"Really, I remember that the weight is written on the bill, which is good for us." Yao Yuan thought for a moment and smiled bitterly, "My grandfather also has a lot of bill."

Yao Hu was surprised and pleasantly surprised. He said, "Last year the purchase price was 192 yuan per ton. If I hired a truck to take it to the sugar factory, it would be 215 yuan, and the shipping fee was 5 yuan per ton. Excluding the money for fertilizers and other things, I won't make much money throughout the year."

It’s money. The price was lower before, but it’s better than nothing.”

Farmers who take IOUs do so out of trust in the government. This trust gradually weakens over time, then turns into distrust, and then hatred.

The purchase price of sugarcane has always been a pain in the hearts of farmers in the Nangang area. From the early 1990s to 2022, the purchase price of sugarcane rose from about 200 to about 400 per ton. In the past thirty years, it only increased by 400 yuan per ton.

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Before 2015, the sugarcane yield per mu was generally between 4 and 6 tons, and rarely in the order of 7-8 tons. The growth period of sugarcane lasted nearly ten months from the beginning to the end of the year. In other words, farmers planted sugarcane.

At the end of the year, the income per mu of output is 800-1,200 yuan.

After stripping away the costs, the money that goes into the hands of farmers makes it difficult to even maintain food and clothing.

After 2015, the yield per mu increased to seven or eight tons, with some high-yielding varieties exceeding ten tons, and the price was around 400 yuan. The income per mu was about 4,000 yuan, which barely kept sugarcane, an important economic crop, from disappearing.

In a word, sugarcane farmers in the 1990s were very miserable.

Strangely, the sugar price market is very good, but the value of sugar cane as a raw material does not match the value of the final edible sugar.

Others want to study and analyze, but Yao Yuan does not need to, because he knows that this is due to the impact of foreign sugar, and domestic sugar technology and ingredients are far inferior to foreign ones.

For him, he has a package of solutions in his hands.

After thinking about it, Yao Yuan asked, "Ahu, for example, I mean, for example, if the purchase price of sugarcane can reach 400 yuan per ton, and planting sugarcane on a large scale, can the entire village become rich?"

I remember that the per capita land in our village is more than two acres."

Yao Hu didn't even think about it and said, "I can definitely make a fortune. Think about it, one acre of land can harvest four or five tons of sugar cane, which is almost two thousand yuan a year. Sugar cane can be grown on all the land in our village. Generally,

Each household has about ten acres of land, and the least one has seven or eight acres. Good guy, the income of a household is ten thousand yuan a year."

"That's not how we calculate the accounts. Have we considered the cost issue, the labor cost, and the time cost? Moreover, we depend on the weather to make a living. There are many typhoons here. If a typhoon comes, the harvest will definitely be affected. All factors are involved.

You have to take it into consideration." Yao Yuan explained with a smile.

Yao Hu was convinced and smiled awkwardly, "I didn't think about the typhoon problem. Yes, this is very serious. If there is a typhoon in the middle of the year, the sugar cane has just started to be pumped, and not one ton of sugar cane can be harvested from one acre.

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In his eyes, labor cost and time cost are not costs. Only what needs to be paid with money is called cost.

One of the reasons why the value of farmers' labor is seriously underestimated is because everyone thinks that farmers' time is not valuable, and it can even be said that farmers' lives are not valuable.

Yao Yuan knew it well and said, "Ahu, you have to take the lead in doing this. If there is not enough land, open up wasteland. There are so many wasteland and mountains in the village. It would be a pity to abandon it."

"Ayuan, you have to discuss this matter with the old party secretary. Only if he nods can we do it." Yao Hu said.

Yao Yuan said, "I asked my grandfather to talk to him."

"Yes, let the old man go. If you go, the old branch secretary may not pay attention to you." Yao Hu was convinced.

It is not an exaggeration at all. There is a gap in seniority, and Yaojia Village is a village that attaches great importance to seniority. No matter how big an official or boss you are outside, when you return to the village, you should kowtow to your elders when you eat.

You should sit at the same table with the brat.

It is too common to see young men in their twenties and thirties sitting at the same table with a group of kids because they are of the same generation! Of course, there are also primary school students aged seven or eight and elders aged sixty or seventy sitting at the main table, holding drinks.

The reason why we drank and talked happily was because of our peers.

It’s not about age, it’s seniority. It’s not new at all for a married young man to call a three- or four-year-old brat uncle.

Fortunately, Yao Yuan's seniority is not low, and the seniority of his family is not low. The old party secretary has been a party secretary for half a century, but he is only the same generation as Mr. Yao, so he wants to call Mr. Yao the eldest brother.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, more guests arrived. They greeted each other and walked in. The courtyard with more than fifty tables suddenly became lively, most of them were villagers. Along with the passengers of the Yao Zhenhua couple and their colleagues, the guests arrived in the bus.

Upon arrival, the atmosphere in the Yao family reached a climax.

Hiring buses to pick people up from places dozens of kilometers away for a meal was extremely novel in this era.

In the concept of rural people, hundreds of millions are incomprehensible. It's not that they don't understand arithmetic, but they simply can't understand the concept. In the early 1990s, a family of five could eat for just five yuan.

In the countryside, the strongest impact was the neatly arranged three buses.

In their eyes, this further proves that Yao Yuan's future, Yao Zhenhua's future, and Mr. Yao's family's future can be regarded as a glorious ancestor.

