Rebirth in Famine: She Thrives by Lucky Space

Chapter 1040: Figuring It Out

Wen Zhengzhong had already written two pages with great flair. He felt he had found the inspiration again.After finishing, he read it through and then handed it to Li Yungui.

Li Yungui didn’t even look and directly passed it to Wei Kaiyun.

"Xiao Wei, you take a look."

Wei Kaiyun was amused by Li Yungui’s gesture but still took it seriously and read.

"Mr. Wen, overall, your writing is excellent, but I need to remove some parts because Village Chief Li wouldn’t say such things."

Wen Zhenzong understood Wei Kaiyun’s point. "Of course, Mr. Wei, you can make changes as you see fit." He felt acknowledged in some way.

Wei Kaiyun took a pen, made some corrections, and then handed it back to Li Yungui.

"I’ll copy it out here, and if there are any issues, we can discuss them."

Half an hour later, Li Yungui finished copying it out and handed over an electricity application from his pocket to Wei Kaiyun.

"Xiao Wei, take a look at this."

Wei Kaiyun nodded after reading, "This is fine.

This is to show the leaders at the power supply bureau; generally, higher-ups won’t have any objections."

Li Yungui copied it again and handed everything to Wei Kaiyun, "You hold onto this, and when we leave the day after tomorrow, you bring it."

"Village Chief Li, are you doing this as a way of ’out of sight, out of mind’?" Old Yang teased Li Yungui.

"That’s exactly right. Well, now that this issue is resolved, I’m heading back. From now on, I’ll keep my eyes on the chicken farm."

"Village Chief Li, it’s not that quick; we can still earn some money this year, don’t be so down."

"Then I’m not going. I’m afraid I won’t be able to resist." After saying this, he turned away and left.

Wen Zhengzhong also stood up, "Gentlemen, I’m heading back to work as well."

The two escorted Wen Zhengzhong out. Once they saw him leave, they returned to the study.

"Xiao Wei, this is like pulling out Li Yungui’s flesh."

"Actually, I initially planned to give these two things away; Li Yungui couldn’t handle it.

Besides, these chemical products are too harmful to people; I don’t want to become a sinner in Li Family Village."

Old Yang nodded in understanding. That’s certainly the reasoning.

Li Yungui didn’t go home but went directly looking for Li Cunshan; tomorrow he would organize everyone to farm.

Wei Kaiyun was right; with so many chickens in the village, using corn and soybeans requires too much; they really can’t just buy them, right? That would be laughable.

Li Cunshan listened to Li Yungui and agreed to go farming tomorrow.

"We’ll manually plant soybeans, but let’s wait for the tractor for the corn."

"That works; if in a couple of days we get a tractor, I’ll let Jiushang stay."

By evening, everyone who wasn’t working was notified that soybean planting would start tomorrow.

Six educated youths were practically in despair. They thought they could stay a few more days, yet they had to start working tomorrow.

Xu Chunshan saw the group looking weak and had to comfort them, "It’s actually quite good; in Li Family Village, everything is mechanized, we’re already the luckiest among the educated youths, so don’t be like this. If we perform too poorly, and anger Village Chief Li, we’ll suffer greater losses."

Everyone understood this in their hearts, but right now they were genuinely tired.

Still, Xu Chunshan’s words were heeded.

They didn’t know about other villages, but they heard that their wheat was not done being harvested, and they still had to thresh, turn in public grain, and plant fields.

Just thinking about this string of tasks made their backs ache even more.

Currently, in Li Family Village, there’s only a hundred acres of soybeans left unplanted.

The next day, everyone was mobilized; those in good physical shape were at the front digging holes with big pickaxes, while experienced women followed behind planting seeds. However, due to the land being too wet, Li Cunshan called a halt, saying it couldn’t be done this way. Although it’s currently moist, the covered soil would clump, making it hard for the seedlings to emerge.

So, everyone returned as they couldn’t work today.

The four female educated youths were thrilled, enjoying another day of rest.

They could stay, as Li Cunshan didn’t assign them tasks, but the village members weren’t idle; personal plots and yards needed weeding and planting vegetables.

Xu Chunshan listened to the idle talk of several women and suddenly remembered they should also plant vegetables; otherwise, what would they eat later?

But they didn’t have any vegetable seeds, so they had to ask Li Cunshan.

"Go to my house and get some, that’s good thinking. If you don’t, by winter you’ll only have pickles to eat every day."

Without state subsidies, that essentially means a lot less money, so the future days must be planned frugally.

That’s why Xu Chunshan suggested planting more vegetables.

The other five didn’t object; no one wanted to eat pickles every day.

After getting instructions on growing vegetables and obtaining seeds from Li Cunshan’s home, they returned.

Anyway, there were no idle people in the village.

The next morning, Li Yungui came to Wei Kaiyun’s home.

Three of them got in the car, but the road was really hard to travel.

However, after three hours, they finally reached the city, with Old Yang being the only one with relatively clean clothes; the other two were covered in mud from helping with the cart along the way.

Old Yang went straight home, having things to attend to. Wei Kaiyun and Li Yungui went to the compound.

"Village Chief Li, are you going to find Vice Mayor Li?"

Li Yungui shook his head, "No, just going directly to find the top leader."

Since Brother and Xiao Wei said this was necessary, he didn’t need to hurry to ask.

"Then I’m going to find Vice Mayor Li; that reporter who came last time is here too. He’s here to interview me, so I’m going to meet him."

The two went their separate ways. When Li Yungui delivered the application to the leaders, he stood aside to wait.

"Village Chief Li, what is the meaning of this?"

Li Yungui organized his words in his mind, "Leadership, we feel we’re just mixing things; we need real technicians. We also need capable people to lead."

"I know this is very profitable; the village members are willing?"

"Leader, no one’s going to refuse money, but I’ve also told them that when the factory moves into the city, they can work in the city, and they’ll be official employees."

"Haha, Li Yungui, oh Li Yungui, you are indeed quite cunning.

You’re bargaining with me. Fine, given this situation, go ahead and tell me."

"Leader, I’m thinking about assigning a formal job quota to every household in the village. One, they are skilled hands; two, they can earn money."

Wei Kaiyun advised him to speak frankly; there was no need to beat around the bush. Smart people understand you, being straightforward is easier.

"Is this the only request?"

Li Yungui nodded, "That’s it."

"I saw you have another piece of paper you didn’t show me, what is it?"

"This? It’s an application for the power supply bureau; our village wants electricity, and our Master Wei has already figured out how to make a threshing machine; you just place the harvested wheat straight in, and it outputs wheat grains. But it requires electricity."