Chapter 322 Mom’s mobile phone is in arrears and dad can’t be found (refined version)
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Cao Jianlong arrived a little later than Cao Shujie. He directly brought over the people recruited by the village committee, and more than 60 people spread out to help in the orchards of 14 fruit farmers.
There are also some who help direct traffic in the parking lot.
There are also people who work as volunteers in the village, giving directions to tourists.
No matter what they do, they always have a smile on their faces.
This is a joy to see hope. It is much more than just getting paid for working today.
Security Director Cao Zhengcun and a few people were riding electric bikes around the area. When there was a dispute, they rushed over immediately and asked for the reason and how to deal with it.
They will never be biased just because tourists come to them to spend money.
This is what Cao Shujie told him. He must stick to his own position. When encountering those who deliberately make things difficult for others, they would rather earn a penny less than get used to those people's problems.
Women's Director Lu Ping is also available today, and it must be her.
She organized young women in the village to promote the next development direction of Caojiazhuang to tourists visiting her village.
It has been mentioned several times that Caojiazhuang will plant more orchards on a large scale and raise more cattle in the next step, which will also further build Caojiazhuang into a better place.
No one knew whether Lu Ping's propaganda was effective, but Cao Shujie insisted on doing it, and even Cao Jianlong, the village party secretary, did not refute it.
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It was already past ten in the morning when Cheng Xiaolin put on some clothes and came out of the house with Mengmeng.
Mengmeng didn't want to stay at home. She was wearing a pink princess dress and a pair of sandals with bright diamonds on her feet. She kept saying that she was a princess today and she had to help the king's father.
"Mom, where did dad go?" Mengmeng asked.
Cheng Xiaolin really didn't know where her husband was, but she knew that her husband must be busy at the moment, and she didn't call to inquire.
He said, "Mengmeng, let's go look for her. Maybe we'll meet her in someone's orchard?"
But Mengmeng was not stupid. She looked at Cheng Xiaolin doubtfully: "Mom, why didn't you call dad?"
Cheng Xiaolin: "..."
She thought to herself, Mengmeng usually looks stupid, how cute!
Once you become smart, you stop being cute.
"Mom's mobile phone is out of money and is in arrears. When I find your father later, I'll ask him to recharge her mobile phone. Then I can use my mother's mobile phone to call my father. What do you think?" Cheng Xiaolin said nonsensically.
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When Mengmeng heard what her mother said, her little brain couldn't react at all, but she still felt that what her mother said made sense.
"Okay, after I find my father, I will tell him to recharge my mother's phone bill, which is eight yuan." Mengmeng said very seriously.
Cheng Xiaolin couldn't help but want to laugh, and couldn't bear to deceive her daughter, but instead of causing trouble for her husband, it was better to coax Mengmeng like this.
"Mengmeng, where should we look first?" Cheng Xiaolin asked her daughter.
Mengmeng pointed in a random direction and said: "Go over there, I think dad is there."
"Really? Your premonition is so accurate?" Why is Cheng Xiaolin so unconvinced?
But Mengmeng kept shouting to go southwest, and Cheng Xiaolin felt that the probability of her mother and father finding her husband was too low.
"Okay, I'll bring you some water. Later we'll also give some uncles, aunts, grandparents to help!" Cheng Xiaolin rode her family's electric bike and went out with her daughter.
When Mengmeng heard her mother say that she wanted to help others, she was very excited: "Okay, okay, Mom, I want to help my grandparents too, I'm really awesome."
"Yes, Mengmeng is the little princess today." Cheng Xiaolin said.
There were some cars of different brands around me that kept driving south.
But when they were in the village, they didn't drive very fast, and occasionally cars would stop and ask for directions.
Cheng Xiaolin saw an SUV coming from the provincial capital parked in front of her. A woman got out of the car and asked the volunteers from Caojiazhuang for questioning.
Cheng Xiaolin was behind them and couldn't see clearly what the other party looked like, but it seemed that the communication between the two parties was not going smoothly.
Cheng Xiaolin was puzzled. When she walked over and took a look, she realized that although the person asking the question had black hair, she had a foreign face.
