The leisurely life of a reborn dad

Cao Shujie came out of the bedroom and saw his mother Wang Yuelan sitting under the eaves.

When she saw him, Wang Yuelan stood up reflexively and asked anxiously: "Shujie, how is Mengmeng doing now? Is she feeling better?"

"Mom, she was fine for the rest of the night and coughed less." Cao Shujie said to his mother.

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a sound of 'cough, cough, cough' coming from the bedroom. Wang Yuelan rolled her eyes at her son: "Didn't you say that Mengmeng is fine? Why is she coughing again?"

Just because of her granddaughter's cough, Wang Yuelan didn't believe her son.

Cao Shujie felt a little embarrassed: "Mom, the cough can't be cured so quickly. It will take a few days anyway."

"Did Mengmeng get blown by the wind because she didn't put on her clothes when getting in and out of the car?" Wang Yuelan asked her son.

At the same time, she also looked at him with some reproach: "Shujie, tell me why you are so careless at such an old age. It's cold now and it takes a long time to get better from a cold."

Cao Shujie thought that you should say less, so he abruptly changed the subject and asked: "Mom, where is my dad?"

"He got up early in the morning, ate two steamed buns and went to the orchard on the mountain to look at it. He said he would turn over the soil and prune branches today." Wang Yuelan said.

Cao Shujie nodded: "Mom, I'll have something to eat, and I'll go take a look at the mountains later."

Wang Yuelan nodded. She followed her son into the main room and muttered: "Shujie, is this okay for Mengmeng? Why don't you drive her to the county hospital and ask the doctor there to prescribe some medicine. It'll be fine soon."

"She feels uncomfortable just by coughing." Wang Yuelan pinched her hands together to show that she felt more nervous and uncomfortable.

"Mom, take medicine today and see if it doesn't work." Cao Shujie said, "It will take two or three days for the cough to take effect. Even if you find an expert, there is no panacea."

She knew her son was telling the truth, but Wang Yuelan couldn't calm down when she heard the coughing coming from the next room.

Cao Shujie didn't even mention to his mother why Mengmeng coughed, so he just pretended it never happened.

After washing and eating breakfast, Cao Shujie went back to the bedroom and saw his daughter Mengmeng curled up. Every time she coughed, her whole body would tremble.

His wife was lying on her side with her elbows on the bed, giving Mengmeng a gentle pat on the back.

"Wife, what do you think? Why don't you wake up Mengmeng and give her some medicine?" Cao Shujie leaned down and asked his wife.

Cheng Xiaolin waved her hand: "Don't rush to take the medicine. Let her sleep for a while first. She didn't sleep well last night."

"Okay, then you should rest a little longer, and I'll go for a walk in the mountains first." After Cao Shujie finished speaking, he was about to leave.

Cheng Xiaolin stopped patting Mengmeng and turned around to look at Cao Shujie. Only then did Cao Shujie see that his wife's eyes were red and she seemed to be about to cry.

"Wife, what are you doing? You are already a big boss, why are you ready to cry again?" Cao Shujie was a little panicked and quickly advised him.

Then he heard his wife reproaching herself: "Husband, if I hadn't had to take Mengmeng back to her grandma's house yesterday, Mengmeng wouldn't have coughed, and she wouldn't be so uncomfortable now."

"Look at her, who is usually such a lively child, but now she has no energy at all." The more Cheng Xiaolin talked, the more she blamed herself, and a line of tears rolled down her face.

"Okay, it's cold now and there are a lot of colds. Why don't Mengmeng go out?" Cao Shujie sat on the edge of the bed, stretched out his hand to bring his wife over, and wiped his wife's face with a tissue in the other hand tears, coaxing her like a child.

After his wife calmed down, Cao Shujie specifically told her: "Wife, when you call Mengmeng's grandma, don't mention Mengmeng's cough. Remember that."

"Yeah!" Cheng Xiaolin nodded with some choking.

This is really uncomfortable for the child, but it is the parents who feel distressed.

Seeing Mengmeng coughing intermittently, both Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin were at a loss what to do, and their anxiety was something that no outsider could understand.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Mengmeng coughed again, maybe because the cough was too big this time. After coughing a few times, she suddenly sat up. When she saw her father and mother, she burst into tears with a cry of grievance.

