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"Fifty cents a piece of biscuit, it's still profitable." After regaining his senses, Lao Zhou said so.

"Let him go," Xiao Shulin looked back secretly again, and saw that after the little boy had left just now, he quickly surrounded several children, Houwazi put the walnuts in his pocket into his pocket, and took out biscuits He was collecting money again, and he was very busy. It could be seen that this kid was in a good mood at the moment.

"Let's talk about it when their teacher finds out." It's not a bad thing to sell a few biscuits. According to Lao Zhou, it's better not to discourage their son's enthusiasm for making money.

"En." Xiao Shulin replied, there is no difference, he was not a good student when he was young, and Hou Wazi's selling a few biscuits in the kindergarten is not a big deal in his eyes, their biscuits are all real There are no additives in the ingredients, children eat more of their biscuits, and buy less junk food from the stalls outside. There are only advantages and no disadvantages.

"Hey, hooked!"

"What kind of fish is this?"

"catfish."

"Tsk, this stuff doesn't seem to taste good."

"The point of the earthy smell."

"Do you want to let go?"

"Take it back, and then put it in the reservoir on our mountain."

"Can you eat small fish?"

"That's right, let's kill it."

The creek in the town is quite wide, and there are all kinds of small miscellaneous fish growing in it, which is not climate friendly. Everyone’s life has been better these years. Some old and young men like to go fishing by the creek, but they can’t catch any big fish .

I heard that when the water in the reservoir below is almost full, Hu Qunfeng and the others are going to put a batch of fish fry in the reservoir. The people in the town have agreed that when the fish fry grow up and everyone wants to eat fish, they will come You don’t need to spend money on fishing by the creek.

After Luo Meng found out about this, he asked someone to bring him more than 200 catties of water chestnuts from Tongcheng without saying a word, and called a few young people in the town to bury these water chestnuts in the creek, saying that they would wait for autumn When the water chestnuts in the stream are ripe, everyone digs them up and eats them casually.

It is said that this creek in Buffalo Town has a wide surface and good water quality, but no one has ever thought of raising or planting something in it before, because Buffalo Town is surrounded by high mountains. The rainwater on the hillside will gather, and the water in the creek will be turbulent. Whether it is plants or animals, it will basically be washed away. Only those small fish and shrimps that have been tested for a long time can always hide Through this year after year of disasters.

But now it is different. Two new reservoirs were built in Dawan Village last year, and a relatively large reservoir was built near Shanshuirenjia. If these three reservoirs can ensure that the stream will not be flooded during the rainy season After washing, then in the future, this place will gradually become colorful and become the cornucopia of Buffalo Town.

But the most worrying thing right now is not the problem of too much rain, but the problem of not enough rain. Seeing that spring planting is about to start, there have not been a few serious rains since the beginning of the year.

Although it is said that in their local area, the annual precipitation is mostly concentrated in the late spring and early summer, and it is just February of the lunar calendar at this moment, but everyone is still worried. I heard that Lao Du squats by the side of their reservoir every day to smoke, so he is not sure. The idea is whether to enter crayfish seedlings or not.

"Hey, Master, we are going to plow the paddy fields tomorrow, do you think we should let the cows on the farm pull the plow, or choose a few more from those bulls?" When it was almost time for lunch, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin came to Fatty Hou with a bucket of small miscellaneous fish, and Chen Jianhua told him about the Niuwang Village by the way.

"Let's pick a few more, I'll send Jinxi a text message to tell him to go down the mountain early today." Luo Meng said.

"Then, there are also our paddy fields this year. Do you want to take some of the water out and use them for planting?" If the weather is still as dry as last year, the larger the paddy fields on their village, the greater the irrigation pressure. big.

"No need, there are still so many paddy fields and many kinds of rice. The nine-hole lotus root is only enough to supply the consumption of our village, and the seven-hole lotus root does not need to be multiplied. The two kinds of lotus roots add up to about [-]% of last year's. Raise more loach and crabs."

