"Is the boss here today?"

"It's today, Aunt Li, did Yanfu tell you when you will come back?"

"It's today, it's today, Yanfu told me last night, and he came from Haishi at eight o'clock this morning."

"Oh, eight o'clock! Seven hours by high-speed train, two hours by bus, and counting the time used on the road, it will not arrive until six o'clock in the afternoon! ”

"Hey, then we have to wait until tomorrow, I'll go up the mountain today to find out, and there are dates or no dates to hit two poles."

“.”

As soon as the day dawned, the villagers of Hezibao gathered together to chat, and the main discussion was when Xu An would arrive in the village. After some careful discussion and calculation, everyone came to the conclusion that Xu An would not arrive until six o'clock in the afternoon at the earliest.

After getting the news of Xu An's arrival in Hezibao in detail, Li Lao Wu turned his head and walked home, strode home, rummaged in the kitchen, found a few small shovels and put them in the back basket and was about to go out of the door, but was stopped by someone.

"Li Lao Wu! Where are you going to go without breakfast in the morning! ”

The person who spoke was Li Lao Wu's wife, and she brought the cooked breakfast back to the hall with her front foot, and Li Lao Wu turned the kitchen upside down with her back foot. Forget it if it was a mess, the person walked outside without saying a word, which made her have to ask.

"Shh Li Lao Wu made a silent gesture to his daughter-in-law with a panicked expression, lowered his voice and said: "Didn't I say yesterday that the boss was going to come to the village to harvest chili peppers, whether it is true or not, I will dig some in the mountains and plant them for you." ”

"Do you know where it is? This thing is not easy to find, it is better to ask the Yanfu family how to grow it! Li's fifth daughter-in-law also lowered her voice and replied.

"I know, I know that I have encountered a lot of mushrooms when I went into the mountains to collect mushrooms." Saying that, Li Lao Wu glanced at the side of the underground hall and made sure that everyone was still chatting over there, so he put his mind at ease and waved his hand to his daughter-in-law and said: "Don't say it, don't say it, it's not good if someone preempts it, there are not many of these things, dig one less tree." ”

"You bring the cakes, bring the water, and get you a plastic bag" Li Laowu's daughter-in-law didn't ask anymore when she heard this, and stuffed breakfast and a large handful of bags into Li Laowu's hands.

"What do you want bags for?" Li Lao Wu looked at the bag in his hand and was a little puzzled.

"When you come across mushrooms on the road, you pick them and put them in plastic bags! I heard from the Yanfu family that this ghost is very sad, what should I do if the fungus is damaged when I put it together?"

"You know, it's open!"

Li Lao Wuyi threw the plastic bag into the back basket, and then walked towards the mountains while eating a mouthful of cakes and water.

There are a lot of people who go into the mountains to collect mushrooms in the morning, and along the way, Li Lao Wu met seven or eight waves of people who entered the mountains, but these people are all from nearby villages, and they have not seen the villagers of Hezibao yet.

This made Li Lao Wu feel very beautiful, discussing so much about what to do, digging the pepper tree home first is the real thing.

Even if this thing doesn't work out in the end, then it's just a waste of effort, and the last thing rural people are afraid of is wasting effort; If this happens, it's a game ahead!

According to the memory search, Li Lao Wu successfully found the first place where ghosts and sorrows grew.

This season is the season for peppers to grow, and I saw three pepper trees growing vigorously from a distance, and red and green lanterns hung high among the branches, and the smell of peppers lingered in the nose.

Hey! Got it!

If you want to bring the peppers back to plant, you naturally don't just have to uproot them, but also ensure the survival rate of the peppers as much as possible. The best way to have a high survival rate is to dig up the whole pepper tree with roots in the land.

Therefore, when Li Lao Wu was digging for chili peppers, he specially kept ten centimeters of soil near the chili pepper tree, and dug out a square in a daze, and most of the roots of the chili peppers were perfectly wrapped in the soil. Then wrap the root in a plastic bag and put it in the back basket, and it's over.

The second, the third, the second, the third

As time went by, more and more people entered the mountain, and when Li Lao Wu walked to the fourth place, he collided head-on with a person from the next village.

"How many mushrooms have you collected?" After a routine inquiry, the man found out that Li Lao Wu actually had five useless ghost sorrow pepper trees in the basket behind him, and he immediately asked curiously: "Li Lao Wu, what are you doing digging this ghost sorrow?" ”

"Old Zhou, haha. Haha, it's not that I'm old, I can't eat and can't taste it, I heard that this pepper is strong, so I dug some back and tried it. You can't eat bad people anyway, do you? ”

Although this remark was full of loopholes, Lao Zhou did not study it in detail, and after greeting him for a few words, he held a wooden stick while pulling the loose hair on the ground, and walked in other directions, staggering his position with Li Lao Wu.

But he didn't go far before he met a second acquaintance from Hezibao, who was the same as Li Lao Wu, carrying a few ghostly chili peppers on his back.

