It didn't take long for Mengmeng to look at the can of juice in the small basin, and she couldn't help but want to drink it, she reached out and tried the bottle again, it was still cold, and she turned her head very aggrievedly and asked Cao Shujie: "Dad, why is it not hot?" ”

"It's almost good, Mengmeng, you wait, let's change the basin of water later, it will heat up faster." Cao Shujie said seriously.

"Really!" Mengmeng's eyes never left the can of juice in the basin, and she felt that it was too slow.

Cao Shujie was talking to his daughter, and his sister Cao Huifang came out of the kitchen with a plate.

shouted to the father and daughter gathered around the table, "Brother, Mengmeng, ready to eat." ”

"Wow, it's time to eat, Dad, hurry up." Mengmeng was very happy when she heard her aunt say to eat.

That way, she can drink the juice.

Seeing that her father hadn't moved yet, Mengmeng urged again, she stretched out her hand and pointed to the juice in the small basin and asked, "Dad, is the juice ready?"

"I'll see, don't worry." Cao Shujie said.

Meng Meng's little hand pressed on the edge of the table, and she said weakly: "Oh! ”

Cao Huifang, who was next to her, looked at her niece in a hurry and had no choice, and she wanted to laugh inexplicably.

But there were still dishes in the kitchen, and she went to get busy again.

Cao Shujie looked at his daughter pursing her lips, her eyes frequently looked at the juice, he didn't tease Mengmeng anymore, he took out the can from the basin, it was still a little cold to touch, he changed a basin of hot water to scald the juice, and then pulled the pull ring and said to Mengmeng: "Mengmeng, you go get a small bowl, I'll pour juice for you." ”

"Okay!" Mengmeng was happy this time, she turned around and ran towards the kitchen, shouting as she ran: "Mom, help me get a small bowl, I want to drink juice, thank you!" ”

"You're welcome!" Cheng Xiaolin said with a smile, took out a small stainless steel bowl from the cabinet and handed it to Mengmeng.

After a while, Mengmeng ran to the living room with a small stainless steel bowl in both hands, she put the small bowl on the table, and looked at Cao Shujie with a blank eye: "Dad, the bowl is here, help me pour it, thank you." ”

A 'thank you' made Cao Shujie's heart happy, he poured half a bowl for his daughter, and said, "Drink it, I'll pour it for you after drinking." ”

"But we can't just drink and eat later, you know." Cao Shujie looked at his daughter with a smile and said.

But it was useless, when he told him, Mengmeng had already picked up the small bowl and drank it with her little head up.

The whole set of actions is played by thieves, as if he is afraid that his father will backtrack and not let her drink juice.

After drinking, she also turned the bowl upside down and showed it to Cao Shujie: "Dad, look, there is no juice!" ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she then put the small stainless steel bowl on the table: "Dad, pour me a little more." ”

But Cao Shujie saw that the girl's bowl was empty so quickly, and he said with a serious face. "Mengmeng, if you do this again, I won't pour you juice."

But Mengmeng still looked at the juice bottle with blank eyes, and didn't hear what her father said at all.

"Dad, pour me another blow." Meng Meng has a negotiating tone.

Cao Shujie shook his head: "Eat first, wait for you to eat some food, and I'll pour it for you." ”

When Mengmeng heard her father say this, her eyes fell on the plate on the table, and when she saw that it was a plate of green vegetables, she shook her head and didn't want to eat it.

Cao Huifang happened to come out with two more dishes.

One of the plates of braised pork, the other plate was beef meatballs made by himself, Meng Meng pointed to the beef meatballs and said, "Dad, I'll eat that." ”

"Okay!" Cao Shujie went to the kitchen again to get a small bowl, put the balls in the bowl for his daughter, and watched her eat slowly, at this time, Cao Shujie always had an inexplicable sense of accomplishment in his heart.

"Mengmeng, you are so sensible!" He also said so.

After Cheng Xiaolin and her mother-in-law Wang Yuelan finished cooking, they came out with the remaining three dishes, and the family sat down around the dining table, chatting about the things in the orchard on the mountain while eating.

Cao Jianguo also asked about his son's interview today.

Cao Shujie said: "Dad, Master Zhuang was also introduced by Brother Chao, I had a brief chat with him in the morning, people are also more honest types, if you work, someone will command you and recognize it." ”

"Overall, it's okay." Cao Shujie said.

