When the sun rose from between the mountains, dispelling the mist that permeated the mountain beams, lakes, and wilderness, the birds living near the Liu family's compound also came to the yard to forage for food as usual.

Over the past few months, the birds have gradually become accustomed to eating in the Liu family's compound and regard this place as their home. Especially in recent times, as the weather turns colder, the difficulty of the birds to forage has gradually increased, and they have turned the Liu family's compound into a fixed foraging point.

Seeing that the birds were already chirping in the nearby trees; The poultry in the backyard also rushed to the front yard noisily, and Zhang Guizhi stopped what he was doing and went into the house to bring out a large pot of corn kernels.

Seeing the yellow, orange and orange corn kernels, whether it was the poultry raised by the Liu family or the wild birds singing on the trees, they all let out a cheer in unison and rushed towards Zhang Guizhi.

In the face of such a spectacular side, Zhang Guizhi has long been accustomed to it, and she threw the corn kernels in her hand out in a hurry, which immediately attracted the attention of the poultry.

The yellow kernels of corn jumped on the cyan slate, and were soon overwhelmed by the swarming of poultry and disappeared. Seeing this, those wild birds also fell to the ground one after another, desperately pecking at the delicious food on the ground.

Colorful wild birds, colorful pheasants and quacking ducks suddenly make the quiet farm yard noisy.

The two brothers Liu Rui were also accustomed to seeing this scene, and they were not surprised, and they were still taking care of the little tomatoes in their hands into the carton. From time to time, Tongtong, the little girl, picked up one or two small tomatoes that were not very beautiful, threw them into the flock of birds, and then looked at the panicked birds and giggled.

Liu Rui looked at his sister's childish performance, and could only shake his head, and then continue to work.

The outer packaging of these cartons is printed with exquisite patterns, and the red tomatoes are delicate, which greatly enhances the grade of these gift boxes. A carton can hold ten catties of tomatoes, and the three hundred catties of tomatoes picked by Liu Rui can probably fill thirty boxes.

According to the price offered by Huang Xingye to Liu Rui, the price of 100 yuan for a carton, this batch of small tomatoes can basically earn back the cost invested by Liu Rui.

To put it mildly, the purchase price of a pound of small tomatoes reached ten yuan, which is a fairly high price, after all, in 2000, a pound of pork was only six or seven yuan. There are several reasons for this, which have led to such a high price.

At present, there are very few farmers who grow tomatoes in Guixi Province, and only a few experimental plantings are carried out in the Agricultural University and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Scarcity is expensive, and some consumers who like novelty will naturally not be stingy with this money. As soon as these packaged gift boxes are on the market, they will be snapped up by people as gifts for friends and family, and the demand exceeds the supply.

In addition, the small tomatoes planted by Liu Rui this time are really good, each small tomato is about the same length, like an agate-like work of art. The taste is also very good, Huang Xingye only looked at some samples and tasted two, but he didn't even come to see the tomato field, so he gave Liu Rui a high price.

Out of trust in Liu Rui, Huang Xingye did not personally supervise Liu Rui's harvesting and packing, but handed over everything to Liu Rui to deal with. When Huang Xingye came after a while, he loaded the box with small tomatoes directly from Liu's house, and then the money and goods were paid.

Of course, for Liu Rui, if someone trusts him so much, he will naturally do his best to complete it, and he will not have the slightest idea of being sloppy. Liu Rui selects ripe and best-looking small tomatoes to pick, and carefully selects them when packing, striving to do the best.

When the flock and the fowl had eaten their fill, they left the yard, and soon the yard fell silent. The silence didn't last long, though, as the occasional car horn and engine sound from the bottom of the hill brought the yard back to life.

At this time, the car that should have come to Liang Village to buy vegetables and poultry arrived at the sandy land by the lake and began its daily routine business activities.

Liu Ruihe and the 30 boxes packed were neatly placed in the yard, leaving his mother at home to take care of the house, and he rode a motorcycle with his younger siblings to the pig farm.

