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On the day of the cattle delivery, Hu Qunfeng and his group went to join in the fun together. Those who carried the grain carried the grain, and those who carried the cattle carried the cattle. The whole scene was noisy until it was time for lunch. Then they took their own buffaloes and went back.

After the buffaloes were lent out this time, Lao Zhou felt that it was time for him to go out for a return visit. The buffaloes had been lent out for a while, and he wanted to go out to see how the buffaloes in his family are living now.

Recently, there are a lot of cauliflower in Niuwangzhuang, so there are many cauliflower clappers on Niuwangzhuang every day, as well as a batch of tomatoes that are getting smaller and smaller, and various green ingredients, which are said to be favorites of buffaloes. .

When Lao Zhou is free, he loads a pickup truck with cauliflower clappers and the like, and goes to Buffalo Town and its surrounding areas to visit their young bulls, say hello to the cattle farmers, and feed the buffaloes something to eat. Take a look at their health.

Except for those buffaloes who drive the ox carts, the life of most buffaloes is not bad. These days, there are grass everywhere, and one or two cows can be fed wherever they want, and occasionally they are fed with beans and corn. Country people Not too bad.

Lao Zhou paid more attention to the buffaloes pulling the cart.

"How many times do you have to go up and down the mountain a day now?" Lao Zhou parked his pickup truck on the side of the road outside the station, and when the drivers waiting in line saw him coming, they grinned and leaned over to take it from the back of the pickup truck. Cauliflower clappers feed individual buffaloes.

"Five trips at most." A middle-aged man who was very bald was talking to Lao Zhou while feeding his cow to eat vegetables. "Usually two trips in the morning and two trips in the afternoon, rest at noon, and go home when it gets dark in the evening. Sometimes there are more people, so we make one more trip, and when there are fewer guests, we take one or two trips less. We basically rest on rainy days. .”

"Where did they go?" Romon pointed to the ox cart behind, and now there were only carts left, and neither the ox nor the people were there.

"Hey, it won't be a while before the wheel is available. I drove the cattle up to the reservoir to graze." There are more than ten cattle carts in Buffalo Town, and today is neither a weekend nor a holiday. There is still some business in the morning, but it basically stops in the afternoon.

There are few customers, so the queue time will be long. It doesn’t matter if there are people. You can pass the time by taking a rest and chatting. There is also a TV in the small shop next to the station. Anyway, in a small place like theirs, if you don’t go out to gamble and entertain, basically People who don't go to work just chat and watch TV to pass the time every day. It's actually quite lively for a group of people like this to get together and talk.

The buffaloes can’t do it. They have to eat grass and drink water. This car is next to the reservoir opposite Shanshuiren’s house. Sometimes they see that the line is quite long, so they drive the cattle there to eat grass and rest.

"Oops, Lao Zhou is here to deliver fodder, and I almost missed you." At this time, a middle-aged man jolted over from the reservoir, picked up some cauliflower clappers from the cart, and was about to leave.

"What's the hurry, I have to drive there later." Lao Zhou said, took out an enamel tea mug, scooped a tea mug of water from a large kettle at the corner of the car, and fed it to a buffalo next to him. The buffalo leaned its head over to smell it, then snorted happily, and drank the water in the tank in a few strokes.

"What the hell is this?"

"Honey water." Made with spiritual spring water.

"This guy is lucky today."

"This cow likes to drink this honey water, look at it."

"Hey, I also like to drink, who doesn't like to drink? It's too expensive!"

"Less dots and less dots, and there will be nothing behind."

"Don't worry, your family is indispensable."

"Old Zhou, when do you plan to make a return visit next time?"

Lao Zhou bid farewell to those who asked him when he planned to come out next time to deliver honey water to their cows, and drove the pickup truck to the direction of the reservoir. I was too lazy to take these few steps, so I took a ride by the way.

"I heard that you plan to increase the fare recently?" Lao Zhou asked him on the way.