Lao Zhou thought that many people in the village and the town will grow lotus roots this year, and it is estimated that many people will sell lotus seeds and lotus leaves at that time. His production will decrease, and everyone will not have such great competition pressure by then. Anyway, Niuwangzhuang's rice cereal has always been in short supply, no matter how much it is planted, it doesn't matter.

"Have the peach trees been planted?" Romon asked after thinking about it.

"It's almost there, and there will be a lot of manpower available tomorrow." Spring is the busiest time in Niuwangzhuang, and the manpower arrangement is often very tight.

After the year, Lao Zhou arranged for people to go out to buy saplings. Their main planting tasks this spring were Ou mandarin oranges and pig blood peaches. , The saplings bought back were all planted around the reservoir on the mountainside.

A lot of people have been working there recently. The supervisor is Zheng Bolun. I heard that this guy planted trees in Xinjiang before. Although many people say that it is obviously unreliable to apply the technology learned there to Niuwangzhuang. But Lao Zhou still decided to trust their parents. If he had to do everything by himself, when would he be able to become the shopkeeper?

In the afternoon, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin went up the mountain together to feed the monkeys. After going down the mountain, Xiao Shulin drove to the town to pick up the monkey babies. Luo Meng went to the cowshed. After a while, Luo Jinxi drove the calves down the mountain. There are now nearly [-] female buffaloes in Wangzhuang, and several cows give birth every month. Now the number of calves on the mountain is already very large.

"Jinxi, have you worked hard?" Luo Meng patted Luo Jinxi's shoulder with a smile. This young man has recently had another stroke. He goes up and down the mountain every day to exercise, and he is much stronger than before. He was exposed to the sun. He is dark and looks a bit rustic, but he is very energetic, and there is a firm and confident look in those eyes that were always timid.

"Do you want to pick a young bull to work?" Luo Jinxi asked Luo Meng, gesturing.

"Ah, yes, I need to pick a few more this time." Romon looked at the herd of cattle with a smile on his face. Time passed so fast. In a blink of an eye, these little calves had grown so big.

"It's ready for work." Na Maocheng patted the back of a young bull: "It's just a little tender, and it will be almost half a year old."

"Pick the big one first." Romon said.

"How many heads do you want this time?" Bian Dajun asked him.The old boy's twins have already finished school at this moment, and they came back by car with the children in the village. Before the meal was served in the courtyard, they came here to play with their schoolbags on their backs, and they were caught by Bian Dajun. Under the nest.

"Thirty to fifty, look at the pick, they are too young to do the work, so let's forget it for now." Romon replied.

"That much?" Bian Dajun was taken aback.

Luo Jinxi on the side listened to their words, and the optimistic expression on his originally black face was replaced by a complicated look. He patted Luo Meng's arm lightly, and asked with gestures: "Sell it?"

"Don't worry, we don't sell any of the buffaloes in our village." The buffaloes are too spiritual, and Lao Zhou is not short of food and clothing now, so he has no intention of raising the butcher's knife to them.

These days, there are more and more buffaloes on Niuwang Village. The cows can produce buffalo milk, but the bulls are not very useful, and the cultivated land does not need so many buffaloes, so Romon started to provide for their young bulls early on. We're planning our future.

A total of more than 40 bulls were selected that night, and they were separated from the calves that night and locked in another pen. In the next few days, these bulls were put on iron plows and began to learn how to plow land.

Because of the large enough number, the labor intensity of each calf is not very high. For the buffaloes who are about to grow up and down the mountain every day, and can jump up and down with hundreds of catties of their own weight, this is a lot of work. A little physical work is not hard work at all.

Lao Zhou, who has been a shopkeeper for a long time, has also been uncharacteristically recently. Whenever he has time, he goes to the mountains to watch these little buffaloes work. He thought he was going to sell the cattle in a few days. He must have lied to that silly boy Luo Jinxi when he said that the buffaloes in Niuwangzhuang would not be sold.

Regarding everyone's speculation, Lao Zhou didn't say anything, he just posted two pieces of printing paper outside their supermarket while sighing one morning.

"Will the buffaloes in Niuwangzhuang be borrowed?" Soon, people in Buffalo Town noticed the content on these two printed papers.

"Let me see, oh! It really belongs to Niuwangzhuang!"

