Ordinary people's rice bowl

Chapter 182
Mu Zhen took Hu Guoqing and Mu Bao to the gate of the feed factory, stood at the gate and looked into the factory. The people inside were busy with production, and no one cared to answer the three of them.

Mu Zhen felt bored, so she took the two of them and turned around to go to the pig breeding farm not far from the feed factory. Although the feed factory was very busy, it was a different scene when they arrived at this kind of pig farm. The roar of the machines in the feed mill, except for the "humming" of restless pigs, there is no noise here.

Mu Zhen glanced at the two management rooms at the back of the pigsty. The doors were closed, and there seemed to be no one there. Mu Zhen guessed that Lao Zhao must be busy in the pigsty!
Mu Zhen took two quick steps, came to the door of the pig house, and poked her head in. She didn't see Lao Zhao. Mu Zhen was very puzzled. Lao Zhao was very serious and responsible. He never left his post without authorization and was serious and responsible for his work. He practiced it when he was working with the landlord in his early years. Why is he not seen now?

Mu Zhen shouted loudly: "Master!"

Suddenly heard a reply from the front of the pigsty: "Who is it?"

Mu Zhen could tell that it was Old Zhao who responded. Mu Zhen withdrew from the pigsty, saw Hu Guoqing holding Mu Bao and muttering something in a low voice, she ignored it, and turned to the front of the pigsty Find Lao Zhao.

"You have so much time to come, we haven't seen each other for some time!" asked Old Zhao, who was squatting under a tree and smoking a cigarette.

"I brought my classmates to visit the feed factory in our village. I'm not coming to you!" Mu Zhen responded to Lao Zhao's question, and immediately turned to Hu Guoqing and Mu Bao who were standing behind the pigsty. : "Turn around, both of you."

Hu Guoqing and Mu Bao heard Mu Zhen's cry and followed.

Mu Zhen pointed to Hu Guoqing and introduced to Old Zhao, "This is my classmate Hu Guoqing!"

"Okay, okay, he looks like a smart person!" Old Zhao boasted sincerely.

"Thank you, sir, for your compliment!" Hu Guoqing replied hastily.

"The mouth is so sweet, people like it!" Most people in the village think that Lao Zhao is a man of few words, but in Mu Zhen's eyes, he is not. Once Lao Zhao talks, it is a complete story.

"I haven't seen you for so long, are you still learning calligraphy?" Mu Zhen never forgot about Lao Zhao's learning calligraphy, so the first sentence asked him about the learning situation of this old student.

"You didn't mention it, but you didn't remember it. Fortunately, you have been here for a while, otherwise I wouldn't have a teacher. After you left, I didn't give up. I kept learning. Up to now, the words in the "Anthology of ***" , I basically know them all, and I know how to write a lot!" Old Zhao smoked his dry pipe, accompanied by the thick smoke, and he was a little thankful that he had met such a young teacher as Mu Zhen.

After hearing this, Hu Guoqing not only admired this old man with wrinkled forehead, but also began to read characters persistently at such an old age. Where did this come from?

"You are so old, can you still remember what you have learned?" Hu Guoqing asked curiously.

"Don't look at my age, but my brain is not old. I can remember some words after reading it once. I used to recite the old three chapters. I followed others to memorize them sentence by sentence. I can still recite them now. So I Looking at those few articles word by word, I didn’t expect to let me know a lot of words. Whenever I have time, I will sit here and draw on the ground with a branch. It’s not like I just wrote a few words before you came here. , Do you think I wrote it right?" Old Zhao said to the three children while pointing to the marks on the ground.

Hu Guoqing leaned over with interest, and looked at the words written on the ground. Although it was not very clear, he could vaguely recognize the words "expand the pigsty".

Hu Guoqing read out: "Expand the pigsty!"

"How did you come up with these four words? Do you have any suggestions?" Mu Zhen asked in surprise.

