For the next few days, Cheng Wei ran back and forth between Huangjia Village and Raohe Town. The documents for the land contract have been completed, but there are still many things to be resolved in the future.

The second is to rush for the construction of the manor, Cheng Wei has his own ideas about the appearance of the manor, but the construction of this part needs to be handed over to professionals, and the location of the manor also needs land testing and evaluation, so Zhu Biao's father was invited to come over for a field trip.

After Zhu Zhang brought people over to inspect it, he promised that the general plan would be completed in a few days. When the time comes, he will bring another group of people over to design the appearance of the manor for Cheng Wei, as well as the water conservancy layout and related equipment.

After solving these two things, Cheng Wei set out to solve the problem of burning the mountain. Burning mountains in the township is a major event, and according to the rules, it must be an auspicious day for the zodiac.

Cheng Wei thought about following the customs, anyway, it was not bad in those days, so he simply threw the matter of choosing a day to Huang Mingquan. After the latter checked the old yellow calendar, he told Cheng Wei that the eighth day of the first month of this month was a good day, but in fact, it was only two days later.

Time is fleeting, and soon the day of burning the mountain will come. On this day, men, women and children in the village are gathered at the entrance of the village, and it is rare for Huangjia Village to have such a lively time.

Cheng Wei, who was standing in front of everyone, was a little speechless, after Huang Mingquan chose the auspicious day of the zodiac for him, he asked the other party to find dozens of strong villagers by the way.

Although Yanziling is only a low slope, it will not be said that when the mountain is burned, a strong wind blows over, and the flames are blown to other mountains, but relevant preventive measures are still needed.

The best way is to find someone to form an encirclement at the foot of the mountain, and if there is any accident, you can deal with it in time.

It's just that right now, Huang Mingquan has found it for him, but there is a 'little difference' from the conditions he said at the time.

"Ahem, Uncle Quan. Are you sure you're the one I've asked me to hire? Cheng Wei asked helplessly.

Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case, the matter of burning the mountain must not be sloppy. The old man is slow and can't deal with it, and it's even worse for children to be playful, so Cheng Wei has to ask Huang Mingquan in advance.

"Xiao Cheng, what's that. I know what you're trying to say, but none of the young people in the village have returned, and this group is already the strongest. ”

You're kidding me, aren't you? Immediately, Cheng Wei secretly complained.

Of the twenty or so people in front of him, only half of them were young men and women, except for Huang Mingquan's grandson Huang Shi, the others were all thin. What's even more ridiculous is that the remaining half of the people are almost all old people over half a hundred years old, so they are all called strong and strong?

Seeing Cheng Wei sigh in disappointment, Huang Mingquan immediately guaranteed him and said, "Xiao Cheng, don't look at their age, it's really necessary for them to work in the fields one by one." ”

"Forget it, Uncle Quan, bring some more people over." Nowadays, the quality of personnel is not good, and it can only be made up by quantity, so it can't just be delayed.

Immediately, Huang Mingquan shouted to the crowd of onlookers: "Is there anyone else who wants to help watch the mountain?" Raise your hand and take a look. ”

"Me! I! I! ”

Almost everyone in the crowd raised their hands, and Cheng Weila Zhuangding was paid. The day before yesterday, in order to burn the mountain, I cleared a gap at the foot of the mountain in advance, just to ask them for help. However, it is equivalent to them doing half a day's farm work, and Cheng Wei will be paid one hundred and one day, and the elderly who save a little can eat for half a month.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze. A few of them came over there, and those hairy heads also came. Huang Mingquan shouted.

Cheng Wei didn't know how to feel about it, and secretly sighed that his decision to settle here was really right? Seeing that Huang Mingquan pulled more than a dozen people one after another, but these people were either fifty or sixty years old, or some half-old children.

Even an eighty or ninety-year-old man, if Cheng Wei hadn't stopped him quickly, he would definitely have been pulled into the team by Huang Mingquan.

I'll go, I said your eyes should be brighter. If you really want to be recruited by this uncle, not to help me, but to harm me. There are many potholes on Yanziling, if this uncle falls there, Cheng Wei doesn't know how to face the other party's family.

"Fellow villagers who have been selected, it is a trivial matter to help watch the mountains. But Xiao Cheng still gives 50 yuan a day to each person, and you can all watch it when the mountain will be burned. ”

This number was suggested by Huang Mingquan, and the other party, who was familiar with Lu Wei, also adopted this opinion. Fighting rice to raise grace, bearing rice to raise revenge. He understands that.

And if these old people take too much, they are not sure, they still give as much as they eat and how much they do.

"Don't worry, Lao Huang. Don't dare to say anything else, if you can't do this thing, I'll just take a piece of tofu and kill me. ”

"Yes, Xiao Cheng is a noble man in our village, he doesn't pay for work, and we are willing to do it for him."

As soon as Huang Mingquan said this, the villagers were not happy, as if they were taking money and not working. Unexpectedly, in just a few days, Cheng Wei's influence had overshadowed him, the old village chief.

