Chapter 125: I'm Pouring Wine for Grandpa, Asking for a Monthly Ticket)
Without saying anything else, Cao Shujie led them around the barbed wire guardrail and walked to the newly contracted mountainous area. He pointed at the messy site and said, "Grandpa Zheng Lin, Uncle Yong, this is it. I
I was thinking that we could work together after everyone arrives."
Cao Zhenglin looked at this area and said: "There are too many trees on this side and the terrain is more complicated. Otherwise, it would be faster to just drive the equipment up here."
Cao Shujie didn't care. He said: "This is not a problem. Let's sort it out first. I will pave a road on the opposite side in a while and I can get the equipment up in the future."
Speaking of this, both Cao Zhenglin and Cao Yong particularly admired Cao Shujie for his courage in thinking and doing, and most importantly, his willingness to invest and spend money.
"Shujie, I can see that you really want to do something big." Cao Zhenglin said.
Cao Shujie laughed, and said to the two of them: "Grandpa Zheng Lin, Uncle Yong, you guys do it first, I'll wait for someone in front."
"Go ahead, you're busy, we can just come here tomorrow, right?" Cao Zhenglin asked him.
Seeing Cao Shujie nodding, Cao Zhenglin and Cao Yong stopped asking other questions and started working.
Cao Shujie came to the front. As soon as he came over, he saw his neighbor Cao Shuchao waiting in front with a bow on his shoulder: "Brother Chao, when did you come?"
"I just came here, I thought I was the first to come." Cao Shuchao smiled, and he looked particularly honest and honest when he smiled.
Cao Shujie laughed. He pointed to the trail outside the barbed wire guardrail and said, "Brother Chao, you go along this trail. Grandpa Zheng Lin and Uncle Yong are all working there."
"Okay, just wait here." Cao Shuchao walked over there with his head pouted.
Not long after, his father Cao Jianguo also carried a shovel and rode an electric tricycle up the mountain. After parking the car at the parking platform, he asked him: "Shujie, is anyone here?"
"Dad, three people are here, haven't you eaten yet?" When Cao Shujie left, his mother had just started cooking.
Counting the time, no matter how fast it is, it will never be done at this point.
Cao Jianguo waved his hand: "I just ate pickles and two steamed buns and came here. Who came here?"
Cao Shujie thought to himself, knowing that this was the case.
He was also helpless and stretched out three fingers: "I am Grandpa Zheng Lin, Uncle Yong, and Brother Chao next door."
"Okay, you stay here, I'll go over and watch."
"Dad, I will pick up someone later and I have to go to the town to get money. Then you can help me keep an eye on who is coming to work." Cao Shujie said to his father.
I just made an appointment to withdraw money at the rural commercial bank in the town yesterday. I have to take it out today. Part of it will be used to pay the first installment of 160,000 contract fees, and the other part will be used to settle wages for these people.
The money is not much, and everything is settled daily.
Doing such scattered small jobs in the countryside will drag on for ten days and half a month, let alone a month or two, and then there will be no one to work for you.
"Okay, just call me when you leave later." Cao Jianguo said happily.
From around six o'clock in the morning until eight o'clock, Cao Shujie counted the villagers who came one after another.
Are you so stupid?
At around eight o'clock, the technician arranged by Chen Lei also came over. His name was Lu Beihai.
After coming over, after a brief communication between the two parties, Cao Shujie took him directly into the orchard and looked at all the sprinkler irrigation equipment installed before.
While watching, Lu Beihai kept writing and drawing on paper and making statistics.
Lu Beihai worked very seriously. After confirming that all the sprinkler irrigation equipment was installed, he formed a rough outline in his mind and told Cao Shujie his thoughts.
The main thing is to connect another drip irrigation joint along the previous sprinkler irrigation interface.
The main trouble in construction is to dig out the soil at the sprinkler irrigation interface, cut off the pipe and install a drip irrigation interface.
Cao Shujie nodded: "Gong Lu, that's it. Construction will be carried out according to the plan you just mentioned."
"Okay, I'll go back and tell our boss to arrange for someone to bring the equipment as soon as possible," Lu Beihai said.
After sending Lu Beihai away, Cao Shujie called his father and told him that he was going down the mountain to withdraw money from the rural commercial bank in the town.
"Go and do your work. I'll just look over here, no problem." Cao Jianguo said.
Cao Shujie withdrew a total of 250,000 in cash. After receiving the money, Cao Shujie went to the credit office next door to chat with Ma Changrong for a while. He was too busy today and had no time to have dinner with Ma Changrong.
