Chapter 56: Great Harvest
Just a few days after Qin Ju and his friends finished reading the newspaper, they received a call from the school saying that Qin Pan's outstanding performance in the national competition had caught the attention of the director of Qingdao University's mathematics department, who offered her admission.
Originally, she was going to be a senior in the fall, but with this admission quota, she can enter the school early, and she doesn't even have to go to the senior year of high school!
The school was happy, the whole family was happy, but Qin Pan was not very happy because she didn't want to leave home so soon.
After all, compared to studying, she still prefers to be with her grandmother, third sister and Doubao.
Qin Guihua scolded her, saying that any hesitation for even a second would be disrespectful to her admission quota and to Qingdao University.
Even Doubao said that she would let her aunt go to Beijing first, and when she grew up, she would also go to Beijing to go to school with her aunt.
"Come on, you little brat, you haven't even started kindergarten yet."
Qin Jue and Lao He then remembered that Doubao was four years old and it was time for him to go to kindergarten.
Kindergarten in Shilan's countryside usually only lasts for one year, so they had always thought of waiting until she was five or six years old to go to school. They were afraid that if she started school too early, she would not be able to keep up with the comprehension and would not have a common language with older classmates. However, Doubao took the initiative to ask to start school early, and to go to elementary school.
Qin Ju and Lao He looked at each other and saw surprise and agreement in each other's eyes.
Yes, they all agreed.
After all, Doubao has demonstrated his outstanding logical thinking and learning abilities over the years.
Soon, Qin Pan packed his bags and was sent to Jingshi School by his third brother-in-law. Qin Ju then sent Doubao to the first grade of elementary school, making her an official elementary school student.
This time, He Liansheng also went back to visit his elder brother and sister-in-law Xiaohu. He Baosheng's factory was converted to a contract system at the end of last year. After it was contracted by a Yangcheng businessman, not only did the wages increase, but he was also given a house because of his seniority. The family of three moved out of Chunhua Hutong and lived in a bright and clean building.
In her hometown in northern Hebei Province, An Shuzhen, her younger brothers and sisters, and her teenage playmates contracted several barren hills and started growing fruit trees. Although she was still as dark and thin as she was in the Great Northern Wilderness, her spirit was completely different, and she became peaceful and happy.
When she was leaving, he gave her three hundred yuan. She refused at first but finally accepted it. However, he then added hundreds of kilograms of local specialties to the money she had already given him. He even stayed up late that night to make a pair of small cloth shoes for Doubao.
"The soles and hems of the shoes belong to your uncle's third granddaughter. She is about the same age as Doudou, so she should be able to wear them."
He Liansheng's eyes were like rulers. He just said "hmm" lightly and put on the shoes she made for him. It had been Liansheng's dream for many years, but he had never been able to get them.
But it doesn't matter. As long as she can have her own life, that's enough.
As for the divorced He Rong, no one knew where he had gone. Anyway, he would always show up at He Baosheng's door on time every month when it was time to collect his living expenses. He was still alive, and that was enough.
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Time flies. Thanks to the hard work of all the staff of the health institute, three years later, in the autumn of 1981, the 500-mu new medicinal field achieved its first big harvest.
In addition to the various Chinese medicinal herbs that have been grown before, the highlight this time is Rhodiola rosea.
Compared with other conventional medicinal herbs, the health workers led by Qin Jiao spent ten times more energy and patience on Rhodiola rosea. After all, growing Rhodiola rosea is really full of disasters and difficulties. In the first year, they encountered insect diseases. In the second year, the weather was hot and the snow melted a lot and they almost drowned... Every employee of the health center of Factory 412 had experienced getting up in the middle of the night to catch insects.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly and I finally made it to the day of official release.
Rhodiola rosea is a valuable Chinese medicine. When they just planted it, Long Wen heard about it and came in person. In the past few years, there have been external medicinal material companies coming in from time to time, all for Rhodiola rosea. Qin Jiao kept one-third for his old partner Long Wen, and sold the rest to whoever offered the highest price. After all, it is a market economy now, and everything is based on economic interests.
Thanks to the entry and exit of major pharmaceutical companies, the medicinal herbs grown by the town's common people have no difficulty finding markets. With the frequent flow of people, transportation conditions have been greatly improved. The grains and vegetables grown by nearby farmers and the cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks they raise can all be transported outside the town for sale, and every household has generated income.
Everyone had money, some built houses, some bought cars, and some were willing to spend more and more to marry off daughters. People around them felt that if they could marry their daughters to Lenghe Town, they would live a good life.
The daughters of Lenghe Town no longer married outside their families. In the new era, sons and daughters had the same inheritance rights, and everyone could share a share of the family business earned by their parents. Thus, a trend of soliciting bribes began.
Gay men who want to marry the ladies of Lenghe Town can only bribe them to come to their homes.
This made everyone very happy. Qian Guiying's eldest daughter was only fifteen years old this year, and someone actually came to ask for the conditions for marriage. This was too exaggerated!
Before Qin Ju entered the conference room, she heard the older sisters laughing happily.
Not only Qian Guiying's family was asked, but even Lao Wang's 45-year-old sister, who had been widowed for many years, was also asked by the matchmaker.