"Nonsense, it's not from Niuwangzhuang, can you still post the advertisement here?"

"What did the above say?" asked an older, illiterate middle-aged man.

"It's just that a batch of calves in the old Zhou's family are too big, and he can't raise them himself. He plans to lend them to everyone to raise them, plow the land and pull carts, and use them for decades. When the buffalo is old, he will return it at that time. give him."

"Give it to us for nothing?"

"Why is it free? It is said that each cow needs two thousand catties of rice as a deposit. Besides, you can't feed this buffalo when you bring it back. It is so big that you have to go outside to graze every day, and occasionally you have to eat it." Some fine ingredients."

"Two thousand catties of rice? What kind of rice?"

"It didn't say that, but if you buy him the worst rice, Lao Zhou probably won't give you a cow. Looking at it, it doesn't seem to be good for their buffalo."

"That is, if Lao Zhou didn't feel sorry for those calves in his family, he would have slaughtered and sold the beef directly. As for the cattle in his family, would he not be able to sell the beef?"

"Hey, tell me, if Lao Zhou does this this time, no one will have a bad idea, right?" Two thousand catties of rice is not worth as much as a buffalo in their family. The most common beef on the market now costs more than 40. Wangzhuang beef?Tsk tsk, that must not be cheap.

"Eat radish salty and don't worry about it. No matter what kind of crooked thoughts he has, it can't be done until Lao Zhou promises to give him the cow? Besides, a cow is only a big treasure. If you really want to cheat Lao Zhou, you will return it in the future." What good fruit can fall? Who can't think about it so much?"

"That's right. Let me tell you, it's really good to use rice as a deposit. If you say that this buffalo has been raised for 30 to [-] years, the money will not be worth much now. Rice is more reliable."

"But if one is accidentally raised to death, then the rice will be gone? Two thousand catties! Five or six thousand yuan."

"No, it says on it that they will come to your house regularly to inspect the buffaloes. If they find that any house is not well-raised, the transaction will be terminated early, and the buffaloes will be brought back. Two thousand catties of rice will be refunded. When they don't come to the door Well, if something goes wrong with the buffalo, we can also pull the buffalo to Niuwang Village. As long as it is still alive, there will be no shortage of two thousand catties of rice. But if it is really going to die, then they must be held accountable. If you return a thousand catties of rice, the dead cow will have to be returned to them.”

"What if it wasn't an accident?" a voice asked.

"It's not an accident, what else can it be? Are you okay killing cows and playing?"

"The husband and wife quarreled and beat the cow to death?"

"What's all this for?"

"If it's really that unreliable, Lao Zhou has already brought their buffalo back."

"Who dares to kill the buffalo in Niuwangzhuang for fun? Among other things, Lao Zhou will definitely list him as a rejected account."

"Hey, that's all light. Don't forget what Xiao Shulin's father used to do."

"Hey! These buffaloes' natal backstages are tough!"

"Look, should the buffalo be borrowed or not?"

"I want to borrow it. The land will be plowed in a few days. How much trouble can a buffalo save? Our family has a big piece of land by the creek. Besides, our old man doesn't like to go out when he is old. , stay at home all day long, get a buffalo for him when he comes back, it’s okay, exercise at least.”

"Where can I get it back and raise it? This stuff has a lot of flavor."

"Hey, that's okay. There is still a homestead next to our house. I don't know what the boss has been doing all these years. He insists on not building a house. I can build a cowshed."

"Hey! At that time, I will also repair the cowshed to your place, can I rent it out?"

"How much land do you have in total? Do you still need to raise cattle?"

"I heard that the cow dung on Niuwangzhuang is good. I will raise a cow, and then I will use cow dung to fertilize the field."

"Just for that bit of cow dung? As for?"

"And my son, who stays at home after class and surfs the Internet all day long, I get a cow to let him go."

"Oh! This is good!"

So it won't be long before there are many cowherd babies, big and small, in Buffalo Town. High school students, because of the tight schedule, let's not talk about it. Many elementary school students and junior high school students are sent out to herd cows by their parents as soon as school is over. There are also those who pick up cow dung with baskets on their backs.