When he went to the village party secretary Cao Jiangang with 160,000 yuan in cash and the key to the village committee office, Cao Jiangang did not accept the money directly. He called the village accountant Cao Zhengyin over and asked Cao Zhengyin to enter the public account.
One thing comes back to another. Cao Jiangang is also greedy for money, but he gets money from other channels. He will not do anything with money directly. This is his wise way to protect himself.
After finishing this matter, Cao Jiangang patted Cao Shujie on the shoulder and said, "Shujie, do a good job, I'm optimistic about you."
"Uncle, please don't praise me like that. Maybe I will be discouraged one day." Cao Shujie teased himself.
But Cao Jiangang said it very honestly: "If others say so, I believe it, but you don't!"
"Haha!" Cao Shujie couldn't help laughing.
He said to Cao Jiangang and Cao Zhengyin: "Uncle, Grandpa Zhengyin, my house is almost finished. I'll call you over in a few days to join in the fun."
"Okay, you can just call and say it then." Cao Jiangang nodded.
Cao Zhengyin also said: "I am available at any time."
"That's it, I'll go work on the mountain first." Cao Shujie said, "Before the farming is busy, I'll sort out the mountain first, and then find someone to build a road directly to the mountain."
"You want to build roads again?" Cao Jiangang asked.
This time, even he found it incredible.
Building a road costs a lot of money.
Cao Shujie smiled: "Uncle, it won't work if we don't cultivate it. There will be more breeding in the future. How will we transport it up and down?"
After watching Cao Shujie leave, Cao Zhengyin shouted with a smile: "Secretary, I can't understand this kid Shujie."
"Don't talk about you, I can't understand it either," Cao Jiangang said.
He said: "But one thing I know is that he is the most capable of Cao Shujie's generation in our village."
"Isn't it? The little grandson of the Zhenghe family, I heard that he works in computer networking in the south and can earn five or six hundred thousand a year. How can he make money so easily?"
"Hundreds of thousands, haha!" Cao Jiangang laughed silently, and it could be seen from the expression on his face that he didn't take it to heart.
In Cao Jiangang's heart, Cao Zhenghe and his grandson Cao Shuxu earned their own money, while Cao Shujie also created many other values for Caojiazhuang while making money on his own.
This is far beyond what Cao Shuxu can compare with.
Besides, who said Cao Shujie can only earn hundreds of thousands a year?
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In the orchard on the mountain, when Cao Shujie came over, his father Cao Jianguo said: "After you left, six more people came over. You need people here, so I kept them all."
"Dad, it's okay. Work goes faster when there are more people. The National Day will be in less than 10 days. Farming will be busy by then, so it will be difficult to find people to work." Cao Shujie said to his father.
Cao Jianguo also knows this truth, and his family will also be busy harvesting corn.
"Have you made an agreement with your grandpa Zhenggang? Aren't you going to build a fence?" Cao Jianguo reminded his son.
Cao Shujie said "Ouch" and slapped his head with his backhand: "Dad, I almost forgot if you didn't mention it. I'll call you now."
While they were busy trying to contact Chen Xingquan, Xia Changhong and the others, they missed Cao Zhenggang who was doing the construction, and Tian Xinhua who was paving the road also had to contact them again.
He said: "Dad, after a while, when the apples are ripe, I will take them to the county for a trip."
"Why do you want to give it away for free?" Cao Jianguo thought his son was doing the same thing again.
But Cao Shujie shook his head this time and said, "I'll take it to the Forestry Bureau and the Agriculture Bureau to deliver it, and apply for subsidies on the way."
"This is all money, so we have to do it as soon as possible." Cao Shujie knew something in his mind.
Calculated based on the newly leased 117 acres of land, the two basic subsidies alone are 23,400 yuan a year. Moreover, this time there are also subsidies for raising cattle, sheep, and even subsequent pig raising.
There is also a subsidy from the agricultural port after the contracted mountain land exceeds 200 acres.
He has always remembered the special subsidy that Lian Xuezhu told him. If he can apply for it, it will be a lot of money.
Hearing that it was related to money, Cao Jianguo said: "Then bring more when the time comes and let people taste our apples. They are rich in water, high in sweetness and delicious."
Listening to his father boasting, Cao Shujie felt full of recognition.
"Dad, I'm going to make a call first and we'll talk later." Cao Shujie felt like he was so busy now.
But the money is also spent like water.
Nothing was done. The leasing contract fee for the mountainous area was 160,000 yuan.
Today, 47 people came to work for him, which is 1,645 yuan.
If I work for 10 consecutive days before the busy farming season, it will only cost 20,000 yuan.
In addition to this, the 2,000 meters of barbed wire guardrail he just ordered is still priced at 46 yuan per meter, which is another 92,000 yuan.
