“Half sunny, half rainy, half cloudy days, half labor, half leisure, pick pepper in rainy season every year, don’t worry about drying.” This is a doggerel compiled by Wei songke for pepper planting. Wei songke, who was born in Dongping village, Pingshun County, Changzhi City, retired and returned to his hometown in 1975. He has served as secretary of the village Party branch and director of the village committee for more than 30 years. In 2017, he began to study the planting and production of pepper and introduced more than 500 pepper dryers to improve the production efficiency of pepper farmers. All his life, he was concerned about the country and people and ran around for the construction of his hometown. Now, although he is over seventy, the old secretary is still devoted to the research of pepper seed separation equipment… Let’s see the story of the “old secretary under the pepper tree”.