While crying, she said, "Mom, I'm so upset."

Her pitiful appearance made Cheng Xiaolin even more self-blame. She reached out to hug Mengmeng, and then pulled the quilt next to her to cover Mengmeng, for fear of getting cold again.

But in fact, the air conditioner in the room was turned on with electric auxiliary heating at 24 degrees, which was very warm. Cao Shujie was wearing a bit thick clothes and felt like he was sweating now.

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"I'll make some medicine for her and take it first," Cao Shujie said.

Cheng Xiaolin didn't stop him.

Not long after, Cao Shujie came over with medicine in a small bowl and a bottle of cough syrup.

When it comes to taking medicine, Mengmeng never makes people worry about it. Regardless of whether it is sweet or bitter, she takes it very enthusiastically. Sometimes when she sees Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin drinking medicine, Mengmeng will continue to move forward. Minato, stick up your little nose and smell what it smells like.

Mengmeng might be really tired and sleepy. After drinking the medicine, she lay in Cheng Xiaolin's arms for a short time before closing her eyes and falling asleep.

After putting her down, Cheng Xiaolin slapped her sore lower back with her backhand and said, "Shujie, go ahead and do your work. I'll just keep an eye on her."

"Would you like to lie down for a while longer, or get up and eat some food? If you want to eat, I'll heat it up for you." Cao Shujie asked her.

Cheng Xiaolin looked at the beautiful sun outside the window and said, "I won't lie down anymore. Take advantage of the good weather today to wash out the sheets and hang them up. If it snows again in a few days, we will be in trouble."

When she said this, Cao Shujie said nothing else. When his wife got up and went to wash up, Cao Shujie heated up breakfast, put it into a bowl for his wife, and then took the tools and prepared to go out.

It was already past nine in the morning. At this time, Cao Shujie had already been working in the orchard for two hours.

Before they even went out, Daha and Erha woke up anxiously, rattling the dog leashes while barking.

"Mom, didn't my dad walk the dog this morning?" Cao Shujie asked.

Wang Yuelan said about him: "Your dad goes up to the mountain to do some work after dinner after six o'clock. How can he have time to walk the dog?"

This was equivalent to his father doing the work for him. Cao Shujie felt a little ashamed and said, "Then I will take Daha and the four of them away and go to the mountain to let them run for a while."

"There are many people now, please be careful and don't let them bite you." Wang Yuelan told her son.

Cheng Xiaolin also said: "Shujie, you have to be careful and don't be careless."

"Yes, I know!" Cao Shujie agreed, leading the four dogs and heading out towards the Yellow River dam in the east.

He took the long way, walking north from the river dam and getting off at the northern intersection.

During this period, the four dogs, Daha and Erha, all looked at Cao Shujie, hoping that he would let go of the leash. The four brothers made a wild dash.

But now it was no different than in the morning. There were many old people and children coming to play on the dam. Cao Shujie was really afraid that they were ignorant. Even if they didn't bite, it would be bad to scare others.

"Daha, Erha, Dahei, Xiaohei, let's not run away today. I'll take you here for a run tomorrow morning, okay?" Cao Shujie discussed with them in the same tone as treating children.

The four dogs actually understood. After hesitating for a while, they still moved their heads up and down, as if they agreed to Cao Shujie's suggestion.

"You are so good, I will give you extra food in two days, some meat." Cao Shujie stroked their dog heads one by one and told them with a smile.

In about half an hour, Cao Shujie took them down the north intersection and turned around to find the road up the mountain.

In the orchard, when Cao Shujie saw the barbed wire guardrail, he remembered that the breeding area in the north had been completed but had never been put into use. There was also a barbed wire guardrail surrounding it. An idea came to his mind and he laughed and said: "Daha." , I know where I asked you to run away?"

Daha and Erha both turned to look at Cao Shujie.

Daha also called out "oh woo", which seemed to be urging Cao Shujie. Since he knew, he should go quickly, so why bother?

"Follow me." Cao Shujie led them and walked north along the hardened road to the west of the barbed wire guardrail.

