As the story goes, Lao Yangtou and Dumb followed the third aunt to Wu Li's house.
"Xiao Li, I heard his aunt said that your reservoir is short of people and wants us to go and look at it for you. Is that possible?" Of course it was Old Man Yang who said this. The mute just stood behind Old Yang's head and smiled innocently.
He looked at Wu Li.
It is said that time makes people grow old. Twenty years have passed. Old Yangtou, who was also a strong man when he first arrived in Wujiacun, is now just a rickety old man with a straight back and a hunchback. His head is covered with short gray hair.
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"Uncle Yang, we really want to ask two people to help look after the reservoir. We will raise some ducks in the future and plant some fruit trees on the mountain. It's really hard to do this without anyone watching. I have a lot of things to do, so I have to ask people to come.
Thank you for your help. I’m not asking you for nothing. Maybe there will be a lot of things happening between two of you when you see such a big reservoir and barren mountains. I will give each of you a salary of 2,000 a month, and you will also get a red envelope during the New Year and the holidays. If something happens
If you do well, you will get one month's salary as a bonus at the end of the year." The price Wu Li offered was not very high for a capable person in a rural area, but for an old man and a mute, it was already a bit high.
Not bad.
"Xiao Li, if you are willing to hire us, you have taken good care of us. I don't want you to pay for it. I think two people can do it with two thousand yuan. This is enough for us to buy cigarettes, wine and food, and we can also
I have a lot of money left to cut and eat."
"Uncle Yang, if you are like this and bargaining with your employer, I would say two thousand for each person is two thousand. You should think about Daxiong. You are such an adult, so you have to save up money for him to get a wife.
"What Wu Li was thinking was that he was already a moneymaker, so he couldn't be too stingy with his only two employees. He would help as many people in need as he could within his ability. This dumb guy couldn't do anything.
He is about to enter his third year of running and has not yet married a wife. Apart from the fact that he is mute, the main reason is that he is too poor. If you are a mute child from a rich family, marrying a beautiful woman is not a problem. If your family can live well, you have a house and a house.
If you are rich, it is a bit difficult to marry a little white flower, but there is no problem in getting a crooked melon and cracked jujube to take home and warm your bed.
But now Brother Mute's family only has two shabby adobe houses, and Old Man Yang and he still live a life of being hungry and full without any food or rice.
It stands to reason that with a strong laborer like a mute, other than planting some fields, he would not be able to live such a life.
But Old Yangtou has the ability to live like this. This can be regarded as the old guy's ability.
He is addicted to drinking and gambling, loves to eat and play with women, and every time he goes to the mountains and rivers to get some mountain products and fish, all the money he makes is lost by his old man.
Nowadays, when people reach old age, it is no longer possible to play with women, but their addiction to alcohol and gambling is still very strong.
"Uncle Yang, why don't I give you half of my salary every month? No matter how much I pay, you will still be responsible for all the trouble. I will put the other half in a bankbook for you, and I will give it to you at the end of the year, so that I can help Da Xiong."
If there is a woman willing to be with Daxiong, you can still have a grandson." Wu Li knew the old man Yang well, anyway, no matter how much money he got, it would be easy for him to do it, but for a mute like this
My son had nothing to say.
"Since Xiao Li insists on giving it, for the sake of Da Xiong, I will agree. Just give him a thousand yuan a month for living expenses, and leave the rest to him. You don't need to give me the bankbook, just leave it here for Xiao Li.
I'll just ask you to get it when I need it. Otherwise, it will be in my hands, or it will be wasted in a few days." Old Man Yang said with some self-knowledge.
"Since you always trust me, then I will save it for you and write a certificate to the party secretary when I have time. I won't be able to tell you about the savings in the bankbook. From today on, Uncle Yang and Daxiong will be considered as my own family members.
Well, Uncle Yang will have to worry about the reservoir." Wu Li did not shirk and agreed to help the mute take care of the passbook, but he just had to find two guarantors and issue a certificate together to avoid wrangling later.
"Since this is the case, Mute and I have nothing to do. We will go to the reservoir to help today. By the way, we can also make a living at Xiaoli's place for a day." Old man Yang arrived at the bachelor's house, took the job, and was ready to do it.
