Chapter six hundred and eleven: first bitter and then sweet
Jiulong Mountain, Longtan...
When Ye Mo was a child, he heard his grandfather tell the story of Jiulong Mountain.
It is said that one day a giant dragon fell down, and the earth rumbled with a loud noise, and then the Jiulong Gorge and Longtan were formed.
Jiulong Gorge is the body of the dragon, and Longtan is the head of the dragon.
After running around in Longtan, Lin Xiaomian parked the assault boat at the mouth of the canyon in a shady place.
It's midsummer, the hottest month.
It's cool inside Jiulong Gorge and very comfortable.
Lin Xiaomian leaned closer to Ye Mo and shouted softly: "Husband."
Ye Mo looked over with a smile.
Lin Xiaomian smiled and rested her head on Ye Mo's shoulder.
Looking towards Longtan from the mouth of the canyon, the calm lake and high mountains give people a sense of tranquility and beauty.
Ye Mo stood up, placed the deck chair in the middle of the assault boat, lay down, and opened his hands: "Come here."
Lin Xiaomian pursed her lips: "Don't crush the stool."
Ye Mo stretched out his hand to pull Lin Xiaomian and held her in his arms.
There are no people living deep in the mountains.
Cicadas were calling loudly, and there were also unknown calls of birds.
Ye Mo and the others are enjoying the rare peace now.
It's past eleven o'clock.
Ye Mo and the others were driving the boat back. On the way, Lin Xiaomian saw a snake swimming in the water and was so frightened that she screamed 'ah'.
"It's okay, it's just a water snake." Ye Mo said.
"Scary." Lin Xiaomian looked at the water snake being left behind and said, "That water snake is so big."
"Bigger than me."
Lin Xiaomian gave Ye Mo a hard look...
The assault boat slowly came to Sanchakou.
"Dad, have you caught any fish?" Ye Mo shouted.
"Keep your voice down." Dad replied.
"Are you going back? Just get the assault boat to the shore..." Lin Shan said.
Lin Xiaomian's face was filled with anger and she looked at Ye Mo: "We are going back."
"Let's go."
After going out to the canyon and having a mobile phone signal, Ye Mo called Zhou Jie and asked him to come over for dinner.
Almost reaching the shore, Ye Mo turned on his full power and rushed directly to the shore.
Jiulong Mountain and Zhulin Temple are scenic spots and are very famous locally. Tourists occasionally come here during normal times...
Several young people next to Ye Mo and the others' car were taking pictures. When they saw Ye Mo and the others walking over, they quickly put away their mobile phones.
Ye Mo was not interested in meeting strangers, so he opened the car door for Lin Xiaomian, walked around in a circle and returned to the cab, started the car and gently applied the accelerator, walked in a small circle, and returned to the road.
"Open the roof." Lin Xiaomian said.
"Okay." Ye Mo stopped and opened the ceiling.
There is a long section of bamboo forest on the way back, and the wind is blowing, which makes it very comfortable.
But after leaving the bamboo forest, Ye Mo closed the ceiling.
Arrive at Zhou Jie’s house.
Zhou Jie is seven or eight years younger than Ye Mo, but he got married earlier than him, and his children are all in primary school.
Zhou Jie and his wife now live alone in a Hsinchu forest. They live in a tile-roofed house with a yard and a good environment.
When they arrived at Zhou Jie's house, they were cooking.
Ye Mo went over to help and quickly prepared lunch...
"Beer or liquor?" Zhou Jie asked.
"My cousin wants to drive, so don't persuade others to drink." Xu Wenli said.
"It's okay, Xiaomian can drive." Ye Mo said with a smile, "One beer will be enough."
For lunch, we had taro-roasted chicken, which was also cooked in a casserole, but compared to Yao Guye’s cooking skills, it was much inferior.
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After dinner, Ye Mo and Zhou Jie chatted for a while, then got in the car. Lin Xiaomian drove... to take a look at the first batch of Hsinchu bamboo trees planted.
