When Cao Shujie came out of the bedroom, he saw his mother Wang Yuelan sitting under the eaves.

When she saw him, Wang Yuelan stood up reflexively and asked anxiously, "Shujie, how is Mengmeng now?" Is she better? ”

"Mom, she's fine in the middle of the night, she coughs less." Cao Shujie said to his mother.

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a sound of 'cough, cough, cough' from the bedroom, and Wang Yuelan threw her son a roll of the eyes: "Didn't you say that Mengmeng was fine, why did you cough again?" ”

Just because of her granddaughter's cough, Wang Yuelan didn't believe her son a little.

Cao Shujie was a little embarrassed: "Mom, how can the cough get better so quickly, how can it take a few days." ”

"Did you get on and off the bus, you didn't get dressed, and let Meng Meng be blown by the wind?" Wang Yuelan asked her son.

At the same time, he also looked at him with some blame: "Shujie, tell me about your age, why are you so careless, now it's cold, and the cold is getting better slowly." ”

Cao Shujie thought to himself that you could say less, so he changed the topic stiffly and asked, "Mom, what about my dad?" ”

"He got up early in the morning, ate two steamed buns, and went to the orchard on the mountain to watch, saying that he was going to turn the soil and prune the branches today." Wang Yuelan said.

Cao Shujie nodded: "Mom, I'll eat something, and I'll go to the mountains to have a look later." ”

Wang Yuelan nodded, she followed her son into the hall, and muttered: "Shujie, is it okay for Mengmeng to do this?" Otherwise, you can drive her to the county hospital and ask the doctor over there to prescribe some medicine. ”

"Just coughing, she is uncomfortable." Wang Yuelan pinched her hands together, indicating that she was more nervous and uncomfortable.

"Mom, take medicine today and take a look, if it doesn't work, then go." Cao Shujie said: "It takes two or three days for a cough to take effect, and there is no silver bullet even if you find a specialist." ”

knew that what her son said was the truth, but Wang Yuelan heard the coughing sound from the next room, and she couldn't calm down in her heart.

Cao Shujie didn't tell his mother how Mengmeng coughed at all, so it should have never happened.

After washing up and eating breakfast, Cao Shujie went back to the bedroom and saw his daughter Mengmeng curled up, and every cough would cause her whole body to tremble.

His wife was lying on her side, propping herself on the bed with her elbows and gently patting Mengmeng's back.

"Wife, how about it, why don't you wake up Mengmeng and give her some medicine." Cao Shujie leaned over and asked his wife.

Cheng Xiaolin waved her hand: "Don't be in a hurry to take medicine, let her sleep for a while, I didn't sleep well last night." ”

"Okay, then you can rest for a while, I'll go to the mountains first." After Cao Shujie finished speaking, he was about to leave.

Cheng Xiaolin stopped beating Mengmeng, turned around to look at Cao Shujie, Cao Shujie saw that his wife's eyes were red at this time, as if there was a precursor to crying.

"Wife, what are you doing, you're a big man, why are you going to cry again." Cao Shujie was a little panicked and hurriedly persuaded him.

Then I heard his wife say with self-reproach: "Husband, if I hadn't taken Mengmeng back to her grandmother's house yesterday, Mengmeng wouldn't have coughed, and she wouldn't be so uncomfortable now." ”

"Look at how lively she usually is, but now she has no energy at all." The more Cheng Xiaolin spoke, the more she blamed herself, and a line of tears rolled down her face.

"Okay, it's cold now, and there are a lot of colds, can't Mengmeng go out yet?" Cao Shujie sat on the edge of the bed, reached out to hug his wife, and wiped the tears from his wife's face with a paper in the other hand, coaxing her like a child.

When his wife's mood calmed down, Cao Shujie also specially told her: "Wife, when you call Mengmeng's grandmother, don't mention Mengmeng's cough, remember." ”

"Hmm!" Cheng Xiaolin nodded a little choked.

It's the children who are really uncomfortable, and it's the parents who are distressed.

looked at Mengmeng's intermittent cough, but Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin were helpless, and the anxiety in their hearts could not be understood by outsiders.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem!"

