The immigrant village of Yuquanying was originally an uninhabited Gobi Desert. Although the terrain was flat, most of it was gravel land, making it impossible to farm.
Anyone who is willing to travel thousands of miles and leave his or her hometown to immigrate to Diaozhuang is not a lazy person.
If he was really a lazy guy, how could he carve out so much land and build so many houses?
They are all farmers digging in the fields with their backs to the sky and their faces facing the loess. None of them are afraid of hardship or tiredness. What they are afraid of is not being able to make money, not being able to eat, and causing hardship to their parents and children.
Now that the land has been cleared, houses have been built, and there is a place to work and make money, the villagers also have hope for life.
Unfortunately, raising sheep and growing wolfberry are not as effective as A. bisporus.
Raising sheep was okay. Within a few days, villagers came to Wang Zhong one after another, wanting to buy lambs from him. Although lambs were not expensive, if the quantity increased, the price would naturally increase.
Wang Zhong was not an inexorable person. He signed a contract with the villagers who came to buy lambs. According to the bank interest rate, as long as the villagers paid a 30% deposit, the remaining money could be sold to Wang Zhong after the lambs were raised. The corresponding arrears will be deducted at a later time.
After Wang Zhong took this measure, the villagers began to buy lambs from him one after another, with more than dozens of lambs and less than ten or twenty lambs.
There were more than 3,000 sheep in Wang Zhong's farm. Except for their appearance, the remaining lambs were wrapped up by the villagers. These were not enough, so Wang Zhong brought in several thousand more lambs from outside.
Those families that have raised orphans are mainly responsible for raising orphans, and they only raise sheep as a side dish, and they don't raise many. But among those families that don't have orphans, many have set their sights on raising sheep.
There are even many villagers who raised cattle and sheep at home before coming to Yuquanying, and they are all good at taking care of these livestock.
After several years of management, although the original Gobi Desert has not yet turned into an endless grassland, it is much more green than before. As long as there is no overgrazing and the livestock industry is controlled within a reasonable range, it will be beneficial to the ecology. Can't cause damage.
Jintan Village.
Early in the morning, people in the village who bought lambs drove their sheep out to graze.
"Hey, Shuan Men, let's go and herd the sheep!"
Li Dayou smiled and greeted Shuan Men, who was driving the sheep outside the village.
"Brother Dayou, I see that there are a lot of people buying lambs in the village. Now my uncle has also resigned. Why don't you and I get a few lambs to pass the time for my uncle?"
"I really want to raise her. I don't have time to take care of her. Shui Wang and I both have to go to work. Shui Wang's mother can't even take care of her in the shed by herself. It just so happens that my dad can still help her now."
"If I get another lamb and raise it, wouldn't I be unable to take care of it?"
Li Dayou was also helpless. He also wanted to bring back a flock of sheep to raise, but his shed was too big and there were many orphans. Shui Wang's mother couldn't take care of it alone, especially now. The picking season has entered again.
Shuiwang's mother now walks around the shed every day, and the old man helps water and collect orphans every day. Shuiwang is working in a construction company with Debao and is very prosperous. He is busy from morning to night every day. Li Da My own work at the kiln factory has gradually become busy. I don’t even have time to help the orphans early every morning. After breakfast, I have to ride my bicycle to the kiln factory.
"Brother Dayou, why don't you quit your job at the kiln factory and stay at home with Shui Wang to take care of your family's bisporus? It's better than waking up early and going to the kiln factory every day."
Shuan Men just stopped working in the kiln factory. With the money he had saved from working part-time in the past few years and being an orphan last year, he gritted his teeth.
He paid a deposit with Wang Zhong, bought a hundred lambs, and suddenly became a big sheep farmer in the village.
As Li Dayou pushed his bicycle out, he looked enviously at the hundred lambs and one ewe that Shuan Meng was driving, his eyes twinkling with envy.
"Shuan Meng, how much does Wang Zhong sell sheep for this year on average?" Li Dayou asked.
Shuan Men thought for a moment and said, "It seems like there are more than five hundred or six hundred people. I don't know the average."
"Then if you raise these hundred of them, wouldn't they cost you fifty or sixty thousand yuan?"
"It can't be that simple!" Shuan Men shook his head and said helplessly: "If you don't raise it, you won't know. Once you raise it, you will find that there are problems everywhere."