The four dogs were obviously more excited. They in turn dragged Cao Shujie with the dog leash and ran. It didn't take long before they came to the end.

After Cao Shujie opened the gate on the barbed wire fence and took them in, he released the dog leash one by one and said to Daha and the four brothers: "You run quickly, run more, I will call you when I leave."

"Oh woo!"

"oh!"

"oh oh…"

Daha, Erha, and the two German shepherds all emitted howls of different high and low levels. They didn't feel it at all below, but in this empty mountain, especially when the four brothers were full of energy, the howls were just like that. More and more loud.

Especially the howling of the two German shepherds. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you would have thought it was a beast running out of nowhere.

Watching the four brothers spreading their legs and running forward in a direction, Cao Shujie's eyes reflected on the undulating and leaping figures in the sun. He thought again of the tall and powerful horse he saw in Cui Jingguo's livestock farm. The German Shepherd is bigger than the average Tibetan Mastiff. It weighs at least 80 pounds. It makes people feel scared just by looking at it. It is so fierce!

"You guys should grow up faster, it's better to surpass your dog dad." Cao Shujie looked at the two black and yellow-haired German shepherds and muttered silently in his heart.

His father was spreading hay to cattle in the breeding area opposite.

The howling of four dogs had frightened 50 cows just now. As soon as it calmed down, Cao Jianguo saw his son and called him: "Shujie, come here."

"Dad, what's the matter?" Cao Shujie walked towards the opposite side.

When Cao Shujie came up, he heard his father Cao Jianguo ask worriedly: "Shujie, how is Mengmeng doing now? Is the cough feeling better?"

"Dad, I just gave her the medicine when I came out in the morning, and she is much better." Cao Shujie said with a smile.

When Cao Jianguo heard what his son said, he didn't doubt it. He nodded and said with a smile, "That's all. Shujie, you don't know. I listened to her cough and it kept worrying about me."

"Dad, it's okay. It's normal for children to have coughs and colds. Don't worry." Cao Shujie smiled.

There is a gate on the wire fence between the two plots of land, which makes it easier to walk back and forth between the two plots of land. Cao Shujie went directly to open the door and entered the opposite side.

The 50 cows were happily eating forage. Seeing how fat and strong they were, Cao Shujie felt very happy. He even discussed with his father: "Dad, should we eat beef during the Chinese New Year this year?"

"You really deserve a beating!" Cao Jianguo knew what his son was thinking, but Cao Jianguo was not willing to eat it. Every cow sold was worth money.

Besides, the cow is still young and needs to be raised for at least another year. Wouldn't it be a waste to kill it and eat beef at this time?

"Just buy less meat during the Chinese New Year. You eat meat every day, but you haven't eaten enough!" Cao Jianguo muttered to him.

"Haha!" Cao Shujie laughed and did not mention the matter again for the time being.

But Cao Shujie is obviously not someone who gives up easily.

If a hundred other old farmers would be reluctant to eat the fruits and livestock grown by them, it would be better for Cao Shujie to think about what he would eat first.

Cao Jianguo thought that according to the price his son sold the apples, the remaining 400 kilograms of apples would cost nearly 3,000 yuan!

The same thing happened with the kiwi fruit before. Before they were sold out, he saved a batch of food for himself. Why was his broken mouth so greedy?

Cao Shujie didn't care. He said, "I grew these things from the beginning just so that we could eat something clean ourselves, otherwise we would be too busy."

He said: "Dad, we can't make enough money, and our family can't spend all our money. Don't just think about this and be reluctant to eat or wear."

Cao Jianguo didn't bother to pay attention to his son. He still had the nerve to say that the family's money could not be spent all. It was just the hundreds of thousands. If something really happened, it might not be enough.

He took the three-pronged fork and went to pick fodder.

But he didn't forget to tell his son Cao Shujie: "Shujie, don't forget to plant grass in the spring."

"Dad, don't worry, I won't forget it." Cao Shujie nodded.

He really couldn't forget this matter. It was a major matter related to the feeding of these cows.

If you no longer grow pasture, his feeding costs will increase significantly.

