At first, Xiao didn't take this matter seriously. He just thought that the sun was too strong today and the seedlings were suppressed, so he asked Xiao Heguo to wait for a few days to see.
Unexpectedly, after a few days, Xiao Heguo did not come, but the captains of other villages came, and they reported the same thing.
The same problem occurred in every village, and it was related to food. It was a serious matter, so we immediately organized an investigation team to go to each village to check the situation.
It doesn't matter if you check it out, because once you check it out you'll find a big problem.
Not only did the rice seedlings in the field stop growing, but chlorotic yellow-white spots appeared on the underside of the leaves, and reddish-brown spots and irregular patches appeared on the leaves, which gradually expanded and spread to the entire leaf. The leaf tips dried up, and the roots rotted and turned brown.
Experts in the county said that this is due to a lack of trace elements. Simply put, the rice seedlings are lacking nutrients and need zinc supplementation.
How could a bunch of uneducated rural peasants understand these professional terms? But they understood what the experts said: "If we don't find a way to remedy the situation, we may end up with nothing in the second half of the year."
All of a sudden, it felt like the sky was falling down, and some team leaders even fell to the ground with weak legs.
When the village head Shang Haoquan saw this, he was angry that they could not show up, so he decided to let the highly educated educated youth from each village to assist in the development of the work.
So Xiaojia Village nominated Ding Mao and Zhou Rang because they looked the most reliable and had read the most books.
Although Zhou Rang was an educated youth who had just arrived this year, Xiao Heguo had dealt with him many times and felt that he had a good eye for people, so he arranged for him.
When the two arrived at the village, they first followed a group of cadres to listen to experts explain professional knowledge, and then learned two rescue methods.
First, buy zinc-supplemented fertilizer, buy as much as you can.
First, buy some more vegetable seeds in case of emergency. If the rice seedlings fail, just dig out the failed seedlings and plant other vegetables. Plant as many as you can.
In order not to cause panic among the villagers, Xi Xi decided to conceal the incident before finding a solution. The team leader and the village party secretary were responsible for calming people's hearts. They should do what they did before and make sure the villagers didn't notice anything unusual.
The representatives of the educated youth followed the relevant cadres to the county town to buy fertilizers and seeds.
The group went straight to the Agricultural Bureau in Sang'an County. However, when the other party heard that they were here to buy fertilizers and seeds, their faces changed and they went straight to the point and told them to go to the municipal bureau to buy them, as the ones in the county had already been bought by other companies.
Then the group took a bus to Huizhou City. Unexpectedly, the letter of introduction issued by them was like waste paper in this urban area. The Seed Management Bureau did not buy it at all, not to mention its superior Agricultural Bureau.
The staff just sent you away with a simple "no fertilizer, no seeds, wait for notification" and didn't even let you in. They simply didn't take us, the cadres from the countryside, seriously.
We knew that the other party looked down on us, but there was nothing we could do. Now they were the ones asking for help, so we could only be humble and visit them several times.
Seeing that they were determined to do so, others were willing to give them some inside information.
It turned out that they were not the only one experiencing this situation. Similar situations had occurred in several county towns under Huizhou City, and dozens of counties under the county towns.
Fertilizers and seeds are hard to come by now. The Municipal Agriculture Bureau's stock has long been transferred to the subordinate county agriculture bureaus. Now there are only a few large supply and marketing companies that sell a few bags of fertilizers and seeds, and you usually need a ticket to go to such places.
How could the Red Sun Bank come up with so many fertilizer and food coupons at once?
Therefore, the group stayed in Huizhou City for a few days but didn't buy much fertilizer and seeds. Every day they had a headache about how to report back. As the deadline given by the company was approaching, everyone became anxious and angry.
Zhou Rang came to the table and slowly poured himself a glass of water. After drinking it in one gulp, he looked at Ding Mao who was carefully looking through his nylon bag and said slowly, "I found a way to get a lot of fertilizers and seeds on the black market."
"Don't touch the black market. This time I will assume that you bought it from the supply and marketing company. No matter how much money you paid, I will make you reimburse me." Ding Mao rested his hands on the table, his voice low and weak.
Hearing this, Zhou Rang did not look directly at him, but turned his head to look elsewhere, glanced at the calendar placed on the bedside, and said indifferently: "Without fertilizers and seeds, everyone may starve to death in the second half of the year."
Ding Mao's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he said softly, "How can it be so serious? Will the higher-ups just sit there and watch the people starve to death?"
"Sometimes, benefits are not comprehensive enough." Zhou Rang slowly spit out the reality.
"If the entire city of Huizhou is like this, how will the surrounding cities be any different?"
Ding Mao's eyes moved rapidly. After thinking for a moment, he couldn't find any words to refute, so he slammed the table, making a loud "bang".
The room fell silent for a while. After a while, Zhou Rang said again: "In fact, it is not difficult to turn black into white. Bring the things in the dark to the light, and everything can be solved."
"Do you have a solution?" Ding Mao raised his head, squinted his eyes and stared at Zhou Rang, trying to find out his true emotions from this extremely calm face.
Zhou Rang tilted his head, curled the corners of his lips, and suddenly smiled.
"certainly."
After a pause of a few seconds, he continued: "We need your help. You have a certain say in the village, and you know a lot of people here, so I'll leave it to you to persuade them."
Ding Mao was dazzled by his dazzling appearance and quickly looked away. His eyeballs moved restlessly for a few times, as if he had come up with an idea. Then he looked up at him again, his eyes became much calmer, and there was a look of pretending to be calm.
"T."
Zhou Rang nodded, and the two looked at each other and exchanged a knowing look, both understanding that this was a signal for a deal.
"It's getting late. Take care." Zhou Rang made a gesture to see Ding Mao off, indicating that he should leave.
The latter stood up and walked towards the door. Before turning the doorknob, he suddenly turned around and looked at Zhou Rang, puzzled: "Who are you? How could you open up the black market channels in Huiyang City in just a few days?"
Some people may have lived in Huizhou all their lives and still not know where the black market is.
Zhou Rang had only been in Xiaojia Village for two months. As far as he knew, Zhou Rang had absolutely no chance to come to Huizhou City during these two months, except for this time when he came here with his father to buy fertilizers and seeds.
Moreover, most of the time he was running around following everyone else, leaving him with very little personal free time.
In such a short period of time, one can find out the location of a city's black market and find channels to purchase large quantities of fertilizers and seeds.
Zhou Rang is definitely not a simple person.
After listening to the questioning, the person just leaned against the wall, smiled faintly and said nothing, obviously not intending to tell.
Ding Mao knew that he couldn't pry open his mouth, so he frowned, but didn't ask any more questions. He just opened the door and left.
The door was slammed shut, and Zhou Rang was the only one left in the room.
After standing against the wall in silence for a while, Zhou Rang took out an exquisitely wrapped gift box from his trouser pocket, rubbed it with his slender fingers for a moment, and then put it away.
Murmuring: "She will like it, right?"
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