1994: Vegetable farmers strike back

Chapter 85 Two Old Drunkards

The four men squatted on the ridge of the field and explained their plan to gamble on the market to the three men. Chen Jiazhi then said:
"Now you have to prepare for the management of the crops during the dog days of summer. July and August are the two most difficult months for managing leafy vegetables, so follow my instructions carefully.

Whether you continue to follow me or go out on your own, these two months are the key period for making money every year."

The three of them nodded without hesitation. Ao Dehai asked, "Do we need to continue sowing cauliflower?"

Chen Jiazhi: "Yes, not only choy sum, but also kale and mustard greens will keep up and there will be no shortage. This is a big test. I will explain some management details to you later on the spot."

Leafy vegetable farming is labor-intensive agriculture.

However, summer leafy vegetable cultivation in Huacheng is a "technology-intensive agriculture".

The incidence of diseases and insect pests caused by high temperature and high humidity is extremely high.

High temperatures and strong sunlight cause leafy vegetables such as Chinese cabbage to sprout quickly and their stems to become fibrous. That is, when you buy Chinese cabbage, the white center of the stem is hollow, the taste is greatly reduced, and it tastes bitter.

Finally, there is the threat of heavy rain, floods and typhoons.

To manage well, technical and management details are closely linked.

If it were twenty or thirty years later, even if you overcame these factors, you might not make money because there was no price. Kunming cabbage would often be sold at a price of 5 cents per pound, which crushed the market.

But now it is possible.

It is inconvenient to transport vegetables from other places, there are various road bullies and vegetable bullies, and the industry is not developed.

Most local farmers choose to give up planting due to cost and awareness reasons, so as long as the vegetables are grown, they will definitely make money.

Qi Yongfeng and others are still not very clear about the difficulty of growing Chinese cabbage in summer.

does not matter.

Chen Jiazhi knew that he would guide them through this experience step by step and accumulate successful experience.

There was enough open space, so we stopped tilling the soil for the time being.

In the morning, apart from watering the crops and thinning out the seedlings, the men did no other work and returned home before 10 o'clock.

Chen Jiafang and Li Xiu were already busy at the back door, while Yi Dinggan was listening to Teresa Teng's On the Waterside on the radio, and he was listening intently.

Chen Jiazhi washed his hands and went to the back door to help prepare the dishes. When Chen Jiafang saw him coming in to help, she started to chase him away.

"Go away, I don't need your help here."

"Can't you take a break? Learn more from your brother-in-law. You haven't stopped all day. You're not tired at all, are you?"

Chen Jiazhi's computer was down for a moment, so there's nothing wrong with him wanting to help. His cooking isn't bad, is it?
Li Xiu glanced at him, as if seeing through what he was thinking.

"You don't have to show off as if you can do everything by yourself. We'll cook, and you go take a nap. If that doesn't work, you can play chess with Brother Yi for a while. It's been a while since I saw you two play chess."

"Oh."

Chen Jiazhi was confused and didn't know what was wrong with these two women today.

Yi Dinggan also heard the movement at the back door and shouted, "Brother, come on, let's kill a few. Li Xiu is right. It's been a while since I played chess."

"alright."

Twenty minutes later, Yi Dinggan was once again killed by Chen Jiazhi using the "Wo Cao Ma Sha" move.

"Brother, why are you using this horse so insidiously now?"

"If you lose, you lose."

Chen Jiazhi was secretly proud of himself because both the 'chariot' and 'cannon' chess pieces moved in a straight line. In their previous lives, they had played chess for decades and often fought to a standstill. It was not until his eldest son taught him a dozen or so killer moves for the horse that the weights on the scale began to tilt.

After playing a game of chess, Chen Jiafang and Li Xiu started serving the dishes without letting the two of them help.

The two of them opened their beer and started eating and drinking.

Spicy chicken, stewed pork ribs with winter melon, steamed grass carp, prawns, oysters, stir-fried amaranth, and their own Sichuan style stir-fried choy sum.

A large table of food.

By the time Li Xiu and Chen Jiafang came to the table, they had each finished a bottle of beer and opened the second one.

The two black and white puppies were not afraid of giving birth. They were gnawing on the bones under the table, shaking their heads and tails. After they finished gnawing, they waited eagerly for food to be fed.

……

You definitely can’t finish a table full of food.

In order to cultivate a relationship with the two dogs, Chen Jiazhi kept throwing pieces of uneaten ribs on the ground.

After a while, the two dogs were circling under his feet, looking at him with flattering eyes from time to time.

Yi Dinggan asked, "Jiazhi, when do you plan to release the dog to your warehouse?"

Chen Jiazhi: "It's still a little small. Let's keep it for a month or two. We can release it when it grows up a bit. There's no rush now."

Chen Jiafang said, "Fertilizer is quite expensive right now, you have to be careful. Luckily, your brother Yi listened to you and stocked up in advance, otherwise it would be painful to buy it now."

Fertilizer prices have risen again.

However, Chen Jiazhi no longer has to worry about this problem until the end of the year.

Li Xiu peeled a large shrimp and put it in Chen Jiazhi's bowl: "Eat the shrimp. I see you haven't touched your chopsticks."

Chen Jiazhi nodded and put a bite into his mouth to chew, "Mm, it's delicious, you guys should eat more too."

He doesn't have the habit of peeling shrimps for others.

