Another weekend, the children in the village rode their bicycles on the road and played wildly. Among them was Zhao Luxing. When he saw Zhao Danshi walking with a hoe, he obediently stopped his bicycle and said hello.

"Where are you going to play?"

"Go fishing in Teapot Pond."

Zhao Shanshi asked with a smile: "Have you touched the stone snails last time? Is it delicious?"

"I touched it." Zhao Luxing wrinkled his face slightly, "It's not very tasty."

His family does not have that kind of craftsmanship, and the fried stone snails are a bit fishy and not flavorful enough.

Zhao Shanshi smiled and said, "How about doing Uncle a favor?"

"What are you busy with?"

"Don't you little friends have nothing to do? How about helping uncle touch a few catties of stone snails? It costs five yuan a catty, and it's better to touch fifteen or six catties."

In the town, stone snails are sold at this price, but only occasionally can someone pick them up for sale.Zhao Danshi also had an impromptu idea to work these half-grown teenagers.

They were talking here, and Zhao Luxing's friends also stopped over one after another, surrounding the two of them not too far away.

Upon hearing this proposal, before Zhao Luxing had time to speak, his little friend spoke first, "Uncle, do you really want to collect stone snails?"

"Well, but you have to be kind, don't pretend to be other snails, and don't touch me with stone snails that are too small."

"Don't worry, I promise I won't cheat you!" The black boy in the lead was in high spirits.

Zhao Luxing also nodded, "Then let's go fishing."

Zhao Shanshi raised his voice, "Remember to bring it to me before tonight."

A group of teenagers waved their hands and rode their bicycles away like the wind.

When Zhao Shanshi returned home, Li Ping had already arrived, and when he saw this, he washed his hands and face with water, "Why did you come back so late, did you delay on the way?"

"Well, I met some Zhao Luxing. Brother, we don't have to touch the stone snails tomorrow. I'll ask them to bring them over, and it costs five yuan a catty."

Li Ping raised his eyebrows, "Are these kids free?"

Zhao Shanshi said in a muffled voice while washing his face: "Well, they go to middle school in the town. Our management is not strict here, and there is no homework on weekends. Every weekend, they go to one village to have fun. "

"How much pocket money do they have?"

"Not much, and I haven't heard of any parent who loves to spoil their children. They give enough food expenses, at most five yuan a week." Zhao Danshi saw it, "Brother? What do you want to do?"

"Why not, give them a chance to make money." Li Ping smiled, and after he finished washing his face and towels, he poured out the water in the basin and cleaned the basin again, "Get ready to make lunch , I will help you."

The old man took DouDou out to play, but he hasn't come back yet.

Zhao Danshi is still practicing knife skills recently, and now he is still seeking to cut vegetables to be uniform in thickness, thickness, and length, and to be uniform and not sticky.

He used to love to cook, especially on weekends. From time to time, he would cook two good dishes by himself, store them carefully in the refrigerator, and enjoy delicious food for most of the week.

It's good now, let him be a professional cook, he can't stand it.

If you want to succeed in any field, you have to put in arduous efforts. It’s okay in normal times, but it’s really a bit torturous to work so hard when the farm work is heavy.

Zhao Shanshi sighed, "Senior brother, how about eating three shredded cold salad, shredded cabbage and fried pork for lunch?"

"Row."

When they came back from work in the afternoon, a large group of teenagers were already waiting noisily in the yard. There was a big bamboo basket in the middle of the yard, which was filled with stone snails the size of a thumb, and each of them seemed to be very fleshy.

Seeing such a small white dough boy, the group of teenagers surrounded his cradle one by one to tease him.

Doudou also cooperated, grinning and laughing hahaha from time to time, and his eyes were bent like angels.

The old man took a pocket to talk to them, and when he saw Zhao Danshi and Li Ping coming back, the old man raised his voice and shouted: "Yunyun, Ah Ping, Heizi and the others have brought stone snails."

"Hey, I got it." Zhao Shanshi said to the group of teenagers, "Sit down, I'll wash your face first."

Zhao Shanshi took Li Bing's hoe, put it together with the hoe in his hand in the utility room, then turned around and washed his face and hands with the water Li Bing had whipped up.

Heizi, who had talked to him in the morning, responded loudly, "Hey!" Then he turned his head to tease DouDou again.

Zhao Shanshi came out after washing his face, went to the living room, took out the scale, put down the bucket, pressed it to peel the skin, and then poured the stone snails in, "There are so many, where did you get the stone snails?"

"I touched it all the way up along the teapot pool."

The electronic scale flashed and gave out the number quickly. Zhao Danshi glanced at it, "Hey, 21 catties?"

The black boy was a little nervous, "Well, I accidentally got too much. Uncle, if you don't accept it, we will take it back."

"It's okay." Zhao Danshi reassured him, went back to the house and took out [-] yuan, "you can divide it among yourself."

The teenagers huddled in the courtyard seemed a little excited for a moment, Heizi said: "Uncle, next time you want to fish for stone snails, you can come to us."

"It won't be fished in a short time, and five yuan a catty is not cheap." Zhao Danshi smiled at them, "But there is another business, I don't know if you will do it."

"what business?"

"Watering, fertilizing, weeding the vegetable fields, and fencing the ponds cost 50 yuan a day, but I don't ask anyone here, I will only accept you if you do a good job. How about it? Do you want to come?" try?"

It was Li Ping who came up with the idea. Here, adults do plastering for only 80 yuan a day, which is a very generous price.

