The leisurely life of a reborn dad

As soon as Cao Shujie finished speaking, Cheng Xiaolin reached out with the pliers and pinched his forearm quickly, accurately and hard, causing Cao Shujie to grimace in pain.

"Honey, let go, it hurts, it hurts me so much." Cao Shujie's eyes widened in pain, but he didn't dare to struggle hard.

"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll twist your other hand." Cheng Xiaolin was not happy, she said, "What do you mean I'm watching a show?"

Cao Shujie stopped talking.

Mengmeng didn't see that her father and mother had already fought for a round, and she didn't know that her father had just been completely defeated.

Mengmeng looked everywhere for the swimming pool, but she couldn't find it: "Dad, where is the swimming pool?"

"The construction hasn't started yet," Cao Shujie said.

Mengmeng was not happy. She urged her father to build the swimming pool quickly and said that she would bring the children in her class to play together.

After hearing this, Cheng Xiaolin quickly told her daughter: "Mengmeng, mommy tells you that if your parents are not with you, you must not go to a place with water. No matter how good your friends are, you can't go, otherwise You won’t be able to see your parents.”

"Oh, where are you going? Why can't I see you?" Mengmeng asked innocently.

Cheng Xiaolin didn't know how to explain to her daughter.

Cao Shujie took the conversation and said, "Mengmeng, if you go to play in the water without your parents' permission, your father will fly to the sky to watch you. You will have fun and delicious food in the future, Dad." You can only watch, but dad can see you, but you can’t see dad.”

"I don't...wow" Mengmeng cried loudly as expected.

I cried very sadly, and the tears on my face fell to the ground like a river, and the tears fell into countless petals.

She opened her hands and hugged Cao Shujie's legs: "Dad, I don't want you to fly up into the sky."

Mengmeng cried so sadly.

Cheng Xiaolin rolled her eyes at him, but Cheng Xiaolin also knew that her husband's statement was the best.

"So Mengmeng, you must not go to a place with water by yourself, do you understand?" Cheng Xiaolin continued to impress her.

Mengmeng nodded and said aggrievedly: "I remember."

"Mom knows Mengmeng is a good child." Cheng Xiaolin hugged Mengmeng.

When Cao Shujie heard what his wife just said, he became more determined to teach Mengmeng how to swim.

Who knows when an accident might happen?

It's better to have a skill at hand than to know nothing at all.

The weather is getting worse and worse these days. Who knows when there will be heavy rain or floods?

After Mengmeng cried for a while, maybe she was tired, so she lay in her mother's arms and fell asleep soon after.

Cheng Xiaolin picked up Mengmeng and put her on the bed, then pulled off the rubber band that tied her pigtails on her head without covering her up.

Children are very energetic and cute, and they are the kind that can sweat a lot.

"Shujie, please turn up the air conditioner temperature." Cheng Xiaolin said.

Cao Shujie complied.

He is not sleepy yet and is afraid of disturbing his daughter's rest in the bedroom.

As soon as I came out of the bedroom and went to the outside cabin, I felt a burst of heat.

He turned on the air conditioner outside, turned on the computer, and browsed the news online, as well as the most cutting-edge technology news briefings in the world, to prevent himself from being derailed by the outside world.

After Cheng Xiaolin put Mengmeng away, she opened the door and went outside. She saw her husband busy with work again, and said to him: "It's so late, why don't you go to bed."

"I can't sleep, wife, I remember we haven't gone to Mengmeng's grandma's house since the Chinese New Year."

Seeing his wife nodding, Cao Shujie took the initiative and said, "Let's go back some other time."

"You are so thoughtful, I can't even think of going home."

"How is that possible? You think I'm too busy, so I'm embarrassed to say it." Cao Shujie pursed his lips and smiled.

Cheng Xiaolin also laughed and asked her husband: "Shujie, after you sold the 100 big cows last month, you still haven't bought any calves. Don't you plan to buy them?"

"Buy it. I called Boss Cui last month and told him about buying calves, but he didn't have calves there last month, so I had to wait," Cao Shujie said.

Cheng Xiaolin was shocked. She asked: "Are there so many people buying calves now?"

"The price of beef has been rising, and there are more people raising cattle now than before. As long as Boss Cui's calves are in stock, many people are rushing to buy them," Cao Shujie said.

"Now Boss Cui has to bring me calves from other places." Cao Shujie said.

"Then the price for calves has been raised again?" Cheng Xiaolin asked.

Judging from this, the price of calves will definitely go up.

I remember that since her husband bought calves for the first time in 2011, in the following two years, their family purchased calves in batches many times. Even if they later bought more than 100 calves, the purchase price has been rising.

Especially the last two times, the price doubled directly.

If the price continues like this, Cheng Xiaolin feels that many cattle farmers will not be able to sustain it.

