Cheng Xiaolin was surprised: "There is no water again."
"Yeah, but the water is about to rise. If I remember correctly, the water will be released upstream at the end of June and the beginning of July. The water here will be very big by then, and there will be a lot of fish. You can see them in groups on the shore.
It jumped out of the water, it was particularly spectacular.”
Cao Shujie came over with a bucket and a homemade bamboo pole to poke the net. He looked very knowledgeable: "I will go to the town to get a good fishing net later. When the water rises at the end of next month, I will bring you here to witness the miracle."
He speaks eloquently, but he is at best a layman among experts, but he has practical experience.
"Dad, fish!" Mengmeng was a little too busy.
She looked at the children running on the riverbed, and then looked at where there was still water.
The child had sharp eyes and immediately saw a fish swimming in the water. He pointed there and screamed for daddy.
The water was not deep, and Cao Shujie also saw the fish swimming on the surface, which weighed more than half a catty by visual inspection.
Signaling his daughter to be silent, he quickly put down the bucket. Mao Yao took the homemade bamboo pole poking net and walked to the water's edge. Seeing that the fish was not scared away by his daughter's screams, he breathed a sigh of relief and held it carefully.
Bamboo pole, slowly extend the poking net behind the fish.
At this time, even Cheng Xiaolin, Cao Huifang and Mengmeng slowed down their breathing and became nervous.
Mengmeng saw that her father still didn't catch her, and she lost her temper: "Dad, hurry up."
"Shh!" Cao Huifang put her finger to her mouth: "Don't shout, Mengmeng, or you will scare the fish away."
"Shh!" Mengmeng also put her finger on her lips, imitating the same example.
Cao Shujie was happy when he saw the fish still swimming calmly in the water. The poking net had already reached some distance behind the fish and he was trying to enter the water. This made Cheng Xiaolin very angry and wanted to ask her husband if he was eye-catching.
Blind, the fish is in front.
Just as she was about to remind her husband, sister-in-law Cao Huifang stopped her and waved her hand.
"puff!"
The poking net quickly entered the water, and then he saw Cao Shujie holding a bamboo pole and swinging the poking net forward. Before the fish could react alertly, it had already left the water with the poking net, leaving the hero useless.
On the other hand, Cao Shujie did not relax. He quickly took back the homemade poke net, put the fish into the bucket, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
"Wow, daddy is so annoying." Mengmeng jumped up and clapped her hands and shouted.
Cheng Xiaolin was also stunned by her husband's dazzling operation: "Husband, are you so powerful?"
"Of course, I have been playing like this since I was a child, but I have no time since I entered junior high school." Cao Shujie sighed with emotion.
Cheng Xiaolin couldn't stand his arrogance of "I am a master" and said to him: "Get some water quickly, otherwise the fish will die of thirst."
"How can carp in the Yellow River die of thirst so easily?" Cao Shujie said, but he still went to pick up a small bucket of water.
"Dad, the fish is so big." Mengmeng lay on the edge of the bucket and looked in.
The next moment, she ignored it and put her hand directly into the water to touch the fish, but before the fish could be touched, her sleeves got wet first.
After Cheng Xiaolin saw it, she didn't know what to say to her: "Mengmeng, you are stupid. You reached into the water without rolling up your sleeves. Your clothes are all wet. What should you do?"
"Hee hee!" Mengmeng didn't feel anything at all, just let it get wet. When she played in the water at home, her clothes often got wet.
After catching the first fish, Mengmeng wanted to ask her father to get another one. She pointed into the water and shouted: "Dad, fish."
"Let me see." Cao Shujie thought there was really a fish, but turned around and found that there was nothing in the water except yellow sand: "Where is the fish?"
"Dad, catch fish." Mengmeng shouted.
Only then did Cao Shujie realize that he had been deceived by his daughter. He reached out and slapped her on the back: "Mengmeng, you have learned how to lie."
If she was usually beaten by her father, Mengmeng would have complained to her mother, but she had fish to play with today and didn't care at all.
Cao Shujie took the poking net to the waterside and waited quietly. He also saw a green snake swimming in the water, but unfortunately no fish was seen.
Mengmeng lay down by the bucket and watched the fish for about ten minutes. Seeing that her father did not show off his power anymore, she was a little disappointed and stopped looking at the fish. She pointed at the baby running wildly on the river bed in the distance: "Mom, run
.”
After saying that, she ran forward.
When Cao Huifang saw her niece running away, she was really afraid that her niece would be in trouble if she ran to a place with water. Her first reaction was to follow her quickly so that she could save her at the critical moment.
But before Mengmeng could run far, she stepped on the sand on the river bed. The sand was very soft. She missed the step and fell forward on the river bed.
This unexpected situation frightened Cao Huifang who was following behind. She strode over and was about to help her niece up and ask her if it hurt. Who knew that Mengmeng got up on her own and looked at her little hands?
Look at the sand on the ground again.
"Hehe, it doesn't hurt!" Mengmeng's eyes were bright, this was fun.
