slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 358
Cang Hai grabbed the rein of the ugly donkey and walked to the left front of the ugly donkey, while Qu Guowei stood in front of the ugly donkey's right. The two of them walked side by side slowly towards the direction of Xiehu Lake.

"What's going on, can you tell me about it?" Cang Hai asked aloud what happened just now.

Qu Guowei glanced at Cang Hai, with a bit of dissatisfaction in his tone: "Why are you so gossipy, you want to inquire about everything?"

Cang Hai smiled and said, "I'm curious! Anyway, there is nothing to do along the way, so you can tell me a story to relieve my boredom."

When Qu Guowei heard Cang Hai say this, he was silent for a while before he opened his mouth and said: "It was almost fifty years ago. At that time, the three of us lived in the compound. Do you know the compound? Jianguo Back then, there were Army Compounds, Navy Compounds, and Empty Vehicle Compounds on Chang’an Street...".

"I know a little bit about this, you continue to talk about it" Cang Hai is fine anyway, just listen to Qu Guowei.

Qu Guowei continued: "At that time, the three of us were about the same age, and we went to the same class at school. It can be said that we grew up together. It's just that Fan Xiaoxia and I belonged to the Navy Yard, and Xu Sheng's family was from the Air Force Yard. Shang Qingyun is a few years older than us, and he also belongs to the Air Force compound. Actually, both Xu Sheng and I had a crush on Fan Xiaoxia at that time, but I was not very good at expressing it at that time. Open mouth can speak well, don't look at his current appearance, but when he was young, he had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he was born with a good skin. When we are all sixteen or seventeen, Xu Sheng and Fan Xiaoxia will secretly be a little The meaning of being friends, at that time it was just such a meaning, not as open as young people are now... ".

Cang Hai walks and listens with his ears pricked up, the story is quite old-fashioned, Xu Sheng and Fan Xiaoxia seem to have an ignorant mutual affection, but when Shang Qingyun, who is a few years older and appears mature and confident, appears, Xu Sheng, this Xiaonenwa was no longer popular, so Fan Xiaoxia turned to Shang Qingyun.

Not only that, the Fanshang family felt that the two children were a good match, so with the consent of the two adults, the two finally got together and got married, leaving Xu Sheng on the side who has always felt like a thorn in his heart. Even if Xu Sheng got married later, this thorn has been pierced, and he always feels that the monk Qingyun has the hatred of taking his wife.

Fortunately, Shang Qingyun and his wife went south to the southern coast, and they lost contact. Who would have thought that they would meet in this small Sijiaping Village, so the incident just now appeared.

Cang Hai opened his mouth to say something, when Wei Wenkui's voice rang in his ears.

"Hey, Haiwazi, Uncle Qu, where did the two of you get a boat here?"

As soon as Cang Hai looked up, he found that on the other side of the stream, Wei Wenkui was leading seven or eight people towards the direction of the village. Looking at the appearance, he knew that today's work was over. Wei Wenkui took a few people from the agricultural machinery company back to the village for dinner. .

"Where did I get it? Uncle Qu bought it. He just delivered it here. Isn't it going to be put in the lagoon?" Cang Hai replied.

Qu Guowei waited for Cang Hai to finish speaking, then opened his mouth and asked again: "Are you done with today's work?"

Wei Wenkui said: "Today's work is over, and the progress is a bit faster than the original progress. The land on the south slope is easier to plow, and it is looser than the previous two days."

Qu Guowei slightly nodded his head.

In fact, Qu Guowei and Xu Sheng are still very concerned about planting watermelons in Sijiaping Village, and have thought about helping them, but how can the folks let them help? No matter what happened, everyone couldn't tell for sure, so the two old men became the two most idle people in the village.

"By the way, Haiwazi, when did you say the Japanese were going to send some rice transplanters last time?" Wei Wenkui saw Cang Hai and remembered the rice transplanters that Cang Hai had mentioned a few days ago.

