Chapter 1356: You Are All Very Beautiful

After sending off Xiang Tianlu and his party, Su Xinghui returned to the town government. After dinner, cadres from the town government kept coming to his office to report their work, and it wasn't until after nine o'clock in the evening that he finally had some peace.

This was his daily routine. Ever since his first few fires burned more and more vigorously, the number of cadres reporting work to him had increased, and Su Xinghui also hoped to grasp the progress of various tasks in the town at any time through the cadres' reports, so that he could have a clear idea.

Like today, Lu Xianghui reported to him that the town had already established four cooperatives. The loans they applied for from the Agricultural Bank had been approved, and they had already used this loan to start building cattle sheds and sheep pens and had gone to Jiangcheng to buy breeding cattle and calves. Other cooperatives were currently handling procedures, and it was expected that they would be handled one after another after the New Year.

And those weeds and shrubs on the grazable barren hills were also being cleared. After the clearing was completed, pasture seeds could be sown. These types of pasture grow fast, and it would take about a month to form a grazable pasture for livestock to graze and mow.

The common people in the town had very high enthusiasm for this work. It was estimated that large areas of barren hills could be cleared before the New Year, and pasture sowing could begin.

As for the feed problem, Xiuyan Village had already opened a feed factory. Anyway, most of the raw materials for manufacturing concentrated feed could be solved locally in Matou Town; they only needed to buy some raw materials such as additives from Jiangcheng.

And the opening of the feed factory didn't need much investment. They only needed to buy some machinery and equipment such as mixers. The factory buildings were all ready-made. Originally, there was a brick and tile factory in the village, which had been abandoned, and it was just right to be used to open a feed factory. In total, an investment of twenty or thirty thousand yuan would be enough for production.

In terms of the technology for manufacturing feed, there was also no problem. Professor Rao Songnian provided several formulas, which were used in different growth stages of livestock. The manufacturing technology was also not complicated. As long as various raw materials and additives were stirred according to different proportions, qualified concentrated feed could be produced.

This could also be considered a village-run enterprise in Xiuyan Village, and all the people in the village had shares. If the livestock industry was promoted throughout the county in the future, the prospects of this feed factory would be quite good. Maybe one day this feed factory could also develop into a large enterprise.

Listening to Lu Xianghui's report, Su Xinghui was very satisfied with the progress of this work. This work was one of the tasks he valued most at present because this industry could directly benefit every common person.

After everyone finished reporting their work, Su Xinghui returned to his dormitory, preparing to rest after washing up. He ran around below every day, and he wasn't idle after returning to the town government. Even if his body was strong, he still needed to rest early. Speaking of which, he hadn't picked up a paintbrush for a long time. He planned to pick up the paintbrush and paint a picture when he was a bit more leisurely.

Running around Matou Town these days, those beautiful sceneries gave Su Xinghui the urge to create again.

Just as Su Xinghui opened the door and entered the dormitory and turned on the light, he heard someone call out "Secretary Su" softly behind him.

Su Xinghui looked back and saw that it was a temporary worker in the Party and Government Office, a young girl named Du Fangfang, with both hands behind her back. He asked with a smile, "Du Fangfang, is there anything you need?"

Du Fangfang's face was a bit red. She brought her hands from behind to the front. In her hands, she was carrying two cloth bags. She walked to Su Xinghui's desk and put the cloth bags on the desk. She opened the cloth bags. One cloth bag contained a bag of oranges, and the other cloth bag contained a bag of eggs.

Su Xinghui said, "Du Fangfang, what are you doing? I can't accept these things. You keep them for yourself to eat."

Du Fangfang said, "Secretary Su, these things are not mine; my aunt asked me to bring them to you. Wasn't yesterday Sunday? I went home, and my aunt gave me these things and asked me to give them to you. The oranges were grown on the trees in her house, and the eggs were laid by the chickens in her house. You must accept them and brew a bowl of egg water every morning to nourish your body."

Su Xinghui said, "Which village is your home in? Who is your aunt?"

Du Fangfang said, "My home is in Mayang Village, and my aunt's name is Cao Jingui. You have seen her in Mayang Village. I don't know if you still remember?"

Mayang Village? Mayang Village is a village in the southwest of Matou Town, named because it is south of Matou Mountain. Su Xinghui had been there several times because the primary school donated by Yu Ruizhi was in Mayang Village. Because he was concerned about the construction progress of this school, Su Xinghui would often go there to see it.

Su Xinghui did have an impression of the name Cao Jingui. This was a widow, not yet forty years old, but she was raising four children. The first three were all daughters, the oldest being only nineteen, and the youngest was a son, ten years old this year.

Her family was fined a lot of money because of over-birth and owed a debt. Her husband worked hard every day and later went to Yulin to work as a construction worker, but he was hit in the head by a steel pipe that fell from the scaffolding in an accident and died.

The boss of that construction team paid her family a few thousand yuan, and the matter was settled. However, these few thousand yuan were not even enough to pay off the debt. Cao Jingui had been raising four children for the past few years, and life was extremely difficult.

Her three daughters didn't read much, at most to the third grade of primary school, because the original primary school in the village only had three grades, and they couldn't afford it either. They had to help at home when they were ten or so.

It wasn't until her eldest daughter was eighteen and went to Yulin City to work as a waitress that she felt a bit easier because her eldest daughter could send money home. Her second daughter was also seventeen and planned to go to Yulin to work this year.

Her son had been studying, but now he was only in the third grade of primary school.

Every time Su Xinghui went to a village, he would visit the poorest family in the village. The Cao Jingui family was the poorest family in Mayang Village. The village cadres of Mayang Village took him to see the Cao Jingui family, and that look shocked Su Xinghui very much. ===== CHAPTER 1358 =====