This person's rhetoric sounded reasonable and reliable, although Lao Zhou thought it was strange, so he just laughed and passed it for fun, and didn't take it to heart.

But then I met more and more Hezibao villagers, and the basket behind them was either empty or filled with a ghostly chili pepper tree.

Seven or eight villagers in Hezibao are like this in a row, not to mention those with normal brains, even people with abnormal brains can react, there is a situation! There is definitely a situation!

Could it be that someone collects saplings that are sad about ghosts? I haven't heard of it yet!

No, it doesn't matter if it's real or fake, if it happens later, I will never let it go!

On this day, the ghost in the mountains was bathed in blood, and there was not one in ten

As the sun sets, a tricycle carrying three people drives unhurriedly on a dirt road in the countryside, and long blades of grass brush the faces of people on both sides of the road.

"Yanfu, how far is it from Hezibao?" Xu An interrupted Li Yanfu's gushing introduction and asked weakly.

"Hurry up, it's going to be ten minutes away! My mother said that the rice has been cooked, and we can eat it when we get back, so I don't know if you can get used to it, boss. ”

"What you are not used to eating, three months ago, I couldn't see much meat in my family's food."

"Hey, boss, you love to joke"

After making sure that there were more than ten minutes to reach Hezibao, Xu An closed his eyes reassuringly and dozed off.

I got up at six o'clock this morning, took Uncle Dongliang and Li Yanfu to meet at Haishi high-speed rail station at 7:20, followed by a seven-hour high-speed rail, a two-hour bus, and finally the three of them crowded on this small tricycle, shaking and shaking, so that Xu An felt that he was back on the bus, and seemed to smell the disgusting smell of vomit again

In the past, many people heard Zhang Dezhen say that his hometown was biased, very biased, very biased, just listening to this, Xu An has never had a practical concept of this.

Now that he has personally walked on a trip, Xu An finally understands why Zhang Dezhen wants to bring his family to Haishi, and why the villagers of Hezibao flock to Haishi when they hear that Haishi has stable jobs and recruitment, this side is really too biased!

As the saying goes, the road is through the money, and there are many loess roads on the road where the buses are driving, and the economic situation here can be imagined

"Boss, Brother Xu, wake up, it's here!"

As the only one of the three who was conscious, Li Yanfu saw the fathers and villagers in the village holding rice bowls, standing at the head of the village, and looking around while eating.

It's finally here!

Xu An opened his eyes in a daze and wanted to stretch, and as soon as his hand was raised in the air, he saw a crowd of people walking towards them.

"Yanfu is back!"

"I haven't eaten yet, my aunt's house is stewed meat today, should Yanfu take the bosses to my aunt's house to eat!"

"My family is also stewed, three fingers thick big fat meat, a piece of a mouth full of oil, Yanfu come to my house to eat?"

"Ouch, let the one in front let go, let one go, I have sugar water in my hand, let me let go, don't spill it!"

While everyone was arguing, a woman squeezed from the back of the crowd to the front with a black clay bowl in one hand, and the bowl was full of sugar water without spilling a single bit.

"I've been hungry for so long, let's drink a bowl of sugar water first, this egg is a newborn egg, and it's very nutritious! The two bosses drink some to cushion their stomachs, let's go back to dinner! Li Yanfu's mother stuffed the two clay bowls into the hands of Xu An and Xu Dongliang, turned her head and glanced at the person behind her, and said with a little smug in her tone: "My family not only stewed meat, but also killed an old hen to stew soup!" ”

After thanking him, Xu An's attention shifted from the noisy shouting of the villagers to the bowl of sugar water in his hand.

The reddish-brown sugar water turned into a golden piece under the light of the setting sun, the white eggs as white as jade floated in the bowl like the sunset on the horizon, and a simple bowl of brown sugar water seemed to load the whole world.

Carefully brought the sugar water to his mouth and took a sip, the fatigue of the day's work was melted away by this warm and sweet liquid. Pick up a spoon and dig out a spoonful of eggs, and in less than two seconds, the delicate yolk will be completely penetrated by the sugar water, and it will be soft when it falls into the mouth.

Yes! So comfortable!

Although the sugar water is delicious, all that comes to Xu An's mind at this moment is numbers.

Zhang Dezhen said that all the chickens raised in his hometown are black-bone chickens, because the eggs born by black-bone chickens are green-shell eggs, and the price of this kind of eggs can be sold for two yuan a piece, and the price of newborn eggs is a little more expensive, which can be sold for three yuan a piece.

With the addition of brown sugar, the reserve price of this bowl of sugar water in his hand is four yuan; One bowl for one person with Uncle Dongliang, that is eight pieces; The average annual family income of the people in Hezibao is 10,000 yuan, and they eat 0.008% of their annual income before they enter the village

Li Yanfu's mother's craftsmanship is good, and although the dishes do not look exquisite, they taste very fragrant.

When eating, Xu Anxin inexplicably estimates the price of these dishes.