Cang Hai thought for a while and said, "It's only been two days, and the soil hasn't been dug yet. Why are you so anxious about the seedling planter?"

"Can you not be in a hurry, we will start planting tomorrow," Wei Wenkui said.

Cang Hai can also understand, although the folks now say that they have machines in their hands, but when they heard that the Japanese sent you a few missing machines from Japan, they felt a little itchy in their hearts. The machines made in Japan are good. It has already taken root in the hearts of farmers in the countryside. It is not only easy to use but also has a low failure rate. This kind of thinking cannot be corrected by domestic machinery within a year or two.

Of course, a lot of bullies might say that domestic machinery is already world-class or something. Every time he hears this, Cang Hai will not refute anything, because there is no need to refute.

It is true that our domestic manufacturing level has indeed improved steadily over the years, but there is still a certain technological gap between manufacturing powerhouses such as Japan and Germany. If the technology and patent barriers established by others for hundreds of years are surpassed by you in 30 to [-] years, then people What do you play at home? The domestic manufacturing industry has a long way to go, and it has to catch up slowly.

"That's something that can't be helped, but don't worry, I won't keep one of the machines when they arrive, and I'll give them all to the village," Cang Hai said generously.

Qu Guowei laughed and said: "Of course you don't need it. You have a group of free laborers over there, and you don't even save money to pay the workers."

"My fate is good, maybe you should be jealous of this too?" Cang Hai looked at Qu Guowei and said with a smile.

After two days of performances, Cang Hai finally convinced the villagers that the little flowers and birds seemed to imitate human movements, and of course Shang Qingyun and his gang were recruited.

"Don't tell me, Uncle Hu has been thinking about how to attract those birds to our place these days, and then arrange some plants like yours... those birds seem to like to stay on the side of Fenghuanggou "Wei Wenkui said.

Cang Hai tried to bring this matter to the fore.

Let's put it this way, there is a ghost in my heart who always feels that things are a little unsatisfactory.
What Canghai didn't expect was that the folks didn't think much about it at all. How could a group of old farmers in the countryside be interested in thinking about so many messy things? The little flowers and birds with long beaks were led to the melon fields in the village, and they were asked to contribute to the watermelon fields in the village.

Not only the folks, but both Qu Guowei and Xu Sheng didn't take it seriously. In their view, this is a very common behavior of birds hiding food, a bit like a squirrel storing fruit, burying it when it finds a place. Bury them, and then pick them up from the ground to eat when the food collapses.

In fact, Cang Hai thought too much about this matter, and no one cared as much as he thought why this little flower and bird buried melons in the soil, or whether Cang Hai had any special secrets hidden.

Sometimes people are like this, when they have a guilty conscience, they usually do something to cover it up, and now Cang Hai's behavior is like this.

"Birds come here?"

Cang Hai said something and said to himself: I can, but I can't do this!

"That's right, bring me here. Professor Zuo said that he called two experts on ornithology to come over and try to find a way. I don't know when this person will arrive." Wei Wenkui is very familiar with bird species.

Qu Guowei smiled and said: "Don't wait any longer, the bird expert has come today, and now he has lived in the east of the village."

"Really?!" Wei Wenkui beamed with joy.

Cang Hai said: "It's absolutely true, not only a bird expert, but also old acquaintances of Uncle Qu and Uncle Xu, friends who grew up together since childhood."

"So coincidentally?"

"It's such a coincidence!" Qu Guowei said with emotion: "We haven't seen each other for almost 50 years. Who would have thought that we would meet here in Sijiaping."

"That's a good thing. Since a friend is here, don't transport this boat. Haiwazi can do it alone. You can spend time with your old friend and talk about the old days. You should meet your old friend." There was a lot of excitement," Wei Wenkui said.

Qu Guowei waved his hand: "Let's send the boat to the lagoon first."

