Chapter 117 Continue to Contract Mountain Land (Full Refined) 14138
You must not ruin your business in front of your brothers, this is the bottom line!
This is what Cao Tiemin thinks in his heart.
Cao Shujie didn't know this. He led his four dogs, his wife and daughter out of his new home. He turned around and followed the slope road up the mountain to take a look at the orchard.
All the kiwis in the old orchard area have been picked, and there are still two acres of apples hanging on the branches. If you get closer, you can smell a faint apple fragrance, which is very similar to the smell of childhood.
Compared with other unbagged apples, which mostly have crooked melons and split dates, the apples grown on Cao Shujie's two acres of land are not bad in terms of quality.
Looking at the red apple, Cao Shujie felt the desire to take a bite.
Mengmeng followed him over. After seeing these apples, she jumped holding her father's legs and wanted to pick one to eat.
"Dad, give it to me." She pointed to a slightly larger apple and said.
Cao Shujie told her: "Wait a little longer, it won't taste good now. If you wait another two weeks, it will taste good then."
Cheng Xiaolin was curious and asked him: "Shujie, is this the difference between bagged and unbagged apples?"
Bagged apples also entered the market some time ago with the large-scale picking of kiwi fruits. Some people have bought them. The apples look very beautiful, but they taste very crispy and raw, with astringent flesh, not to mention the fragrance, and the sweetness is not enough.
What's even worse is that those pretty-looking apples, not to mention the unpalatable taste, are sold for six to seven yuan per pound. Even if they are high-quality apples, they are naturally more expensive. This makes me really angry.
Cao Shujie smiled and said, "Honey, it's useless to say anything now. Just wait two more weeks for it to ripen naturally. I don't need to tell you whether it tastes good or not."
"Huh, look at your arrogance, what's so great about it." Cheng Xiaolin turned around and headed towards the new fruit tree seedling park with Mengmeng looking back at Apple frequently.
She had already seen her mother-in-law wearing a bamboo straw hat and busy there.
Mengmeng walked a little closer, opened her mouth and shouted: "Grandma."
"Mengmeng, Linlin, why are you here? It's such a hot day, didn't I ask you to wait at home?" Wang Yuelan said.
"Mom, it's okay. You can come, why can't we come?" Cheng Xiaolin went over and squatted down to work with her mother-in-law.
Mengmeng was playing by herself next to her.
There are no sharp things on the ground here, so I'm really not afraid of her getting hurt.
"Shujie is back?" Wang Yuelan asked as she straightened up and slowly bent over, causing her waist to feel numb.
"Well, he just came back for a while, and we went to see the decoration of the house together. Brother Min said that it will be completed within this month." Cheng Xiaolin said.
"Then you can move there years ago?" Wang Yuelan asked her.
"Well, that's about it. Shujie and I have discussed going to look at the furniture and home appliances after we finish our busy work these days." Cheng Xiaolin thought about this and said, "If everything goes well, we can move there before the Spring Festival."
"Mom, where is my dad?" Cao Shujie came from the apple orchard and didn't see his dad.
Wang Yuelan pointed to the place where the calves are raised: "Your dad went there to mix the feed again. You should go over and take a look."
"Yeah!" Cao Shujie nodded and walked over there.
Walking closer, Cao Shujie heard the sound of the mixer turning.
When he pushed open the door of the warehouse, he saw his father pouring corn, bean cakes, and other ingredients into the mixer. The whole room was filled with floating dust.
He walked over and didn't care whether the clothes fit or not. He picked up a bag of corn from the ground, pulled off the rope at the mouth of the bag and put it into the mixer. Immediately after, a wave of dirt rushed out from the feed port of the mixer. Cao Shujie was the first to bear the brunt, and his hair
His face and shirt were all covered in dust.
"Shujie, what are you doing in such a hurry? You don't know how to change into suitable clothes when you come to work." Cao Jianguo didn't know what to say to his son.
Cao Shujie didn't think too much. He said, "Dad, I just came back. I came here before I had a drink of water. Why didn't you tell me in advance that you were going to feed today?"
"Does this work need to be discussed?" Cao Jianguo asked him.
Cao Shujie stopped talking and went to work!
With Cao Shujie joining, the two men can work much faster.
Cao Shujie couldn't even remember how many bags of corn he poured into the mixer. He felt that the fertilizer bags had rubbed off a layer of the skin on his fingertips as he held the bags of corn with both hands.
I forgot how long they had been working. After waiting for Cao Jianguo to turn off the mixer, the two men finally stopped to take a breath. Only then did Cao Shujie feel pain and numbness in his arms and hands, as if they were not his own.
"Dad, I'm really useless. I can only do such a small amount of work, but it's all in vain." Cao Shujie laughed at himself.
When Cao Jianguo heard what his son said, he raised the shovel with both hands and was about to hit him: "Shujie, you are just lazy. If you work more, everything will be better."
Cao Shujie didn't listen to his father.
The two men worked hard for a while, and after finishing the rest, Cao Jianguo said something: "Shujie, didn't you say before that you would contract another piece of mountainous land specifically for raising cattle, pigs, and sheep? I think you
Why don't we go and cover the area next door now? While we are not busy now, we can find a few more people to dig out the ground, plant special pastures, and put the pigs, cows and sheep in it to free range.