The volunteers in Caojiazhuang were confused by speaking English. Many of these volunteers couldn't even speak Mandarin smoothly, and they couldn't even understand English.
Both sides' gestures were useless.
But Cheng Xiaolin spoke very good English. After she came over, she spoke fluent English and helped the volunteers from Caojiazhuang. After communicating with them for a while, she learned that they also came to the orchard to pick kiwis, which are called kiwis.
Cheng Xiaolin felt that even if the other party went to the orchard, it would be difficult to communicate with the fruit farmers, so she said: "Selena, you can follow me here."
With Cheng Xiaolin's help, the other foreigner who was driving slowly drove up to follow.
Mengmeng sat firmly on the small seat in front of the electric car. She also asked her mother, what did that person say just now?
"That's English. Don't you know the words for apple and banana?" Cheng Xiaolin said to her daughter.
Mengmeng didn't understand anything, she scratched her head: "I don't understand what she said?"
"Mengmeng, you don't need to understand, just learn Chinese well." Cheng Xiaolin said.
She had no intention of letting her daughter go abroad.
To be selfish, she didn't even think about letting her daughter leave her side and run away.
If one day in the future, her daughter grows up, Cheng Xiaolin would not mind recruiting a son-in-law.
Or if Mengmeng doesn't find the right one, she doesn't mind letting her daughter find her slowly.
Because of this little accident, Cheng Xiaolin and Mengmeng were delayed for more than ten minutes. After seeing the two young foreign men and women picking 4 boxes of kiwi fruits in Cao Lei's orchard and leaving, she took her daughter and continued walking elsewhere.
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When she meets someone in need of help, she doesn't mind stopping to help them.
"Mom, dad?" For Mengmeng, it was a pity that she never saw her dad.
Cheng Xiaolin said: "Come on, let's go further, maybe we will meet your father."
"Okay then!" Mengmeng followed her mother and continued walking forward.
Before I knew it, it was noon.
Cheng Xiaolin had not gone back with her daughter, but who knew that Cao Shujie had called her first.
"Honey, where are you?" Cao Shujie asked after the call was connected.
Before Cheng Xiaolin could speak, Mengmeng snatched the phone from her mother's hand and said, "Dad, my mother and I came out to find you."
"Ah?" Cao Shujie didn't know what was going on, he was very surprised.
He asked his daughter: "Why didn't you call me?"
"Mom said that her mobile phone is out of money and she can't call you. Dad, please pay mom the phone bill." Mengmeng said to her father seriously.
Cao Shujie realized now that his wife was fooling her daughter.
But he couldn't expose it, so he said, "Okay, you and your mother will come back first. I'll hang up the phone now and go recharge your mother's phone bill."
"That's great, Dad, you know, Mom can also speak bird songs that I can't understand." Mengmeng seemed to have discovered a new world, taking credit for her father.
In one sentence, Cao Shujie was even more confused.
"When did your mother learn the language of birds?" He didn't think about English at all.
Mengmeng still said: "I learned that Apple loves to run, but my mother said I don't need to learn it."
After hearing this, Cao Shujie couldn't help crying or laughing, and didn't know how to explain it to his daughter.
He said: "I will cook first and then squeeze the watermelon juice for you to drink. Come back quickly."
Cheng Xiaolin didn't need to persuade her. When Mengmeng heard that her father was making delicious food at home, she was more active than anyone else. After returning the phone to Cheng Xiaolin, she urged her mother to go home quickly.
"Mom, let me tell you, daddy makes watermelon juice, it's delicious." Mengmeng gestured, licking her lips with an expectant expression on her face.
When Cheng Xiaolin returned home, Cao Shujie had already squeezed the watermelon juice and asked his grandfather to drink a small cup. Cao Zhenghu also mixed it with a lot of cold water.
He has high blood sugar, and he pays more attention to it than anyone else.
He knew in his heart that if he was in good health, he would put less burden on his son and grandson.
"Dad, I'm back." Mengmeng shouted loudly as soon as she entered the door.
