slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 226
Early in the morning, Pingan and Wei Wenkui drove a two-deck truck to take Xu Sheng and Qu Guowei to the town, where they hired a minibus to take them back to the airport in the city.

Two days later, Ping An got up early again to see off the young couple Shi Jie and Yan Li. After staying here in Canghai for so many days, the young couple returned happily with more than 3 yuan in their pockets. The county seat went.

Only Cang Hai, Shi Wei, and Mengmeng were left in the house, no one interrupted, no one chatted, Cang Hai was able to concentrate on his work, and brought Shi Wei and Tietou to work in the field. Today is the last finishing touch for Canghai's corn. After the work is done, the corn will be harvested. The next step is to harvest the wheat.

Roar!
Cang Hai called everyone to rest for a while, just sat down and was about to drink water, when he heard a bear roar, turned his head to look in the direction of the sound, and saw that the female bear was about [-] meters away from him place, looking at himself eagerly.

"Go away! I don't know how to find food, I'm going to be a beggar soon." Cang Hai said fiercely to the female bear.

The mother bear couldn't stand still, but the cub was not afraid of people at all, and ran to the side of Cang Hai three people with her little butt bumped, stretched out her fluffy head and crawled into Mengmeng's arms.

Mengmeng has no resistance to this kind of little furry thing. When he saw the little bear go into his cup, his happy eyes successfully turned into two small crescents. With the stuff in the little bear's mouth, the little thief bear immediately started eating with his head tilted, humming as he ate.

Shi Wei looked at the little bear and said to Cang Hai: "The little bear is not afraid of people, and if he is not sure, he will be stolen by someone in the future."

"It was stolen? Don't underestimate this thing. It's a thief. Have you noticed? It only goes in front of the villagers. When it sees Qu Bo and those people, it turns around and runs away. It's tempting for a few helpers to lure you with lean meat strips." It's not easy to catch this little thief bear if you don't come closer," Cang Hai said.

The mother bear and her cubs are not timid now, and they are more accepting of the villagers, but neither the mother bear nor the bear will get too close to outsiders, even if Qu Guowei is alone. It is no problem to approach the female bear within a range of ten meters or so, but if you want to get closer, the mother and son will either scare people or turn around and run away.

The only advantage of being close to people is that you don’t have to worry about eating and drinking. The villagers are very curious about a bear appearing around the village, and they will feed the bear from time to time.

Don't look at the folks who are all over forty, but they are still like children. They don't want to eat more meat, but they are still willing to feed the mother bear and cubs. Now these two guys seem to be a bit unwilling to prey. Wait. The folks feed.

"Isn't there no problem with the injury? Take your cubs to hunt by yourself, there are so many fish in the river that you won't be able to starve you." Cang Hai yelled at the female bear.

The mother bear seemed to understand the displeasure in Cang Hai's tone, sat down dejectedly, and hung her huge head on her chest, looking like a child who had done something wrong.

"You're so cute! Get the hell out of here" Cang Hai felt a little angry when he looked at the female bear.

There is really too much food around, and bears are omnivores. Whether it is wild fruit or meat, they can fill their stomachs. Not to mention the countless wild fruits in Fenghuanggou and Jiazituo, the taste is not good for people. But is a wild bear still eligible to be a picky eater?

Even if the wild fruit is not delicious, whether it is in the river at the entrance of the village, the pond on the other side of the Canghai, or the lagoon upstream of the small river, the fish in it are extremely fat, so they are not willing to do anything like this. When people feed, can Cang Hai not be angry?
Cang Hai didn't think about raising a bear for fun, even if he had a lot of money and no place to spend it, he wouldn't raise a bear. This guy can eat several catties of meat for a meal, and he can't eat a dozen cows. , Canghai raised cattle to eat by himself or to feed bears.

After hearing this, Shi Wei said to Cang Hai: "You have nothing to do to scare it, besides, the injury is not healed, it is very dangerous to drive it out of the wild now."

As she said that, Shi Wei took out a pancake, tore it off in half, and threw the pancake in her hand towards the female bear.

The female bear was lowering her head and pretending to be pitiful. When she saw the pancakes flying in front of her, she immediately showed her true colors and happily ate her big buttocks.

"Look, it looks like a bear, it must be pretending to be pitiful, I told you that this thing can't be fed, everyone believes it, it's fine now, from now on, you can just take care of it's three meals a day." Cang Hai sighed tone.

