Yu Yang's eyes widened. "Mom, Uncle Guoqing will be buying a house in Jinan soon."
I just heard from Grandpa Village Chief that he and Grandma Guo are both earning wages now, so there are three people in their family earning money.
Chen Hong laughed heartily, "You little rascal, you even eavesdrop on your mother's phone calls! You worry about everything, aren't you afraid you won't grow tall!"
Yu Yang was unhappy. "Mom, you're scaring me again with the threat of not growing tall. I'm one of the tallest people in my class!"
You spoke on speakerphone, I didn't eavesdrop on purpose, you can't falsely accuse me!
Chen Hong realized that she had indeed answered the phone while cleaning the kitchen, and had kept the call on speakerphone the whole time. It was her fault!
"You have to admit your mistakes," Chen Hong quickly apologized, "and this shouldn't just be directed at the child."
"Xiao Bao, I'm sorry, it was Mom's fault, I misspoke!" Yu Yang turned her head away haughtily. "I won't blame you, after all, you're my mom!"
Chen Hong couldn't stop laughing, "So this is one of the advantages of being a mother? It's easy for your son to forgive you? Well, thank you son for not blaming me, but I have to admit my mistakes!"
After running for half an hour, the mother and daughter held hands and walked slowly home together, where they took a shower.
After eating fruit and watching TV for a while, Yu Yang went back to his room to sleep at nine o'clock sharp.
Chen Hong emptied the trash can of fruit peels, wiped the floor, and then turned off the TV and went back to her room.
After locking the door, Chen Hong went into the space to work.
Feed the fish when it's time to feed the fish, pick the fruit when it's time to pick the fruit, and feed the chickens and ducks when it's time to feed the chickens and ducks.
After finishing her work, Chen Hong fell into deep thought!
Farming in the city requires a lot of tools.
The grains that chickens, ducks, and fish eat need to be crushed, and the wheat and corn that are grown need to be threshed.
Large-scale farming requires plowing, sowing, and harvesting. Luckily, weeds don't grow in the space; otherwise, since herbicides can't be used, manual weeding alone would drive her crazy!
To use a machine, you need power. If you don't want to use diesel, you have to use electricity, which requires a generator.
There was sunlight in the space. Chen Hong didn't know the principle behind it, but there was the sun in the air above the space.
At the very least, we'll need to buy a solar power system to power the machines in the space.
There were quite a few things to think about, and she had no clue where to start. She still needed to inquire and find out where there was advanced solar power generation equipment.
Chen Hong didn't even know if electric agricultural tools existed, so she had to search online and look everywhere.
Chen Hong touched her forehead, feeling like her mind was a complete mess, and she didn't know any top talents in this field.
People say that every profession is like a mountain to climb, and as a rural woman, I have nowhere to find information.
You can't openly ask acquaintances about this, otherwise people will ask you, "What's the point of all this?"
Should I tell others that I use it in my orchard? My family only has ten acres of land, and pear trees alone take up three or four acres, leaving only six or seven acres for growing crops.
In rural areas, there are also shared farm implements such as hand tractors and threshers, so individuals don't really need to buy their own farm machinery.
You say you're buying agricultural machinery for your own use? That's like using a cannon to kill a mosquito—it's just plain crazy.
In the following months, Chen Hong learned through online searches that at that time, there were no manufacturers of household photovoltaic solar power generation equipment in China.
Chen Hong's plan to use power tools in space fell through, which left her quite frustrated for a while.
But the crops in the space couldn't wait, so she had to go to the provincial agricultural machinery research institute to inquire if they had any small combine harvesters.
It's only 2007 now, so it's unlikely that we can use small electric farm machinery. I hope we can buy a combine harvester that uses fuel!
Then she could grow rice and millet in the space, achieving self-sufficiency in all food.
But after inquiring, I learned that Shandong, as a major agricultural province, focuses its efforts on researching and developing large-scale modern machinery.
They weren't interested in the small mechanical devices Chen Hong mentioned. However, the researchers there received her very warmly and listened attentively to her ideas.
Chen Hong: This is not my idea at all. These are all convenient and compact agricultural machinery tools that will be widely available in rural areas in a dozen years.
In the end, things turned out well. An engineer surnamed Gao told Chen Hong that there was only one agricultural machinery company in the whole country, located in Sichuan, that specialized in researching small agricultural machinery.
He had a classmate who was the head of the research and development center of that company. He could provide them with Chen Hong's requirements and ideas, and Chen Hong could purchase suitable agricultural machinery from Sichuan.
Chen Hong was somewhat discouraged upon hearing this. Apart from fruit trees and medicinal herbs, the remaining land in her space that could be used for farming was no more than ten acres. How could she possibly have the time to go to Sichuan to order and purchase agricultural machinery?
If she had dozens or hundreds of acres of land, she would be willing to spend her time and money, and even waste her brain cells.
They copied the functions and appearance of agricultural machinery from more than ten years later to a machinery factory and commissioned several machines to be made.
To be honest, as a single mother, she really doesn't have the energy to be an inventor of agricultural machinery.
Holding the contact information for Sichuan provided by the senior engineer, Chen Hong returned home listlessly, picked up her child first, and then made lunch.
She took her son home, and the two of them cooked conch, steamed a grouper and a lobster. They each ate a small bowl of noodles, and lunch was quickly finished.
After lunch, Chen Hong told Yu Yang to take a nap, as he had to attend classes in the afternoon and she needed to ensure he had half an hour of rest so he wouldn't be too tired for class.
As Chen Hong tidied up the kitchen, she thought, "No, I won't bother anymore. It's only ten acres of land, and it's all done by hand. I can just do some farm work and treat it as exercise."
Once the crops are harvested, she can buy a small threshing machine with a motor and electricity that she used a few years ago and use it in the space.
Fortunately, there are two generators on the fishing boat, which can be used in the space. Alternatively, a warehouse can be rented, and the threshing can be carried out in the warehouse.
Now that she had made up her mind, Chen Hong was no longer in a hurry. She woke her son up promptly at 1:30, and ten minutes later he washed up, changed his clothes, and went out.
I dropped my son off at the school gate at 1:50 sharp, and watched him wave and turn into the school as he carried his cartoon water bottle.
Only after watching him enter the teaching building did Chen Hong turn around and ride her bicycle home.
Perhaps because she was relaxed, Chen Hong felt a fresh and vibrant atmosphere everywhere as she rode her bicycle on the streets of Jinan.
Jinan, this ancient cultural city, is undergoing rapid changes. After only seven years away, Chen Hong returned to this familiar city, but felt a sense of unfamiliarity.
The difference between then and now, more than a decade later, is enormous; it's no exaggeration to say that things change every single day.
Sometimes when driving out, Chen Hong had to slowly explore the road conditions first. Many of the ring roads in her previous life were either not yet built or were under construction.
She often felt a sense of temporal and spatial disorientation in her mind; the city felt both familiar and strange, leaving her often confused.
She didn't feel that way when she went to Beijing and Shanghai. Those were two completely unfamiliar cities, so there were no impressions from her past life affecting her, and she accepted them quickly.
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