Seeing Cao Jiangang riding his bicycle and entering the village committee compound again, and people on the street entering one after another, Cao Shujie wondered how sure Uncle Hua was about contracting the mountainous land for breeding.
He didn't know why Uncle Hua, who was running a supermarket well, suddenly wanted to engage in breeding. These were two extremes in his career.
"Forget it, it has nothing to do with us. Let's go home and eat first. We will be busy later." Cao Shujie thought to himself and stopped thinking about these unimportant things.
Thinking of this, Cao Shujie didn't stay much and shouted: "Daha, Erha, go home!"
Two little German shepherds were led by Daha and Erha and walked south. Cao Shujie was pulling four ropes from behind. Daha and Erha were already very strong and they could drag Cao Shujie forward.
This gave Cao Shujie a very shameless idea. He wondered whether he should make a wooden cart, install two sets of wheels, and make two sets of suitable dog saddles for Daha and Erha, and let them carry them in the future.
Run by yourself.
Before I could decide whether to do this, I had already arrived at the door of my house.
Cao Shujie heard his daughter yelling in the yard: "The little dog, grandma, the little dog is gone."
"Nonsense, your father went out to walk the dog." Wang Yuelan said to her granddaughter.
"Really?" Mengmeng asked.
Before Wang Yuelan could give her a definite reply, Daha and Erha called out twice after seeing Mengmeng, attracting Mengmeng's attention.
"Grandma, look, the little dog is back."
"Mengmeng, what I just said is right." Wang Yuelan looked at her granddaughter's happy appearance, and she was also happy.
He turned to look at his son and asked him: "Shujie, there was a meeting in the village, but you didn't go?"
Cao Shujie was busy tying the big harrier and the harrier to the iron ring, and put the two little German shepherds in the cage. He also waved to Huahuaxiao who was lying on the roof: "Mom, when I came back just now, I met Jiangang.
Sir, he asked me to go to a meeting and also asked me to give Uncle Hua a few suggestions. Isn't this nonsense? What qualifications do I have to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf?"
"To be honest, I don't know where Uncle Hua's idea of 'engaging in breeding' came from, but I..." Cao Shujie hesitated for a moment, then continued: "I'm not very optimistic about it."
"If you want to contract a mountainous area, you must buy a fence if you want to breed on the mountain. You must also manage the environment of the mountainous area. No matter what you raise, water, electricity, roads and other basic needs in the early stage must be purchased. Mom, I have contracted it all.
More than 800,000 yuan was invested in these 78 acres of mountainous land in a few months. Do you think Uncle Hua’s family has that much savings?"
Wang Yuelan didn't speak when she heard her son's analysis.
The son is building things on the mountain bit by bit, installing barbed wire guardrails today, digging water wells tomorrow, installing automatic irrigation equipment, and building roads the day after tomorrow...
She didn't think much about it at the time, but until the end of her busy schedule, Wang Yuelan realized that her son had invested a large amount of money in order to purchase all these things.
If we really lose, I can’t imagine the consequences!
"Besides, Uncle Jiangang asked me to give Uncle Hua a few words. This is not a good thing." Cao Shujie squinted his eyes and said, "If Uncle Hua makes money, I may not be able to do well."
"But if Uncle Hua loses money, mom, what do you think I will be scolded for?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Yuelan started to scold him: "Cao Jiangang, this bastard, did he not have a good mind from the beginning? No, I have to scold him."
Hearing what his mother said, Cao Shujie didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He quickly reached out to hold his mother who was about to go out and persuaded her: "Mom, why do you just listen to the wind as the rain? That's what I said. Maybe I, Uncle Jiangang, didn't think of this step.
!”
Wang Yuelan stood there and thought for a while, then nodded in agreement and said, "Shujie, you are right to say that. I just think that Cao Jiangang, an old man in his sixties, can he think so far?"
Mengmeng saw her father talking to her grandma and ignored her. She ran over and hugged her father's calf: "Dad, mom said, give peaches to your uncle for dinner."
She finally finished the sentence intermittently, and the key points were still unclear, but Cao Shujie understood. What her daughter meant was to send kiwi fruits to her uncle after dinner.
Cao Shujie nodded her little head and said, "We are still cute and filial, and dad has even forgotten about it."
Cao Shujie was thinking about this bumper kiwi harvest, so he sent some to his uncle. There was nothing wrong with it!
"As for the uncle, please send him some too, so that my grandpa and the others can have a taste." Cao Shujie thought to himself.
Wang Yuelan said: "Shujie, don't forget to send some to Mengmeng's grandma's house."