It doesn't matter whether the clothes are dirty or not, my mother washes them anyway.
The next moment, she ran forward a few more steps, deliberately fell down on the sand, got up again, and continued to fall.
This series of operations by my niece confused Cao Huifang. What does it mean?
Cheng Xiaolin, who followed behind, was so angry that her liver ached, and she said angrily: "Mengmeng, your clothes are dirty, you want to be beaten, right?"
But Mengmeng didn't care about this at all. She still crawled on the sand, or crawled on the sand with her hands and legs to play. She thought this was really fun, even better than crawling on the bed.
When she became more interested, she also rolled and played in the sand like Daha. After a while, her head was covered with sand and her face was dirty.
It was almost lunch time when Cao Shujie drove his wife, daughter and sister from the Yellow River to go home. Compared with when they came, they returned with two more fish.
In the end, we caught another one. The second one was bigger than the first one. Maybe it was almost suffocated due to too much sand under the water. He swam to the surface to drink water with his mouth open, but was caught by Cao Shujie who was waiting for a chance.
Mengmeng turned into a little clay figurine now. When getting out of the car, Cheng Xiaolin told her husband to remember to wash the car.
It didn't work without washing. The car seat and the back seat were full of sand and soil. Even the two sisters-in-law, Cheng Xiaolin and Cao Huifang, had a lot of soil on their bodies.
Mengmeng didn't escape the beating in the end, but she had a great time, and her laughter never stopped.
When Wang Yuelan, who was cooking at home, saw her granddaughter like this, she said to her daughter-in-law: "Linlin, please change out of those cute clothes and I'll wash them for her."
"Mom, I can just wash it." Cheng Xiaolin was too embarrassed to ask her mother-in-law to help wash it.
…
Five days have passed in the blink of an eye, and the three-day May Day holiday has passed long ago.
Cao Shujie and his sister Cao Huifang got on the long-distance bus to Yiling City and returned to school on the morning of the 3rd.
In the past few days, Cao Zhenggang and his eight people also completed the installation of barbed wire guardrails.
A two-meter-high guardrail surrounded the entire mountain field contracted by Cao Shujie in an approximately irregular rectangle.
The two-meter-high barbed wire guardrail has a 10-centimeter-wide square tube column every 4 meters, plus a circle of iron caltrops on the top, and the bottom is close to the ground. The mesh is so small that even a half-sized mouse can get in.
Instead of going, he directly blocked it in all directions.
After the work was completed, Cao Shujie took the initiative to settle the material and labor costs for the house with Cao Zhenggang.
The labor cost is uniformly calculated at 70 yuan a day, which is lower than outside.
From the start of construction on March 18th to May 6th, it took a total of 50 days, and the labor cost was more than 30,000.
A total of 52,000 bricks were used to build the house and build a small house for the water well on the mountain. The bricks were delivered to the house, and each brick cost 30 cents.
Cement costs almost 500 yuan per ton, and 14 tons were used.
The steel bars cost 5,000 yuan per ton, and 3 tons were used. The other sand, main body painting, etc., totaled less than 4,000 yuan.
Cao Shujie really spent money on the materials used to build the house.
In Cao Zhenggang's words, it is actually not possible to use so much material, but Cao Shujie allows you to use more, so you don't have to worry about money.
The remaining doors and windows are being customized, but Cao Zhenggang doesn't have to worry about it. The house cost less than 80,000 yuan in labor and materials alone. Cao Shujie asked Cao Zhenggang for a bank account, and directly used the CCB Online Banking U on his computer in front of him.
The shield was turned around.
At that time, Cao Zhenggang was surprised that it was so convenient to transfer money with Cao Shujie, but he did receive a text message reminder from the bank that the account had arrived, and he did not suspect that it was a fake.
As for the remaining furniture, doors and windows, plus decoration, furniture, and home appliances, in Cao Zhenggang's words, two more figures may not necessarily be able to handle it.
But Cao Shujie didn't care anymore and just did it once and for all.
In the past few days, more than 30 people worked for him every day to tidy up the fields and transplant seedlings for planting. It took a total of 11 days to complete this task.
According to the original agreement, calculated at 35 yuan for 8 hours a day, this labor cost totaled 11,970 yuan, and Cao Shujie paid it all happily, which earned him a good reputation in Caojiazhuang.
Cao Jianguo and Wang Yuelan also became happy, feeling that their family's life was getting better and better.
But Cao Shujie is not relaxed at the moment. He has been spending money abroad. Counting all the expenses, he has spent almost 300,000.
This is still considering that the house has not yet installed doors and windows, has not purchased furniture or appliances, and has not decorated it. All these have been purchased, at least 200,000 yuan.
Nowadays, Cao Shujie no longer has the naive idea when he first came back that he could build a house with 200,000 yuan and move in.
"Hey, the money is really wasted!"
Cao Shujie sighed with emotion when he received a phone call. After hanging up the phone, his mood immediately felt as if he had drank sweet spring water. He felt better!