Qin Jue was listening outside the door and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Lenghe Town is now a well-known good place, especially after the implementation of the land contract responsibility system in the past two years. Every farmer household has been allocated a large area of land. They plant the same thing as the health institute, and their lives are getting better and better.
There are even many outsiders in the town, who come from other places to make a living and work. As the population grows, consumption in all aspects is driven to increase. Aunt Zhang sets up a small stall in the town and sells egg-filled pancakes, and can make a lot of money in a month!
This made Ms. Qin Guihua itchy. If Ailan's baby boy was not still young and couldn't be left alone, she would also want to set up a stall outside.
In the conference room, everyone's topic quickly shifted from the good days to the recent revenue generation. Usually, when Qin was there, they were a little scared of her and didn't dare to ask directly. Today, Qian Guiying, the housekeeper, was left alone. Someone whispered, "Sister Guiying, can you tell us something? The Rhodiola rosea has been sold out. How much is the total production?"
Fearing that she would still be tight-lipped like before, some people deliberately guessed high, "At least 30 tons, right?"
"How is that possible? At least 40 tons. One day I asked the people at the Chinese medicine company, and they said they collected 3,500 kilograms that day alone!"
Everyone was shocked. According to this, it should be about 40 tons.
Qian Guiying smiled and calmly held up two fingers, "This is the number."
Everyone's eyes lit up. Sixty tons!
"Sixty tons? Am I seeing things?"
"What's the unit price?" In fact, the unit price is not uniform. The price sold to Long Wen is one price, and the prices sold to other pharmaceutical factories are different. For pharmaceutical factories that may need it in the future, Qin will appropriately give up some profit margin, which will also be a way to purchase drugs in the future.
"The average price is 2.2 yuan per pound, regardless of size or quality."
Some people were counting on their fingers, some were trying to steal Guiying's money.
"That's more than 264,000?"
"My God, Lao Wang, please pinch me, is it really that much money?"
"Oh no, no, my blood pressure is too high. Hurry up and bring me the blood pressure-lowering tea that Chief Qin prepared for me. I need to drink a couple of sips... Qin, Chief Qin is here."
Qin Ju walked into the room with a smile, took out the gold needles given by Mr. He, and gave him two injections on his hands. Miraculously, as soon as the needles were inserted, Mr. Liu's rooster-like face no longer turned red, his heart rate dropped, and he no longer felt dizzy.
Of course, everyone is used to such therapeutic effects. What everyone is more concerned about now is whether Rhodiola rosea really sells for so much money?
Qin Ju put away the golden needles and nodded to everyone: "Yes, we haven't dug up all the 60 tons yet. Some of them are too small, and the pharmaceutical companies Comrade Liao found can't take them. He plans to take them to the south next month to try his luck. It is said that there are some foreign investors in the south now."
Liao Zhixian’s three years in college were not in vain. He learned a lot of knowledge and has a very long-term vision.
"The recent move is to clear out the remaining goods. When Comrade Liao comes back, we will settle the accounts and distribute the dividends." Then everyone can have a good New Year.
Qin Jue certainly would not forget that when she was planting Rhodiola rosea, she boasted that she would let everyone live a good life.
"Including the final payment, the gross income from Rhodiola rosea alone is about 270,000 yuan, but it is not a net profit. After all, Rhodiola rosea is difficult to grow. The cost of planting is higher than other medicinal herbs, and the growth cycle is also slow. It needs to be fertilized twice a year. After deducting various costs, the net profit is only about 200,000 yuan at most."
Everyone took a deep breath.
Two hundred thousand!
Of course, this is just the Rhodiola rosea item. The money for other medicinal materials has also been received one after another. Together with the accumulation of the previous three years, after paying off the loan, there is currently a total of 400,000 in liquid funds in the account. For a small factory health center, this is undoubtedly a huge sum of money!
Let's put it this way, how big is this huge sum of money? In the morning, when Qin Ju went to find Secretary Gong and Director Li to report, the two of them were so shocked that they almost couldn't hold their tea cups steady when they saw the top two leaders in the factory who were used to handling tens or even millions of dollars. Director Li even choked on the tea and coughed for a long time. In the end, Qin Ju gave him a shot in the wrist to stop coughing.
In an era when any household with a net worth of 10,000 yuan could join a club to show off their wealth, a small marginal department with less than ten people could actually create a net profit of 400,000 yuan in three years. If they had not seen it with their own eyes, they would have thought it was a fantasy.
Qin Ju waited until everyone had digested the news before she began to announce the distribution plan. It was basically the same as that year, but because they now had more autonomy and the social atmosphere was more open, she dared to be generous to her employees. Each person could get more than a thousand, and at least seven or eight hundred, which was more than everyone's annual salary!
In addition, Qin Ju also promised that at the end of the year, he would order a few fat sheep from the herders in the name of the health center, kill them cleanly and give each family one.
Everyone was delighted, this was a whole fat sheep!
Even the secretary and the director in the factory don't have such good benefits. At most, they can get a leg of lamb.
While everyone was happy, Qin Ju once again told her plan, "I plan to expand our health room with the remaining working capital, in addition to keeping enough money for the next batch of seedlings."
"How to expand?"
"From now on, we will no longer call it the 412 Factory Health Center, we will call it Lenghe Hospital."
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