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Chapter 251 Arriving at Hezibao ([-] in [-])

"Is the boss coming today?"

"Today, Aunt Li, did Yanfu tell you when to come back?"

"It's today, it's today. Yanfu told me last night that he came from Haishi at eight o'clock this morning."

"Oh, eight o'clock! The high-speed train takes seven hours, and the bus takes two hours. If you count the time spent on the road, you must arrive at six o'clock in the afternoon!"

"Hey, that will have to wait until tomorrow. I'll go up the mountain to search for it today. If there is any date, I will hit two poles."

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At dawn, the villagers of Hezibao gathered together to chat, and the main topic of discussion was when Xu An would arrive in the village.After some rigorous discussions and calculations, everyone concluded that Xu An would not arrive until six o'clock in the afternoon at the earliest.

After receiving the detailed news of Xu An's arrival at Hezibao, Li Laowu turned his head and walked home, striding home, rummaging in the kitchen, found a few small shovels, put them in the back basket, and prepared to go. He walked out the door, but was stopped by someone.

"Li Laowu! Where are you going if you don't eat breakfast in the morning!"

The person who spoke was Li Laowu's wife. She brought the cooked breakfast back to the main room, and Li Laowu turned the kitchen upside down.It's fine if it's a mess everywhere, but this person walked outside without saying a word, which made her have to ask.

"Hush!" Li Laowu gestured to his daughter-in-law to silence her in panic, and said in a low voice, "Didn't you say that the boss came to the village to collect peppers yesterday? Plant it for you."

"Do you know where it's available? It's not easy to find. Why don't you ask Yanfu's family how to plant it!" Li's fifth daughter-in-law also lowered her voice and replied.

"I know, I know, I have encountered quite a few when I went to the mountains to collect mushrooms." Then, Li Laowu glanced at the Ditang, making sure that everyone was still chatting there, and then he was relieved and turned to his wife. He waved his hand and said, "Don't say it, don't say it, it would be bad if someone preempted it, and there aren't many of these things, so if you dig one tree, you'll get one less."

"You bring the pancakes and water, and I'll bring you a plastic bag." Li Laowu's daughter-in-law didn't ask any more after hearing this, and stuffed breakfast and a large bag into Li Laowu's hands.

"What do you want a bag for?" Li Laowu looked at the bag in his hand a little puzzled.

"When you encounter fungi on the road, you can pick them up and put them in plastic bags! I heard from Yanfu's family that this ghost is very sad. What if the fungi are destroyed if they are put together with it?"

"Understood, let's separate!"

Li Laowu threw the plastic bag into the basket, and then walked into the mountain while eating a mouthful of pancakes.

Many people went to the mountain to pick mushrooms in the early morning. Along the way, Li Laowu met seven or eight waves of people who went to the mountain, but these people were all from nearby villages, and the villagers of Hezibao had not been seen yet.

This made Li Laowu feel very happy. There is no use in discussing so much. It is the real thing to dig the pepper tree home first.

Even if it doesn't work out in the end, it's just a waste of effort. The last thing rural people are afraid of is wasting effort;

Searching according to memory, Li Laowu successfully found the first place where ghosts and sorrows grew.

This season happens to be the season for peppers to grow. From a distance, I saw three thriving pepper trees. One by one, red lanterns and green lanterns hung high among the branches. haunted.

Hey!found it!
If you want to bring the peppers back to plant, you don't just have to uproot them, and you have to ensure the survival rate of the peppers as much as possible.If you want a high survival rate, the best way is to dig the whole chili tree back with the roots and land.

Therefore, when Li Laowu was digging peppers, he specially reserved [-] centimeters of soil near the pepper tree, and dug out a square shape. Most of the roots of the peppers were perfectly wrapped in the soil.Then wrap the root in a plastic bag and put it in the back basket, and it's done.

The second tree, the third tree, the second place, the third place
As time went by, more and more people entered the mountain. When Li Laowu was walking to the fourth place, he bumped into a person from the next village.

"How many mushrooms have you picked?" The man asked after a routine question, only to find out that there were actually five useless ghost pepper trees in the basket behind Li Laowu's back, and he immediately asked curiously: "Li Laowu, what are you digging?" What the hell are you doing?"

"Old Zhou, haha. Haha, it's not that I'm too old. I can't taste the food. I heard that this chili is very strong, so I dig some back and try it. Anyway, it's not bad for people, right?"

Although this remark was full of loopholes, Lao Zhou didn't pay attention to it. After exchanging a few pleasantries, he held a wooden stick and pulled the pine hair on the ground while walking in other directions, staggering positions with Li Laowu.

But he didn't go forward for long before he ran into a second acquaintance from Hezibao. This person, like Li Laowu, carried a few ghost peppers in a basket on his back.

This person's words sounded reasonable and reliable, although Lao Zhou thought it was strange, he just laughed it off as a joke, and didn't take it to heart.

