Zheng Kaiming fell in love with a few big cows at a glance and asked, "How much does that cow sell?"

Lin He said: "Give you a fixed price, six thousand!"

Zheng Kaiming inhaled the cold air: "It's so expensive." ”

Lin He said: "This cow can kill 700 catties of meat, and the cowhide is also valuable, 6,000 yuan is not expensive." ”

Zheng Kaiming said: "If it's cheaper, I'll try it." ”

Lin He said with a smile: "Lao Zheng, you are not authentic, I have never shouted a price for you, what you give is the reserve price, it is impossible for those people who sell meat in Qingyang to know how much the cattle they take from me, if you really want it, pull it away quickly, don't grind." ”

Zheng Kaiming didn't care, and said: "I haven't killed such a big cow, I'm afraid of losing money!"

Lin He said: "Then you can pick a little smaller." ”

Zheng Kaiming quickly picked the cattle, loaded the car and pulled it away after giving the money.

The next day, the biggest cattle dealer in Linzhou, the thin monkey Zhang Kuan, and the fat man Yao Changfa came, turned around in the cowshed, and fell in love with fifty-three big cows at a glance.

When the fat man saw that there were more cattle in the cattle pen, he moved his mind and said, "I'll introduce you to a few big households, how much can you smoke for me?"

Lin He said: "Three thousand yuan is not profitable, if you can introduce big households, you will sell more than yours." ”

The fat man said, "Okay, you wait for my news!"

Lin He didn't care much about it, but a week later, the fat man really came over with more than a dozen people, all of whom were cattle dealers from several provinces.

After negotiating the price, the nine cattle dealers brought in trucks and divided up the remaining 200 or so cattle heads.

The fat man and the monkey thin empty gloves white wolf earned more than 20,000 yuan, and they also left happily.

Lin He calculated that more than 300 cattle were sold for more than 1.1 million yuan, plus the income earned by collecting cattle and sending meat in the front, more than 1.4 million yuan, and it cost more than 170,000 yuan to collect cattle and cover the cattle farm, and there were more than 1.2 million yuan.

Huang Chunhua couldn't believe it: "Earned more than one million?"

Lin He smiled: "Don't say it, otherwise the borrower will come again." ”

Huang Chunhua glared at him: "You think I look like your father!"

Lin He thought for a while and said: "Why don't you send pork to Qingyang, you can't earn a few dollars and toss people, I will take someone to pull a cow, and I will earn back the meat for ten years, and you will show me the cattle farm in the future, Mom!"

Huang Chunhua disagreed: "I don't think it's safe for you to sell cattle, and it's a way out to send meat to Qingyang, in case you lose money by selling cattle one day, you can come back to continue to send meat to the ministry, I'm fine anyway, I'll send it to you first." ”

Lin He said: "You still have to farm, you are busy alone?"

Huang Chunhua was also worried: "But what can I do, it's good if your father doesn't go to the mine." ”

Lin He was helpless, he was completely defeated by his mother, but it was actually very easy for him to face this situation, so he gave up decisively if he couldn't catch it, it was useless to entangle this and that, and it was useless to make the right decision.

"Either the land is no longer planted, or the meat of the troops is not delivered. ”

Lin He said: "There are only these two choices, Mom, you can only choose one." ”

Huang Chunhua said: "Why don't you go a few days late and let Lin Hai and Lin Duo sow the seeds." ”

Lin He smiled bitterly: "How do you settle the account, how much less do I have to earn if I leave a few days late, and how much money does it cost to let people sow seeds?"

Huang Chunhua thought about it, it was only ten yuan to find someone to sow one acre of land, and more than ten acres of land was only about 100 yuan.

Lin He persuaded: "It's good to send meat to the troops, you can still earn 18,000 a month, you can get a ration after a year of hard farming, and the little grain you collect can't be sold for 2,000 yuan, anyway, Lin Jiang will go to high school in the city this autumn, and he won't farm next year, so it's better to simply give the land to people to plant today, and you can find a few people to collect pigs and send the meat to the troops on time." ”

Huang Chunhua has been planted for half a lifetime, how can he say that he will throw it away.

After thinking about it for a long time, I was still there: "Let me think about it!"

Lin He didn't know how to persuade him, he still had a lot of things, the forage he collected for the cow a few years ago was chewed in just a week, he was still in the head, and the time for the appointment with Batu was about to come, how could he have the kung fu to follow his mother to entangle.

