"You scared the hell out of me. Liu Qingshan looked at the tall man in front of him, patted his chest, and said, "What are you doing in the mountains early in the morning?"

Tan Dasha grabbed the back of his head and smiled: "My mother said let me help you build the road together." ”

"Then you won't dig yams?" Liu Qingshan's heart suddenly warmed up.

"I won't dig today, I'll dig when I help you fix the road. "Tan Dasha is actually not a fool, he has no problem with his IQ, mainly because he has not read any books, and then he has an honest personality and looks silly and simple, which will give people the impression that he is a fool with a brain problem.

"Don't dig yams?" Liu Qingshan couldn't help frowning when he heard this answer.

Two days ago, he told the village chief that he would buy the yams dug by the villagers, collect thirteen yuan a catty, and then take them to the county seat and hand them over to the fat uncle, who could sell them for seventeen yuan a catty. Let the village chief earn a few dollars a catty, and at the end of the day, he can earn a few hundred.

The villagers knew that after the village chief purchased the yams, he was very motivated, except for those who couldn't support the wall, the lazy and the old, weak, sick and disabled, they didn't go out, but almost all those who still had a little strength went into the mountains to dig yams.

I heard that even Chen Xiaofang's girl has entered the mountain.

Yams sell for thirteen yuan a catty, and if you can dig ten catties a day, it will be one hundred and thirty yuan. As I said before, it is only 60 yuan to pick oranges for someone else for a day.

It takes a lot of effort to dig yams, but it's much better than earning 60 yuan after a long day of working in the orchard.

Of course, some women feel that it is troublesome to find yams all over the mountains, and even if they find them, they may not be able to dig up a few catties of yams, so these people go to pick oranges for others.

Liu Qingshan knew the situation of Tan Dasha's family.

Tan Dasha's father is not in good health, he is over eighty years old, although he can still walk, can do some housework or something, but he can no longer do heavy work at all.

Although Mrs. Tan is still quite strong, she also needs to go to the hospital for some nutritional injections all year round to work.

If it is a middle-aged man with a strong body and a flexible brain to take care of the second elder, it will not be too hard to raise a family, but Tan Dasha's brain is not very clever, and he will always be instigated by the lazy men in the village.

Some lazy people don't do their own work at home, so they instigate Tan Dasha to help them do it, and when they are done, they don't pay for it, and sometimes they don't even care about food.

In this context, Liu Qingshan hopes that Tan Dasha can seize this opportunity to dig up more yams and save a little more money.

Although Tan Dasha is not very smart, he doesn't need a high IQ to dig yams, as long as he has strength. Tan Dasha is five big and three thick, and it is absolutely no problem to dig ten catties of yams a day.

If you're lucky, it's estimated that it's easy to dig twenty pounds.

Ten catties is one hundred and thirteen, and twenty catties is more than two hundred.

Of course, this money is nothing to Liu Qingshan now, but for Tan Dasha and Mrs. Tan, it is definitely a lot of income.

Think about it, if you can dig up more than a dozen catties of yam every day for a month, it will be thousands of yuan.

Liu Qingshan looked at Tan Dasha's humble appearance, frowned and said, "Uncle Dasha, you better go dig yams, I'll just repair this road myself." ”

Tan Dasha's real name is Tan Yonghua, and his eldest brother is called Tan Yongcai.

This is a very common name in the local area, and it is estimated that there must be several people with such names in a single village.

Although the name is very ordinary, everyone is still more willing to call him Tan Dasha.

This name is not to make fun of him, but I think he is stupid and stunned, has no scheming, and is usually enthusiastic about people, so I think that a down-to-earth name like Dasha is more suitable for him.

Over time, everyone called him stupid, even Mrs. Tan called him that.

Dasha also knew that the name was not a derogatory term, so he didn't resist.

Therefore, Liu Qingshan called him a stupid uncle, which is not a derogatory or teasing meaning, but just a very ordinary title, as if he called the village chief an uncle of the village chief.

Tan Dasha grinned, looked at the birds in the forest not far away, and said a little sluggishly: "Well, no, I'm not going, my mother asked me to build a road for you." ”

"You really don't need to, Uncle Dasha, you go dig yams, work harder, dig more, and you can sell them for a little more money. ”

"No, my mother told me to build a road for you. Tan Dasha repeated.

Liu Qingshan was speechless.

He turned his head to look at the quiet forest around him, and the dense bushes and small trees on both sides of the stream.

Although it is close to the foot of the mountain, because of its proximity to the creek, the two large areas of mountain land near the stream have not been cultivated to this day.

He thought for a moment and suddenly smiled: "That's okay, then you can help me build the road." ”

In fact, whether he agrees or disagrees with Tan Dasha to stay, Tan Dasha will not leave. He is a dull-brained person, and he can't turn around, since his mother told him that he wants him to repair the road, then of course he won't walk away easily.

Now, with Tan Dasha's help, the mountain road is relatively easy to repair.

Although Tan Dasha's strength is not as good as Liu Qingshan's, if he has two more hands to work, the efficiency will still be different.

The place that is being repaired now is a small arbor forest, where there are many small trees that are arm thick, and after cutting down the small trees, you have to shave the branches of the small trees, cut off the bark and throw them aside to dry.

In this way, when you go home from work, you can also bring a bundle of firewood home.

Tan Dasha was stunned when he saw that Liu Qingshan was working at an astonishing speed, and he had a lot of strength.

Moreover, Liu Qingshan sometimes didn't bother to use a woodcutter, so he directly broke an arm-thick piece of wood, threw it aside, and broke another one.

Tan Dasha was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "Qingshan, what kind of wood are you breaking, why is it so easy to break." ”

He asked this, which only showed that deep down he couldn't believe that human strength could be so great.

Liu Qingshan looked back at Tan Dasha on the side, and said with a smile: "Ordinary wood, what kind of wood can it be." If I have a lot of strength, the wood will definitely break easily. ”

"But it's too easy. Tan Dasha stared at Liu Qingshan with an incredulous face and broke another piece of wood, so he said flatteringly, "Hehe, Qingshan, you teach me and tell me how to be as powerful as you." If I could slip as well as you did, I would be able to chop many, many pieces of firewood from now on. ”

Hearing this, Liu Qingshan couldn't cry or laugh: "What are you going to chop so much firewood for?"

"Of course, it's for burning. Tan Dasha looked at the wild trees that were cut down by Liu Qingshan in front of him, and said longingly, "If I can chop a lot of firewood, then our family will not be cold in winter." ”

Although the climate in this area is warm, the temperature can be very low in the depths of winter and when it rains.

Of course, no matter how low the temperature is, it will not fall below zero. However, the clammy cold in the south is terrible, the kind of cold that eats away at the bones. If the cold is not in place, many elderly people will have joint pain and cannot go out, and even have to be sent to the hospital for medical treatment.

The south is not as good as the north, and it is said that there is heating in the north. But not in the South.

The mountain people in the south basically rely on charcoal or firewood for heating in winter. If you have a little money, you can burn an electric fan or something.

However, most people in the mountains are reluctant to burn electric heating fans, because that thing consumes too much electricity, and it takes two kilowatt-hours of electricity in an hour, which is really unaffordable.