Chapter 300: Meng Meng’s filial piety is commendable (5000) Try to make 10,000 per day today
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It rained intermittently for three days.
The next day was the night shift for Cao Shuchao and Zhuang Xuesong, and nothing unusual happened.
On the third day, Cao Shujie took Dahei and Xiaohei to the battle in person, leaving Cao Jianjun to work the night shift alone. He was worried about nothing.
Until the sun completely shreds the dark clouds, the sky clears up, and the depressed feeling of people who have been weighed down by rain for several days disappears, and Cao Shujie's orchard is filled with a new round of vitality.
After resting at home for three days, Zhu Shengliang rode his electric bike to work again.
When Cao Shujie first saw him, he found that he was still walking a little unnaturally and asked him: "Lao Zhu, can you do it? If not, just rest for two more days. The matter of making money is not in a hurry. Don't lose the big for the small."
"Don't worry, boss, I'm sure there will be no problem..." Zhu Shengliang patted his chest and assured again.
Three days, plus a night shift in between, based on their unit wage, a total of 240 yuan.
When Zhu Shengliang thought of this, his heart started to bleed. For him, these hundreds of dollars were not a small amount.
At the same time, he has been blaming himself that a man in his 40s can still fall while walking!
Zhu Shengliang secretly warned himself that he must pay attention to it in the future.
However, everything his boss Cao Shujie did that day made Zhu Shengliang's gratitude to Cao Shujie beyond words. He kept all his emotions in his heart, thinking that the best thing was to work hard and work more.
of repayment.
Cao Shujie paid all the money for the filming and medical expenses. Before leaving, Cao Shujie left 600 yuan for his wife to buy him ribs to increase nutrition.
In Zhu Shengliang's view, this was all his own fault and had nothing to do with his boss, but his boss still took full responsibility quietly.
This matter has to be left to work on the construction site outside. Many contractors or Party A are eager to find any way to get rid of their relationship, unless they meet a conscientious contractor.
"Boss, thank you." Zhu Shengliang expressed his gratitude to Cao Shujie again.
Cao Shujie waved his hand: "Lao Zhu, I have rented this place for 30 years. You can't say that you will work here this year and not come next year. No matter what you do in the future, you must prioritize your own safety so that you can do more.
Year."
"Hey!" Zhu Shengliang nodded heavily.
I had understood this truth before, but I didn't take it seriously. This time I suffered a loss. Zhu Shengliang remembered it.
Cao Shujie also took this opportunity to review the importance of safety to the other three people.
With Zhu Shengliang's lesson learned from the past, the three of them firmly remembered this incident.
"Okay, I've said all that needs to be said, let's go to work." Cao Shujie finally said.
The four people each took their tools and entered different places in the orchard and started to get busy.
Cao Shujie was not idle either. He took a pair of scissors for pruning the remaining branches of fruit trees and walked towards the old orchard.
The kiwi fruit trees and apple trees on this seven acres of land have been around for several years.
According to common sense, these fruit trees have reached their limit. If I hadn't sprayed them with a lot of nutrient solution in the past two years, the fruit volume this year might have reached a new low.
Cao Shujie's plan is to cut down all these fruit trees and plant new ones after this year's fruits are produced.
In this way, the fruit trees newly planted last year can take over and start producing fruit next year.
In addition, Cao Shujie has some ideas. He wants to use this area as a test field.
Once successful, Cao Shujie will plant new varieties of fruit trees that are not currently available on the market, which is very important for the long-term development in the future.
While he was thinking about it, Cao Shujie came to the field and his eyes fell on the fruit trees. When he saw the withered and yellow branches and leaves on the fruit trees, he did not hesitate at all and took the special scissors and cut off these bad branches with a 'click'.
While walking, Cao Shujie heard a "squeaking" sound in his ears.
The sound was not loud, and the call disappeared after two calls, but Cao Shujie still heard it clearly. He stopped and looked around with doubtful eyes.
While waiting slowly, Cao Shujie heard a few more "squeaking" sounds.
When the sound sounded, Cao Shujie quickly turned his head and locked his position.
He stepped towards the northwest. After walking a few steps, the sound stopped again, but this did not affect Cao Shujie's steps at all.
He walked to a fruit tree in a few long strides and searched carefully with his eyes wide open.
