The fairy of space also farms

Xu Ning found a time-honored restaurant, which is said to have a history of hundreds of years, and the two sat down to order.Seeing that every dish in the picture was so attractive, Xun Xu wanted to eat it all, so he ordered one after another, and ordered more than ten in one go.

Xu Ning quickly stopped: "Slow down, let me see what I have ordered." Then I checked the menu with the waiter one by one, crossed out four or five, "Okay, this is enough."

Xun Xu waited for the waiter to leave: "Why not?"

Xu Ning said: "I can't eat that much." A dish is tens or hundreds of dollars, and it hurts to eat.

Xun Xu said, "I can eat it."

"Didn't you say you were treating guests? I'll save you money." Xu Ning looked at him with a smile.

Xun Xu laughed: "Oh, good." It's better to be your own partner, who knows how to think about yourself.

Xunxu had a great time eating this meal, and when he finished the bill, Xunxu couldn't smile anymore, the total was 560 yuan.He slowly took out the money and handed it to the other party, and when he left, he asked Xu Ning in a low voice, "Why is it so expensive?" He used to have breakfast at Xu Tao's shop, and it only cost a few dozen yuan each time.

Xu Ning said: "The food here is more expensive. It doesn't matter, it's rare to come here, and it's a luxury once in a while."

"But..." But I want to buy you a car, so the gap has widened again, and I still have to save 59 yuan.Xun Xu felt that his prospects were dark.

After coming out of the restaurant, Xun Xu was very depressed, Xu Ning was a little surprised: "Is it because the food is not delicious?" He always feels good after eating, and he was very happy when he ate today.

Xun Xu said sullenly, "It's too expensive."

Xu Ning laughed: "It's a bit expensive, but it's acceptable, and the taste is also very good. Let's eat it today, go back and ask Asen to see if he will make it, let him do it."

Xun Xu's mood is still not high, hey, how does Xu Ning know what's on his mind.

Xu Ning only bought two lawn mowers in the agricultural machinery market, but the potato harvester he wanted was not sold. He was recommended to visit the provincial agricultural machinery market. If he didn't have it, he had to order it from the manufacturer.Xu Ning felt a little depressed. Aren't we a big agricultural country? No matter how much we think about realizing mechanization early, we can't develop agriculture through intensive farming.In fact, it’s no wonder that Songcheng doesn’t have one. Rice is the main food crop here, and there are quite a few rice harvesters, but potato harvesters are really rarely used.

Xu Ning had no choice but to go back with Xun Xu carrying two lawn mowers. Forget it, those are almost harvested this year. Let's take it as a market survey this time, and try it when we go to the provincial capital next time.

Buy a recycled mower and start mowing the next day.The students are very interested in the lawn mower, and they all want to try it out.After Xu Ning figured out the mowing skills, he taught the students, and then left it to them to toss.After the grass is mowed, it is directly dried on the ground, and then it is collected after drying, and it will be used as fodder when there is a shortage of grass in winter.

Xu Ning looked at such a large piece of pasture. He raised more than 100 sheep and still couldn’t finish it. It would be enough to raise a few hundred more. After buying the car, if there is still money left, go and collect some more sheep to raise. Otherwise, it would be a pity to keep so much grass.

After the potatoes and sweet potatoes were harvested, the rest of the work was much easier. The peanuts dug out were thrown in the ground to dry. They were almost dry, but they hadn't been picked yet.So everyone moved the peanuts back with stems and roots, and sat in the shade to pick peanuts.Peanuts are more complicated to collect than soybeans. After the soybeans are cut off, they are placed on the concrete floor with their stems and pods exposed to the sun. After the pods dry, they will burst automatically. When you tap them, the soybeans will pop out.Peanuts have to be picked from the roots one by one, washed after picking, and dried after washing. There are many procedures.

There were a lot of peanuts in the house, and a group of people worked hard for several days before finally picking the peanuts, and then pulling them into the river with a tricycle, washing them desperately with large gauze nets and baskets, washing all the dirt on the shells, and pouring them on the ground to dry.Xu Ning looked at the peanuts all over the floor. He couldn't eat so much, and it seemed that it would not be worthwhile to sell them. The family wanted oil to eat, so he just took it to extract the oil.