"It's all been discussed. Starting from NO.15 of this month, the price will increase. From now on, the car will only cost two yuan."

"When the price rises to two yuan, those who buy vegetables are willing to sit?" Some people who live on a budget are not willing to even go to the supermarket, and have to go to the grain drying ground in the village to bargain and pick and choose. It costs four yuan each time. , They really may not all be willing to spend.

"Hey, I've thought of this too. Do you know the owner of the small shop next to the station? His son is a student of electronics, and now he's working on the company's check-in system for people outside. This time he will help us. I got one, and in a few days you can see that all the bullock carts in our town have to be equipped with punch cards." Speaking of this, the man driving the cart was quite proud.

"What are you going to do?" This was the first time Romon had heard of it.

"The top-up is in their small store. Aren't his parents in the store all day long? We install an opener on each of our bullock carts. Those who accept cash are two yuan, and those who punch in are given 100% off, one yuan four, Everyone is willing to sit for one yuan and four, right? Then we have to collect the information of turning on the machine on their computer, how much money do they earn every month, and give them five yuan for [-] yuan."

"Who will pay for the equipment?" Romon asked again.

"Whoever owns the equipment is the one who makes it. They also buy the credit card recharge machines in small shops by themselves. We also buy the credit card machines on our bullock carts. They are not expensive. His son recommended us a durable one. It’s only more than 300 yuan, and it can still be charged.”

"It's not bad. When can I get a card? I have to get two too." If Romeng and his family are not in a hurry, they often travel by ox cart.

"No.15 hangs up the phone, NO.13 starts posting notices, if you want to do it, just go to the store and ask him to get two for you. The system is already done. Some people in our family are afraid There are a lot of people, and there are some people who go to do it in advance, and the couple are very talkative, so they will do it when they go, and it only costs seven yuan for a card, and it can be recharged for 23 yuan at ordinary times."

While talking, the car drove to the edge of the reservoir, and the cowherds over there saw Lao Zhou coming in a car, so they moved the cauliflower clapper happily. Recently, it has been spread all over Buffalo Town. During this time, they are delivering fodder to their buffaloes.

This reservoir is much larger than the reservoir in their Dawan Village. In addition, the rainwater has been relatively abundant during this period of time. The reservoir is almost full of water now. It is a big green pond. If it were in the past, the town Those boys are starving to death, and in summer, they must run to the reservoir with their adults on their backs to play. Fortunately, they now have a swimming pool in Buffalo Town, and the children who love swimming basically go to the swimming pool.

The grass on both sides of the reservoir is very plump, and the buffaloes stand or lie down on the grass, very leisurely and comfortable.Lao Zhou fed these buffaloes and drank some spiritual spring water, and saw that they were all strong head to head, and they didn't look like they were overworked, so he felt relieved.

Just when Lao Zhou was about to leave, he saw an old couple walking over from the reservoir. The old man was dragging a trailer with a basket tied on it. The old lady was using a small shovel to mow the grass Shovel the cow dung on the ground into the basket.

"The two of them are from the Shanshui family. Hey, they are rich. They live in a detached villa with a front and back yard and a big roof. They have grown a lot of vegetables now, and they may sell them after a while. A man herding cattle saw Romon staring at the old couple for a long time, and took the initiative to explain to him.

"Are you familiar?" Lao Zhou asked.It is not particularly easy for foreigners to integrate into the local life.

"I'm not very familiar with them. When they moved the soil to the roof a while ago, they asked people in our town to help. They were quite generous. They gave 100 yuan to each person for two or three hours of work, and they often went to the reservoir. We pick up cow dung here, so we all know each other.”

Lao Zhou talked to them a few more words, and then drove away. He also knew that many people in Buffalo Town picked up cow dung recently. The trip brought some troubles, but now it’s better, there are more people in the town who are willing to pick up cow dung, and the streets are clean.

