Chapter 36: Small Talk
"It's still comfortable at home, and I feel like a savage living in a shed on the other side of the river dam during this time." After cleaning up the room, Zhao Yuan lay on the bed and sighed.
"Yes, the house in Xiaheba is good, but it doesn't feel like home." Meng Ying said with a smile.
"Uncle, auntie, I also like to be at home." Luoluo also chimed in.
"You like me to spend a lot of time with your aunt, little girl." Zhao Yuan got up, scraped the tip of Luoluo's nose with his index finger, and said with a smile.
"Hehe, when you go home, uncle, you can tell me more stories every day."
"And how about literacy, do you want to recognize more words?"
"Okay, now I know a lot of words, uncle, auntie asked me yesterday."
"Yes, but you can't be proud, Luoluo."
"No, uncle, I'm hungry."
"Let's eat first, I made minced meat whistle noodles, and I'm waiting for the noodles to go into the pot." Meng Ying said with a smile, when he came back, he cleaned up the kitchen first, but the little girl looked at Meng Ying and wanted to clean up the room, and said that she wanted to help and came to clean up the bedroom.
"Okay, it's time to eat noodles."
After lunch, Zhao Yuan's family of three walked around the Zhuangzi, and each family went to say hello.
"Yo, the atom is back, Xiaoying, and Luoluo." When Zhao Yuan arrived at the compound, the big guys were basically at home, and when they heard the sound, they all walked into the courtyard.
"Big uncle, big uncle, second uncle, second uncle, big cow, big head, Brother Qiuren, Brother Qiuyun, ............"
"How long will it take to come back, do you want to move to the lower river dam immediately?" Uncle Zhao asked.
"Don't worry, wait until the end of the New Year to pick a day before moving over." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
"Speaking of which, it's going to be fast, and it's going to be far away in the future." Zhao Sanbo sighed.
"It's not far, and everyone can go to Xiaheba to play in the future." Zhao Yuan looked around and said with a smile.
"Atom, you are the most prominent in our village, and now the village is pointing to a few boys who are studying in the town, I don't know if I can read a sample." Fourth Uncle Zhao said with relief.
"Definitely, our Zhaojiazhuang kid who is going to study in the town now should be the most in the entire Gray Plains Town, especially Zhili, who is promising at a glance." Zhao Yuan affirmed.
"Zhili, this kid is good at studying, and I heard that he was praised by Mr. some time ago."
"It's still up to you, in the past, only three children in our Zhaojiazhuang could go to school, but now they basically go to study."
"Or do you uncles believe me, otherwise how can it be so smooth in the future?" Zhao Yuan also said with a smile.
"Atom, will you still harvest wild mushrooms next year?" Second Uncle Miao Lan asked.
"Next year, you can sell it yourself, you don't need me to collect it, do you know that I made a lot of money selling wild mushrooms this year, if you sell it directly, wouldn't you earn more?" Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
"That's also your ability, let's sell it and I don't know who to sell it to!" Uncle Zhao said with a smile.
Zhao Yuan bought land and repaired a house again this year, and it was impossible to say that no one was jealous in the village, but the men who were in charge of Zhaojiazhuang were still able to distinguish the matter, and nothing unpleasant happened.
"I see, next year will still be the atom with all of us, if it weren't like at the beginning of this year, there were so many mushrooms, and I don't know if we can sell them, we can't stand it." Zhao Pole said loudly.
"Yes, we were all anxious about the atom at that time, good guy, how could it be four thousand pounds."
"What 4,000 catties, 5,000 catties are to say less."
"Okay, uncles can trust me, then I will collect wild mushrooms next year, and everyone knows that the wild mushrooms we have here can be sold, mainly because of the relationship with the Funing Lou Wanjia in the town, as long as there are no major changes, there will be no problem next year." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
"Okay, atom, I'll do the math, even if you make some money selling mushrooms, but you've recently bought land and built houses, and this money is not enough?" Second Uncle Zhao Yuancheng asked.
"Yes, the cost of this period of time is not small, but it is still successful, and I have a way to earn a little, but this has nothing to do with our Zhaojiazhuang. If you can trust me, you can grow a little more beans next year, and I should buy a lot of beans next year. Zhao Yuan thought about it and prepared to get the soybean oil out and build a soybean oil mill at the Xiahe Dam.
"This is a good thing, everyone has been idle recently, it just happens that it is not cold now, go open more wasteland and plant beans next year." Uncle Zhao's eyes lit up when he heard Zhao Yuan's words, knowing that since Zhao Yuan was talking, he must have a spectrum in his heart.
Zhao Yuan wanted to build a soybean oil workshop, on the one hand, the sales of soap are becoming more and more popular, all relying on animal fat consumption is definitely not small, raw materials are limited, and it is inconvenient for the expansion and promotion of soap. On the other hand, planting beans can fertilize the land, and the rhizobia unique to the roots of soybeans have a good nitrogen fixation effect.
Zhao Yuan originally planned to use all the land under the river dam to grow soybeans, but he didn't expect that the land under the reclaimed pebbles was surprisingly fertile, and it was a pity to grow soybeans.
"Beans are good to grow, but we don't seem to have any wasteland to reclaim in Zhaojiazhuang?" Uncle Zhao's eldest son Zhao Qiuren said.
"Why is there no land, let's go to the mountains to open the land, isn't it farther away!" Uncle Zhao said.
The mountain that Uncle Zhao said is not the South Mountain where Zhaojiazhuang is located and the North Mountain opposite, but the real old mountain, where there are deep mountains and old forests, and there are no people in the mountain.
"It's too far, and it's not convenient to plant and harvest." The second uncle said hesitantly.
The mountains of this era are not as good as later generations, there are still a lot of wild animals, although there are no large carnivores such as tigers, wolves and bears here in Shudi, but there are a lot of wild boars and hares, and it is easy to be spoiled by these wild animals when farming in the mountains.
"What are you afraid of, let's all go out, and the land that is opened up is a fence, and when the harvest is harvested, it will be sent directly to the atom's house, just a little tired, what is the cost?" Uncle Zhao clapped.
How many years have passed, because Zhao Yuan suddenly became capable, Zhaojiazhuang has the current atmosphere, as Zhao Chuanyi, who is in Zhaojiazhuang, is very happy in his heart, and he wants to maintain this good momentum.
"But there is still more than a month to go before the New Year, and the old mountain is colder than ours here, and there is not much land to open, right?" Zhao Si said that he was Langzhong, and in addition to a few acres of land at home, he didn't want to toss anymore.
"Uncle, and uncles, let me say a word, this wasteland doesn't have to be opened before the year, planting beans is generally in March, it's still early, and we still have many small places in Zhaojiazhuang that can be sorted out, used to plant beans, for example, beans can be planted on the field." Zhao Yuan said with a smile, in the past few months, everyone has made a little money, and everyone's morale has also risen, as if they have to do anything.
"Okay, since we didn't have time to go to Laoshan before the year, let's go to Laoshan first after the year and find out if there is a suitable place to open up wasteland."
"It's good to go back after the year, and I'll go with me when the time comes, just go up the mountain to see if I can catch some game and come back." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.