Now there is nothing to do at home, but there is a lot of work in the pig farm and vegetable field, so Liu Ruisuo pulled his younger brothers and sisters down and asked them to help. In fact, Liu Rui doesn't know how much the two of them can do, but he just hopes that they can understand some of the current situation at home and don't be stupid in reading.

Regarding Liu Rui's arrangement, Liu Zhi and Tongtong naturally won't have too many opinions, after all, they are not young masters or Miss Jiao, and they should come back to help the family do something now on vacation.

Along the way, Liu Rui encountered many mini-trucks parked on the side of the road, and villagers were busy harvesting vegetables in the sand. Nodding and greeting with the acquaintances he met along the way, Liu Rui could obviously feel that the spirit of the villagers was much higher than before.

It's normal to think about it, money is heroic, and the villagers have increased their income by selling vegetables, and their waists have hardened. In this way, the villagers increased their self-confidence, and through contact with foreign merchants, they increased their knowledge, and gradually changed from small farmers who only promised themselves to farmers in the new era.

As soon as he came to the vicinity of the pig farm, Liu Rui could hear the sound of the piglets screaming, even the sound of the motorcycle engine and the whistling wind could not hide the past.

This is also a very normal thing, the sound of the pig crying is very high-pitched and penetrating, even from a distance, it can be heard clearly.

Spiraling up the cement road built by the pig farm, Liu Rui and his party came to the door of the pig farm. Stopped the car and asked Liu Zhi and Tongtong to go to the vegetable field to pick vegetables with a few aunts, while Liu Rui entered the pig farm after being disinfected.

Although Liu Rui comes to the pig farm from time to time, the pig farm still changes greatly every day.

As the production of Liujia Distillery was on the right track, and the number of distiller's grains that could be provided every day was increasing, Zhang Zhenguang introduced another batch of 200 piglets as planned. Together with the original 200 piglets, the number of piglets in the entire farm has doubled.

At this time, it is still a little early, and it is not yet time to feed, and these piglets are naturally screaming with all their strength, which is simply to break through the human eardrum. These guys also seem to have a deep understanding that crying children have milk, and they start barking when it's almost time to feed.

Walking in the aisle between the pig pens and looking at the piglets inside, Liu Rui's heart felt a sense of satisfaction.

Although it has only been two months since they were bought, the first batch of piglets has now become a half-sized pig, with big shoulders and round waists, fat heads and big ears. Because of the sake lees, these piglets are a little lethargic and sleep every day except for eating. There is a hint of redness under the white skin, which is pink and tender, which makes people feel happy.

It seems that the effect of feeding piglets with sake lees mixed with space spring water is good, and as long as the output of the winery can go up in the future, it can support the continuous and rapid development of the pig farm.

A complete set of automatic water supply system is arranged in the pigsty of the entire pig farm, and the piglets can drink the space spring water specially prepared for them by Liu Rui as long as they are thirsty. For this reason, Liu Rui had to come to the pig farm every once in a while, and secretly injected space spring water into the reservoir of the pig farm.

It is precisely with the moisture of sake lees, corn and space spring water that the piglets on the pig farm grow very fast, almost two catties per day. In the face of such a good development trend of pig farms, Zhang Zhenguang, Zhang Zhenzu and others are in high spirits, and they are more and more concerned about the slightest change in pig farms.

Strictly speaking, Liu Rui and Liujia Distillery have a more important role in the development of pig farms, but Liu Rui did not ask for more shares. Maintaining a 30% stake and continuing to grow is already a good thing.

In Liu Rui's planning, the pig farm will not only have such a scale, but should expand with the development of the winery, and finally form a 10,000-head pig farm. By that time, the pig farm would keep tens of thousands of piglets in stock at all times, and tens of thousands of piglets would be slaughtered every year, turning it into an indispensable cornucopia.

Liu Rui believes that with the help of space spring water, pig farms should be insulated from things like swine fever, which can maintain healthy and rapid development.

After walking around the pigsty, then filling the reservoir with enough space spring water, and seeing the workers of the pig farm start to work, Liu Rui quietly left the pig farm.

Like Liujia Distillery, Zhangji Pig Farm has been far short of manpower due to the expansion of its scale, so it has to start hiring villagers to help with the pig farm.