I heard that there are people selling cow dung in the old street. The sun-dried cow dung cake is sold for ten yuan a woven bag.Although I don't make a lot of money, as long as I sell five or six packs a day, I can earn an income of five or sixty yuan. It is also possible for some low-income families, such as the disabled, or those with sick people at home.

The following days passed smoothly, and at the beginning of June, after the national college entrance examination ended, Niuwangzhuang welcomed a group of senior high school graduates.

Now the green garden plan of San Gao has been developed relatively maturely, because the time for students to grow vegetables at school is limited, and there are not many varieties of vegetables to grow. Basically, there are only a few kinds of vegetables that come and go. After planting these few vegetables, they no longer hired people from Dawan Village.

The villagers in Dawan Village have long been addicted to people's teachers, and they still have a lot of work at home, and they are no longer as enthusiastic about going to school to teach students as before. The two sides also hit it off on the proposal to terminate the cooperation.

However, due to the development of the Green Garden Project, the cow dung that Romon provided to their school, and the steamed buns and various side dishes from Niuwangzhuang that these students have always eaten at school, and the water from Niuwangzhuang The milk porridge made of milk, they all have some special feelings for Niuwangzhuang. When they graduated, some people said that they would work in Niuwangzhuang, and they all responded. Maybe in a few years, graduates will work in Niuwangzhuang. into their school tradition.

"Old Zhou, what do you plan to arrange for us?"

"Pick strawberries?"

"Old Zhou! The bayberries are almost ripe, let us pick them!"

"Let us girls milk the cows!"

"The ones planted on the hillside are pig's blood peaches, right? They seem to be ripe, Lao Zhou, let us help you pick peaches!"

"It's a good idea." They are greedy and thick-skinned, and they probably can't even stand up to the big dogs and puppies in their farm. How could Lao Zhou let these guys touch his strawberry, bayberry, pig's blood peaches?Haven't you ever heard of half-children eating poor old men? These are all puberty who are still growing their bodies, and their combat effectiveness is top-notch.

"Then what do you want us to do?" Everyone's proposal was rejected, and they all felt a little disappointed, but they soon became excited again.

Last year, the seniors built a reservoir on Niuwangzhuang. What a great achievement that is. Now when it comes to Niuwangzhuang, the students of the third and third high schools are very proud, because the students of their school built a reservoir here. They built it by their own hands. They dug out the soil in the reservoir one by one, and they piled up the stones one by one.

"Shangshui Village knows?" Old Zhou asked them.

"I know, don't they grow mushrooms over there." The students had heard a little bit about Niuwangzhuang.

"Now there are only mushroom sheds, but in Shangshui Village, except for some villagers' private plots, I have taken over the surrounding areas. For such a large place, I have to pay the contract fee every year. It would be a waste to leave it empty." Such waste is obviously not in line with Laohou's usual style.

"Then what do you want to do there?" The students suddenly became enthusiastic. Lao Zhou is asking them to develop a new project!

"It's nothing complicated, just open up the wasteland over there and plant some sweet potatoes and soybeans." Lao Zhou said lightly.

"Plant sweet potatoes!" The students suddenly felt that the future was dark!

"Attention all boys! Have a good rest tonight, pack your personal items before going to bed, and gather outside the courtyard after breakfast at 07:30 tomorrow morning. We are going to move to the stilted building in the west of Shangshui Village." At this time, the upstairs corridor passed Come Zheng Bolun's full-bodied voice.

"Aww!!!" The boys wailed and howled, wishing they could knock down the roof of the courtyard.

Lao Zhou watched this scene with a smile. When the wasteland on the other side of Shangshui Village opens up, Niuwang Village will harvest more grain every year. The grain will not worry about selling, and it will be sold continuously through the Internet and supermarkets. A red note will flow into his purse continuously.

Lao Zhou has finally figured out Zheng Bolun's temper. He usually only needs to let him work quietly, and occasionally give him some freshness and small stimulation, such as getting a group of energetic adolescents to give him a high-intensity This guy will look very happy about training or something.