He knows very well that people can't find a perfect person, and everyone will always have one kind or another problem.

When Cao Jianguo heard his son say this, he didn't ask any more.

After eating, Cao Shujie finished cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks and prepared to go up the mountain.

Cheng Xiaolin shouted to him: "Shujie, the dumplings have been bought, why don't you take them and share them." ”

"I'm still thinking about dividing it in two days." Cao Shujie said.

Cheng Xiaolin reminded him: "What if in two more days, Brother Chao and Master Zhu have finished buying glutinous rice balls?" ”

"That's right." Cao Shujie thought about it for a while, and he had an idea in his heart.

Now that the temperature is low, even if there is no refrigerator on the mountain, take it and hang it in the shade outside, and you don't have to worry about the rice balls melting.

He said, "Give me six bags, and I'll give each of the three of them two bags." ”

This means that Zhuang Xuesong, a newcomer, also has a copy.

Cheng Xiaolin didn't care about these things, she found three bags, put two bags of different flavors of rice balls in each bag, and then returned to the living room, and handed the three bags of rice balls to her husband Cao Shujie: "Oh, you can take it." ”

Not long after, Cao Shujie carried three handbags containing rice balls and rode an electric car up the mountain.

At home, Cheng Xiaolin and her mother-in-law were discussing buying vegetables in the supermarket today, and Wang Yuelan felt that the vegetables were expensive again.

Cheng Xiaolin was a little unimpressed, she heard her mother-in-law say this, so she said: "Mom, the New Year hasn't been over yet, it's normal for vegetable prices to be high now, right?" ”

"It's normal, it's not normal at all, I see that the price of pork has indeed come down, but the price of vegetables is more expensive than the price of vegetables a year ago, which is not normal at all." Wang Yuelan doesn't know any big truths, but she knows the most basic truths.

"The money is gross." She said.

Cheng Xiaolin agrees with this point, and in official words, prices have risen again.

……

On the mountain, after Cao Shujie rode up on an electric car, he immediately called Cao Shuchao, Zhu Shengliang and Zhuang Xuesong, who had just arrived, to the hut.

Just when the three of them were confused, Cao Shujie didn't say too much nonsense, he simply said to the three people: "Brother Chao, Master Zhu, Master Zhuang, it's about to be the Lantern Festival, and I don't have any other good things here, it just so happens that my wife went to the town to buy a little more rice balls, and you each have two bags, take them home and let the family taste them." ”

"There aren't many things, but it's also my heart." Cao Shujie said.

Cao Shuchao and Zhu Shengliang looked at the dumplings in the bag, they had a smile on their faces, and they didn't feel strange at all that Cao Shujie did this.

But Zhuang Xuesong, who had just come today, was a little at a loss, he pointed at himself and asked, "Boss Cao, I just came today, do you mean I have it too?" ”

Why didn't he believe it!

But Cao Shujie explained to him very seriously: "Yes, you have passed the interview, and now you are a long-term employee of our orchard." ”

The more Cao Shujie spoke, the louder he became: "No matter how long you work, even if you do it for a day, since you catch up with us to distribute benefits here, you will have a share of this!" ”

Zhuang Xuesong has never heard of this kind of argument, when he thinks about working for other people, he is not eager to find all kinds of reasons to shirk and send you a little less things, and he has never heard of rushing to send things to people.

At this time, Cao Shujie's behavior completely overturned Zhuang Xuesong's opinion of Cao Shujie in his heart.

He thought to himself: "When I get off work later, I will find Xiao Chao to understand the personality of this Boss Cao." ”

But in fact, with the one just now, Zhuang Xuesong's impression of Cao Shujie has changed a lot, and he feels that Cao Shujie's personality should be no worse.

……

When it was time to get off work, Zhu Shengliang stayed on duty today's night shift, and Zhuang Xuesong and Cao Shuchao came down from the orchard together.

At the crossroads in the west, when Cao Shuchao and Zhuang Xuesong were about to go home separately, seeing that Cao Shuchao was leaving, Zhuang Xuesong hurriedly called out to him: "Brother Cao, you wait." ”

"Brother Song, what's wrong?" Cao Shuchao wondered, is there anything wrong?