They really want to find an adult, but now that everyone's family is busy with farming, they can't find a suitable person for a while.

For a moment, all the teenagers in the yard looked at Heizi, including Zhao Luxing.

Heizi asked, "How long is a day? From what time in the morning to what time in the evening?"

"From 07:30 in the morning to 05:30 in the afternoon, there is a two-hour break in between, including lunch." Zhao Shanshi said with a smile: "You go back and think about it, and discuss it with your parents. If it works, come over tomorrow morning. Try it for a day. Anyway, you are idle at home, so why not come here to earn some pocket money."

Heizi and the others nodded, and after saying goodbye to Zhao Danshi, a large group of people went out again.

The old man asked, "How did you come up with such an idea?"

Zhao Danshi pointed at Li Ping, "Brother thought about it."

Hearing what he said, the old man really couldn't say anything more.

Zhao Danshi went to the house and took out his and Li Ping's water glasses, gulped down half the glass of water, wiped his mouth and said to the old man, "Grandpa, when will Uncle Wende come over?"

"It is said that in two days, he will come back after finishing the fields at home."

Zhao Danshi put the water glass aside and went to tease Doudou, "Doudou, so many brothers just played with you, was it fun?"

Doudou didn't understand anything, seeing his father poking his face, he thought his father was playing with him, but suddenly he supported himself with his little hand, turned over, and bit Zhao Shanshi's finger into his mouth with a whimper.

"Hiss!" Zhao Danshi was taken aback, but he didn't dare to pull out his hand suddenly, lest he hurt Doudou's mouth.

Doudou puffed out his cheeks and looked at him innocently.

"It still hurts." He pinched Doudou's mouth lightly, "Doudou, let go quickly, dad will make milk powder for you, okay?"

Doudou tilted his little head, his mouth was still biting Zhao Danshi's hand.

Zhao Danshi slowly pulled out his hand, his wet fingertips were still red.

Zhao Danshi looked around and asked Li Ping suspiciously, "Senior brother, has Doudou grown teeth?"

"Let me take a look?" Li Ping wiped his hands calmly, walked over, and gently squeezed Doudou's mouth.

DouDou waved his little hands and feet and laughed a few times, in his exposed little mouth, a trace of white could be seen on the lower gums.

The old man also leaned over, "Hey, our long teeth grow so early."

"Won't it be uncomfortable to go around like this?"

The old man is very experienced, "It's okay, I like to bite things more when I have teeth, so be careful, don't let him bite things that are not clean."

Li Ping and Zhao Danshi looked at each other, and decided to disinfect the things around Doudou more frequently.

Zhao Shanshi carried the bucket into the kitchen, raised the stone snails overnight, and they could fry them for lunch tomorrow.

The next day, Zhao Danshi and Li Ping got up to pick strawberries as usual at five o'clock. After picking strawberries and watering the ground again, they went home and prepared to cook breakfast.

At this time, Heizi and the others had already arrived, and one or two were holding buckets and rubber tongs and were seriously clamping Shiluo's buttocks.

Upon seeing this, Zhao Danshi greeted them, "Are you here?"

"Yes." Heizi came out to negotiate with him as the leader, "Uncle Shan Shi, what are we going to do today?"

A total of five of them came, apart from Heizi and Zhao Luxing, the other three were Chengtou, Maolin and Zhenglian.

Zhao Shanshi motioned them to sit down and said, "How about weeding today?"

"Okay." Heizi agreed in one breath.

"Have you had breakfast yet?"

A group of teenagers shook their heads in embarrassment. They had heard from Zhao Luxing that the food at Zhao Danshi's house was very delicious. They came here early in the morning with the intention of coming over to eat.

Zhao Danshi didn't mind either, "Then sit down for a while and help clamp the stone snails, and I'll make breakfast."

Working in rural areas consumes a lot of energy. Everyone usually eats dry food in the morning. Even if there is porridge, they will steam some steamed buns and stir-fry a few vegetables.

Zhao Shanshi went to work in the kitchen.

Fried meat with carrots, fried eggs with shallots, fried sauerkraut with pork belly, fried sweet potato leaves, and shredded cabbage, Zhao Danshi cut and chopped in the kitchen, following the instructions of the watchman, sweating profusely.

Li Ping sat outside chatting with this group of teenagers, and soon realized that their grades were not very good, and now he had nothing to do at home, so he rode his bicycle to play around every weekend. Parents are very happy.

Heizi said to Li Bing, "Uncle Li, don't you have a lot of work here, do you keep recruiting people?"

"It's quite a lot. But whether to recruit people or not depends on the quality of your work. If the quality of your work is not good, I will do it with you, Uncle Shan Shi."

"Uncle Li, don't worry, we often work at home, so we must do well."

There were not enough rubber pliers at home, so Zhao Luxing took Heizi to several nearby houses to borrow some.Everyone worked together, and more than half of the [-]-jin stone snails were clamped in one morning.

"Hurry up and eat, and we'll talk about the rest when we come back at noon." Zhao Danshi told them to wipe the table and serve the dishes, then turned around and took out eight bowls and eight pairs of chopsticks from the disinfection cupboard.

Before they ate, Zhao Shanshi had to make milk powder for DouDou.

Otherwise, Doudou would smell the fragrance and have nothing to eat, and would keep staring at them with round eyes.

"It's time to eat." Zhao Danshi greeted, Zhao Luxing obediently took their bowls to serve the meal, and the other teenagers also found their own seats to prepare.

The old man was cheerful, "It's been a long time since the house is so lively."

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