Cheng Xiaolin put down the electric scooter and took her through the door. When she saw her husband, she asked, "There are many people coming outside."
"No, the orchard to the west is full of people. I haven't stopped all morning." Cao Shujie said, his mouth felt a little dry when he spoke.
Cheng Xiaolin also knew it, and she asked: "Were the sales good this morning?"
"I didn't do statistics, so I can't be wrong. When I came back, there were still many people picking kiwi fruits in the orchard. I feel that there are more people coming today than those who came to our orchard during the Qingming Festival holiday." Cao Shujie said.
He said: "Fortunately, the village has made plans in advance, otherwise it would be a busy day and something might happen."
"There are foreigners coming, have you seen it?" Cheng Xiaolin asked him.
She said: "When I just went out in the morning, I met a pair of foreigners who came from the provincial capital to pick kiwi fruits. The volunteers in our village did not understand English."
Only then did Cao Shujie understand what was going on when his daughter mentioned that her mother said "birdsong".
He said: "There is nothing we can do about it. There are not many people in our village who understand English."
"Shujie, you have forgotten that those college students know a little bit. You can talk to Uncle Long and call on the college students in the village to join the ranks of volunteers and give them some training." Cheng Xiaolin gave her husband an idea.
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When Cao Shujie thought about it, this idea was really good.
There is still some time before the summer school starts. It is completely possible for these college students who are staying at home to come out and do some work. At the same time, they can earn some living expenses for themselves and reduce the burden on their families.
"Honey, you wash your hands and cook the vegetables first. I'll call Uncle Long and tell him." Cao Shujie said.
"Okay, I'll do it right away." Cheng Xiaolin went to wash her hands and start cooking.
Cao Shujie said he called Cao Jianlong without any ambiguity and gave him a new suggestion.
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At the same time, many people in Taodong Village at the north end of Caojiazhuang are paying attention to what is happening in Caojiazhuang.
Like Caojiazhuang, Taodong Village also has some kiwi fruit farmers.
The kiwi fruits in Caojiazhuang cannot be sold, and the ones in their village are not much better.
There are no fruit sellers coming to the fields to collect fruits.
These villagers in Taodong Village are all planning to sell kiwi fruits at a cheap price. They can earn every penny they can. They can't really watch all these fruit trees rot in the ground.
But there is no capable person like Cao Shujie in their village.
Seeing the changes that had taken place in Caojiazhuang, they also wanted to lure these people to their side.
But it's no use.
Someone in Taodong Village tried it. They stood at the crossroads at the north end of Caojiazhuang and guided tourists there to come to their village. However, these tourists were also very smart. Once they found that the path they were taking was not right, they would ask the people next to them.
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Caojiazhuang has arranged a lot of volunteers today.
As soon as I told the tourists that that was Taodong Village, not Caojiazhuang, the tourists immediately turned around, no matter what the villagers of Taodong Village said, it had no effect.
This made the villagers of Taodong Village dumbfounded.
Those who responded quickly went back to the village to find their village party secretary, thinking about asking the village party secretary to think of a solution and see if they could communicate with the village party secretary in Caojiazhuang and get help.
The current situation in Caojiazhuang is different from the previous popularity of Cao Shujie’s ‘Mengmeng Orchard’.
'Mengmeng Orchard' only belongs to Cao Shujie, but now the fruits of the 14 fruit farmers in Caojiazhuang attract tourists. They also know why these people come, so they want to ask their village party secretary to find the one in Caojiazhuang.
The leaders will discuss it and allocate some people to them.
Zhuang Xuejian, the village party secretary of Taodong Village, actually called Cao Jianlong, the village party secretary of Caojiazhuang.
The grassroots cadres who both belong to Qingshi Town went to the town for a meeting together. In addition, Caojiazhuang and Taodong Village are very close to each other, so they all know each other.
Cao Jianlong had nothing to do with Zhuang Xuejian's request. He didn't even know how to get these tourists to go to Taodong Village to pick some kiwi fruits.
In desperation, Cao Jianlong told Zhuang Xuejian the truth.
Zhuang Xuejian was stunned when he learned that these people were attracted by Cao Shujie, the village director of Caojiazhuang, and had nothing to do with Cao Jianlong.