At the beginning, Zhang Zhenyao was still a little unaccustomed to such changes, and he still wanted to do everything himself, but at Liu Rui's insistence, several uncles gradually changed their concepts and began to change from specific executors to managers.

After all, the pig farm is still only a few hundred piglets, and it is not difficult to manage and feed, and a few people in the Zhang family can do it with a little hard work. But with the scale of the pig farm getting bigger and bigger in the future, even if the Zhang family gets up early every day and is busy 24 hours a day, I am afraid that there is no way to finish it until they are tired to death.

This is also the trend of the development of things, and after mastering funds and resources, people's position will change.

As the saying goes, 'those who work are subject to others, and those who work hard are controlled by others', is what is said to be such a truth.

After the people of the Zhang and Liu families completed the primitive accumulation and had more resources, they gradually changed from ordinary laborers to entrepreneurs. Even if this change is a bit blunt and a little slow, it is real and cannot be reversed.

This is an era of great changes, 20 years after the reform and opening up, Qingshan, a small inland county, has also begun to catch the train of the times. It is precisely for this reason that the quiet Liang Village is also noisy, and the mountain people who originally came out and rested began to change their different destinies.

The reason why the Zhang family and the Liu family were able to take the first step is that they are diverse, not only because they have some original foundations, but also because of Liu Rui's maturity and decisiveness, of course, luck also has a certain component, and they have caught up with a good era.

In the eyes of others, the drastic changes in the Liu family and the Zhang family in this short period of time are a little incomprehensible, but Liu Rui, who is in it, understands that these are all brought by the space spring.

Without the moisture brought by the space spring water, the rice wine of Liujia Distillery would not have risen several times in quality and become a best-selling product. Liujia Distillery cannot be expanded, and it can provide enough distiller's grains feed to the pig farm, and it is unlikely that the pig farm will be developed.

There is no space spring water to boost immunity and improve the disease resistance of piglets, and Liu Rui, Zhang Zhenguang and others are not confident that they can expand the scale of pig farms so quickly.

The source of all these changes is brought about by the spatial spring water that others are not aware of.

When he was about to leave the pig farm, Liu Rui looked at the vegetable field next to the pig farm, and several aunts were busy picking vegetables with Liu Zhi and Tongtong, and next to them was a minivan driven by Ma Changquan.

Thinking that he hadn't met Ma Changquan for a long time, Liu Rui didn't rush to leave, but went over to chat with Ma Changquan for a while.

Looking at Liu Rui who was swaying freely in front of him, Ma Changquan thought about the first time he met Liu Rui, and suddenly felt like a world away.

At the beginning, when he was sent by the company to Liangcun to buy vegetables, Ma Changquan was really a little resentful in his heart, and he didn't have too much good looks for Liu Rui and Liu Jiahong.

However, with the passage of time, the quality of the vegetables purchased by the Liu family compound is consistent, which makes the chef and customers of the restaurant very satisfied, and also makes Ma Changquan a lot.

It was at this time that Ma Changquan began to abandon his prejudiced gaze and re-examine the Liu family. Ma Changquan, who became serious, soon discovered that the Liu family did have a set of vegetables in planting, not to mention that they only had a small vegetable garden, but they could provide fresh vegetables in quantity and quality to the new restaurant of 'South Beauty' every day.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Rui's successive big moves shocked small citizens like Ma Changquan, and his gaze was also changing when he looked at Liu Rui. In particular, Liu Rui became the shareholder representative of 'Ruilan Company', defeated 'South Beauty' in head-on competition, and won the right to operate the grain station, which made Ma Changquan feel a taste of alpine admiration.

So, although it was only a few months, Ma Changquan's gaze at Liu Rui changed from looking down to looking up, and the taste of it was only clear to the person concerned.

Liu Rui, who originally wanted to have a good chat with Ma Changquan, saw the slight alienated look in Ma Changquan's eyes and his cautious words, Liu Rui suddenly felt a little excited.

