Happy Farm Ranch

Chapter 32
"Building roads?" No matter whether it was the villagers, the village chief or Mr. Liu Wu, they were immediately stunned.

The mountain road in Huatanao has never been repaired. The most important thing is that the people are poor. It is good to be able to take care of your own life. How can there be so much spare money to build roads?

What's more, the means of transportation for the villagers are still at the stage of bicycles, ox carts, horse carts and mule carts.Except for the only small shop that goes to the town to buy goods every month, other people do not need to contact the outside world. On the difficult mountain roads, horses, cows, mules, and donkeys also play an important role in transportation. The rough mountain roads are rough, yes They have little effect.

If the weather is bad, most people will play cards and chatter at home, and they will not even go out of the courtyard. Who cares about the difficulty of walking on the mountain road full of water?

"Building roads is a big deal, so it will cost a lot of money, right?" the village chief hesitated.

If you say that Su Mu is really young and ambitious, but how much will it cost if you really want to build the mountain road as comfortable and smooth as the town?

"It must be a very big expense to repair the asphalt road. Now my business has not officially started, and I really can't afford so much money, so let's lower our expectations a little bit." Su Mu drove back and was trapped in the mud I was thinking about this problem when I was young. If the roads are not repaired, no matter how many high-quality vegetables I grow, it will be difficult to transport them for sale.

So when the whole village stared at him, he pushed the frame of his glasses and said with a smile: "Our goal is to be able to open traffic, so that we don't get stuck in the mud when it rains lightly. When we have money, Then build the mountain road into an asphalt road! At this stage, first find a few strong laborers from the village, and we will build the road piece by piece by ourselves."

The village chief scratched his hair and asked, "How do you fix it yourself?"

"People in ancient times didn't have asphalt roads. The rammed earth roads they built are still usable. Of course we can also repair them. However, with my truck, it doesn't take too much effort. The width of the mountain road is long There must be enough horse-drawn carriages. Start with the muddiest section of road, level it with a shovel, roll it over with a car, then sprinkle a layer of gravel on it, and continue rolling.

Until the gravel is mixed with the soil, there is no need to worry about the road being full of mud in rainy days.Finally, sprinkle a layer of pebbles slightly larger than sand particles to keep the road surface smooth and easy to walk on. Although it is not as good as the asphalt road, it is definitely much better than the original mountain road.It doesn’t cost too much to buy gravel, and it’s available in the town, which is very convenient;

In addition, our family has a truck, and my dad can drive it;

The village then selected four strong young men who were capable and willing to do it, and helped them load, unload, and level the road, and I would pay them for their wages. "

As soon as Su Mu finished speaking, someone below shouted loudly: "How much will you pay for a day's work!"

The villagers laughed loudly after hearing this, but they all listened carefully with their ears closed.After all, working hard to get paid is the most recognized way for country people.

You don't need to invest yourself, you have a lot of energy, as long as you work hard, the boss will give you money, everyone wants to earn some extra money, right?
"Village head, what is the per capita income in our village?" He asked in a low voice, the wages must be higher than the per capita income.

"What's the per capita income? How much do you think people in our village can harvest in a year?" The village chief lit the cigarette he rolled, took two puffs and thought about it carefully before replying: "Now every family not only eats and drinks for themselves, but also There are three to five hundred catties of grain left over, plus occasional people come to collect some mountain goods, and it will cost about five hundred yuan."

"Five hundred per household? Every month?" Su Mu was really shocked. He said that the ravine was poor, but he really didn't expect the income to be so low.

The village head looked at him in astonishment, "It's every year. People in the village don't need to spend a lot of money, and they eat from their own fields; building houses is nothing more than smashing adobes with their own efforts; they smoke tobacco leaves grown in the fields; What he buys is home-brewed grain wine. The money in his hand is just to pay the electricity bill and buy some daily necessities.

There are no precious mountain products in the mountains near us. They are all wild mushrooms and hazelnuts. "

Su Mu looked at the villagers and already had specific plans.

"Building roads is a laborious job, and it may take a long time, so I want to choose four fixed candidates. As for the salary, we will settle it every day, tentatively set at 30 yuan a day, if..." Before Su Mu could tell After finishing speaking, the pot exploded below, and the young boys shouted earth-shatteringly one by one, "Count me in! I'll sign up first!"

The scene got out of control again, and the village chief couldn't suppress it after shouting several times, so he had to walk to the table and knock hard a few times.

After the shouting below gradually quieted down, he yelled: "Why are you making so much noise! ​​Look at how promising you are! There are four places in total, and Mu Zi will have to choose who will be used. Why are you making so much noise? And Chen Brother, you are almost sixty, why are you making fun of me?"

"How can there be 56? I'm only [-] this year, and I have the strength!" Old man Chen was still quite unconvinced.

Su Mu really couldn't complete the task of selecting people.The most important thing is that he has only been here for a short time, and he doesn't know most of them yet. How does he know who is working with good heart and sincerity?

