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When I got home, I explained the matter to Cai Yazhi in detail.

Cai Yazhi blushed and asked, was she paid too much? Because when she occasionally worked for some families in Fengyukou, a big village outside, during off-farm times, the salary was only thirty yuan at most.

"It's not much. A day's wages outside are at least 70 or 80 yuan. We only pay 50 yuan here, so it's not too much. It's better not to do things too badly in the village."

Cai Yazhi nodded and said nothing more.

Early the next morning, the loudspeaker in the village began to publicize Zhang Taiping's recruitment of people to plant bamboos. When the village name heard the name fifty-one, his heart immediately moved, and he crawled out of his warm nest at half past seven.

Thirteen people gathered in front of Zhang Taiping's house, including five men and eight women.

After eight o'clock, Zhang Taiping saw that no one came again, so he started to finish the work this time.

"Today we mainly dug bamboos to plant bamboos, and dug thorn trees to plant thorn trees. It's fifty yuan a day. Now each person will be given twenty yuan first, and then thirty yuan will be given to each person in the evening."

After hearing this, the person who was still hesitating whether it was right or wrong to come here today immediately knew that he had come to the right place. Then he thought that this handsome man had indeed changed his gender as people had said these days.

Cai Yazhi gave everyone a twenty or two ten-dollar banknotes. A dozen people took the money in their hands and immediately smiled away, gearing up and full of enthusiasm. This is what Zhang Taiping asked Cai Yazhi to do. What kind of person was he before?

I know best that the people who come to help may not be able to help even if they are helping. Oral promises do not mean anything, but actual money can mobilize people's enthusiasm. If you give the money to the villagers first, then no one will ask for it.

It would be great to improve efficiency if you are too embarrassed to help others.

There were fifteen people in total, including Zhang Taiping and Wang Peng. Zhang Taiping divided the people into two teams, seven of them went to dig bamboo, and the remaining eight dug thorn trees. When leaving, Zhang Taiping put away a few cigarettes he had bought in advance last night.

Entering the space, he said to Cai Yazhi: "You don't want to go today. Just boil some water at home and make some tea and send it over. Find someone to help take care of the lunch."

Cai Yazhi nodded and asked: What kind of tea should I make?

"Just soak honeysuckle."

Zhang Taiping and Wang Peng followed the people digging thorn trees. They took them to a mountain not far away that was covered with thorn trees. They first used sticks to beat them in the dense grass or thorn trees, which was called "

"Alarm the snake", so that if a snake is hiding in the grass, it will be frightened away, thus avoiding the possibility of being bitten by a snake without paying attention.

Digging up thorn trees is even more difficult than bamboo, because there is really no way to start with this tree, so we can only dig it under the roots from a distance. In the end, Zhang Taiping thought it was too slow to dig out the big ones, so he asked that only the small ones be dug up.

, anyway, he has a way to make it grow enough to block people and obstacles before the fruit matures next year. In addition, Zhang Taiping also picked a lot of wild date cores on the ground, and he can cultivate them into small saplings in the space and then plant them.

The thorn tree cannot be carried on one's back, so one can only carry it with a long pole. This job is left to Zhang Taiping himself. He carries the thorn tree to the bottom of the mountain and puts it on several frame trucks, and pulls it back down to the place where it will be planted.

The car ran back to the foot of the mountain, where people on the mountain would dig up a pile of thorn trees again. Zhang Taiping spent the whole morning running between the mountain where he dug thorn trees and the valley behind the backyard. He did not dig on the mountain, although

I have great strength, but I am very lacking in skills in doing farm work. With my brute strength, I may not be more efficient than these old masters in doing farm work.

During this period, Ah Huang was trying his best, and a fat hare came out in surprise. Ah Huang immediately chased after it, and soon he grabbed the hare and ran back. Then he pounced on two pheasants intermittently. When Zhang Taiping returned to carry the thorn tree,

Send these prey to your home along the way.

When Zhang Taiping returned home, he didn't know that Cai Yazhi was alone at home, and there were two other women. One was Wang Peng's mother, and the other was Han Miaomiao, the daughter-in-law from another village who Zhang Taiping told to leave by the river a few days ago.

Han Miaomiao and Cai Yazhi were classmates in primary school a long time ago, and now they are married to a young man named Wang Zhousheng in the village.

Let the three prey animals be processed and cook them together at noon for the people who come to help.

Zhang Taiping had enough cigarettes and served tea frequently. Everyone was very energetic and efficient in the morning. He dug more than 300 bamboos and countless thorn trees.

For lunch, I had steamed buns and vegetables. The dishes were six vegetables, a pork stewed with vermicelli, a radish stewed with pork, a rabbit stewed, two pheasants stewed with mushrooms, a lotus root, and

A dry bean and stir-fried meat, six items in total. The steamed buns were freshly steamed, fist-sized white fluffy buns, and a pot of steamed sweet potatoes. Since I had to work in the afternoon, I didn’t drink white wine, but drank some rice wine brewed by Wang Pengniang.

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The dishes are generous, and almost all of them are meaty and meaty. Women in the mountains are not as reserved as in the city. They let go of their chopsticks and eat and drink as much as men. Some of them drink more than men.

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At the end of the meal, the woman who had been talking to Zhang Taiping for a while in the river that day asked: "Commander, are you planning to plant fruit trees?"

"Yes, since you are in trouble, you must manage it well."

"When the others heard the conversation between the two, they slowed down their movements and raised their ears to listen.

