Why do young people want to farm?
"Don't think about it!" Pei Xu said, and walked to the other side of the ridge to pull the water pipe.
Jiang Lin poured in the guiding water and said confidently: "I'll try it first."
The throttle was turned, but the water did not come up, so Jiang Lin stepped on the throttle.
"How..." Before he could finish his words, water gushed out like a column of water. Jiang Lin couldn't dodge in time and drank two sips.
"ah!"
When Pei Xu heard the scream, he quickly dropped the water pipe and ran towards him.
Jiang Lin half-knelt down and tried to close the accelerator, but before he could reach out his hand, his whole body was soaked.
Pei Xu shouted: "What's wrong?"
Jiang Lin howled like a primitive ape, and stood up, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "I forgot to close the lid."
Pei Xu pulled out the plug, "You're awesome!"
Jiang Lin wiped the water off his face and said, "I can't shout when I get into trouble in the future."
Pei Xu teased him: "If you are unlucky secretly, it is not considered unlucky, right?"
"Yes, you can't tell them."
The eighth day of the Lunar New Year.
The director team set up the live broadcast equipment on the roadside, behind which was a spectacular natural landscape of dark red rose seedlings and oil tea seedlings.
Director Zhou outlined the process: "We will get off the car at the big banyan tree in a moment, and our camera will extend from there to here. You can briefly introduce our program to the audience, describe your current projects and future development vision, and warm up for the program. Our program will be broadcast in late February."
Jiang Lin excitedly pulled Director Zhou's arm, "Old Zhou, you are not making empty promises for us this time, are you?"
Director Zhou smiled and said, "Really! We have already finalized the time with the platform, and the specific time is still under discussion, so everyone should be more active in today's rework live broadcast."
"Brothers, our program is tentatively scheduled to be broadcast in late February. Please give some support for today's live broadcast!" Jiang Lin immediately shared this great news in the group.
"We are very professional in creating live broadcast effects." Song Yifan made a proud expression.
Xiang Chuzhe won a game and opened the WeChat group. He instantly exploded from the back seat. "Oh my god, time flies so fast. The show will be broadcast next month!"
Cheng Enyue, who was sitting next to him, was shocked by his reaction. "You are just pretending to be dead. Clean up in the car. You will start the live broadcast when you get off the car."
"It's been a long time since I last saw this makeup bag." Xiang Chuzhe looked at the makeup and didn't know where to start. "How about I put on my idol makeup?"
"Forget it. I think today's live broadcast should show the most real side of us farming in the village, so that the audience can believe that we are farming down to earth and this is not an agricultural show."
Director Zhou held a loud speaker and shouted, "The boys' car has entered the village. Are all departments ready? Get ready to start the show."
Pei Xu and Jiang Lin stood in front of the table waiting for their brothers to arrive.
"Boss Pei, are you nervous?"
"I'm not nervous. I'm used to the camera and I already ignore it."
The two looked in the direction of the big banyan tree with anticipation, and a black Buick slowly stopped.
Li Xuran was fixing his hair while looking at his phone. Song Yifan got out of the car and walked around to the trunk. "Teacher, open the door. I want to bring my prawns for my brothers to taste!"
The two men pushed their suitcases towards them with smiles on their faces. Pei Xu clenched his fist with one hand and celebrated his victory, "I won! As expected, Li Xuran and Song Yifan arrived first."
Jiang Lin quickly transferred one hundred yuan via WeChat.
"Hey, bro!"
The four of them hugged each other and said hello. Song Yifan pointed at Director Zhou behind the camera and said with a smile: "On the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, Director Zhou urged me to buy plane tickets for you. He was afraid that we would run away together."
Li Xuran pretended to be regretful: "I missed the opportunity. If I had known, I would have bought a ticket back to Beijing."
Jiang Lin complained: "You guys at least took your annual leave. I have to go to work in the fields on the second day of the New Year."
Pei Xu smiled smugly: "I blew myself up. I won't pretend anymore. I am the biggest landlord in Pei Village."
Song Yifan slapped the foam box on the table with his hand, "Brother Lin, you have worked hard as a farmhand. I will peel two prawns for you to replenish your energy later."
Another black Buick stopped under the big banyan tree. Cheng Enyue and Xiang Chuzhe were each pushing a suitcase and holding a foam box. The staff also helped carry a few bags of local specialties.
Jiang Lin said mischievously: "We all hid behind the staff, so that they would think that we have not arrived yet and the live broadcast has not started yet."
The bad things were done quickly and well, and the boys hid in an instant.
Jiang Lin said urgently: "Foam box, take it away quickly."
Director Zhou was forced to join the bad guys and took away the foam box.
The two put the things on the table and pretended to ask, "The two villagers from other places haven't arrived yet, where are the two local villagers?"
Director Zhou casually said, "Oh, Pei Xu's mother insisted on taking them to visit her grandmother's house, so the live broadcast will be handed over to you."
Cheng Enyue saw through it but didn't say anything. He walked towards the staff with a serious face. The four people could no longer hide it and walked out smiling and clapping.
Cheng Enyue said with a sly smile, "Chuzhe and I watched the live broadcast all the way here, including the part where you guys were plotting loudly."