"I don't want to mention it. It would cost a lot of money to make this suggestion. This is what Tian Cheng meant. Some time ago, he mentioned that there were too few pigs in the pigsty, and he wanted to expand it. Let me think about it. How much will the pigsty be expanded?" The time is right, that's why I'm sitting here thinking about it!" Old Zhao finished smoking a pot of cigarettes, tapped the pot on the tree trunk, and said slowly.

"Then what do you think?" Mu Zhen felt a little inconceivable that Uncle Tian Cheng asked Old Zhao to consider expanding the pigsty. After all, this Old Zhao was only helping Uncle Tian Cheng raise pigs, and why did he ask his staff to expand the matter? ?
"This seems simple, it seems to be just a matter of building a few more pig pens. In fact, I have raised them here for so many days, and found that the current pen should be built in two rows, so as to save space and facilitate food storage. , Tian Cheng asked us to think about this matter, but once we think about it, we overthink it, you are here, can you help me think of a way, and see if there is any better suggestion?" Old Zhao's words obviously came out after careful consideration, Otherwise, how could the construction plan be considered.

"You are an expert. I have only been here for a few days, and I have never thought about it. The plan you mentioned must be the best!" Mu Zhen thought that Lao Zhao was a bit extraordinary when he insisted on reading. Listening to his suggestions on building a pigsty from time to time made me even more impressed.

Hearing what Mu Zhen said, Lao Zhao smiled, turned his gaze to Hu Guoqing who was standing aside and asked: "Look at you, you are a good classmate with my Mu Zhen, and you are naturally a very good person. Can you tell me Do you have any ideas?"

Hu Guoqing heard Lao Zhao mention the idea of ​​building a pigsty just now, and immediately thought of his dropping out of school to raise sheep at home. At that time, he wanted to build a few sheep pens in front of his yard. Wisdom has drawn blueprints, and those blueprints are not blueprints for designers, but in Hu Guoqing's view, those blueprints are the most beautiful blueprints in the world. At this moment, he immediately thought of the general shape of the blueprints at that time, and thought about what Lao Zhao said just now. Yes, roughly the same, so he nodded and said: "I understand what you said just now. You mean that the pens built are like houses, and a row of pens is built on the front and back walls of the house, with an aisle in the middle." , it is convenient for breeders to feed and feed, isn’t it?”

When Lao Zhao heard what Hu Guoqing said, he nodded immediately and said, "Look, you are really smart when you say you are smart. You will know what I mean when you hear it!"

Hu Guoqing was a little unnatural by Lao Zhao's praise, and said modestly: "I really don't understand, I just explained it along the lines of what you said, without any creativity, and the way you said is already perfect!"

Old Zhao stood up, looked at Hu Guoqing and said with a smile, "You have more ink than me. I only rely on experience. You are the teacher!"

"You are too polite. Although we have learned a lot, we have never touched the knowledge of building houses and buildings. The knowledge we have learned has no practical value and is just for exams!" Hu Guoqing didn't know where he came from Thoughts, he said a lot of irrelevant things to Tangsai Lao Zhao.

"Stop talking, I have a few more words to ask you, follow me into the house, and I'll show you!" It may be the old man who squatted for too long, his legs were a little numb, and he was a little limping when he walked. Zhao led the three of them around the pigsty and opened the door of the management room.

Old Zhao took out a piece of paper that had been crumpled and creased many folds, pointed to the words on it and asked, "Please take a look, how do you read these words?"

Mu Zhen and Hu Guoqing looked at each other and looked at each other. Although there were only a few simple words, they were not commonly used words, and they really couldn't read them. When they didn't know how to answer Lao Zhao, Mu Bao rushed to the side and said: " Go back and look it up in the dictionary, you will be able to look it up!"

Mu Bao was relieved by telling the truth, and Mu Zhen followed Mu Bao's words and responded: "Master, these words are rare words, I will look them up in the dictionary for you, and then I will tell you!"

"Okay, sorry to bother you!" Old Zhao responded politely.

"Then let's go back and look it up now, and I'll get Mu Bao to send it to you and tell you how to read it!" Mu Zhen said as she took the crumpled piece of paper, turned and walked out of the room.

The three of them talked and laughed all the way, and hurriedly walked home.

(End of this chapter)