Rongcheng, a small villa on the outskirts of Rongcheng, 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?"
"Hired people."
Ahu replied: "How could he have such a big vegetable garden on his own? He hired three villagers in their fifties and sixties to plant, weed, collect and water vegetables every day.
He also has to do the work himself. He gets up at four in the morning to collect the vegetables. There will be a special car from the vegetable market to pick up the vegetables. After weighing, he can directly transfer the money via mobile phone, which is very convenient."
Wang Qing smiled and whispered: "It looks... pretty good."
Ah Hu shook his head: "It's not easy! Ah Min told us yesterday that we encountered many difficulties when we first reclaimed the mountainous land to grow vegetables.
The air on the mountain side is quite good, but there are too many pests now, and all the small leaves are eaten up before the vegetables start to grow.
He must have applied too much medicine, and he himself would not feel safe.
Therefore, he can only think of ways to grow vegetables that do not attract bugs very much, such as leeks! Well! The whole area over there is full of leeks!"
"Um."
Wang Qing squinted his eyes and looked at it: "It's leeks...yes."
Ahu explained: "Amin also planted a lot of lettuce, some jinbuhuan, peppers, and some coriander.
Insects generally don't eat vegetables with a strong taste.
Amin said that there is no need to use pesticides and it feels safe to eat.
In addition, applying pesticides also costs money and labor, 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!"
Ah Hu smiled and praised: "It's really beautiful! These are all male ducks! The group at the back are female ducks! Now there are two children working on the duck farm, plus three or four workers.
Amin is now fully responsible for taking care of the vegetable garden, and occasionally my daughter will come to help."
"Ayuan."
Wang Qing pointed to the bottom of the stream.
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 pants 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, they are quite big.
Amin said that if you take a few dozen of them back, we can bake them or steam them to eat in the evening."
"Yo!"
Ahu quickly said excitedly: "I like barbecue mussels 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 gold, 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 surrounded.
Originally, nearby villagers would come to catch fish and touch river mussels, but after the area was surrounded, they were not allowed to come in.
No one touches the river mussels nearby, and there are more and more of them, and every one of them is very plump."
“Clean up quickly!”
Ahu 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 my 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 the 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 factory in the county town, 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, my father-in-law was a technician in the factory, and everyone knew that he was 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 without 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 instead.
I worked in the supply and marketing cooperative for many years, right?
Having said that, it was a good thing that we went to work for other people back then, otherwise in a few years the supply and marketing cooperative would be dissolved and we would all have to be laid off."
Cheng Tianyuan chuckled: "When the supply and marketing cooperative was dissolved, our whole family moved to the imperial capital."
"We will all have money by then."
Ah Hu recalled seriously: "At that time, we followed my sister-in-law to sell clothes and then bought a house in the county.
We have been working by the river for several years, remember?
Ranran was born at that time.
Our old supermarket is gone, but the old houses by the river are still there!"
Cheng Tianyuan smiled and explained: "They are all 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 in the long term, but it's more laborious.
Does my sister-in-law make the decision on her own?"
Cheng Tianyuan replied: “It was just too laborious, so I sold one set when housing prices soared a few years ago.
The real estate in the imperial capital has to be managed by someone, and she can't manage that much herself, let alone here."
After a pause, he chuckled and joked: "She is not selling clothes now, is not a real estate developer, and is not a CEO.
I plant vegetables and flowers at home every day, and spend time with the elderly and children. When I get older, I fall in love with the peasant style.
I asked her, and 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 literary and artistic young man, 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 no longer have to go up the mountain to find a cemetery for burial, but will have to be buried in a unified way at the cemetery.
I told my boss that he would buy one for me to keep.
The day I die, I can just bury it nearby."
As soon as he finished speaking, the other three people instantly became interested.