Sadiq came here to convey the meaning of the thought leaders of City X, wanting to hold a harvest celebration event to spread the word about growing rice in the desert.
This is a win-win thing. It can not only become a political achievement for the city, but also make the new rice variety known to more people, which will be of great benefit to the promotion in the future.
Therefore, after Chen Mu heard Sadiq's words, he immediately agreed in his heart.
However, this is Cheng Zijun's farm after all. He turned his head to look at Cheng Zijun and said, "This is Brother Cheng's farm. Whether we want to hold this celebration depends on his opinion."
Cheng Zijun actually had no objection.
He, a second generation who had no worries about food and clothing, ran to such a barren desert to farm, because he wanted to realize his own life value.
The value of life is inseparable from the measure of "fame and fortune", and now there is such an opportunity to make a splash, of course there is nothing wrong with it.
Seeing that Chen Mu and Cheng Zijun had no objections, Sadiq was very happy: "Then we will make an agreement, and I will call the city immediately and tell them the news."
Chen Mu thought for a while, then suddenly said: "Wait a minute, Uncle Sadiq, there is still one thing we need to discuss first."
"What's up?"
Sadiq looked at Chen Mu puzzled.
Chen Mu said: "Since we want to hold a celebration ceremony, we must spend money. Who will pay for it?"
Sadiq frowned: "You are too stingy, you guys are holding a celebration ceremony, of course you have to pay for the money."
Chen Mu laughed and said, "That's not okay. We're cooperating vigorously for the city's publicity. You can't let a small company like ours work hard and pay money, can you?"
Sadik glanced at him angrily, and said, "I knew you would be like this... Well, the city has already agreed that special funds will be pulled out for this celebration, don't worry."
"That's fine, then I'll be fine."
"Okay, I'll call the city right now."
After quickly finalizing the matter, Sadiq left the farm happily.
The daytime passed quickly.
In the evening, Liu Fang booked a banquet at a restaurant in the town, and invited the female doctor's team and everyone on the farm to eat.
Chen Mu secretly asked the Uighur girl while he was full of wine and food: "This director Liu has been with you and Yang Guo for a day. What did he tell you? Now it's a meeting and a banquet. What does he want to do?" ?”
The Uighur girl said: "Actually, the food production in Xinjiang and Qixi Province is not high. They have always wanted to introduce sea rice, so when they heard that Guo'er came, they wanted to ask about the situation."
"Sea rice?"
Chen Mu frowned: "Don't we have a new variety of rice here? Why does he want to introduce sea rice? Why don't you help us promote it if you have the time? Well, didn't you introduce it to him?"
The Uighur girl shook her head and said, "You don't understand, Guo'er said, the leaders of their units value practical results most, and the production of sea rice has been verified and meets their needs.
As for us... Well, there is no way, we don't have much experience in large-scale planting, and they won't consider it at the moment. "
Chen Mu thought about it, and combined with what Cheng Zijun told him before, he also understood a little bit.
It's not that people don't like new varieties of rice, but that new varieties of rice are still too new, and people don't want to take the risk.
The Uighur girl went on to say: "However, Director Liu also asked me a lot about our new rice variety today. It is estimated that in a year or two, when we have more and more experience in large-scale planting, he should consider it. Promote our products in the province."
Chen Mu nodded helplessly: "It seems that this is the only way to go."
the next day.
What Chen Mu didn't expect was that Sadiq had just agreed yesterday that the city would send people to interview and publicize, and today they came to the farm.
Moreover, not one or two people came, but a whole film crew.
"This is too exaggerated, is this going to be a special program?"
Chen Mu looked at these film crews, and after they arrived, they hurriedly started to set up, which really made him feel a little exaggerated.
The first person to be interviewed was of course the owner of the farm—Cheng Zijun.
A host asked Cheng Zijun many questions, and asked Cheng Zijun to talk in detail about the original intention, process and some difficulties of farming in the Northwest. Anyway, it felt more like a documentary.
Afterwards, the Uighur girl was also interviewed.
As the inventor of a new variety of rice, the host spent more time with the Uighur girl, asking many weird and tricky questions, and the Uighur girl answered them all in detail.
It took a whole day, and the film crew shot a lot of things on the farm, including rice fields and desert scenes as material, and then left.
But before the filming crew left, the old brother who led the team pulled Chen Mu and Cheng Zijun to talk for a while, and didn't leave immediately.
At the beginning, Chen Mu and Cheng Zijun felt that this person was a bit condescending, so they actually asked them to talk about the hardships of work, such as "it's not easy to be on the TV station" and "it's hard to go out on location". .
But gradually, both Chen Mu and Cheng Zijun realized that something was wrong. This man talked endlessly, feeling a little procrastinated.
Before the two of them could get over it, the female doctor Yang Guo had already seen the clues, she directly pulled Chen Mu aside, and said in a low voice, "Hurry up and give everyone a red envelope, and he will leave."
"scare?"
Chen Mu's heart began to flow, didn't he agree that he would not spend money, why did he still want to pack red envelopes
Yang Guo said: "These are the editors and editors of the TV station's location. It's not easy to travel outside, so let's get rid of it quickly."
Chen Mu could only follow what Yang Guo said, and wrapped red envelopes for everyone and sent them over.
"Thank you, Mr. Chen, we will come again in a few days, and we will definitely take pictures of your sickle-opening ceremony."
The man accepted the red envelope and was finally willing to let go of Chen Mu and Cheng Zijun. After saying something with a smile, he got in the car and left the farm.
Cheng Zijun shook his head and said with a smile: "So that's what happened... I don't want to explain it clearly. If I had to explain it earlier, I would have given it to him."
Chen Mu glanced at Cheng Zijun: "It's not too late to give it now. I'll give you the money first. It's five thousand in total. You can pay it back to me."
Cheng Zijun coughed lightly, and said, "I won't pay the money. It's obviously you who want to give it yourself. Why do you call it a deposit for me first?"
"Hey, Brother Cheng, it's unreasonable for you to say that. They are interviewing your farm, so you should pay the money."
"Then their main purpose is not to interview your new rice variety?"
Cheng Zijun snorted coldly, turned his head and left: "Anyway, I don't care, I won't pay the money!"