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Sure enough, in the next month or so, the two drizzles that the villagers of Dawan Village were looking forward to with great difficulty did not even water the soil in the field.

On the one hand, Luo Meng arranged for manpower to plant a batch of vegetables, and on the other hand, he brought a few people to work on improving the irrigation system of Niuwang Village.Originally, the ditches they built on the hillsides and fields in Niuwangzhuang were all sloped, and the mountains and water flowed along the slope of the ditch bottom. Has no water storage capacity.

Romon's transformation this time is to build small dams one after another in the ditch, and use these small dams to intercept small reservoirs one after another in the ditch. Although these pools are not big, their water storage capacity is also great. Not to be underestimated, especially without taking up any more space.

When it is really dry, the spring water on the mountain will become very thin. The function of these pools is to retain as much mountain water as possible, so that Niuwangzhuang will have water available for two irrigations every morning and evening.

In the fourth month of the lunar calendar, many large and small loquat fruits have been hung on the loquat trees in Niuwangzhuang. If there is no accident, they will mature one after another in less than a month.

The situation in the village is very bad. As the weather gets hotter and the fields become drier, farmers who have planted rice have to inspect the fields twice a day in the morning and evening, and sometimes at noon, for fear that one of them will not Be careful if the field is dry, the rice in the field will be sunburned to death.The ridges of every household have been reinforced repeatedly, and the ditches that diverted water from the mountains have been repaired and repaired again and again.

Those who grow vegetables at home have to start heavy watering work every day. I heard that the prices of vegetables in the town have started to rise. In the past this season, the price of small cabbage that cost only one or two yuan per catty has also increased to four yuan. , for a small mountain town, the price has almost caught up with the price of the Spring Festival.

On Niuwang Village, when the rice seedlings in the rice fields grew stronger, Luo Meng called the number Du Guodong had given him and ordered a batch of crab seedlings.Sure enough, as Du Guodong said, although the price of the crab seedlings sold by this family is not favorable, the seedlings are very strong.

These crab seedlings were poured into the field, and it was still a cloud at the beginning. Within a few minutes, these little crabs all rowed and pulled their thin legs, and went to the field to find a place to live and live.

In order to protect the crab seedlings from being eaten by those omnivorous wild birds, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin found out the scarecrows they made last year, tidied them up, and planted them near the rice fields.

Or how can I say that birds have low IQ, these things simply remember to eat but not to fight. In order to deepen his memory of them, Romon and Xiao Shulin had to catch a few birds and tie them to the scarecrow's arms, chirping miserably The cries soon spread on the hillside again, and within a few days, the scarecrow's prestige was re-established.

"Wow! Bow woof!" Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin had just finished feeding the crabs this morning, when there was a barking sound from the wolfberry grove. Needless to say, someone must have picked their wolfberry leaves as wild vegetables again .

Spring comes and everything blooms. Although the spring rain this year is not very sufficient, it does not affect the vitality of the flowers, plants and trees on this mountain.The goji groves around Niuwangzhuang have sprouted new branches, and many tender green leaves grow out. Goji berry leaves are very delicious dishes, not to mention the young leaves from the goji trees in Niuwangzhuang that have absorbed enough spiritual spring water.

In order to prevent his wolfberry trees from being plucked into bald poles, Luo Meng has long let Namao's litter of border collies take on the task of border defense in Niuwangzhuang.There are two big dogs and one small dog in this litter. Both big and small dogs are workaholics. They like to prove the value of their existence through work. When they first came to Niuwangzhuang, they were really suffocated.

"Hammer! What's the matter?" Luo Menghe put down the bucket when he heard the movement, and walked towards the wolfberry forest.Even if he understood it in his heart, he still had to ask it out of his mouth. After all, he didn't really say that to the male dog named Hammer.

"Is this your dog?" Outside the medlar grove, two middle-aged women and an eleven or twelve-year-old girl were standing, both carrying red and black plastic bags, and it looked like they had come out to pick wild vegetables , one of the fatter women greeted Romon and the others with a smile when she saw them coming.

"That's right, this medlar tree belongs to my family too." Romon also spoke in a homely tone, but the meaning of these words was already obvious.

"You are Romon, right?" The embarrassment on the fat woman's face flashed, and then she was quickly suppressed by a smile. She said something about you."

"Oh, you guys came out to pick wild vegetables today?" Romon also talked to them with a smile on his face.

"Yes, the weather is fine today, so let's take the children out for a walk."