Before he could find the target, the sound of "Zhizhi" sounded again, and Cao Shujie had already locked onto the target this time.
Black, with two transparent wings, it makes a "squeaking" cry every once in a while.
"Got it!" Cao Shujie subconsciously showed a satisfied smile on his face.
Thinking of this special delicacy, he instinctively began to swallow his saliva.
"There are actually cicadas, but what about the cicada monkeys?" Cao Shujie searched down the tree and found a dried cicada monkey skin on a small branch.
There was a gash on both sides of its back.
The next moment, Cao Shujie stood on tiptoes, straightened his arms, and effortlessly grabbed the black cicada that was screaming energetically on the branch.
He also cut off the branch where the cicada had been sitting on and took it into his hand. After going down the mountain, he planned to find a place with a tree and bury it in the ground. There are usually eggs laid by cicadas. A few years later,
You can also harvest a bunch of cicada monkeys.
For people, it is a delicious dish, but for fruit trees, it is a pest and will absorb the nutrients of the fruit trees themselves!
Causes fruit trees to wither leaves and lose nutrients, etc.
"We must get rid of them all." Cao Shujie thought to himself, his hands felt a little itchy.
He easily broke off the cicada's wings. Seeing the cicada bouncing back and forth in his hands, Cao Shujie raised the corners of his mouth with a little pride.
He thought about catching some more and frying them at home. The taste was really amazing!
It has just rained, the sky has cleared up, and the temperature has risen. It is the time when the cicada monkey crawls out of the ground and prepares to transform into a cicada.
It is also the time when many cicadas lay eggs and give birth to the next generation.
Cao Shujie was wandering in the orchard, straining his ears and listening carefully. After a while, he heard several more faint "squeaking" sounds.
Without saying anything, Cao Shujie followed the sound and found a cicada this time that had not completely transformed. Its body was light green and its wings were still soft and had not fully grown.
Half of the body is still stuck in the cicada monkey's shell, and it is struggling to get out.
Cao Shujie reached out and took it out and put it in his hand. The body was soft. This was the most delicious time.
In addition to these cicadas, Cao Shujie searched carefully in this old orchard area and found some cicada monkeys that had just climbed out of the ground.
Some of these cicada monkeys had just dug a hole out of the ground and were crawling slowly along the ground.
Some of them dug out a small hole in the ground, but the head was not completely exposed. Cao Shujie was very experienced and helped the monkey to dig out the small hole and put his fingers into it. The cicada's front paws grabbed the skin of Cao Shujie's finger.
With a little effort, I brought it out.
There were others climbing up the fruit branches, no matter whether they had just climbed out, were in the process of transforming into cicadas, or had already completed their transformation, Cao Shujie would not let go of any of them.
In about 20 minutes, Cao Shujie had touched forty or fifty cicadas and cicada monkeys in this area.
He couldn't hold it in his hand, and the weather was hot, so he simply took off his T-shirt and hugged the cicadas and cicada monkeys.
Hearing more and more cries of "squeak" in the orchard, Cao Shujie realized that he couldn't handle it alone. He took the scissors and the cicadas he had found out and returned to the hut. Cao Shujie called Cao Shuchao and the others and called them 4
Come over here and catch them together.
In addition to this, Cao Shujie is also a little worried about the situation in the new orchard area.
After arriving here, Cao Shujie observed carefully and found that there were also cicada monkeys that had just emerged from the ground.
"Grandma Xie, you're looking for death, right?" Cao Shujie muttered. He felt like he was going to get the bucket, and he was firing on all cylinders.
When Cao Shuchao and the other four came over, they were surprised to see Cao Shujie without any clothes, and there were many cicada monkeys and cicadas with broken wings in his T-shirt.
They also heard some faint calls just now, but because they were busy working, they didn't have time to catch them.
"Shujie, was this caught from the orchard?" Cao Shuchao asked subconsciously.
Cao Shujie nodded: "Brother Chao, isn't this nonsense? I haven't come down the mountain yet?"
"How long have you been catching them? Why are there so many? We have to catch them quickly." Cao Shuchao knew the harm this thing could do to fruit trees.
Don't talk about him, Cao Jianjun and the other three also want to catch him.