Cut them and then feed them, what do you think?"
"Dad, we both want to go together." Cao Shujie said with a smile.
He said: "I just went to see a flower seller today, and I also went to see the one selling agricultural machinery in Qingshi Town. I ordered two lawn mowers, which I estimate will be delivered in the next few days."
"Why are you buying flowers? You want to grow flowers?" Cao Jianguo felt that he could not understand his son's thinking.
Out of concern for his son, he still asked a few more questions to understand the situation.
He was afraid that his son would go further down the road of not doing his job properly.
Cao Shujie didn't think much about it. The two men came out of the warehouse together. At this time, their bodies were covered with dust, and their faces and hair were gray, but neither of them cared.
Cao Shujie pointed to the large piece of exposed land and said to his father: "Dad, I plan to plant flowers in those places, all kinds of flowers. When they bloom, I will add fruit trees and flowers. You said how beautiful it is."
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Cao Jianguo was not dizzy. He asked: "It's a lot of money, do you think it is necessary?"
The implication is that if it is not necessary, don’t spend this money, save it, there will be more places to use the money later!
Cao Shujie disagreed and said directly: "Dad, don't underestimate the flowers and plants I want to plant."
"Let me put it this way." Cao Shujie paused for a moment and continued: "This picking is actually not perfect. I guess many people see the environment here. No matter how delicious the kiwis I grow are, they will
You don’t want to come here a second time, do you believe it?”
Cao Jianguo subconsciously wanted to say 'I don't believe it', but when he thought about it carefully, what his son said made sense.
At that time, kiwi fruit was sold, and when it was sold, many people asked if there was any place with a better environment nearby.
The implication is that they feel that the environment on the orchard side of the mountain is not good enough.
If they could still pick kiwis, they might not come.
Cao Jianguo also wanted to understand this. He nodded and said, "You can buy it."
"When are we going to plant flowers? I haven't planted them yet. How about we find a few more people?" Cao Jianguo asked him.
Cao Shujie shook his head: "Dad, there is no need to find someone. They will do it by then."
"This is unreasonable, and I saved a lot of money." Cao Jianguo was very happy.
But who knew that his son would say next: "Dad, you are overthinking it. I will still pay for it, but I will arrange for professional people to come over."
"That's better than finding people in the village who don't know anything. Then they'll all be blind, and the money will be wasted." Cao Jianguo said.
It is true that some money must be spent, but it cannot be spent in vain.
After doing all this work, it was almost dark.
For the next few days, Cao Shujie and his father Cao Jianguo were busy in the orchard.
I also hired 10 people to clean up all the grass in the orchard for 35 yuan and 8 hours of work.
The grass was piled up to feed the calves. When I looked over, I felt that the fruit saplings looked much better.
When he went to Cao Jiangang's house with two bottles of wine, Cao Shujie happened to see Cao Jiangang drinking alone at home. He was very puzzled and asked Cao Jiangang: "Uncle Jiangang, what are you doing? You must have a companion when drinking, a
Drinking alcohol can easily cause physical problems."
"Oh, Shujie, can you still read faces?" Cao Jiangang, who was not drunk yet, asked him.
Cao Shujie shook his head and said with a smile: "Uncle Jiangang, to be honest, I am not good at drinking, but I am good at pouring wine."
"You kid, you have so many evil thoughts." Cao Jiangang pointed at him and couldn't help laughing.
But to be honest, Cao Shujie is now considered the number one person in Caojiazhuang. Cao Jiangang never expected that things would change so quickly.
"Shujie, sit down quickly." Cao Jiangang waved his hand and said.
"Why did you come to see me today?" Cao Jiangang asked him.
"Are you thinking about going to the village committee to use the loudspeaker, or something else?" Cao Jiangang said with an expression like "I'll know what you're farting if you don't say anything."
Cao Shujie was amused.
"Uncle Jiangang, to tell you the truth, I am thinking of renting out the area next to my mountainous land and using it exclusively for breeding." Cao Shujie said bluntly.
It can be seen that Cao Jiangang was surprised by what Cao Shujie said. He asked: "Do you really want to contract that piece?"
"Shujie, I think you are better than anything else if you plant the orchard well. Breeding is not easy. If you really screw up, you will lose a lot of money." Cao Jiangang shook his head.
This surprised Cao Shujie and subconsciously asked him: "Uncle Jiangang, something happened?"
"Hey, I didn't expect that your Uncle Jianhua would be unable to hold on so quickly." Cao Jiangang looked a little tired. He picked up the wine glass and took another sip. He said, "What a coincidence. If you had come earlier, I would have had two
When I was young, I could meet your Uncle Jianhua face to face."
"What is he here for?" Cao Shujie didn't understand.
Ever since Cao Jianhua leased the mountainous land in the south for breeding, Cao Shujie has never cared about the situation there.
Hearing Cao Shujie's curious inquiry, Cao Jiangang looked a little complicated and sighed: "Your Uncle Hua is too anxious. He did it too fast and he was not sure. Now he feels that the funds are tight."
This statement left Cao Shujie speechless. He didn't know what to say.
