Chapter 12: Childhood Friends
In the first month, for people in the countryside, it is very leisurely, they are all eating, drinking, and playing mahjong.
After the third day of the Lunar New Year, Wei Zhankui, Uncle Liu, and Li Baoyi came to work, so Wei Chengmo was idle.
In the house next to the cow farm, several old people gathered together to play chess, and Wei Chengmo sat with five young men and women to roast the fire together.
There is a young couple according to the generation in the village, they are Wei Chengmo's uncle and aunt, Wei Hongkui and Qu Lanlan, the two want to raise pigs at home, and they specially come here to learn from experience.
The other two men, one is shorter than Wei Chengmo, but a very strong guy is a playmate when he was a child, and he is also a cousin, with a somewhat stuffy personality, called Wei Zhong.
He heard that Wei Chengmo hired people to work for 3,000 yuan a month, and he worked at the door of his house, so he came to look for a job.
A young man dressed neatly and with shrewd eyes is the nephew of Uncle Liu, Liu Le. He worked in the meat factory in the provincial capital, and deliberately went to Wei Chengmo to take a look here, because he wanted to buy fat cattle for the company.
The last girl, who had not spoken, wore a beige turtleneck sweater with a white down jacket over it. With a ponytail, a pair of big black eyes always swirled around Wei Chengmo's body.
It can be the size of a finger on her cheek, and the red birthmark spoils all her beauty.
Her name is Wang Erya, she grew up with Wei Chengmo and a group of boys, her academic performance has been very good, and she will graduate from college in two years.
Wei Chengmo boiled a pot of tea, and the five disposable cups were poured for the five people, Wang Erya held the paper cup and showed a sweet smile, "Thank you, brother." ”
Wei Chengmo smiled back at her and continued to add water to make tea.
"Uncle Hongkui, it's okay for you and Aunt Lan to raise pigs, but you must do a good job of epidemic prevention and try not to die, a few dead heads will cause you a lot of losses.
Again, try not to use feed to fatten, and feed a lot of weeds and a small amount of coarse grains to improve the taste of meat.
It is estimated that the amount you raise will not be too much, and the people who consume it can be imagined, it should be the surrounding farmers.
Qu Lanlan's eyes were small, her face was still a little bloodshot, and she said with a sense of fatigue on her young face
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"Chengmo, it's not easy to work outside, running around, and there is no fixed place for the doll to go to school, depending on your cattle at home, so we also have this idea.
I heard from the village chief that when the project is reported, the government will subsidize the materials for building the pig shed. Another one is your grinder, can we powder the corn in the future? ”
Qu Lanlan saw that Wei Chengmo didn't speak, and then added, "Don't worry, we will pay for the electricity." Your uncle is embarrassed to open his mouth with you, so my aunt will be cheeky and ask you, the price of buying one is a bit too expensive, and we don't have that much money......"
Wei Chengmo smiled at Wei Hongkui, "Uncle, if you have something in the future, just tell me directly." As long as I can help, there's nothing difficult about it.
If you want to grow corn in the future, it is better to gather them together and put more at a time, it doesn't matter how much electricity you use. ”
Wei Hongkui nodded embarrassedly, "Cheng, when Uncle earns money, I will buy a small crusher." ”
He is a timid person, and his wife is more spicy. So many things in the family are basically the mother-in-law's heads.
Liu Le drank tea slowly, his eyes kept drifting to the cattle farm outside the window, and suddenly a sentence came out, "Chengmo, what do you say you are like as a cow?" Cattle grow faster than the cattle on other people's large farms, you must know that people are professional. ”
Wei Chengmo laughed, "Cattle grow fast, that's my ability, it means that my cattle farm skills are good." ”
Liu Le put down the teacup in his hand. "Just put it mildly, can you sell me the cattle when they are slaughtered? Then I also earn some commission in the company? ”
Wang Erya said a little timidly, "Stay, don't hit your bad idea on Brother Chengmo." ”
"Haha, Erya, you still maintain your demonization like this. You can rest assured, my acquisition is also an acquisition on behalf of the company, and I don't have that much money. ”
Wei Chengmo roasted the fire, looked at Liu Le and said slowly, "Don't worry, there are still three months to come out, when the time comes, I will find a few more vendors, slaughter a cow on the spot, see the meat bid, and then you can come." ”
Liu Le looked at Wei Chengmo thoughtfully, "It's okay, it's fair to everyone, although you don't have a lot of cattle, I'm very optimistic about your 50 cows." ”
Wei Zhong had been drinking tea silently, and from the moment he entered the door, he said that he wanted to work here for Wei Chengmo, and there was no superfluous word.
When Wei Chengmo's eyes turned towards him. Wei Zhong was obviously a little cramped, and the anticipation in his eyes betrayed his nervousness.
