Chapter 175: Silent Night
While eating, Xu Jingrong politely praised Wen Xu, and said: "I have long heard that your rice is well cooked, today's such a simple home-cooked dish of beans and roast pork, it is really amazing to taste, how do you make the dishes so good as a big man? There are so few men like you!"
Wen Xu smiled and joked: "Then you haven't gone out for a walk, if you go outside in the big city, the man who can cook is now a handful, can't cook a home-cooked meal, and wants to marry a daughter-in-law, there is no door!"
"Okay, don't praise him for being able to cook, I guess he's tired of hearing it!" Shi Shangzhen smiled at Xu Jingrong, turned his head and 'complained' to Wen Xu: "To be honest, I'm very dissatisfied with one dish today, even if the two of us ate together, not counting one meal in the morning, at least three dishes, Chef Wen! Today's work is a little rough, and it seems a little careless!"
Wen Xu glared at Shi Shangzhen: "I've been busy all day today, and I've been driving for a few hours on the way back, it's good to be able to make a meat dish now, if you change a little lazy, you see, you two can drink hot porridge and burn high incense." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
"Okay, I'm going to come to you today to burn high incense, Chef Wen, please do something!" Shi Shangzhen said.
"What's the matter?" Wen Xu immediately looked at Shi Shangzhen with a little vigilance.
Shi Shangzhen didn't have a look of embarrassment at all, and directly opened his mouth to ask: "Is the money on hand tight during this time? If not, can you pay the contract fee for the next few years to the village committee? You also know that this stall will not be able to be collected at all as soon as it is spread, and if it really can't be done, it can be done in a year."
"What are you...... , even for a meal, you want to deduct some money from me!" Wen Xu looked at Shi Shangzhen and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Shi Shangzhen explained seriously: "Everyone is tight now, and the project on our side can't be stopped, plus the money allocated above is deducted a little bit here and robbed a little bit, and it is good to have seventy miscellaneous things, and then don't think about them on time, so the next payment for the road project in the village here should be paid, and there is no money in the village, and the money above has not yet arrived, so I can only find a way for you to find a way, who made you the first master of Wenjia Village!"
Shi Shangzhen said while reaching out to help Wen Xu play the wind, and when he asked for money, his posture was really low.
"Who else dares to reach out to the funds you are asking for?" Wen Xu said.
Hearing Wen Xu's question, Shi Shangzhen sighed: "What don't you dare, as long as it's under the banner of the public, you can't say anything if you have a way, if you have an opinion, it will seem that you are not, alas, I don't mention these fucked things to you!"
As soon as he said this, Shi Shangzhen couldn't help but say a dirty word, originally Shi Shangzhen thought that his side was reasonable, advantageous, and modest, and everything was even, but in this matter, especially this officialdom, it is not as simple as one one, two two, sometimes your courage and drive, when you meet someone who can pretend to be a grandson, you don't have a temper at all.
In the past few months of dealing with the above-mentioned appropriations, Shi Shangzhen has really opened his eyes to tell the truth! Now Shi Shang really knows why the old man in the family said that this is an experience! Sure enough, it is a boiling person! Practicing open-mindedness, practicing courage, and practicing a copper skin and iron face.
"Okay, but you have to rent me the rocky slope to the east of the Qinglongwa hills!" Wen Xu immediately asked.
"What do you want to do with that rocky slope?" Shi Shangzhen asked curiously.
Before Wen Xu could speak, Shi Shangzhen himself began to mutter: "The things you want must be good things, so let's do it, the mountain slope is 30,000 a year!"
"Why don't you rob it! 30,000 yuan a year, then I will rent the forest land directly, who wants the rocky slope over there! Besides, how big the stone slope is, it costs 30,000 yuan a year to rent five such a big place, it's about the same" Wen Xu immediately stopped doing it.
"Then tell me what you want to do on the rocky slope?"
Shi Shangzhen also knew that the rocky slope was of little use, unless the stone was mined to set up a quarry, but the quarry was now not a formal approval, even if it was secretly mined on the Linjiang side, there were few people who had the courage to do so.
Of course, Shi Shangzhen didn't believe that Wen Xu wanted to set up a quarry on Shipo's side, this person's requirements for the environment were already high, and he couldn't do such a bad thing.