"How come there are so many problems in raising sheep? Isn't it just that they are driven out to eat grass every morning and rushed back in the afternoon?" Li Dayou didn't know what was going on and thought it was the previous kind of livestock breeding.
"My brother!" Shuan Meng said: "That was in the past. At that time, every household did not raise many sheep. It is different now. Many people raise dozens of sheep at a time. When the number of sheep is large, There are a lot of things to pay attention to, including preventing the sheep from getting sick, and paying attention to balanced nutrition if you want the sheep to grow fast!”
"Now every night, I have to go to Wang Zhong's farm to listen to the lessons from the master there!"
"You still have to go to class?" Li Dayou widened his eyes and looked at Shuan Meng in disbelief: "You are already this age, and you still have to go to class?"
Come and try it quickly. 】
"Isn't this learning how to raise sheep?" Shuan Men came closer to Li Dayou and said, "Don't mention it, those few masters who gave lectures are really good at it. I have only raised this lamb for more than a month. , the speed of growth can almost catch up with the one I raised in the past two months."
Li Dayou looked at the large group of lambs in front of him and nodded with deep approval: "They do grow very fast."
"If we keep raising sheep like this, it will only take one year to put them on the market!" Although raising sheep is hard work, Shuan Men couldn't help but feel happy when he thought that the sheep would be sold around this time next year.
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Shui Hua was cooking in the house, and two boys, Ping An and Shun Shun, were sitting in the courtyard, each holding a book and shaking his head.
"The sky and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is vast, the sun and the moon are waxing and waning, the stars and constellations are arranged, the cold comes and the summer comes, the autumn harvests and the winter hides..."
The voices of the two brothers were surprisingly consistent.
"Hey! Studying safely and smoothly!"
The courtyard door was pushed open, and Debao, wearing a gray suit, walked into the courtyard. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but smile and shout.
"Uncle Debao!"
The two brothers stopped to say hello to Debao.
"Where are your parents?" Debao walked over and asked.
"My mother is in the kitchen, and my father has gone to the city." Ping An is still not as tall as Ping Shun, but his intelligence is indeed more than twice that of Ping Shun. He was obviously born less than half an hour earlier than Ping Shun, but he is more mature in dealing with people. It's like being several years older than Pingshun.
"Here comes Debao!" Shui Hua, wearing an apron and with a lot of flour on her hands, walked to the kitchen door and said with a smile: "I rolled out the noodles, don't leave in a hurry, stay and eat a bowl of noodles together!" "
"Sister-in-law, where is my brother? When will he be back?" Debao asked with a smile.
"He went to the city." Shui Hua said: "He left after breakfast in the morning. He didn't say when he would come back. He asked us not to wait for him to eat. What's wrong? What do you want to do with him?"
Debao said: "It's nothing. Isn't the third phase of the project almost finished? I heard from my brother that Minning will build a town soon. There must be a lot of work. I want to ask Brother Wang Zhong to see if he is a What an attitude."
"Brother Wang Zhong said this." Shui Hua said with a smile: "He said that now you have the final say in the construction company. If you have any ideas, just make your own decision. If you have no money or lack of funds, we can help you solve it. , but you can decide these decision-making matters yourself.”
"But if you want to take over the project in Minning Town, Ping An's father also said that it is easy to take over the job, but he is afraid that it will be difficult to settle the bills. It is no better than in previous years. In the past few years, there was a poverty alleviation team from Fujian Province. , with the 15 million special poverty alleviation funds they have supported every year for three consecutive years, as long as you do the work, you can get the money."
"Now that Minning has been established as a town, although there is a lot of work, you must consider the issue of settlement and payment collection."
Listening to Shui Hua's words, Debao nodded thoughtfully,
"Brother Wang Chong's worries are justified. Although our construction company's business is now on the right track and its scale is getting bigger and bigger, if we get stuck on any project and cannot get the money, we will not be able to start other projects. If there is no work on the project, and if there is no work, the brothers will have no money to make. If there is no money to make, no matter how big our company is, the brothers who work under us will not buy it."
Shuihua looked at Debao with a smile: "No wonder your brother Wang Zhong always said that you are smart and you were born to do this."
