Siheyuan Fortune Telling: Starting from a Buyer to Become an All-rounder

Xu Dongsheng rode his bicycle at full speed. In the afternoon, he was almost approaching Daoxiang Village. Xu Dongsheng felt that his feet were about to smoke from pedaling. Although he had a strong physique and did not feel tired, it was boring. There was no scenery to see along the way. He was just rushing.

"This Daoxiang Village is really amazing. The county magistrate even praised it by name, saying that the village leader Niu Dadan applied the principles of Tai Chi and fully utilized the farmers' creativity on the land, achieving a yield of 10,000 catties per mu. Wow, which village could accomplish that?

I can’t even imagine it. If our village could produce 10,000 catties per mu, how could we possibly go hungry? We could just eat as much as we wanted.”

When approaching Daoxiang Village, Xu Dongsheng slowed down. He could see sparse people on the road. At this time, Xu Dongsheng heard two farmers talking about Daoxiang Village. From what they said, it seemed that Daoxiang Village did have a good harvest.

"You believe it? Ten thousand catties per mu? We farmers rely on nature for food, how much can one mu of land produce? Ten thousand catties, that is, turning the land hundreds of times, it is still impossible. How can we pay the public grain tax when the time comes? Leave the food for ourselves, and hand in the rest. In his Mao village, there are only two hundred people, adults, children and the elderly. After deducting the eight ounces of food a day and putting it in the commune canteen, we can only get one hundred and sixty catties a day, which means only fifty thousand catties a year.

But how many acres of land does Maixiang Village have? At least 80 acres of land, 10,000 catties of grain per acre means 800,000 catties of grain. Tell me, how are we going to pay it? How are we going to pay it? Are we going to pay it with our lives?"

When the older farmers heard this, they immediately started to object, as if Niu Dadan from Daoxiang Village was playing with their lives.

"Dad, what are you calling? I'm afraid others can't hear me. I'm just saying this. I know what's going on, but I have to do it. Didn't that bastard Secretary Xu report that our village has an output of 3,000 kilograms per mu? Only this bastard can say that the output is ten times that. Okay, Dad, let's go quickly. We have to hurry back to the village. Then the secretary and the team leader will scold us again."

The young farmer looked at his furious old father and quickly admitted his mistake, saying that the current situation was like this and he had to do it this way. Xu Dongsheng also understood what was going on. This was just bragging, and the result would naturally not be good. I'm afraid there is nothing good in Daoxiang Village. Daoxiang Village mainly grows wheat, and the wheat has been harvested long ago. I'm afraid the grain has already been stored.

And from what they discussed, I'm afraid they didn't even leave any food for backup, only some seeds, and handed everything else in. But since they were already here, Xu Dongsheng didn't give up halfway and continued to move forward.

When he originally came out, Xu Dongsheng didn't expect to gain much.

Xu Dongsheng rode his bike for another half an hour and arrived at the entrance of Daoxiang Village. On a stone tablet was written Daoxiang Village. It was hot now and the crops in the fields had been harvested, so no one could be seen. Xu Dongsheng looked around and saw several steelmaking furnaces that were taller than the houses, but two of them had collapsed, and there were a few children playing nearby.

Apparently, this is something that was left over from last year.

Xu Dongsheng pushed his bicycle into the village. This village was different from the Baijialou where Xu Dongsheng had been before. There were no child soldiers guarding the village.

"Hey, kid, where is the village party secretary's home?"

After Xu Dongsheng entered the village, he saw seven or eight children playing games between two households. Several children playing at the door immediately noticed Xu Dongsheng. Seeing their curious and exploratory eyes, Xu Dongsheng immediately waved and called them over.

After the child came over, Xu Dongsheng first grabbed a handful of candy, and then asked where the village party secretary's home was.

"I know I know. I can take you there."

When the children saw Xu Dongsheng, a stranger, they didn't dare to come over, but a brave child ran up to Xu Dongsheng and told him that he could take him to the village party secretary.

"Okay, here's some candy for you guys too."

Xu Dongsheng gave all the candies in his hand to the children, about ten pieces in total. Then Xu Dongsheng grabbed another handful of candies and gave one to each of them.

"Thank you, uncle. Thank you, uncle."

After receiving the candy from Xu Dongsheng, the others also became excited and began to rush to tell Xu Dongsheng about the situation in Daoxiang Village. Later, Xu Dongsheng learned that this brave child was called Xiao Shitou, he had no real name, his parents were gone, and now he followed the old party secretary of the village. He was not starving to death, but he was not full either. However, this kid was brave since he was young and was not afraid of people.

Although Maixiang Village is not big, it has a complete staff, including the team leader Niu Dadan, the deputy team leader who is also the village accountant Ma Renli, the women's director Han Meili, and the village party secretary Wang Wanchun.

"Secretary Wang, someone is looking for you."

The village party secretary of Daoxiang Village is different from the village party secretary of Baijialou. He has a special office, which is actually just an extra room in their family. Generally speaking, the standard for a family is three rooms, but the party secretary of Daoxiang Village has one more room, which is an office.

When they arrived at the gate of the village party secretary's house, Xiao Shitou shouted inside. After a while, a yellow-faced man with patched clothes came in. It should be said that his face was black, as he had a circle of beard that had not been trimmed in time, but you couldn't see the beard on his dark face.

Wang Wanchun is not very old, probably around 30 years old, but perhaps hard work can make people age easily, so he looks like he is over 40 years old.

"Little Stone, you must be itching for trouble. Why do you bring anyone to my house? Be careful or I'll tell the old Party Secretary and I'll give you a break."

Wang Wanchun came out of the house and saw Xu Dongsheng, but pretended not to see him, and then yelled at Xiao Shitou. Seeing Wang Wanchun's rage, Xiao Shitou stuck out his tongue, and then ran away with the children.

"Hello, Secretary Wang. My name is Xu Dongsheng, and I'm a buyer for the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill outside Dongzhimen in Beijing."

Looking at Wang Wanchun like this, Xu Dongsheng realized that this child was naughty and he should not be treated well. However, from the look in Wang Wanchun's eyes, he could tell that he liked Xiao Shitou very much.

The little stones ran away, and Wang Wanchun opened the door for Xu Dongsheng with a smile. Xu Dongsheng first handed Wang Wanchun a cigarette, then introduced where he was from, and handed his work ID to Wang Wanchun.

"You are from the capital, that's incredible. I didn't expect you could find our village even though it's so remote."

Wang Wanchun took the cigarette handed to him by Xu Dongsheng, held it in his hand, then carefully checked Xu Dongsheng's ID to confirm its authenticity before inviting Xu Dongsheng into the house.

"Secretary Wang, it's like this. The factory is busy with production this year and the workers are consuming more, so our purchasing task has increased. There is a projectionist in our institute named Xu Damao, who has a good relationship with me. Knowing that our task is arduous, he told me that when he came to your production team for projection last time, he saw the growth of your crops and felt that your production team would definitely have a bumper harvest this year. So when I heard that your production team had a bumper harvest, I rushed here without stopping after I got the news."

Xu Dongsheng knew the reason why Wang Wanchun asked this question was to ask if anyone knew anyone who could introduce them to the village, or how they knew about their village.

"Ah, so it was Xu Fangying who introduced you. I was saying that our Daoxiang Village, in Daoxiang Ridge, is not known to anyone from the capital except those in the county. Please have some tea."

Wang Wanchun made a cup of tea for Xu Dongsheng. The tea smelled good. After a day's journey, Xu Dongsheng was thirsty, so he didn't hesitate.