After this busy period, it becomes more leisurely.During a meal, a student said: "Old Xu, your land is empty, don't you plant anything else?"

Xu Ning said: "Plant, I'm going to plant some vegetables, but the amount is not large, and I will plant them when the weather is cooler."

Huang Jie asked: "Have you ever thought about planting lilies?"

"Lily?" Xu Ning looked at Huang Jie in surprise.

Huang Jie nodded: "Yes, I have a senior. He asked his parents to grow lilies at home and eat them. It is said that the income is very good."

"Really? What season do lilies grow?" Xu Ning asked.

Huang Jie said: "It seems that spring and autumn are divided into two seasons. In autumn, you can plant them in August and September. But you have to buy suitable lily seeds first. If you plan to plant them, I can contact my senior and ask him to give you Send the lily plant by mail."

Guo Shanshan booed and said: "Brother, plant it. If you plant lilies, the flowers will be so beautiful. It is profitable and beautiful, super romantic."

Xu Ning was moved and planted lilies, which sounded good. Not to mention making money, just a large field of lilies blooming, this feeling is very wonderful. "Okay, let's try."

Huang Jie went to help him contact the seeds, and he searched the Internet himself. The price of lilies is not cheap, and the cost of seeds is about 5000 yuan per mu of land. Generally, the lily bulbs planted in the first year will not be sold. In order to expand the scale of planting, we have to wait until the next year to sell. The yield per mu is about 1 kilograms, the price is about ten yuan per catty, and the income per mu is about [-] yuan. This is already a very good income for agricultural products. , but the initial investment cost is high, and the payback period is a bit long, no wonder there are few people planting.Xu Ning was a little moved, and planted a ten-acre or eight-acre plant, a large sea of ​​lilies, how romantic it felt.So the decision was made on the spot: plant!

Huang Jie also got news that his seniors agreed. If he needed lily seeds, he could ask his family to send them by mail. The price was based on the market price, ten yuan a catty, and one mu of land needed four hundred catties of seeds. , and asked him how many seeds he wanted.

Xu Ning thought to himself, let's plant two acres of land first, and 8000 yuan is not much.Ask the other party to send [-] catties of seeds first, and the matter is settled on the spot.To grow lilies, of course, the ground must be prepared first, so he took a group of students to dig the ground. Recently, they were dying, so they did not let the old people come.It has already entered August, which is the most difficult season of the year. The weather is unbearably hot and the sun is frighteningly bright. I don’t want to go out when I look at it. The warm wind makes me drowsy and my whole body feels weak.Except for the one-season rice growers who have to harvest rice at this time, most of the farming activities have basically come to an end. Everyone stays at home and rests, and only comes out to grow some vegetables when the weather is cool in the morning and evening.

Xu Ning's family is also like this. They get up to work at five or six in the morning, stop work after ten o'clock in the morning, go out at five o'clock in the afternoon, and come back after dark after working until seven o'clock, so as to avoid the hottest period.The land to be plowed is all cultivated land, which is much easier than reclaiming wasteland. It took a few days to dig up two acres of lily fields, and turn over several acres of land to grow vegetables.The rest is watering every morning and evening, planting vegetables, pulling weeds, and picking vegetables, which is quite easy.

At the beginning of August, the university notices came down one after another. Some families were happy and some were sad. Those who passed the exam were naturally happy, and those who didn't got the exam, each began to plan for the future.Xu Ning also understands their feelings very well, so he hasn't supervised their work much these days, just following their consciousness.For a while, the hearts of the students were a little distracted, and the students who did not pass the university were a little confused, whether to repeat their studies, go to a technical school, or go directly to work.

Xu Ning knows that the students who are willing to work here are actually good children who can endure hardships and stand hard work. He very much hopes that everyone will have a good future.