"Okay, stop thinking about it now. If you want to do it, then keep doing it and just be cautious. When your brother Wang Zhong goes back to the city, in addition to handling the affairs of Shanhai Farmers and Traders, he is also going to work for Shanhai Construction. .”
Debao's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately became interested: "Sister-in-law, do you have any good projects?"
Shuihua smiled mysteriously and said, "Let's talk about this. When your brother Wang Zhong comes back from the city, you can ask him yourself!"
"Sister-in-law, I don't want you to be so appetizing." Debao felt itchy and couldn't wait to know Wang Zhong's purpose in going to the city.
"I didn't ask you in detail. Where can I tell you? You can't just make things up and just talk nonsense!" Shui Hua smiled brightly.
"You sit down for a while, I'll cook some noodles!"
Debao was not polite to Shui Hua. He walked to the courtyard and looked at the two brothers who were shaking their heads and reciting the words. He was a little curious: "Ping An, Ping Shun, you two don't go to school, what are you memorizing?"
Debao attended Teacher Bai's class and had a primary school degree. However, modern teaching does not include "The Thousand-Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Surnames", which were ancient textbooks for elementary school students.
"The Thousand-Character Essay!" Pingshun handed the book written by Wang Zhong to Debao.
"It sounds quite interesting!" I heard the two brothers reciting it, and it was indeed very smooth.
"The sky and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is vast, the sun and the moon are waxing..."
"The sun and the moon are full!"
The two brothers immediately looked at Debao with some disdain, and Ping An even approached Debao and asked curiously: "Uncle Debao, are you illiterate?"
"Who doesn't know how to read?" Debao was immediately furious. It would be fine if an adult said this, but Ping An, a four or five-year-old boy, said these words from his mouth, which really hurt his self-esteem.
"Then keep reading!" Ping An held his hands and looked up at Debao with a confident look on his face.
Debao was a little embarrassed, because he had just glanced at them hastily. Although he recognized most of them, the few unfamiliar characters that he didn't recognize were particularly eye-catching.
"You don't go to school, so you study this Thousand-Character Classic at home?" Debao changed the subject.
The two brothers nodded and said smoothly: "There are also "Hundred Family Surnames!" and the multiplication table."
"Do you recognize the words on this?" Debao asked reluctantly.
"I haven't admitted it all yet," Ping An said.
"But it's soon."
hiss!
Debao took a breath, and suddenly felt that his heart, which he thought was already strong, became fragile at this moment.
Especially when he looked at the four or five-year-old twins in front of him. They were not even old enough to go to preschool, but they were already learning the Thousand-Character Classic and Hundreds of Family Surnames that even he had never learned before.
People are so irritating!
"Dad said that after memorizing the Thousand-Character Essay, he would buy us footballs, and after memorizing hundreds of surnames and the multiplication tables, he would buy us bicycles." Pingshun has a solid heart and speaks out everything.
After saying that, he turned to Pingan next to him with a grimace and said, "Brother, this thousand-character essay is so difficult to memorize! When can daddy buy us a football?"
"Brother! Why don't you be in a hurry? Take your time!" Ping An patted his brother on the shoulder and consoled him.
"Brother, why do you memorize so fast?" Pingshun really couldn't understand. He was taller and stronger than his brother. He even ate more than his brother, but why couldn't he memorize as well as his brother?
"Because I'm smart!" Ping An said confidently.
Debao next to him suddenly felt that he was a bit redundant, and that he should not have interrupted the two brothers just now.
"Okay, okay, hurry up and memorize it. Once you've memorized it, your dad will buy you footballs and bicycles." Debao quickly stuffed the book back into Pingshun's hands.
"Uncle Debao, my father said, it's not shameful to not know the words, but it's shameful to pretend to know the words when you don't know them!" Although Ping An is precocious, he is still a four or five-year-old kid, so how much truth can he understand.
In just one sentence, Debao said that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to hide.
"The noodles are ready, let's eat the noodles!"
Suddenly, there was the sound of water splashing in the kitchen. The two little guys' eyes immediately lit up and they straightened up. They ran into the house, collected the books, and then ran back to the courtyard. Sitting side by side next to the table, they looked extremely well-behaved.
Shui Hua walked out quickly carrying a basin of cold water and four sets of bowls.
"Debao, sit down quickly, and you can eat it when I bring out the mutton toppings."