But then more and more Hezibao villagers came across, and the baskets behind them were either empty or filled with a ghost pepper tree.
The villagers who met seven or eight Hezibaos were like this. Let alone those with normal brains, even people with abnormal brains can react to it. There is a situation!Absolutely!
Could it be that someone harvested the saplings of ghosts?But I haven't heard of it either!
No, it doesn't matter if it's true or not, if it happens to you in a while, you won't let it go!
On this day, the ghost pepper tree in the mountain was bloodbathed, and none survived.
As the sun was setting, a tricycle carrying three people was driving unhurriedly on a dirt road in the countryside. Long blades of grass brushed over everyone's faces from time to time on both sides of the road.

"Yanfu, how far is it from Hezibao?" Xu An interrupted Li Yanfu's eloquent introduction, and asked feebly.

"Hurry up, hurry up, it will be there in about ten minutes! My mother said that the rice is already cooked, we can eat it when we get back, I don't know if you can get used to it, boss."

"Whether I'm used to eating or not, three months ago, I didn't see much meat in the food at home."

"Hey, boss, you like to joke"

After confirming that he would arrive at Hezibao in more than ten minutes, Xu An closed his eyes reassuringly and dozed off.

Woke up at [-]:[-] this morning, took Uncle Dongliang and Li Yanfu to meet at the Haishi high-speed rail station at [-]:[-], followed by a seven-hour high-speed rail ride, a two-hour bus ride, and finally the three of them squeezed into this small tricycle. Shaking, shaking, shaking so that Xu An felt that he was back on the bus, and seemed to smell the disgusting smell of vomiting again
In the past, many people heard Zhang Dezhen say that his hometown was partial, very partial, very partial, just listening to this, Xu An has never had a solid concept of this.

Now, after taking the trip himself, Xu An finally understood why Zhang Dezhen wanted to bring his family to Haishi, and why the villagers of Hezibao flocked to Haishi when they heard that there was a stable job in Haishi. The side is too far away!

As the saying goes, roads lead to wealth. There are many loess roads on the roads of buses here. One can imagine the economic situation here.
"Boss, Brother Xu, wake up, we're here!"

As the only one who was conscious among the three, Li Yanfu saw the village fathers and villagers standing at the head of the village holding their rice bowls, looking around while eating.

It's finally here!
Xu An opened his eyes in a daze and wanted to stretch, but just as he raised his hands in the air, he saw a huge crowd walking towards them.

"Yanfu is back!"

"I haven't eaten yet. My aunt's house is cooking stew today. Would you like Yanfu to bring the bosses to my aunt's house to eat?"

"My family also has stewed meat, three-finger-thick fat meat, a piece of it is full of oil, will Yan Fu come to my house to eat?"

"Ouch, give way to the one in front, give way, I'm holding sugar water in my hand, give way, don't spill it!"

When everyone was arguing, a woman held a black tile bowl in one hand and squeezed from the back of the crowd all the way to the front. The bowl full of sugar water didn't spill out at all.

"You're hungry after sitting in the car for so long. Let's drink a bowl of sugar water first. This egg is a newborn egg, very nutritious! The two bosses have a drink to fill their stomachs, and we will go back to eat!" Li Yanfu's mother stuffed two tile bowls into the Holding hands between Xu An and Xu Dongliang, he turned his head and glanced at the person behind him, and said with a little trepidation in his tone: "My family not only stewed meat, but also killed an old hen to make soup!"

After thanking him, Xu An's attention was diverted from the noise of the villagers to the bowl of sugar water in his hand.

The reddish-brown sugar water turns golden under the setting sun, and the white as jade eggs float in the bowl like the setting sun in the sky, and a simple bowl of brown sugar water seems to contain the whole world.

Carefully brought the sugar water to his mouth and took a sip, all the hard work of the day was melted away by this warm and sweet liquid.Pick up a spoon and dig a spoonful of eggs. In less than two seconds, the delicate egg yolk will be completely penetrated by the sugar water, and it will be soft when it falls into the mouth.
ah!So comfortable!
Although the sugar water was delicious, all that appeared in Xu An's mind at the moment were numbers.

Zhang Dezhen said that all the chickens raised in his hometown are black-bone chickens, because the eggs laid by silky chickens are green-shell eggs. The price of this kind of eggs can be sold for two yuan each, and the price of newborn eggs is even more expensive, which can be sold for three yuan. money one.

Adding brown sugar, the bottom price of the bowl of sugar water in my hand is four yuan; I and Uncle Dongliang each have a bowl, that is eight yuan; Annual income of 1/
Li Yanfu's mother's cooking skills are good. Although the dishes don't look delicate, they taste very fragrant.

Even when eating, Xu An would inexplicably evaluate the prices of these dishes.

A large bowl full of stewed pork belly with cabbage costs at least 20 yuan; the pot of old chicken soup with mushrooms costs hundreds of dollars; this slaughtered hen is about two years old and still in its prime egg production period.
"Boss Xiao Xu, Boss Xiao Xu? Why did you suddenly become dazed while eating? Is it because the food doesn't suit your taste? How about I cook another vegetable?"