Wen Xu said: "I don't tell you anything, I just want to plant grapes on the other side of the stone slope!"
"Grow grapes, there's not a lot of soil over there, and grapes can grow in the cracks of the stones?" Shi Shangzhen was a little surprised.
Wen Xu said with a smile: "Try it, cypress trees can come out of the cliffs, and you can't grow grapes in the stone crevices, and besides, there is not no mud over there, there is still a little mud in the potholes, see the needles!"
When Wen Xu was in Mingzhu, she began to think about planting grapes, originally thinking about planting in the forest she rented, but when she thought that the place was not very suitable for the growth of grapes, the sunlight was not enough, and then she thought that the sunshine was enough in the place and found that they were all zoned by others, even if there were such one or two suitable ones, Shi Shangzhen was unlikely to put this goods, and her village committee was counting on the income of this piece, and there was only a small piece of land in Shipo, but fortunately, Wen Xu did not have many grapes to plant, and how many grapes could be asked for self-brewed wine!
"Then I'll discuss this matter with the village committee tomorrow!" Shi Shangzhen said.
Wen Xu listened to it and said very scoundrelly: "I still have to discuss, then you just wait for me to pay the contract fee next year and the year after that!"
"You!" Shi Shangzhen pointed at Wen Xu and looked at it for a second or two, then sighed: "Forget it, I promised you in principle, can't I do it?"
"I should have said that a long time ago, if there was a little wine now, we should have gone!" Wen Xu said.
Shi Shangzhen pursed his lips: "How many grapes can you grow in that place, and how much money you can sell if you sell grapes, I guess you can't look at it? You must have some way to make a fortune to hide from me!"
Wen Xu had nothing to hide, and said directly: "I'm going to make wine, the wine is going down, what do you think?"
Shi Shangzhen glanced at Wen Xu: "You can really make it, you can make bread for a while and make wine for a while, why don't you go to heaven?"
As soon as he heard Shi Shangzhen talk about bread, Wen Xu patted his thigh: "I forgot about it if you didn't mention it, and tomorrow I will bake a batch of bread and send it to Mingzhu to my apprentice!"
Suddenly, Wen Xu thought of Zhao Xiaoyue's bread waiting for him in Huanming.
"Do you still have apprentices?" This time Xu Jingrong's eyes also widened.
"My colleague in Mingzhu, the little girl calls me master all the time, I'll take care of it a little more!" Wen Xu explained with a smile and then put down his chopsticks and rubbed his stomach.
"I'm full!"
After speaking, he sat at the table and waited for Shi Shangzhen and Xu Jingrong to finish eating.
"What are you looking at us for?" Shi Shangzhen was a little hairy by Wen Xu's gaze that swept his body from time to time, and put a large piece of pork ribs into his pot, and when he looked up, he saw Wen Xu still looking at himself and immediately asked.
Wen Xu said: "When you finish eating, I will put away the table and wash the dishes, and then I have to close the glass canopy of the greenhouse!"
"You're going to go first after eating, what's the matter? I'm afraid that Jing Rong and I will carry the gate of your house away. Besides, if you cook the food, isn't it the old rule that I wash the dishes?" Shi Shangzhen said.
As soon as I heard that someone had contracted the bowl, and Shi Shangzhen was much more reliable than his girlfriend in this regard, that one could give at least two of the eight bowls to the brush, which was really not a housework material, but Shi Shangzhen was too relieved to come to make Wen Xu.
"Okay, then I'll take care of the rest!" Wen Xu said, slapping his leg and standing up from the bench and walking towards the outside of the pot house.
As soon as Wen Xu walked here, the scum immediately raised his head vigilantly, looked at Wen Xu's back, and looked at the remaining bones and broth soaked rice in his food bowl with a little reluctance, his head turned back and forth several times, and when Wen Xu's back disappeared at the door, the scum made a decision, bit the biggest bone in the basin and put it in his mouth, and swooped out and chased after Wen Xu's back.
I guess this guy has figured it out, it's better to guard a food bowl than to guard Wen Xulai's insurance!
A bright moon hung high in the night sky, illuminating the night of the entire mountain village, and as soon as Wen Xu turned his head, he saw the scum following his shadow, holding his head high, with a bone in his mouth and a thief's expression.
