The big cherry sapling was contacted, but the other party asked Wang Shaodong to make a deposit of 1,000 yuan to the designated account, and then take the bank slip to settle the bill when the time came to pull the goods.

Wang Fumin was a little worried, but Wang Shaodong felt that it was indeed necessary. I want more than 10,000 saplings at once, worth more than 80,000 yuan, if the nursery meets a joke, after the more than 10,000 saplings are dug out of the ground, there will be no buyers, it will be a big trouble. And if you don't send the money over, the other party doesn't take it seriously, and when you go over to pull the goods, you don't have any evidence, and then you can only suffer a dumb loss if you run for nothing.

With a deposit of 1,000 yuan, it should be said that Wang Shaodong is still acceptable.

The chicken farm is on the right track, the construction of the reservoir is progressing rapidly, and the free-range chicken plan at the foot of Songbai Mountain is progressing smoothly, and now only the Wujiayuzi orchard has not yet been settled.

After Wang Shaodong sent a deposit of 1,000 yuan to the Jiaodong Nursery Farm, when he returned home, he immediately began to discuss with his father about planting trees next.

More than 10,000 seedlings are pulled by a truck, and then it takes a lot of manpower to plant trees in the mountains.

The big cherry saplings like the one Wang Shaodong wants to buy are relatively small, and one person can only plant a hundred trees a day at most. For more than 10,000 trees, it would take three months for one person to plant them. After three months, the saplings were all completely dry and turned into firewood.

The nursery said that after the small saplings are pulled over, they are placed in a cool place and cultivated within a week, which can ensure their survival. If it's more than a week, it's not guaranteed.

This is a very simple mathematical problem, the Wang family has to plant at least 1,500 trees a day, so they need to hire at least 15 laborers. According to the salary of 20 yuan a day, it will cost more than 2,000 yuan just to plant these trees.

Moreover, in order to speed up the progress of planting trees and ensure the survival rate of seedlings, Wang Shaodong decided to directly hire 20 people.

In the Qiaotou place of Dazhai Village, Dazhai Township, there is a labor market, and there are hundreds of people waiting there every day, so it is not worrying about finding people to plant trees for short-term work.

Originally, Wang Fumin and Wang Shaodong discussed it, saying that after the saplings were pulled back, they would go to the labor market to find employees.

But after Wang Shaodong went up the mountain, he lay on the bed, thinking about planting trees, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, and then he sat up all of a sudden.

"Since it's planting trees, digging a pit is indispensable, why don't I hire someone to dig a pit in advance? After the pit is dug, and then the saplings come, just squat in the pit and pour water and fill the soil?"

Thinking of this, Wang Shaodong immediately took out his mobile phone.

"Hey, Dad, something suddenly occurred to me. ”

"What's the matter? son. ”

"Let's go to the labor market tomorrow and hire someone to dig a tree pit, and when the saplings come, they can be planted directly in the tree pit. ”

"Yes, son, why didn't Dad think of this?"

Hanging up the phone, Wang Shaodong smiled with satisfaction.

Then Zheng Tao, who was lying on the other bed, looked at Wang Shaodong and asked, "Brother Dong, did you tell your uncle about digging a tree pit just now?"

It was Zheng Hui who was on duty at the chicken coop tonight, and then Wang Shaodong and Zheng Tao slept.

"That's right. ”

"Brother Dong, I think so, if you are looking for someone to dig a tree pit, it is best for you and the uncle to get some lime, and point the place that needs to be dug with lime, and then set a standard, how much does it cost to dig a pit, what standard should be dug for this pit, and it will be easy to settle the account when the time comes. ”

When Wang Shaodong heard it, he was happy.

"You're right, I really didn't expect these details. This is really three stinkers. Yes, those details will be taken care of tomorrow. ”

I have to dig a pit tomorrow, and then I listened to Zheng Tao's words, so the task of going to the mountain to point a tree pit must be done by the most trusted person of the Wang family, and it is best to have Wang Shaodong and his son.

Looking at the time, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, and Wang Shaodong did not call his father again.

Early the next morning, Wang Shaodong went down the mountain again and returned home.

He told his father what Zheng Tao said to him last night, and then Wang Fumin nodded and said: "What Zheng Tao said is really necessary, if we don't dig the pit, the hired people will definitely only find those easy places to dig when the time comes." In this way, the people in our village who know how to plant trees best are Wu Laoer, Liu Yujiang and Su Yulong. Yulong and Yujiang were too busy at the reservoir to spare time, so I went to find Wu Lao Er and hired him for twenty yuan a day to help us. ”

"Dad, in addition to Wu Lao Er, there is another person, I think I asked him to help our family, and I can't make sure it's too late. ”

Zhao Shiling, who was doing housework next to her, looked up at Wang Shaodong and asked, "Dongzi, who are you talking about?"

"It's my brother-in-law!"

Zhao Shiling pursed her lips with some disdain and said, "Is he okay?"

Wang Fumin nodded happily: "Yes, yes, Dongzi, how did I forget your uncle, there is nothing on this mountain that your uncle doesn't understand." Dongzi, hurry up and call your brother-in-law to see if he has the strength to help for a few days, I'll go to Wu Lao'er's house. ”

Wang Shaodong nodded, watched his father go out to the village to find Wu Laoer, and then called his brother-in-law Zhao Shihai.

On the phone, Zhao Shihai was very excited when he heard that his sister's family was going to build a reservoir and plant an orchard, and immediately promised to come over to help.

Wang Shaodong's three uncles, the eldest uncle Zhao Shitang is a traditional carpenter, he is old; the second uncle Zhao Shitao opened a timber processing factory at the head of the Dazhai Village market, mainly selling round logs such as pine sylvestris, fish scale pine, larch, white pine, etc., as well as processing wooden planks with band saws, and is usually very busy, so he has no time to come to the Wang family to help; and then the younger uncle seems to be idle all day long, so the Wang family has something to do, and likes to ask Zhao Shihai to come and help.

After making a phone call at eight o'clock in the morning, at nine o'clock, Wang Shaodong's brother-in-law Zhao Shihai came over. Then as soon as Zhao Shihai entered the door, Wang Fumin led Wu Lao Er to come.

In Wang Shaodong's memory, for Wu Laoer, all his memories are about him telling stories. When I was a child, the children of the whole village liked to gather around Wu Lao Er and listen to his stories.

Wu Lao Er is an old bachelor, about sixty years old, and lives by raising more than a dozen sheep.

Before 2007, the price of mutton was maintained at more than ten yuan a catty, and then the price of live sheep was not very high, generally three or four yuan. Raising seven or eight ewes, about 20 lambs a year, in the end, an average sheep can have 40 catties, and finally raising sheep for a year can be exchanged for two or three thousand yuan.

For an old bachelor, this money is enough to spend.

Hearing that the richest man in the village was going to find himself to go to the mountain to make a tree pit, Wu Lao Er looked very happy.

Then Wang Shaodong saw that his father was leading Wu Lao Er to come, so he said: "Dad, I will take my brother-in-law and Wu Er's grandfather to the mountain to point a tree pit, and you go to the labor market to find twenty people to dig the pit." By the way, you go and tell them to dig a pit for 1 cent, and the standard is just 30 centimeters in length, width and depth that my uncle told me just now. ”

By such a standard, digging one in two or three minutes is more than enough, and for laborers in the labor market, digging thirty pits in an hour is considered trivial.

After Wang Shaodong finished giving the order, the father and son went their separate ways and started to act.