The villagers of Xigou Village saw Su Ye for the first time. They had wanted to see Su Ye for a long time. Everyone in the village knew Su Ye. The rice that everyone was waiting to cook was bought with money raised by her. It was also her suggestion to build a small house in the village. She sent books from the city to the children in the village. If it weren't for her, who knows how many people in the village would have starved to death. How can people not be grateful to her
In order to welcome Su Ye's arrival, the villagers of Xigou Village prepared for a long time, including building a new dormitory for educated youth, the accounting cadres discussed allocating money to buy daily necessities, and steaming buns and boiling tea early this morning.
The secretary carried a bag of sweet potatoes to the county and exchanged them for a long time before he got three pounds of fine grains, just to make some steamed buns. Although the village had no shortage of food, it did not have any fine grains.
Early in the morning, many villagers squatted at the entrance of the village, craned their necks and waited for Su Ye to arrive. Many cadres in the village had seen Su Ye and spread rumors about her. They said she was kind and kind, and although she was a high-level intellectual, she was not arrogant at all. She was the top scorer in this year's college entrance examination, and she gave up the opportunity to study in the best university in the country in order to come to the village.
The cars slowly stopped and a young woman at the head got out. She had fair skin, a round face, a pair of bright black eyes, and was as beautiful as mountain grapes.
The villagers were really surprised. They didn't expect that Teacher Su was so beautiful, so beautiful that it was eye-catching, and she looked like a fashionable city girl.
The villagers came forward enthusiastically to help Su Ye and her husband with their luggage.
The first meal for the students when they arrived at the village was a steamed bun, which was as big as an adult's head. Everyone's eyes sparkled as they ate the fine grains, drinking tea while eating the bun.
Secretary Ma warmly invited Su Ye to his home for dinner, but Su Ye politely declined and ate steamed buns with everyone else.
After lunch, Su Ye, led by Ma Gensheng, visited the primary school, basketball court, tea garden, and brigade branch office. Ma Gensheng enthusiastically introduced to Su Ye: "The children heard that Teacher Su was coming to teach, and 30 new students signed up this fall, and about ten from the neighboring village also came."
The village of Xiaogou is located halfway up the mountain. Su Ye stood on the mountainside and looked down at the whole village. The rice fields in the village had been harvested, and at a glance, the fields looked like a brown ribbon.
Su Ye saw the vast land in the village and asked Ma Gensheng: "Is there any spare land in the village?"
Ma Gensheng had not expected that Su Ye would be so concerned about their food problem. He puffed out his chest proudly and said very positively: "There is a famine right now. We should plant as much food as we can. We are rushing to plant, so why would we leave the land empty? Wouldn't it be a waste? Teacher Su, don't worry. I will make sure everyone works hard this year. There will definitely be no famine in our village next year!"
Captain Ma really misunderstood Su Ye. Su Ye wanted Ruan Ruliang to find a test field. How could there be research without a large test field? Ruan Ruliang wrote to Su Ye a week ago to tell him that he wanted to study sweet potatoes recently.
Although Su Ye also doubted that this Ruan boss was not a real boss and seemed to be a little off track, but of course Su Ye agreed with his desire to study sweet potatoes. Su Ye had to help him solve the problem of experimental fields.
After Ma Gensheng showed them around the small village, he took a group of people to the orchard to pick fruit. What he wrote in the letter was absolutely correct. The village of Xigou was indeed a treasure land, with sweet tea and sweet fruit. There was little arable land in the village, but a lot of mountainous land. It was suitable for growing cash crops such as tea and fruit.
The group of young people went into the orchard as happily as birds into the forest.
They picked a plum from the left and a peach from the right and ate them until their mouths were full of saliva. The villagers did not scold them when they saw them, but were very polite.
Ma Gensheng invited Su Ye to pick some fruit to eat. Su Ye shook his head, hummed and took out ten yuan from his pocket and said, "The money for their fruit will be included in the bill. They are exhausted today, let them eat something good."
How could Ma Gensheng take her money? Not to mention that Su Ye helped them earn more than 6,000 yuan from tea. Besides, those fruits could not be sold at a good price. He was angry with Su Ye for being so mean.
A villager came to inform Su Ye, "Teacher Su, your wife is here and is waiting for you at the entrance of the village!"
Gu Xiangqian is coming? Su Ye looked back in surprise, picked a few peaches and hurried to the village entrance.
She saw the familiar black sedan parked quietly at the entrance of the village, with a slender figure standing next to the car.
The villagers had never seen such a grand thing. A bicycle was enough to make people envious, not to mention a car. For the people in the mountain valley, seeing a car was no different from seeing a rocket. Everyone looked at Su Ye with different eyes.
