I Got Rich in Period Fiction
Chapter 239: A Bountiful Harvest

Chapter 239: Chapter 239: A Bountiful Harvest

Li Mingguang felt wronged and rubbed his chest, "How could I know what she’s going to do next if I don’t say it like that? Besides, if I don’t say it that way, she wouldn’t give me the candy."

Dashun said, puzzled, from the side, "What does the woman want to do next?"

"Nothing good, anyway."

He Xuerong huffed angrily. She felt very concerned because her little uncle was handsome, and she had to be responsible for dealing with the women who always came to him under the pretext of caring for her.

Otherwise, the little aunt couldn’t keep up.

"I want candy," Daji said pitifully from the side.

"No!" He Xuerong felt unhappy. The candy was something she had received in exchange for being scolded and beaten.

She took all the candy and stuffed it into her little crossbody bag, then turned and ran toward home.

Xiao Hu was downcast.

Dashun and Daji comforted him from either side, and Xiao Hu’s eyes flickered, "Go home and get your tools. Let’s go dig for treasure in the poplar forest to the east."

Hearing about digging for treasure, Dashun and Daji cheered and ran towards their homes.

Xiao Hu chased off in the direction of He Xuerong.

...

The autumn harvest had already begun.

These past few days, Xiaxi Commune and the base were bustling with activity.

It was the base’s first year of autumn harvest, and while it wasn’t Xiaxi Commune’s first year, it was the first year they achieved a great harvest for cabbages and radishes.

In addition to the cabbages and radishes allocated to commune members, they also sold a part to institutions in Yushu County.

Just from that, they made more than five thousand yuan.

As for the base, it was all for their own consumption.

In the newly dug large vegetable cellar, they stored the winter supply of cabbage and radishes.

With this alone, they had saved more than 30,000 yuan.

This money saved was spent on scientific research, creating many precision parts.

Thousand silk hemp’s economic benefit was not calculated by yield per acre but rather by overall economic efficiency.

Xiaxi Commune’s eight hundred acres of thousand silk hemp experimental field brought in an estimated net income of more than 30,000 yuan.

Qiao Qingyu harvested over ten yuan from her three thousand acres, with Qiao Qingyu earning more than sixty thousand yuan.

The efficiency of thousand silk hemp was the most significant; it had the same growing costs as castor planted in other places, but the benefits more than tripled.

Qiao Qingyu kept ten thousand yuan worth of thousand silk hemp seeds for herself, and the rest were handed over to Xiaxi Commune and Lu Ye to handle.

The money came in very quickly, directly from the provincial capital, and Qiao Qingyu received fifty thousand yuan directly.

The remaining two thousand three hundred acres of thousand silk hemp seeds were decided by the provincial capital to be kept for sowing.

This meant that next year, there would be tens of thousands of acres of thousand silk hemp to improve the barren land.

Of course, the main crops were still irreplaceable.

Harvest Commune had a lot of barren land, and the main planting plan was still thousand silk hemp and Barley Grass.

Vice Director Qian kept twenty thousand yuan worth of seeds, with the rest of the money going into the commune’s finances.

Before the year even ended, according to labor contributions, commune members from Xiaxi Commune involved in the planting of thousand silk hemp received as much as ninety yuan, while the least amount anyone received was forty yuan.

This did not include the year-end work points and grain.

In an instant, the area surrounding Xiaxi Commune was abuzz like a pot set to boil.

In Panquan Village, the whole village lived in mud houses, with one household to the west of the village.

They lived in the most dilapidated three-room mud house.

He was from a member’s family in Panquan Village, Wang Laogen’s household.

He was the one facing the most hardship in the village.

How severe were their hardships...

It was literally walls without possessions, his parents were ill all year round, and with six children in the household, the eldest was fifteen years old, already working in the fields early. Even though the third and fourth children didn’t share one pair of pants with several siblings like some families did, their pants were layer upon layer of patches anyway.

In the summer, to save on shoes, whether boys or girls, they all went barefoot.

Of the four laborers in their family, only Wang Laogen was the main breadwinner, while the others could only earn half work points, yet they had just received two hundred yuan after this year’s autumn harvest.

That income came from planting thousand silk hemp.

Wang Laogen’s hands trembled as he held the money; it was the first time in his life he had held this much money.

The people queued up behind him were not envious because some of them had received even more than Wang Laogen did.

Feeling as though he was in a dream, Wang Laogen made his way home, one unsteady step after another.

However, when he reached his doorstep and saw his anxiously waiting wife, he took her and headed toward the outskirts of the village.

After walking for four hours, they arrived at the big market of the commune.

He bought cotton and fabric, a bottle of soy sauce, and five pounds of noodles—his old mother had always wanted to eat noodles mixed with soy sauce.

He bought a pound of meat, half a pound of sugar...

He bought a scarf for his wife, who had married into hardship, swallowing bitter sustenance without a day of comfort.

Wang Laogen bought items while shedding tears.

But as he cried, he soon began to smile. The elders often said that things would get better later on. After waiting fifteen years for ’later,’ it had finally arrived.

The joy brought by the harvest was indeed an overnight change.

All the past hardships and exhaustions were worth it.

Qiao Qingyu, having heard about it, was deeply moved. She wasn’t naive—forget that it was only 1980; even a decade later, many people would still be struggling on the poverty line.

Next was the time to start digging up potatoes. This time, He Xiuyu specially took a day off. The head of logistics, Old Xie, led a group of people, and in one day, they dug up all five acres of potatoes.

After weighing, they had harvested thirty-two thousand pounds of potatoes.

An average yield of over six thousand pounds per acre.

Such a yield would still be considered high even after several decades, showing that Qiao Qingyu had effectively skipped decades of progression to reach the level of high-quality seed and scientific farming.

Qiao Qingyu kept five hundred pounds of potatoes for her own family’s consumption, and the rest was taken by Old Xie to the new large vegetable cellar at the base farm, where they preserved it scientifically and properly under Professor Feng’s direction.

These potatoes were not to be eaten; they were all kept as seeds.

Director Xie had initially planned to give some potatoes as a benefit to middle and senior managers, but Professor Feng firmly opposed the idea.

So, everyone was quite envious of Qiao Qingyu, who had five hundred pounds of potatoes.

So wealthy, such a sight.

Lucky for him, the potatoes he had allocated were about to be transported to the base as well.

After the potato harvest in the Northeast, there was a term called "walking the potatoes," meaning to turn over the ground where potatoes had been harvested once more, since no matter how careful one is, some are always missed.

Unexpectedly, after dozens of family members turned over the potato field, they found only a few dozen potatoes, frustrating them tremendously.

They felt they had been made fools of, tilling for the farm for nothing, and even became a laughing stock to others.

...

Afterward, the Qiao Family Team sent ten thousand pounds of corn and three thousand pounds of soybean seeds.

The corn harvest was abundant; the Qiao Family Team had good soil and were meticulous in their farming, coupled with favorable weather this year, the average yield per acre astonishingly reached two thousand eight hundred pounds, setting a new record.

Natural it led to large-scale promotion and planting.

Qiao Genbao came along this time, while Uncle Qiao and Sun Dazhang were busy handing over tasks. By the way, Qiao Zhiyuan had now been officially appointed as the Qiao Family Team Leader, and Sun Dazhang had become the Vice Director Sun of the Harvest Commune.

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