"Why? Dongdong is your cousin. Cao Shujie was quite puzzled.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw his daughter shaking her head: "He doesn't speak, it's not interesting at all." ”

After finishing speaking, Meng Meng pedaled the pedals of the pink mini bicycle and ran forward.

After overtaking the old man, she turned her head to look at the old man and shouted, "Old man, hurry up." ”

"Ouch, my old arms and legs can't keep up with you." Cao Zhenghu said so, but he still accelerated his pace forward, barely able to keep up with Mengmeng's speed.

Cao Shujie saw that his grandfather was running like this, and he might fall down at any time, so he hurriedly ran over and took the red silk cloth from his grandfather's hand: "Grandpa, I'll drag her away." ”

"You can slow down." Cao Zhenghu slowed down as he spoke.

Cao Shujie turned back to his grandfather and smiled and said, "It's okay." ”

Mengmeng's cycling is getting more and more energetic, but she is small and doesn't have much energy on her body, so she still can't catch up with her father.

Seeing her father running with red silk in front of her, Mengmeng thought it was funny and shouted, "Dad, hurry up." ”

"I'm going to catch up with you."

Unconsciously, Cao Shujie had already run to the door of the house with his daughter, and before he entered the yard, he heard a dog barking from the yard.

There was also an adult's voice: "Dongdong, just go over and take a look, dogs don't bite." ”

"Huh? Mom is lying. Meng Meng said.

She said: "Xiaobai bites, I'll see which fool believes what my mother says." ”

Cao Shujie heard his daughter judge his wife like this, and thought that Mengmeng was not far from being beaten.

The next moment, Cao Shujie dragged the cute pink mini bicycle into the yard with a red silk cloth, and as soon as he entered, he saw his nephew Cheng Tiandong standing in front of the kennel.

His grandmother Li Xiaojuan, Cao Shujie's mother-in-law, was standing behind the little guy to cheer him on.

Dongdong saw the 5 little earth dogs in the kennel, and he couldn't take his eyes off.

He thought the five little earth dogs looked fluffy and funny.

However, the four brothers next to Daha don't have a good impression of this little doll that covets their brothers.

If it weren't for the hostess Cheng Xiaolin watching them at the door, the four Daha brothers would have taught the little kid a lesson.

However, when they saw Meng Meng, Da Ha and Er Ha and the brothers immediately squinted their eyes, shook their heads, and looked very happy.

If you look closely, you can see a flattering expression on their dogs' faces, which is really incredible.

"Daha, what are you doing?" Meng Meng ran to the kennel and shouted inside.

She then turned to look at her little cousin Cheng Tiandong, snorted with a slanted little face, as if to say, "Look, how good I am!" ”

Cao Shujie couldn't see it, and shouted: "Mengmeng, what's the matter with you?" Don't you shout when you see grandma? ”

"Grandma." Meng Meng is very aware of current affairs, and quickly called grandma.

"Huh!"

When Li Xiaojuan saw her granddaughter, she beckoned to Mengmeng with a smile: "Mengmeng, have you grown taller again?" Come and show me. ”

"Grandma, I can eat, and I can eat a lot of fruits." Meng Meng stretched out her hands, and the expression on her little face was particularly exaggerated.

Seeing her amusement, several adults laughed.

Mengmeng looked at her cousin Cheng Tiandong and shouted again: "Brother Dongdong, hello." ”

It's a pity that Cheng Tiandong's eyes kept falling on the little earth dog in the kennel, and he didn't react at all in the face of his cousin's cute shouts.

It's no wonder that Meng Meng is reluctant to deal with him.

"Mom. Let's go inside and drink some water, and we'll eat later. Cao Shujie said.

Then he turned to look at his wife and asked, "Is the meal ready?" ”

"The ribs are about to come out of the pot, our mother is frying chicken, and there is a Qingjiang fish in the steamer, which will be ready soon." Cheng Xiaolin said.

After finishing speaking, Cheng Xiaolin hurriedly went to the kitchen to help her mother-in-law cook together.

……

Her mother had arrived just 10 minutes earlier.

Her mother-in-law came back from Bluestone an hour earlier than her mother after buying vegetables and meat.

After arriving home, her mother-in-law Wang Yuelan began to prepare for cooking, and told her that even if she waited in advance, she couldn't let her mother-in-law come over and wait to cook and eat.

After Li Xiaojuan took the township bus to Caojiazhuang, according to his daughter's statement, he got off at the first stop of the township bus into Caojiazhuang, and saw his son-in-law standing at the stop sign outside.

When Li Xiaojuan took her grandson and followed her son-in-law to the house, she looked at the two-story building, which was still beyond her imagination.