After thinking for a while, Cang Hai said: "The two weasels in Uncle Wei's house are a lesson from the past."

"What's so bad about the two weasels in Old Uncle Wei's house? They don't steal chickens and only catch mice. The whole village is now mouse-free, thanks to the two weasels!" Shi Wei smiled as she watched the female bear finish eating the pancakes. , when the female bear looked at the other half of the pancake in her hand, Shi Wei threw the pancake she had just bitten over again.

"I admit this. Uncle Wei's weasels are pretty good, but what can you do with a bear in the village? They eat and sleep. Can't wait for them to attract customers? The village is not a circus," Cang Hai said.

Looking at the smiling Shi Wei with his eyes, and then looking at Mengmeng who was hugging the little bear and didn't know what to mutter, Cang Hai couldn't help feeling the urge to reach out and cover his face.

"Big bear, big bear!"

Just when Cang Hai was about to cover his face, suddenly Third Grandma Qian's voice sounded, Cang Hai looked up and saw Third Grandma Qian walking towards the female bear with a basket on her shoulders.

As soon as the mother bear heard someone calling her, she immediately ran over with a trot, stood still at a distance of four or five meters from the third grandma Qian, and stared at the third grandma Qian eagerly with her two round eyes. Basket slung over arm.

Qian Ximei took out a bone from the basket, with some minced meat hanging on it, it looked like a pork leg bone.

"Big bear, show me a thank you gesture, and I'll give you this bone to eat!"

As soon as Qian Ximei finished speaking, the female bear landed on her legs, stood upright, hugged her front legs together, and nodded twice towards the front.

"I go!"

Cang Hai couldn't stand it any longer. He just said that he was afraid that the female bear would make a living by being cute, and what he was afraid of happened.

"Give me another goodbye!"

Following Grandma Qian's order, the female bear immediately raised a paw and waved it in the air.

"Good boy, the big bear is so good, here, here is your bone." Grandma Qian San happily threw the big bone in her hand to the female bear.

As soon as the female bear got the bone, she immediately hugged and sat on the ground and gnawed it. Grandma Qian walked over with a smile, stretched out her hand and scratched the female bear's forehead twice, and said something loving before turning around and preparing to leave .

Cang Hai said loudly at this time: "Third Grandma, you are really good. I used to spit out oil when holding a bone stick, but now I am feeding it to the bear?"

"You boy, the third grandma was still reluctant to eat it when you were a child, and even gave you a bone stick to chew on. Why can't I love the bear? What a smart bear. People say that the bear is stupid. I don't think it is stupid at all. Look at it. Thank you, I learned these after handing them in for a while yesterday, and I will teach them later when I am busy, they are so smart."

Grandma Qian San said turning around and leaving happily.

"Hey, you have to show your talents even if you want to eat! Come and show me one, thank you?" Cang Hai yelled at the bear.

The female bear glanced at Cang Hai, then continued to gnaw on the big bone stick in her hand.

The little bear was lying comfortably in Mengmeng's arms, and the little girl was coaxing the little thief bear like a child, murmuring something about the little baby going to bed, and shaking her arms at the same time.

After a while, the little thief bear was really sleepy by the girl shaking, his two small eyes could not be opened, and his small eyelids suddenly began to doze off.

Suddenly the little bear's eyes widened, and the little thief bear who was in the downwind smelled the bone stick, and immediately rolled up from Mengmeng's arms, stretched out his little head to look around, and found that his mother was gnawing on the big bone stick, Immediately howling, while expressing his dissatisfaction, he rushed towards the female bear with four short legs.

Came to the side of the female bear, grabbed the mother's body and began to lick the big bone stick. At this time, the bone stick had been bitten open by the mother bear with her teeth, and the delicious bone marrow inside had been exposed. With the bone marrow flowing down the bone rod.

"I was wrong. It's not that these two bears may stay and never leave, but they will definitely stay here in the village, and they will never be driven away," Cang Hai said with a sigh.

"Why don't you like bears?" Shi Wei asked.

"It's not that I don't like it, but I want them to live under natural conditions. My level of environmental protection is higher than yours." Cang Hai was about to talk about it when he suddenly heard Hu Shijie calling himself.

"Haiwazi!"

Turning his head, Cang Hai saw Hu Shijie coming towards him.