"If you want to pick bracken, go to that path over there, and there is a hillside towards the east, where there are a lot of bracken. There was a wildfire on the hillside to the west last year, and the bracken is bitter, so don't pick it..."

"Oh, thank you, otherwise we really don't know where to go."

After chatting with these women for a while, Romon waved his hand to call back the Hammer family who were still on guard, but they didn't agree with him at all. The radiant male dog looked back at Romon, but They didn't move, probably because of the sturdy folk customs of their hometown, if someone was caught stealing their property, they would definitely not give up so easily.

"!" At this moment, a short whistle sounded from the other side of the medlar grove, and with a movement of Hammer's ears, he flew past with his tongue out.

After Luo Meng left, Xiao Shulin checked around the paddy field again, checked the growth of the crabs in the field recently, and found nothing unusual, so he felt relieved and walked over to the medlar forest where Luo Meng was. , if you meet someone who is unreasonable, you have to use his fist to speak in the end.

The hammer family ran to the foot of Xiao Shulin and kept spinning. The three border shepherds were all very energetic. The pup was originally a little thin. It is said that it was too thin to be sent out. , Only then did he stay, but after living in Niuwangzhuang for a few months, the pup was fed with buffalo milk and big bone soup every day, and now he is much stronger.

Hammer is really a very lucky male dog. He has a wife and children, a happy family, and a very gentle and careful little master. Na Qiyun’s child is like his father, who is especially careful with animals. I have to bathe and trim the border collies at home, and groom these big dogs and puppies to be extra energetic.

"Good job!" Xiao Shulin touched the head of the hammer, then took out an iron can from his pocket, poured out a few small round biscuits, and after distributing them to the family of three, poured out a few more and threw them to himself mouth.

One person and three dogs, just squatting in the wolfberry forest like no one else, chewing the homemade biscuits in his mouth.

By the way, these biscuits were made by Xiao Shulin himself. Not long ago, when Chu Luomeng and Xiao Shulin were lying on the bed watching TV, they happened to watch a program about baking. The two felt itchy at the time. No matter what time it was, it was midnight, I put on my clothes and went to the cowshed to milk some milk, got some grain powder, and baked it in the courtyard.

As a result, the baked biscuits were so hard that few people in the whole Niuwangzhuang could eat them. Everyone called them steel beans.Xiao Shulin's teeth are really not so good. Now besides him in Niuwangzhuang, there are Yaya and Langtou's family who like to eat this, probably because they have found a common hobby. The sticky woods are particularly sticky.

After seeing off the three women, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin sent Hammer and the two of them back to their own hills, but before they had gone a few steps, there was another bark of dogs from the other side of the forest. Probably because he had eaten enough biscuits, he barked so loudly now that he was full of energy.

Luo Meng turned his head and saw that the three women were being chased by the hammers just now, and they were laughing and running towards a mountain road not far away. Needless to say, it must be one or several of them. Grabbing some leaves from the wolfberry forest in his house and looking at the figures of the women running away, Luo Meng said to Xiao Shulin with some helplessness: "Recently, people in the town are calling our wolfberry leaves as A panacea."

"It's not an option to always be blocked like this." Xiao Shulin's meaning is very simple, it is better to be blocked than to be sparse.

"Pick a few loads and sell them on the street?" Luo Meng thought to himself, it would probably be fun to be with Xiao Shulin.

"Why on the street, don't we have a storefront?" Xiao Shulin grinned, and threw a few biscuits from the tin can into his mouth and chewed them.

"Be careful with your teeth." Hearing another crunching noise, Luo Meng's heart jumped, fearing that a crackling sound would cause a gap in Xiao Shulin's two rows of white and neat teeth.

"It's okay, do you want to eat?" Xiao Shulin said and passed the tin can to Luo Meng.

"No need." Romon shook his head quickly.

"Why don't you add more goji berries this year, and goji berry leaves will be sold next year." Xiao Shulin suggested.

"Success, but let's rest for a few days." This spring, Luo Meng and the others are busy enough, planting seeds and raising crabs, and planting a batch of vegetables, remodeling the ditches, and working with the old man Liu Chunlan A lot of strawberries were planted by the stream, and it was easy to slow down in the past two days. There is no need to rush the cuttings of wolfberries.

Back in the courtyard, Xiao Shulin really started tinkering with a new batch of steel bean biscuits. Luo Meng had nothing to do, so he picked up the accounts that Liu Caiyun had made in the past few days and looked at them. In the spring, the income was less and the expenses were more. You have to keep abreast of the economic situation of Niuwangzhuang.

