Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Although the watermelon is big, there are also many people eating it. After eating one watermelon, everyone was still not satisfied, so Gao Mingcheng cut another watermelon.

This watermelon has just been soaked in well water for a while, and it is not very cold yet, but watermelon is a cold food. After eating a few pieces of watermelon, the heat in the body is gone, and the whole person feels cooler.

It's getting late, almost eleven o'clock, and it's time to get ready to cook.

Everyone brings the dishes together, and everyone cooks the rice together. The boys who are stronger are responsible for holding firewood, lighting the fire, carrying water and washing vegetables. As for the girls, they express their desire to show off their skills.

Gao Mingcheng led everyone into the kitchen and pointed out each kitchen utensil to everyone so that they could start working.

Although these people live in the county, they are not like rich people in big cities. They are familiar with stoves and kitchen utensils in the countryside, and they can easily get started.

Gao Mingcheng has a rice cooker at home, so cooking is much more convenient. He only needs to wash the rice, add water, and plug in the electricity.

As for the stove mouth, it is in the shape of two large and one small, with a total of three pots.

Normally, only one stove is needed for cooking, but now that there are many people and vegetables, all three stoves are burning. The smallest stove is used to stew pork bone and eel soup. The soup produced in this pot is delicious and nutritious.

As for the other two pots, Song Xiaoxiao and Zhao Jinghe are responsible for one pot each, each frying their own special dishes.

The lunch dishes include various meat dishes provided by everyone, as well as eggs provided by Gao Mingcheng, as well as peppers, eggplants, loofah and other vegetables from the field.

Everyone participated in the cooking, so it went very quickly. At 12 o'clock at noon, ten dishes were on the table.

Among these ten dishes, there are two cold dishes, which are peanuts and preserved eggs brought by Lin Ye and the others. The preserved eggs are cold and mixed with oil and chili, and they are very delicious.

The remaining eight dishes, four meat and four vegetarian, go well together.

Gao Yue opened the four special wine he had brought and poured a small glass for everyone. The alcohol content was high, so no one dared to drink more. Gao Mingcheng didn't even drink a sip. He had to drive back to the county town later. Woolen cloth.

Cars are relatively rare these days, so even though Gao Yue went to the police academy, he still doesn't know how to drive, but he is interested in learning to drive.

During the previous winter and summer vacations, because of his father Gao Guobing's relationship, he often interned at the police station and followed the veteran police officers in the police station to handle cases. During the winter vacation last year, he was transferred to the detention center and stayed there for a month.

Coupled with the knowledge he learned in school, it can be said that Gao Yue will be a qualified police officer after graduation.

Therefore, this summer vacation, he did not rush to come back for internship. Instead, he went to Shanghai with his friends to see the world.

Now when he returned to the county town from Shanghai, he learned that Gao Mingcheng had bought a car, so he was ready to learn to drive.

At the dinner table, Gao Yue diligently took a piece of eel to Gao Mingcheng and said, "Mingcheng, are you busy recently? If not, please spare two days and teach me how to drive!"

Facing Gao Yue's request, Gao Mingcheng agreed, but he also had conditions.

Gao Mingcheng said: "I can teach you how to drive, or I can lend you a car, but in August, my kindergarten will enroll students and prepare for the start of school. It will definitely be very busy by then. You have to spare half a month to come over and help me. ”

Gao Mingcheng was cheerful, and so was Gao Yue. His brother needed help, so he didn't say anything, so he nodded in agreement and asked Gao Mingcheng what the name of his kindergarten was.

Gao Mingcheng said: "It's called Love Kindergarten!"

Gao Mingcheng had already thought of the name of the kindergarten, but he was too lazy to think about it and just chose the most common and worst name!

Love Kindergarten, parents are reassured when they hear it!

"This name is great! It sounds much better than the fertilizer factory kindergarten or the street kindergarten!" Gao Yue praised it enthusiastically. After hearing this, other people also said that they could go there to help when the time comes.

Gao Mingcheng accepted everyone who came and was very happy.

Everyone present, except him, are all college students!

College students in the 1990s were still very valuable. They promoted and stood guard for their kindergartens, so why did they still worry about the lack of topics and traffic?
Gao Mingcheng raised his glass and gave everyone a toast with tea instead of wine.

Gao Mingcheng said: "Thank you in advance. If you come to help me then, I will provide you with three meals a day and give each of you a set of clothes!"

Lin Ye and others laughed and said: "Okay! We will also eat fried chicken then!"

Yesterday's fried chicken was so delicious. They haven't had enough!

"Okay, what's so difficult about this! I'll prepare it for you!" Gao Mingcheng nodded and agreed generously.