As someone who has been there, Xu Ning had a good chat with everyone when enjoying the cool air one night, asked the thoughts of those students who failed the exam, and also expressed his own opinion: "College students are really cheap now. Grab a lot of them and read them." It seems that there is no big future, just like me, after reading so many books, I finally came back to be a farmer. It seems a waste to read. But in my opinion, university is not a qualification, but an experience. Broaden your horizons and change the way you think about problems. If you haven’t experienced it, it will always be a shortcoming. No matter how successful you will be in the future, you will feel it is a regret, and you will try to make up for it. Take the EMBA of various schools, Take all kinds of diplomas. So it makes sense to do what at any age. If you have the opportunity, you still have to read a little and experience the best time in your life. You won’t regret it in the future.”

"Is it really good to go to college?"

Xu Ning laughed: "There are no parents nagging, no teachers watching, no pressure to go to school, everything is arranged by myself, I can sleep in, fall in love, read the books I want to read, play the games I want to play, and strive for my ideals. Wouldn’t it be a pity to miss the most pleasant years of life?”

"But what if you can't pass the exam again?" Someone asked worriedly.

Xu Ning said: "Did you work hard here for more than a month? I see that everyone gritted their teeth and persisted, endured the high temperature and exposure to the sun, and survived. I believe everyone should be able to endure the hardship of studying." come over."

Someone giggled: "It's hard work, but thinking about the meal after the work, I feel motivated."

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Then everyone will treat being admitted to university as a delicious meal, won't they be motivated?"

A student shook his head: "It still feels different. The work is not the same as labor. Go on, grit your teeth and persevere. After working all morning, you find that you have dug a lot of things there. This is a grade and a sense of accomplishment." Go ahead and read, if you can’t find the key, it will be frustrating to read, after class and exams, you will find that you still don’t understand anything, it’s a waste of time.”

Xu Ning said: "Reading is the same as working. For example, digging potatoes, you have to comb all the soil to make sure that no potatoes are left behind. When doing a question, for example, when you see this question, your eyes are smeared." , I don’t understand at all. This is because your land has not been turned over, so you can’t do it. You have to find the source and solve the problem. High-rise buildings are built from the first floor. If you want to build No. The 20th floor, it is undoubtedly a castle in the air, it is completely impossible. So you have to find out the root of the problem, where you don’t understand, just spend time sorting it out from the beginning, and it will get better slowly. Just like digging potatoes, dig one by one, Slowly, a large basket was dug. This is called accumulation. As long as you are willing to spend time and thought, it is not difficult to do."

What Xu Ning said is very simple, but it is not easy to do it. I don't know if those students are touched.Two days later, several students came to Xu Ning together and proposed to resign and go back to study.Xu Ning didn't ask to stay, but just said: "Let's go tomorrow, today we will kill mountain rats and eat them."

As soon as the students heard it, they immediately cheered and jumped up: "Ouye, Lao Xu, you are so kind, you are such a good person!" They had been coveting those mountain mice for a long time, and Xu Ning said that they could only eat them on special days. I thought I couldn't eat it, but I didn't expect to have a chance to eat it. I was overjoyed.

This day is like a holiday, Xu Ning fished eels, loach and grass carp from the paddy fields, and prawns from the stream, killed four young roosters, and caught five mountain rats to kill. It was like preparing for a feast. .While helping to catch the mountain mouse, Xun Xu babbled, "Why are you being so nice to these brats?"

Xu Ning smiled: "No, I have long wanted to find a chance to have a big meal, and this will not be in time for them to leave, so let's do it by the way. Who is the treasure of the parents now? The dishes have never been washed, and they came to our house to bask in the sun and do farm work. Based on this alone, I think these children are cute. Reward them."

That night, when Xu Ning was talking to the students, Xun Xu was listening to him all the time. To be honest, he was also a little moved. Is college life really so good? He said that he wanted to experience it.During this period of time, these children are here to help, although two of them are a little clever, but it is not too much, and they have really helped a lot.