He and Cao Shujie were not familiar with each other at all. Besides, they were not related to each other, so why should they help their village?
Zhuang Xuejian thought about it, and after some advice, he found the home of Zhuang Xuesong, who was working for Cao Shujie.
But Zhuang Xuesong was not at home at this time, he was still working in Cao Shujie's orchard.
Zhuang Xuejian went directly to Cao Shujie's orchard for this matter. After finding Zhuang Xuesong who was feeding the cattle, he explained the situation clearly to Zhuang Xuesong and also said that he wanted Zhuang Xuesong to help him and introduce him to Cao Shujie.
An idea.
Zhuang Xuesong himself never thought that one day he would be taken seriously by the village party secretary of his village, and it would be to help him introduce his boss.
"Secretary Zhuang, my boss is busy now and he may not be free," Zhuang Xuesong said.
Zhuang Xuejian also knew how busy Cao Shujie was today, so he didn't mind. Instead, he said, "That's okay. Let Director Cao finish his work first."
"Xue Song, what do you think of tonight? You don't need to say anything else, just say that I have something to talk to him about." Zhuang Xuejian said.
He really didn’t embarrass Zhuang Xuesong!
After Zhuang Xuesong thought for a while, he nodded and agreed. He said, "I will call my boss later and ask. If my boss has time, I will tell you."
"Okay, let's make it that way." Zhuang Xuejian said, "Xuesong, you get busy first. I'll go back and wait for your good news."
When Cao Shujie received Zhuang Xuesong's call, after listening to Zhuang Xuesong's explanation of what happened, he thought about it for a moment and found that there was nothing surprising about it.
This year, the kiwi fruit market was disrupted by some unscrupulous farmers, leaving customers in the market with a bad impression of kiwi fruit.
But it's not just Caojiazhuang that's affected. This problem is common in kiwi fruit markets across the country this year.
Taodong Village, which is adjacent to Caojiazhuang, will naturally not escape the disaster. Zhuang Xuejian came to find him at this time, and his purpose was obvious.
Cao Shujie thought for a while and finally agreed to meet and chat with Zhuang Xuejian.
But what Cao Shujie didn't expect was that this was just the beginning.
In addition to some villagers in Caojiazhuang and Dongcao villages in Qingshi Town planting kiwi fruits, there are also some villagers in other villages who are also planting kiwi fruits. Their kiwi fruits are also facing the problem of not being sold.
After learning that the kiwi fruit sales in Caojiazhuang were very popular, the village party secretaries and village directors in other villages were begged by the villagers to discuss with Cao Jianlong to see if there was a solution.
But how can Cao Jianlong have any solution?
After he explained the difficulties to those who called him, they did not make things difficult for him.
But it will definitely not work if this matter is not resolved.
The party secretaries of these villages went to the mayor of Qingshi Town, Liu Furong, and the senior town party official Xia Zhenjiang to report the problem.
Liu Furong and Xia Zhenjiang, in turn, had to find Cao Jianlong, and Cao Jianlong could not solve the problem. He could only explain the key point, which was that Cao Shujie, the village director of Caojiazhuang, led all this.
In the words of Cao Jianlong, it was Cao Shujie who brought about this change in Caojiazhuang.
Because of this, Liu Furong, the mayor of Qingshi Town, wanted to meet and chat with Cao Shujie, the village director of Caojiazhuang.
However, after several calls were made, no one answered the phone at all. After finally waiting for the call to be connected, it was a woman talking.
The mayor of Qingshi Town, Liu Furong, thought he had dialed the wrong number. After confirming again and again, he also asked the person who answered the phone on the other side if this was Cao Shujie's cell phone.
"Look for my husband. He didn't bring his mobile phone and he went out. I really can't tell where to help at this time," Cheng Xiaolin said.
Liu Furong was very puzzled and asked her: "Cao Shujie doesn't bring his mobile phone when he goes out?"
"He couldn't help it. After he came back, he kept answering and making calls. The phone ran out of power and shut down, and the battery of the smartphone could not be replaced. So he threw the phone at home to charge and went out by himself." Cheng Xiaolin said this.
