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  Chapter 186 To leave something for future generations!

   After taking a shower, Liu Qingshan turned back into a refreshing little handsome guy, and then helped his mother make lunch.

   The fish has been brought back: a big carp, four or five catfish beards weighing more than a catty, and the rest is a pot of small miscellaneous fish and a big turtle.

   That's right, and the water that Liu Qingshan brought back was old and shriveled, squeezed into the basin, crawling non-stop, making people feel a little scalp numb.

  Catfish is naturally the best stewed eggplant. Lin Zhi has already soaked half a pot of dried eggplant, and there is really no eggplant in their greenhouse.

  After stewing the catfish into the pot, Liu Qingshan went to work on the stove in the courtyard, while Lao Si and Shan Xing sat on the small bench to help him light the fire.

  First boil some water, put the water in it and blanch it for a while, then put a few spoonfuls of soybean oil in the pot, and after the oil temperature rises, fry the water several times.

  After the outer skin is fried and crispy, remove it to a plate, and fry some salt and pepper, and it's over.

  During the meal, there was obviously no room for one table, because Professor Wang and several students were also invited over.

  The main course is stewed eggplant with catfish. There are two big pots. The meat of catfish is tender and rich in fat.

  Seeing that the plate of deep-fried water was old and no one moved his chopsticks, Liu Qingshan pointed: "Try this, it's very fragrant."

  Everyone at the table shook their heads, only Yang Hongying believed in this brother, so she picked up one with chopsticks.

   It looked a little scary, and I didn't dare to put it in my mouth for a while.

  Liu Qingshan also cheerfully picked up one, started directly, and pinched Shui Lao's shriveled tail:

   "Bring out the internal organs and hard shells of the wings. You can take off the ones you don't want to eat, and you can eat the rest."

   After finishing speaking, dipped in a little salt and pepper, and threw the whole water into his mouth, chewing it loudly.

   It's delicious!

  Several young students looked at it a little bit straight-eyed, Wei Tiezhu grinned: "Qingshan, what does it smell like?"

   "Try it and you'll know, a majestic man, don't you even have the courage?"

  Liu Qingshan put a few more into the bowl, and then peeled two for Shan Xing and Xiao Laosi.

  Seeing that even Yang Hongying, the big sister, dared to eat it, Wei Tiezhu and Zhang Haiyang also bit the bullet and stuffed one into their mouths with their eyes closed.

   After chewing, the aroma is very unique, and the more you chew, the more fragrant it is, which is much more delicious than fish or meat.

   "Well, it's delicious, even more delicious than cicada monkey!"

  Yang Hongying praised, took another one, and gestured to Liu Jinfeng.

  The two little ones also ate with smiles on their faces, and grabbed them directly.

   "If this is a little beer, tsk tsk."

  Liu Qingshan muttered softly, and then he heard Professor Wang's voice from Kang:

   "Anyone of you who can drink, just drink two cups less. Fried water is such a good appetizer, it would be a pity not to drink some."

   Teacher Ganqing has already eaten it, but young people like them seem a little timid.

  The students sighed in their hearts, and they all used their rice bowls to pour one or two.

  Shuilaobei with wine is really a perfect match. When lunch is over, there are two plates of fried water, and there is no one left.

  Satisfied with food and drinks, the students went back to their residences for a lunch break, while Liu Qingshan cheerfully said to Professor Wang:

   "Grandpa Wang, don't agree to other people's dinner at night, you must come back to eat."

  He knew that every family shared the fish today, and someone would definitely invite Professor Wang and the others to have a meal at home.

  Professor Wang asked with a smile: "Xiao Shanzi, what good things did you get?"

  Liu Qingshan did not speak, and led Professor Wang to the outhouse, and lifted the lid on the wooden basin. Grandpa Wang couldn't help but exclaimed:

   "Turtle, this is a good thing!"

  Although no one in the countryside eats this stuff, in the city, soft-shelled turtles are definitely a rare high-end product.

   A ten-year-old turtle like this costs at least a dozen yuan, which is almost half a month's salary for an ordinary worker.

  That is to say, the traffic is inconvenient and the information is not smooth these days. Otherwise, the wild turtles are estimated to have been caught long ago and are on the verge of extinction.

  Thinking of this question, Liu Qingshan thought of wild vegetables, but the truth is the same.

  In the afternoon, of course, we continued to dig pond mud. During this period, Liu Qingshan was told by the old party secretary that he would go to the commune for a meeting tomorrow.

   It made Liu Qingshan quite puzzled: "Grandpa branch secretary, isn't there you and Uncle Captain in the meeting?"

  The old branch secretary clicked on his small cigarette pouch: "The commune specially notified that three people from each brigade will go tomorrow, and one of them must be able to read and write. I'm thinking, you are the one with the highest education in Jiapigou."

  Speaking of it, this was also a major feature of the countryside at that time: many headed family members in the village were actually illiterate.

   There are many village cadres who cannot read or write.

  The old branch secretary is better, he can read the newspaper to some extent, but Captain Zhang is miserable. If you have a big character, you can know a lot of baskets.

  Liu Qingshan saw that Captain Zhang went to the commune for a meeting, and the meeting minutes he made were as if they were drawn by ghosts.

  Probably only Captain Zhang can understand it by himself, and when he comes back to convey the spirit, he usually does not make mistakes.

  Occasionally there are exceptions. Once the commune held a family planning meeting, Captain Zhang came back to hold a village meeting, and looked at his small notebook and read:

   "The superiors called for the implementation of family planning, and resolutely eliminated mistresses. From tomorrow, every man in every household must go to the commune health center to wear rings and have them vasectomyed!"