When I usually talk to her daughter on the phone, I heard her daughter Cheng Xiaolin mention the newly built house, but she didn't expect that the house could be built so magnificently and luxuriously in the countryside.

She was almost dazzled, and she knew it wasn't cheap at a glance.

When she saw her granddaughter coming back from outside, the longing for Meng Meng in her heart came to her heart, and Li Xiaojuan looked at her granddaughter, the more she looked at it, the rarer it became.

Hearing her daughter say that her mother-in-law had made so many dishes, Li Xiaojuan hurriedly said, "Linlin, hurry up and tell your mother-in-law, just cook less." ”

"If you make too much, you can't eat it, and it's easy to spoil." Li Xiaojuan said so.

But before Cheng Xiaolin entered, she heard Cao Shujie say: "Mom, when you come to our house, you can eat and rest with peace of mind, and you don't have to worry about anything else." ”

Li Xiaojuan heard her son-in-law say this, so she didn't say much about it.

Cao Shujie asked: "Mom, my dad is raising cattle now, how is he raising them?" ”

Li Xiaojuan heard her son-in-law ask about this, she seemed to have a lot to say: "It's good, your father is not afraid of being tired or dirty, he is willing to endure hardships, and he really let him find out a little experience, we watched TV and said that the price of beef has risen by more than two yuan compared with the beginning of the year, if it continues like this, there is a high probability that it will be sold at a good price by the end of the year." ”

It's true!

At the beginning of the year, the price of slaughtered live cattle was more than 9 yuan, and now it is almost 11 yuan, and the price is still rising steadily.

If this trend continues, Cao Shujie feels that when he is ready to sell cattle in June and July, the price of slaughtered live cattle may rise to about 12 yuan.

According to the weight of a slaughtered cow in 1,300 to 1,500 catties, the price of a cow is at least 15,000 yuan or more, and his 50 cattle are a huge income.

However, the investment in raising cattle is not the same as his planting, and this year, Cao Shujie has continued to buy feed, corn, and soybean cakes, and the cost is not small.

Coupled with the manual input, the actual profit in breeding is really not as high as the profit he made from selling fruits in planting.

But this is also something that can't be helped, breeding and planting are two different things, Cao Shujie can have the current scale and income, he thinks it's already very good.

The next step, in the long run, is definitely to buy cows and breed their own calves.

After coming back to his senses, he heard his mother-in-law also say with a look of longing: "If it goes well, the five calves I bought at the beginning of the year will grow to 13,400 catties by the end of the year, and there will be more than 15,000 yuan." ”

"All 5 cows are sold, and there are 70,000 or 80,000 yuan, which is much better than your father working outside."

"In addition, I discussed it with your father, took out the family's savings, and prepared to buy seven or eight more calves, and I could renew them when the time came." Li Xiaojuan thought so.

But Cao Shujie had to remind his mother-in-law: "Mom, you can't just count the price, you have to count this year's investment." ”

"I know this, it's nothing more than corn, soybean cake, and fodder."

"Your dad often goes to mow the grass, and eats less feed, and in general, a cow can see a profit of 5,000 yuan, and in a year, it is a little more than your dad earns by working outside." Li Xiaojuan has an account in her heart.

She said: "Besides, it's good now, if there is something at home, your father can also help, unlike when he was working outside, he couldn't help with anything at home, and he had to rent a house to work outside, and it would cost money to eat, so he could save a lot of money overall." ”

This is true, Cao Shujie didn't ask any more.

"Mom, if you buy calves, do you have enough money?" Cao Shujie asked.

"We have enough, the money can't be used, your father has saved some money in the past few years of part-time work, and it doesn't cost much to eat and drink at home, how can you pass by squeezing."

"Uncle." The little guy Cheng Tiandong saw that his little sister ignored him, and raised his head and shouted Cao Shujie.

"Dongdong, what's the matter with you?" Cao Shujie squatted down and asked with a smile.

Cheng Tiandong pouted, not knowing what to say.

Cao Shujie remembered something, he said: "Dongdong, you come with me, I'll get you toys to play." ”

As soon as the little guy heard the toy, a smile immediately appeared on his face, which was not very happy, and he ran into the house after Cao Shujie.

Mengmeng saw her father and cousin enter the house, she didn't care about that, the room was full of toys she didn't want to play with, and there was nothing rare, and her father said several times that he would sell it for her, so it didn't matter if he gave it away.

"Xiaobai, come here." Meng Meng beckoned to the pug Xiaobai, and wanted to play with it.

Cao Shujie took his nephew to the house where his daughter put her toys.

Cheng Tiandong saw that the room was full of toys, and he was directly dumbfounded.

I never thought there would be so many toys, I never dreamed of it.

