Chapter 30 Getting Along
The green grass is green and green, and is taller than the grass that just sprouted by the roadside when we came here.
Looking around, there was a large area of dense growth growing on the land that was soft and moist from the rain.
For Wang Jusheng, who had seen the desolation of this land, it was extremely shocking.
“Yes, even grass grew here very late in the past. It grew on the thin layer of soil washed away by heavy rains in summer. But this year, grass buds grew in spring. ?”
Wang Susu was also surprised. She bent down and pulled out two trees. She was even more surprised when she found that they were quite strong.
Chen Ling was packing the rake aside and replied: "It must be that time has passed and the soil fertility has begun to recover."
It's just that grass can grow. The representative suddenly turned into fertile farmland, and he was not at all panicked.
Then he said to Wang Susu: "Have you forgotten the two piles of soil I brought back to you last time? In fact, this land is not as bad as we thought. It can still be planted if we spend time to improve it. ! ”
“It’s really good!”
Wang Jusheng looked even more excited than Chen Ling and his wife. He pinched two blades of grass, put them in his mouth and chewed them. Then he dug two handfuls of soil on the ground with his hands, pinched them a few times, and walked to Chen Ling. Ling came forward.
“You can grasp this soil and you’ll know it when you hold it in your hands. It’s much better than before. If these thirty acres of land were like this, you would still make a profit in exchange for it!”
"Hey, you can't make money, just mess around!"
Chen Ling shook his head, untied the cart, and prepared to put the plow on the donkey.
Seeing this, Wang Jusheng hurriedly reached out to help. In fact, neither of them were good at farm work, and the donkey was not very honest either. It took a lot of effort to load the plow.
"Fugui, tell me the truth. Did you agree to exchange this land with Erzhu and not plan to plant it?"
"You actually want to do something else? Don't you?"
< br>While pretending to be plowing, Wang Jusheng asked Chen Ling quietly.
"Brother Jusheng, you are overthinking. What else can we do in this mountain col?"
"Build a brick kiln? Or build a lime factory?"
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Chen Ling smiled, fed the donkey a handful of peanuts, and was ready to start plowing.
"This definitely won't work! I've tried the two pillars, so what do you think? People here build houses and buy building materials as usual, and like to go to the bastard city?"
< br>"But I think you can set up a breeding factory! I see that there are chickens and ducks in the village. They are doing prosperously and making money quickly!"
Wang Jusheng said with his eyes Stare at Chen Ling closely and observe his reaction.
No matter what others in the village said, based on his two interactions with Chen Ling, he did not think he was a brainless person.
I'm afraid he had his own little calculations and thoughts when exchanging farmland with Chen Erzhu.
“I can’t put that thought into breeding.”
“I’ll have to encircle this area and build a factory. It’s a complete waste of time.”
The two of them chatted while driving their donkeys to plow the fields.
“A waste of time? Why waste time?”
Wang Jusheng was confused and asked doubtfully.
Chen Ling smiled but did not answer. He couldn't say that there would be a flood in more than three months.
Although there were no casualties in this area during the 1995 flood, the losses were heavy.
If you have an idea, there is no need to do it now. You can wait until after the flood.
And he is also waiting for his wasteland to be "transformed" into fertile farmland after the flood.
So Chen Ling changed the topic and asked: "You will rest at home these days when it rains?"
"Yes, unless there is an emergency or I am on duty, I usually don't go when it rains. "From the countryside."
Wang Jusheng nodded, and then seeing that he was far away from Wang Susu, he lowered his voice furtively:
"Fugui, have you heard about it?" The man is very popular in the countryside, and he has raised a young one!"
My dear, I shouldn't talk to you about your hometown.
Chen Ling was speechless for a moment, wondering why he didn't notice that this guy with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a square face still had the attributes of the eighth wife in his heart.
It seems that I am still too busy at work. As he secretly slandered, Wang Jusheng continued: "It means that the gangsters have not committed serious crimes in the past two years. Otherwise, a report letter would be more comfortable for his son, allowing him to mess around with men and women."
"What's wrong, Brother Jusheng, are you jealous?"
Chen Ling listened to his sour tone and teased with a smile.
"Bah! You, a rich man, are talking nonsense. I am a serious person, how can I be jealous of such a thing."
Wang Jusheng glared and reprimanded.
Then he looked at Wang Susu and didn't notice it, and smiled again: "But I have to say, that little lady is very pretty, and she is very exciting to look at..."
" When you go to the countryside, I will show you."
Chen Ling suppressed a smile and nodded, saying hello.
At the same time, I think Wang Jusheng is quite interesting, and in some ways he is very similar to some of his later friends.
Slowly, a touch of kindness began to grow in my heart, and the conversation became more and more energetic.
While chatting nonsense, he drove the donkey to plow the ground.
When the sun was about to go down, more than two acres of land had been plowed.
“Oh, we plowed very slowly today!”
Wang Jusheng squatted on the ridge, picked up a bowl and drank water and said.
More than two acres of land were plowed in more than four hours.
Basically, it takes half an hour to plow half an acre of land, using a donkey-pulled plow. This speed is indeed not slow.
"It's not slow. The main reason is that most of the thirty acres of land are flat and tidy. Otherwise, it would take less than three or four hours to plow each mu of land."
Chen Ling nodded and said.
At this time, he and Wang Susu picked up a rake and were about to rake the plowed ground.
The two were followed by two little ones, one black and one yellow. The two puppies were only half a month old, but they had been drinking goat milk mixed with Dongtian Stream water. Their small bodies grew rapidly and they were very energetic. , running here and there for most of the day without stopping.
"Woof woof! Woof woof..."
Heiwa and Xiao Jinrou looked like two little whirlwinds, running with their little tails erect and barking, toward the donkey. provocative.
The donkey had just finished pulling the plow and was resting on the ridge of the field, paying no attention to the two little guys.
Wang Jusheng found it interesting, so he reached out to touch them, but Heiwa and Xiaojin avoided them cautiously.
Wang Jusheng tried a few more times, but couldn't touch it at all, so he had no choice but to give up and said: "That's right. At that time, Erzhu and I opened up this land with the intention of planting fruit trees. Yes, the ground was not so level at that time. Later, when the lime factory was built, it would be useless if it was not leveled."
After another half hour, Chen Ling and his wife roughly raked the ground.
Getting on the donkey cart, Wang Jusheng got on his bicycle and the three of them returned to the village under the afterglow of the setting sun.
"Brother Jusheng, come to my house and get some peanuts for my sister-in-law."
After entering the village, Chen Ling turned his head and shouted to the back.
“Okay!”
Wang Jusheng responded happily.
He and Chen Ling had been working together for a long time. They chatted about everything and they became familiar with each other, so naturally they were not polite to Chen Ling.
But when we arrived at Chen Ling's house, there were two people outside the courtyard gate, one big and one small.
The older one was sitting on the stone gate pier outside, smoking a dry cigarette, while the younger one was squatting on the ground, playing with glass balls.
"Brother Xian, Liu Nier, why are you here?"
Chen Ling recognized the father and son in front of him at a glance, and hurriedly stopped the donkey cart and jumped off. .
(End of this chapter)