Meng Meng coughed again, maybe this time the cough was too large, she coughed a few times and then suddenly sat up, and when she saw her father and mother, she cried aggrievedly.

While crying, he also said: "Mom, I'm sorry, I'm not happy." ”

Her pitiful appearance made Cheng Xiaolin's self-blame even heavier, she reached out and hugged Mengmeng over, and then pulled the quilt next to her over to cover Mengmeng, for fear that it would be cold again.

But in fact, the air conditioner in the room is turned on at 24 degrees of electric auxiliary heating, which is very warm, and Cao Shujie is wearing a little thick, and he feels like he is going to sweat at this time.

——

"I'll go make her some medicine and take it first." Cao Shujie said.

Cheng Xiaolin didn't stop it.

It didn't take long for Cao Shujie to come over with a small bowl of medicine and a bottle of cough syrup.

In terms of taking medicine, Mengmeng never worries about it, whether it is sweet or bitter, she eats very hard, sometimes when she sees Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin drinking medicine, Mengmeng will move forward, shrug her little nose and smell what it is.

Mengmeng Xing was really tired and sleepy, she drank the medicine, lay in Cheng Xiaolin's arms for a long time, closed her eyes and fell asleep in a daze.

After putting her down, Cheng Xiaolin slapped her sore back with her backhand and said, "Shujie, you go and get busy, I'll just watch her." ”

"Do you lie down a little longer, or get up and go have some food, and if you eat, I'll give you another hot one." Cao Shujie asked her.

Cheng Xiaolin looked at the sun outside the window very well, she said: "I won't lie down, take advantage of today's good weather, hurry up and wash the sheets out to dry, if it snows again in a few days, it will be troublesome." ”

When she said this, Cao Shujie didn't say anything else, and when his wife got up and went to wash, Cao Shujie warmed up the breakfast, put it in a bowl for his wife, and took the tools and prepared to go out.

At this time, it was already more than nine o'clock in the morning, and at this point in the usual time, Cao Shujie had been working in the orchard for two hours.

Before they went out, Da Ha and Er Ha called anxiously, and they made a loud noise of the dog chain bell while barking.

"Mom, didn't my dad walk the dog in the morning?" Cao Shujie asked.

Wang Yuelan said to him: "Your father went up the mountain to work after eating at six o'clock, how can he have time to walk the dog." ”

This is equivalent to his father carrying the work for him, Cao Shujie was a little ashamed, he said: "Then I will take the four of them away and go to the mountains to let them run for a while." ”

"There are a lot of people now, you pay attention and don't let them bite people." Wang Yuelan instructed her son.

Cheng Xiaolin also said: "Shujie, you have to be careful, don't be careless." ”

"Yes, I know!" Cao Shujie agreed, led the four dogs and walked towards the Yellow River barrage dam to the east.

He walked a long way, going north from the barrage, and going down at the junction on the north side.

During this period, Daha, Erha, and the four dogs all looked at Cao Shujie, which meant that they wanted him to let go of the dog leash, and the four of them sprinted wildly.

But now it's not like morning, there are a lot of old people and children coming to play on the barrage dam, Cao Shujie is really afraid that they are not sensible, even if they don't bite, it's not good to scare others.

"Daha, Erha, Dahei, Xiaohei, let's not run today, wait until tomorrow morning, I'll take you over to run, okay?" Cao Shujie consulted with them in the same tone as he treated children.

The four dogs actually understood, and after hesitating for a while, they still moved their heads up and down, as if they agreed to Cao Shujie's proposal.

"You are so good, I will give you more food in two days and eat meat." Cao Shujie stroked their heads one by one and told them with a smile.

In about half an hour, Cao Shujie took them down from the north intersection, turning a corner to the road up the mountain.

In the orchard, when Cao Shujie saw the barbed wire fence, he remembered that the breeding area in the north had been built, but had not been put into use, and there was a barbed wire fence around it, and he had an idea in his heart, and said with a laugh: "Daha, I know where you are going?" ”

Daha and Erha all turned their heads to look at Cao Shujie.

Da Ha also called 'oh woo', which seemed to be urging Cao Shujie to hurry up and go now that he knew, what else was he talking about.