"That's what you said. I'll have breakfast here. I'll go out for a while because I have something else to do. Later I'll ask my brother to take you around the mountain to get familiar with it." Wu Li thought for a moment.
, and then said, "Uncle Yang, you don't have any land, so you only have a few pieces of land. I think it looks like this. You can just come to me for your future rations. There are a lot of vegetables in my backyard, so you can just come over and pick them. The backyard
If you want to eat the fish and shrimps, feel free to catch them, but I don’t care about the pork or the like. If you find it troublesome, I don’t mind you two eating together with me. However, you have to send someone to cook the meal, and I will
It’s a delicious ready-made meal. Nowadays, I am getting busier and busier, and I often don’t even have time to cook.”
"You have to know how to scheme against the old man, so he won't want to be your cook, not even a mute. I went to the reservoir to see the house. It was big enough, and there was also a small kitchen, and even a pig pen. Xiao Li is
Aren't you going to get two little pigs to collect water for the old man?" Old man Yang went to the reservoir for a walk yesterday and was very familiar with the layout of the houses on the small island of the reservoir.
"Mute and I will start a partnership over the reservoir. Then we will open a few pieces of land on the island to grow some vegetables, raise two pigs, and raise some chickens, rabbits and so on. Will our life be too beautiful?
Is it too late?”
"It's quite beautiful to think about, but besides hunting in the mountains and fishing in the rivers, do you still know what it means to grow vegetables and raise pigs? There are so many barren mountains and wastelands over there, and I don't care. You can plant as much as you want.
You can raise as many as you want, just think of it as your welfare. As long as you don't cut down those old trees and burn them for firewood, you can just do whatever you want over there." Wu Li thought to himself, and finally
This will cut down all the miscellaneous trees and weeds, and a lot of waste will be released when digging the mountain in the future.
"Don't underestimate people. Labor and capital are not good. Don't you still have sons? Now the mute is also a working person. From now on, we should let the mute help less and save some time to get some land. That's not just adding the word "easy" to the word "simplified Chinese".
It’s time to think more about this unlucky child.” Old Yangtou has been saying this for more than ten years, but he never really thought about it.
While we were talking, as soon as the third uncle arrived, all the people working there had arrived.
After eating the egg and scallion noodles cooked by the third aunt, Lao Yangtou and the mute followed most of them to the reservoir.
Wu Li's mission today is to go to the city and bring back two thousand little ducks.
Wu Li drove to the poultry and egg market where he bought ducklings last time and went directly to the stall owner from last time.
"Boss, big business is coming to your door. Hurry up and send out the good smoke." Wu Li's image of green skin and bald head really impressed the stall owner.
"Hey, I'm really the big boss. You are very satisfied with the ducklings you bought last time, right? You see, these ducklings were also collected from the countryside. They were all hatched by old female ducks. Absolutely none of them were hatched by hatching eggs.
Eggs hatched from laying hens are guaranteed to be easy to feed." The stall owner never forgets to advertise his ducklings.
"How many do you have? I want two thousand. Isn't this enough for you?" Wu Li counted and found that there were only a dozen cages, so there were only about a thousand.
"Hey, the big boss, the big boss, doesn't have so much inventory right now. If the boss is not in a hurry, I guarantee that I will collect them all for you at noon. I'll tell you the truth, if you want those eggs hatched by an incubator, it will take ten minutes
You can collect them all. If they are all like this kind of little ducklings, they must at least be collected after lunch. Why don’t the boss just hang out here for a while and eat here today?” Boss Duck bought it
It's just word of mouth. I don't want to ruin the brand just to make some dirty money. I won't be able to be such a big customer in the future.
Because the egg-laying period of water ducks only lasts three or four years, they need to be replaced. If you want to do this business, you have to do it for a long time.
"Then I'll come over to pick up the goods in the afternoon. There's no rush anyway. By the way, help me pick up a few more geese. Those guys are pretty reliable at looking after the home." Wu Li really liked the big white geese at home, so he gave them to them during the day.
She takes care of her own ducks and looks after her own home at night.
Other people's white geese suffer from glaucoma at night, but the big white geese at home seem to have double cat's eyes. Whenever there is any movement, they will follow the little black flowers and they run wildly.