The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 4 Waiting for the Machine in the Internet Cafe
Mother's taste is always the most intimate taste. A simple meal of mackerel stewed eggplant, the fragrant Wang Shaodong reluctantly put down his chopsticks after eating two big steamed buns.

After dinner, Wang Shaodong's mother washed the dishes, while Wang Shaodong followed his father to grind corn in the warehouse.

Corn costs 5 cents a catty, while chicken feed costs 1 yuan per catty. In order to save feed costs, Wang Fumin mixes corn and chicken feed in a one-to-one ratio to feed the chickens.

Because there is no breeding experience, the chickens in the Wang family’s shed can only grow a catty of chicken with an average of three catties of feed.

However, corn pellets are larger than chicken feed. If corn pellets are directly mixed with feed, chickens will eat the feed with a better taste and leave the corn pellets.In order to avoid this situation, Wang Fumin bought a small electric grinder for 2000 yuan, which is used to grind corn kernels into corn flour and then mix it with chicken feed. The effect is much better.

As soon as the electric switch was pulled, the electric mill started humming. Wang Shaodong's father shoveled the corn kernels to the feeding port with a shovel, while Wang Shaodong supported the mouth of the woven bag and picked up the ground corn at the discharging port.

Although it was night in July, Wang Shaodong felt like something was stuck all over his body after working for a short time. Sweat dripped down his cheeks, and his clothes clinged to his body.

Wang Fumin raised his hand to wipe his sweat, and simply took off his shirt, revealing his strong tendons.

Father is now 43 years old, not too young.

In the memory of the previous life, after the age of 55, the muscles of the father's body began to relax, and he lost the demeanor of his youth.

The male laborers in the valley are all fit and well-proportioned, with well-proportioned biceps femoris and well-developed pectoralis major muscles, all of which are the result of years of hard work in the fields.

Hard-working people rarely have out-of-shape figures, and laborers are the most beautiful, which seems to make sense.

Seeing his father taking off his shirt, Wang Shaodong simply took off his own.However, his figure is much thinner than that of his father.

The father and the son just kept silent and cooperated with each other tacitly. They worked for an hour and a half from [-]:[-] p.m. to grind a total of [-] catties of corn kernels into corn flour.The five hundred catties of cornmeal can be used for two and a half days, and then the night after tomorrow, Wang Shaodong and his son will have to do this job again.

Now, those 350 chickens eat [-] catties of feed a day, so the cost of feed for the Wang family is about [-] yuan a day.

The work of grinding corn seems monotonous, but Wang Shaodong worked very hard.

He has quit this job for 11 years, and in retrospect, he really feels a little nostalgic.

Most of the work in the mountain village is monotonous manual labor. In his previous life, Wang Shaodong once thought that these jobs were painful and helpless.It was only after 11 years of working as a medical equipment salesman in the city that I discovered that the repetition of monotonous mental work is much more painful than the repetition of physical work.Physical labor can at least exercise the body and have a healthy body, while the repetition of mental labor will make people collapse.

Every day is a report!report!report!Performance!Performance!Performance!
Wang Shaodong, who was tormented by these jobs, could not sleep well at night, and he was often paralyzed by alcohol to fall asleep.

Although the physical labor was hard, after grinding the corn, the father and son went to take a bath in the Mowen River at the north end of the village, and fell asleep after returning home, not to mention how comfortable it was.

Moreover, the work in the countryside is busy for a while, and then it becomes leisurely.

After feeding the chickens, there is a lot of time to make tea and water; after grinding the corn, you can also take a bath in the river full of smooth pebbles; Xing Xing, listening to stories told by the old horses in the village, and watching Aunt Zhao in the village dancing the big gods are all very interesting and interesting things.

Anyway, Wang Shaodong made up his mind, since God asked him to choose again, then he will be rooted in this ravine in this life.

On the second night after being reborn, Wang Shaodong slept very soundly, which was much better than last night's insomnia due to excitement and deep thinking.