So when everyone looked at him expectantly, he directly kicked the problem to the village chief, "I'm new here, and I'm not very familiar with the villagers. Village chief, please help me choose someone."

"That's fine. You just came back to live in the village, so you really don't understand a lot of things." The village head frowned, "Sun Er Leng is one of them."

"Okay!" The second fool who helped carry the car stood up with a silly smile.

"Pillar of Lao Li's family; Lao Hei; Fat Dun, the three of you are all hands in the crops in our village, and the work is also worry-free. These four places are temporarily reserved for you."

All the people who had been named stood up and said hello to Su Mu, grinning happily.

"Okay, let's go away if you have nothing to do! Those who were called just now will go to Uncle Su's house to discuss the specific plan for road construction. Don't be discouraged if you don't make it today. Muzi said, the next step There are a lot of manual jobs, as long as everyone is willing to work hard, they can make money!"

Su Mu muttered something to the village head in a low voice, and the village head gave the order to end the meeting.

More than half of the villagers were still sitting in the courtyard of the village committee basking in the sun, chatting about road construction, but Su Mu was carried back directly by his father.

"It will be contracted in a while, and the road will be repaired in a while. How much money do you have?" Dad felt that his steps were too big.

After all, the matter of opening up wasteland and growing vegetables has not been written yet, and you have made such a big noise, what if the vegetables produced do not sell?The money didn't come from the strong wind, and nothing was done after throwing it away, so what will happen then?
"To be honest, this is all the money left in my pocket." Su Mu took out the wallet, counted 5000 yuan, and handed it to his father.

What he said this time was the truth, after all, he made a lot of money by opening a shop and selling vegetables all the time.But he couldn't help buying two cars and adding so many things. What's more, some strange and weird things that he bought on a whim were still piled up in the space!
There must be no way to put it aside before, but now Su Mu has more confidence.

Not enough money, ginseng to make it up!The ginsengs I planted in the space are almost grown, and I have time to get two to dry, take them out and try to sell them, which should be able to raise a lot of money.

"You kid..." Before his father scolded him, Su Mu pushed the frame of his glasses and smiled, "When did you see me doing something I was not sure about? Don't worry, I know it now, we Huatanao The place is so big, you can make money anywhere. Have you seen the signed contract?

I took this to solicit sponsorships, and my friends who are working on top-quality vegetables abroad will definitely sponsor me. If it doesn’t work, I will borrow money and return it to him when the funds return!

Didn’t you work on the construction team in the village before? I think the roads in the village are paved with two layers of gravel. I really don’t know how to do it. However, the price in the countryside is cheap, and this amount of money should be enough for you to spend half your time. month.The van and those four people are at your disposal.

Road construction is hard work, so we have to be honest with others.You tell my mother to take care of their three meals a day and add meat to each meal, so don't let people work with us and don't even have enough to eat. "

"Stinky boy, leave all this work to me, what do you want to do?" Dad knew that he was going to get out of the way.

Su Mu smiled slyly, "I have to make a few phone calls, and I have to go to the city for a few days by the way. First, the seeds have been delivered to the city, and I have to pick them up; second, our village has no internet connection. , I can’t get in touch with friends abroad. You can rest assured to build the road, and when I come back, we will open up wasteland together, and I guarantee that you will see the money back within three months!”

As he said that, he really handed over the truck key. Dad took the key and gave him a dissatisfied look, but didn't say anything else.

Seeing that Dad was about to go out and slip the car, Su Mu hurriedly shouted: "If you go to the town to look at the stones, remember to buy a few barrels of oil by the way, otherwise the car will be delayed if the car runs out of gas!"

"Understood!" Dad took the car keys and met with the four young men to discuss the road construction in detail.

Su Mu just let go of his hands and waited for the little girl Xia Jin to reply to the text message with his mobile phone with only two signal bars.

After dinner, the phone on the table suddenly buzzed, and he quickly picked it up, but the screen showed Jiangnan's strange number.

"Hello? Brother Su? I'm borrowing the teacher's mobile phone to call you at school!" Xia Jin's crisp voice came from the other end of the phone. "Let's make a long story short. I have to go to study by myself in the evening. Don't you want to ask when my mother's company will participate in the medicinal materials exchange meeting? Now the time has been fixed. There will be a large medicinal materials exchange meeting in Beijing next Monday. My mother is One of the persons in charge.

If you want to buy ordinary ginseng, it’s easy to talk about, but wild ginseng, according to my mother, is more difficult to find and very expensive.

However, I suggest that you pay attention to the auction during the exchange meeting.All of their auctions have been appraised by experts on the spot, and they will never buy fakes.

If there are other needs, my mother can also help.By the way, Brother Su, I have prepared a small gift for you. If you go to the medicinal materials exchange meeting, I just ask my mother to bring it to you, okay? "

(End of this chapter)