"Uncle!" Cheng Tiandong shouted again, and when he looked up at Cao Shujie, there was a little timidity in his eyes.

Cao Shujie pointed to the toys in the house and said to him: "Dongdong, you can see which one you like, just go and play with it." ”

"Take it home and play with it when you go." Cao Shujie glanced outside, his daughter didn't follow, he knew it in his heart.

Seeing that his nephew was picking out toys, Cao Shujie went to the next room to get some snacks for his nephew.

Originally, he wanted to get some fruit, but seeing that there were no strawberries at home, Cao Shujie thought about taking his nephew to pick some in the orchard on the mountain later.

Cheng Tiandong finally chose a gun, a remote-controlled car, which is basically the standard toy of the little boy.

I really don't know how I bought these two toys for Mengmeng at that time?

Li Xiaojuan is also very curious about her daughter's new home, she was talking to her son-in-law and mother-in-law just now, and she didn't have time to take a good look at this 2-story building.

Seeing her daughter coming out of the kitchen with a plate, Li Xiaojuan went over and said to her daughter.

"Mom, just go and see it, it's okay." Cheng Xiaolin said.

Li Xiaojuan said hello to Cao Zhenhu, and when she looked around the upper and lower floors of the house, she was also thinking in her heart, when would her family be able to build such a two-story building, maybe by that time, her son and daughter-in-law would be willing to come back.

But there's nothing I can say about it.

This meal was made by Cheng Xiaolin and her mother-in-law Wang Yuelan together, and the dishes were very rich.

During the meal, Li Xiaojuan kept talking about so many dishes that she couldn't finish them at all.

"Mom, after dinner, I'll take you to the orchard on the mountain, and then pick some fresh strawberries to eat." Cao Shujie said.

This proposal is great, Li Xiaojuan is also very curious about the orchard that his son-in-law spent millions to build, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I haven't seen what freshly picked strawberries look like." ”

When Mengmeng heard her father say that she was going to pick strawberries in the orchard, she was even more excited and shouted, "Dad, I want to pick a lot of strawberries too." ”

Cao Shujie wondered and asked her, "Why are you picking strawberries?" ”

"Give Cao Bingbing and them to eat, I told them that whoever gives me toys to play with, I will give them strawberries to eat." Meng Meng felt that it should be taken for granted.

She will definitely do what she promised others.

Cao Shujie really knew about this for the first time, and when he heard his daughter say this, Cao Shujie didn't stop him, and said: "Then I'll pick a pot for you, and when you go, take your Dongdong brother and go over to play together, okay?" ”

Meng Meng picked her chin with her fingers, thought about it and said, "Okay." ”

"What a good boy." Cao Shujie said with a smile.

Cheng Xiaolin said: "Mom, eat first, and after eating later, I'll take you up to have a look, the orchard is very beautiful." ”

"Okay!" Li Xiaojuan agreed to come down.

After eating, Wang Yuelan began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

Cao Shujie helped his mother to wash up, and then walked towards the orchard on the mountain.

Li Xiaojuan didn't expect his son-in-law's orchard to be so close.

Walking on the slope and road up the mountain, Li Xiaojuan looked at the road under her feet and asked, "This mountain road was there when you contracted it?" ”

"What, the previous one was a bad road, which Shujie spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to build, and the uphill road in the north side cost more than here."

"Ahh Li Xiaojuan shouted loudly in surprise, she didn't understand what her daughter said.

"Can you earn so much money to build roads yourself?" Li Xiaojuan asked.

Then I listened to her daughter say: "It's okay, the main thing is that this mountain road is too difficult to walk if it is not repaired, it is too troublesome to go up and down the mountain, and it is not convenient to transport, it is very delayed, and it is not convenient to leave, so no one wants to come." ”

"Look at how easy the highway is now, some people just drive up." Cheng Xiaolin said.

Li Xiaojuan thought it was the fruit harvester who drove up, but she didn't think much about it.

She walked up with her daughter and son-in-law, and after walking this slope road, she walked to the turning platform, looked at the flowers planted around, and saw the tidyed orchard in the north, Li Xiaojuan's heart was shocked beyond words.

Before entering the orchard, they suddenly heard the sound of a car behind them, and they all subconsciously stood to the side, Li Xiaojuan then turned his head to look back, and in less than a few seconds, he saw a car driving up directly and stopping not far from them.

"What is this for?" Li Xiaojuan asked.

This kind of car can't collect fruit either, right?

Before Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin could reply, the people in the car had already come down: "Boss Cao, the strawberries in your orchard are still ripe, right?" ”

"Yes, you can pick as many as you want." Cao Shujie said with a smile.

He looked at the young man across from him a little familiar, but he couldn't remember his name for a while.

(End of chapter)