"Come with me." Cao Shujie led them along the hardened road to the west of the barbed wire fence and walked north.

The four dogs were obviously more excited, and they in turn dragged Cao Shujie on a leash to run, and it didn't take long for them to come to an end.

After Cao Shujie opened the gate on the barbed wire fence and took them in, he loosened the dog leash one by one, and said to the four brothers: "Run, run more, and come and call you when I leave." ”

"Oh woo!"

"Oh!"

"Oh oh..."

Daha, Erha, and the two Demu all let out howls of different high and low scales, and they didn't feel it at the bottom, but on this empty mountain, especially when the four brothers were full of energy, the howls became more and more high-pitched.

Especially the howls of the two German pastors, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would have thought that a beast had escaped from somewhere.

Looking at the four brothers spread their legs and each chose a direction to run forward, under the sun, the undulating vertical figure was reflected in Cao Shujie's eyes, and he remembered the mighty and tall German herd he saw in Cui Jingguo's livestock farm, it was bigger than the ordinary Tibetan mastiff, and the weight was at least 80 catties or more, and it made people feel scared at a glance, it was really fierce!

"You guys hurry up too, preferably more than your dog daddy." Cao Shujie looked at the two black and yellow haired Demu, and muttered silently in his heart.

His father was spreading forage for his cattle in the opposite breeding area.

The howling of the four dogs just now frightened the 50 cows, and just as they eased up, Cao Jianguo saw his son and called him: "Shujie, come here." ”

"Dad, what's the matter?" Cao Shujie walked towards the opposite side.

When Cao Shujie walked to him, he heard his father Cao Jianguo ask worriedly: "Shujie, how is Mengmeng now, is your cough better?" ”

"Dad, I just gave her the medicine when I came out in the morning, and she's much better." Cao Shujie said with a smile.

When Cao Jianguo heard his son say this, he didn't doubt it, nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, Shujie, you don't know, I listened to her cough, and I kept hanging in my heart." ”

"Dad, it's okay, it's normal for children to cough and cold, don't worry." Cao Shujie smiled.

There is a gate on the barbed wire fence in the middle of the two plots of land, which is more convenient to walk back and forth between the two plots of land.

50 cows were happily eating forage, looking at their fat and strong appearance, Cao Shujie was very happy, and he also discussed with his father: "Dad, let's eat beef for the New Year this year, right?" ”

"Are you really undergoing a beating!" Cao Jianguo knew what his son was thinking, but Cao Jianguo was reluctant to eat, and every cow sold was money.

Besides, the cow is still small, at least it has to be raised for another year, and it is not a waste to kill and eat beef at this time.

"Just buy less meat during the Chinese New Year, you usually eat meat every day, you haven't eaten enough!" Cao Jianguo muttered to him.

"Haha!" Cao Shujie laughed and didn't mention it again for the time being.

However, Cao Shujie is obviously not a master who gives up easily.

If the fruits grown by other old farmers and the livestock raised by other old farmers are not willing to eat a hundred, Cao Shujie is good, thinking about what he eats first.

Cao Jianguo thought that according to the price at which his son sold apples, the remaining 400 catties when he sold apples was nearly 3,000 yuan!

The same was true of the kiwi before, before it was sold, he saved a batch of food by himself, why was his broken mouth so greedy.

Cao Shujie didn't care, he said: "I planted these things from the beginning, just thinking that we could eat a clean bite ourselves, otherwise we would be busy." ”

He said: "Dad, the money can't be earned, and our family's money can't be spent, don't just think about this, you are reluctant to eat, and you are reluctant to wear." ”

Cao Jianguo didn't bother to take care of his son, and he still had the face to say that the family's money couldn't be spent, wasn't it just the hundreds of thousands, if you really had to run into something, it might not be enough to spend.

He took the three-strand fork again and went to pick the forage next to it.

But he didn't forget to tell his son Cao Shujie: "Shujie, don't forget to plant grass in spring." ”

"Dad, don't worry, I can't forget it." Cao Shujie nodded.

He really couldn't forget this incident, it was a major event related to the eating of these cows.

If you don't grow pasture, the cost of raising it will increase dramatically.

