Chapter 1224 1224. Here comes the beggar [2-in-1]
Xiangxiang is a maverick but happy-go-lucky pig.
I have been at Lao Song's house for two days. I have separated a separate area for him in the pig pen in the back mountain to let him get used to it. I also isolate him for observation.
Leaving her Dabao dad and her grandparents, Xiangxiang no longer has apples, bananas, pears and other fruits, nor does she have the pig rice carefully prepared every day.
What I got was the same wheat bran and rice bran mixture as other pigs.
The miscellaneous ingredients may be vegetable leaves, cabbage seeds, or cabbage heads.
But...
His pigs have never eaten such delicious food before! !
Xiangxiang wore her big red flower jacket and instantly adapted to the life of sleeping on a pile of straw.
If I have any shortcomings... it's probably that I can no longer be led by my grandparents for a walk in the fragrant market.
But this mountain is quite fun. If you wander around, you can find some dried acorn kernels next to the pig pen, which is also very interesting.
Xiangxiang looked at her simple cement trough. What she was thinking about at this moment was not the beautiful carved white porcelain basin at home, but——
Why hasn’t the rice been returned yet? Haven't come yet!
......
Everyone was busy on the mountain. The seventh cousin was doing the part-time job of feeding the pigs. At this moment, he put down the pig food bucket and stared at Xiangxiang's already dirty red coat. Son, couldn't help but muttered:
"Should I take off these clothes?"
This foreign pig looks fancy and wears fancy clothes too.
I took it over and separated it from the pig pen. In the past two days, the big white pigs at home didn't look at it seriously. They clearly disliked this bloodline. The wild boars didn't pay attention to it either.
Can it still work if this continues?
If we don’t give birth to ten or eight piglets next year, our family will have to eat more meat. What a miserable life it will be.
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw Zhang Yanping riding an electric bike down the mountain.
The seventh cousin asked: "Yan Ping, why don't we take off this pig's coat? It's always been worn in the pig pen, humping the mud and the ground, and humping this withered coat. Those with rotten leaves will have to be buried.”
Zhang Yanping thought about it, but the seventh cousin was old and he didn’t trust an old man to undress the pigs, so he stepped into the pig pen. :
"Let me do it. I heard that Xiangxiang is in good health and is not afraid of the cold. She should not catch a cold."
"No." The seventh cousin nodded confidently: "Yan But they haven’t checked and said everything is fine? They have been quarantined for two or three days, and they are still raised at home. What’s the risk?”
"If you ask me, I can put them in a pen as soon as they take off their clothes."
You have to hurry up when giving birth to piglets!
Zhang Yanping thinks about it too.
"Okay, you have to get used to it."
He opened the door and entered the pig pen, carefully coaxing Xiangxiang to take off her clothes.
The seventh cousin looked at Xiangxiang, a big man weighing 600 pounds, and couldn't help but click his tongue and shake his head.
“Now that people are free, they really dare to raise anything!”
It’s a good thing they can move the 600-pound pig in their yard.
Looking at the time again, it was almost time to prepare lunch, so I said hello and went back by myself.
……
At this moment, his bad apprentice Chef Bai Yanbai also got off the car at the entrance of the village and was looking at each other with the driver.
"It takes more than an hour to get here from the high-speed rail station. If you ask me for 400, aren't you robbing people?"
The driver was not happy either.
It's all about robbing people. How can a taxi driver not robbing people?
Can you blame me for not making a counteroffer yourself?
He then said loudly:
"Why do you say that? If you didn't agree, you would have bargained with me at the beginning! When you agreed, you were very generous. I thought you were not short of money." Now you want to cheat again when you get there, right?”
“Ouch!” The driver deals with different passengers every day, so he just opens his mouth and says:
< br>"You look so old, you can't even afford 400 yuan? You're celebrating the New Year... OK, OK, I admit it, I'll give you five yuan."
Bai Da The chef instantly became furious: "Is it the five yuan I'm short of?"
The driver also stared at him with wide eyes: "If you have only 395 left, it will be even worse! You look a lot older, why can't you pay for the toll?"
"You are not ...What are you doing in this village? Looking for relatives and friends? Well, just call them and ask them to pay for it, I can wait.”
Chef Bai was so angry that he fainted.
Can you wait? !
