slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 392

As soon as it was dawn in the morning, Sijiaping Village became lively, people yelling and barking dogs started the prelude to a day's life.

The women of each family were busy making breakfast around the pot, while the men sat at the door with a sickle in one hand and a whetstone in one hand, preparing tools for the day.

Those who have school-going children at home call their children to get up, and those who do not have school-going children set up car sets and organize tools to ensure that every sickle is sharp enough to complete the task better today.

Cang Hai's family had also woken up at this time, sitting at the door of the kitchen in a daze, the little girl hadn't woken up yet.

Cang Hai and Wang Zhenzhen were busy making breakfast together in the kitchen, Shi Wei and Wu Hui were busy choosing vegetables to prepare a meal in the wild at noon, Pingan and Shi Zhenbang were sharpening their sickles on the platform.

"Mom, you and Dad don't want to follow, rest at home, to be honest, we don't have much work in the field!" Cang Hai persuaded.

Looking at her son-in-law, Wang Zhenzhen asked, "What's the matter, you dislike me and your father are old and can't work anymore?"

"How is it possible, there is nothing at all, I thought I asked you to come and have fun, how can I let you follow me to work in the field all day?" Cang Hai felt a little sorry.

Wang Zhenzhen patted Cang Hai with a smile: "It's okay, I have work these days, and I feel much better than before. I feel that I am living a fulfilling life. Don't worry, your father and I I know everything in my heart, so I won’t get tired.”

After hearing this, Cang Hai had no choice but to let the old man and the old lady go.

Waiting for the meal to be ready, everyone gathered around the small table and began to eat.

After eating here for a while, Mengmeng heard a shout from the team transporting vegetables at the entrance of the village.

"Children who go to school, let's go!"

Hearing this sound, Mengmeng suddenly became energetic: "Hurry up, hurry up, I'm going to be late!"

Shi Wei said with a smile: "This sound is like her biological alarm clock!"

While talking, he helped Mengmeng pick up seven or eight steamed buns and put them in a small lunch box, and then filled a bowl of small green vegetable porridge, put the two things into a small bag, and handed it to Slick to hold.

When sitting at the table, Mengmeng usually squints his eyes and dozes off. When he formally eats, he is usually on the car going to the town. He brings buns or something, and he can also let Mengmeng share it with the children who go with him. There is no way, Cang Hai How is the food at home?

Mengmeng put her schoolbag on her back, saw that Huatou had already finished eating, so she held her hand, "Huatou, let's go!"

Hua Tou wagged his tail and followed Mengmeng towards the entrance of the village.

Everyone was used to it, so no one followed, just let Mengmeng walk towards the entrance of the village with a slippery head, and the rest continued to eat.

After eating, Ping An brought the cart over, while Cang Hai and Shi Zhenbang moved the tools and lunch boxes onto the cart.

Everyone got on the scooter and prepared to leave the village. Almost every family had to say hello from their own gates to the entrance of the village, because everyone was preparing to go to the melon fields.

When he arrived at the entrance of the village, Cang Hai found that Hu Shijie was leading Miao Zhengwei out of the village in a car. Driving a car was nothing new, but besides the two people in the car, it was strange that five tiger-headed yellows were sitting on it. .

"Grandpa Hu, Secretary Miao, where are you going?" Cang Hai stopped the car and asked.

Hu Shijie said cheerfully: "Go to the town to get money, it's time to send money to everyone today!"

Hearing what Hu Shijie said, Cang Hai remembered that today is already the beginning of the month, before he knew it.A month has passed.

"No wonder I brought so many dogs, I'm afraid people will steal the money," Shi Zhenbang said with a smile.

Miao Zhengwei laughed and said, "We don't have so many dogs. We are also afraid. Hundreds of thousands of dogs are exchanged and shipped in cash. If they are robbed, it won't be worth that much money if we sell them!"