Liu Rui knows that with the development of the situation, everyone's wealth and status will also change dramatically, and there will be some subtle changes in the exchanges between people. In the past, Liu Rui and Ma Changquan could have more or less room for equal communication, but with the change of Liu Rui's status, the gap between the two sides has widened, and it is indeed a little difficult to communicate.

This kind of change is actually not what Liu Rui wants to see, but the law of objective facts makes him a little helpless. Perhaps, with the continuous expansion of the Liu family's business, Liu Rui has to continue to taste this feeling.

Saying goodbye to Ma Changquan soon, Liu Rui didn't care about Liu Zhi and Tongtong, and drove straight back to the car, maybe Huang Xingye was about to arrive, but don't let him wait for a long time.

Sure enough, when Liu Rui was about to get home, he saw a Wuling minivan driving along the mountain road towards the Liu family's compound. With a little increase in the throttle, Liu Rui and the small truck arrived at the courtyard dam in front of Liu's house.

Looking at the fat boss who got out of the car, the two pieces of fat on his smiling face were constantly shaking, and Liu Rui's feeling of being a little lost just now couldn't help but get better immediately.

Perhaps, the development of career has changed people's identity and status, so some people who were once familiar will gradually leave in life, but there will be new partners and new friends.

Perhaps, as the philosophy books say, things are constantly changing.

"Xiao Liu, let's meet again!" Stretching out a fat hand to Liu Rui, Huang Xingye smiled so much that his eyes narrowed into a slit.

"Welcome Brother Huang!" shook Huang Xingye's fat hand, Liu Rui was not verbose, and invited Huang Xingye into the courtyard.

Because of the happy cooperation, Huang Xingye did not let Liu Rui continue to call him 'Boss Huang', but called him 'Brother Huang'. It just so happened that Liu Rui also felt that 'Boss Huang' was a bit too philistine, but he called 'Brother Huang' much kinder.

"Hey, you're moving pretty fast, you're all ready!" Huang Xingye, who walked into the yard, was a little surprised to see the neatly arranged gift boxes in the yard.

"I'm worried about your urgency, I got up early in the morning to pick it, and it was just loaded!" Liu Rui explained beside him.

"It's just right, we have a bus to the provincial capital at noon, just in time to catch up!" Huang Xingye nodded and shouted: "Xiaokang, put these cartons in the car, you send them back first, and then load them on the cart and transport them to the provincial capital!" ”

Huang Xingye did not stingy and asked Liu Rui to unpack and check the condition of the little tomatoes, but followed his driver and assistant Xiaokang directly into the car and pulled it away. For Huang Xingye, who has been up and down in the mall for more than ten years, he has already cultivated a pair of fiery eyes, and he can still see some of Liu Rui's personality.

"Let's go, Brother Huang! I'll take you to see what's going on in the tomato fields! Seeing Huang Xingye so bold, Liu Rui would not say anything else, but pulled Huang Xingye to the tomato field to check the growth of tomatoes.

Huang Xingye, who walked to the tomato field, looked at the scene in front of him, but he was a little glad of his decisiveness! When Liu Rui asked him for an offer, Huang Xingye was a little hesitant at first, but the excellent quality of longan made him finally make up his mind. Not to mention anything else, just take these small tomato fruits in front of him that shine like agate and are as numerous as stars, Huang Xingye knew that he had found a little hen that could lay golden eggs.

The gift box purchased from Liu Rui for 100 yuan can be sold for between 150 and 200 yuan in the provincial capital, and after removing various costs, the profit is very high.

Small tomatoes can be harvested for four months, and the yield per mu can be at least 5,000 catties, Liu Rui's two acres of land are in such good condition, not to mention that there can be a harvest of 10,000 catties. As long as I have a net profit of three or four yuan per catty, I will have an extra profit of 10,000 yuan per month, which is too easy!

Huang Xingye, walking on the ridge, looked at the fruitful tomato field, and the joy in his heart was naturally irrepressible, and his face was like a blooming chrysanthemum.

For Liu Rui, the current good cooperative relationship with Huang Xingye will also help his future development.

The brilliant and warm sunlight poured on the two people, and the surrounding harvest scene was impressive!

(To be continued)