On the way back, Meng Meng was very dishonest.

Cao Shujie just bought her a new toy music microphone, and Meng Meng was reluctant to put it down in her hand.

The father and daughter were sitting in the second row of seats, and Cheng Xiaolin had already driven the car out of the boundary of Yiling City.

Mengmeng was very honest at first, but she couldn't sit still after a little longer, she told Cao Shujie: "Dad, I'll sing you a song." ”

"What song?" Cao Shujie came to the spirit.

Then I saw Meng Meng holding the microphone in her hand, her little hand on the keys to press a few times, and after a while, a piece of music came out, Meng Meng sang along: "Only my mother is good ...... in the world"

As soon as she finished singing, Cao Shujie interrupted her: "Mengmeng, change a song, is it okay to have only a father in the world?" ”

Mengmeng was a little confused, she couldn't understand such a profound question, and explained to her father at a glance: "Dad, this song is "Only Mom is Good in the World". ”

"That's not going to work, cut the song." Cao Shujie said sourly.

Cheng Xiaolin, who was driving in front, heard her husband say this, and couldn't help laughing and scolding him: "What does this bear thing think all day long." ”

Mengmeng heard her father say this, she pressed the button hard, and there were a few "clucks", and a new melody came out of the microphone.

When the lyrics came out, Meng Meng also sang along: "I have a little donkey, I never ride, one day I had a whim, riding to the market, I was holding a small leather whip in my hand, I was proud in my heart, I don't know how to make a noise, I fell into the mud!" ”

This section stumbled and stumbled, but it was finally sung.

As soon as Mengmeng finished singing, Cao Shujie gave her expected compliment: "It's good, Mengmeng sings so well." ”

"Hee-hee, Dad, I'll sing you another song." It's cute.

"Sing, sing." Cao Shujie listened patiently.

In fact, his daughter's singing is not good, but the child's enthusiasm comes up, and if you don't listen, she will make a fuss with her.

Cheng Xiaolin drove steadily, and after more than two hours, they returned to Caojiazhuang before dark.

Stopped the car at the door, just entered the house, and before he could take a breath, his mother Wang Yuelan said to him: "Shujie, several people have come to look for you today." ”

"Mom, what are you looking for me?" Cao Shujie was puzzled.

Wang Yuelan said to him: "Some are looking for you to ask about planting kiwifruit, some are looking for you to ask about raising cattle, and there is a family of two people who fight and want you to mediate, anyway, there are all kinds of messy things." ”

When Cao Shujie heard his mother say this, especially when he heard that there was a fight between the two of them, and they asked him to adjust, he felt a headache.

"Ignore them for now, I'll rest for a while, and I'll talk about it tomorrow." Cao Shujie: This will be a little sleepy.

Cheng Xiaolin was about to make dinner, when she heard her mother-in-law say: "Linlin, my stewed pork ribs and winter melon should be almost ready." ”

"Mom, then you call my dad and ask him to come over for dinner." Cheng Xiaolin said.

Not long after Wang Yuelan called her wife, Cao Jianguo, who had finished working in the orchard on the mountain, came down.

As soon as he entered the door, Meng Meng greeted him with a microphone: "Grandpa, I'll sing you a song." ”

When Cao Shujie came down from upstairs, he happened to see this scene, and he was still thinking in his heart: "At least for three days, this enthusiasm of Meng Meng can't go down." ”

Cao Jianguo doesn't care about anything else, in his simple thoughts, his granddaughter sings any song well.

"Okay, you can sing, grandpa listen." Cao Jianguo said with a smile.

There was another burst of children's singing in the house.

During dinner in the evening, Cao Jianguo went to the utility room to get wine, and Cao Shujie remembered one thing, the Moutai he bought today had not been taken off the car.

He hurriedly took the car keys and ran outside: "Dad, you wait a while, I got you and grandpa some good wine today, and I'll move over immediately." ”

"What a good wine, what do you say you spend that money for?" Cao Zhenghu said with a smile about his grandson.

But when Cao Shujie came in from outside with two boxes of wine, Cao Zhenghu smelled the aroma of wine, and he didn't say anything else.

"It's so fragrant, it's a good wine." Cao Zhenghu nodded.

Cao Shujie put down the two boxes of wine, and he went out again and brought in the remaining boxes of wine.

"Dad, grandpa, look at the wine I bought for you, taste it." Cao Shujie smiled and opened the half bottle of wine that they had left at noon, and poured wine glasses for his grandfather and father.

Cao Jianguo looked at the words Moutai and asked his son: "How much is a bottle?" ”

"Hey, it's not that much." Cao Shujie didn't say.