The woman asked again: "I see you have invested a lot in the land. Can you make money?"

"As long as you manage it a little well, at least you won't be able to make money. Whether you can make a lot of money depends on whether you have management skills."

"Then if the fruit produced next year is not good, or cannot be sold, then money will be left in the field in vain, and people's time will be wasted for such a long time."

This is also a common concern among other people in the village about planting fruit trees. If it had been left in the past, Cai Yazhi would have had such thoughts, but after living with Zhang Taiping in the past few months, after Zhang Taiping's explanation and his own reading about cultivation,

I also learned some about the market under the management of fruit trees and believed in the blueprint that Zhang Taiping first sketched out. Now I am full of confidence in fruit trees. I am also full of confidence in Zhang Taiping unknowingly, just like Yaya.

I have a blind faith in him, thinking that whatever he says will definitely come true.

"As long as you manage it well, the fruit will definitely not get bad. As for selling it, you don't have to worry at all. There is no need to worry about selling good fruit in the city outside. A pound of grapes can be sold for six yuan. Cherries are just like that.

It’s even more expensive, with similar products costing more than ten or twenty yuan per catty. Worst of all, I can sell them at a slightly lower price in supermarkets or fruit shops.”

A faint sound of inhalation.

"Grapes can be sold for six yuan per catty? Most of the ones I've seen in the town before cost one yuan per catty, and the most expensive ones are only two yuan per catty. And those cherries, which cost twenty yuan per catty.

, does anyone want it?"

Zhang Taiping explained: "There are so many rich people in the world, and people who eat well will always pay for good fruits to eat, and they don't have to worry about selling them. If you don't believe me, go to the city and see, one or two pieces of grapes are there

There are really no customers in the fruit shops in the city, but the ones with good quality and high prices are in short supply."

A few people were moved by what Zhang Taiping said, but some were still skeptical.

One person said: "No matter how good the fruit is, there must be a way to sell it. Marshal, of course you can sell it if you have friends in the city to help you, but there is no one in the village to help."

People in the mountains still think too highly of people in the city. They think that Zhang Taiping can sell fruit in the city because of the help of several city people who came to Zhang Taiping’s house last time. They are not confident enough. If Zhang Taiping’s fruit trees are moved to

I am still not optimistic about it, and I am still taking a wait-and-see attitude towards fruit trees. I will wait until next year’s harvest from Zhang Taiping’s orchard before I can decide whether it is worth the effort to manage it.

Zhang Taiping understood that the people in the village were mainly frightened by the apple and pear trees in the past few years: "The main thing is the quality of the fruit. If the quality of the fruit is good, I can find a way for you to sell it."

Everyone else was silent. Apparently they were still not optimistic about the fruit trees and had to wait until next year to make a decision. The woman who was talking to Zhang Taiping just hesitated to speak, and finally did not say anything. Han Miaomiao, who was sitting next to Cai Yazhi, opened her mouth and did the same.

No words were spoken.

After eating, taking a short rest, and getting ready to plant in the afternoon.

It was much easier when planting. Two people worked in teams, one dug a hole and the other placed the saplings and filled them with soil. Zhang Taiping was only responsible for carrying water to the slope. There were many people and strength, and time passed quickly while talking and laughing.

After dark, the bamboos and thorn trees dug in the morning were planted. The hillside where the bamboos were planted was covered with bamboos. The side where the thorn trees were planted was not finished yet, but there were not many left, not even one tenth.

By now, Zhang Taiping and Cai Yazhi could finish the planting in one day, so there was no need to hire anyone to do the planting.

After returning to the yard and washing his hands, Zhang Taiping asked Cai Yazhi to distribute the remaining thirty yuan to everyone. After the others got the money, they greeted Zhang Taiping a few words and said that they would come to help when they were alive.

, and then they all left.

Only the woman who talked to Zhang Taiping the most did not leave. Her name is Song Lan, she is in her thirties, and her husband is Wang Min, who works outside. She has two children at home. The eldest is a daughter who is somewhat promising and is now in high school.

, it is very likely that he will be admitted to college; the younger son is in junior high school, and it is still unclear how his studies will be. The family's living conditions are also very tight to provide for two children to go to school.

She said she didn't want the remaining thirty yuan.

Zhang Taiping realized that something might be going on, so he asked, "Is something going on?"

Song Lan hesitated for a while and then said: "Can you help me plant some fruit trees at home? Of course I won't let you cut them in vain. I'll give you wages. How about seventy a day?" He looked at Zhang Taiping and said without saying a word.

He gritted his teeth and said, "One hundred a day!"

Zhang Taiping asked with a smile: "Sister Song, do you believe that fruit trees can make money?"

"I don't know. Anyway, where are the fruit trees lying abandoned? Let's manage them and let them look like this."

"Then what kind of fruit trees do you have? How many are there?"

"At that time, there were all peach trees and plum trees in Toutiao. They covered every hillside, maybe seven or eight acres."

Zhang Taiping thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll go and help you prune it in a few days. As for the wages, forget about it. I'm free as long as I'm free."

Song Lan then left happily and relieved, and finally did not ask for the remaining thirty yuan.

After Song Lan left, Cai Yazhi and the others washed the pots and dishes, and the other two people also left. In the room, Cai Yazhi said to Zhang Taiping: Han Miaomiao also wanted her to help prune the four acres of cherry trees at home.

After hearing this, Zhang Taiping agreed. Helping one is helping, and helping two is also helping.