Wang shook his head: "I can't say this well, you also know that kid Zhenya, it's common not to go home for a month and a half, this time I've only been out for seven days, and I don't know when I'll be back!" ”

At the end of the words, she sighed, if it weren't for such a son, she wouldn't bother to care about the dead boy's life or death.

Ye Hao also sighed in her heart, whether she could buy apricot saplings or not was related to her next plan, but it was still early, and she could afford to wait.

Get off the ground from the kang: "Then I'll go back first, when will Brother Zhiyuan come back, auntie, remember to tell me." ”

"Don't worry, Aunt has written down this matter, and when that kid from my family comes back, Aunt will let him go to you immediately!" Wang responded.

In the blink of an eye, a few days passed, and it was noon.

A cheerful shout sounded outside Zhang's house: "Mother, my son is back." ”

"You dead boy, do you know to come back? Where are you going this time? It's been half a month since I came back! ”

Wang walked out of the house, glared at his son and asked.

Zhang Zhiyuan hurriedly took a few steps forward and grabbed his mother's arm with his doglegs.

He said with a flattering smile: "Mother, my son is going out this time, is there something serious, my friend asked me to help, I can't help it, right?" ”

"Help? This brother still has to settle accounts, you have been going for so many days, but what money have you gotten for money? Wang asked.

Zhang Zhiyuan coughed twice: "Mother, my friend has had a hard time these days, and he himself is almost out of food, why am I embarrassed to ask him for money?" ”

Wang nodded his son's forehead: "You just relied on the family to earn some silver a while ago, I see the money you are carrying, this is all spent, right?" ”

"Ahem, mother, let's not talk about this, I haven't eaten at home for a few days, I'm panicking, mother, make me something to eat?"

Zhang Zhiyuan said with a smile.

As soon as the words fell, his stomach "gurgling" and "gurgling" a few times, and at this moment, even if Wang wanted to say anything, he couldn't say it.

distressed, he drove his son back to the house: "You go back to the house to rest first, and my mother will make you a bowl of noodles." ”

Wang's hands and feet were nimble, and it didn't take much effort to make a large bowl of noodles with two drops of sesame oil on it.

Although there is no oil and water, the white noodles, with green onions and yellow egg flowers, smell fragrant.

No, Zhang Zhiyuan took the bowl, didn't even bother to speak, and ate it in a hurry.

Wang suddenly remembered something at this time, and said to his son: "You came back just in time, a while ago, the girl came to our house and asked what kind of apricot sapling it was." ”

"People around here, they can't get enough to eat on weekdays, how can anyone grow this, if you know where to sell, go and talk to the girl after eating."

When Zhang Zhiyuan heard this, he immediately couldn't even take care of eating.

Putting down the bowl and said excitedly: "This is really a coincidence, the friend who asked me to help this time is for this." ”

"Mother, I won't eat it yet, I'm going to hurry up and talk to her about it!"

As he spoke, he quickly got off the kang and put on his shoes, and when he finished speaking, the person had already left the house.

"You're going to go after you've eaten...."

..........

"Zhen'er, I heard you want to buy an apricot tree?" In the second house of the Ye family, as soon as Zhang Zhiyuan entered the house, he couldn't wait to ask.

Ye Hao smiled, put on her shoes and went to the kang, poured a cup of chrysanthemum tea and handed it to him: "Well, but it's not an apricot tree, but an apricot sapling." ”

Zhang Zhiyuan took the tea: "Zhen'er, you may not know, this apricot tree will take three or four years to bear fruit!" ”

"Even if you want to buy it, it's best to buy and plant it for a few years, and it won't take long to raise it before it can bear fruit."

"Well, I know, Brother Zhiyuan knows so much, but he knows where to sell it?" Ye Hao sat down on the stool next to the table.

Speaking of this, Zhang Zhiyuan perked up: "I went to Yongfeng County a while ago because of a friend, and my friend has planted this apricot tree in the past few years." ”

"But what happened to him?" Ye Hao asked.

Brother Zhiyuan's matter, she also knows a little, basically friends ask him for help, they are all in difficulty, combined with the expression on his face, it is not difficult to make this judgment.

Zhang Zhiyuan sighed and said: "Hey, it's also his bad luck to say this, he used all his wealth to plant an apricot tree, and this tree can bear fruit and sell for money." ”

"But his aunt in his family suddenly fell ill, and the silver for this treatment of the disease also needs more than ten taels, and he can't take out the silver to prescribe good medicine."

"I can only ask others to borrow some money first, and use medicine every day to hang A-Niang's illness, while looking for people everywhere, I want to sell some fruit trees to make up enough money for medicine!"

"But those unscrupulous businessmen bullied him into using the silver urgently, and refused to give a high price, and they were willing to give a hundred yuan for each four-year-old apricot tree that was about to bear fruit!"

"My friend can't bear to waste his hard work, he has insisted on not selling these days, I have been looking for him for a long time, but I have not been able to find someone willing to bid!"

"Hey, if it goes on like this, my friend probably won't be able to stay up for long, his aunt's illness, but it can't be delayed any longer!"

Ye Hao was silent for a few moments and asked, "How many apricot trees does he have there?" ”

"I haven't counted this, but there are eight or nine hundred, right? He bought more than a dozen acres of sloping land! Zhang Zhiyuan replied recalled.

Ye Hao asked again: "Are all the apricot trees in your friend's place fast-fruiting?" ”

Zhang Zhiyuan frowned and thought for a few breaths, and shook his head: "It's not, two years ago, he took care of the apricot orchard alone, and he was worried that he would plant too much at a time and take care of it badly, so it was planted separately." ”

"Nowadays, about half of the garden has been planted for three or four years and bears fruit quickly, and the rest are apricot trees that are one or two years old, and they are still far from fruiting."

Ye Hao breathed a sigh of relief, then it was okay, it was not that she didn't want to buy an apricot tree that had been planted for four years, but she didn't have enough money on hand, and transportation was also a problem.

Well, the main thing is that she doesn't have any money!

This fruit tree is no different, but it takes a lot of effort to take care of it, regular pruning of branches and leaves, top dressing, and so on.

Although she said that she had never bought these, judging by the prices here, an apricot tree that has grown for four years and can be sold for money immediately is worth at least about 300 yuan.

So those businessmen are really black-hearted, and they pressed the price to 30% at once.

"Zhen'er, are you really going to buy this apricot tree? If you're going to buy it, why don't you go there early tomorrow morning? ”

Zhang Zhiyuan asked expectantly.

Xing Shi on the kang frowned when he heard this: "Zhen'er, tomorrow my mother will go with you!" ”

Although her daughter is sophisticated, she is still a child after all, how can she rest assured that her daughter will go alone?

Ye Hao nodded and responded: "Okay!" ”