Do you know how much my monthly salary and dividends were? Is 400 yuan a thing here? If he hadn't mortgaged his house and invested it in Youran Ecological Base, and all the burdens on his family were weighing on his mind, would he have taken 400 yuan to make ink with someone right now? !
What's more, I am focusing on one today to leave a good impression on Master Song, because 400 yuan is nothing to spend here.
He thought for a while, and finally took out his mobile phone angrily: "Okay, okay, 400 is 400. I don't care if you give up the five yuan."
The driver raised the phone over, While looking at him, I muttered, thinking that five yuan is not money, this man really knows how to show off!
Just looking at it...it doesn't look like I'm returning home in glory.
But no matter what, as long as the money is received.
So he closed the car door, his face changed instantly, and he said to Chef Bai enthusiastically:
"I just gave you my mobile phone number on the way. We need a car on the way back, so just call me. I'll come again - don't worry, I'll give you a bargain this time."
Chef Bai said angrily: "No, let's go"
Seeing the taxi walk out. Laoyuan, he reacted slowly -
That... the original Master Song, where does he live now?
Why has this village changed so much?
And it’s really strange, it’s broad daylight, why don’t you see anyone on the road?
Chef Bai started to feel uneasy.
......
At this moment, the whole village is concentrated on the hillside.
The strong laborers left in the village today are planting orange trees.
Compared with the surprisingly large apple trees before, the orange trees are smaller after pruning. Now they are planting them in the holes they dug before, and everyone is chatting:< br>
“When we grow oranges here, don’t we always produce thick-skinned oranges? Others with thin skins are not frost-resistant, so they probably won’t survive.”
“Those thick-skinned oranges Is it easy to sell? "
"Isn't Shitoupo selling it for 1 yuan per catty this year? If you pick it yourself, it will be 2 yuan per catty. "
"But Lao Song's radish and cabbage can be sold at sky-high prices, and these oranges must be more than that."
Everyone was talking about it, and suddenly regretted: "If I had known, I would have planted them in front of the door. One or two trees.”
Indeed, Song Sancheng and his family have invited experts to farm, and they are very famous old experts.
This kind of seedling is definitely a good choice.
How about...
"Let's go back and ask who in the village wants to plant some? See if you can buy some for us?"
The most important thing is that this tree does not occupy any land. Nowadays, the open space in front of and behind every house is carefully cultivated, and the old Song family's vegetable seedlings are planted before they are ready.
It would be too troublesome to plant other fruit trees, but this orange seedling is not big, so it should be okay?
Everyone discussed in twos and threes, and then pondered:
"It is said that this year's farming will require a lot of people to pick vegetables, and we also need manpower... Judging from the way their whole family goes to the mountains to pack vegetables, I guess there will be a shortage of people this year... Otherwise, I won't go out to work?"< br>
Someone next to me also agreed: "I don't want to go out. I'm getting older. I'll be in the way when there is an inspection, and I won't be able to go to a good place. Last year, I changed three to five factories in one year, and I was just running on the road. "
"Hey, you said that the old Song family grows orchards, will they do some picking activities like those in the city?"
"If so? , I don’t know if we can have a farmhouse here.”
“That’s probably not good enough. Isn’t it as delicious as what we cook here?”
"That's not necessarily true," the speaker began to ponder, "Can't everyone take it home? There are only two people busy in the canteen on the mountain at the moment, and there are too many people to deal with."
"I think something is going on. Look at Song Tan, her partner. I heard she can earn tens of millions a year. And her cousin, isn't he planning to open a B&B in the village?"
"If they don't make money, why are they doing this?"
"That can't be done randomly. My skills can't be used in farmhouses anyway, so I will do some work and earn some money. I’ll get the money.”
Everyone was talking, chattering, and everyone had their own thoughts.
Until someone looked at the time:
"Hey! It's 12 o'clock, we have to pack up and go to eat."
"Okay."
Worked hard all morning Everyone was a little hungry after the work, so they quickly took their farm tools and headed to the canteen.
On the other hand, he asked: "You shouldn't need these hoes and shovels this afternoon, right?"
"It's not necessary. I heard that the vacant spinach field will be plowed again in the afternoon and spread with fertilizer..."
"Okay, I'll take these things back after dinner. Clean up and take a nap.”
You have to take a nap.
Their spinach field hasn't cleared much area yet, so they specifically asked Jean to come later.