At the end of the month, he will go to Yangcheng to purchase goods. Then he will buy a few freezers. Before the kindergarten starts, he will marinate a batch of chicken and then put it in the freezer to freeze. When he needs to eat, he will take it out directly. Just defrost it and fry it in a pan, which can save a lot of time.

On this topic, everyone discussed how to enroll students. Gao Mingcheng had a set of operating procedures for kindergarten enrollment, but when Gao Yue and others put forward their opinions and ideas, he also listened carefully.

Some people say spending money to advertise in newspapers, while others say printing some flyers and sending them out.

Gao Yue said: "I've visited Mingcheng's kindergarten. It's pretty good. It's much better than other factory-run kindergartens. So the fees must be higher than factory-run kindergartens. Even if we advertise everywhere, some People are reluctant to spend money to send their children here.”

"So, I think we might as well start by spreading the word among the people around us. You guys, think about it and see if there are any aunts or uncles at home. If there are children of school age at home, go and spread the word. When the time comes, I took him to the kindergarten for a walk, and after seeing the environment of the kindergarten, I guess it will be a success. "

Zhao Jinghe immediately said: "Okay, my cousin's son is just five years old! They are both working, and their income is not low. I will do some ideological work for them and let them send their children to a loving kindergarten!"

After she spoke first, others began to wonder if there was a suitable candidate around them.

Because we were talking about this topic, everyone was eager to speak, so we slowed down our eating pace. Fortunately, it was a hot day, so the food didn't get cold easily. Even if it did, the taste didn't change much. By the time we finished the meal, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

At this point, the sun is very strong and it's very hot outside. Since everyone was not in a hurry to go home and do anything, Gao Mingcheng asked everyone to rest for a while and then set off back to the county seat at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Naturally, everyone had no objections and helped clean up the kitchen and dining table together. If there were any leftovers, they were going to be given to the chickens.

Gao Mingcheng wore a straw hat, carried a bucket of watermelon rinds and leftover rice, and strode to the chicken coop, preparing to give the chickens an extra meal and let them eat some watermelon rinds to cool down the heat.

Because of the hot weather, all the chickens were lying lazily in the shade. There were three or five chickens squatting on an orange tree. There were also some chickens left in the shady chicken coop, lying on the ground motionless.

But when Gao Mingcheng poured the watermelon rind on the ground, the originally lazy chicken quickly rushed here.

They were full of energy, and after occupying a favorable position, they began to peck at the watermelon rinds, and even fought. The strong rooster took the lead and occupied the good position, and enjoyed eating one bite at a time. The small chickens , were driven behind, but they did not give up and waited for the opportunity to step forward and take a bite.

Seeing them eating happily, Gao Mingcheng had the urge to open a watermelon and eat it immediately. After eating the watermelon husk, he could throw the watermelon rind to them. Of course, Gao Mingcheng just had lunch, so he couldn't eat a whole watermelon now.

While he was staring at the scene of chickens fighting for food, Zhang Chengyuan came over wearing an old straw hat and carrying a hoe.

"Brother, what are you going to do? Have you eaten?" Gao Mingcheng said hello and asked Zhang Chengyuan if he had lunch.

It's already two o'clock in the afternoon. Zhang Chengyuan should have eaten, right?
Gao Mingcheng thought uncertainly.

Zhang Chengyuan nodded and said, "After eating porridge, I'm going to turn over the sweet potato vines and weed the pepper fields."

Now that he met Gao Mingcheng, Zhang Chengyuan said one more thing: "The rice in your field is almost ripe, and it will be ready to be harvested in a few days. I heard from people in the village that some people are ready to harvest the rice tomorrow." ”

Gao Mingcheng has now completely given up on the farm work in the village. Although he has good physical fitness, he doesn't like to work. Just leaving the fields uncultivated will definitely not work.

So he said: "Brother, you just have to figure it out. If you are too busy, it's okay to do less. For example, if you hoe weeding, you don't need to hoe too hard, which will save you too much fatigue."

Zhang Chengyuan rejected Gao Mingcheng's statement and said seriously: "That won't work. If there is too much grass, the vegetables will not grow well."

Now that there are no herbicides, the weeds in the fields are really endless!
You just finished hoeing the grass today, and within two days, new grass has grown again!
As the saying goes, wildfire never burns out, but the spring breeze blows and rekindles it!

Gao Mingcheng couldn't defeat Zhang Chengyuan, so he let him go.

But he didn't let Zhang Chengyuan work alone. When Zhang Chengyuan went to dig potato vines in the sweet potato field, he picked up the hoe and went to the pepper field.

