The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 7
Seeing that the farm that has worked hard for four months is about to reap the harvest, the three chicken farmers Wang Fumin, Ma Zhentang and He Jiaxiang are very excited.

It takes a lot of manpower to move chickens at night, so the three families are busy calling relatives and friends, asking them to come to help at night.

Taohualing Village is not big, with only 87 households and 278 people.Most of the male laborers have gone to work outside, and the rest are the old, weak, sick and disabled who are useless and can't be counted on.

In addition to the four households on the poultry side of the breeding area, the other four households raise pigs, and they will definitely come to help if they say so.

In this way, there are almost ten laborers ready for use.

The male laborers of the eight farmers are all counted, plus Wang Shaodong and Ma Lili are exactly ten people, and the two of them can be responsible for keeping the accounts.

Brother Wang Fumin himself has two older sisters, but they are both old, so it is not appropriate to ask them to help.The children of Wang Fumin's two elder sisters have both married and gone out to work, so they can't help either.Therefore, Wang Fumin can only hire labor from Wang Shaodong's three uncles' families.

In the end, Wang Fumin called over Wang Shaodong's three uncles and two of his uncle's cousins. In addition, Wang Fumin also called over his two friends from neighboring villages.In this way, including his son and wife, there are a total of ten helpers tonight.

Among them, four people were in charge of catching chickens, one was in charge of weighing, one was in charge of bookkeeping, and four were in charge of loading cars, which was barely enough to handle it.

Before Wang Shaodong got up, he heard the hearty laughter of his uncle Zhao Shihai.

Zhao Shihai is only 12 years older than Wang Shaodong, just thirty this year.From childhood to adulthood, Wang Shaodong's favorite thing is to wander around the mountains and plains with his uncle Zhao Shihai.

Zhao Shihai's knowledge on the mountain is very surprising. He knows many wild flowers, fruits, grasses and vegetables. He knows which bushes contain pheasants and hares. Open up the belly, and then use the wild jujube branches to roast the hare to make it yellow and oily, so that the whole Wujiayuzi is full of the aroma of barbecue. A bite of roast rabbit meat is full of oil, and the fragrance can make people float.

In short, Wang Shaodong felt that being with his uncle would always bring countless pleasures.

After hearing his uncle's voice, Wang Shaodong quickly put on his clothes and walked out of his bedroom.

My uncle was standing in the cement-hardened patio of Wang's family, looking at the vegetable garden on the east side of the yard, chatting with Wang Fumin, and his back was facing Wang Shaodong who came out of his house.

Wang Shaodong tiptoed, and quietly touched the back of his uncle, and then, like a hunter quietly approaching the prey, he jumped up in a hurry, and jumped on Zhao Shihai's back.

"Uncle!"

Zhao Shihai's body was very strong, and a young man weighing 120 jin threw him from behind. He only leaned forward slightly, but his feet didn't move at all.Perhaps, Zhao Shihai had seen Wang Shaodong's plan a long time ago, but just now he cooperated with his nephew and pretended not to see it.

The relationship between Wang Shaodong and his uncle is very good.

Wang Shaodong put his arms around his uncle's neck affectionately, and Wang Fumin next to him sighed and said, "I'm almost looking for a wife, and I'm still like a child."

Wang Shaodong said in his heart: Dad, even when I was in my 30s, when I saw my uncle, it was the same as now.

Zhao Shiling came over, stared at Wang Shaodong and said, "Okay, okay, don't be too big or small, come down quickly."

Zhao Shihai turned around and easily got rid of Wang Shaodong's control. Then he looked at his nephew with a smile and asked, "Dongzi, is it okay for you to go to Tsinghua University this time?"

Everyone knows that Wang Shaodong's academic performance is very good, and the walls of his home are covered with his certificates, which is the best proof.

However, Wang Shaodong really wants to know how everyone will react when the results of the college entrance examination are announced this year.

"Uncle, do you think Tsinghua University is so easy to pass?"

In fact, Zhao Shihai knew very little about going to school. He was the youngest child in his grandmother's family. He dropped out of school without graduating from elementary school.

"What's the matter? Can my nephew get into Tsinghua University? Then, what can you get into?"

Wang Shaodong joked and told the truth: "I don't do anything, and I will follow you up the mountain to play all day from now on."

Zhao Shihai's way of making a living is very strange. He mainly relies on digging some herbs from the mountains, catching some insects, and getting some game to sell for money.

The place where Dazhai Village is located is a branch of the Taishan Mountains. There are many mountains and ravines, vertical and horizontal. There are many herbs, scorpions, wood turtles, centipedes, pheasants, foxes, hares, etc. in the mountains. Can be exchanged for money.

Although Zhao Shihai's means of earning a living are peculiar, but every year he buys a lot of white money from this ravine.

Wang Shaodong heard from his mother Zhao Shiling that his brother-in-law earned more than 3 yuan last year.This income can be worth the income of two people who go out to work.

Hearing what his nephew said, Zhao Shihai immediately frowned: "That's not okay, it's useless to do so much."

In the eyes of the common people in the mountains, people like Zhao Shihai are actually worthless and worthless, and even Zhao Shihai himself looks down on himself a bit.In the eyes of ordinary people in the mountains, those who are really promising are cultural people, people who have been admitted to university and put down roots in the city.During the holidays, everyone is very envious of those cultural people who have gone out from the countryside to live the life of city people and then returned to the countryside for the New Year.

However, perhaps only those urban people who have left the countryside truly know the pain in their hearts and the beauty of the free and undisciplined life in the mountain village.

Life is like this, always thinking that what you can't get is the best.

"Both of you, the uncle doesn't look like an uncle, and the nephew doesn't look like a nephew. Hurry up and wash your hands and come to eat!"

Zhao Shiling, Wang Shaodong's mother, made breakfast, and then invited everyone to eat in the house.

Both Zhao Shihai and Wang Shaodong scratched their heads in embarrassment, and obediently followed Zhao Shiling to eat.

After entering the room, Wang Shaodong saw his brother-in-law opened the big glass bottle in which his father made wine, thinking that his brother-in-law would drink some medicinal wine in the morning.But Zhao Shihai didn't scoop up a tea bowl of medicinal wine, but threw something into the big glass bottle.

Wang Shaodong wiped his eyes and saw, good guy, what my brother-in-law threw into the big glass bottle was a small white snake about fifty centimeters long, and now it was swimming in the big glass bottle half filled with Erguotou!

When I attacked my uncle just now, I really didn't notice this situation. Wang Shaodong, who has always been afraid of reptiles, immediately got goosebumps all over his body.

"Uncle, uncle, you are really the real-life Ouyang Feng!" Wang Shaodong admired secretly in his heart.

(End of this chapter)