Chapter 25
Liu Tong blurted out, "Comrade Xiao Zhou, are you talking about the Plastic Greenhouse Thousand Miles Tour?"
Mr. Zhao, the father of plastic greenhouses, started promoting the technology a few years ago. This was reported in the newspapers, and Zhou Jiani had heard her parents talk about it before. At that time, she was still in school and didn't know much about agriculture. She never thought that one day she would take root in the countryside, so she didn't pay much attention to it.
However, the next year or the year after, she heard news about greenhouse cultivation technology on the radio again, and it seemed that the country was vigorously promoting this technology.
She couldn't remember the exact time.
Zhang Baosheng also remembered Liu Tong's mention of it, but due to the information lag, he could only sigh "Oh" and said, "It happened several years ago!"
Promotion and experimentation have been ongoing, and they started during the most difficult years. It is easy to imagine that it is not that easy.
Zhengfeng City, where Bin County is located, and even the entire Chonghui Province are not within the scope of the experimental area. Zhou Jiani was just using this to bring up a topic.
Zhang Baosheng hesitated and asked, "Comrade Xiao Zhou, do you want our village to build that plastic greenhouse as well? Is that plan feasible?"
Relevant documents will be released next year or the year after. Before that, Zhou Jiani will not affect the normal trajectory. If Zhang Baosheng agrees, she will only propose to try half an acre of land, and use the limited information currently available. Everyone will explore together.
However, it seemed like in his previous life, when waiting for the documents to come out, the Qianjin Brigade did not take any action. Zhang Baosheng chose to wait and see. He was used to being conservative and being given tasks. On the contrary, some brigades in other communes started to do it vigorously. When there was a successful case in front of them, the brigades that followed suit emerged one after another.
Zhou Jiani chose her words carefully and said, "This technology has never stopped developing. Perhaps the experimental area is too far away from us, so the information hasn't been transmitted."
"I remember this activity was supported by both the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Ministry of Agriculture, and the technology was nationally recognized. However, we didn't have professional guidance, so if we wanted to try it, we had to find information on our own and try it out on a few plots of land. If it was successful, we would report it and try to get technical personnel to move in, or arrange for people to learn, and then expand the scale. If we failed, the losses wouldn't be disastrous, but it would allow the commune to see our hard work and progress."
The last sentence made Zhang Baosheng straighten his back and sigh again that it takes young people to dare to think and dare to act.
Qiu Zeming said from the side, "If it's feasible, I can help Comrade Xiao Zhou find the information."
Zhang Baosheng's desire grew stronger, and he felt his blood boiling. His eyes lit up several times, and he nodded repeatedly, saying, "I'll think about it carefully. I'll have a meeting with the other cadres to discuss it."
But let’s talk about vegetables first.
Zhou Jiani had negotiated the deal with the state-owned restaurant, so she was the only one who could deliver the food. The only problem was which restaurant to choose first.
Zhou Jiani suggested, "Why not draw lots? Let the team leaders draw lots first to narrow the scope, and then each team can arrange for the families of their members to draw lots. Twenty kilograms of vegetables doesn't have to come from just one family; we can arrange for two families to provide them at the same time. If the collection is insufficient or the quality is not up to standard, we can move on to the next family in line."
"However, in order to prevent the opportunity from falling to the same team or family, the team that has been selected can wait until the team qualifications have been rotated before participating. The member lottery system can also adopt this method to ensure that every household has a chance."
Liu Tong exclaimed: "This is a good idea. It can also avoid a lot of hassles."
This year, members will enjoy this benefit, and starting next year, it will belong to the collective.
Zhang Baosheng also grinned and said, "That's it." He looked at the two young men in front of him, his eyes becoming more and more loving as he looked at them. He said gently, "You've been tired all day. Go back and rest."
He looked at Zhou Jiani alone and said, "When the lottery results come out, I'll have the team leader go to Kaishan's house to inform you. Tomorrow morning, have the team leader lead us to the members' homes to pick vegetables and weigh them. We'll go there on the team's bicycles."
