
Xu Jianguo stepped forward and lifted the lid. A pungent stench hit them in the face, almost driving several people away.
"Sorry!" Xu Jianguo said.
"It's okay!" Zhao Weiguo said.
Xu Jianguo turned to look at Lin Jianghai and Zhao Wenjuan and said, "Two experts, what do you think?"
Lin Jianghai didn't say anything, but stared at the fertilizer in the pit carefully.
Zhao Wenjuan looked at it for a while and said, "To determine whether it's feasible, we need to take samples back for testing to see if the fertilizer contains elements beneficial to food production, such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium."
"I see. Should we extract the sample now, or wait until it's fermented?"
"We will extract it once today, and then we will extract it again after your fermentation is complete. With two samples as a basis, the results will be more accurate." Zhao Wenjuan said.
Xu Jianguo's previous bad impression of her had long since vanished. He felt that this woman had a completely cold exterior but warm heart. She always had an expression on her face that kept people at a distance, but in her heart she could take every detail into consideration.
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