"Auntie, no need, this dish is delicious. I'm just tired from the car ride. The dish is delicious and I like it very much!"

Xu An hurriedly put down his chopsticks and grabbed Li Yanfu's mother who was about to walk out the door. Seeing her suspicious expression, Xu An had no choice but to take two mouthfuls of rice with his chopsticks and eat a large piece of pork belly before giving up. Li Yanfu's mother wanted to stir-fry another vegetable.

"It's really tiring after sitting in the car for so long. Let Yanfu take you to rest after dinner." After that, Li Yanfu's mother turned to Li Yanfu and said, "Do you know where the village branch is? Taking Boss Xu and the others over there just happened to treat it as an after-meal digester."

"Ah, the village branch office, don't we still have a room?" Li Yanfu asked a little puzzled when he heard the words.

"The two rooms upstairs don't even have beds. How can I sleep? The village party secretary said that there are still vacant rooms at the village branch office. The beds are all good and clean. The environment is better than ours. The bosses can also rest better”

Normally, the meal would be finished in a very polite atmosphere.

However, Xu An brought Uncle Dongliang here. He has friends all over the world, and Uncle Dongliang who is good at talking to people and talking nonsense is there. The dinner that could have been finished in half an hour took a full hour and a half before everyone was reluctant. The dormitory is over.

After eating, Li Yanfu followed his mother's instructions and took Xu An and the two of them to the gate of the village branch office with a flashlight.

"Secretary Li, Secretary Li, are you there?" Li Yanfu yelled towards the lighted room upstairs before he could stand still.

"Here, is it Yanfu?" A young but slightly hoarse voice came from upstairs, followed by pattering footsteps, and finally a gentle and thin young man wearing glasses appeared in front of Xu An and the others. .

"My mother said that the secretary has arranged a room for you, so I brought Boss Xu and the others." After that, Li Yanfu introduced the identities of the two parties: "This is Li Sixin, the village secretary of Hezibao, and this is Li Zhishu. Boss Xu who came to buy Ghost Peppers."

"Nice to meet you!"

Li Sixin also noticed that Xu An and Xu An were exhausted from their journey, and after a short exchange of pleasantries, he took the two of them to the room, told Xu An the location of the toilet and shower room, and then bid farewell and left.

Even the village branch that Li Yanfu’s mother said was in the best condition looks dilapidated. The toilets are dry toilets, and the shower room is a lonely concrete house with only one faucet inside, not even a water heater.
This is even worse than what Xu An expected, but the bedding is very clean and tidy, and you can smell the sun when you get close, and the shoes and towels are fully equipped. It can be seen that a lot of thought has been spent prepare.

Tsk, it's only been a few good days, and it's starting to be hypocritical.

Xu An disliked himself a few words, hurriedly washed away the tiredness of the day, then lay down on the soft bed and fell asleep.Xu Dongliang's room was next to Xu An's, and when Xu An was lying on the bed, the room next door was already snoring loudly.

On a quiet summer night, insects and frogs chirp outside the window, and the atmosphere is peaceful.

In this comfortable atmosphere, I should have slept until dawn.Maybe it was because he drank too much chicken soup at dinner, and Xu An was woken up from his deep sleep by urinating.

I didn't notice it when I went downstairs to the toilet because I was anxious, but when I came back, I saw that the room where the party secretary of Hezibao Village was still lit.

Xu Anfang lightened his footsteps, and wanted to quietly return to his room, but when he reached the corner of the stairs, he heard the door of the village party secretary's room open with a 'squeak', and the village party secretary spoke with him. the sound of.

".Can the price be a little higher? These mushrooms are all picked from the mountains, all of which are wild. Right, the amount of less than half a catty after a trip into the mountains is indeed a bit low. Is it okay to increase it by one yuan, and let each of them pay for meat for each meal? Boss, let’s discuss it again. Boss? Boss!"

The beeping on the other end of the phone was so loud that even Xu An, who was standing in the corridor, could hear it clearly. He thought that the village party secretary would return to his room after making this call, but he dialed the second one. Telephone.

"Hey, good evening, boss. I'm the secretary of Hezibao. Yes, I'm bothering you so late because I want to ask how much the purchase price of these vegetables is this year."

"Good evening, I am the secretary of Hezibao."

Xu An just stood in the corridor for half an hour, listening to the young secretary of Hezibao make seven or eight phone calls, all asking for the purchase price, and then bargaining, but basically when it came to the bargaining session, the person on the other side of the phone Those people will get very impatient and hang up the phone directly.

After the phone call ended, Xu An heard a long sigh, followed by footsteps, followed by the sound of the door closing, and after a final rustle, Xia Ye returned to silence.

　It’s a bit of a text, I need to sort out my thoughts, today’s update (_)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)