Cattle driving is already a breeze and there is nothing to worry about.

It is troublesome to collect forage, agriculture has not formed a scale in these years, there are a lot of wheat straw and bean oil residue, but it is too troublesome for a family to harvest, and his time is too expensive, how can he waste it on these trivial matters.

After discussing with his mother, Lin He immediately went back to the village to find someone.

As long as there is a tractor at home, all of them are summoned by him, twenty yuan for a four-wheeled cart of wheat straw, and sixteen yuan for a three-wheeled cart of wheat straw.

As for those from other villages, they specially found a few people to ride motorcycles to go from house to house to mobilize.

This village is easy to do, as long as you shout, you can pull over if you have surplus grass at home.

The village is more troublesome, Lin He can only give a few errands to collect 200 yuan each, even if he knows that he will be blinded, he can't take care of it, and the cattle can't be fed without forage when they are bought, otherwise they will lose their fat in three days.

After three busy days, seeing that the time was up, Lin He had no choice but to take people to Tonggu.

In the early morning of the next day, they took a military vehicle to the No. 6 post, and the four of them rode on horses to cross the mountain and cross the border, and when they arrived at the agreed place, Batu had already led people to drive cattle and waited for a long time.

This time there were fewer cattle than last time, just over 300 heads.

Lin He picked out more than fifty heads that he couldn't look down on, and drove away all the remaining three hundred and three.

Thankfully, there were also big beef cattle last time, but there were only eighteen.

Batu asked: "How much will you want next time, or will you wait here in half a month?"

Lin He said: "It's still about 300 heads, and the cattle will be driven here in half a month." ”

Batu replied repeatedly, not daring to stay in this place, for fear of being caught by the border guards and looking for trouble, so he took people away.

By the time Lin He pulled the walk to the cattle farm, another week had passed.

My mother took someone to deliver meat, but she hasn't come back yet.

Put the cattle down to the cattle farm, Lao Xinye and Lin Hai were busy feeding the cattle, Lin He was about to go home, the four-wheeled tractor drove to the cattle farm with black smoke, the old mother parked the car in the yard, got out of the car and asked: "When did you come, and how many heads did you collect?"

Lin He said: "If you arrive at ten o'clock, you will bring back three hundred and three heads." ”

Huang Chunhua calculated and said diligently: "It's another million!"

Lin Hedao: "After this year, I won't sell cattle tomorrow, I'll do something else." ”

"Why?"

Huang Chunhua was puzzled, why did she throw away such a lucrative business?

"Next year, there will be fewer cattle over there, and it will be difficult to harvest. ”

Lin He lied, he never told the truth to his mother, how can there be no ghosts after walking too much at night, this kind of business is enough to do it a few times at most, as long as you have capital and can do more things, there is no need to take this risk again.

Huang Chunhua said: "The sale of meat to the troops cannot be lost. ”

Lin He asked, "Has the land been planted?"

Huang Chunhua said: "If we don't plant anymore, there is still a lot of grain in storage, and next year's ration will be enough." ”

It's good not to plant it.

Lin He finally breathed a sigh of relief, to tell the truth, there is really nothing to do in farming, and after a year of hard work, the little grain collected is not worth two thousand yuan, so why bother, even if you go out to do odd jobs, it is better than staying at home and farming.

In fact, there are no more farms in Zhangqiao Village.

In 2000, the year before last, after he and Lin Jiang went to high school successively, my mother stopped farming, rented a house in the city to serve herself and her younger siblings to go to school, and officially bid farewell to rural life.

In the years that followed, people in the village gave up farming and went out to work.

The general trend is not that farmers do not want to farm, but that there is really no way to survive farming.

Huang Chunhua entered the courtyard to greet Lao Xinye, and Lin He waited outside.

The old man had a hard time, he raised four sons and no one wanted him, except for the stuttering, he couldn't even smoke, the old man came to him before he left last time, and asked Lin He to find a job, and Lin He asked the old man to look at the cattle farm.

After sleeping in the cattle farm for a few days, the old man simply moved over, and he didn't even want to go home, so as not to go back and get angry.

Entering the house, Huang Chunhua also sighed: "It is said that raising children to prevent old age, sons are white-eyed wolves, marrying a daughter-in-law and forgetting their mother, the old man is dragged down, none of the four daughters-in-law of the old letter is good at stubble." ”

Lin He didn't say anything, and even his mother scolded him.

This is really a lie down and shot!