Some of the new bamboos have sprouted bamboo shoots, but most of them have no bamboo shoots yet...
Those with bamboo shoots are basically bamboo forests that have been watered with dung water.
Arrive at Xiaochengpo Bamboo Forest.
Yunxiu and the others have been living here, helping Ye Mo's bamboo forest build cesspools and irrigate canals...
In the 105,000 acres of bamboo forest, two to three thousand cesspools need to be dug.
The cesspool on the roadside is 7 cubic meters, and the cesspool in the bamboo forest is three to four cubic meters. We also need to dig ditches...
Excavators are used for these tasks, and small excavators and micro excavations are used in conjunction with the operations.
Use small digs to dig pits and micro digs to dig trenches.
It took several months to complete more than 20,000 acres.
During these times, there was a clear difference between the bamboo forest that had been irrigated with dung water and the bamboo forest that had not been irrigated.
In the bamboo forest that has been irrigated, the bamboo leaves grow more open. In the bamboo forest that has not been irrigated, the bamboo leaves are just a little bit.
"Hi, brother-in-law." Yunxiu was guiding the cesspool on the roadside. She saw a sports car approaching and was a little curious. When she got closer, she saw that it was Ye Mo and the others.
Yunxiu and the others didn't know that Ye Mo had a sports car...
This sports car had been kept in Jingshan Court before.
"Yunxiu is full." Ye Mo got off the car and shouted with a smile: "How is the work here done?"
"By the end of the year, the irrigation ditches will cover the entire bamboo forest."
It is impossible to cover all the areas, and the maximum coverage is 70 to 80 percent.
The bamboo forest is so big that it would be very difficult to cover it all.
Ye Mo took out a cigarette and lit one for Yunxiu: "I'm going to take care of the bamboo forest here for the time being. Help me manage it first."
Yunxiu smiled and said: "What's so hard about it? All the work here is done by machines, so it's very easy..."
"Yunxiu is full. If you work hard for a few more years, you won't have to work anymore when your bamboo forest grows." Lin Xiaomian said.
Yunxiu smiled and nodded.
Yunxiu and his brothers all like fishing and are fishing experts.
No one doesn’t want to make a lot of money. If there is a way, very few people would choose to settle down...
Now Ye Mo is helping them plan their future.
Even if you want to lie down, it will take several years of hard work before you can lie down again.
In a few years, if everything goes well, they will not have to worry about food and drink expenses for the rest of their lives. Then they will choose to lie down and fish hard...
There are only a few opportunities in one's life to change one's destiny.
After all, as a fishing veteran, who wouldn’t want to go fishing in a pickup truck? And when going fishing, you won’t have conflicts with your wife.
After chatting with Yunxiu for a while, Ye Mo and the others left.
"I went to the city to play. I haven't been out shopping for a long time."
"Last time Ye Ran came back, you just went shopping."
"It's been a long time..."
"Okay. The steering wheel is in your hands, please drive safely."
The body of the sports car is short, and the field of vision is not very good when sitting in the car.
When they came to Huacheng, they found a paid parking lot. The two of them went out to have a meal and wandered into the shopping mall...
Huacheng is not a very big city, but there are so many people in the shopping mall at night.
Look at the clothes, cosmetics...
Lin Xiaomian has a lot of clothes, and she also bought a lot of cosmetics before.
When she goes shopping, she doesn't buy anything, she just watches... and walks around.
When we were just friends in the past, I still didn't feel bored when I went shopping with Lin Xiaomian. Now we are an old married couple...
Ye Mo really didn't know what fun it was to go shopping.
Clothing stores, one after another, cosmetics stores, and chatting with the salespersons...
Ye Mo said that Lin Xiaomian wasn't even interested in going upstairs to watch a movie, he just wanted to go shopping.
Unknowingly, there were fewer and fewer people in the shopping mall, and Lin Xiaomian still wasn't enjoying himself to the fullest. But Ye Mo couldn't stand it anymore, and his feet hurt when he walked.