Liu Yujiang stood up with a smile, greeted Sheng Liancheng, and then everyone sat down together.
The Sheng family father and son hadn't seen the Liu brothers for a while, and they were quite friendly when they met, sitting down for a chat.
"My dear wife, hurry up and prepare some good food. We'll have Yujiang and Yuhe stay for dinner tonight."
We guys haven't had a drink together in ages, we absolutely have to have a couple tonight.
Sheng Liancheng was overjoyed to see the Liu brothers and insisted that they stay for dinner.
The two families got along well, and neither of them pretended. Sheng Liancheng genuinely wanted to stay, and Liu Yujiang and the others didn't make any empty excuses.
“Perfect timing, I have some things I want to discuss with my uncle and Xiping,” Liu Yujiang said with a smile.
"Brother, just tell us what's wrong. We'll do whatever we can to help."
Upon hearing Liu Yujiang's words, Sheng Xiping knew that Liu Yujiang had something important to say, and quickly replied.
"We're all family here, so there's no need to beat around the bush."
Liu Yujiang laughed when he heard this, "It's not my personal matter, but the brigade has some things they want to discuss with your forest farm."
If it were a matter concerning the Liu family, there would be no need for such effort; Liu Yujiang would simply ask, and Sheng Xiping would handle it.
"Here's the thing, as you know, there's not much work to do in the agricultural team during winter, so everyone just hibernates."
You said the winters here are long, and you wish you could have half a year of free time.
"Humans are one thing, they're busy gathering firewood in the mountains, but these livestock do absolutely nothing all winter, just eat hay."
"This is what I'm thinking: when you're logging in the forest during the winter, do you use livestock like oxen and horses?"
If I need to use them, I'll rent out our team's livestock to the forestry farm; we can earn something over the winter.
Now that Liu Yujiang is the brigade secretary, he has more things to think about than before. He wants to make some money for the brigade.
The Dajianchang farm has a total of twelve cattle and nine horses, all of which are in their prime and good working animals. It's a real waste that they just sit idle eating fodder all winter.
A few years ago, when Shuguang Forest Farm and Qianchuan Forest Farm were newly established and there were few machines available, relying entirely on manual labor, they also rented ox-horse sleds from the production team.
Later, as mechanization gradually became possible, we stopped renting them out as much.
Liu Yujiang had heard Sheng Xiping say that the educated youth team had worked by carrying large logs and using ice carts by hand last year.
Although using oxen and horses to pull logs isn't as fast as using a tractor, it's still better than carrying logs by hand.
That's why Liu Yujiang came over, wanting to ask Sheng Xiping and the others whether the forest farm uses oxen and horses.
"Oh my dear brother, why didn't you tell me sooner?"
At today's meeting, Secretary Wang of the forest farm said that our forest farm's production target this year is almost double that of last year.
The snow fell late this year, so work started later than usual. With limited time and a heavy workload, everyone is worried about how to finish the tasks.
Upon hearing this, Sheng Xiping slapped his thigh in delight.
The tasks assigned by the higher authorities this year are very heavy. Although everyone shouts slogans loudly during meetings, they are actually quite worried.
For such a heavy task, the superiors only provided a tractor, a winch, and a few chainsaws. How could that be enough?
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