I didn't expect that Teacher Su, who came from the city, had such a wealthy family.
Su Ye thought Gu Xiangqian was still angry with her, but she didn't expect him to come to the countryside on purpose. She happily opened the car door and got in. The car was full of things, including a mattress, her clothes, shoes, several bags of flour, rice, milk powder, malted milk, and a bag of bulging fruit candies.
"So many things?" Su Ye was shocked. He wanted to empty the house, right
Gu Xiangqian tilted his head and said, "The temperature in the mountains is low and it will be very cold in autumn. You should cover yourself with winter clothes early to keep warm. I will leave for the capital in a few days and won't be at home often. I will bring these things to you this time."
Su Ye didn't want to trouble herself with so much luggage when she traveled. She didn't bring any food, milk powder, or snacks. She would go to the county town to buy them in winter.
She didn't expect Gu Xiangqian to be so considerate, and her heart suddenly felt warm. She kissed him hard, "You are so nice, thank you, Xiangqian!"
The road in the village was too muddy and narrow for the car to reach the dormitory for the educated youths, so Gu Xiangqian helped Su Ye carry all the things to the dormitory: a winter bed, a set of sheets, a bag of clothes, a box of books, and Su Ye's radio and kettle.
Su Ye's stuff was heavy and numerous, but Gu Xiangqian carried it as if he were walking on flat ground, with easy steps. Jianzhi was tall and straight, wearing a pine green suit, which was neatly ironed and outlined a perfect figure. He was full of energy and handsome, as tall and straight as a young poplar.
The girls in the village had never met such a handsome man, and their cheeks flushed when they saw him from a distance. However, when they asked around later, they heard that the people at the entrance of the village said that he was Teacher Su's husband, and their hearts were broken.
Gu Xiangqian looked at her accommodation and found it was not bad, not as bad as he had imagined. After he helped Su Ye tidy up the room, he took out a lunch box from the car. The lunch box contained delicious dishes, including soup dumplings made by Master Yang, sweet and sour spare ribs, and a can of bone soup.
"I asked Master Yang to make this. Have some."
Su Ye was so happy when she saw the food that Master Yang cooked. She held the lunch box and started to eat it vigorously. "It's so delicious. I guess it will be hard for me to eat Master Yang's food in the future."
Gu Xiangqian said coldly: "Who do you blame?"
Su Ye knew that it was better to keep his mouth shut, "Strange, strange."
Gu Xiangqian took out a cigarette from his luggage and walked towards the village branch office. It seemed that he was going to have a talk with the village cadres.
She felt like crying so much that she quickly pulled him back to stop him from leaving. "That's enough, Xiang Qian. You underestimate me too much! I'll take you to drink some authentic tea."
Su Ye took out a cake of tea from the dormitory, added water and brewed the tea three times. Wisps of mist rose up, and the tea was clear and sweet, more fragrant and sweeter than the tea he drank at home.
After drinking tea, Gu Xiangqian was about to go back.
Before leaving, he reminded me: "If you can't bear the hardship, don't force yourself. When you are settled there, you can send a telegram. There will be a new contact information for me. You can go to the county once a week and call me. There is also a car ready to keep you for your convenience. I will remit the gasoline coupons you provide every month."
How good is that? Su Ye was almost moved to tears by Gu Xiangqian. It would indeed be much more convenient to have a car.
Gu Xiangqian paused for a moment and asked Su Ye: "Do you know how to drive a car now? I taught you how to drive a car before. You can practice more on your own in the open space at the entrance of the village."
You have to know how to do it. Su Ye is a person with five years of driving experience. In those days, most of the means of transportation were bicycles and human-powered tricycles, and there were few cars on the streets. Driving licenses were not introduced until cars became popular, and people who drove cars often knew how to drive directly to the road.
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As the sun sets, the students return to the educated youth center, well-fed and exhausted from playing, with growing doubts in their hearts.
Li Ming held his round belly with his hands and said contentedly, "The people in this village are quite polite. They gave us steamed buns when we first arrived. It's nothing like what those educated youth on the train said."
If the educated youth living in the shabby hut next door heard these words, they would definitely be furious. Are the people in Dagou Village polite? I'm afraid they haven't heard the saying that there are more unruly people in poor and remote areas.
There were a total of 12 educated youth who followed Su Ye this time. Among them, only Liu Gang had been to Dagou Village before. Liu Gang then became a popular figure among the educated youth.
Liu Gang explained the situation like pouring beans, "They are not being polite to you. You don't know that our teacher Su has done a favor to the whole village. The money for the village to buy food was circulated by her. They are doing this for the sake of our teacher Su. We should not embarrass her and defame her!"