"Dad, I plan to buy a batch of calves after spring." Cao Shujie shouted to his father.

Cao Jianguo doesn't care, his son can do whatever he likes.

Cao Shuchao was working not far away. Cao Shujie went over to say hello to him. He responded and immersed himself in his work again.

"Brother Chao, you're sweating on your forehead. Wipe it quickly, otherwise you'll catch a cold when the wind blows." Cao Shujie reminded him after seeing it.

From the bottom of my heart, Cao Shuchao is definitely a good worker, he is also very down-to-earth, and his work is very practical. As long as you tell him something, there is no need for Cao Shujie to say it a second time.

Cao Shuchao smiled, raised his hand and wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, and continued working: "Shujie, I heard Uncle Jianguo said that Mengmeng is sick?"

"I have a bit of a cough, but it's just because of the cold wind." Cao Shujie still had the same reason.

The two of them chatted and talked about random things, and they didn't feel tired even when they were working.

Cao Shujie always felt that there was something missing in his ears. He said halfway: "I will go to the town at noon to buy a big stereo and put it in the orchard. I will listen to the music and work every day. It will be more exciting."

"How can you still listen to music while working?" Cao Shuchao couldn't understand.

He had worked for others on construction sites before, and had been to livestock farms and many other places, but he had never seen or heard of anyone working while listening to music.

Cao Shujie said: "It's OK if I say it."

Cao Jianguo has already developed antibodies to his son's various weird ideas, so let him have fun with it!

You only have such a small amount of wealth. If you can, just waste it as soon as possible and bring him down!

Cao Shujie did what he said, and took advantage of the time when he went home for lunch to take the four tired dogs home. Seeing that Mengmeng's mental state was much better, but he still couldn't eat. Even so, he felt happy and still couldn't eat. He said he was going to town to buy a fun toy for Mengmeng.

"Dad, let me tell you, mom said I defeated the virus, I am amazing." Mengmeng clenched her little fists very excitedly, looking like she was invincible in the world.

But she said it too fast. Just after she finished speaking, she coughed a few more times, and the coughing was more rapid. If she wasn't careful, the saliva flew out and landed in front of Cao Shujie.

Cao Shujie didn't care at all. He felt that if he could, he would share the burden with his daughter, or simply bear her pain and suffering for his daughter.

"Shujie, if you go to town, bring back some medicine." Cheng Xiaolin said to him: "Just tell Mengmeng that she has a cough, no fever, and a yellow runny nose."

After thinking about it, she warned again: "I coughed worse at night and even vomited once."

"Okay!" Cao Shujie obeyed.

He drove there quickly and came back even faster. He first went to the second-grade hospital in the town to buy medicine for his daughter, and then went to the small home appliance store to buy the big stereo he wanted. There was also a boss who said he had thousands of dollars in storage. song on a USB flash drive, and drove back with my things.

Starting from this afternoon, the sound of music began to come from the orchard on Beitou Mountain in Caojiazhuang.

Classical music, pop music, Internet hits, light music, even English songs, everything is available.

Someone was curious and went up the mountain road to find out. Only then did they know that the singing came from Cao Shujie's orchard.

Some people joked that Cao Shujie has started to play new tricks again. He wants to play music to the fruit trees and cows, so that they can also enjoy it, grow in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, and grow faster next year.

I don’t know who is so crazy that he still believes in this false ‘claim’ and is very sure of its validity.

Cao Jianhua, who is worried about the further drop in piglet and pig prices during this period, has half of his hair turning gray. The price of piglets has fallen below 30 yuan per kilogram. He has been so worried that he can't sleep at all recently.

But when I heard this statement, my eyes lit up and I actually believed it to be true.

He also went to town to buy a stereo and put it in his pig farm.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that the 300 pigs in the pig farm ate much faster when they listened to music, and there seemed to be pigs dancing to the music.

And he himself listens to music and works every day, and his mood feels much better.

Putting aside his worries about the prices of piglets and pigs for the time being, he silently told himself that he had already come to this point, and he had to raise these pigs first no matter what, and then sell them during the Spring Festival to take advantage of the Spring Festival market. Consider how much money you can make and how much capital you can save.

Or just lose a little less money!