He said: "I found someone to buy it, bought three boxes at a time, and gave a preferential price. ”

Cheng Xiaolin came out of the kitchen with a meal next to her, and when she heard her husband say this, she wanted to laugh.

She thought to herself, "That's a total of 240 yuan off, right?" ”

I can't say that!

But Cheng Xiaolin will never stop her husband from buying wine.

Cao Jianguo heard his son say that he was looking for someone to buy the wine and give him a discount, and he really believed what his son said.

I didn't ask him how much a bottle of this wine was.

He said: "Your grandfather and I have only drunk a lot of wine, you remember to send a box to Mengmeng's grandfather." ”

"Dad, don't worry, I bought a total of three boxes, one of which is for Mengmeng's grandfather." Cao Shujie's assignment is clear.

Cheng Xiaolin guessed that this would be the case when her husband proposed to buy three cases of wine, but she still said: "Shujie, you don't need to give my dad a box, just send him two bottles, he can't tell the difference, when the time comes, someone from the family, or go out to visit relatives, he may move the wine out." ”

Cao Jianguo heard the voiceover from his daughter-in-law's words: "It's expensive? Shujie, tell me how much is a bottle? ”

"Hehe, it's not very expensive, more than 1,000 yuan a bottle!" Cao Shujie said with a smile.

Cao Jianguo picked up the wine glass, looked at the transparent liquid inside, and called him a good guy.

"According to you, this cup is hundreds of dollars?" Cao Jianguo shouted.

Wang Yuelan glared at him: "You can drink if you want, don't talk nonsense if you don't want to drink, I don't know if it's good for you to drink some good wine." ”

Cao Jianguo heard his wife say this, took a sip of wine, and stopped talking.

Cao Zhenghu was more open than his son, and he took a sip of the wine glass: "You get what you pay for, this wine is really delicious." ”

"Grandpa, you're right when you say that." Cao Shujie smiled happily.

Seeing that his grandfather's wine glass was halfway down, Cao Shujie poured him more wine.

Then I poured myself a small half cup and drank it slowly with my grandfather and father.

Immersed in happy days, time moves fast unconsciously.

In the blink of an eye, a week has passed, and people have ushered in a warmer August.

Originally, there were 14 households in the village that grew kiwifruit and apples.

Their kiwifruit ripens at this time, and at this time in previous years, some people come to the field to harvest kiwifruit, which costs more than three yuan a catty.

But this year, I don't know why no one has come to the door to harvest kiwifruit.

At first, no one cared about this, and everyone thought that it was just the beginning anyway, and the time behind it was still long, and it might be able to sell for a good price if it was sold late.

But after waiting for a few days in a row, I found that there was still no one to harvest the kiwifruit, and at this time, some farmers began to be anxious.

The 14 families began to inquire about each other's situation, and when they inquired, they found that each other was the same as their own family, no one accepted it, and there was no movement.

They all realized that something was wrong, and after thinking about it, they discussed a countermeasure, and these 14 families selected two people to go to the county and the city to inquire about what was going on.

Some people couldn't wait and took the initiative to call the fruit sellers who collected their own fruits in previous years and asked them if they wanted kiwifruit this year.

After the call was made, the farmers who called were originally quite happy, thinking that they would secretly sell their kiwifruit first.

But when they heard the fruit seller say that this year's A fruit is only 2 yuan 3 a catty at most, and the ordinary fruit is 1 yuan and 5 a catty, the farmer who called was stunned on the spot with his mobile phone.

I don't know what to do at all.

They couldn't figure out what went wrong, and why this year's purchase price was nearly a dollar cheaper than in previous years.

According to the average number of 4,000 catties of kiwifruit that can be harvested per acre of land, this is equivalent to earning more than 3,000 yuan less per acre of land.

For these fruit-growing farmers, this loss is something they cannot accept.

The two people who had arranged to go to the county to inquire about the situation also returned, and the situation they brought back was similar to that of individual farmers who had privately contacted fruit sellers.

The highest price of A fruit is about 2 yuan 5, which is 2 cents more expensive than the next one, but this money is not enough for oil.

"Jianmao, Shudong, how are you inquiring about the situation, what is going on?" Fourteen kiwifruit farmers gathered together, and someone asked anxiously.

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Cao Jianmao shook his head, he said: "I went to the fruit wholesale market in the county, and people said that they would collect fruit at this price, and they would sell it if they liked it, and they didn't want to sell it. ”

"Fart, who said that kiwifruit is cheap, I remember that Director Cao's kiwifruit is still sold for more than 20 yuan a catty." Cao Liansheng said.

He was angry.

But it's no use being angry, no fruit seller is on their side.