Wei Chengmo raised his hand and put it on his shoulder, "Ah Zhong, have you thought about not going out to work?" You must know that you haven't found a daughter-in-law yet, and it's not easy to find a daughter-in-law if you stay in this mountain. ”
Wei Zhong nodded, his black and red face was a little wooden, and he said angrily, "Moving bricks on the building, migrant girls can't look down on it." ”
"That's okay, from tomorrow onwards, you will work with the fifth uncle, and the salary will be the same. After a few days, the land thawed, and 3,000 acres of alfalfa began to be planted.
But at the moment I don't have the money to pay you, so I have to sell my cattle to get rich. ”
Wei Zhong took a sip of the cup of tea, stood up and walked out, "I'm going to work for the fifth uncle, and I can pay whatever the salary is." ”
Wei Hongkui said with some envy, "Become a demon, Ah Zhong is the most down-to-earth worker, I didn't expect that if I follow you now, my work will be stable in the future." Hey, I don't know if raising pigs will ......"
"Hmph, crow's mouth ......" Before Wei Hongkui finished speaking, he was twisted by his mother-in-law on his waist, and he smoked cold air with cracked teeth, and he didn't dare to say a word more.
The kettle on the stove was steaming, and Wang Erya lifted it up and poured boiling water into Wei Chengmo's cup. The birthmark on his cheek was steamed by the heat, and it became an extremely bewitching red.
Looking at the cattle farm outside the window, Wang Erya was extremely happy, "Brother, did you say that I graduated and came to raise cattle for you?" ”
Wei Chengmo blew hot air and took a sip of tea, his eyelids raised, "What a fart, a college student came to raise cattle, it's not enough for others to laugh at." ”
Wang Erya didn't care about Wei Chengmo's rudeness at all, and kept smiling on his face, "Brother, I went to an agricultural university, and I didn't farm after graduation, why did I go?" ”
Wei Chengmo put down the water glass in surprise, "Are you stupid?" When you filled in the application, you just signed up for an agricultural university? Didn't anyone remind you? ”
Liu Le smiled, "Why didn't anyone remind me, at that time, Erya said that she was a farmer's daughter, and she was going to apply for an agricultural university, and she would go back to the countryside in the future, change her hometown, and develop her hometown, but she was ambitious." ”
Wang Erya glanced at Wei Chengmo embarrassedly, "I was not sensible at that time, but my ambition was not good?" The university teacher even praised me. ”
Wei Chengmo nodded, "Then Erya, tell me, what needs to be improved in my cattle farm?" ”
When it comes to professional things, Wang Erya immediately became serious. "Depending on the region, there will be different plans, and we can't move the methods of those large cattle farms to this village.
I think it's very good now, do a good job of epidemic prevention, the calves still have a lot of room to move, these cattle are definitely better than those who stand in the bullpen and fatten. ”
Wei Chengmo looked at Wang Erya's red face fixedly, her smooth skin was not powdered, and even her eyebrows were rarely repaired, giving people a very heartwarming beauty.
Wang Erya's thoughts Wei Chengmo knew it for a long time, but this girl had some inferiority complex and never said her admiration, but her concern for Wei Chengmo came from the bottom of her heart.
This kind of friendship that grew up together since childhood, Wei Chengmo doesn't know if it's love, Wang Erya is like a glass of warm boiled water, where he has been guarding it without being hot or cold, without passion and unrestrainedness, and without the coldness of the cold day.
Retracting his thoughts, Wei Chengmo said casually, "Erya, tell me what you can do in the cattle farm, I can't let you shovel cow dung in the cattle pen for a day, right?" ”
Er Ya covered her mouth and smiled, "I don't have that much strength to shovel cow dung, but it's okay to do it for a while."
Brother, in the future, your cattle farm will definitely get bigger and bigger, and the number of growers will increase. It takes one person to coordinate and arrange some trivial things.
For example, how much salt to use in a day, how much alkali to use, how much forage to use, which cattle should be vaccinated, which cattle are sold, with me you will be much easier. ”
Wei Chengmo grinned, "It's the same as the truth, then come after graduation, don't work for two days and be smoked away by the stench of the cattle farm." ”
Wang Erya hugged the water cup and showed a happy smile, in fact, her biggest purpose was to stay by this boy's side and watch him grow step by step.
Because of Wang Erya's personality, few of her partners will make jokes about her. Wang Erya is also very sensible, and she is also a well-behaved and sensible child in front of her family. It's just that none of them know. This sensible child fell in love at a very young age.
The reason for Wang Erya's early love is very simple, Wei Chengmo is the only one who does not dislike the birthmark on her face, and he has been very concerned about him since he was a child, but he has never shown pity.
Her parents are actually very good to her and love her very much, but whenever her parents stare at the birthmark on her face and say, "My second girl is so pitiful......"
Whenever this happens, Wang Erya thinks of Wei Chengmo, his eyes are very clean, and he can never see his birthmark .......
That hazy feeling, I don't know when it began, was engraved in the depths of her heart, and she wanted to sit quietly beside him, where she had been guarding.
That's a peace of mind......