The last time the road was built, it cost 98,000 yuan. This time, the terrain in the north is more complicated than in the south. Cao Shujie knew that it would definitely exceed 100,000 yuan. The specific amount will be discussed after Tian Xinhua comes over and looks at the specific situation.
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"Should we drill a new well, or should we divert water directly from here to there?" Cao Shujie thought about this matter.
Without even calculating, the initial investment alone plus RMB 1,000 is already close to 400,000.
"Money is really wasted." Cao Shujie sighed with emotion.
At the parking platform in front of the orchard, Cao Shujie found a place to sit down and made phone calls one after another.
His cell phone was getting hot while he was talking, and he didn't take any time off.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw someone coming up the road. Cao Shujie turned his head and looked over, only to realize that it was Cao Tiemin who he had spotted.
Cao Shujie pointed to his mobile phone and motioned for him to wait a moment.
"As long as you're busy, I'm not in a hurry." Cao Tiemin said in a low voice.
After Cao Shujie finished the call, Cao Tiemin smiled and said, "Shujie, you are getting busier and busier now."
"There is no way, there are many things, and my dad can't figure it out, so I can only do it myself." Cao Shujie sighed.
"You have contracted so much mountainous land, so why don't you want to find two long-term workers?" Cao Tiemin asked him.
He said: "I just hope that you and I, Uncle Jianguo, can hold on for a short time, but we won't be able to bear it for a long time."
"Let's talk about this after we finish it," Cao Shujie said.
In the long run, you really need to find two fixed people.
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In the evening, after Cao Shujie paid the wages to the people who came to work, he rode a tricycle back home with his father.
Mengmeng is running in circles in the yard.
Cheng Xiaolin and her mother-in-law Wang Yuelan were sitting and chatting under the eaves, calling Mengmeng over for a drink of water from time to time.
Seeing Cao Shujie and Cao Jianguo enter the door, Mengmeng turned around and ran to Cao Shujie, hugged his legs and shouted loudly: "Dad."
"Mengmeng, daddy is dirty, get out of the way." Cao Shujie said.
In addition to making phone calls and shaking people off, he spent the rest of the time working and got a lot of dirt on his body.
But Mengmeng shook her head: "It's okay, mom said I'm dirty too."
Without looking closely, you can see that there is a lot of dirt on her legs, which is almost turning black.
There were also a lot of dead grass leaves stained on my shirt, and I don’t know where they went.
Cheng Xiaolin said to her angrily: "Mengmeng, you still know this, you deserve a beating!"
"I don't care." Mengmeng ran to Grandpa again, raised her little face and shouted loudly: "Grandpa, drink wine and eat meat."
"I'll pour you a drink." She said it quite like that.
"Grandma made stew," she emphasized.
This made Cao Jianguo burst into laughter. He had been working all day today and was quite tired. But when he heard what his granddaughter said, he suddenly felt that his fatigue disappeared instantly.
"Okay, you pour me some wine." Cao Jianguo said.
Cao Shujie was puzzled: "Mengmeng, why are you so good today?"
"Grandma said, grandpa earns money to buy me toys." Mengmeng shouted loudly.
"Haha!" Cao Jianguo laughed even louder.
Cao Shujie felt speechless. What kind of logic was this? All the toys and snacks he bought for his daughter were all for nothing.
During dinner in the evening, Mengmeng actually held a bottle of beer and handed it to her grandfather Cao Jianguo. She even said aggrievedly: "Grandpa, I can't open the lid."
Looking about to shed tears, Cao Jianguo touched her little head with his rough hands and coaxed her: "Mengmeng, it's okay, grandpa can open it by himself."
With a "bang", the lid of the beer bottle was lifted, and Cao Jianguo was about to pour wine for himself. Mengmeng shouted unhappily: "I'll pour the wine, grandpa, I'll pour it for you."
"Okay, okay, Mengmeng, hold it properly!" Cao Jianguo told her. He was really afraid that his granddaughter wouldn't be able to hold the wine bottle well and would fall to the ground and be hit by broken glass.
"Shujie, how are you busy?" Cheng Xiaolin put down the bowl and chopsticks and asked him.
Cao Shujie told the story of the day. After listening to what he said, Cheng Xiaolin and Wang Yuelan were both a little confused.
Wang Yuelan also muttered: "Shujie, your dad and I didn't have much to do when we were planting the orchard. Why did you come up with so many tricks?"
"Mom, even if I invest a lot, the fruits I sell are also expensive." Cao Shujie said.
This is the truth, even Wang Yuelan cannot refute it.