"Dad, I'm going to buy another batch of calves after the beginning of spring." Cao Shujie shouted at his father.

Cao Jianguo doesn't care, his son can do whatever he likes.

Cao Shuchao was working not far away, Cao Shujie went over to say hello to him, he responded, and buried himself in work again.

"Brother Chao, you are sweating on your forehead, wipe it quickly, otherwise you will catch a cold when the wind blows." After Cao Shujie saw it, he reminded him.

In my heart, Cao Shuchao is definitely a good worker, he is also very practical, and his work is very practical, as long as he is told something, there is no need for Cao Shujie to say it a second time.

Cao Shuchao smiled, raised his hand and wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, and continued to work: "Shujie, I heard Uncle Jianguo say that Meng Meng is sick?" ”

"It's a little coughing, it's just a wind that freezes." Cao Shujie is still this reason.

The two chatted about the day, chatting about the mountains, and they didn't feel tired when they got to work.

Cao Shujie always felt that there was something missing in his ears, and he also said halfway: "I went to the town at noon to buy a big stereo, put it in the orchard, and listened to music every day to work, and I was more energetic." ”

"How can you still listen to music while working?" Cao Shuchao couldn't understand it.

He had worked for others on construction sites before, on livestock farms, and in many other places, but he had never seen or heard of anyone who could work to music.

Cao Shujie said: "I just say okay." ”

Cao Jianguo has already developed antibodies to his son's various strange ideas, so let him toss!

Just like that, if you have the ability, you can quickly finish it and pull it down!

Cao Shujie said that he would do it, and took advantage of the time to go home for dinner at noon, and took the four tired dogs home, seeing that Mengmeng's mental state was much better, but he couldn't eat, that's it, he was also happy in his heart, and said that he was going to the town to buy a fun toy for Mengmeng.

"Dad, let me tell you, Mom said I defeated the virus, I'm amazing." Meng Meng clenched her little fist and was very excited, looking like an invincible opponent in the world.

can be said too fast, as soon as she finished speaking, she coughed a few more times, coughing more urgently, and as soon as she didn't pay attention, the saliva flew out and landed in front of Cao Shujie.

Cao Shujie didn't care at all, he felt that if he could, he would be willing to share it with his daughter, or simply bear her illness for his daughter.

"Shujie, if you go to town, get some medicine and come back." Cheng Xiaolin said to him: "You just say that Meng Meng coughs, has no fever, and has a yellow nose." ”

After thinking about it, she told again: "I coughed more at night, and I vomited once." ”

"Okay!" Cao Shujie complied.

He drove fast and came back faster, first went to the second-class hospital in the town to buy medicine for his daughter, and then went to the small household appliance mall to buy the big stereo he wanted, and there was a USB disk that the boss said stored thousands of songs, and drove back with his things.

Beginning in the afternoon, music began to be heard in the orchard on the north mountain of Caojiazhuang.

Classical music, pop music, internet hits, light music, and even English songs, you name it.

Some people were curious, and went up the mountain road to find out, only to know that the song came from Cao Shujie's orchard.

Some people also joked that Cao Shujie started to play new tricks again, he wanted to listen to music for fruit trees and cows, so that they could also enjoy it, grow in a relaxed and happy atmosphere, and grow even faster in the next year.

I don't know whose brain got into the water, but I still believe in this non-existent 'statement', and I am very sure of the validity of this statement.

Cao Jianhua's hair is half white during this time for the further decline in the price of piglets and pigs, and the price of piglets has fallen below 30 yuan a kilogram, and he has been worried about not sleeping well at all.

But when I heard this, my eyes lit up, and I actually believed that it was true.

He also went to the town to buy a stereo and put it on his pig farm.

I don't know if it's an illusion, he always feels that the 300 pigs in the pig farm listen to the music and eat much faster, as if there are still pigs dancing to the music.

And he himself listens to music every day and works, and his mood is much better.

Temporarily put aside the worry about the price of piglets and pigs, he silently told himself that he had come to this point, and he had to raise these pigs no matter what, and sell them during the Spring Festival during the New Year.

Or lose a little less!

(End of chapter)