Everyone in twos and threes, carrying shovels and hoes and rakes, walked towards the canteen on the mountain in a lively manner.
...
Now that even old men and women are working in the village, naturally no one can answer Chef Bai's question.
He held his cell phone and kept watching the replay, trying to find the landmark building in the group.
Finally! I saw the little white villa of the old Song family!
After walking for a long time, I saw a canteen, so I quickly went in and asked:
"Boss, how do I get to this store?"
The person at the canteen was using DouQiao. He took a look at his cell phone and said casually:
"Go straight along this road, and you will see Just go through the bamboo forest."
After thinking for a while, he raised his head and looked at him curiously: "Are you delivering saplings or packing vegetables?"
Chef Bai thought in his mind. After holding my breath for a while, I shook my expensive coat: "No, I mainly came here to discuss cooperation."
"Oh."
The other party looked at him and thought that this person's attitude was much worse than the ones who came before to discuss cooperation.
"Then it's a bit unlucky that you're in such a hurry. They're busy right now and probably don't have time to talk."
How rare! More than 50,000 kilograms of spinach was sold in one day, and the whole village, young and old, came to sell it.
I am afraid that I am not the only one who is unemployed in the village now.
Alas, I didn't make much money by guarding this canteen, but I really missed a lot of job opportunities.
Chef Bai became even more depressed when he heard this.
Do you know how the price of vegetables in Changleju has increased now?
Spinach is clearly a good product here, but it sells for 20 yuan a pound, and it comes with free shipping? !
This owner really has no business sense at all.
But yes, after all, he can get along with his former master. His previous ideas were very old-fashioned.
Learning to be a cook is not good for this or that. This material is particular, and that material is also particular...
Hey, in this fast food era, who cares about that? Isn’t it enough that you cook the food?
After thinking about it, he cheered up again:
While these dishes are not sold yet, I have to go and have a look. If the quality is good, he can charge 20 yuan a pound and save money on postage.
No matter how bad it is, I still have a little face left. Once the dishes are placed in front of others, I don’t believe that I can’t make a profit!
Thinking of this, he asked again: "Is there another Chef Song in the village?"
Chef Song?
The boss thought for a long time and finally reacted: "Oh, you mean Song Tan's cousin? Yes, isn't he at his house? What are you here for? Just asking questions. , not even willing to buy a pack of cigarettes, really..."
But Chef Bai didn't feel the impatience, and just smiled confidently at this moment:
"His son hasn't come back for so many years, has he? It's not easy for an old couple in the village!"
The owner of the canteen glanced at him, rolled his eyes silently, and stopped talking.
——Isn’t not saying anything a default?
Chef Bai also smiled confidently and stepped out again.
……
But the other party was pointing the right way. He kept walking along the main road... It was winter, and he was wearing leather shoes, so the soles of his feet hurt from walking.
Then I saw the bamboo forest and the small villa with white walls and gray tiles that was vaguely exposed behind the bamboo forest.
Chef Bai is really tired and embarrassed now.
He has been living a good life for many years. He always has a car when he goes out. It's good now. He hasn't been back for decades. First, he didn't expect that the village has changed so much now and he can't find his way around.
Secondly, I didn’t expect that the village that was vaguely small in my memory is now so big when walking.
But that’s okay, let’s let the vicissitudes of life that have been brewing for us fade away a little. Cry twice later, master. Even if you don’t think you have some face, you still have some dignity. As long as people are soft-hearted, won't their relationship gradually become closer?
Chef Bai was talking. After being shaken again, I set off forward in high spirits.
Cousin Seventh, on the other hand, was sitting there chopping garlic with a knife when he suddenly felt his eyelids twitching and he couldn't help but froze.
Aunt Lianhua happened to be carrying the dishes, and when she saw this, she said curiously: "His cousin, what's wrong with you? Are you getting garlic in your eyes?"
"A little... Oops, this garlic It’s really exciting! Tantan can get some green onions and garlic this year, it’s really indispensable.”
As he spoke, he slapped the knife flat, and the "snap" sound coincided with a howl outside.
"Master, Master! You have suffered all these years."
The three people in the kitchen looked at each other.
Even Grandma Qi was curious:
“Is the beggar coming?”
Here it comes! So sleepy...
(End of this chapter)