"That won't happen." Li Mei answered without hesitation, "I know Uncle Liu has a thick skin. He's just as thick-skinned as you are. But he might be like me and try to find ways to improve employee benefits."
Hearing this, Li Ping and others burst into laughter.
Li Xu was speechless. Am I as shameless as him?
Having been interrupted, Li Xu lost interest in talking about this matter and turned to other topics.
Liu Yunxiao's family didn't come tonight, and Li Mei gave Li Ju and others a few days off and didn't let them study anymore.
Everyone sat in the house and chatted until very late before they dispersed.
Because there were too many people waiting to build houses, the county felt that time was tight and not a minute could be wasted, so it issued a notice on the fifth day of the first lunar month, asking idle people in the supply and marketing cooperatives to go to the construction site to help cut trees, shovel snow, and dig soil.
The site allocated by the county to the supply and marketing cooperative for building a house was originally a forest with many trees, so a fleet of cars was needed to transport the cut wood.
Li Xu and others went to the finance department to pay the money for building the house, and then drove to the construction site. While others were loading wood and branches onto the car, they chatted with the person in charge sent by the Construction Department for a while.
When they learned that the larger trees would be sent to the sawmill and the smaller ones could be handled at will, Li Xu and others moved the small trees and branches directly back home to use for burning.
Once the forest is completely cut down, the firewood piled up in the Li family's yard will be enough to burn for at least half a year.
At this time, Li Mei's application had been approved by the county.
After the Lantern Festival, she asked people to go to the countryside to look for people who knew how to grow fruit, and she took Li Ping, Li Chen, and two people from the security department of the fertilizer plant to Wuhan.
The reason why Li Mei brought Li Ping and Li Chen with her was simply because she was worried.
Of course, Li Ping and the other man did not suffer any loss. This time it was a business trip, and the fertilizer factory would make up for their lost wages.
No one expected that they would be gone for more than half a month, which made the county anxious. Liu Wen even asked Liu Gang to ask Li Xu if he knew the situation.
Everyone in the Li family was even more anxious, and the adults couldn't even eat.
That day, when everyone came home from get off work, they saw three familiar figures at home.
Sun Xiu rushed forward without a word, twisted Li Mei's arm, and said angrily, "You stupid girl, you said you'd be back in ten days at most. Do you know how many days it's been? Are you trying to scare us to death?"
Li Mei rubbed the area where she was twisted, and then replied cheerfully, "Today is nineteen days, Mom. Plans are not as good as changes. I didn't expect it would take so long to get things done."
Li Jiakang came up and tried to smooth things over, "I'm glad you're back. Are you three okay?"
"No injuries."
"That's fine, girl. The county leaders have been very worried these past few days. Have you told them about your return?"
"I did go to the factory and make some arrangements."
Li Jiakang nodded, and seeing that the food was not ready yet, he asked Li Mei to tell him what had happened in the past few days.
As Li Mei continued her story, everyone finally understood why the trip took so long.
It turned out that after Li Mei and her team arrived in Wuhan, they found out that there was only one agricultural school left in the area, which was Huazhong Agricultural University.
When I went to the school and asked, I found out that there was only one teacher who was researching fruit seedling fertilizers, and that the teacher was receiving treatment in the hospital.
There was no other choice, so Li Mei and others went to the hospital again.
But I didn't expect that the teacher was seriously ill and looked like he would die at any moment.
So the group split into two groups, one stayed in the hospital, and the other went to the Agricultural College to ask the teacher's students if they knew anything.
It turned out that those students had enrolled last year, and after only half a year of classes, they knew nothing except some basic knowledge.
This is quite embarrassing.
This teacher became the only hope.
In order to avoid making a wasted trip, the group had to wait. They went to the hospital every day and sometimes helped the teacher's family with work.
When they return to the hotel at night, they will pray for their teacher, hoping that he will recover soon.
But unfortunately, prayers seemed to be of no use, and the teacher died on the eighth day.
Just when the group was about to return, the teacher's family, who had learned the purpose of their trip, said that the teacher had the habit of taking notes and they wondered if there was any fertilizer formula on them.
When the notes were taken out, everyone was surprised to see that they filled a whole box.
I picked up a few notebooks at random and found that there was a mark on the first page after opening them.
Most importantly, the handwriting on the notes was not from the same person.
If you flip through more pages, you can clearly see that only notes with the same handwriting have the same marks.
The numerous notes were divided into six piles based on the markings. Li Mei and others guessed that these notes should belong to six people.
This speculation was also confirmed by the family of the deceased teacher.
They say the deceased teacher never had anyone write notes for him.
These people all have recipes in their notes, and more than one.
It also records in detail the ratio and acquisition method of each material, as well as the use of fertilizers, methods of increasing the yield of some fruit trees, common diseases and their prevention measures.
Everyone flipped through the notes from day to night, and from night to day, and it took several days before they finished flipping through them.
The small notebook Li Mei carried with her was almost full.
Seeing that the purpose of this trip had been achieved, Li Mei and others did not stay any longer and left Wuhan.
After listening to it, Li Xu didn’t know what to say.
It is worth it for Li Mei and others to be able to get so many formulas even if it takes a long time.
After the reform and opening up a few years later, these formulas became the starting point for Tang County Fertilizer Plant.
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