"Then don't pay such a high salary, one or two dollars a day, and I'll be satisfied. Besides, you're still in charge of the food. Zhang Baocheng said.

In this era, one dollar a day can earn 30 a month, and it can also make the people in the village squeeze their heads.

Wang Yanhu was also afraid that Changgui would suffer: "Yes, Changgui, or you can give us one dollar a day." ”

Zhang Yuanhe said: "Yes. You don't look at one dollar a day, but a year down, it's a lot of money. Where do people in the countryside earn a dollar a day? ”

Changgui smiled: "What? Money is still hot? Don't worry, I can do a lot of money and do a lot of things. If it's a loss, I'm definitely not going to do it. I'll have to let you earn the money, but in addition to helping me get things done, you also have to keep it a secret for me. Don't tell anyone how much I will pay you. ”

Ma Yongxing originally planned to borrow money to raise a few pigs, but now he can earn ten yuan a day, which is much more reliable than raising pigs. The investment in pig raising is so large, and there is still a risk. Now you don't have to worry about anything, you can earn ten yuan a day when you go into the mountain. Ma Yongxing can calculate this business.

"Since Changgui has given you such a high salary, you will follow Changgui to work hard in the future, but you can't let Changgui lose money." Zhang Yuanhe said.

"Master, you have to have a share of this." Changgui said.

Zhang Yuanhe waved his hand: "Master has an old bone, and it will only hold you back." I can't climb the mountain. ”

"Master, I didn't say that you should follow us into the mountain. You help me watch at home, there is no one at home to take care of it, this thing will not last long. Changgui said.

"It's no problem to take care of you. Just take care of me to eat and drink. I don't want your salary. Zhang Yuanhe was embarrassed to ask his apprentice to pay his salary in vain.

Changgui persuaded for a long time, but Zhang Yuanhe was very resolute. Changgui had no choice but to let Zhang Yuanhe take care of it first, and then use other ways to compensate the master in the future.

Everyone in the village knows that Changgui made money outside, but it is not clear what he did to make money and how much he earned.

In these years, everyone is in difficulty, there are opportunities to make money, who is not tempted. Many people come to Changgui's house to set their mouths. It's a pity that Changgui's mouth is very tight, and now that he has quit drinking, it is even more difficult to ask what comes out of his mouth.

The next day, Changgui took Wang Yanhu, Zhang Baocheng, and Ma Yongxing into the mountain.

However, on this day, Changgui did not go to quarry the stone ear, but put some covers. Then I walked around the mountains. I looked for the location of the feldspar ear.

I didn't bring back a single stone ear, but I did bring some prey. The people in the village originally wanted to find out what Changgui relied on to make money, but they only saw that Changgui only brought some wild things.

"Otherwise, it wouldn't be paid today. We didn't do anything. When Wang Yanhu saw Changgui hanging the number, he hurriedly spoke.

On this day, the light wandered around the mountains, and everyone ate wild things together.

Ma Yongxing also agreed: "The prey we hunted today was all eaten by ourselves. You're going to pay us. ”

Zhang Baocheng said with a smile: "As long as there is meat every day, I don't need to be paid." ”

Changgui smiled: "You guys are really real. Although I didn't quarry the fungus today, I have already found a location, and I can go to the quarry after a while. Wandering around the mountains today, the main thing is that those people have been following behind. So, I deliberately took them around in circles. ”

"Our brigade is really these people. All of them are pink eye, and they can't see others making money. Changgui, you said that if they kept following like this, we wouldn't be able to quarry stone ears. Ma Yongxing said worriedly.

"Don't worry, when they follow for a few days, they won't follow anymore. They don't have as much time as I do. "Changgui is not worried at all.

The most critical part of making money from quarrying is sales. Now Changgui has hooked up with Dayong's side. The sales channels are stable, and even if other people in the village learn to quarry, it is unlikely that they will find sales channels.

In the first few days, Changgui took Zhang Baocheng around the mountains every day, and he didn't pick the stone ear at all, but brought a lot of wild things back every day. In addition to what I ate, I also gave some to each family. The rest was sold at the bazaar.

But the money from the sale of wild animals is not enough to pay for daily wages. Changgui loses one or twenty yuan a day.

Wang Yanhu was in a hurry, but Changgui was nothing.

"Changgui, it's not okay to do this. Your losses every day, even if you have gold and silver mountains at home, it is not enough to lose. Wang Yanhu said worriedly.

"Yes, if we continue like this, we will be embarrassed to follow you into the mountains. We didn't do anything. "Ma Yongxing is a little incomprehensible now.

"Don't worry. I'm not stupid. Is it really a loss of money? Don't worry, we'll be down to business in a few days. In the past few days, no one has followed us. Changgui smiled.

The people in the village couldn't figure out what Changgui was going to do, so they followed Changgui into the mountains day by day, and they didn't do anything at home, and they couldn't afford to spend a few days.

Others don't know that Changgui loses thirty a day, and they all think that Changgui gets wild things every day. With several families, there is meat to eat at home. They don't have the ability to be long-lasting. Lying behind Changgui every day, it is impossible for Changgui to share the prey among them.