The relationship between the few people is like a drama of bitterness, without waiting for everyone to digest it properly, it is estimated that such things as drinking and talking should be replaced by an axe.

It's so lively that it's true, but I don't know what it is.

"Okay, you guys go back to the village for dinner." Qu Guowei waved at Wei Wenkui, and then signaled Cang Hai and himself to move forward.

Wei Wenkui took two steps and turned his head to ask, "Have you eaten?"

"No"

"Then save dinner for you?" Wei Wenkui said.

Now the village is working in a unified way, everyone is working, and the meals cannot be eaten separately, otherwise the famous masters will have to work hard to cook, so Li Liren and his wife continued to do their old jobs and ensured logistics for everyone. meal.As for the rest, except for Naiwazi, men, women, young and old have to complete their tasks now, otherwise they will not be able to receive the wages given by the village at the end of the month.

Qu Guowei patted Cang Hai's shoulder with a smile: "I'm with him, I'm still hungry, you can eat first, don't wait for me."

After hearing this, Wei Wenkui led the people towards the village in strides.

Cang Hai smiled and said, "If you eat with me tonight, it can only be porridge, steamed buns with pickles at most, duck eggs or something."

Upon hearing this, Qu Guowei immediately said, "No way?"

Cang Hai spread his hands: "I don't think so, but Shi Wei decided to eat lightly tonight, without big fish and meat."

Qu Guowei immediately yelled at Wei Wenkui's back: "Leave one for me, and I will heat it up when I go back."

"I'm so old, why do I still care so much about my tongue, it would be nice to have some porridge and side dishes once in a while!" Cang Hai said jokingly.

Qu Guowei glanced at Cang Hai: "You know what, we don't know how long we have to live at this age, if we can't eat comfortably, we can live a few days of comfortable life, what are we going to do?"

Cang Hai stopped talking and gave Qu Guowei a thumbs up.

After walking for a while, Qu Guowei opened his mouth again and said, "Old man Xu and I will leave in four or five days, and we will come back after going home for a month or two."

"Avoid people?"

"What kind of people are you avoiding? We still have a lot of things to do. Old man Xu is going home to take a look, but I can be busy organizing your exhibition of armor sacrifices. Since this is the first time that something has been exhibited, I You must pay attention to it, and you will also bring Shi Wei to attend the opening ceremony, and then I will introduce you to some friends in the cultural relic circle... ".

"Don't!" Cang Hai waved his hand immediately and said, "I can't be in your circle, you better not introduce me, you don't know me yet? I'm afraid of trouble, if you want to talk about the opening ceremony If you want to do it, just let Gu Han attend, don't pull me."

Qu Guowei asked: "You don't want to shrink here like a little turtle for the rest of your life, do you?"

"Don't say it so harshly, what's wrong with living here all your life?" Cang Hai said with a smile.

"Young people don't have vitality. I think you can live to 150 years old with this mentality. You don't have any aggressiveness at such a young age," Qu Guowei sighed.

"What do I want to be aggressive for? I have food and drink, my wife and children are hot on the kang, but I am not stupid to go out to make troubles!" Cang Hai said happily.

At the edge of the lagoon, some small tree saplings and shrubs around the lagoon have sprouted, and around the lagoon, within a range of about four or five meters, young sprouts have also grown due to the water source. The tender grass, small wildflowers and so on, paired with a blue lake, are very beautiful.

There is a simple wooden pier by the lake. It is said that the pier is actually a wooden frame with a few plastic boats tied beside it. The boats belonged to Zhang Jiusheng, and they were used by his workers to set nets to catch fish. The small boat can only seat one person, which is much smaller than the wooden Banna that Qu Guowei bought.

Tilting the cart, sliding the wooden boat into the water, Cang Hai sat in and tried it out, looking at the bright moon outside through the side window with chaotic branches, not to mention the artistic conception of boating on the lake.

(End of this chapter)