"Okay!" Zhou Jiani also said, "After drawing lots, we can have the team leader go to the members' homes to check on the growth of the vegetables to avoid wasted work."
After the two of them left, Liu Tong said with a smile, "Young people have lively minds."
Zhang Baosheng nodded: "Yes." He added, "It depends on the person."
Uncle Liu was waiting outside and helped Zhou Jiani take the cucumber buttons and the two bags of rags back.
Zhou Jiani grabbed a handful of rags, the size of a palm, for Uncle Liu.
Zhao Mei had already prepared dinner for them. Looking at the half-full basket of cucumbers, she said, "You want pickled cucumbers, right? I'll wash them later. We have two empty jars at home, which should be enough."
Then he admired her and said, "Jiani, you are really amazing."
Not only did they sell out so many dishes in one day, but they also established a relationship with the restaurant in town.
Just now she also wanted to go to the village entrance to wait and see the result, but then she thought that Comrade Zhou must be exhausted after a day out, so she hurried back to boil water and cook.
Zhou Jiani handed Huihui two snacks and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, put the cucumbers in a cool place for now. I'll pick them up when I get back from town tomorrow morning. I'm still short of ingredients for pickling cucumbers, so I'll bring them back from town tomorrow. After dinner, I'll pick up some cloth for you to make a bag. And when you have time, help me make the jacket."
Last time, she mentioned asking her to help her make cloth shoes. Zhao Mei quickly responded and said with a smile, "Okay, go clean up and prepare for dinner."
Comrade Zhou was exhausted after a day of traveling, and his hair was covered in dirt.
Zhou Jiani washed her hair first, then went back to their room to eat. As soon as she sat down, she met two pairs of gossipy eyes.
Zhao Mei didn't know that she had made flower steamed buns. She steamed some cornbread in the evening and would heat up the flower steamed buns and eat them the next morning.
There was still half a can of shrimp paste. Zhou Jiani scooped some out and put it in the nest. She took a bite, chewed it, and swallowed it. She said jokingly, "You two don't want to eat it?"
Yu Wanxia said: "Jiani, are you not angry at all?"
The two had so many questions to ask, and Zhou Jiani's eyes were full of admiration, but they were more concerned about the conflict between her and Liu Ailing.
"Angry, of course I'm angry," Zhou Jiani said. "I get chills just thinking about my former best friend stabbing me in the back."
"What's going on? She seemed so nice to you on the train, but I didn't expect her to turn around and write a letter to scold you." Sun Ping also grabbed the steamed bread and took a bite, saying angrily.
Zhou Jiani felt that some things needed to be clarified, and said, "I used to be grateful for her kindness to me, but when you weren't seeing, I was also nice to her. I always bought her hairbands and flowers in pairs, and she always got one. Not to mention how much of my snacks and food she ate. Liu Ailing's kindness to me was spiritual, of course, but now I realize it was all fake."
"My kindness to her was material, no matter how you look at it, it was real. I've suffered a huge loss. And I just thought things through. I realized that she only told you about how she treated me, but she never told you about how I treated her, okay?"
"So the more I think about it, the more heartbroken I feel. I won't recognize her as my friend anymore. I also hope that Liu Ailing can be respectful to each other and not try to get back together or show weakness in public with me."
Get the words out there first to avoid being smeared by the innocent crowd.
Yu Wanxia and the other two were furious and asked, "Why is she like this?"
Zhou Jiani did not hide it and told the two about Liu Ailing's letter and the impact it had at home, satisfying the curiosity of the two girls.
I don’t know if I was full after this meal, but I was full after eating the melon.
After dinner, Zhao Mei came over to see the scraps of cloth she bought. Although they were not hers, she liked all of them when she saw so many scraps of cloth.
