In the evening, the sun sets in the west and the sky is filled with red clouds.
Ahu pushed Wang Qing slowly through the winding mountain road, leaning down to chat with his wife from time to time.
Wang Qing looked at the rows of green rapeseed fields and couldn't help but ask: "Are these... all grown by Ah Min?"
"Hire people to plant." Ah Hu replied: "How could he have such a big vegetable garden by himself? He hired three villagers in their fifties and sixties to be responsible for planting vegetables, weeding, harvesting and watering them every day. He himself also
You have to work, get up at four o'clock in the morning to collect the vegetables, there will be a special car from the vegetable market to pick up the vegetables, and after weighing, you can directly transfer the money via mobile phone, which is very convenient."
Wang Qing smiled and whispered: "It looks... pretty good."
Ahu shook his head: "It's not easy! Amin told us yesterday that when we first opened up the mountainous land to grow vegetables, we encountered many difficulties. The air on the mountainside is quite good, but there are too many pests now, and the vegetables
Before they started to grow, all the small leaves were eaten up. He applied too many pesticides, and he didn’t feel safe. So, he could only find a way to grow vegetables that didn’t attract bugs, such as leeks! Well! Then
There are leeks all over the side!”
"Yeah." Wang Qing squinted his eyes and looked at it: "It's leeks...yes."
Ahu explained: "Amin also planted a lot of lettuce, as well as some jinbuhuan, peppers, and some coriander. Insects generally don't eat vegetables with strong taste. Amin said that there is no need to use pesticides, and he can feel safe eating them.
In addition, there are costs and labor costs for applying pesticides, so this will save costs more."
At this time, a group of ducks swam up from the bottom of the stream and quacked.
Wang Qing opened his slightly crooked mouth and smiled happily.
"Duck...so beautiful!"
Ahu smiled and praised: "It's really beautiful! These are all male ducks! The group behind are female ducks! Now there are two children working on the duck farm, plus three or four workers. Amin now has full power to take care of the vegetable garden.
, and occasionally my daughter will come to help.”
"Ayuan." Wang Qing pointed to the bottom of the stream and said.
Ah Hu hurriedly turned around and looked around, only to see Chen Min and Cheng Tianyuan bending down and squatting under the stream, with their trousers rolled up high and their hands groping among the cobblestones.
"Hey! What are you two doing?"
Cheng Tianyuan raised his eyes and chuckled: "There are a lot of river mussels here, which are quite big. Amin said that if you take a few dozen of them back, we can bake them or steam them to eat at night."
"Yo!" Ahu said excitedly: "I like barbecue clams the most!"
Chen Min laughed and said, "What's so difficult about this? I'll pick a few peppers in the garden, chop some more garlic and garlic, and have all the spices, and I'll be able to roast them immediately after I put them on the charcoal fire."
Cheng Tianyuan twisted a plastic bucket and walked up slowly step by step.
"I have at least thirty here! They are very heavy!"
Ahu hurriedly came to help and exclaimed: "Ouch! It's really heavy! Wow! The biggest one is at least two kilograms! It's so big!"
Chen Min walked in the rear and explained with a smile: "Since the duck farm was contracted, this mountainous area has been fenced off. Originally, nearby villagers would come to catch fish and touch river mussels, but after the fence, they were not allowed to come in. No one touched the river nearby.
The number of clams is increasing, and each one is very plump."
"Clean it up quickly!" Ah Hu laughed: "Let's have a barbecue tonight!"
Cheng Tianyuan was tired and sat down on the grass nearby.
"Let's rest for a while, we can't do it anymore."
Ahu couldn't help but laugh and asked: "How long have you been doing this?"
Cheng Tianyuan replied: "More than an hour."
"Look at Amin!" Ahu laughed: "He got up at four o'clock in the morning to collect the vegetables, and then took a two-hour nap at noon. He didn't even take a break at other times."
Cheng Tianyuan rolled his eyes at him and said, "If I go to the fields like him every day, I won't be tired."
Ahu mocked: "Luckily, he is an old farmer!"
Chen Min climbed up carrying a plastic bucket and said with a smile: "When I met him, he had just graduated from high school and came to work in the supply and marketing cooperative, and the shoes on his feet were still full of mud!"
Everyone laughed.
Cheng Tianyuan told the truth: "My family has been farmers for generations. When my father was young, he worked in a county factory, and then he brought my mother and me to the city. It was in the factory that we met Lingling's family. At that time, I
My father-in-law is a technical master of the factory, and everyone knows that he is a master from the imperial capital."
"Oh!" Ahu asked with a curious smile: "Is that when your fate with your sister-in-law was decided?"
Cheng Tianyuan nodded.
Chen Min also squatted on the grass and leaned against the tree trunk nearby.
"Even if he didn't have a sister-in-law, A Yuan would still not be willing to be a farmer in Chengjia Village. Instead of going to college, he went to the city. He worked in the supply and marketing cooperative for many years, right? After all, we were lucky enough to be together.
The rest have gone, otherwise the supply and marketing cooperative will be dissolved in a few years and we will all be laid off."
Cheng Tianyuan chuckled: "When the supply and marketing cooperative was dissolved, our whole family moved to the imperial capital."
"We were all rich at that time." Ahu recalled seriously: "At that time, we followed my sister-in-law to sell clothes, and then bought a house in the county. We worked by the river for several years, remember? But it was that time
Born. Our old supermarket is gone, but the old houses by the river are still there!"
Cheng Tianyuan explained with a smile: "They are still there, but they are a little older. Later, Lingling set up a property management center in Rongcheng, and several people were responsible for taking care of it. Later, most of them were sold and no longer rented."
"Why?" Ahu asked: "It's good to collect rent for a long time, but it's more laborious. My sister-in-law makes the decision on her own?"
Cheng Tianyuan replied: "It was just too laborious, so one set was sold when housing prices rose sharply a few years ago. She had to hire someone to help manage the properties in the imperial capital, and she couldn't manage so much by herself.
I can’t even control Bian.”
After a pause, he chuckled and joked: "She does not sell clothes now, is not a real estate developer, nor is she a CEO. She grows vegetables and flowers at home every day, and spends time with the elderly and children. When she gets older, she likes to be a farmer. I asked her,
She said who asked her to marry an old farmer, and she would naturally become a farmer with me when she gets old."
Everyone laughed.
Wang Qingdao: "Boao Shanghai, riding the wind and waves, is used to seeing big winds and waves... and finally returns to the ordinary calmly."
Ah Hu is not a young artist, so he cannot be said to be a literary person.
"My sister-in-law is the most wasteful! She grows vegetables and flowers in a big mansion in the imperial capital and becomes an old farmer! The vegetables she grows feel much more expensive than others!"
Everyone laughed again.
After chatting for a while, Chen Min pointed to the other side of the mountain and explained: "Yesterday, the village committee informed that the other side of the mountain has been auctioned off, and construction of a cemetery will begin next year. From now on, nearby villagers will not be able to go up the mountain casually.
If you find a cemetery for burial, you have to bury them all at the cemetery. I told the boss to buy one for me to keep. If one day I die, I can just bury it nearby."
As soon as he finished speaking, the other three people instantly became interested.