   This time almost scared the old men in the village to death, Da Zhang Luo was puzzled, and couldn't help shouting:

   "Isn't it always the old women who wear rings, this man wears rings, where should he wear them?"

  Captain Zhang yelled at him angrily: "Wherever you take it, put it on the side of the thing that caused you trouble, and tie it firmly for you, so as not to be blind!"

  It was only later that I figured out that the little people drawn in the captain's notebook forgot to mark male and female, and the result was confused.

  During dinner, there were indeed two plates of braised turtle on the table.

   The soft-shelled turtle was slaughtered by Liu Qingshan at noon and processed. The carapace and the surrounding skirt were carefully cleaned with a brush.

  Then cut into small pieces and blanch in water. When the water was blanching, there was no cooking wine at home, so I added half a spoonful of white wine to remove the fishy smell, and the rest was simmered in a pot over low heat.

   The soft-shelled turtle is very nutritious, and it is the best for those who are weak, so Liu Qingshan tasted a piece of it symbolically, and gave the rest to his family and Grandpa Wang.

   The best thing is the soft-shelled turtle skirt. I got a piece for each of the fourth and fifth children, and the two little guys ate happily.

  Liu Qingshan felt that in the next ten and a half months, he would get a soft-shelled turtle for his family.

  Especially for mothers and grandparents, make up for what they owe. As the conditions of the family get better and better, prolonging life should not be a problem in the long run.

  Especially the mother, she can't be overworked and exhausted like in her previous life.

  The next morning, Liu Qingshan drove the jeep, took the captain uncle and the branch secretary grandpa to the commune for a meeting.

  In the simple meeting room of the commune, there were hundreds of people, in addition to the representatives from each brigade, there were also the heads of the various units of the commune and all the commune cadres, which was very grand.

  At nine o'clock in the morning, the meeting officially began. First, a document was distributed to each brigade, and then Secretary Sun Hongtao took the lead in speaking.

  The old branch secretary told Liu Qingshan in a low voice, telling him to take good records.

  Liu Qingshan nodded with a smile, but he never wrote, because there was no need to write. What Secretary Sun conveyed was the "Mountain Vegetable Plan" drafted by him.

  It is now mid-April, and as spring returns to the earth, wild vegetables will soon emerge one after another.

  So from the county to the commune, they all attach great importance to this work involving export earnings and make urgent deployments.

  Before starting, Secretary Sun reported a piece of good news: the county has reached an agreement with foreign businessmen to purchase wild vegetables.

  Everyone didn’t pay much attention at first, but when they heard that the most common bracken can be sold for nearly one yuan a catty, they immediately widened their eyes.

   Not only bracken, some wild vegetables they are familiar with, the price is not low, a catty of wild dried black fungus can be sold for 15 yuan.

  My mother, this is not pie in the sky, it is money in the sky.

  Everyone was so excited that they were gearing up, wishing they could dive into the woods now.

   As a result, Secretary Sun's speech was interrupted several times by excited people.

This made Secretary Sun knock on the table: "Comrades, be quiet, don't get excited, this is the source of income that the higher-ups won for us. I heard that when negotiating with foreign businessmen, there was almost no fight. Everyone must cherish this opportunity." Not an easy opportunity."

"The most important thing is that we used to regard wild vegetables as grass, but now we have suddenly turned into Bao'er and become a hot commodity. Then when harvesting, we must strictly abide by the county's regulations. Anyone who dares to violate It must be dealt with seriously!"

  The village secretary and team leader below calmed down a little and listened attentively to Secretary Sun's speech:

   "In order to avoid disputes, our commune divides the mountain land and forest land it belongs to. When the time comes, we can collect our own, and no one is allowed to go beyond the boundary."

   This is a must. Now that wild vegetables are valuable, shouldn’t they be eye-catching?

  The local folk customs are tough, and robbing wild vegetables is robbing money, so it would be strange not to fight.

   Then I started to explain the plan. In the plan, when picking all kinds of wild vegetables, what precautions should be taken to ensure sustainable development, and they are all introduced in detail.

  For example, when picking thorny old shoots, the lower branches must not be broken;

  When picking bracken and other ferns, it is good to break them gently, so as not to damage the roots below;

  Day lily, just pick the buds on the top, and don’t damage the branches and leaves below...

  For all kinds of wild vegetables and fungi, remember not to be greedy, to wipe them all out, and to leave time and space for them to grow and multiply. According to the proposal in the plan: pick the big and let go of the small, pick ten and keep one.

   Another big aspect is that if there is harvest, there must be seed.

   You can't just ask for it, but also pay attention to reasonable transplanting to ensure that every kind of wild vegetable resources can be used sustainably.

  Take the old shoots as an example: this thing is also easy to live. Every year, villagers can be organized to plant more branches in the open space, so that the output will gradually increase.

   Don’t think of changing a place with one shot, and destroy all the resources. Wouldn’t you be blind in the next year?

  This plan is simple, easy to understand, highly operable, and free of empty words.

  In previous meetings, everyone was drowsy, but today they are very energetic, and they listened with gusto, and learned a lot of the tricks mentioned above.

  Secretary Sun finally said: "As farmers, we must also learn to take a long-term view. I will end with a sentence in this plan, that is, to leave some wealth for future generations!"

  These present here are mostly farmers who cultivate the land. After hearing this, they all trembled in their hearts: That’s right, if we are all harmed, the future generations will not be able to lift our coffin boards?

   Be sure to leave some property for future generations!

  (end of this chapter)