A large bowl full of cabbage stewed pork belly, which is at least twenty yuan; The price of that pot of mushroom chicken soup is hundreds of dollars; This is still about two years old, and the hen is still in the vigorous period of laying eggs.

"Boss Xiao Xu, Boss Xiao Xu? Why did you suddenly start to be stunned while eating, is it that the dish does not meet the taste? Or I'll go stir-fry some greens again."

"Auntie, don't use it, this dish is delicious, I'm just tired of sitting in the car, the dish is delicious, I like it very much!"

Xu An hurriedly put down his chopsticks and grabbed Li Yanfu's mother, who was about to walk out of the door, seeing her suspicious look, Xu An had to pick up the chopsticks and take two bites of rice fiercely, and ate a large piece of pork belly, so as to dispel Li Yanfu's mother's idea of stir-frying vegetables again.

"It's really tiring to sit in the car for so long, so I'll let Yanfu take you to rest after eating." After that, Li Yanfu's mother turned her head and instructed Li Yanfu: "You know where the village branch is, you will take Boss Xu and them over after dinner, and it just happens to be eaten after dinner." ”

"Ah, village branch, don't we still have a room in our house?" Li Yanfu asked with some puzzlement when he heard this.

"The two rooms upstairs didn't even have beds, how to sleep. The village party secretary said that there are still empty rooms on the village branch side, the beds are all good and clean, the environment is better than ours, and the bosses can rest better."

Normally, the meal would be eaten in a very polite atmosphere.

However, Xu An brought Uncle Dongliang over, and he has friends all over the world, and Uncle Dongliang, who is good at seeing people and talking about people, and the dinner that could have ended in half an hour ended in a full hour and a half before it ended in everyone's reluctance.

After eating, Li Yanfu followed his mother's instructions and sent Xu An and the others to the door of the village branch with a flashlight.

"Secretary Li, Secretary Li, are you there?" Before Li Yanfu could stand still, he shouted at the room upstairs with the lights on.

"Yes, is it Yanfu?" A young but slightly hoarse voice came from upstairs, followed by the sound of crackling footsteps, and finally a thin young man wearing glasses appeared in front of Xu An and the others.

"My mother said that the secretary has arranged a room for you here, and I will bring Boss Xu and them." Li Yanfu said and introduced the identities of the two parties: "This is our village party secretary Li Sixin Li branch secretary of Hezibao, and this is Boss Xu who came to buy ghost and sorrowful chili peppers." ”

"Fortunately, I will be lucky!"

Li Sixin also saw that Xu An and the two were tired, and after a short greeting, he took the two to the room, told Xu An the location of the toilet and shower room, and said goodbye and left.

Even the village branch with the best conditions in Li Yanfu's mother's mouth looks dilapidated, the toilet is a dry toilet, and the shower room is a lonely cement house, with only one faucet in it, not even a water heater

This is even worse than Xu An expected, but the bedding is very clean and tidy, you can smell the sun when you get close, and the shoes and towels are fully equipped, and it can be seen that it took a lot of effort to prepare.

Tsk, it's only been a few good days, and this is starting to be hypocritical.

Xu An disliked himself for a few words, and after hastily washing away the tiredness of the day, he lay down on the soft bed and fell asleep. Xu Dongliang's room was next door to Xu An, and when Xu An lay on the bed, the next room was already snoring loudly.

On a quiet summer night, insects and frogs chirp outside the window, and the atmosphere is peaceful.

In this cozy atmosphere, I should have slept until dawn. Maybe it was because he drank too much chicken soup at dinner, and a soak of urine woke Xu An from his deep sleep.

When I went downstairs to the toilet, I didn't notice it because I was in a hurry, but when I came back, I saw that the room where the Hezibao Village Party Secretary was still lit.

Xu An lightened his footsteps and wanted to quietly return to his room, but when he walked to the corner of the stairs, he heard the door of the village party secretary's room 'squeak' open, and the sound of the village party secretary talking came from it.

Can the price be a little higher, these mushrooms are all picked from the mountains, and all of them are wild. That's right, it's less than half a catty after a trip into the mountain, this price is indeed a bit low, and the price will rise by another piece, so that each family can buy meat money for an extra meal, boss, and then discuss. Boss? Boss! ”

The beep on the other end of the phone was so loud that even Xu An, who was standing in the corridor, could hear it clearly, thinking that the village party secretary would return to the room after making this call, but he dialed the second call.

"Hey, good evening boss, I'm the secretary of Hezibao, right, I want to ask you how much these vegetables are purchased this year."

"Good evening, I'm the secretary of Hezibao."

Xu An stood in the corridor for almost half an hour, listening to the young secretary of Hezibao make seven or eight phone calls, all of them asking about the purchase price, and then bargaining, but basically when it came to the bargaining link, the people on the other side of the phone would be very impatient and hung up the phone directly.

After the call, Xu An heard a long sigh, followed by footsteps, then the sound of the door closing, and after the last rustling, the summer night was quiet again.

A little bit of Kavin.,To figure out the thoughts.,Today's one more (_)

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