After the Mid-Autumn Festival, people in the county are busy working, studying, and doing business, while people in the countryside are also busy harvesting, collecting and selling medicines.

The empty room of Gao Zhuang's house was already full of all kinds of medicinal herbs.

Last year, we had already collected medicinal herbs from other surrounding villages, and this year, after the news spread, people from farther villages sent medicinal herbs to sell.

Gao Zhuang got Gao Mingcheng's order, as long as the quality of the medicinal materials was good, he would accept them.

Gao Mingcheng gave him two thousand yuan in cash before, which was used to collect medicinal materials, but it was quickly used up, and he asked Gao Mingcheng for some cash.

Doing business like this, everyone knows that it will definitely be able to make money, but the capital to start a business can stop many people.

Early the next morning after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Gao Mingcheng sent many Mei and Gao Shufang to the county, and then returned to the village.

Since he had another quarrel with his father, he decided to invite two more people to do things, and in the future, the affairs of the village would be handed over to them, so that he could reduce the number of times he returned to the village.

Before, Zhang Chengyuan was just asked to help take care of the family's livestock and vegetable patch, and then when he had time, he would go back to the village to work for a few days.

But if he had two more people now, he would have had a lot easier.

As for the wages to be paid, they are nothing to him.

So Gao Mingcheng found Zhang Chengyuan's next-door neighbor Chen Dasong.

Chen Dasong, who is also a foreigner, said that he moved here decades ago, so he did not live in the old village, but on a small hill far away from the old village, with the Xu family as neighbors.

However, Chen Dasong has two sons, one in his early twenties and the other in fifteen, so his family's situation is much better than that of the Xu family, which has no sons.

Gao Mingcheng asked Chen Dasong to do things, first, Chen Dasong is indeed a hardworking and hardworking person, and second, Chen Dasong's house is relatively close to Xiaofushan, which is convenient to take care of.

Gao Mingcheng came to Chen's house and told him about it, and Chen Dasong's whole family was overjoyed.

Knowing that Zhang Chengyuan helped Gao Mingcheng do things and could get his salary seriously, they were envious in their hearts.

However, people are brothers-in-law, so they are naturally different.

Unexpectedly, Gao Mingcheng actually paid his salary to invite Chen Dasong to do things!

"This salary is according to the factory in the county, you first take a few months' temporary workers' money, and then wait for the spring next year, when there are more things, and then take the regular workers' money. During the New Year's holidays, I will also send things and red envelopes here. What do you think? Gao Mingcheng said.

When he invited Zhang Chengyuan, he didn't say anything about the money of temporary workers, but directly according to the wages of regular workers in the factory, but Chen Dasong was an outsider, and it was autumn and winter, and Xiaofushan didn't have much work.

In mid-October, he was going to fertilize the orchards in Kofuyama, and then he had to invite a few more people to come temporarily.

Chen Dasong did not hesitate at all, and agreed, the expression on his face was full of excitement.

Countryman, who doesn't envy workers who can get paid?

But now, there is such a good opportunity to hit him on the head, if he refuses, it must be stupid!

"Mingcheng, you know what I do, I will definitely do it for you honestly, and I won't cheat and cheat!" Chen Dasong said reassuringly.

Gao Mingcheng smiled and said, "I just know that Uncle Chen is doing things neatly, so I specially came to invite you." ”

Chen Dasong, who listened to this sentence, was particularly satisfied.

Gao Mingcheng continued: "The work on my side is also simple, my brother manages the vegetable field for me, and you mainly manage the orchard. There's not much going on in the orchard right now, and if my brother can't keep busy, you'll take a hand. I sometimes work outside and can't go back to the village often, so you can discuss what vegetables to plant in the field, and then I will give you extra money for the seeds. ”

"Hey, good!" Chen Dasong first responded, and then said with a little worry: "I'm ...... I haven't managed fruit trees properly, and I don't know if I can get them. ”

Gao Mingcheng glanced at the front and back of the Chen family's house, where a few local tangerine trees were planted in front of the house, and a jujube tree was planted behind the house.

This jujube tree is also a local variety, very small, but it tastes good, and the Chen family can also get some money by laying jujube every year.