Zhou Jiani opened the palm-sized bag, and the whole bag fell to the ground. Four adults and Zhang Huihui came over to pick it out, sorting it out by size and color.
The colors of these scraps of cloth are not limited to blue, black, green and gray, there are also some printed or light-colored cloths, and the thickness varies.
Zhou Jiani picked and chose, and finally picked up a pile of cloths of similar colors, all with patterns or prints. She said to Zhao Mei, "Sister-in-law, use these to make a bag. Spread all the joints on the back flat on both sides and sew two lines of thread to secure them. It's a bit like double stitching."
She matched the patterns and laid them out to see the effect. I wouldn’t say it looked very good, but it definitely wasn’t ugly.
I picked out a few pieces of cloth to make bags with wide edges.
Sun Ping and Yu Wanxia both know simple needlework. They are responsible for the first step of splicing, while Zhao Mei is responsible for double sewing. Her stitches are straight, and the result looks like it was done with a sewing machine.
A few people worked together to finish the backpack in two or three hours.
There was a knock on the door. Zhou Jiani knew that the result of the lottery was out, so she got up and went out.
The second team won the bid for the first time. The team leader Liu Chenglu came over and asked her what time she would go to pick vegetables tomorrow morning, and he would come over to lead them there.
After agreeing on a time, Zhou Jiani returned. Yu Wanxia was slinging the bag over her shoulders, looking around. She said, "Jiani, it's beautiful, just like patchwork cloth, but the pattern is a little more playful."
I feel like it would be just right to use that pile of dark gray and light gray to make one.
Zhou Jiani smiled and said, "This is a schoolbag I made for Huihui. If you want something a little more sophisticated, make one for yourself."
Zhao Mei was stunned for a moment and said, "Jia Ni, is this for Hui Hui?" She quickly refused, "No, no, Hui Hui has a schoolbag."
The two bottom corners of Huihui's schoolbag were rotten, and she hadn't patched them up yet, so she asked Huihui to use a net bag to carry her books these past two days.
A lot of cloth can be used to make this schoolbag. Although they are scraps of cloth, they are all good scraps of cloth.
"Sister-in-law, keep that bag for other things, and let Huihui use this one for books." Zhou Jiani said with a smile, "I'll have to ask Sister-in-law to make me one in a couple of days. I plan to make it into a backpack. I'll make a gusset first, and then use the gusset to wrap the bottom. It's much more complicated than this one."
Her green shoulder bag was a little small, and the handbag was too big, so she made a half-assed one that could be carried on a backpack, and used them alternately.
Zhao Mei was so moved that her nose felt a little sore. Comrade Zhou hadn't let her work go in vain. He smiled and said, "Thank you, Jiani. Huihui will definitely be overjoyed when she wakes up tomorrow morning."
The little girl couldn't bear it any longer and went to sleep first.
Yu Wanxia and Sun Ping were not polite either. They each picked up a pile of cloth, but they were not in a hurry to make it. They planned to wait until Zhou Jiani's was done so that they could refer to it.
Zhou Jiani grabbed another handful for Zhao Mei, to use for patching or making a jacket.
Delivering vegetables to the town is a good job. I don’t have to work early or get up so early. I will follow Liu Chenglu to the members’ homes at six o’clock.
Liu Chenglu pushed his bicycle up.
We didn't talk about it in detail last night, but on the way I told her about the drawing of lots last night. They first went to the brigade to draw lots, and when the results came out they quickly organized the second team to have one member from each family participate in the second drawing of lots.
The order is written on the note to prevent one household from failing to meet the standards.
Liu Chenglu said, "We've refined the rules a bit. We've set three households as the winners. The first one gets eight kilograms of vegetables, and the second and third get six kilograms each. This way, it's more evenly distributed."
"This arrangement is great!" Zhou Jiani had no objection, as long as the total amount was correct and the vegetables were fresh.
I followed them and unexpectedly found that the first house was an acquaintance, Zhang Laosi's.
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