"You have to be more careful when you work tomorrow and put in more effort, understand?"
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The next day.
Su Ye drove to the Agricultural Technical School, and the car drove out of the village, staring at a group of farmers in amazement. They looked at the teacher from the city, Su, curiously, and saw how the expensive car disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The farmers were amazed and said, "Teacher Su is such a big shot!"
Another said: "How come such a powerful person came to our village?"
An hour later, Su Ye arrived at the school and found Ruan Ruliang. He had just finished class and his face was covered in mud. When he saw Su Ye coming, he waved happily.
He held up a plate of lush green seedlings and handed them over with great interest.
Su Ye came over suspiciously, stared at the green seedlings on the plate and asked, "What do you want?"
Ruan Ruliang said enthusiastically: "The 'Red Star Sweet Potato' I recently planted is expected to achieve a yield of 10,000 catties per mu."
Su Ye was so shocked that she almost threw the plate and left. She held the plate and looked at Ruan Ruliang in silence. Is this really the big boss she wants to find? His words sounded like a liar.
It was not until Su Ye's time that sweet potato yields of 10,000 catties per mu were achieved, and Ruan Ruliang's 10,000 catties per mu sounded like a lie. But the research on hybrid rice did start with the discovery of parthenosexual sterile plants, and only Ruan Ruliang noticed this.
Su Ye tried to save the situation again, "Teacher Ruan, you can try rice. Sweet potatoes are not as delicious as rice. Rice is our staple food. If the rice yield can be increased, everyone will have rice to eat. Isn't that a wonderful thing?"
Ruan Ruliang adjusted his glasses and took the plate back with some shame. "I am so ashamed. I have not studied rice and I don't understand rice. I can't mislead Teacher Su this time. It is very difficult to increase the yield of rice. It is very delicate and has many genetic diseases. Why... Teacher Su doesn't believe in my sweet potatoes?"
He angrily took back the seedlings from the Su leaves and said stubbornly, "Young people, don't be so unrealistic. Having enough food is the most important thing now. Sweet potatoes have the largest yield and are grown all over the country. They are drought-resistant and salt-alkali-resistant. Teacher Su, don't underestimate them."
After all, Ruan Ruliang was counting on getting a test field from Su Ye, so he made such a bold statement. Fearing that Su Ye would not trust him, Ruan Ruliang explained: "The long-term goal is to produce 10,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes. Last year, we cultivated the 'Red Star Sweet Potato' and planted it on three-tenths of private plot. The yield was able to reach 6,000 kilograms. But if we plant it again this spring, its offspring will not have the high-yielding characteristics of its father."
"I want to find out why this happens. If the experiment goes well, a yield of 7,000 to 8,000 kilograms will not be a problem. I always believe that the sweet potato yield can reach 10,000 kilograms..."
How could Su Ye underestimate it? The sweet potatoes produced 10,000 kilograms per mu. She was already thinking about the potential of her research on hybrid rice.
After Ruan Ruliang's explanation, Su Ye reluctantly believed that Ruan Ruliang was reliable. Given how stingy he usually was in the live broadcast room, grading homework for a week could only be exchanged for one kilogram of rice. How could he suddenly be so generous as to donate 600 kilograms of food
The live broadcast room reminds the anchor not to speculate on key information, which can easily mislead himself, and a highlighted reminder message will pop up in the live broadcast room.
The comments started to discuss: Right host, maybe the reward will give you a chance to go to the countryside and save lives
I think that giving a reward is a way of approving Mr. Su's going to the countryside, but it is not necessarily an affirmation of Ruan Ruliang's research on rice.
I'm thinking hard, okay? I agree with Mr. Su's idea and give Ruan Ruliang a vote.
Is it faster for Professor Su to study hybrid rice himself? After all, if you rely on a mountain, the mountain will fall; if you rely on people, they will run away.
Su Ye saw Ruan Ruliang's nervous expression and said with a narrowed eyes, "I have been assigned to the production brigade of the Gougou Village and am communicating with the brigade leader. I want you to provide me with 10 mu of land as an experimental field and find a dozen students to help me."
Ruan Ruliang's face regained its cheerful look. "Now is the season for intercropping summer potatoes. I can go to the village to see the experimental fields on the weekend! Ten assistants are too many, Teacher Su."
What he was thinking was that there were only 10 mu of land in total, and 10 students would not be too many! These students could take good care of the land, and he would record the data every day. He would go to the fields to check when there was a strong wind, and he would also record it when there was a heavy rain. He would make sure he had everything clear!