Chapter 3 Uncle Six
Yu Yang said goodbye to the two officers and took his eldest brother home.
The huge courtyard looked like it had been robbed.
Not only did the three old jujube trees disappear, but also the roof of the main room disappeared.
"Is this a debt collector coming to our door and ransacking our house?"
"Second brother, why didn't you stop me?"
After Yu Yang finished shouting, he turned around and saw his second brother swinging an ax to chop down the dismantled beams.
"Oh, you took it apart, then it'll be fine."
Immediately, he was surprised to find that the second brother had opened up the east wall of the main room and extended the fire pit and flue in the east room.
[Improved farmland: primary, with an area of 3 centimeters (20 square meters), which can speed up the growth of crops. Currently, soybeans are planted. If there is sufficient sunshine, it is expected to mature in 30 days. ]
“Well done!”
What's even more amazing is that such a long flue does not require a blower.
The question is, without a roof, what will happen if it snows?
Unfortunately, the eldest brother and the second brother did not express any reaction to this and continued to build the flue, seemingly planning to turn the entire yard into a fire pit.
Yu Yang looked at the remaining earthen wall of the main room, then looked up at the dim sky, and suddenly thought of the plastic greenhouse.
"It looks like I need to buy some bamboo strips and plastic paper tomorrow to prop up the ceiling."
"Besides, we don't have enough firewood, so we need to buy some charcoal to burn."
Yu Yang found a writing pad and wrote down what he needed one by one.
After finishing the work, I took out the hot steamed buns and ate them while thinking about what we were doing.
The game starts with two farmers on one field, a bit like Civilization, World of Warcraft, and Age of Empires.
The operating instructions are similar.
so……
"Recruit farmers!"
[The current population has reached the upper limit, please build more houses to accommodate more people. ]
Farmer: 2/2, master farming, construction and other skills, consume 20 servings of food per day, and can also solve the problem by yourself.
Tip: You must own enough houses to recruit this unit.
“Build a house!”
[You have not yet obtained the town center and cannot perform any further operations. ]
“No wonder it always feels like something is missing. It turns out there is no town center.”
"But where can I find that thing?"
Yu Yang looked around and looked at the eldest and second brothers.
"I wonder if we can increase the population limit by building our own houses."
In deep thought.
A friendly shout came from outside the hospital.
"Three yuan!"
Yu Yang raised his head and saw that it was Uncle Liu who he met in the market, "Hey, Uncle Liu, why are you here?"
"Let's go and sit at home for a while."
"Ah? Look at me, I'm quite busy."
"It's okay, I'll let your two brothers help."
Yu Laoliu didn't wait for Yu Yang to agree, took his arm and walked into the alley, and went straight to the courtyard on the south side. Before he entered the main room, he shouted, "Let's have dinner!"
Following the words, Aunt Six walked out of the kitchen carrying a large pot of mushroom stewed chicken.
Followed by the eldest cousin, who was carrying a tin wine pot in his left hand and several small wine cups in his right hand.
Behind him is the little cousin, carrying peanuts, cold lotus root slices, fried shredded pork with garlic moss, and a pack of General cigarettes between his fingers.
Yu Yang turned his head and took a surprised look. He had been pinned down on the bench by his sixth uncle.
The same Eight Immortals table, the same old rammed earth house, no different from my own.
It's just that the main hall of Uncle Liu's house is decorated with busts of great men, the side walls are covered with good news and certificates, and a bucket-shaped honeycomb stove is lit under the beams.
Reflecting the orange light of the electric light bulb, the iron chimney as thick as a bowl spans half of the house and leads directly to the windows wrapped in plastic paper, but it still cannot block the coldness pouring in from outside.
Only then did Yu Yang wake up.
October in this time and space seems a bit cold.
other side.
After the food was put on the table, Uncle Six asked his two cousins to help him. He picked up the tin jug and poured out the warm white wine.
Seeing this, Yu Yang quickly grabbed it and said, "You are the elder, this job belongs to me."
"What are you talking about? You are a guest today." Uncle Six refused, took back the wine bottle, and changed the subject, "Sanyuan, am I your uncle?"
"Sure!"
There are eight Lao Yu brothers.
The eldest brother Yu Jiandang, the elder Yu Yu Jianjun, and the third uncle Yu Jianguo.
The fourth uncle Yu Jiefang, the fifth uncle Yu aided the dynasty, the sixth uncle Yu Yuejin...
Following my grandfather’s words, our family is a living example of modern Eastern history.
It's a pity that the seventh uncle and the eighth uncle died in South Vietnam.
The uncle and third uncle stayed in southern Xinjiang.
The fourth uncle and the fifth uncle ran to Beidahuang.
Only Lao Liu and his father returned to Yujiacun after retiring.
"As long as you treat me as your biological uncle, then it's easy."
Yu Laoliu received the affirmation, and a smile appeared on his face, "Look, our two cousins have stayed at home since they graduated from junior high school. They farmed during the busy season and went to the construction site during the leisure time. If they continue like this, there is no future."
"Didn't my father let them go to technical secondary schools so that they could become accountants when they came back?"
"If the brick kiln collapses, where will they be accountants? Besides, they are not the material."
After Uncle Liu finished speaking, he picked up the wine cup and said, "Let's go."