In his previous life, Li Xiu had always peeled shrimps for him. Later, when he brought his son to live with him, his son learned to peel shrimps for him. When his son was unwilling to peel shrimps, hey, he had a grandson, and his grandson was happy to peel shrimps for him.

However, when Li Xiu peeled several for him in a row, he silently picked up some food for Li Xiu.

After eating and drinking, the four of them didn't rush to clean up. Instead, they listened to the radio.

It was a rare opportunity to sit together and chat, about growing vegetables and family matters. The two puppies, after eating, dozed off on the ground. Chen Jiafang said, "Your third sister and her family wrote to me and are coming over at the end of the month. But she said she'll be looking for a job and might not be here to grow vegetables."

Chen Jiazhi had anticipated this: "Well, let's talk about it when we get over here. By the way, how are the old man and the old lady?"

Chen Jiafang: "It's still the same, growing some crops, playing cards, I have a stutter anyway.

My parents also told me to remember to bring them news when Li Xiu is born."

Chen Jiazhi thought for a moment and said, "Second sister, I want to bring my parents to Huacheng next year. They're getting older, and if they get sick, there's no one to take care of them."

Chen Jiafang: "Don't think that everything will happen at once. How could they possibly come?"

Chen Jiazhi: "Hehe, when Li Xiu is born, he wants to see his grandson. Then I will give him some money back. Do you think I can trick him into coming?"

When his father was in his forties, he was injured by a detonator while blasting a mountain to build a hydroelectric power station. He became deaf and retired early.

But building hydroelectric power stations and blasting mountains everywhere all year round means traveling all over the country.

Although his hearing was not very good, he could read and write, so traveling long distances was no problem for him.

In addition, she wanted to have a grandson, and Jiazhi could also make money now. Chen Jiafang was stunned for a moment and felt that it was really possible.

"Let's wait until the baby is brought out first. It's still unclear whether it's a boy or a girl."

After saying that, he stood up to clear the dishes. Li Xiu also cleaned the table and went to the back door to wash the dishes.

Chen Jiazhi looked at her back and suddenly remembered that there seemed to be some discord between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law?!

We can only take one step at a time and see one step at a time.

This had not happened in their previous life. The two of them could not make money farming and had to work in a factory.

The eldest son was eventually taken back to his hometown by his second sister and raised by his parents since childhood.

He and Li Xiu are also away from home all year round.

It was not until my father passed away that I brought my mother and two sons together, and that was when the conflicts between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law began.

My parents both drank alcohol, at noon and at night. After my father passed away, my mother started drinking in the morning as well.

My father was still a heavy smoker, smoking leaf tobacco all year round. He died of stomach cancer and liver cancer at the age of 72, and passed away very suddenly.

My mother also died of liver cancer at the age of seventy-six.

Everything was fine when my father was alive. After he passed away, the doctor also suggested that my mother quit drinking. After that, Li Xiu stopped letting my mother drink.

I get up early in the morning and drink secretly.

One time, Li Xiu, who happened to be returning home, saw this and scolded her. Then my mother told everyone that Li Xiu was not good to her.

Then she went to her three sisters' homes many times, but they also didn't let her drink.
In the end, she still had to look for her most beloved little one.

It is still twelve years before my father passes away, and his health is not that bad. If he drinks less and has more check-ups, he will have no problem living to 80.

Not to mention my mother, she has always been in good health. As long as my father is still alive, she will definitely live many more years.

But he is the only one who can control these two old stubborn people.

So I have to get it around.

He just drinks it too.
Chen Jiazhi subconsciously looked at the wine bottle placed against the wall.

How about quitting drinking?
My alcohol addiction is not that serious now, unlike twenty or thirty years later, when I tried to quit drinking several times but gave up halfway.

Growing vegetables is tiring.

Drinking alcohol can relieve fatigue.

But Li Mingkun has been growing vegetables all his life even though he doesn't drink.

In his previous life, he was away from home for many years and had little time to fulfill his filial duties. He wanted his parents to live a few more years, so it was necessary to make sure they drank less.

One drink a day is enough, but you drink three times a day. How can you not get liver cancer?
In his previous life, whenever his parents fell ill, they would ask Li Xiu to go back. He had to travel from Shanghai to his hometown three or five times a year.

Li Xiu didn't want to go back, so he insisted on going back by himself. At that time, he had a high income, and going back would delay him for at least seven or eight days.

Li Xiu had no choice but to compromise every time, go back to accompany them to see the doctor, and persuade the two old and young to drink some wine.

However, it is time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly.

Still not pleasing.

The two had a lot of conflicts over this.

Now that I have the financial means in this life, I naturally have the ability to bring both of them over, and they can also help take care of the children and cook.

If you have any health problems, he can take you to the doctor at any time, and he can also control your drinking.

The whole family followed him.

Buy a house in Huacheng as soon as possible~
As for the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, there is no big problem with my father around.

Not only did Li Xiu listen to him, but even though his father was deaf, he still had a high economic status and always had the final say at home.

As long as he lives one more day, I can't make any waves.

The only problem is quitting drinking.
In their previous lives, the two sons were influenced by their family and also drank alcohol, but after they became independent, they both said they would quit drinking and then they really quit.

He didn't believe that he was not even as good as his son.

"Brother Yi, I'm planning to quit drinking. Do you want to join me?!"

Brother Yi is not a gambler, but he is a drunkard and has made many jokes. It would be better to eliminate this unexpected factor as soon as possible.

Yi Dinggan was stunned: "Why would you quit drinking when you're good to go?!"

(End of this chapter)