Cao Shujie nodded and said: "The current market conditions are like this. If we want to continue feeding cows, we have to buy calves. I have been cooperating with Boss Cui for more than two years. In these two years, the price given by Boss Cui has been It’s much cheaper than the market price.”

"Including this time, although it is 300 yuan more expensive than when I bought it at the beginning of the year, it is still two to three hundred yuan cheaper than the calves on the market."

"So the price of calves on the market has exceeded 4,000 yuan?"

Cheng Xiaolin has never been exposed to this area, it is all handled by her husband.

Cheng Xiaolin was speechless when she heard what her husband and others said: "Shujie, this price is simply outrageous."

"Who says it's not? If calculated according to this price, a pound of calf is equivalent to about 20 yuan." Cao Shujie did the calculation. The cost of raising cattle continued to rise, and the profits of raising cattle continued to decline.

The quality of the cattle he raises is much higher, and the price he sells is about 5 yuan higher than the normal market price.

But ordinary people can't afford to raise cattle as luxuriously as he does. The quality of beef naturally has an upper limit. The selling price of fattened cattle is about 13 yuan. After excluding the cost of buying calves, and then deducting the costs of feed, pasture, etc., the actual price is The profit is much less than before.

After hearing what her husband said, Cheng Xiaolin could only sigh, the prices of everything have risen dramatically in recent years. Is this because inflation is outperforming the world?

Before I knew it, it was getting darker.

Cao Shujie told his wife to go to bed early. Cao Shujie closed the computer and the couple returned to the bedroom.

…

Another day passed in the blink of an eye.

The college entrance examination is getting closer and closer, and even Caojiazhuang feels the tense atmosphere before the college entrance examination.

There is a high school in Qingshi Town called Pingyuan No. 2 Middle School. It is a place where junior high school students whose grades are not very satisfactory go after the high school entrance examination.

Perhaps because of the positioning of the school itself, the level of teachers in the school is not very good in comparison, and the teaching quality is also worse.

As the college entrance examination is approaching, the first and second grade students in high school are on vacation, leaving a quiet environment for the senior high school seniors and sisters, and wishing them success in the college entrance examination.

But privately, many students understand that there is almost no chance of being admitted to a key university in their school. Being admitted to a better undergraduate institution is considered a good result.

Cao Shuli is one of the students taking the college entrance examination this year.

Her father is Cao Jianlong, the village party secretary of Caojiazhuang.

She is the second eldest child in the family. Her brother failed the college entrance examination and ended up in a college. After graduating from school, he also did not do well.

Because of this, her parents have high expectations for her.

However, Cao Shuli performed abnormally during the high school entrance examination and was not admitted to Pingyuan No. 1 Middle School or Pingyuan County Experimental High School.

She was unwilling to go to a technical school, and finally, forced by reality, she came to No. 2 Middle School to continue her studies.

She also knew that the teaching quality of Pingyuan No. 2 Middle School in Qingshi Town was really average, but there was no way, the result was already doomed.

After entering school, Cao Shuli did not give up on herself like other classmates. She pursued freedom, love, playing games, reading novels, etc. every day.

She listened carefully every day in class, and she never slacked off in her studies for three years.

As she was about to pass the final test and take the battlefield exam, Cao Shuli thought about what her father had said to her.

He asked her not to feel any pressure in the examination room and to relax completely. No matter how she got in the exam, her father Cao Jianlong said he could accept it.

But Cao Jianlong also told his daughter as a joke that if she could perform exceptionally well and be admitted to a key undergraduate university, she would be the first college student in Caojiazhuang to walk from the north end of the village to the south end with a big red flower.

Cao Shuli knew that her father had some unrealistic fantasies. Who doesn't want his son to become a dragon and his daughter to become a phoenix?

But Cao Shuli could indeed feel that her father was afraid of putting pressure on her and did not dare to say too much.

There are only three days left before the college entrance examination. The countdown on the blackboard on the back wall of their classroom has been changed to '0' in advance, telling everyone in the class that every day now is the last day.

Everyone in the classroom can feel the urgency of taking the college entrance examination soon.

Many children who usually give up on themselves feel pressure at this time and begin to try to open textbooks to read the contents.

Children who learn better will focus on reading the content drawn by the teacher, do more questions, and answer more questions.

There are also those who are particularly confident in themselves. At this time, they let themselves relax. They don’t read a page of the textbook. They eat when they need to eat and drink when they need to. Try to relax the pressure in your heart and strive to be 120% able in the examination room. to show their personal strength.

When she returned to the dormitory at night, Cao Shuli no longer thought about the college entrance examination. She was thinking about the policies of Caojiazhuang that her father had told her.

All students who are admitted to the undergraduate program or those who are admitted to the postgraduate program will receive cash rewards. If they can be admitted to the key undergraduate program, they will bring a big red flower and visit the whole village. Thinking about the scenery, she wants it too.

But that's really hard.

The moon in the sky goes down again, the sun slowly rises, and a new day comes.

This morning Cao Jianlong came to pick her up.