Sun Tao, the mushroom grower.

??? Comprehensive report on agriculture, rural areas and farmers: In the winter night of early morning, the temperature around Gu County in Shanxi Province is as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius. There are no traces of people in the mountains. The nearest village is also more than ten miles away. But in the cold silence of the mountainside, close to the graves, there was a young man wrapped in a military coat, guarding the brazier and keeping vigil alone. His name is Sun Tao, a local college student village official.

Sun Tao's vigil was to guard the mushroom greenhouse in the mountains and add fire in the middle of the night to ensure the temperature.

He sat on a stone and fiddled with the charcoal fire in the basin with the stick in his hand. The pot of fire had been burning for nearly two hours. He observed carefully that the burning charcoal had turned red from the initial black, as if it had been burned through. He put on asbestos gloves and carried the brazier into the small brick house, covered three beds and fell asleep.

Within an hour, he got up to relieve himself because he wanted to pee. As soon as the iron door of the brick house was pushed open, Sun Tao suddenly felt that the sky and the earth were spinning. Before he could react, he fell to the ground and fainted...

"I know it's dangerous to burn charcoal, but that night, I really couldn't stand the cold." Sun Tao recalled that after nearly two hours of coma, thanks to the deadly low temperature in the mountains, he "woke up", otherwise "people may really not wake up."

Mushrooms are not frozen, but people are poisoned by gas for heating. Sun Tao encountered three such experiences, and the other two were to add fire to the mushrooms in the mushroom shed in the middle of the night.

"I didn't have enough experience at first, so I suffered a lot." In 2011, Sun Tao, together with several village officials nearby, founded the Mushroom Planting Cooperative, determined to lead the villagers to become rich. However, the difficulty of starting a business was soon confirmed, the other four entrepreneurial partners left successively, and he himself was involved several times in planting mushrooms.

Villagers shed tears: "We are also mothers, baby entrepreneurship is not easy!"

Up to now, Sun Tao's efforts are not only the stable income of villagers, but also the crystal tears in the eyes of many common people when talking about his hard experience.

"During the Spring Festival, everyone had a reunion dinner. The baby bought some quick-frozen dumplings alone and cooked them into a pot when she came back. We are also mothers. It is not easy for a baby to start a business!" Zhang Haiping, a villager, shed tears.

Sun Tao's home is thousands of miles away in Biyang, Henan Province. In 2009, he graduated from university and was admitted to Gu County University Student Village Official. He served as Deputy Secretary of the Party Branch of Shangxinfo Village in Guyang Town and stayed in Shanxi alone.

" Flower mushrooms are rare mushrooms. Most of them are sold overseas. Their profits far exceed ordinary mushrooms. Moreover, they only grow in winter. When farming is busy, it doesn't affect farmers 'autumn harvest. My uncles and uncles in my hometown have become rich because of planting flower mushrooms." After investigation, Sun Tao found that Gu County is located in mountainous areas, with large temperature difference between day and night, similar to his hometown environment, and there are many walnut trees in Gu County mountains, suitable for making bacteria sticks, low cost.

Seeing business opportunities, Sun Tao's entrepreneurial enthusiasm was ignited. He decided to go back to his hometown to investigate mushroom planting and lead the villagers to become rich in industry. After some textual research, he chose his own entrepreneurial base in the depths of Taiyue Mountain_an abandoned coal mine. In fact, the so-called base, but two brick houses, more than 10 greenhouses, and no water and no electricity.

Sun Tao's entrepreneurial idea quickly won the approval of the other four small partners who were also village officials. After a hit, several people agreed to raise funds together and take the lead in doing it first.

Building a house, Sun Tao's account is fine, buy a brick at the foot of the mountain for 3 yuan, pull up the mountain for 3.5 yuan, in order to save money, he and his partner wrapped with rubber belt, a car to pull up; mushroom planting, not only to choose winter, but also to say that planting can not be delayed for a moment. Thousands of bacteria sticks, solidly stacked in a reservoir covered with thick ice, Sun Tao soaked in bone-piercing ice water, more than 1000 bacteria sticks to be taken out in a day...

"It's not only the legs that are frozen, but the waist is the most deadly." The reservoir space is limited, Sun Tao alone in the water, outside two partners to meet, at the end of the day, he waist pain lying on the bed straight shouting.

"I decided to grit my teeth again and stand up."

Entrepreneurial enthusiasm, in exchange for the reality of cruelty.

Although in the winter of 2011, Sun Tao devoted himself to eating cold steamed bread and drinking water with ice debris in the mountains, in the spring of 2012, 75% of more than 20,000 bacterial sticks were infected and moldy. During this period, several partners also withdrew from this "painful" entrepreneurship due to various reasons.

The first venture failed!

In the face of partner withdrawal, more than 100,000 yuan loss, more than 300,000 yuan investment, and rotten waste of a factory... Sun Tao completely collapsed.

During that time, Sun Tao's classmates came to see him, the first sentence is: "This is where people stay." They couldn't understand Sun Tao's choice.

"At that time, I only had one thought. I don't want anything anymore. I want to go home!" Sun Tao said, classmate's words, the frustration in the heart makes oneself drill the horn tip. He cried loudly to the mountain, homesick and eager to return to his parents at once.

"Actually, two years before I came to Shanxi, my parents didn't know what I was doing." Sun Tao came out to fight, determined to only report good news to his family. Two Spring Festival in succession, thinking of his anxious mother called, looking forward to his return home, he suppressed tears, smiled and said joy, found all kinds of excuses, only to keep his own mushroom, keep his inner promise to himself.

Later, parents learned the truth, mother hugged children crying: "hard to let you go to college, hope you have a good day, mother did not expect, you are suffering in the mountains." Witnessing the difficulties of his son, his parents decided to let Sun Tao return home. But Sun Tao answered seriously: "Dad, Mom, if I was for money, I would have quit long ago. Let me give myself an explanation."

After a few days of decadence, Sun Tao gradually calmed down from despair.

"One morning, I got up and went to the mushroom shed. I saw the sunlight penetrating the shed membrane and shining brightly on the whole mushroom. It was warm and beautiful. I decided to grit my teeth again and stand up." For this reason, he went down to Henan to learn scriptures and started again.

More than 20,000 bags of bacterial sticks began to glow

Life in the mountains is really difficult, because it is far away from people, he always has to prepare a month's worth of steamed buns and vegetables before going up the mountain... In summer, steamed buns have nowhere to store them, and when they are moldy, they are peeled and eaten; when the vegetables are finished, before the day of going down, they pick some vegetables that are often eaten in the mountains, sprinkle a handful of salt, and mix them with noodles to eat.