Look at that new house, which is more impressive than the county government building!

Time to eat.

Different from the flowing seats in the north, here in Guangdong Province, all guests sit down together and start the banquet together, which is grand and has a strong sense of ceremony. If the venue is limited, it will be divided into two batches to split the time. The first batch in the village,

The second batch of guests from outside ate. Yao Yuan’s yard was large enough to accommodate a thousand people for a meal without any difficulty.

At twelve o'clock at noon, amid thousands of firecrackers surrounding the new house, the reception for a thousand people began. Yao Zhenhua was afraid that the number of guests would exceed his expectations, so he reserved ten tables, but they were all filled up in less than half an hour.

He had to ask the village chief to think of a solution, and urgently brought over a team of banquet cooks, set up ten more tables and opened several new stoves.

However, it is still not enough, so I continue to add tables. When the stove is not enough, I just use bricks to set up a simple stove on the ground. Fortunately, it is not far from the fishing port. Vegetables, chickens, ducks, and geese are available in every household. There is no shortage of ingredients. Hello.

With this sound, the old women in every household wanted to collect all the chickens, ducks and geese in the house to pay back the money. The Yao Zhenhua family was willing to give the money!

Yao Yuan had just finished greeting a group of guests, and when he saw another group coming on bicycles, his face suddenly turned bitter.

He quickly found his father, who was busy but overjoyed, and said, "Dad, another group of people have arrived, all riding bicycles. They look like people from the town."

"It should be my high school classmate in town." Yao Zhenhua walked out quickly, followed closely by Yao Yuan.

When Yao Zhenhua saw it, he quickened his pace to meet us, smiled and said loudly, "Hey! Old classmates, you are finally here!"

Sure enough.

Yao Yuan was very helpless.

In his whole life, he never knew that his father had so many friends!

Yu Tieli, who was also busy and confused, said enviously, "Ayuan, I just did a rough calculation. Not counting those in your village, there are more than 300 guests from outside alone, and they are all from Zhenhua."

My uncle’s friend, classmate, and colleague. Your dad is so awesome.”

Yao Yuan shook his head slightly and said, "The poor live in the busy city and no one cares about them. The rich live in the mountains and have distant relatives."

Yu Tieli was stunned for a moment, deeply convinced.

In Yao Yuan's memory, after his father was hospitalized in an accident in his previous life, Yao Yuan had never seen anyone here today, and he had never heard his father mention anyone.

Should we feel despair and anger about this?

It shouldn’t be, because if we look at it from another angle, we might be just like them!

Yao Yuan said with a smile, "Brother Tieli, I read a book when I was in high school. The title of the book is If You Bloom and the Breeze Comes. The title was very big. I thought I understood it at the time, but now I suddenly remembered that it turned out that

Understanding is not deep enough.”

He pointed to the magnificent new house and said, "This is in full bloom."

Then he pointed to most of his high school classmates, even Yao Zhenhua himself, who he had never met many times, "This is Zilai."

Yao Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "It turns out that book is about real society..."

"I don't quite understand, but I understand what you mean. This is the situation in society. At first, they laughed at me when I took a leave of absence without pay. Later, when they found out that I was working at Yuanda Electric, their expressions changed completely. I had no contact with them before.

Colleagues take the initiative to ask me for a drink. This is always the case," Yu Tieli said.

Yao Yuan sighed, "Rural areas are not necessarily simple, but relatively speaking, rural society is simpler than urban society."

"Yes." Yu Tieli was also deeply touched.

In other words, the reflection of social reality lies in him, Yu Tieli.

He sighed and said, "After people in the village found out that I was on leave without pay, my parents were poked in the back when they went out, saying that I had to work for a private boss if I didn't have a good iron job. My wife was also harassed by her parents when she returned to her parents' home.

He said, even my son was said to me by his classmates at school."

"Ayuan, I didn't realize it before, but now I do, but I can't understand it. Is unit establishment really so important?"

Yao Yuan looked at Yu Tieli strangely, "Brother Tieli, you should know better than me."

Yu Tieli smiled bitterly and took out a cigarette and handed it to Yao Yuan, saying, "Yes, I know it very well, but after meeting you, my mind changed. A person's life is spent in a fixed environment for only a few decades.

It’s better to spend some time to try other possibilities, I think the latter is more exciting. Unfortunately, I have a wife and children, so I don’t have the courage to take a chance.”

"You feel so deeply." Yao Yuan nodded in agreement, "There is a saying that you should get rich early. It means that you should work hard before starting a family. After starting a family, in fact, a man's hands and feet are tied. The most important thing is

What’s more, the heart is bound.”

"That's right."

While the two of them were having a chat, two brand-new black Crown 133 cars drove over along the highway. At first, Yao Yuan thought it was Lin Wei coming, but after a closer look, he saw that the license plate was wrong.

This ninth-generation Crown only entered the country the year before last and first appeared in the provincial capital. The black Crown driven by Lin Wei was this car and was bought from the provincial capital at that time.

In the past two years, they have also appeared in the Nangang area, and this year they have gradually increased in number.

Almost all the ninth-generation Crowns entering the country are 3.0 models. This is also the model with the largest number of ninth-generation Crowns in China. It is very classic. You can still see this old car on the streets thirty years later.

When driving, the aura is no less impressive than the luxury cars of thirty years later.

This kind of car is not something an individual can afford.

Yu Tieli said, "Are the city leaders here?"
To be continued...