Rather than squatting and bending over to turn over potato vines, he still prefers to stand and hoe.

There are five rows of chili peppers planted in the ground, and there are more than a hundred chili pepper trees in total. The reason why so many chili pepper trees are planted is to dry the chili peppers.

The locals like to eat spicy food. In summer and autumn, they mostly eat fresh chili peppers. However, in winter and early spring, they have no fresh chili peppers and can only eat dried chili peppers.

In the morning, Gao Mingcheng had already picked a batch of peppers, but there were still many large and small peppers hanging on each pepper tree, and white pepper flowers were still blooming at the top of the pepper trees.

These peppers must be picked constantly to keep growing.

Gao Mingcheng gently waved the hoe, and the hoe dug out the weeds, soil and roots. Then he dropped the weeds with their roots and soil in the opposite direction, and landed on the roots of the pepper tree.

He did the work of hoeing and cultivating the soil together.

The reason why the weeds should be placed with their roots and soil in the opposite direction is to make the weeds face down and the roots face up. After the roots of the weeds lose the soil and water, they will easily dry out and die.

After the weeds underneath are left to rot, they will become fertilizer for the peppers.

Gao Mingcheng hardly needed to bend down. He walked and hoeed all the way and finished the work easily.

Zhang Chengyuan was still plowing the sweet potato vines seriously.

After the sweet potato vine grows up, roots will easily grow from the vine nodes close to the soil, and then penetrate into the soil, and small sweet potatoes will grow out.

However, when the supply and demand of nutrients are insufficient, the main root system of sweet potatoes will not be able to grow large sweet potatoes. Generally speaking, it is a loss.

Therefore, in order to obtain more and better large sweet potatoes, during the process of planting sweet potatoes, it is necessary to turn the sweet potato vines several times to prevent them from taking root in the soil.

Of course, because they have already taken root, some sweet potato vines will inevitably be broken during the plowing process. These broken sweet potato vines can be used to feed livestock. In short, they will never be wasted.

Gao Mingcheng glanced at Zhang Chengyuan, then hoeed the eggplant field next to him, and picked a few more tender eggplants.

If the eggplant is not picked in time, it will become old easily. When it is old, the eggplant will have thick skin, large seeds, and hollow eggplant sacs, making it unpalatable.

He put the eggplants and peppers he picked into the bucket he had brought before. After picking them full, he was ready to leave.

"Brother, I've finished hoeing the grass in the field. I'm leaving first." Before leaving, Gao Mingcheng did not forget to say hello.

"Hey." Zhang Chengyuan responded, but without raising his head, he was still doing his work seriously.

When Gao Mingcheng finished his work and came back with a bucket of vegetables, Gao Yue and the others were sitting in the main room talking. They were talking about some of their experiences in Shanghai, and they mentioned game consoles.

There are already game consoles for adults in Shanghai. You can play by putting game coins in them. This is something that people in small counties have never seen before.

But Gao Yue said: "I'm not interested in the game console, I'm interested in the surveillance in Shanghai! It would be great if our county also had surveillance! With surveillance, it would be much easier for the police to handle cases! Also Yes, they actually have computers!”

"I really envy the police officers in Shanghai! It would be great if I could go to work there!" Gao Yue thought longingly.

It's a pity that he doesn't have the connections or the opportunity!
He went to the police academy in the provincial capital, and it was remarkable that he could stay in the provincial capital after graduation.

If you are lucky, you will be assigned to the city. If you are average, you will go back to work in the county and work with his father.

Gao Yue envied Shanghai, but Lin Ye didn't need to envy him, because he studied in university in Shanghai!
This time, Gao Yue and the others made an appointment to go to the Shanghai market after their vacation. It was Lin Ye's suggestion. Lin Ye then received them at the Shanghai market and led them around the city.

"Lin Ye, will you stay and work in Shanghai in the future?" Gao Yue asked.

Lin Ye lay on the recliner and said in a more positive tone: "Yes! My teacher likes me, so I should stay and work there."

As soon as he said this, everyone looked envious.

Gao Mingcheng stood at the door and smiled. He probably knew the future fate of these people.

In his previous life, Lin Ye did stay in the Shanghai stock market to develop. At first he worked with his teacher, but later he became famous and opened a company.

In terms of being good at mixing, Lin Ye is the best among this group of people.

When the county starts preparing to build expressways and national and county roads, Lin Ye will come back with his team to participate in the design.

If Gao Mingcheng wants to form an engineering team to participate in road construction, then the good relationship between him and Lin Ye will be able to speak for itself. (End of chapter)