Cao Shujie spoke directly: "Let's go, what are you doing standing still? Each person carries a bucket. Let's each find a place and catch as many as we can."
Can this thing be cleaned?
Cao Shuchao and the other four were thinking about this issue.
But the action was not slow at all. Everyone picked up a plastic bucket and went in 4 different directions.
Cao Shujie put the more than 30 cicadas and cicada monkeys he had just picked out into the bucket, washed the dirt-stained T-shirts with water in the washbasin, squeezed out the water, and didn't care that the T-shirts were still wet.
Put it on your body.
The cold clothes gave Cao Shujie instant goosebumps.
A gust of wind blew and when the water evaporated, Cao Shujie felt even cooler.
He had no other ideas at the moment, so he took the bucket and ran towards the old orchard area.
Unknowingly, the whole morning passed. Cao Shujie looked at the dense layer of cicada monkeys at the bottom of his bucket and the cicadas with their wings cut off. He felt very satisfied.
I'm thinking of adding another dish when I go home at noon.
But as time went by, there were more and more creaking sounds in the orchard on his mountain, which meant that there were more and more cicada monkeys on the mountain.
"This can't go on like this." Cao Shujie thought about this question in his mind.
People are needed at this time, and this piece of land covers 200 acres.
The area planted with trees and fruit trees alone covers 100 acres. How many cicada monkeys and cicadas are there in such a large area?
Thinking of this, Cao Shujie didn't say hello to Cao Shuchao and the other four of them. He carried the bucket filled with monkeys and rode an electric car towards his home down the mountain.
As soon as she entered the door, Mengmeng, who was playing in the yard, heard a "squeak" sound. She became curious and turned to look at the door. When she saw her father coming in from the outside, she immediately ran over and asked, "Dad, what is this sound?"
Let me see."
As she spoke, Mengmeng had already laid her hands on the edge of the bucket held by Cao Shujie. She stood on tiptoes and looked into the bucket. When she saw the densely packed cicada monkeys moving around at the bottom of the bucket, Mengmeng felt a little scared.
.
She subconsciously took a few steps back and almost fell to the ground.
The little mouth shouted loudly: "Mom, mom, come here and take a look, it's so scary."
"Got it?" When Cheng Xiaolin heard the sound, she guessed what it was.
Seeing her husband nodding, Cheng Xiaolin was very interested. She walked over quickly and saw the cicada monkeys in the bucket. Her eyes lit up: "Shujie, where did you catch them? There are so many, are there any more?"
"We caught them on the mountain. There are too many in the orchards on the mountain. I'll come down and ask you to catch them together." Cao Shujie said.
"I'll call our parents again and ask grandpa to watch Mengmeng at home, and we'll go catch her together in the afternoon."
"I made so much in one morning, it's enough for us to eat."
Cao Shujie's eyes lit up and he said, "Even if I sell it, I can make a lot of money!"
At this time, monkeys were received in the town, and the price was 40 cents each, which was not cheap.
Cao Shujie looked at the cicada monkeys in the bucket. He didn't count them in detail, thinking that there could be more than a hundred, or even more than two hundred, which would be a hundred and ten yuan.
As for whether it can be sold, Cao Shujie is not worried at all.
He can sell it to Wang Leigang nearby, or he can freeze it himself and eat it slowly.
Even if he couldn't eat so much, he could still sell these cicada monkeys to restaurants in the city or county, and someone would always take them.
Thinking about this 100 acres of orchard, I don’t know how many cicada monkeys I will catch in the end?
"Let's go, let's catch it quickly." Cheng Xiaolin was very excited. She likes to eat this food.
But ordering a plate in a restaurant costs dozens of yuan, which is not cheap.
When she was in the capital before, she was reluctant to eat it.
Every year in June and July, her parents would catch some and put them in drink bottles, pour them with water and freeze them, just for her to eat.
But the amount is not much.
Seeing the amount of food in her husband's bucket, Cheng Xiaolin was still thinking that she would finally have a good meal this time.
But Cao Shujie said: "What's the hurry? It's time to eat now. You fry these first. It's not too late to catch them after eating."
The orchard is right there and there is no way to escape.
Cheng Xiaolin thought it right and quickly washed the things in the bucket and went to cook.
Cao Jianguo and Wang Yuelan received a call from their son and came to their son's side. They were also surprised to see their daughter-in-law washing cicadas and cicadas.
