Arriving at Yan Shijin's resort villa again, Tongdao Xu noticed the name of this villa through the car window. It was a very special name.
It doesn't look like the name given by Yan Shijin, a rich man like an old farmer.
The car drove to the reception desk of the villa. Yan Shijin and a skinny young woman were already waiting at the door.
This young woman is really thin. The first time he saw her, Comrade Xu thought of Lu Yu, the host of a well-known talk show.
The same short hair, the same short height, and the same thinness.
Fortunately, the woman standing next to Yan Shijin was not as thin as Lu Yu.
He is also slightly taller.
But that's all.
Tongdao Xu remembered that he had never seen this woman when he came here last time. I wonder if this woman is an employee of Yan Shijin? Or something related.
The car stopped.
Comrade Xu opened the door and got out of the car. Yan Shijin strode over with a smile on his face, "Mr. Xu, welcome!"
The skinny woman also came over with a smile.
While Tongdao Xu shook hands with Yan Shijin, he looked at the woman curiously, "Mr. Yan, who is this?"
Yan Shijin: "Oh, let me introduce you! This is my sister-in-law Tian Xin. She usually helps me take care of my villa. Tian Xin, this is the Mr. Xu I told you. If I am not here in the future,
Villa, if Mr. Xu comes over, you must make arrangements for me! Mr. Xu is my friend."
"Hello, Mr. Xu! Nice to meet you!"
Tian Xin took half a step forward and reached out.
Comrade Xu shook hands with her and glanced at her subconsciously.
Yan Shijin can trust her to take care of this villa. This woman's ability should be much stronger than her appearance.
Beautiful women are common, but capable women are rare.
"Mr. Xu, let's go! Let's go in first. By the way, it's still early. There is a fish pond in my villa, and some guests are fishing today. Mr. Xu, are you interested in going fishing for a while?"
Yan Shijin invited Comrade Xu into the reception desk and proposed to him with a smile.
"Fishing? Okay! Okay."
Tongdao Xu came here today mainly to make friends with Yan Shijin, so it doesn't matter to him what he does specifically.
What's more, when he was a child, he also liked fishing.
Tian Xin smiled and interjected: "Then I will help Mr. Xu make arrangements. I hope Mr. Xu can catch a few more fish today. I will ask the chef to make them fresh for you."
Yan Shijin: "Prepare a pair of fishing gear for me, and I'll accompany Mr. Xu."
Xu Tongdao: "Then I'll trouble Sister Xin!"
Tian Xin: "Haha, Mr. Xu is too polite."
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About half an hour later, Xu Tongdao and Yan Shijin came to a long fish pond at the foot of the mountain to fish.
Xi Dongyang also took a fishing rod and sat a little further away.
The fishing positions of Xu Tongdao and Yan Shijin were relatively close, only three or four meters apart.
As for Tian Xin?
After making arrangements for them, she took her leave for the time being.
"Mr. Yan, your villa is such a good place. There are mountains and water. You can go fishing or pick some fruits from the fruit trees. You live like a fairy!"
While waiting for the fish to bite, Comrade Xu brought up this topic half as a compliment and half as a sincere one.
A smile appeared on Yan Shijin's wrinkled old face, and he looked around with satisfaction, "Yes! I grew up in a rural area. When I was young, I wanted to study hard and then go to the city to find a decent job, but
After I really got into the city, I gradually missed my childhood life more and more.
It happened that my father-in-law had a pig farm at that time, and we also had seven or eight acres of land at home where we planted rice and some flower and fruit trees, so I often went to help.
It's a pity that my father-in-law passed away suddenly. You must not know the situation of my wife's family. She has five sisters and no sons. So after my father-in-law passed away, his family's pig farm and the land were gone.
Human race.
At that time, I discussed it with my wife. I thought, what about my wife? She has no opinion. She will support whatever I say. No, my father-in-law’s pig farm and those few acres of land will all belong to me.
I, um, also compensated a few other sisters-in-law with some money.
Later... Hey, the pig farms I built became bigger and bigger, and there were more and more chicken farms. As for the villa you see now, I built it five years ago.
Haha, at my age, I probably will only have to deal with these things in my life."
Maybe it's because they are the only two men here.
Maybe this topic just tickled his itch. Anyway, Yan Shijin just started talking.
Comrade Xu listened with a smile.
After listening, he nodded slightly and sighed, "It's good! It's really good! Mr. Yan, I am also from a rural area. Your experience... maybe I will become like you in the future."
To tell you the truth, I used to only want to study hard and then go to the city to work as a decent white-collar worker. I would never farm again in my life, because I have been doing farm work with my family since I was a child, and I have personally experienced how hard farming is.
After working hard for a year, I can barely afford to clothe and feed the whole family. The excess is basically used to pay for public food. Year after year, the family has no savings. It’s so hard!”
"Oh? Did you do farm work when you were a child?"
Yan Shijin was quite surprised and looked at Comrade Xu up and down in surprise.
Comrade Xu nodded, "Yes! I remember that when I was very young, there was no threshing machine in the village. Every year when the rice matured, under the bright sun, all the men in the village were shirtless, with handfuls of rice stuck in their hands, working hard.
He threw the grains of rice onto the living barrel, slapped them, and used brute force to throw the rice grains off the living barrel. Men with poor physical condition would get sick and have fever at the end of the day, and some would die from exhaustion.
.”
"Have you ever seen a live barrel?"
Yan Shijin was even more surprised.
Comrade Xu laughed, "Of course, every household in our village used to have a living barrel. It was about two meters long and wide, and about 80 centimeters to 1 meter high! It was made of wooden boards, right? Usually
It takes two people to carry it, and it’s difficult for one person to get it to the field.”
Yan Shijin nodded and sighed, "Yes! Our family used to have living buckets. Life was really hard at that time. I remember when I was a child, when the farming was busy, I would carry a small bucket and go to the field to pick up the fallen things.
When the rice ears in the field are being plowed, they have to carry a small bucket to the field to pick up the big black and thick earthworms, and take them home to feed the chickens and ducks.
Eating and transplanting rice seedlings is also painful. The leeches in the fields always drill into the pores of your legs. When they drill, you don't feel it. By the time you see it, half of the leech's body has already penetrated into your legs. You have to be hard.
You have to be careful when pulling it out. If you're not careful, half of the leech's body will be broken into your leg. It's scary, right?"
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The two of them were obviously twenty or thirty years apart in age, but they couldn't stop chatting because of their childhood farm work experience.