Chapter 255 Surely not all three hundred-plus households are cowards?
Dinner was enjoyed fairly well. Afterwards, Li Sixin led the two of them on a walk around the village. They saw that many villagers had a large round winnowing basket set up on a wooden bench in front of their houses, with many mushrooms drying in the basket.
Some are almost completely dry, some are half-dry and half-wet, and some were just picked from the mountain today. You can see the whole process of drying mushrooms on this winnowing basket.
"You guys have picked quite a lot of mushrooms!" After walking around, Xu An couldn't help but exclaim, "Every household has at least one winnowing basket in front of their door, and some have two or three. That must weigh two or three pounds."
"Haha, that's not much." Li Sixin laughed. "On average, each household can pick about a pound a day. Half a pound of that pound needs to be dried. We can go into the mountains to pick mushrooms for half the year, and each household can harvest about 30 to 40 pounds of dried mushrooms."
"Wow, that's quite a lot! There must be about a thousand catties of mushrooms in Hezibao. There should be companies or merchants coming to buy them, right?"
"Well, that depends on luck."
"luck?"
“Yes, like last year, a boss came to the village to buy all the dried mushrooms, over a thousand catties, and everyone had a good New Year. But the previous two years, there weren’t any merchants. The mushrooms that everyone picked could only be sold at the market, and if they couldn’t be sold, they would just eat them themselves. In those two years, many people regretted picking too many mushrooms and having to waste oil to cook them. But when the mushroom picking season came, everyone was very enthusiastic.” Li Sixin couldn’t help but laugh as he spoke, but there was a hint of bitterness in his laughter.
"I see." Xu An nodded, seemingly understanding.
The eight of them wandered around the village twice, finding a perfect vantage point to watch the sun rise over the mountains.
The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be in a vast, open field, and the sound of the wind could be heard coming from the other end.
"Please speak."
Why----
"Uncle Dongliang, to be honest, the hot pot broth available on the market will be sold out in eight to six months at the shortest, unless Xu's Braised Food Shop starts limiting the sales of its Hell Braised Food, then the supply will be cut off. But Liang Jianshu has too few people. Even if we reach a cooperation agreement, persuading people outside the village will be a complicated matter."
“Look at him, he’s not thinking too little.” Li Sixin patted Xu An on the shoulder, stood up and walked around as he said, “You and Grandpa Qi spent some time running around with the procedures and learned about some poverty alleviation policies. Our village is following the rural revitalization policy, so we need to use the name of the village collective; in Xu Dongliang’s case, each household cannot apply individually.”
"I can't talk about either side."
Once that one-eighth of the workforce stops producing and receives their money, will the remaining people all flock to the area?
"Regarding the cooperation, do you think you'd cooperate? At the very least, the details would need to be discussed further." As he spoke, Li Sixin turned to look at Xu An, a smile appearing on his face: "At dinner, when I overheard him discussing related matters with Secretary Li, you thought he'd be so stingy as to slam his fist under the table and build a small shed for every household in Xu Dongliang's family!"
In response, Xu An rolled his eyes.
As the sun slowly disappeared behind the low mountains, the sky was dyed a dazzling orange-red by the afterglow, and the edges of the mountains were edged with gold. Wisps of smoke rose from the villages at the foot of the mountains, and the fields, grasses, and crops reflected the golden light, creating a scene as exquisite as a beautiful painting...
He meant...
“Indeed, you didn’t feel that way either. It’s just that this old woman speaks with a strange, half-baked accent, which is too obvious.” Xu An nodded, quite agreeing with Liang Jianshu’s observation.
[...]
Before exchanging a few lighthearted remarks on the topic, their expressions turned serious, their voices rose, and they finally got down to business.
"Does he really think you're some rich fool who's short on money? Xu Dongliang has 808 households. Even if a small shed costs 15,000, that's still 7 million. Don't even mention you, even some small companies can't come up with that amount of money right away."
"Uncle Dongliang, he observed all day today, but didn't come to any conclusions?"
[No, it's not that I don't have some professional questions I want to ask.]
Back in his room at the village office, Liang Jian took out his phone and used the intermittent signal to contact Aunt He and the others while asking Dong Liang about what he had seen and learned that day.
“It’s the same thing. Xujia Village is where you were born and raised. To Xu Dongliang, you are just merchants who came from the village. There’s no comparison.”
"Uncle Dongliang, what does he think of Xu Dongliang?" Liang Jian asked abruptly before nodding heavily.
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[In the agricultural sector, what bad thing has Secretary Li gotten into that he's planning to do something underhanded?]
"I really didn't have that idea." Xu An, exposed, showed no embarrassment or annoyance, but instead said quite frankly, "It's already mid-April now. Without greenhouses, we won't be able to sow until July or August next year, and we won't be able to harvest until July or August. That's almost half a year!"
You do know someone, but I'm a seventh grader.
While Xu An and Liang Jianshu were discussing things, Liang Jianshu was also busy outside the room. I turned on this old computer that kept making noise and taking two minutes to boot up, logged into QQ, opened a group chat called "Poverty Alleviation Task Force", and sent a message to the outside of the group.
Then, there will be no more worries about the supply of hot pot broth.
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