Jiang Libin of Licheng led the villagers on the road to prosperity with "walnut + edible fungi"

At about 5 o'clock in the morning on July 20, it was just dawn, and Jiang Libin, who was tightly covered, carried a hoe and followed Jiang Baowang, a member of the Green Wing Walnut Cooperative, toward the mountain. "the lower body is wet when you go up the mountain in the morning, and the upper body is wet when the sun rises." The road up the mountain is rugged, either through the river or through the weed forest, and the skin will be scratched if you are not careful. There are many mosquitoes in the mountains, and they are so poisonous that the skin will swell after being bitten. Whether or not you will encounter snakes and wild boars!

It takes at least 40 minutes to get up the mountain. Weeds are tall grass. As soon as they walk in, they are buried in the green. They can only communicate with each other by shouting. It is difficult to go up the mountain, but it is harder to go up to the sky. Either the dew wet the trouser legs, or the sweat drenched the back of the clothes.

It's so difficult, why does Jiang Libin, who graduated from university, go back to his hometown?

With the knowledge learned, "lead the whole village out of poverty and become rich"! This is not only an agreement between him and the director of the village committee, but also his dream. He hopes that the folks can lead a rich life without going out of the mountains.

1 embark on the road of study for the development of hometown

"you have a good brain. I hope you can go to school, learn something in line with the reality of the countryside, be useful, and come back and build our village." This sentence of Fu Hongwei, director of the village party committee, has been lingering in Jiang Libin's mind.

When the director of the village committee said this, it was when Jiang Libin failed in the college entrance examination, failed in his job, and was at a low ebb in his life.

In 2008, Jiang Libin, who failed in the college entrance examination, saw that his classmates who did not go to high school had already made money, so despite the opposition of his family, he set foot on the train to Tianjin with 500 yuan.

Jiang Libin does bag pressing work in a tire factory, which is purely coolie work, working at least 12 or 13 hours a day. "as soon as I get off work, I can't move on the bed." Recalling the days of working, Jiang Libin said that he wanted to go back countless times, but could not afford to lose that person.

At this time, the house he and his colleagues rented was stolen. He wanted to check out and refund his money, but the landlord not only refused to return it, but also said evil words to each other. The landlord scolded us for more than an hour and scolded us like a dog. " He later reflected, is this the life he wants? After that, he felt deeply that he could hardly have a foothold without a skill or diploma.

Jiang Libin went home. As soon as he had time, Jiang Libin and his father learned the techniques of walnut grafting and pruning. Strengthen your hands-on ability. "although the grafting and pruning looks good, I don't know why I did it." Jiang Libin kept asking himself, what on earth is suitable for the development of rural areas? How on earth can we drive rural people to get rich?

I still have to study!

Jiang Libin had the idea of continuing the college entrance examination, and Fu Hongwei, director of the village committee, made an agreement with him: after graduation, he returned to his hometown with technology suitable for rural development, took part in the election, and strived to take over as director of the village committee. To be a leader of rural development who always thinks of farmers and works for the interests of farmers.

Two kinds of mushrooms lead the villagers on the road to prosperity

In September 2010, after a year of self-inflicted repetition, Jiang Libin was admitted to the School of Horticulture of Shanxi Agricultural University. "before I entered the university, I planned the direction of my life. There are many walnut trees in our village, so I learned to plant fruit trees and learn a real technology, a technology suitable for myself and rural development."

After the military training, by chance, he visited a mushroom shed near the school. when rows of mushrooms appeared in front of him, he was bewildered that the scenes he had only seen on TV were real. "at that moment, I knew that I had found a good project suitable for rural development-walnut + edible fungus."

The branches of walnut trees can be used as mushroom sticks, and discarded sticks can also be used as fertilizer. Growing mushrooms in winter and walnuts in summer can not only complement each other in time, but also achieve the complementarity of raw materials and fertilizers, so that villagers have something to do and earn money all the year round.

Time and tide wait for no man! When you are in school, you can't have the theoretical knowledge of optics, but you have to learn it in practice. Jiang Libin rented several mushroom sheds and began to live as a vegetable farmer while being a college student.

