In 2013, this New Year, a lot of things happened;

There are international trends and domestic news;

There are other people's joys and sorrows, and there are also all kinds of strange things about Ma Yibo.

Baishui Village is a small village in Qianzhou. The news is not backward, but it is not advanced either;

The villagers in Baishui Village are all farmers who work hard;

Maybe everyone has their own little ideas, but they are just human beings’ little shrewdness;

Neither good nor bad;

They are all for one purpose, which is to live a better life.

When Ma Yibo was young, the village mainly made a living by growing wheat and corn;

But this kind of crop is not profitable and is very tiring;

Especially for wheat, harvesting is even more tiring;

I think back then, wheat harvesting machines were not yet popular, or even wheat harvesting machines, so harvesting was done manually.

Manual harvesting with a sickle is physically and mentally exhausting;

Thus a profession was born: Mike;

Every year when the autumn harvest season comes in Qin Province, Mai Ke from Gansu will come over to help with the harvest. This is the original prototype of Mai Ke;

Tired, very tired, but everyone is here for life.

Not to mention the adults who harvested the wheat, even the children who helped trap dozens and dozens of wheat couldn't bear it;

I remember that when Ma Yibo was in junior high school, his family still had a piece of land to grow wheat. Ma Aiguo and Dong Mei were harvesting it with sickles in the front, and Ma Yibo was tying it in the back.

Only when you have experienced labor personally can you understand the bitterness of it.

Nowadays, the planting in Baishui Village has changed from wheat and corn to apples and peaches;

The income is indeed much higher than that of pure wheat and corn.

Planting apples and peaches is not an easy task. From the initial planting of fruit saplings, fruits begin to bear fruit only three years later, and mass production is only considered in the fifth year;

In winter, prune the branches of fruit trees and remove the branches and leaves that do not bear fruit and are still absorbing nutrients;

In spring, start fertilizing;

After flowering, people have to comb the flowers. The purpose of combing the flowers is to prevent too many fruits from growing on one fruit embryo, so that the fruit will not grow too big;

After the flowers fall, start combing the fruits for the same purpose as combing the flowers;

Just the process of combing flowers and fruits takes more than a month. I work in the fields every day. I set off at dawn in the morning, come back for dinner at 12 noon, and come back after dark in the evening.

day to day.

When the fruits grow to the size of marbles, start putting bags on each fruit. The amount of work is no smaller than combing flowers and combing fruits;

The above stages are not only hard work, but also dependent on the weather. If there is a frost, this year's harvest will be reduced a lot, and the investment may be wasted;

After that, pesticides will need to be applied regularly;

Before the apples are about to mature, tear off the bags one by one to let the apples take on color;

If apples are easy to sell and can be sold at a good price, everyone can have a good year this year;

If we encounter a situation like this this year, if 89 cents per catty is used, the income of a family will only be 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. After deducting the investment cost, there will not be much left, and this is not counted as labor.

This is the tragedy of being a farmer;

Foreign farmers are a profession that requires certain technical content and capital reserves. Not only are they planted on a large scale, but they are all automated. Compared with domestic farmers, they are simply in heaven;

However, farmers in our country simply use coolies in exchange for a meager amount of money to make up for their household needs;

The ability to withstand risks is really poor.

“Hail-beaten apples”:

There was an apple orchard operator named Yang Ge in the highland area of ​​Mexico State, USA. Suddenly there was a hailstorm on the plateau. The apples were so damaged that they could not be sold. Yang Ge came to the orchard, picked up an apple and took a bite.

The apples turned out to be extra crispy and sweet!

So, Yang Ge immediately ordered his men to pick the apples, transport them out, and write a sentence on the apple box: "Although these apples are all scarred, this is a unique mark of apples in the plateau area;

This kind of apple has firm flesh and a sweet taste. Everyone ate it with hesitation. It turned out to be crisp and sweet, and soon most of the apples were sold.