Then he said: "That's what I think, let them tinker with the bean sprouts with you."
"What's wrong with the bean sprouts? We also have a fire in the kitchen, so we can just soak some soybeans." "You and your uncle are strangers, right?"
Yu Laoliu narrowed his eyes and lit a cigarette for the two of them.
He inquired about it in the market for a long time and thought that the bean sprouts were really rare items sent to the capital.
But after I came back, thinking that it was going to snow heavily, I always had to look at the roof.
Who would have thought to climb up and take a look.
Good guy, the beams in the backyard have been ripped out of the fire pit, and through the skylight of the east room, the fire pit is covered with green bean sprouts.
This rare thing was obviously grown.
Logically speaking, if you have a heated kang at home, you can do it.
But as a farmer, Yu Laoliu knows very well that soaking bean sprouts requires skills.
Otherwise, roots will rot, insects will grow, growth will be slow, and germination will be uneven...
But planting bean sprouts in winter is even more difficult.
Therefore, making money in business is not something anyone can do if they want to.
So Yu Laoliu thought of the 'technician' who was going to the market with Yu Yang.
Isn't this an opportunity?
As the saying goes, a nephew is half a son, so there is no need to beat around the bush.
Yu Laoliu said bluntly: "Three yuan, to be honest, I want to make a lot of money."
Yu Yang understood that Uncle Six must have discovered the bean sprouts on the fire bed in the front and back yards.
But the bean sprouts are the product of home-grown cheating, and the planting process is not visible to the public.
However, farmland can only grow faster if farmers take care of it.
Without farmers, crops would grow back to normal.
This is the conclusion I came to after asking my second brother to stop in the morning.
Out of kindness, let's give Uncle Liu a whole piece of farmland, and ask the farmer to come over from time to time to 'check' it. It's called technical support, and the growth rate of the bean sprouts is controlled throughout the process, so that it is almost the same as soaked bean sprouts, which is three to five days. Uncle Six shouldn't be able to find anything.
Then, the bean sprouts on a heated kang can be sold for 300 yuan. If harvested ten times a month, the bean sprouts can be sold for 3,000 yuan. After removing factors such as cost and price reduction, the monthly guarantee is 2,500 yuan.
In this era when the average income is six to seven hundred, they are definitely considered a high-income group.
When the time comes, let’s ask Uncle Liu for a technical fee of 1,000 yuan. Isn’t that excessive?
In other words, if we give Uncle Liu a piece of land and we don’t need any farmers, we can still get a thousand yuan from Uncle Liu every month.
Yu Yang took a puff of cigarette and said leisurely: "Uncle Six, you have also seen the man who went to the market with me."
"Um."
"That's the technician. I paid a lot of money to hire him."
"I understand, craftsmen are valuable."
"I give people a thousand yuan a month."
"So high?"
"To tell you the truth, the bean sprouts I sold today were grown in just three days and sold for three hundred yuan."
"Hiss... So, excluding the technical fees, we can earn two thousand a month?"
"It's not that much. After deducting the cost, we get about one thousand and fifty."
"Done!"
Yu Laoliu raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp.
He immediately motioned Yu Yang to come closer and said in a low voice: "Sanyuan, we have to hide our minds. It's best to learn the technology. Then we can kick the technicians away. Can't we earn two thousand and five thousand a month?"
"That makes sense!"
Yu Yang picked up the wine cup and whispered in the same low voice: "This monthly salary of one thousand yuan must be paid in advance."
"Give it in advance?"
"If you don't give it, they won't work."
If you don't make money, you have to pay one thousand first, which makes Yu Laoliu very sad.
But thinking about the profitability of the bean sprouts, I dug out 10 blue giant banknotes from the cabinet on the spot.
Yu Yang had not seen this version of banknotes for a long time. He held it in his hand and became more and more happy as he looked at it.
Yu Laoliu was a little drunk, "Sanyuan, when will we start work?"
“When the money is in place, the people are in place.”
After Yu Yang finished speaking, he ran to his yard and called his eldest brother over, asking him to give Uncle Six a whole piece of improved primary farmland.
With the fire kang as the foundation, the construction speed is very fast.
The banquet lasted until 9 o'clock in the evening, and the "skylight" was opened in the fire pit room of Uncle Liu's house.
We drank until 10 o'clock in the evening, and the fire bed was covered with soybeans.
After drinking until early morning, the improved primary farmland was built and the soybeans sprouted...
At this time, Yu Laoliu excitedly held Yu Yang's hands.
"San Yuan, you two brothers, I will leave it to you."
Yu Yang felt drunk as he listened to the familiar words. Under the dim light, he seemed to have returned to another time and space.
That year, Uncle Liu was critically ill, so he specially called him, who was working on the project, to come to his side, clasping his hands and saying, "Sanyuan, you two brothers, I will leave it to you."
Hearing this, Yu Yang felt sad and said, "My old sixth uncle, you can't leave."
"???"
…
"Brother, what did I do last night?"
"You cried about your sixth uncle. It didn't matter, but he was quite happy. But your sixth aunt thought that your sixth uncle had some illness that he was hiding from her, so he rolled on the floor crying."
"Quit drinking!"
(End of chapter)