"Alas, you're stupid, no one!"
After speaking, Wen Xu bent down, pinched the two fleshy ears of the scum twice, and continued to raise his feet to his greenhouse.
The refreshing breeze blew like this, blowing the indescribable freshness on the body, and the most important thing was that the air was inhaled and the lungs were filled with a moist, hanging a trace of the aroma of earth mixed with grass. Wen Xu took several sips in a row, thinking about expelling the PM2.5 that he had absorbed in Mingzhu for two weeks as soon as possible.
As soon as I left the village, I saw a row of gas lamps hanging on the greenhouse construction site in the distance, very bright kind. It is like a small artificial moon hanging in the distance, gathering several meters in a radius into a cloud of light and mist, and like a giant firefly rising in the distance, brightly dotted on the curtain of the dark mountains in the distance.
Looking at such a scene, Wen Xu couldn't help but say: "Scum, if you change you to a white cow at some time, I will ride the white ox so slowly and leisurely in the moonlight, holding a pot of wine in my left hand, and putting a few plates of side dishes with wine on the back of the cow, that is full of force!"
"Whew!" the scum heard Wen Xu call himself, put down the weeds on the side of the road, leaned over to Wen Xu's legs, and turned on the coquettish mode again.
Wen Xu gently kicked this guy twice with his calf, and the scum ran left and right to bite the grass on the left and pull the stem on the right.
Sure enough, it's a stupid dog, and it's a lot of fun! Wen Xu looked at the ADHD-like scum and sighed.
With the scum, Wen Xu walked along the field path, came to his own greenhouse, entered the No. 1 greenhouse, and began to turn the greenhouse's reel When the first glass canopy was closed, the few little finches closest to Wen Xu immediately flapped their wings and flew out from the second window.
As the first group of little flew up, the whole greenhouse was like a stone cast on the surface of a quiet lake, and immediately became lively, and more and more little began to fly, and the sound of whirring wings could be heard at any time, which would be so loud in the night.
As Wen Xu closed the more glass canopies, the less birds in the greenhouse chirped, and when Wen Xu closed the last glass canopy, the whole greenhouse was quiet again, and the crisp bird calls just now could no longer be heard, only the bright moonlight was seen, and the shadows of the fruits and vegetables in the greenhouse were cast on the ground through the glass, so clear that the entire edge was clearly visible.
From the first shed to the last shed, more than a dozen sheds down, Wen Xu had a small bead of sweat, when he walked out of the last greenhouse, Wen Xu's hand had an extra glass of water, gently drank a sip of warm space water, Wen Xu leaned directly against the wall of the greenhouse, looking at the villagers who were busy under the gas lamp not far away.
Today, there are not only women, but also half-grown children, and even the elderly, almost all of whom are sent out by the whole family, and they work together to transport the green bricks and steel bars used in their own greenhouses to the vicinity of the construction site, just to save the workers' transportation time, so that their greenhouses can be completed as soon as possible, and their own vegetables can be planted earlier!
In the greenhouse, where the wall has been erected, you can see the figure of the construction workers of the engineering team, who also rely on the light from the gas lamp to do their own work and rush the progress of the project.
At this time, Wen Xu saw that all the people were working hard!
But in the expressions and voices of the people, Wen Xu seemed to hear the difference between the villagers and the white-collar workers in a hurry on the street of Mingzhu, the people who worked Mingzhu's side lacked a kind of vitality in Wen Xu's opinion, and they were just begging for life with frowns, as if it was a kind of mechanical style, and these villagers who pushed the cart and held the bricks and went out to do manual work, their laughter was very penetrating, and it sounded real, even if it was a playful boy, it also had a sense of intimacy, and almost everyone had a smile on their faces, with a smile of hope in their sincerity。
At this time, Wen Xu, as a bystander, quietly watched the busy scene of the greenhouse construction site for a while, and then reached out and dialed a grass path, just took it in his hand, peeled off the skin on the grass stem, and shook the straw pole in the air at will, and sang a little song happily while throwing it.
"Outside the Great Wall, by the ancient road, the grass is green...... Well...... Uh-huh"
Although the singing is incomplete, and the places that don't remember the words are replaced with um, the soft humming still comes out in this silent night, far away.