Not only were the apples sold, they also became the symbol of the apple in the Mexican highlands, becoming a veritable hail apple, just like the ugly orange, a disadvantage turned into an advantage;

But the United States can do this because its farms are very large. One farm can even be as large as many of our villages combined.

There are only a few apple growers in the Mexican plateau, and as long as they agree on the same thing, they can definitely create that impression on the market.

During the Great Depression in the United States in 1929, American capitalists would rather throw away the milk than give it to the poor;

Because milk is sold below cost, over time, dairy farmers will go bankrupt due to long-term losses.

So throwing away the milk is an act of protecting yourself. Only by surviving in this industry can you continue to produce.

Can a theory that works abroad work in our country?

The answer is obvious.

This year may be a good year for apples. There is a bumper harvest of apples across the country, resulting in an oversupply of apples, a sharp drop in prices, and not many merchants coming to buy them;

If we also have an institution similar to that in the United States, which purchases directly from farmers and then directly destroys or further processes it, the price of apples will not stop there;

However, we do not have this condition, and it is simply impossible to do that;

Because that is not in line with our traditional culture, and frugality is a virtue.

"Yibo, Yibo, your dad and the others are about to fight";

Ma Yibo was at home, thinking about when to return to Yangcheng, when he was woken up by a sudden phone call;

"Fight"?

"Yes, it's right on the second road of our village."

Only then did Ma Yibo remember that such an incident had happened in his previous life. Although they got into a fight in the end, they were very restrained and did not use tools, so there was not much harm;

The reason is very simple. In a nearby village, a merchant bought a cart of apples. He didn't take them away before, but he took them away later in the year. As a result, the other party couldn't take the main road and had to take the newly repaired second road;

You just left as you said, but the other party's truck was overloaded and made two ruts on the road;

Can the people of Baishui Village agree to this kind of thing?

As a result, the people of Baishui Village blocked the place and refused to let them go, and the villagers from other villages rushed over to let them go, which led to this situation.

When Ma Yibo rushed over, the scene was not out of control yet, but it was almost there. Both sides were going back and forth, it was very lively;

And Ma Aiguo is standing at the front;

Because the car was just in front of Ma Yibo's apple field, Ma Aiguo, who was working, stopped the truck.

"Hey, hey, don't do anything, just tell me if you have something to do";

"Where did you come from? Your fur is not fully grown, so how can you say anything?"

People in the opposite village who were as old as Ma Aiguo saw Ma Yibo walking out of the other side's camp and started to complain;

No matter what the outcome is, the process cannot be lost.

"Yihuan, go take a video with your phone and capture the whole process."

When you are away from home, preserving evidence is the first priority;

This is all based on the experience of people who have lived in the previous life, and it is easy to judge after the fact.

"Yes, you are right, my hair is indeed not even long, but your hair is all white."

Ma Yibo does not consider himself to be a good-tempered person. As a man of two generations, he will not use violence unless he can't help it.

And today, I was beaten up in public for no reason, who would be willing?

In the past six months, Ma Yibo's career has been going smoothly, and he has hundreds of people under his command. Who dares to say this about him?

"Hahaha";

The people in Baishuizhai laughed loudly. They didn't expect Ma, a country-loving boy, to be really good at making the other party more embarrassed without making a move.

Sure enough, when the other party heard Ma Yibo's words, he thought he gave in at first, but he didn't expect to add such a sentence later, wouldn't it mean that he was old?

"Master, you drive this car, right?";

Ignoring the person on the other side, Ma Yibo said directly to the driver driving next to him.

"Well, I drove it, so what?";

The master may have seen someone supporting him, so he didn't become timid, but made some noise.

"Then this road was damaged by your driving, right?";

"The quality of your service is not up to par, yet you still rely on me to come here"?

The master would not dare to catch this directly. Although the distance is only about ten meters now, if you really want to practice it, you will definitely need thousands or tens of thousands;
To be continued...