Zhou Shusen was also very happy, and decided to do his best to cook a feast that they would never forget. Guo Shanshan and Huang Jie took the initiative to help him.So Zhou Shusen made [-] dishes in one afternoon: stewed mountain mouse, dry pot mountain mouse, spicy chicken, stewed chicken with mushrooms, braised prawns in oil, fried shrimp with chives, dried loach, loach and tofu . A farm feast.

There were more than twenty people sitting at two tables. Xu Ning brought back a few boxes of beer and a box of liquor from the street, and ate and drank with these young people.This group of students seemed to have made an appointment, and they all came to toast with Xu Ning. Twenty people, each with one glass, was twenty glasses. Xu Ning was miserable, but these students really came to toast with sincerity. Well refused.

Xun Xu couldn't stand it anymore: "Why do you all only respect Xu Ning's wine and not mine? Anyway, I'm also the boss, come on, Li Xiaoxiao, right? I can see that you are better at drinking, let's drink. We don't drink beer, we drink white." He took a bottle of white wine and poured two full cups of wine, although it was that kind of small glass, one cup was enough.

The male classmate named Li Xiaoxiao was the most violent, and usually the most mischievous. He was admitted to university, and he was not the one who was going back this time, but he liked to make noises. Xun Xu decided to drink him down.That guy thought he could drink a bit, so he competed with Xun Xun for wine, but after two glasses of baijiu, that guy couldn't tell the difference between east, west, south, north, and south. 45° baijiu is not something ordinary people can drink.

Xun Xu knocked down one, and pulled the next one to drink. The second guy didn't drink well, and he begged for mercy after only one drink and refused to come. He knew that bullying the big boss is not okay. The big boss takes revenge.There are so many delicious things on the table and I don’t eat them, so I am a fool to drink wine and not eat vegetables.Li Xiaoxiao was the most unlucky guy, he was directly put down by Xun Xu, and he didn't eat a few bites of food, so he regretted going tomorrow.

Shocked by Xun Xu's shock, everyone obediently ate and drank, not daring to feed Xu Ning anymore. Xu Ning was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief and eat well.Zhou Shusen's craftsmanship is really good, it simply brings together all kinds of flavors from east, west, north and south.Everyone didn't dare drink Xu Ning wine, so they went to ask Zhou Shusen how to cook: "Brother Sen, how can you cook so many kinds of dishes, and the taste is so good, what's the secret?"

Zhou Shusen smiled: "There is actually no talent in cooking. One is to like to eat, and the other is to cook a lot. If you cook a lot, the craftsmanship will come out. I just love to eat. I used to be an apprentice in a five-star restaurant and learned it for two years. , It’s almost considered a teacher. I saved some money and started cycling across the country. Everywhere I went, I went to eat local food. If I eat what I like, I will stay and learn how to cook it. Hehe, otherwise how can I spend money on the road? After two years, others can usually travel all over the country in just over a year.”

"Then how much did you spend cycling across the country?"

Zhou Shusen said: "Hey, it's not much, about 1 to [-] yuan. The main reason is that I like to eat. If I don't go to restaurants, more than [-] yuan is enough to travel all over the country. But I think the two to [-] yuan is worth it. Playing, eating and learning at the same time, I have learned a lot of dishes, and I have memorized several recipes. If I go to learn it, I will definitely spend more than this tuition fee."

Xu Ning admires people like Zhou Shusen very much, who are absolutely idealistic and action-oriented, and do what they think of. In fact, their situations are similar, but he is far less free and easy than him, who can leave as soon as he wants.

"You are really living a fairy life. You can go wherever you want, and you can stop as long as you want." A student said enviously.

Zhou Shusen smiled: "Yes, as long as you have a wandering heart, are willing to endure hardships, are willing to be poor, are not afraid of other people's strange eyes and ridicule, and the most important thing is that you have the determination to leave as soon as you say it, you can achieve this goal .Walking on the road is actually addictive. When you walk, you don’t want to stop.”

Xu Ning asked him: "Then you are here with me, do you want to leave all the time? I just ask, there is no other meaning."

Zhou Shusen looked at him: "Don't forget, people are also lazy. It is instinct to seek ease. Once you stop and live a more comfortable life, you will not want to leave. Therefore, people who walk on the road generally do not stay for too long. Stopping and not wanting to go, this kind of not wanting to go is an instinct."