Cang Hai joked after hearing this: "Then you underestimate our village cadres in Sijiaping too much. You two must be worth hundreds of thousands if you are tied together. Don't worry! Robbing you and stealing money have the same effect."

"Hahaha!"

Both Hu Shijie and Miao Zhengchuan laughed: "I never thought we were worth a lot of money!"

Hu Shijie asked Cang Hai: "Cang Hai, do you want to withdraw money here?"

Cang Hai waved his hand: "I won't withdraw the money, I'll wait until the melons fall to the ground, so I'll talk about it during the Chinese New Year! Anyway, if they need money, let me know, and if they don't need money, they can keep a piece before the New Year. hair".

"You guys are taking it easy! That's enough, you go about your business, we still have to rush to the bank," Hu Shijie said.

After speaking, Hu Shijie raised his whip and slapped it loudly, then suddenly took the reins of the animals, and said to Cang Hai: "Haiwazi, the salesman at the cooperative bank told me that he wants us to put The money in the village is deposited with them, and it is said that the interest rate is much higher than that of the commercial bank... ".

After hearing this, Cang Hai asked Miao Zhengwei, "What do you think, Secretary Miao?"

Miao Zhengwei shook his head and said, "I don't agree. The bank's interest rate is just like that. The high rate they offer here must be high interest rate to attract savings. I'm afraid something will go wrong!"

After hearing this, Cang Hai said to Hu Shijie: "That's what I mean too. Our money is based on a stable word. It is all the hard-earned money of the villagers. It is still a big bank to rely on. Like cooperatives, etc. are too small, management It’s not necessarily standardized, and if something goes wrong, we’ll still be the ones to lose out, even though there’s more interest, the risk we’re taking is too great.”

"They are all public banks, so there will be no problems, right?" Hu Shijie was a little skeptical after hearing this.

Cang Hai said: "Be careful sailing for thousands of years, we don't need to take risks now."

Now the country has allowed banks to close down. For example, this small cooperative is a local bank with a small capital and a small ability to resist risks. Just count on how much money the city’s population can have even if they deposit in these banks?What's more, everyone now has four major banks, otherwise there would be no such thing as difficulties in collecting savings for small banks.

"Okay, then it's up to you!" Hu Shijie saw that Miao Zhengwei and Cang Hai disagreed, so he didn't raise this question.

Hu Shijie tends to prefer cooperative banks. First, he owes favors to them. Second, he thinks that they are all public banks, and there is no way they can make mistakes. How is money stored?

But when Cang Hai objected, he had no choice but to apologize to his old friend in his heart.

The two groups of people separated in this way, one went to the town and the other to Fenghuanggou.

The villagers started a few minutes later than Canghai, but arrived at the melon field about [-] minutes earlier than Canghai, because the melon field is close to the village.The advantage of being close to the water tower is the moon, the distance is close, and the communication is convenient and fast.

Li Licheng, who led the team this morning, is the oldest in the village. Li Licheng, who is only two years younger than Hu Shijie, is very suitable to provoke the leader when Hu Shijie and Miao Zhengwei are away.

When all the villagers arrived at the fields, a group of greedy ghosts and bears gathered. There were originally five or six bears, but now the number has reached a dozen or so, and there are three or four female bears with cubs.

For the past month, these bears have been waiting here every day to eat melons. After getting along for so long, they have become more familiar with the people in the village. Now the bears are no longer waiting outside, but seeing people pulling carts. , directly leaned over, humming and chirping and started begging for food.

The villagers did not reprimand the bears, but instead took out some steamed buns, steamed stuffed buns and the like from their respective baskets and fed them to the bears.

While the bears were eating, Li Licheng divided the work here: "Changsheng, your family starts there, Liren, your family starts from the melon field in the southeast Jie, and today's task is this big slope. Just go back!"

"Uncle, are you getting paid today?" Li Dan yelled with a smile.

When they heard that they were receiving money, everyone pricked up their ears at the same time.