On the morning of July 7th, when Wang Shaodong opened his eyes, the sun outside was already high.

Breakfast was noodles with poached eggs, and Wang Shaodong ate a big bowl.

After breakfast, Wang Shaodong asked his mother for 20 yuan, saying that he wanted to go to the Internet cafe in the county to check things, and then went to the neighbor Ma Lili's house.

It is estimated that Ma Lili had told her father Ma Zhentang yesterday that she would go to the Internet cafe in the county with Wang Shaodong to check the voluntary report, so when she saw Wang Shaodong coming, she smiled and called out Ma Lili.

The two of them walked the Sanli Mountain Road, climbed over the mountain in the south of Taohua Ridge, came to Qingquan Ridge, and took the bus from Qingquan Ridge to Luzhong City Bus Station.

Ma Lili is full of yearning for university life. She hopes to apply for a normal college and return to Luzhong No. [-] Middle School as a teacher after graduation.

Wang Shaodong remembers very clearly that Ma Lili's college entrance examination score was 592 points, while the admission score of Qilu Normal University was 586 points that year. She was lucky to be admitted to the School of Communication of Qilu Normal University majoring in educational technology.

Later, after four years of college life ended, Ma Lili returned to Luzhong No. [-] Middle School as she wished, and became an information technology teacher.

The two got off at the intersection of Beichengzipo, Gangcheng County, and crossed the road. The place 50 meters away from the intersection on the west side of Yongxing Street was Huaxing Internet Cafe, one of the three Internet cafes in Gangcheng County in 2002.

This Internet cafe still existed until 2016, but it is said that the owner has changed several times.

In 2002, opening Internet cafes was still very profitable.

With an Internet fee of two yuan an hour, at least one yuan and five yuan can be seen in the Internet cafe.

When Wang Shaodong and Ma Lili arrived at the Internet cafe, there were no vacant seats. As soon as they entered the Internet cafe, their classmates Wu Zhe and Sun Lin greeted them.

The two were also waiting for the machine, and then Wang Shaodong and Ma Lili walked over with a smile.

"Old Wu, you two also come to the Internet?"

Wu Zhe is a simple and honest fat man. Wang Shaodong remembers that he later studied at Quancheng Transportation College, and later entered China Road and Bridge Corporation, found a daughter-in-law with a Beijing hukou, and became a project manager with an annual salary of over one million.

Sun Lin was very thin. Later, he went to Quancheng Institute of Light Industry, and after graduation he went to work in a paper mill in Daocheng. However, he didn't get in touch with everyone, and he didn't attend several class reunions.

There are only five high school graduating classes in Luzhong No. [-] Middle School, three science classes, one liberal arts class, and one repetition class.

There are three science classes, with about 40 students in each class, 64 students in the liberal arts class, and 70 students in the repetition class. In total, there are only a few 250 students.This scale, compared with the number of graduates of the fourth middle school that can easily exceed a thousand, is obviously pitifully small.

Later, the second class was admitted to 7 undergraduates and 6 junior colleges in the first year, and then 8 people were admitted to undergraduates and 4 junior colleges in the second year, and a total of 25 people received university education.

At that time, the expansion of university enrollment was already very rampant.

In fact, when Ma Lili graduated in 2006, she was lucky enough to meet the need for teachers in the expansion of Luzhong No. 2008 Middle School, and then she successfully entered her alma mater as a teacher.After [-], the high schools were saturated, and then there were six or seven years, and the fourth middle school did not recruit a new teacher.

In 2006, in Class 31 of Grade 2 of their No. [-] Middle School, three students entered Lu Middle No. [-] Middle School as teachers, namely Ma Lili, Han Xiaoxia and Zhang Ming.

The four of them shared a few jokes, and saw a legend player yawned and stood up to get off the plane, and then Sun Lin, who was quick-eyed and quick-handed, ran over and seized the machine.

There are more than a dozen people waiting for the machine in the Internet cafe. If they are slow to start, the machine will become someone else's.

(End of this chapter)