Xiang Chuzhe put his left and right hands on Jiang Lin and Pei Xu respectively, and said with a smile: "Hey, didn't you two go to visit your grandmother? How come you have the ability to teleport? Are the chicken legs at your grandmother's house delicious?"
Pei Xu pointed at Jiang Lin and said, "This was Young Master Jiang's idea. He drank a lot of my fruit wine during the New Year, and it has become bad in his stomach."
Jiang Lin teased him: "You are quite decisive in selling out your teammates! I know, everyone who brought local specialties today is your father."
Xiang Chuzhe said, "Oh, with your acting skills, you won't be able to get any roles if you go out."
Director Zhou signaled them to get to the point.
Six people stood in a row at the table. Pei Xu stood in the middle, looking to both sides, and said seriously: "Happy New Year, everyone. First of all, I welcome my five farmhands back to Pei Village. Just kidding, welcome my five brothers home! Applause!"
There was a warm applause at the scene. At that time, there were only three people watching the live broadcast of "Let's Farm Together".
Pei Xu said: "The brothers are very cooperative. Today's live broadcast is mainly to introduce our program to the audience. Next, we will hand it over to our spokesperson Jiang Lin."
Jiang Lin cleared his throat and joked, "Oh, I'm nervous, dear audience friends in the live broadcast room. The industry behind us is the dark red rose seedlings and oil tea seedlings that we brothers and local villagers have planted in the past two months. Welcome everyone to join us in cloud farming. We will choose a certain time period every day for live broadcasts. Welcome everyone to follow our program official account and personal social accounts. We will also update our daily farming. Having said that, are there still viewers wondering why we are here to farm? Then let our brother Pei Xu answer this question."
At this time, the number of online viewers in the live broadcast room has risen to twenty-six.
Pei Xu said slowly: "I completed my undergraduate, master's and doctoral studies in Beijing, a desirable city. Maybe for many young people, going to Beijing is just a matter of buying a plane ticket, a high-speed rail ticket, or a train ticket. It is very easy and simple. But for the middle-aged and elderly people who stay in the village, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou have only been seen on TV. I once asked them why they don't go out and see the world? Even their children invited them to live in the city, but they said, if we old guys go out, who will farm the land at home? You young people don't farm, and my brothers are all from the city. I will first interview them about their first experience of farming."
Xiang Chuzhe said: "My first filming location was in a very remote village, where the villagers made a living by growing sweet potatoes and rice. I helped dig sweet potatoes, and my back was never straight. After digging, I had to pick up the sweet potatoes in the field, which made me covered in dust. Then I had to carry the sweet potatoes home. Some elderly people couldn't carry them alone, so two of them carried a basket together, all by hand. Then I had to select the big and good-looking sweet potatoes and put them into bags, waiting for the boss to come and collect them. The crooked and cracked ones could only be kept to feed poultry, and the purchase price was one yuan. I was so tired that I didn't want to do it anymore. I worked so hard all day and only sold more than two hundred yuan. Farmers said that young people don't want to do farm work because it is hard and dirty, and they don't want to make money, so almost all of them go to work in the city."
Several brothers recounted their first experiences of farming.
Pei Xu concluded facing the camera: "So why do young people want to farm? Our country is a big agricultural country, a big food producer, but also a big consumer. The frequent occurrence of natural disasters has also led to the instability of food production. We Chinese must attach great importance to food security and firmly hold our own rice bowl. But today's population aging problem is serious, and the older generation is gradually not farming, so who will farm our land? In addition, as Yifan just said, the older generation farmed purely by hand, because their cognition and technical level could not combine agriculture with contemporary technology. Today's society is developing rapidly in science and technology and is applied to all walks of life, including agriculture. Intelligence and technology are the general trend of future agricultural development, so who will the future of agriculture depend on?"
Pei Xu spread his hands to signal the brothers standing on both sides of him, and said excitedly: "Of course it depends on us young people! We hope that through our program, we can attract young people to re-examine farming. We also hope that more young people will fall in love with farming and develop agriculture."
Director Zhou excitedly motioned for the teenagers to look at the live broadcast room barrage, and Song Yifan read out: "I returned home to farm after graduating from university. Now I am also a village cadre. I want to rely on my knowledge and ability to drive the development of the village, such as developing e-commerce. I always feel that agriculture is not a retreat, but a sunrise industry."
Pei Xu felt the same way and encouraged the camera: "My classmate, we agree with you. Let's work hard together!"
The number of online viewers in the live broadcast room rose to 121, and the live broadcast came to an end.
Director Zhou encouraged everyone: "Although this live broadcast only had 121 viewers and received one comment, we are very satisfied with this data. I believe that with our sincerity and hard work, we will be able to make the program well and bring some changes to the agricultural development of the village."
When the boys opened the door, a familiar smell hit them.
Song Yifan opened the foam box, "There are no king crabs, but there are prawns!"
Jiang Lin picked up a large shrimp and looked at the camera with sparkling eyes: "This shrimp is half the size of my palm and it's still warm."
"Of course, these are the shrimps my grandma cooked right before I left the house, and they're in a cooler bag."
The teenagers said in unison: "Thank you, grandma."
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