Xun Xu suddenly said: "You always want to go, that's because you have no bondage, once you find the bondage, you will be willing to stay, and feel that the scenery outside is not as good as this place."

Zhou Shusen looked at Xun Xu with some surprise. Xun Xu rarely talked to everyone. He only communicated with Xu Ning, and communicating with others was also a matter of work.After a long time, Zhou Shusen nodded: "You may be right. I have been wandering because I haven't found the rope that can bind me."

Xun Xu took a sip from his wine glass and said slowly, "One day you will find it."

Zhou Shusen smiled: "Maybe."

Xu Ning looked sideways at Xun Xu, and seemed to be able to understand why he said that, Xun Xu felt his gaze, turned his head to look at him, his eyes were gentle and affectionate, this is only for Xu Ning look.

Guo Shanshan giggled: "Brother Xun said very philosophically tonight, I must have felt it. I would like to offer you a toast."

After drinking, the emotional child cried, saying that although staying here during this period was hard work, he felt very happy. Lao Xu is a very nice person, the food is also very good, and everyone gets along very well.Someone started, and everyone began to express their emotions, some expressed their emotions, some vented their dissatisfaction, such as every time there was delicious food, they couldn’t grab Xunxu... and some people sang songs to express their feelings at this moment .

Several adults drank and chatted with a group of children, listening to their confidantes, drinking until very late before everyone dispersed.In the dead of night, Xu Ning leaned in Xun Xu's arms: "Have you traveled to many places before?"

Xun Xu played with Xu Ning's finger, put it in his mouth and gently gnawed on his fingertips: "Yes, I have traveled all over the six worlds and 36 heavens, and the scenery is still the same when I come and go, whether it is lively or not." It's cold and cold. After walking around, I found that there is nothing to miss. The more I walk, the more empty my heart becomes. There are so many people and so many places, and my heart has nowhere to go. This is a very scary thing. I don't want to think about it. I kept walking until one day I was too tired to walk anymore. I met you before I was tired, so I didn’t want to go anymore.”

Xu Ning closed his eyes, listened to Xunxu's steady and powerful heartbeat, and thought about his own state, so why not? This strange guy, they used four hands to build this home little by little, and there was a nest for body and soul to live in.That's great.

Waking up the next day, the students expressed their willingness to go back to work after the morning's work.Xu Ning and Xun Xu went to deliver the food, and came back to have breakfast with everyone. Zhou Shusen was also very diligent and made a delicious meal of shrimp dumplings. This time, the dumpling wrappers were rolled by themselves. Guo Shanshan and Huang Jie worked together for a busy morning. , Finally made a lot of bulging fat dumplings.

The students yelled and yelled after eating, and they all joked: "Old Xu, next time we come again, please treat us to shrimp dumplings."

Xu Ning said: "Next year when you guys are admitted to university, I'll treat you to shrimp dumplings and mountain rat meat."

"Oh—Old Xu, what you said is true, I remember it."

Xu Ning nodded with a slight smile: "Of course it's true, I will never break my promise. After you go back, study hard, work hard in the fields, and you will definitely be admitted to university. Come on!"

After dinner, Xu Ning took out his workbook and paid the salaries to the students who were leaving one by one. Those who had completed one month, one thousand, and those who were less than one month, were calculated as 30 yuan a day. Those who were less than a whole number were rounded up. Consider it a bonus.Everyone who went back was given a big watermelon, two small watermelons, and a bag of strawberries.Xu Ning and Xun Xu drove the tricycle and sent the seven students who were about to leave to the town. Not all the rest were admitted to college, and there were several junior high school students.

When the students left, they were a little reluctant to leave, and told Xu Ning that after finishing the college entrance examination next year, they wanted to continue to come to work.Xu Ning raised his hands in welcome, waved his hands, and sent off several children.He felt that he might be able to set up a work-study experience center here and promote it in various schools, and maybe some children could be baptized physically and spiritually, which could be regarded as helping some people.