"Hello, are you still accepting people here?" At this time, a strange voice sounded from the courtyard door.

"Are you looking for work?" Romon looked at the person who came, and found that he was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, about forty years old, with a medium build and thin body, with a pale face. good type.

"Yeah, I saw your post on the forum." The man's attitude was not very sure, after all, that post was a long time ago, and if Romon needed more manpower, he would usually Say hello to a few old people in the jar and ask them to pull people over, so as not to make too much noise and too many people come in a swarm.

"Oh, come in and sit down first." Romon said, beckoning him into the yard, and moved another stool for him.

"Thank you." Although this man looked a bit weak, his attitude was very generous and natural, neither humble nor overbearing, very different from some youngsters who just came out of society.

"It's all rough work here, can you bear it?" Romon asked him directly.

"It's okay, I'm just a little lack of exercise." The man replied.

"Your body?" The longer he has the spiritual spring, the sharper his five senses become. Judging by the man's complexion and demeanor, it is obvious that he is not very healthy.

"There is nothing serious, but the blood sugar is a bit high."

"Diabetes?" Romon guessed.

"Yes." When Luo Meng said it, the man smiled indifferently, and said: "I used to sit in the office all day long, and for a while I always felt dizzy, fell asleep and lost energy, and thought that I was getting worse and worse. I'm lazy, if it wasn't for the physical examination organized by the company this year, I wouldn't even know that something is wrong with my body."

"What kind of work did you do before?" Luo Meng's heart moved, and a new idea came out.

"I work as a manager in a foreign-funded enterprise." The other party frowned, obviously not expecting that he just wanted to be a small worker here, and he had to be interviewed like this.

"Oh, resign or go on vacation?" Romon slowed down his speech, but he still had to ask the question.

"I quit my job and continue that way of life. It's not good for my health. I don't know the value of health until I'm sick." This man is obviously cultivated. Although he was a little unhappy in his heart, he still seemed very polite when he spoke.

"So, do you think this place is suitable for me to recuperate?" Romon ticked off.Xiao Shulin, who was making the small round biscuits, couldn't help but look up a few times after hearing this, and sized up this future new member of Niuwangzhuang.

"I've come all this way, and I think it's pretty good." The man was a little confused.

"Here, to be honest, I also want people who do rough work, but they are all odd jobs. Those who go to work in the city, as well as big and small bosses and housewives, come here every once in a while to sweat and experience agricultural labor. The physical consumption is quite large, and if you have to work with them for a long time, your body will definitely not be able to bear it." Romon dismissed this person's idea of ​​doing a small job with a few words.

"That?" The other party is not stupid, knowing that Romon must have something to say, otherwise he wouldn't have asked him so much just now.

"It just so happens that my yard is short of a steward, and there are not many jobs. It is just the distribution of daily work. The main thing is personnel management. If you think it's too easy, you can also work with these old men and women in our yard. Work." Romon finished his shot.

"The person in charge?" The man was dumb. If the man in front of him was not dressed too modernly, he couldn't help but wonder if he had traveled to the compound of a certain landlord's house.

"If you don't like this title, we can change it to a supervisor or something." Romon said with a smile on his face.

"It's okay, just call the supervisor." Supervisor?manager?It doesn't fit in with this place. The person standing in front of him looks like a landlord. If he is in charge, then he is just right.

"Okay, what's your last name?" Romon finally remembered to ask someone's name.

"The surname is Chen, Chen Jianhua." Chen Jianhua was still a little confused at the moment, thinking that this matter was settled like this?Is it too fast?

"Chen Guanshi, from now on, our yard will have to trouble you. I will arrange a hut for you in a while, and we will include food and lodging here. As for the treatment, let me tell you, we are in the backcountry. Certainly no foreign-funded enterprise is higher, and there is no such thing as five insurances and three funds, but our environment is good, health and pollution-free, and we get up early and go to bed early every day. Diabetes is not as serious as cancer, but once you get it, it will You will never want to get rid of it for the rest of your life, you have to relax..."

It was rare for him to fool himself with a cheap labor force, and he was also a long-term management talent. Romon was in a very good mood today and talked a lot.

Xiao Shulin leaned back on the bluestone pillar under the eaves, chewing the freshly baked steel beans while trying to recall, how did he get on the thief ship in the first place?