Gao Mingcheng found the contractor and started asking about decoration materials.
He briefly mentioned his idea, and then asked the contractor where to buy these things and what the approximate price of each item was.
The contractor is a dark and thin man. He mainly leads the construction team to build houses for people. As for soft decoration, he is not very good at it.
After listening to Gao Mingcheng's story, he immediately said: "We have to go to the provincial capital. Anyway, there is no such thing for sale in the county."
Gao Mingcheng was not too surprised to get this answer.
Trendy things often become popular in big cities and then slowly spread to small counties.
Okay, it seems I still have to go out for a run.
Decoration is also an extremely important part of opening a store. Once the decoration is completed, it will attract more customers. If the customer flow increases, more business will naturally be done.
Gao Mingcheng also asked about the completion date of the house's hard decoration so that he could arrange the time to go to the provincial capital. When he learned that it would take about a month to complete the hard decoration, Gao Mingcheng didn't rush for the time being.
He planned to wait for Xiao Jinfeng to bring back the sugar orange saplings, and then ask Xiao Jinfeng's transportation company if it would go to the provincial capital. If it went to the provincial capital, then he would take Xiao Jinfeng's car there, and then use a truck after he bought the decoration materials. Transport them back together.
He is considered a car owner now. If he wants to drive a tractor to the provincial capital, that's fine, but it will be very slow. The truck will take about four or five hours to drive, and the tractor will take a few more hours anyway.
If you drive a tractor, you can't go there and back on the same day, and if you encounter bad weather, you can only suffer like this, because unlike a truck, a tractor has a cabin to protect it from wind and rain.
After leaving his new house, Gao Mingcheng bought some shelf-stable snacks and then returned home.
There are many things going on at home right now, and the most important thing is picking tea seeds.
After Gao Mingcheng came back from the medicine fair last year, he devoted himself to picking tea seeds. This year is the same. People in the village have already started picking tea seeds. The reason why Gao Mingcheng is not in such a hurry is because he has no intention of arguing with the villagers. Going to fight for the tea seeds on the hill, his goal is the tea seeds in the deep mountains.
There are vast forests of wild camellia oleifera in the deep mountains. As long as people get there, they can just grab a sack!
Last year, Gao Mingcheng collected thousands of catties of tea seeds in the mountains near Gaojiacun. Now he has covered a wider area and found more camellia oleifera forests.
As long as he is willing, he will definitely be able to double the tea seeds he picked up this year.
When I got home, it was only noon.
But Duomei is not at home, and there is nothing to eat at home, only some porridge leftover from the morning.
He knew that many beauties might have eaten together at Dong Feixia's place. He was too lazy to cook, so he made a bowl of cold porridge and paired it with the snacks he just bought today, and it was a lunch.
After deceiving the internal organs, Gao Mingcheng took two sacks and prepared to enter the mountain.
The black tigers and elves have been surrounding him since he came back, and now they are following him into the mountains. Gao Mingcheng did not scold them, just follow him if you like.
He ran fast all the way, and when he encountered steep slopes, he had to climb with bare hands. When he encountered deep ditches, he jumped if he could, and had to take a detour if he couldn't.
He has good physical fitness and fast speed, but fortunately Black Tiger and Elf are also two good dogs with rich experience in going into the mountains. They followed closely all the way, so half an hour later, one person and two dogs arrived at a wild Camellia oleifera forest.
This sunny hillside is covered with Camellia oleifera trees. These trees are high and low, and they all bear fruits.
This year's dry weather has reduced fruit production, but Camellia oleifera fruits are born in the first half of the year and mature over several months, so there are still a lot of Camellia oleifera fruits, but they are much smaller.
When the weather is good, a camellia oleifera fruit will contain two or three plump tea seeds. However, this year's camellia oleifera fruit is small in size. After being broken open, there is usually only one tea seed inside. If there are two, they are also very small.
It has been several days since the frost, and the camellia trees are covered with tea seeds, some of which are infested with insects, and some of the husks have burst open, revealing the dark tea seeds inside.
Tea seeds are black, but if you peel off the hard skin, there are tender green or tender yellow kernels inside, and tea oil is found in this kernel.
After arriving at the destination, Gao Mingcheng began to bend down to work, intending to pick up the intact ones from the ground first. While he was working, the two dogs were playing nearby.
When Gao Mingcheng was picking tea seeds, he encountered some hornet's nests on the treetops.
When Camellia oleifera blooms, there are many flowers, a long flowering period, and a large flow of nectar. It is originally a good nectar source, but bees cannot collect Camellia oleifera nectar. Once it is harvested by mistake, the seeds will rot.
But everything has its own reason for survival. Bees cannot pollinate tea trees, but wasps can.
In winter, when there are few flowers, wasps will come to the Camellia oleifera forest to forage and build nests.
Gao Mingcheng did not provoke the wasp intentionally. The wasp stings very painfully and contains certain toxins. He had no intention of trying the law, and he was too lazy to run to save his life.
Perhaps he passed on the idea of peaceful coexistence to the wasps, but the wasps did not attack him harshly. When Gao Mingcheng walked around a wasp nest and picked out a few plump camellia seeds, the wasps buzzed in front of his eyes. Flying buzzingly.
The so-called dancing on the tip of a knife is probably the same.
Gao Mingcheng spent the entire afternoon collecting tea seeds in the mountains. After the sacks he brought were filled, he was ready to go home.
The sack was very big, weighing about a hundred kilograms when full.
Gao Mingcheng walked quickly with a bag on his shoulder.
The two dogs quickly followed behind, for fear of falling behind.
When you get home, spread out the tea seeds on a clean cement floor and dry them in the sun. After the camellia seeds are exposed to the sun, the outer shell of the camellia seeds will crack, making it easy to clean out the tea seeds inside.
Gao Mingcheng is very familiar with this job and does it with great care.
He eats tea oil most of the year because he can get a lot of tea oil.
After picking these two bags, Gao Mingcheng stopped going into the mountains. Nowadays, the days are short and the nights are long. It gets dark early. The mountain roads are complicated and it is easy to get lost when it gets dark.
While there was still some time, he strolled towards Xiaofushan. Xiaofushan had changed a lot, and everything was bare.
There is still water in the pond at the foot of the mountain, but there is not much water. It has already passed the frost, but there is still no sign of rain. The water level of the groundwater has dropped. Not to mention the well water in the old village, even Gaoming The well water in Cheng's home has also dropped much lower than before.
He looked up at the clouds with glow in the sky and frowned slightly.
The clouds are thin and clear, and don't contain much water. You can tell at a glance that there won't be any rain for the time being.
In the next few days, Gao Mingcheng went into the mountains to pick camellia seeds. There are never too many camellia seeds. As long as you can pick them, you must pick them and take them home.
Some families in the village grow rapeseed and use the rapeseed to squeeze oil. Rapeseed oil is also very fragrant for cooking, and is best used for frying fish.
This chapter was written while I was half asleep. I don’t know if there is something wrong with me. I can’t stand it anymore, so I go to sleep. Good night.
(End of chapter)
