small farmer

Chapter 968 Going into the Mountain Together (12)

It's the weekend again
The weather in Moon Lake seems to be improving with the arrival of tourists. During the day, the highest temperature can reach [-] degrees, and the lowest temperature at night is seven or eight degrees, so this will be a sunny weekend.

Taking advantage of the good weather, the villagers went into the mountains to hunt pine nuts and collect mountain treasures in groups of three or five, and the usually quiet mountain forest became lively again.

"Hurry up, madman?" Seeing other villagers entering the mountain one after another, Uncle Er Niu was sitting in the yard of Zhang Feng's house, urging restlessly.

"Understood, it will be ready soon, the emperor is really not in a hurry and the eunuchs are in a hurry!" Zhang Feng rolled his eyes, changed into a camouflage uniform, put on his back basket, and was ready to set off with a shoulder pole.

"Damn it, I think you are the jealousy of Chi Guoguo. We have been competing since we were young, but you have never won, okay?"

"Fuck, can you be the same as a cow?" Zhang Feng rolled his eyes, Erniu uncle is a cow's egg, he is really talented.

"Okay, stop arguing, you two, hurry up, if it's later, the good place will be swept away by everyone!" At this moment, Zhang Yi persuaded with a smile.

"Let's go!!"

The two stopped talking nonsense, and drove towards the back mountain with three wheels on their backs, and soon arrived at the back mountain, parked the car at the mountain intersection, and the three of them carried poles and baskets and walked towards the mountain go.

To the north of Moon Lake is a vast mountain with dense forests and rich products, including not only various precious mushrooms and fungus, but also dried fruits such as pine nuts, wild walnuts, and wild chestnuts.

This time, everyone went to the mountain for the pine nuts in the pine forest. This thing was not worth much in the past, and there was even no consumer market in the local area.

But with the vigorous development of Moon Lake tourism in the past two years, the wild pine nuts that no one cares about in the mountains before have become a precious specialty. Almost every foreign tourist who comes here will buy a catty or two to take back.

Ever since, the pine trees in Qinglong Mountain have once again become everyone's cash cow. If you just go into the mountain and dig a few dozen catties, you can earn thousands of dollars.

Now everyone goes to the mountains for two or three days every month, and every time they go there on the same day and come back on the same day, they can earn thousands of yuan once they go.

In addition to going to the mountain to hunt pine nuts, everyone also bought them from outsiders, because Qinglong Mountain covers an area of ​​hundreds of miles, spanning several nearby counties and cities, so there are also many pine nuts in other places.

Up to now, Moon Lake pine nuts have gained a great reputation, especially among tourists, so the village has agreed to register the trademark, but it is a pity that they cannot be bought online now, because everyone's pine nuts are simply not enough to sell. Did not form a scale.

But even so, now everyone can earn three to five thousand a month just by selling pine nuts, which is almost equivalent to the income of an ordinary office worker.

Walking on the rugged mountain road, Zhang Feng asked Uncle Er Niu:
"Uncle Er Niu, did your family hire staff today?"

"Nonsense, if I don't ask someone to help me, how can I have time to go to the mountains, and now every household has opened a homestay, if I don't ask someone, how can I come here?" Uncle Er Niu rolled his eyes.

"Huh? You iron cock is willing to spend money to hire someone. How rare is that?" Zhang Feng joked with a smile. Although Er Niu's house was very busy in the past, the couple was responsible for it every time, but now he is willing to spend money. Money for employees.

"Get out, I'm an iron rooster, you're Zhou Papier, you always catch other people's strong men, or hire child labor!" Uncle Er Niu retorted with wide-eyed eyes.

"Now the labor force is also increasing very fast. The two small workers my family hires cost three thousand five thousand a month!" At this moment, Zhang Yi also shook his head and said.

"Well, the current labor cost has indeed increased a lot, but my family only hires temporary workers, only on weekends, 150 yuan a day, including two meals." Uncle Er Niu nodded and said.

With the full expansion of cooperatives, the labor cost of the entire Qingshan has increased a lot. Except for urban residents, almost all farmers in the countryside grow Moon Lake vegetables at home. The rich labor force will not stay in the county, but will come to Working in big coastal cities.

This has caused a shortage of local labor force. Take the temporary workers hired by Uncle Er Niu’s family as an example. Both are elderly women in their 60s and 150s. Their wages used to be only about [-] yuan, at most no more than [-] yuan, but now But it increased to [-] yuan.

"Uncle Er Niu really deserves to be an iron rooster. He even thought of such a way to save money. One hundred and fifty a day, and only work eight days a month. That only needs to pay 200 yuan, two thousand and four for two people..."

"I'll go, it's not as good as the salary of an employee in my family!"

After Zhang Yi calculated, he felt that Uncle Er Niu was really good at calculating, and wondered if he should do the same? ?Because there are not so many tourists in Moon Lake every day, everyone can still be busy on weekdays, and it is only full of tourists on weekends, so it is only necessary to hire helpers on weekends.

walking on the mountain road

Uncle Er Niu is also very happy, because it has been a long time since the last time he entered the mountain.
Stepping into the mountains again, he felt like a bird flying out of the cage, able to soar freely among the mountains and forests.

All this is because the family hired a helper, otherwise he would have to stay at home and work every day. He would be busy from dawn, picking vegetables in the morning, and cooking for tourists during lunch and dinner. Time, but also look after the vegetables in the field, watering, fertilizing and weeding, etc. are all indispensable.

But now it’s finally healed, the family has invited someone to help, and I finally have free time, and I can also follow everyone into the mountains for a stroll. Uncle Niu was very satisfied.

Not long after everyone entered the mountain, they met the second uncle and Paoshan master.

"Yo, Pao Shan Ye, the second uncle, are you here?"

"Such a good place has been taken by the two of you!"

"Hehe, who told you guys to come late, you can only go into the deep mountains if you come late!" The second uncle and Master Paoshan said triumphantly.

Everyone smiled, bid farewell to the two old men and continued to march towards the mountain. There are pine forests everywhere in this mountain, so everyone is not worried that they will be beaten by those who came first.

As long as you are not afraid of hard work and trouble, and continue to go deep, you will always find a pine forest that you have not set foot in.

Along the way, Zhang Feng and the others met five or six groups of villagers. They all walked together in twos and threes. After all, the mountains are not flat, and the wild boars and black bears in the deep mountains will come out from time to time, so everyone must be careful. Walk together, so that you can help each other when you meet a beast.

After walking for about an hour, the three of them finally found a forest full of pine cones. The location is remote, and most people can't come here. The three of them observed the surrounding area and found that there was no danger. pine tree, knock the pine cone on the tree with the prepared bamboo pole or branch.

(End of this chapter)