Then I heard Zhuang Xuesong ask him: "Super brother, to be honest, you have been working here for the longest time, what do you think of Boss Cao?" ”

"Brother Song, what do you mean?" Cao Shuchao didn't understand.

Zhuang Xuesong is not a person who can speak well, he thought about it, and then said: "What do you think of Boss Cao?" ”

"Brother Song, let me tell you this." Cao Shuchao looked at him very seriously and said: "I have been working with others since I was a teenager, and it has been almost 20 years now, I can say with my conscience, Shujie is definitely the most conscientious boss I have ever met in my part-time job." ”

Speaking of this, he lifted the bag containing the rice balls and asked Zhuang Xuesong: "Brother Song, it's not that I'm greedy for a little cheap, I'll ask you a word, you have worked for so many years, and during the New Year's holidays, a few bosses have sent you things." ”

This sentence stopped Zhuang Xuesong.

It's a very simple thing, Zhuang Xuesong can give an answer without thinking about it.

This is the first time he has worked for so many years to recover tangyuan.

There were two places where a bucket of peanut oil would be given out during the Chinese New Year, but I only received it twice, and I haven't received anything since.

Cao Shuchao continued: "Brother Song, don't complain about your brother's ugly words, don't look at our place too much, and we haven't gone out of the countryside, but as long as you work for a long time, you will know that our place is really not much worse than working outside." ”

"How?" Zhuang Xuesong was angry.

Cao Shuchao thought for a while and said to Zhuang Xuesong: "Shujie should tell you, we pay our salary at the end of the month every month, and after a month, in addition to the normal salary, according to the specific situation of personal performance, we still have bonuses?" ”

"Yes, he told me, but it's not for him to say casually......"

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Cao Shuchao: "Brother Song, if you think so, then you are very wrong!" ”

Cao Shuchao stretched out four fingers and said, "I started working with Shujie in October last year, and I have received bonuses every month for the past four months." ”

Speaking of this, he paused and continued: "And during the Chinese New Year, Shujie also sent a lot of things. ”

Zhuang Xuesong thought that Cao Shujie was talking about playing at the time, but he didn't expect it to be true.

When he wanted to say something, Cao Shuchao had already gone home.

Zhuang Xuesong stood in place and thought for a while, and finally walked towards home with two bags of rice balls.

On the way, he thought a lot.

Originally, he just wanted to work here for a while with Cao Shujie, but the scene that happened today made Zhuang Xuesong change his mind.

When Cao Shujie came down from the mountain, his wife had already prepared dinner, and the family was waiting for him to eat.

……

The arrival of Zhuang Xuesong greatly alleviated the problem of manpower shortage here in Cao Shujie.

From this day on, Cao Shujie's orchard has been steadily moving forward with a pace every day.

Soon, the Lantern Festival passed, and Cao Shujie and his sister Cao Huifang took a bus back to Yiling City to continue school.

Before leaving, Cao Huifang also said that when the strawberries were ripe, Cao Shujie must call to say something.

Cao Shujie agreed.

After sending his sister away, the house instantly became much quieter.

But just after Cao Huifang left, another problem was exposed.

No one in the family can subdue Mengmeng, even if Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin really beat them, Mengmeng doesn't listen to them at all.

Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin angrily wanted to beat her many times, so that Mengmeng had a long memory, who knew that this little guy ran to Cao Zhenghu and shouted for the old man to make the decision for her.

She discovered a little secret, when her parents threatened to beat her, as long as she ran to the old grandfather to hide, her father and mother would not beat her, this little discovery made Meng Meng proud for a long time.

But Cao Zhenghu has lived a long time, he is like a mirror in his heart, for the naughty cuteness, as long as he doesn't make a big mistake, he will turn a blind eye.

But there is no naughty mischievous man, sometimes, Cao Zhenghu will tell Mengmeng some simple truths.

He believes that Meng Meng may not understand now, but as he grows older, there will always be a day when he understands.

Time continues to go back, seeing that the New Year is coming to an end, the temperature begins to slowly rise, and the sun shines during the day, I feel warm and comfortable.

This morning, after Cao Shujie came back from walking his dog, he had some food at home, and then led Da Hei and Er Hei to the mountain.