Liu Furong had nothing to say. After hanging up the phone, Liu Furong thought that he couldn't just wait in town, so he went to Caojiazhuang himself.
See if you can meet Cao Shujie in person and have a good chat with him about the pros and cons.
For a talented person like Cao Shujie, Liu Furong was thinking about how to reuse him.
"Transfer Cao Shujie to the town?" This thought still came to Liu Furong's mind.
But he immediately rejected it and asked Cao Shujie to be transferred to the town. It was unclear whether he would agree to it or not. Besides, the effect of transferring him here was not as great as staying in Caojiazhuang.
"How can he not be a party member?" Liu Furong was thinking about this question.
A Jetta drove from the town to Caojiazhuang, and the mayor of Qingshi Town, Liu Furong, personally brought people down to have a chat with Cao Shujie.
When Liu Furong came to the place, he felt incredible when he saw so many people in Caojiazhuang.
I have been thinking about a question, how could Cao Shujie have so much energy and attract so many people to Caojiazhuang.
But he was thinking about another question at the same time.
Can luring these people to other villages in Qingshi Town really solve the problem of unsalable kiwi fruit among those fruit farmers?
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At this time, Cao Shujie, who was helping Cao Jianzhen in the orchard, did not realize that the town leaders had come to see him in person.
Cao Jianzhen’s family grows four acres of kiwis. Perhaps because of Cao Jianzhen’s proper management, the size of these four acres of kiwis is obviously larger than those in other orchards.
Cao Shujie still wanted to seek advice from Cao Jianzhen, but now was not the time.
After helping here, Cao Shujie told Cao Jianzhen alone and asked him to talk to him about the techniques for growing kiwi fruit.
Hearing what Cao Shujie said, Cao Jianzhen was also very happy. He did not expect that his skills would be recognized by Cao Shujie, a top student who graduated from Agricultural University.
In Cao Jianzhen's opinion, nothing excites him more than this recognition.
The two of them agreed that after this period of busy work is over, they would meet again to have a good communication.
In addition to this incident, Cao Shujie also visited several other orchards.
There were many people in every area, so he felt relieved.
Cao Shujie still heard his name being called from the loudspeaker, and then he realized that Cao Jianlong was looking for him.
Other villagers also told Cao Shujie about this matter.
Cao Shujie borrowed a villager's hand and called Cao Jianlong back. After asking about the specific matter, Cao Shujie was confused. The mayor came to see him?
One more person here in the orchard is not too much, and one person less than one person is not too much.
Cao Shujie rode his electric bike to the village committee compound.
After arriving here, as soon as he entered the village committee office, Cao Shujie saw Cao Jianlong talking to Liu Furong, the mayor of Qingshi Town.
Liu Furong is not short, about 1.78 meters tall. In addition, Liu Furong has a very strong body. It can be seen from his half-sleeved arms that he maintains a good figure and looks like a fitness person.
When he saw Cao Shujie, Liu Furong walked directly to Cao Shujie and took the initiative to hold Cao Shujie's hand with both hands: "Director Cao, I've been waiting for you to come."
Cao Shujie also responded with a smile: "Mayor Liu, I'm really sorry, my phone is out of battery and I have been charging it at home."
Liu Furong would definitely have ideas in normal times, but right now he has no ideas at all.
"It's okay. Director Cao is also too busy. Everyone understands." Liu Furong and Cao Shujie chatted for a while, and then got to the topic.
When Liu Furong asked him if he could help to speak on behalf of the kiwi fruit farmers in the town and ask these tourists to buy some kiwi fruit from them, Cao Shujie felt that this matter was very difficult.
The total output of all kiwi fruit growers in Qingshi Town exceeds 1 million jins.
Cao Shujie felt that no matter how powerful the fans on his wife's account were, they would never be able to absorb such a large amount of output.
Another way must be found to solve this problem.
Cao Shujie thought for a while and asked Liu Furong: "Mayor Liu, didn't you report the situation to your superiors so that they can come up with a solution?"
