i have a space

Chapter 5

I took the chess and went outside.

Chen Mo pulled out the table and wiped it clean.

Father Chen spread out the chessboard: "It's been a long time since I played chess."

"If you like it, come over when you have time, and I will accompany you." Chen Mo brought a chair for his father.

"You are a stinky chess basket. It is meaningless to play with you."

Dad is very good at playing chess. In Chen Mo's memory, it seems that no one can beat Dad in chess.But there are not many people around Dad who like to play chess.

After setting up the chess pieces, Father Chen gave Chen Mo a rook and a horse.

The last time I played chess with my dad, I was still studying and on summer vacation.

Father Chen gave up the move and he moved first.Headshot...

Chen Mo jumped off the horse.

Father Chen gave up a horse and a rook, and there were not many pieces that could be moved, so he sent out a pawn.

Chen Mo only knows the rules of chess, but if he speaks well, he is completely at the level of a beginner.

Dad gave up two chess pieces. After ten minutes, Chen Mo still lost...

"I told you that you are a bad chess player, but I still don't believe it." Father Chen poured boiling water into the teacup and said, "It's noon, let's go cook."

"Give me your phone."

"What to do." Father Chen gave Chen Mo his cell phone.

"Download a 'chess' for you. You can't find a match in the village. There are still many people who like to play chess online. You can use your mobile phone to play with other people online." Chen Mo said.

"Playing chess with others online requires traffic?"

"The data on your mobile phone is enough." Chen Mo said: "Your mobile phone card is my secondary card. It has dozens of gigabytes of data, which can be used at any time. You usually use Douyin..."

"Give me the next one."

Chen Mo quickly downloaded it for his dad, played Chinese chess on the road, and then told his dad how to operate it.

Dad had already matched his opponent. Chen Mo watched for a while: "He is just like you, he is also a bad chess player."

"This game has ranks. The higher the rank, the better the chess player." Chen Mo looked at the time, it was past twelve o'clock.

Father Chen quickly won a round, and was not satisfied yet, so he ordered matching again, looked up at Chen Mo: "Wait for me to cook for you?"

Chen Mo said: "If the fishmonger comes early in the afternoon, we will go fishing after seeing the fish."

"No. I have to pick tea leaves in the afternoon."

"Tea is worthless now."

"It costs more than 1 yuan per catty, which is also dozens of yuan for an afternoon." Dad Chen said.

"When I sell these fish, hundreds of thousands will be nervous."

"You don't say how much you invested."

"I didn't invest much, and I didn't even feed the fish." Chen Mo said.

"You dug these two fish ponds for free? You raised two batches of fish to death before, so those don't count as costs?"

"After all, it's still a profit." Chen Mo smiled and went back to the house.

Father Chen said 'hmm', ignored him, and concentrated on playing chess.The players in this game had a slightly higher level, and it took about 10 minutes to win the opponent.

After winning the chess game, Dad Chen also had a good time. He put away his mobile phone, took a sip of tea, and got up to go to the pond.

I saw a lot of ryegrass on the water in the morning, but now there is not much left, and it is almost eaten up.

The 2.7-acre fish pond is still very large.

The breeze is blowing, and there are sparkling waves on the water.

The air is filled with the scent of orange blossoms.

Dad Chen went into the orchard and took a look. The orchard was well managed, the branches were pruned and pulled in place, and the branches were spread out, which was very beautiful.

The tree is full of flowers, and there are also some pearl-sized fruits hanging on it.

After walking in the orchard for a while, Father Chen smiled.

During the Chinese New Year, Dad Chen mentioned that Chen Mo was 36 years old and hadn't found a girlfriend yet.He also said that he is such an old man, his temperament is unstable...

Chen Mo talked back at that time, which made Father Chen unhappy.After this year, it was the first time I came to Chen Mo’s orchard.

As a father, as long as he is a normal father, there is no one who does not want his children to be bad.

Both Father Chen and Mother Chen hope that Chen Mo will get married soon and have a career of his own.

Father Chen walked outside for a while and came to the kitchen: "Have you sprayed any pesticides on your orchard?"

"What medicine?"

"Gibberellin solution to preserve flowers and fruits," said Dad Chen.

"No."

"The small fruit on your tree has fallen a lot. When it blooms, you need to spray it."

"I see that there are already a lot of fruit on the tree, so there is no need to spray."

"To improve the fruit setting rate, you have to apply medicine."

