I build an oasis in the northwest

Chapter 4 Start Planting Trees

When we arrived at the store, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

At this time, the sun is strong and the sun is poisonous.

At the entrance of the shop, Mama Chen specially placed a [-]-year-old young man on the stool for resting villagers waiting for the bus at the bus stop.

He looked stubborn and his lips were slightly white and peeling, but he still had no intention of leaving.

Chen Mu sighed: "Duoji, you are still young and have to go to school. Good children cannot skip class."

Duoji shook his head and explained: "Brother Chen Mu, I didn't skip class. The school ended for summer vacation yesterday."

Only then did Chen Mu react.

Yes, today is July [-]nd, summer vacation.

I remembered that I returned home on June 22nd, and it has been ten days now. Except for applying for a sand control person, I eat and sleep every day, watch TV, and go to the store to sell things. , and nothing else.

Thinking again of the classmates who had graduated together in the space and were either busy looking for jobs or busy with taking public exams and writing exams, Chen Mu suddenly felt a sense of guilt for his salty fish.

Dorje didn't know what the person opposite was thinking, but said happily.

"Brother Chen Mu, I'm on vacation and can come to work at your place."

After saying that, when he saw the trunk full of things, the young man with a very working spirit didn't even need Chen Mu to say a word, and spontaneously stepped forward and started moving towards the store.

Chen Mu: "..."

Chen Mu felt that his head hurt very much.

Some time ago, Abba Dorje, Ngawang, had a car accident on his way home, and the perpetrator escaped. Because of insufficient surveillance, no one has been found so far.

The family's financial resources depend entirely on Awang, who works outside the home. Now that he had a car accident, he not only spent all the family's savings, but also borrowed a lot.

Duoji's grandfather worked hard when he was young, and his legs were exhausted. Now he can only do some light and not tiring work when he is old.The younger sister is still young and cannot live without people, and with the need to take care of the family and Ngawang who is hospitalized, Aunt Duoji can't get away at all.

So the young man who was the eldest of the family took the initiative to stand up and decided to work part-time to earn money to supplement the family and reduce the burden on the family.

Now is the tense time when the second year of junior high school is promoted to the third year of junior high school. In order not to affect the child's exam, Chen Mu told him to come back after the summer vacation.

The original intention was to push it back, but I didn't expect that Duoji would mistakenly think that he was hired.

No, just after the summer vacation, people came to report.

Chen Mu suddenly felt numb.

Just drive people away?

As a recent college graduate, he was embarrassed to speak.

Leave people behind?

Just this small shop that earns one or two hundred a day really can't afford to hire people.

Duoji didn't know Boss Chen's tangled heart. After he finished moving things, he saw a layer of dust on the ground, so he took the initiative to pick up the broom and started sweeping the floor, like a hard-working little bee.

Seeing this, Boss Chen couldn't say anything if he wanted to drive people away.

He was very troubled.

But after thinking about the [-] saplings that would be delivered later, I found a reason for myself.

Next, we need to plant trees. Planting trees requires help, and looking after the store also requires help, so you can hire someone to help...

I was thinking of various reasons and kept adding weight to the scale of hiring people.

at last!

Chen Mu convinced himself.

"Duoji, I can hire you, but I have to tell you about the work content in advance. Not only do you have to help look after the store, but you also have to help plant trees. Of course, the salary will not be less. I will give you fifty per day. Do you agree? What?"

Although fifty is not much, but Landu County is a remote and poor place, and the monthly salary of an adult is only about [-] yuan. Except for heavy work, the salary can be higher, most other jobs are at this price.

This salary can be said to be very good. If possible, you can even directly hire an adult.

Duoji naturally understood. When he heard that he could get 50 yuan a day, he nodded excitedly: "Agree, I agree!"

After communicating the content of the work, Boss Chen, who spontaneously brought himself into the boss's thinking, suddenly discovered a problem.

It's past three o'clock now, and there is no one in the store. He can take care of the saplings before they arrive. If Duoji is asked to work now, he seems to be at a loss!
It's not that Boss Chen is reluctant to part with the 50 yuan, he just... OK, he is really reluctant to part with it.

I thought about it.

He looked at the young man who was sweeping the floor and happily decided to treat his current job as a free trial.

It wasn't until Duoji finished his work that he kindly called the young man.

"Duoji, you have been hired. Go back today and have a good rest. Remember to report at eight o'clock tomorrow morning."

"By the way, remember to bring the clothes you wear when planting trees."

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night.

After finishing the accounts and just about to close the store, I saw the truck delivering saplings from the forestry company arriving.

Arrival of goods, verification, receipt, unloading and payment.

The operation was extremely smooth and fast. Without giving Chen Mu any time to be polite, the driver hurriedly drove to the next delivery point.

Looking at the saplings, I saw that they were all small saplings about half a meter long, but the lengths of the rhizomes were a little different.

One type has a rhizome longer than the trunk. The rhizome can reach about [-] centimeters, but the trunk is only about [-] centimeters. This is a Haloxylon ammodendron sapling.

One is that the trunk is longer than the rhizome, especially the lateral root system is relatively developed, which is the sapling of the sandy jujube tree.

Chen Mu looked at the saplings on the ground, and the soul of the sand controller in his body suddenly burned brightly.

"Go! Start planting trees!"

A moment later, Chen Mu, who had changed into work clothes, took a shovel and a sapling and went directly to the back of the store - his one thousand acres of contracted land.

The land near the store is sandy. The soil is not hard, but it is easy to dig. A shovel is a pit.

Dig the hole big and deep, then put the saplings in. When the soil is about two-thirds full, gently lift the saplings a few times to allow full contact between the tree roots and the soil, and finally fill in the rest. Soil, trample it, water it.

After such a set of procedures, the saplings will be planted.

It was already dark at this time, and there was no other source of light for the nearby lighting objects except the dim yellow street lamp standing at the entrance of the store.

But this does not affect Chen Mu at all.

Because the moon is bright tonight, the clouds are sparse and the stars are numerous, the bright moonlight spreads over the earth like a soft veil, and its brightness is not much worse than that of a street lamp.

Under the moonlight, Chen Mu shoveled the soil with the shovel in his hand.

Just after planting a dozen trees, Chen Mu felt tired, especially his heart, which felt very uncomfortable.

Panting heavily, he sighed, "Planting trees is really tiring! Sure enough, it's not that easy to be a desert controler..."

Reaching out and tugging at the collar, and turning his neck, Chen Mu felt that he had calmed down a bit.

Qingzhou Province has a high altitude and a large temperature difference between day and night. The temperature difference between day and night is more than ten degrees.

In addition, it was windy at night and it was easy to sweat while working. In order to avoid catching a cold, Chen Mu looked for a long-sleeved dress, but to his surprise, what he found was a high-collared one.

After tugging on his collar again, and feeling completely relieved, Chen Mu waved the shovel again.

After planting more than a dozen trees, the discomfort in my heart was not relieved, my head also started to become a little dizzy, and the discomfort became heavier and heavier.

Chen Mu carefully distinguished the symptoms of physical discomfort. After a few minutes, he was confused!
"I'm a native of Qingzhou, and I'm so rebellious?!"

(End of this chapter)