"Caught on the mountain?" Cao Jianguo asked.
Seeing his son nodding, he muttered: "Why are there so many?"
"Dad, it just rained, the temperature has risen, and the people under the ground have crawled out. Let's eat first and go to the mountains to catch them together later," Cao Shujie said.
Cao Jianguo nodded and said, "Someone in town is collecting them, 4 cents each."
"But I know there are people in the county who charge 50 cents each. This thing is really not cheap." Cao Jianguo said.
Hearing what his father said, Cao Shujie nodded: "Dad, let's catch some first and keep enough for ourselves, and sell the rest when the time comes."
"Shujie, can we capture such a large orchard with just a few of us?" asked her mother, Wang Yuelan.
Cao Shujie touched his chin and said: "Mom, it's hard to say now. Let's catch a few first and see. If there are a lot of them, I will ask people from the village to come and help catch them, and then I will count the money for them."
To catch this thing, paying 40 yuan for 8 hours a day will not motivate other people at all.
But if we change the piece-rate method and pay 1 cent for every piece caught, Cao Shujie feels that it will definitely arouse everyone's motivation.
Cao Shujie thought about what he had gained in the past two hours. He felt that it would be no problem to make hundreds of them in one day.
As long as you are diligent, you can catch thousands of them in a day.
In the end, it was he who benefited the most.
Cao Jianguo also nodded and said, "Shujie, you have a good idea."
While eating, I watched my daughter-in-law, Cheng Xiaolin, pouring a large plate full of cicadas and monkey pancakes into a golden color, which looked very tempting.
Cao Jianguo smelled the fragrance and became very greedy.
Even grandpa Cao Zhenghu ate seven or eight.
Mengmeng was a little scared at first when she saw the fried golden brown and round cicada monkey.
But seeing dad, mom, grandpa, grandma and grandpa all eating so deliciously, Mengmeng was also very greedy.
She boldly reached out and picked up a cicada and carefully put it into her mouth.
"Click, click, click!"
A very special aroma and crispiness burst out in your mouth.
Mengmeng's eyes lit up instantly. She didn't expect this humble thing to be so delicious.
The movements of the little hands were not slow at all, and then he picked up another cicada and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it crunchily.
Seeing the satisfaction on her little face, Cao Shujie also laughed.
"Mengmeng, eat slowly and don't get stuck in your mouth." Cao Shujie warned her.
But he thought too much, and Mengmeng didn’t want to eat the cicada monkey’s paw at all.
Not only that, she bit off all the claws with her mouth, asked her mother for a piece of paper, took the bitten claws out of her mouth, put them on the paper, and pushed them in front of Cao Shujie: "Dad, you eat.
"
Cao Shujie thought to himself, you really love me.
Needless to say, this must be a 'good habit' left over from feeding her prawns.
When Cheng Xiaolin saw it, she said to her: "Mengmeng, just throw away your paw."
Cao Jianguo said: "Mengmeng, give these little claws to grandpa to eat."
"No, give it to daddy. Dad said hard shells are calcium supplements." Mengmeng said with a filial piety.
What else could Cao Shujie say? He stretched out his hand, poured all the cicada monkey paws on the paper into his hand, and swallowed it in one gulp.
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After finishing the meal, Cao Shujie took four buckets, put them on the electric tricycle, and prepared to go up the mountain.
But at this time, Mengmeng also wanted to go to the mountains.
Cao Shujie was in trouble. They went up to the mountain to work, not just for fun.
If Mengmeng wants to follow her, everyone will be busy by then, who will take care of her?
As soon as she showed an expression of not letting Mengmeng go, she lay down on the ground and started rolling.
"Mengmeng, wake up quickly. You can follow grandma later." Wang Yuelan couldn't stand it and said.
Hearing what grandma said, Mengmeng stood up with a smile, patted the dirt on her body, and showed a bright smile on her little face.
Grandpa Cao Zhenghu didn't go up the mountain. It was too hot outside, it had just rained on the mountain, and the mountainous terrain was still a little muddy. He would gain more than he would lose by going up.
Cao Shujie and his wife, together with his father and mother, worked all afternoon. At the end of the day, the four small buckets were filled to two and a half, which was quite a lot.