"I'll come over after the new year and give them organic fertilizer once, so they shouldn't need it. Let's take a look first. The fruit trees in the orchard are only in their third year this year. It's better to hang less fruit..." Chen Mo said to hang less fruit. But in fact, although some small fruits fell, there were also many small fruits hanging on the trees.And the navel orange tree is still blooming, and there will definitely be some fruit hanging on it later.

If we use medicine to protect flowers and fruits, too many fruits on the tree will be bad, and we will have to pick them and throw them away.

"Do you want to put the fruit on your side in a fruit bag?"

Chen Mo shook his head: "Let's see. If the quantity is small, put fruit bags on it. If the quantity is large, forget it. I raise fish here, and I am very tired from serving these fish every morning. I don't have much time to take care of the orchard. "

"Is it tiring to manage the fish pond?"

"I have to cut more than 2 catties of fish and grass every day, which means that I am strong and strong, and most people may not be able to bear it."

Father Chen was silent for a while: "You seem to be on the right track. I think I won't go out to work anymore, so I can come over and help you when I have time."

"I told you not to go to the wooden door factory, come back, come and help me harvest fish and grass every morning..." Chen Mo said with a smile: "From now on, I will sell the fish and share half of it with you."

"You save some more money and buy the house." Father Chen said, "Your second father, your first father, they all bought a house in the city."

"House prices are falling now. At this time, whoever buys a house will be taken advantage of. With those hundreds of thousands, a villa can be built in the countryside."

"Your mother has been expecting you to buy a house for a long time."

Chen Mo's father has been obsessed with buying a house all his life.Before Chen Mo went to Shenzhen, his father and mother were nagging about buying a house.If Chen Mo didn't want to own this orchard, it would not be a big problem to buy a house in the city with the money from Chen Mo's parents.Even now...

Recently, it seems that house prices have dropped a lot.

Donglin is a prefecture-level city with a population of several million.The city is still huge...

The place is small, the population is large, the income is low, and housing prices are ridiculously expensive.

Before the epidemic, when the holidays were at their peak, Chen Mo accompanied his parents to look at houses. The location was on the East Lake side, in the area with the highest housing prices to the east. We looked at several houses, and the cheapest one was 1 square meters.The most expensive one is 1 square meters.

At that time, my mother took a fancy to the 1-square-meter house priced at RMB 119, and she offered a parking space for an additional RMB 1.That is 120 million.

At that time, Chen Mo had almost 40 yuan on hand, and his mother really wanted to buy that house, and it was the full payment.

Fortunately, Chen Mo stopped his mother and was not impulsive.

He wanted to build an orchard at that time, so he didn't buy it, and fortunately he didn't.

Then came the epidemic. Up to now, the prices of houses in Donglin have dropped a lot.

"How much savings do you still have?" Chen Mo looked at his father curiously.

Father Chen doesn't smoke, drink, or play cards. His biggest expense is fueling his motorcycle.

Chen's mother doesn't play cards either, and she worked in a factory with her father for a few years.

The most extravagant thing that Father Chen and Mother Chen ever bought was a Laotou Le, costing more than 4 yuan.At that time, my mother was working with my father. My father didn’t want my mother to ride a motorcycle every day, so he bought the car.

My mother hasn't gone out to work in the past few years, so the old car was left at home and hasn't been touched for a long time.

Dad Chen said: "I haven't made any money in the past few years. It should be about 50."

Chen Mo contracted the land, dug orchards, and dug fish ponds. It cost more than 10,000 acres, and the total cost was [-]+.Then fish again...

Chen Mo only had 43 at that time, and Chen Ma successively subsidized Chen Mo with about 10,000+.

Otherwise, parents and the others have nearly a million deposits.For rural people, it is almost unimaginable to save millions of dollars.But I also know how much my parents usually save...

"Is the money a fixed deposit?"

"Fixed deposit." Dad Chen said: "Two years ago I asked you to buy a house, but you didn't buy it... The three years of fixed deposit will soon expire in a few months. Do you want to think about it? The current house seems like It’s cheap. Your mother really wants you to buy a house in the city, saying that you can live in the city during the Chinese New Year... Your uncles, mistress, and Yao Dad all have houses in the city. "

Chen Mo said: "Buying a house in the city now is a 100% loss."

"You are not married yet. Buying a house is just what you need..."

"What if I find a girlfriend who doesn't want a house, or who has a house in the city." Chen Mo said with a smile.

Father Chen's face was full of disgust: "Just you?"

"I...what's wrong?"

"You're so fat and old, it would be nice to find a girlfriend." Father Chen continued: "You used to dislike this bad-looking one, that bad-looking one... Now it would be nice to find someone who doesn't dislike you. "

(End of this chapter)