Go to the greenhouse to pull straw curtains, ventilate, mix, burn boilers, inoculate. "I get up early and late every day. The students in the dormitory can't see me until 09:30 in the evening. They don't even know when I leave the dormitory in the morning." Jiang Libin said that what impressed him was that every time he returned to the classroom after ordering the mushrooms, there was no one left or right before and after his seat. "after planting mushrooms, it smells strange and smells very bad." He is also a student, and other students are beautiful, but he is dirty every day, shuttling among his classmates, feeling the strange eyes of others, and he wants to give up several times.

However, the agreement with the director of the village committee is still fresh in my mind.

Gnash your teeth and keep doing it!

The hard work has not been in vain, and 90% of the restaurants around the school have become loyal customers of his mushrooms. "I often ride a bike with a basket in front, a basket hanging from the handlebars and another basket tied to the back seat. While riding in Taigu County, I yell," sell mushrooms! mushrooms grown by students at Agricultural University! "

Practicing at school is for the cause of the village. In February 2013, Jiang Libin, who was still in university, set up the Licheng Libin Ecological planting Cooperative Association in his hometown and began to lead the villagers to grow mushrooms.

After graduating from university in 2014, Jiang Libin built a mushroom shed in the cooperative courtyard. Today, the greenhouse of the cooperative has grown to 14, and his edible mushroom business has become a success. "some of the mushrooms in the culture bags are full, so it's time to cut the bag and give it more air so that it can breathe." On July 19, when the reporter and his party arrived, he crouched in the greenhouse and carefully told the workers to take good care of the mushrooms. Wang Jingtang, a member of the cooperative, said that Libin taught them advanced cultivation methods and came up with the good idea of potted mushrooms, and everyone tasted the benefits. "it really leads everyone to a road to wealth."

3 Walnut forest props up the dream of life

Beihuiquan Village is located on the Taihang Mountains, and the mountains are covered with wild walnut trees.

"our walnut forest is on this mountain." On the morning of July 20, although the weather was slightly muggy, Jiang Libin prepared camouflage clothes for reporters and forced them to wear them. "you have to wrap yourself up the mountain, or you'll get stuck with grass or get bitten by mosquitoes, and the skin will itch for a week." The reporter whispered, "as for wearing such thick clothes, I will sweat a little later when I climb the mountain, so as not to make people transpirate."... "

There is only one road into the mountain, only for one person to pass, and there are dirt roads at the foot, and spring water flows slowly all the time, mixed with dirt, walking with a deep foot and a shallow foot, leaving countless footprints and slipping without paying attention. After walking not very far, the hillside was extremely steep. When I looked carefully at the mountain road under my feet, the weeds that were as high as people filled the whole field of vision. Although the sickle could reduce the scratches of thorns, the speed could not help but slow down a lot. On the way forward, the ear is constantly filled with the buzzing sound of flying insects, the body is always tilted 45 degrees forward, in order to maintain balance, do not dare to look up.

After crawling for less than an hour, the reporter found a slightly gentle stone surface, pestled to the ground and didn't want to move any more. Big drops of sweat flowed, and Jiang Libin, who had been prepared, handed over two bottles of water. The reporter grabbed it and drank it all in one breath.

Along the way, I can't remember how many times villager Jiang Baowang said he would be there soon. Finally, Jiang Libin shouted and arrived. The reporter suddenly looked up, but Rain Water instantly fell from the sky.

In the rain curtain, the walnuts all over the mountains are like naughty elves, swinging happily with the wind. Jiang Libin and Jiang Baowang do not feel tired at all and have begun to prune walnut trees. "you have a rest. We're not tired. We're used to it." Jiang Libin said, "this mountain is the greatest wealth that nature brings to us." In Jiang Libin's impression, from childhood, in addition to farming, the people in the village went up the mountain to collect medicine, and the clusters of wild walnuts on the mountain were worthless in their eyes. Jiang Libin set up the Green Wing Walnut Professional Cooperative and led its members to carry out grafting on wild walnut trees. now more than 5500 edible walnuts and more than 4000 hemp walnuts have been grafted. But the economic value of growing hemp walnut is still very high.

Looking at the grafted walnut forest, Jiang Libin had tears in the corners of his eyes. "my dream is very simple, that is, so that the parents in my hometown can live a rich life without having to walk out of the mountains. This wish has always been there, never left. It is with this good wish that we can take one step at a time and walk steadily to the present and to the future. "