"It's okay, it's just that the weather is dry, water properly, if it rains, see if it will be waterlogged, if it is waterlogged, dig a drainage ditch. As for the rest, it is to see if there are any bugs on the fruit trees. It's the first time I've planted so many fruit trees, but it's okay, let's take our time. Gao Mingcheng said calmly.

Everything you do requires a cost of trial and error.

And Gao Mingcheng is willing to pay the cost of trial and error.

In just a few minutes, Chen Dasong was already his employee, so Gao Mingcheng looked at Chen Dasong's son Chen Duofu again.

Chen Duofu is Chen Dasong's eldest son, who is just 20 years old this year, only a few months younger than Gao Mingcheng.

However, the two have different personalities and can't play together.

Chen Duofu is not so jumpy, he is a very responsible person, when others are picking fruits all over the mountains and fields outside, stealing peanuts to eat, he is honest and working at home.

"Dofu, do you want to keep bees?" Gao Mingcheng asked.

He kept forty boxes of bees, which also needed constant attention.

Bees will not be able to do much in a short period of time if they are not managed regularly, and if the bee colony is strong, it is enough to deal with many risks in nature.

But over time, all sorts of things can happen, such as the new queen bee will lead a group of bees away from home, such as the bees getting sick, or being attacked by wasps, making the colony weaker, and so on.

Once the colony weakens, then the honey production will decrease, and not much honey will be produced in a year.

So, Gao Mingcheng decided to find someone to help him manage the beehive.

Chen Dasong is his employee, so naturally he doesn't have to go far, and directly let his son Chen Duofu do a good job.

Chen Duofu's face was full of surprise, he didn't expect that there would be his own business.

Before he could come to his senses, his mother was already patting him on the back, frantically motioning for him to say yes.

Chen Duofu thought for a while and said, "I should be able to raise it, I'm not afraid of being stung by bees." ”

Gao Mingcheng nodded, it's good to be bold.

A timid person is not good at beekeeping.

"I have 40 boxes of bees in the mountains, and I need someone to take care of them," he said. I'll teach you how to keep bees first, and then I'll pay you a salary when you learn it, what do you think? ”

This time, Chen Duofu did not hesitate, and immediately nodded: "Okay!" ”

The Chen family got two jobs at once, and they were about to have two salaries, and they suddenly smiled.

Chen Dasong's youngest son, Chen Duoxi, looked at Gao Mingcheng with a blank eye, waiting for him to assign a task to him, but he didn't see Gao Mingcheng speak for a long time.

So the disappointment is beyond words.

Gao Mingcheng naturally noticed it, but Chen Duoxi is only fifteen years old this year, and he can't do anything big.

So he patted Chen Duoxi on the shoulder and said, "Grow up quickly, and I will ask you to do things in the future." ”

Chen Duoxi's eyes lit up, and he asked in disbelief, "Really?" ”

Gao Mingcheng nodded, of course it was true.

As long as there are enough people, there are many things to do in the countryside.

For example, large-scale pig raising, large-scale chicken and duck raising, etc.

In later generations, many chickens in chicken farms were fed with feed and medicine, so that they could grow fast and would not get sick, but after people ate them, they would be bad for people's health.

If you want to raise chickens on a large scale now, then you can't raise them too densely, otherwise you will easily get bird flu.

But if you fence off all of Kofuyama, build a chicken coop at the foot of the mountain, and raise some local chickens, then you will not be prone to getting sick.

In addition, these native chickens will also trample the grass in the mountains and eat insects, which is beneficial to the orchard.

Thinking of this, Gao Mingcheng simply decided to finalize this matter at the beginning of spring next year, first buy barbed wire, and fence Xiaofushan, first, to prevent the chickens in the mountains from going out, and secondly, to block foreign wild animals, in case they break in and steal the chickens and eggs.

After the fence is enclosed, buy 100 chicken seedlings and try to raise them.

Although this decision has been made, there is no rush to implement it immediately.

In the next few days, he took Chen Dasong and his son to familiarize themselves with the work process, and tried to get them started as soon as possible.

Friends, my family used to run a chicken farm, and at its peak, it raised 30,000 chickens at a time.

(End of chapter)