Li Licheng smiled and said: "Of course I got the money. If I don't get the money, Poe over there will have to cut half of it today. Stop talking nonsense and move quickly. Besides, don't feed too many bears. After feeding these cowards and Some people are just as lazy at work! Now they are the new force of our village, so we can’t feed them too much, feed them at night if they want to, and feed them less during the day to make them work more!”

"Hahaha!"

Everyone laughed, and when the music was over, they picked up the sickles in their hands and scattered them around, and began to chop watermelons.

A dozen bears, big and small, finished eating the steamed buns in their hands, and scattered around. Seeing someone chopping off a watermelon, the melon chopper flipped his hands over, and the bear he saw ran over. , Stretch out your hands and start rolling the watermelons to the edge of the field at the bottom of the slope and pile them up.

Don't look at the clumsy movements of the bears, but they are much better than humans in rolling watermelons. They can easily roll the melons, even if there is no slope, they can roll the melons like a wheel.A dozen or so big and small bears rolled melons, and there were more than two dozen good boys.

A dozen or so big and small bears completely covered the work of rolling the melons. Everyone just had to chop the melons in the field. After the melons were chopped, they turned over with both hands, and the bears knew that the melons were cut, so they went over and pushed them down the slope, and You can also pile the watermelon into a pile.

The cooperation between man and bear was almost perfect. After about an hour, the first melon field of today was harvested.

"This piece is ready!"

Li Licheng yelled at the inspectors next to him, and the inspectors immediately ran over and began to label the melons and measure their grades.Then it is loaded on trucks and transported to the village, waiting to be loaded on trucks and transported to the factory in the county.

The villagers and a group of little bears started to cut another melon field.

At noon, the man and the bear got together and finished their meal, and each found a shaded place to hide under the shade of a tree to rest.

Li Licheng followed the usual rules and asked, "How many unqualified melons are there now?"

Li Liren stood up with a smile, took a puff with the cigarette holder in his mouth, then snuffed out the cigarette butts at the tree trunk next to him, walked to the side of the melon pile, picked out two low-grade watermelons, and let people move them into the crowd.

Low-grade melons are just not suitable for refining. It doesn't mean they are unpalatable. They taste similar to watermelons sold on the roadside. They are not very sweet, but they can be regarded as naturally ripe melons. If you don't pay attention to them, the taste is still good.

Of course, the taste of melons is much worse than that of high-grade and first-grade melons.

But having said that, such a melon is hundreds or even thousands of dollars a piece, which family is willing to eat it?

The food they eat is all big bills, so now, except for Cang Hai's family, other families in the village eat inferior melons.

As soon as the watermelon was moved over, some young people immediately picked up the melon saw and started sawing the melon. The pieces that were sawed into pieces were distributed to the villagers, and the pieces that were randomly sawn to pieces were distributed to the bears who had also been busy all day.

When sawing melons, the bears didn't snatch them, just like this old man surrounded the melons, waiting for people to divide the melons. The bears who got the melons just sat down and gnawed on the watermelon. After eating, they threw the melon rind away and continued to stare. Round Eyes stretched out his hands to ask for melons, and after taking the melons, he continued to eat until all the watermelons were eaten.

People and bears mixed together and sat under the shade of the tree, hugging watermelon and eating big mouthfuls. After eating a few slices of melon, the people were clear and the bears were refreshed. They each found a place to take a nap, waiting for the heat of the sun to disappear. When it was so high, everyone got up and continued to work.

It's past six o'clock today, and the task has been completed.The big guy loaded the last batch of chopped watermelons into the car, and left seven or eight low-grade melons with no extraction value on the ground for a group of bears for dinner.

As for the remaining melon rinds, they naturally fell into the stomach of the wild boar. After the wild boars were done cleaning up, there were no pieces of melon rind in the whole scene. The wild boar became the best scavenger of watermelon rinds.

(End of this chapter)