In addition to the fact that Cheng Wei invested a large sum of money in the village, the villagers found that the new couple was very good at communicating, and they would not think about those rich people at all.

Huang Mingquan was choked a few times by the reaction of the villagers, and quickly diverted the topic to excuse himself, saying: "People Xiao Cheng takes care of us so much, we always have to be self-aware, don't we?" Let's be honest, how can these old bones help? If you really want to repay it, call the young people in the family back, I don't believe that following Xiao Cheng will be worse than in the city. ”

Cheng Wei must have a lot of manpower to run the manor, and he can't always hire short-term workers like this. Huang Mingquan's words not only sought personal favors for the villagers, but also solved Cheng Wei's manpower problem in the future.

"That's right, I told my eldest son that he will come back this month after he finishes it."

"Yo, it's next month. My son and daughter-in-law will be back next week. ”

"How can your son compare with my son, my son is a technician, he doesn't just say go."

"What do you mean! I want to fight, right? ”

"Come, see who is afraid of whom."

It's hard to imagine that two old people in their sixties can still roll up their sleeves and shout and kill at this time. Fortunately, Huang Mingquan went up in time to dissuade him, otherwise the fight would have affected many people.

A group of people and the crowd watching the excitement came to Yanziling, and Huang Mingquan and his son Huang Shi acted separately. Huang Shi took those young people around to the back to guard, and Huang Mingquan took the rest of the old people to guard nearby.

Cheng Wei stretched out his hand to probe the wind, the reverse north wind was very small, today is indeed a good day to burn the mountain.

In order to make this fire burn successfully, Cheng Wei even bought a lot of hay and firewood from the villagers, of course, these hayes do not cost much, they are all wheat stalks and straw left by the villagers' harvest.

Now Cheng Weizheng is instructing people to spread hay and firewood branches layer by layer on the water-filled vegetation in an arc in the downwind position.

"Xiao Cheng, everything is ready." Huang Mingquan came out and said.

"Set fire! Burn the mountain! ”

Cheng Wei also held a torch in his hand, and after giving the order, he walked to one of the fire points, and several other villagers at the fire point also started to act after hearing it.

First the weeds on the surface burned, then the dry branches in the middle, and the vegetation below. Due to the moisture content, it crackled and was accompanied by bursts of smoke.

The smoke was very choking, Cheng Wei immediately asked everyone to retreat a certain distance, and the next thing to do was to wait, wait for this fire to burn up and spread to all parts of Swallow Ridge.

Suddenly, there was movement in a pit not far away, and I saw a yellow and white hare poking its head out, as if sensing the impending crisis, and hurriedly left the cave and jumped in the direction of the back mountain.

Several hares popped up one after another, one of which was too close to the fire. Not long after leaving the cave, he was stunned by the thick smoke, and many villagers had the urge to go up and pick up a handful.

Of course, this is not possible now, unless they dare to rush into the fire. When the fire was completely extinguished, there was time for them to go up and pick up wild animals. The land of Yanziling has been abandoned for a long time, and you can imagine how many mountain goods there are in it.

The fire had spread to the entire periphery of Swallow Ridge.

"Attention, the wind has shifted a bit." Cheng Wei warned.

Villagers everywhere hurriedly got ready, scooped up a ladle of water from the bucket under their feet, and extinguished it as soon as a fire burned out of bounds.

Fortunately, the southeast wind was not strong, but only accelerated the burning speed in the west of Yanziling, and it didn't take long for the wind to stop, and the fire spread steadily to the surrounding area.

The fire burned for eight hours before it was completely extinguished, even faster than originally expected. First, it is because of the scarcity of trees in Swallow Ridge. Second, there was the help of external forces, and a few gusts of wind blew in the middle to speed up the entire combustion speed.

Of course, no fool would run up to pick up wild things now, and although the fire had stopped, the ground was like a burnt iron plate, and if one walked on it, one was sure to get burned.

Taking advantage of this spare time, Cheng Wei instructed everyone to pour the buckets they brought on the periphery of Yanziling, so that even if the fire rekindled, it would not affect other mountains.

"Whew." Cheng Wei twisted his clothes, it was too hot. Standing ten meters away from Swallow Ridge, it is like baking in a sauna.

"Xiaowei, give you water." Liang Meilan on the side handed him a piece of water, Cheng Wei was reluctant to let her come with her to toss, so he let her stay in the house, and now he knew that the mountain fire had been extinguished, so he came to deliver water to the villagers.

"Uncle Quan, why don't you let the villagers go back first, I'm afraid this place won't be cold today." Cheng Wei suggested.

Huang Mingquan said with a haha: "Mmmm, okay." Then we'll come back tomorrow to search the mountains, Xiao Cheng, don't worry about us coming to your place to pick up the cheap. ”

"No, although Yanziling is contracted by me, the wild things in it are not under my control." As he spoke, he left Yanziling with the villagers talking and laughing.