Recently, the 136 calves that were just sent over after the New Year were full of food and drink and adapted to the sexual environment, and they were very happy to run their Ali, but this added a heavy burden to Cao Shujie and them.

Cao Shujie has a total of 117 acres of land here, but there are too few calves, and Cao Shujie and they have found many times that they can't catch the dog who is happy, so they have to consider external helpers.

The first helper Cao Shujie remembered was the dog at home, and he thought that the dog must be able to run so fast.

Cheng Xiaolin cleaned up the housework at home, Mengmeng spilled a bag of toys on the ground in the living room, she sat in the middle of the toys, played with this for a while, and went to see that one for a while.

After Cheng Xiaolin saw it, she also told her: "Mengmeng, if you don't play for a while, just put away all the toys, or I'll throw them in the trash can for you when I turn around." ”

"Oh!" Meng Meng responded, not knowing that she really understood from time to time, and then took a realistic excavator and began to fiddle.

But before a few clicks, the bucket of the excavator was broken down by her, Meng Meng looked at the bucket in her hand a little blind, and then looked at the bare rocker arm in front of the excavator, she wondered what was going on?

"Look, old man, it's broken." Meng Meng pouted and said very aggrieved.

Cao Zhenghu didn't know how to fix this thing, he looked at his great-granddaughter and wanted to cry, so he said to her: "Mengmeng, let's go, grandpa will take you to the village for a walk." ”

"Okay." Mengmeng was happy when she heard that she was going out to play.

But I didn't forget to sit up and put the toys in the plastic bag.

After she finished cleaning up, she dragged the plastic bag containing the toys to the utility room, and then ran out to Cao Zhenghu and said, "Grandpa, I've packed it up." ”

"Isn't it, Mengmeng is really a sensible and good boy." Cao Zhenghu praised her.

Looking at the sun outside, Cao Zhenghu said again: "Then let's go, and we'll be back later." ”

Meng Meng nodded: "Okay." ”

"Do you want to walk?" Before going out, Meng Meng also asked.

Cao Zhenghu shook his head: "Let's ride a tricycle." ”

He was very athletic, and he did not look old at all when he walked, and he did not look more than 80 years old.

When she was about to go out, Mengmeng also knew to say to her mother: "Mom, I'm going to go out with my grandfather." ”

"Mengmeng, where are you going with grandpa?" Cheng Xiaolin asked her.

Meng Meng looked at her mother with a smile, she didn't know.

Cao Zhenghu said: "Linlin, I'll take Mengmeng to our old mansion to have a look and talk to a few old guys." ”

"Okay, grandpa, you ride slowly." Cheng Xiaolin told him.

She wasn't worried that Cao Zhenghu wouldn't ride an electric tricycle.

In fact, Cao Zhenghu rode quite steadily, but the speed was not fast.

Carrying Mengmeng into the car, Cao Zhenghu rode an electric tricycle, set the speed of the third gear to the lowest gear, and the grandfather and grandson walked out slowly.

At this time, the sun was already hanging in the air, and the sun was shining on the body, warm and warm, and I didn't feel cold.

Cao Zhenghu didn't ride fast, took his great-granddaughter to the street, and when he saw someone, he stopped the car and chatted with the other party.

Meng Meng will also be very sensible in the car body at this time.

"Brother Tiger, go to my house for some drinks at noon." When Cao Zhenghu took Mengmeng to ride through the compound of the village committee, several people from the village committee had just finished the work meeting on "coping with the economic development of agriculture, agriculture and agriculture" and were walking out of the compound.

When he saw Cao Zhenghu, several people called out to him and greeted him.

Accountant Cao Zhengyin took the lead in calling him to go to his home for dinner.

But Cao Zhenghu refused, he looked at a few people who came out of the compound, pointed to Meng Meng sitting in the car body, and said: "Jiangang, Zhengyin, I'll take Meng Meng out to play, her mother is already cooking at home, we have to go back later." ”

"Uncle Tiger, go to me at noon, I'll call Shujie later and ask him to come over." Cao Jiangang said with a small calculation in his heart.

But Cao Zhenghu still didn't go, he said: "I'll take Mengmeng for a walk." ”

After finishing speaking, Cao Zhenghu did not stay any longer and continued to walk south.

He knew that these people had a lot of eyes and didn't want to be calculated by them.

(End of chapter)