Next, Changgui still has to put some wild things back every day, but he will go to pick some stone fungus every day. The people in the village still thought that Changgui went into the mountains every day to set wild things, but they didn't know that Changgui's main purpose was to quarry stone ears.

I have been mining for more than half a month, and I have picked more than 100 catties of stone fungus. It is much more efficient than Changgui to enter the mountain alone.

The rice in the paddy field was already golden and heavy. The harvest season has arrived.

Aunt Chunxi went to pick a few ears of rice and came back, peeled the husks by hand, and took out a small bowl of brown rice. While cooking, sprinkle on top layer.

Zhang Baocheng specially went to weigh a piece of waist meat with ribs, this meat is the favorite meat of the people in this era, thick fat meat, with some fine meat. Of course, the rib is more comparative. However, the sacrificial flesh used to worship heaven and earth must be flesh and bones.

Every year, when the early rice is ripe, the villagers of the Xuefengzhai Brigade will hold a new tasting ceremony to thank God for the good weather and good weather.

The children are also looking forward to it, because the meat of heaven and earth can still be eaten. In this era, for children, eating a meal of meat is equivalent to having a happy holiday.

Zong Qiu was very envious of other people's rituals to try new rituals.

"Dad, when will our family try something new?" Zong Qiu asked several times.

"What's new? It's so troublesome, it's not that I didn't give you meat to eat. "Changgui is a little troublesome.

"That's different." Zong Qiu felt that a happy life lacked a sense of ritual.

Changgui didn't think much about it at first, but as soon as he saw Zong Qiu's expression, he understood.

"Since you want to try something new, then you are responsible for going to the field to pick ears of rice and come back. I'll go to the market early tomorrow morning and chop two pounds of pork and come back. Changgui said.

Zong Qiu happily ran to his own field, and also took a bamboo basket in his hand.

Bear child, don't you want to take back all the ears of rice in our field?

Really! Changgui watched Zong Qiu take back half a bamboo basket of rice ears, and finally understood that his drunkard father would rather die drunk in his previous life. It's really easy to want to die with such a drag oil bottle.

"You bear child! You only need to put a few grains of new rice in it, and you are still going to eat all the new rice? ”

"Dad, the new rice is so fragrant, I'll peel the shell later." Tomorrow we will taste the new rice, and we will all eat the new rice. Zong Qiu said.

"Okay, okay, if you eat brown rice every day, you have to cry."

Rice with only the chaff removed and a green crust on the outside makes it very coarse for cooking.

Changgui actually doesn't know how to try new rituals, and he has never learned it. When the drunkard father did, he only knew how to drink every day, where did he know what the ritual of tasting new things was?

Therefore, Changgui just followed the process he observed to try new things and did it again. When he sacrificed to heaven and earth, he muttered nonsense in his mouth. It's extremely mysterious.

Zong Qiu listened curiously on the side, but he couldn't understand a word, and thought that Changgui was chanting some mantra to sacrifice heaven and earth.

After the ceremony, the important thing is to take the meat that has been sacrificed to heaven and earth, go to make a plate of fried meat with green chilies, and then the two fathers and sons hold a big bowl and fill a big bowl of brown rice.

To Changgui's surprise, this brown rice is not unpalatable, on the contrary, and has a pleasant aroma. Actually, this new rice is not brown rice in the true sense of the word, because the rice is not fully ripe at this time, and the rice made is relatively soft.

"Dad, the new rice is so delicious, why don't we take back the ears of rice and peel them like this every day?" Zong Qiu finished eating, and he was still unsatisfied.

"Don't! The ears of rice are not yet fully ripe, and the harvest is too early at this time, which will affect the yield. Changgui hurriedly stopped. It is not fully ripe, and the rice is still partially rice milk. Basking in the sun, you have to lose a few points.

Zong Qiu reluctantly gave up the idea of harvesting ears of rice. But I secretly thought in my heart, when I grow up in the future, I will harvest the ears of rice whenever I want. I eat new rice every day.

Because the season of harvesting early rice and planting late rice seedlings is coming, Changgui's quarrying business can only be suspended.

However, what the villagers of the Xuefengzhai Brigade did not expect was that when the early rice was withdrawn and the late rice seedlings were about to be planted, they found that when the reservoir was supposed to release water, not a drop of water was sent from the canal.

It hasn't rained for more than a month, and many of the rice paddies have dried up.

The water storage ditch that Changgui had dug in the rice fields before played a role. The rice fields are still full of water. In the paddy field, because there is a water storage ditch, the field is still wet, and after harvesting the early rice, you can plant the late rice seedlings.

Luo Bencheng, the secretary of the brigade, brought back a bad news.

"During the Chinese New Year last year, Dayachong Reservoir dried up the reservoir in order to catch fish, and this year there was no heavy rain, and the water has not been filled. When the early rice was planted this year, the water was almost gone. Now the water is no longer available. ”

Dayachong Reservoir is the main irrigation reservoir of the Xuefeng Zhai Brigade and the largest reservoir in Xuefeng County. Who would have thought that the water of Dayachong Reservoir could be drained!