"What's the matter? If you want to borrow the tractor, you can discuss it with Grandpa Li San?" Cang Hai said.

Now the only walking tractor in the village is a hot commodity. In terms of plowing, walking tractors are much better than old-fashioned plows, and the power of the machine is stronger than that of livestock, especially when deep plowing is needed, so everyone is rushing. borrow.

Hu Shijie came to Cang Hai and squatted down, smoking a pot: "The tractor is one aspect, and my brother and I made an agreement yesterday. The village plans to buy a small harvester. It costs 3 to [-] yuan." You don’t look like you, and you don’t use your little hand to support yourself, so you might as well be in the village, and wait for the Japanese money to arrive in the account, and then return the money to you.”

After hearing this, Cang Hai asked, "Is there no money in the village?"

"There is no money in the village, so I plan to borrow [-] to [-] yuan from you first, and then I will pay you back when the time comes," Hu Shijie said.

Cang Hai asked: "Will someone harvest this year's wheat?"

Hu Shijie shook his head: "I don't want someone to collect it. Labor is too expensive now. Why don't you bite your teeth and buy two small harvesters? It's not expensive anyway. It's a one-time investment. Otherwise, the big guy will hire someone to collect the wheat for a year." It’s enough to buy most of the machines. It’s not cost-effective. These guys are cowardly. I heard that our village is rich, and they will raise the price if they open their mouths. I don’t agree with each of them. Lah, when Lao Tzu’s Sijiaping’s money came from a strong wind?”

Hu Shijie can’t harvest wheat by himself. Unlike corn, everyone doesn’t grow too much, and the family can’t often eat corn, but wheat is different. For Northwesterners, wheat is a staple food. Every family and every household has planted a lot, and even Canghai has planted several acres. It is indeed too expensive to rely on labor this year.

Originally, everyone was going to grit their teeth and endure it for a while, and we will talk about it next year, but now everyone knows that Sijiaping will be rich, so those who help people harvest wheat all find a reason to ask for more money. The idea of ​​buying a machine, of course, the village has no money now, but Canghai has money, so ask Canghai to borrow a sum of money first, and wait for the Japanese to pay back the money as soon as it arrives.

It's okay for Cang Hai to hear about it. It's really not easy to find someone to harvest the wheat these days, especially during the busy farming season.The wage increase plus food and drink is really uneconomical.

"How about I give you a little more, and you can order a small excavator for me by the way. I want XCMG or Sany. Other brands are fine. The products of these two companies are considered very good in China." Cang Hai Said.

Hu Shijie didn't understand, he opened his mouth and asked, "Why are you buying a small excavator?"

Cang Hai said: "I plan to plant rice next year. Anyway, there is water. I plan to open a few acres of paddy fields to plant rice."

"Open by the river?"

"I'm going to build a terraced field on the slope, and then use a small water pump to pump it into the field," Cang Hai said.

Hu Shijie glanced at Cang Hai, and asked in a very suspicious tone: "You don't care about planting wheat, you still want to plant rice?"

"Arbitrarily full ecological planting, I don't care if the seedlings grow until they mature. I don't want too much, just enough for the family to eat," Cang Hai said with a smile.

"That's up to you! But this excavator may not be counted in the village, because... Forget it, it's all counted in the village. What if the village needs to use it in the future?" Hu Shijie patted his thigh and said.

Cang Hai laughed and said, "You are really generous."

"Then what can we do? If we leave it outside, we can also pay for someone to use the machine to collect it. Unfortunately, the machines outside are too big to drive in. We can only buy small machines ourselves," Hu Shijie said.

The road from the town to the village can only run on small machines, and the large harvesters will definitely not be able to get in. If the big harvesters could come in, Cang Hai would have driven the car into the village long ago. The small machines are really good. It is suitable for the village, because the land in the village is generally on the slope, and the big machine is not suitable at all.

After some discussion, Cang Hai called Wen Yiyi and informed the accountant there to give Hu Shijie 10,000+ yuan to buy the machine, and when he went back, he would give the [-] yuan to Hu Shijie. Just fill it in.

After taking the money from Cang Hai, the third brother of the Li family, who finished harvesting the wheat, drove a car with Hu Shijie to the city. It was not too late to buy the machine, and the wheat was waiting to be harvested, so the four old men couldn't wait for a moment. Without delay, I went directly to the money withdrawal machine.

(End of this chapter)