"Well, don't worry, I will definitely not forget it." Cao Shujie said.
…
At this time, the village committee compound seemed particularly lively.
Almost half of the people in the village had arrived. Looking at the leaders of the two village committees on the podium, they were all present. The villagers sitting on the small horses below were still gathering together for a small meeting.
Talking about their respective parents’ shortcomings.
Whose child is getting married, whose child has found a good in-law, whose child has been admitted to a good university, etc.
Cao Jiangang on the podium looked at the time and said: "Everyone, please be quiet, be quiet!"
Unfortunately, no one paid attention to him. The villagers below continued to hold a small meeting. Cao Jiangang's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. He took the microphone and shouted in a loud voice: "Stop talking, can't you hear me?"
After this violent shouting, the scene became quiet. Everyone looked up at Cao Jiangang, the village party secretary who was speaking on the podium, wanting to hear what he had to say.
"Everyone, please be quiet. I have something very important to tell you next," Cao Jiangang said.
The others stopped talking.
"It's time to be free. We won't wait for those who didn't come." Cao Jiang just started to formulate words, but what kind of vocabulary does he have for an old guy who has never been to junior high school? After thinking about it, he said straightforwardly: "
That’s what happened. Cao Jianhua from our village wanted to contract the mountainous areas for farming, and he told me his specific ideas and plans. The comrades of the two village committees and I all thought this could be done!”
"We are based on the principle of vigorously supporting the economic development of villagers..."
Cao Jiangang continued to speak on the podium. The people in the audience were a little confused after hearing the specific content of what he said. The people sitting in the back row began to whisper again: "What is Cao Jianhua doing?"
"Who knows, maybe he became jealous when he saw Xiao Cao planting fruit trees and raising cattle in the mountains there."
"If you don't know, don't talk nonsense. Maybe Cao Jianhua really wants to engage in breeding!"
"How many acres of mountain land do you think he wants to contract... To be honest, I don't think much of him. A person who doesn't even farm, and leaves all the work in the field to his wife. How can you say that he is so lazy?
Can you raise cattle? Or pigs?"
This is how it is in the countryside. The villagers have sharp eyes. Some things they don't usually talk about are revealed at critical moments.
Because Cao Jianhua wanted to reserve land for breeding, everyone started talking in low voices.
Cao Jiangang and village director Gao Weimin frowned almost at the same time when they saw this situation.
This is different from what they thought!
But it doesn't matter, the majority obeys the minority, and the opinions of the big guys are reserved.
…
At Cao Shujie's house, he packed more than a dozen boxes of kiwi fruits and put them in the trunk, and then said to his wife: "Tomorrow I will go to Mengmeng's grandma's house and send some kiwi fruits."
"You don't have to go. It won't be enough to pay for gas if you go back and forth to deliver those two boxes of kiwis." Cheng Xiaolin shook her head.
Cao Shujie rolled his eyes at her: "Wife, what kind of mentality do you have? We grew it ourselves. We care less about etiquette than about affection. Do you understand?"
"Besides, you won't buy anything else? I said you were going to give me kiwi fruit, so you only brought this one. It's a shame that you are a mother too!" Cao Shujie was too lazy to pay attention to her, turned around and walked out.
Cheng Xiaolin chased after him and wanted to kick him, but her mother-in-law just looked on with a smile, and she was a little embarrassed to make a fuss.
Wang Yuelan watched her granddaughter running around in the yard with nothing to do, so she asked: "Mengmeng, I will take you to go for a walk in the mountains, will you go?"
"Mom, why are you going to the mountain?" Cheng Xiaolin asked.
"Let me see how the fruit saplings are growing. The grass in the field has to be cut to feed the cattle. If we find someone else, we can save two labors."
When Cheng Xiaolin heard her mother-in-law say this, she didn't know how to refute it, and finally said, "Then I'll go with you."
"What are you doing on such a hot day? It would be nice to cool down at home." Wang Yulan said to her.
But Cheng Xiaolin shouted: "Mom, you can go, why can't I go? How can there be such a reason?"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law argued for a while, but in the end they rode an electric tricycle together, wearing hats, and went to the orchard on the mountain.
…
Cao Shujie drove to the town. He first went to his uncle Wang Jialiang's house. Only his aunt Meng Yanmei was at home watching her grandson Wang Bing.
Seeing Cao Shujie coming, Meng Yanmei greeted him with a smile: "Shujie, you are not busy today."