"The big guys all talk about it, what should we do, is it really necessary to sell it to them for 2 yuan and 5 cents?" A woman named Cao Shuying said.

To be honest, she is very unwilling to sell at such a low price?

She planted a total of 6 acres of kiwifruit, and if it was sold so cheaply, she would have to earn tens of thousands less this year.

Planting fruit trees is hard work, and I earn so much less, and I am very depressed when I think about it.

"Sister Shuying, why don't we find Director Cao, Director Cao is so powerful, see what he can do?" Another middle-aged man named Cao Shuhe said.

He is 8 years younger than Cao Shuying, and his family has always grown kiwifruit.

Hearing Cao Shuhe say this, Cao Shuying was a little hesitant, she said, "How to find it?" Director Cao said before that the kiwifruit planting in our village is a unified variety, but I didn't agree at the time, so how can I have the face to find it now? ”

Cao Shuhe opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

He and Cao Shuying planted two varieties.

And like their 14 households that grow kiwifruit, there are 6 varieties alone.

It's really the same as what Cao Shujie said, the varieties are very messy and messy, and it can't be sold in a unified way.

Hearing the conversation between the two of them, Cao Shudong said: "If you don't go to find it, I'll try it, I have to think of a way, and if I drag it out, the kiwi will be ripe on the tree, and the fruit will be rotten in the ground, what should I do?" ”

His last sentence hit a scene that the last thing anyone present wanted to face.

Many of these 14 families have a fluke mentality, but Cao Shudong is right, after the kiwifruit is picked now, although it is still hard and needs to be ripened, but if you stay on the tree for a longer time, these kiwi fruits will slowly ripen, and when the time comes, they will fall directly from the tree and rot in the ground, and they can't bear the result.

"Let's go, let's go find Director Cao together and ask him to help think of a way, it's a big deal to finish this season, let's plant the same variety as Director Cao." Someone said.

This is the final compromise.

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When Cao Shudong and Cao Jianmao came over, Cao Shujie was planting new varieties of kiwifruit fruit saplings in the orchard on the mountain.

This is the new seedling he got from Ji Guangyou, the boss of Ji Guangyou, when he went to Daliu Town two days ago.

Neither a red-hearted kiwi nor a yellow-hearted kiwi, in the words of Boss Ji, it is just ordinary green-hearted pulp.

But this kiwi fruit sapling is not an ordinary seedling yet.

Cao Shujie thought it was very interesting, and after he looked at them carefully, he found that these seedlings met his requirements, so he asked for four acres of new kiwifruit seedlings.

The price of this new kiwi fruit sapling is 10 yuan per plant with a height of 0.8 meters.

According to the density of 80 plants per mu, Cao Shujie asked for the amount of 4 acres of land, and a total of 3,200 yuan was invested in this piece.

After Ji Guangyou arranged for someone to send these fruit tree seedlings to him, Cao Shujie and his father Cao Jianguo planted them with their own hands.

At this time, Cao Shujie did not rush to graft other varieties to improve this new variety of kiwifruit, but first planted them all and sprayed nutrient solution to let them all grow.

After a while, when he is almost long, he will slowly improve.

Just when he was busy observing the rooting of this batch of new fruit tree seedlings, Cao Shudong and the others came over.

Seeing more than a dozen people coming to his orchard, looking at the hurried looks on their faces, Cao Shujie still wondered what was going on?

"Director Cao, you must help." The first time Cao Shudong saw Cao Shujie, he shouted loudly.

This made Cao Shujie even more confused: "You guys say slowly, what's wrong?" ”

Cao Shuying said quickly: "Director Cao, that's the case. ”

She told Cao Shujie about the fact that this year's kiwifruit could not be sold at a price, and then told Cao Shujie about the results of Cao Shudong and Cao Jianmao who went to the county to inquire.

After saying everything, Cao Shuying said with some embarrassment: "Director Cao, can you help ask?" ”

"And this?" Cao Shujie frowned.

"I haven't heard of it," he said. ”

This made Cao Shudong feel very uncomfortable.

Looking at Director Cao's appearance, the kiwifruit in his orchard did not encounter any accidents at all.

"Director Cao, you also know some fruit harvesters, can you help me ask why the purchase price of kiwifruit is so low this year? Is there something wrong? We're also good at changing. Cao Shuhe asked.

"Okay!" Cao Shujie nodded.

None of this is a problem.

Cao Shujie stood up and went to the faucet next to him to wash his hands, then took out his mobile phone and started calling.

He considered that Zuo Le mainly collects high-quality fruits, and he may not be too sensitive to the market information of this ordinary fruit, so he called Nie Bin.

(End of chapter)