This canteen incident made many rural families have a hard time living.

This also reflects the benefits of workers in disguise.

Anyone in the village who works as workers in the city generally lives much better than other families.

Even the lowest apprentice salary is enough to buy some food to subsidize the household income except for the expenses of eating in the factory.

Like the old man’s house, not only hasn’t been affected this year, but it has lived a better life than in previous years.

In the past, the old man was strong and refused to accept the support from the second uncle and Zhang Yan.

This year is different. The old man, who was so forced to do nothing, finally spoke to his two younger brothers, and the two families naturally did not disappoint him.

Rice, flour, grain and oil, eggs, and pork were given a lot.

The aunt is naturally more enthusiastic about Zhang Yan and the second uncle's family.

This is also considered a short-lived person!

Zhang Yan and the second uncle respectfully kowtowed to their grandfather and greeted them again before they started eating.

After the family had lunch and chatted for a while, Zhang Yan went out and took his younger brothers to pay New Year's greetings.

The village party has long passed, so we will basically gather together to eat, drink, play cards.

There are not many people on the street.

Zhang Yan greeted the villagers all the way and greeted the villagers.

Come to the fifth master's house.

"Fifth Master, happy New Year! I'm here to wish you a happy New Year!" Zhang Yan bowed with his fists.

"Boy Yan is back! I heard that your hospital is very busy recently." The fifth master called Zhang Yan to go to the kang and talk.

This treatment is not low. There are so many people in the house, but few can get on the kang.

"I'm a little busy. I went to the hospital this morning before I rushed back to wish you a happy New Year!" Zhang Yan said with a smile.

"Work is important! If you are busy, don't rush to come back!" The fifth master clapped Zhang Yan's hand and said.

"During the New Year, you always have to take some time to come back to pay New Year's greetings." Zhang Yan said with a smile.

After chatting for a while, the topic shifted to what happened this year. Wu Ye felt a lot of dissatisfaction in his words.

There are both dissatisfaction with superior policies and dissatisfaction with villagers.

The villagers did not listen to the hello and wasted so much food, resulting in insufficient food storage at the end of the year, which made Wu Ye very angry.

However, the fifth master finally asked Mr. Yi to go to the city to find connections and bought a batch of food back.

This allowed everyone to pass the New Year, and the public funds in the village have been spent almost the same amount.

However, the end of the year has passed, and there is still a spring famine to pass after the New Year.

The end of the year is better, but the desolation in spring is hard to end.

"Fifth Master, Uncle Yi, after the spring begins, let's arrange for people to reclaim all the wastelands on the hillsides in the village!"

"Not so many laborers in the village can reclaim the wasteland on the hillside now!

Those wastelands can’t be harvested even if they are reclaimed!" Zhang Fuyi shook his head and said.

I don’t agree with Zhang Yan’s suggestions.

"The cultivated hillside wasteland does not mean growing food! The village can plant pumpkins on the hillside wasteland!

Next year our hospital will need 100,000 kilograms of pumpkin seeds. I will prepare to plant a batch in our village and let my uncle and his village grow a batch."

"100,000 kilograms of pumpkin seeds? So much does it cost?" Zhang Fuyi exclaimed.

"Pumpkin seeds are a very good medicinal herb that can treat tapeworms, roundworms, postpartum hand and foot swelling, whooping cough, and hemorrhoids. Next year our hospital will conduct several special diseases research.

At that time, it will definitely attract a large number of patients from all over the country to come to the hospital for treatment as it is now.

Of course, we must prepare the medicinal materials needed to cure the disease in advance!" Zhang Yan said with a smile.

"These 100,000 kilograms of pumpkin seeds are a bit large. Even if we plant them together, it will be difficult to make up 100,000 kilograms." Zhang Fuyi said with a plan.

"What's the difficulty? When you are fighting, don't fight if you are having difficulty?" Wu Ye knocked on the wooden slats on the edge of the kang with a cigarette pot.

"no!"

"Not what? Pumpkin is easy to live and drought-resistant, so you don't have to serve it like a crop.

Burn a fire on the wasteland on the hillside.

Then plant pumpkin!

How much labor can I use?" Wu Ye scolded.

"But, there are only about two taels of pumpkin in one pumpkin. How many pumpkins do you get by these 100,000 kilograms of pumpkin seeds?

Millions of kilograms of pumpkin are more than one hundred thousand!

At that time, how to deal with so many pumpkins?" Zhang Fuyi said with a wry smile.

"This is easy to deal with! The villagers can keep some of the pumpkins grown in our village and eat them, and they can also be used to raise pigs and chickens!

Our factory and our hospital can purchase a batch.

I can also help you contact other units to purchase.

Millions of kilograms of pumpkin are placed in the village, but they are taken to the city. There are really not many scattered." Zhang Yan smiled and gave a solution.

I thought to myself that I feel more and more now, and by next year, I probably won’t feel too much.

At that time, pumpkin seeds will not matter at all. Pumpkins are life-saving food.

This is a solution that Zhang Yan thought about for a long time and combined with a news that he had read in later generations.

As for 100,000 kilograms of pumpkin seeds, this is not a problem. Pumpkin seeds are a good thing, not only medicinal materials, but a delicious snack.

Especially when stir-frying with salt, it is so fragrant.

At that time, Zhang Yan will arrange for 100,000 kilograms of pumpkin seeds to be fried in the canteen and distribute them as benefits to the hospital staff, and then send some to the factory.

Can the factory still be idle?

“If that’s the case, there’s no problem!

Is it a waste to raise pumpkins and pigs?”

"What's the point of wasting? How much does a pound of pumpkin cost? Pumpkin is rich in nutrients. If you raise pigs, you can get fat quickly. Pork can cost 50 cents per pound!"

Zhang Yan said that 50 cents are worth a pound, which refers to the price of a pig.

"Boy Yan is right. It's not a loss to raise pigs with pumpkins!" The fifth master also nodded and agreed.

After chatting for a while, Zhang Yan said goodbye and left.

"Second, are you going to go back to your father-in-law's house tomorrow?" After leaving the fifth master's house, Zhang Yan asked Zhang Ping and Zhang An.

"Yes! This is the first year after marriage, I will definitely go back!"

"Well! Let your sister-in-law prepare something for you tomorrow! The new son-in-law comes to the door and you can't lose face!" Zhang Yan explained with a smile.

"Thank you, brother!" Zhang Ping and Zhang An quickly thanked.

They are not short of money now. Since getting married, Zhang Yan has handed their salary to their daughter-in-law for a penny.

Zhang Yan truly achieved his elder brother as his father in this regard. It should be said that Zhang Fusheng, the father-in-law, did everything.

"The day after tomorrow, you will take our mother back to my uncle's house and talk to my uncle about the purchase of pumpkin seeds!" Zhang Yan explained to the two brothers Zhang Ping and Zhang An.

"I know, brother!"

They had to return to the city in the afternoon because they were not suitable to leave too late with two pregnant women.
Chapter completed!