"Sister Shuihua, where is my uncle? Why don't you see him?" Debao then remembered that he didn't see Li Laoshuan there.
"At the farm!"
"Recently, I have been spending time at the farm. I have lunch with Professor Ling and the others in the canteen over there every day, and I don't come back until evening."
Shui Hua is not busy recently and has time to take care of the children. When Li Laoshuan has nothing to do, he always runs to the farm.
While talking, Shui Hua entered the kitchen again and came out carrying a small pot of mutton, a small bowl of spicy food, and a bowl of chopped green onions.
"Cut it yourself, Debao!"
"Sister Shuihua, why are you being polite to me? I usually regard your house as my own home." When Shuihua went to bring the sauerkraut, Debao had already picked up a bowl of denominations for each of the brothers.
Put two spoons of mutton and a spoonful of mutton soup in each bowl for the two brothers, sprinkle with a small spoonful of spicy oil and a pinch of chopped green onion.
"Save your energy to eat. There are still a few pieces of dough left to roll out. There won't be enough to cook!" Shui Hua said with a smile.
Debao poured two ladles of mutton, two ladles of mutton soup, spicy chili seeds and some chopped green onions, and the smile on his face became brighter: "The mutton cooked by my sister-in-law is so delicious."
"Eat more if it smells good."
"Wait, I'll get two heads of garlic!" Shui Hua walked under the eaves and took two heads of garlic and put them on the table.
Debao is a garlic lover. Every time he eats noodles or meat, he has to eat garlic.
"This noodle is also delicious! It's as delicious as my mother's!"
Shui Hua saw Du Bao's smiling face and chuckled: "Which one is better than the noodles made by Mai Miao?"
Debao's movement of eating noodles froze, and he quickly put the noodles into his mouth. He quickly ate a clove of garlic and said, "It smells different, but it's equally delicious."
"You!" Shui Hua shook her head, rolled her eyes at Debao, and said, "You are already in your twenties, and Mai Miao is not too young. Have you not considered the future of the two of you?"
Debao's old face turned red when asked, feeling a little embarrassed, and he couldn't help but speed up his eating of noodles.
Seeing that Debao was silent, Shuihua continued: "Debao, we women only have a few years of youth. Although career is important, life-long events are equally important. I have watched you and Mai Miao grow up. The relationship between you I also know about feelings. If you really like Mai Miao, ask your father to propose marriage to Teacher Bai as soon as possible and marry Mai Miao as soon as possible. This will give an explanation to Mai Miao and yourself."
Although Debao blushed and was embarrassed, he also knew that Shui Hua was doing this for his own good, "Sister-in-law, I definitely want to marry Mai Miao. I'm afraid, just afraid..."
"What are you afraid of?" Shui Hua said in an indifferent voice, "I know Mai Miao's thoughts best. What she likes is you. Otherwise, why did she let go of the gay man introduced by Uncle Song in the county? The one who had to run all the way to Yuquan Camp came to find you, isn't he? Even Mai Miao is not afraid, so what do you have to be afraid of?"
"Sister-in-law, I'm afraid that Mai Miao will suffer with me!" Debao sighed and said with some regret: "In the past few years, my father and I have been getting up early every day and working hard day and night. We just want to make more money. Let's live a prosperous life, so that if Mai Miao marries me in the future, she will have to endure hardships with me."
Shui Hua shook her head, feeling distressed and emotional at the same time, pointing at Debao and saying, "You just think too much."
"We women are not afraid of hardship. As long as you men are motivated and willing to work hard, we women will feel happy even if we endure hardship together."
"Mai Miao is not a woman who is afraid of hardship!"
"As long as these two couples work together, they will be able to live a prosperous life."
"Besides, you are now the general manager of a construction company, with a salary of three thousand yuan a month, and you still have shares in the company. If Mai Miao marries you, what kind of life will it be if it is not a good life?"
As he spoke, Shui Hua's expression changed, and his tone also changed. He looked at Debao questioningly and asked, "Or do you have someone else in your heart?"
"No, no!" Debao's face changed suddenly and he immediately shook his head: "There is only Mai Miao in my heart from beginning to end."
"That's fine!" Shui Hua said: "Since you two are in love, let your father go to Teacher Bai to propose marriage as soon as possible and settle the matter."