"Aunt, Bingbing, the kiwi fruits in the orchard are ripe just in time, I will send you some." Cao Shujie carried three boxes of kiwi fruits, walked to his aunt, and placed them on the ground.
Meng Yanmei was very happy to be remembered by her nephew. She said, "Shujie, hurry up and go to the house to drink a glass of water."
"Auntie, I have something else to do, so I won't drink. I'll go somewhere else first. When I'm not busy another day, I'll bring my wife and Mengmeng over to see you and my second uncle."
Only then did Meng Yanmei notice that the naughty child was not there, and she said, "Why don't you take them with you?"
"Auntie, I really have something to do today. If I have nothing to do, I will bring them here." Cao Shujie explained again.
After hearing what he said, Meng Yanmei stopped keeping him.
Seeing Cao Shujie come over in a hurry, put down two boxes of kiwis, and then drive away in a hurry, she couldn't help but sigh: "Oh, young people are so busy."
"Grandma, what are those?" Wang Bing, the grandson who was following Meng Yanmei, asked, pointing to two boxes of kiwis.
Meng Yanmei said: "These are kiwi fruits. I will get you two and put apples on them to cook them. You can eat them in two days."
"Okay, okay!" Wang Bing clapped his hands with a bright smile on his face.
Let us say that Cao Shujie drove to Zhenrong Commercial Bank. After parking the car, he walked towards the credit office in a familiar manner.
"Dangdang"
Cao Shujie knocked twice at the door, and Ma Changrong's voice came from inside: "Come in!"
After Cao Shujie opened the door and entered, Ma Changrong saw that it was him, and a smile naturally appeared on his face: "Mr. Cao, why are you here?"
Cao Shujie saw that there was someone else here with Ma Changrong, and he said: "Manager Ma, I'm not in a hurry. You should get down to business first."
"Okay, you sit down first." When Ma Changrong heard what he said, he stopped being polite and asked him to make tea and drink it.
For almost five minutes, Ma Changrong shook hands with the customer and sent the customer away. Then he came and sat down opposite Cao Shujie: "Mr. Cao, why are you free to come here today?"
"The kiwi fruits in my old orchard are ripe, and I will send you a few boxes." As he spoke, Cao Shujie turned around and went outside to the car and brought 4 boxes of kiwi fruits in.
He said: "I just picked it yesterday and it is still fresh. You can try it after it is cooked."
Ma Changrong couldn't wait to open the box and saw the round kiwi fruits inside. He was surprised and asked: "It's so big, is it a big fruit?"
"Yes, they are all big fruits and taste very good." Cao Shujie boasted.
Ma Changrong nodded: "Okay, I'll try."
In front of Cao Shujie, he found a plastic bag, put a few kiwis on it, and put a banana in it from his drawer, saying, "I'll give it to you. I don't have any hobbies. I usually like to eat some fruit."
, Mr. Cao’s kiwi fruit looks delicious at first glance.”
"Haha, Manager Ma likes to eat it. It would be better to take my sister-in-law and nephew to my place to pick it fresh another day," Cao Shujie said.
Ignoring the matter, Ma Changrong asked him: "Mr. Cao, how are your kiwi sales going?"
"I haven't started selling it yet. I just picked some yesterday. I can develop to this day mainly because of the unswerving support of you friends. We happen to have this thing, so I will send you some to try." Cao Shujie said.
Ma Changrong still believed it. He never expected that there would be no sales for Cao Shujie's kiwi fruits for the time being.
Ma Changrong also told him about the meeting at the head office yesterday. He said: "The superiors are still assigning tasks to us."
Having said this, Ma Changrong remembered something and said with a smile: "Mr. Cao, it's just the right time for you to come here today. Let me tell you that the loan approval last time has been basically completed and the loan will be released after a while."
"Seriously, I'm short of money now!" Cao Shujie was also happy.
Ma Changrong stretched out two fingers: "Anyway, the number of approvals will not be less than this."
"Okay, Manager Ma, if you find a convenient day, call Manager Song out for a meal together." Cao Shujie had something in mind.
This is how relationships are maintained bit by bit.
After running around Qingshi Town, Cao Shujie saw that there was not much gas in his car, so he stopped by Weiming Gas Station to refuel, and gave the gas station owner Liu Weiming a box of kiwis. Liu Weiming was so happy that he paid for the gas.
I gave him a 20% discount.
"Boss Liu, if you have time some other time, come to my place to pick. The freshly picked ones are more nutritious." Cao Shujie opened his mouth to come.
Liu Weiming felt happy in his heart and said: "Don't worry, I will definitely go when I am free."
