The Era of Hard Work

When returning home in the evening, Lu Dong walked from the market street and went to his uncle to tell him about Sun Liming. The uncle told him that this is indeed a personal favor, but don't have too much expectation. You can really buy a house from there. Make a difference.

"Don't you want to buy a store or a house there?" Lu Jianguo said, "It just happens to be useful."

He reminded Lu Dong: "The developer's formalities are almost finished. After the formalities are completed, there may be an internal housing selection meeting first. I will notify you then."

Tianyi Company is very troublesome, it is difficult to find customers, and even asks the contractors to try their best to pull people over.

Lu Dong nodded: "Okay, I'll go and have a look then." He thought for a while, and then said: "Uncle, I think it's best for my brother to buy a house there. The university city is promoted by the province, and there is room for development in the future. , my eldest brother works in a university town, so it’s not far away.”

Lu Jianguo spends all day in the university town, but he didn't think about it: "I don't have enough money."

Lu Dong knew that if he missed this opportunity, the price would definitely rise later. Although until 2003, the housing price in Quannan had not skyrocketed, but it was still rising steadily.

In a place like a university town, the local government and the school have completed the run-in and negotiated matters such as the admission of affiliated schools, and the house will inevitably have a period of rapid growth.

At this stage, those who don't have a deep understanding will feel that the university town is not good.

Quannan thinks it is in the wilderness, Qingzhao thinks it is outrageous.

Lu Dong added: "The developer should be able to apply for a loan after completing the formalities. I went to the bank and asked. It is not difficult to apply for a loan if you have a preparation."

Hearing this, Lu Jianguo thought of something and asked, "Dongzi, are you planning to take out a loan?"

Lu Dong scratched his head: "I have this idea..."

"In your situation, you need a guarantee from someone with a budget." Lu Jianguo knew enough about this business, so he said directly, "You can come to me when the time comes, and I'll guarantee you."

Lu Dong didn't know what to say, he wanted his elder brother to guarantee it.

It is not difficult to repay the loan, and he will not deceive his family.

Lu Jianguo said, "You're a big man, don't talk about it."

Lu Dong repeated the old saying: "Uncle, my brother is of marriageable age and needs a house."

Lu Jianguo thought for a while and said, "I have to discuss this matter with your elder brother. I don't know where your elder brother and daughter-in-law are."

The next day, Lu Dong saw Lu Chun who came to inspect at the market, so he dragged him to a deserted place in the south, and first asked Liu Zhaodi about changing his name.

It is not difficult to change the name, you need a household registration booklet.

He also specifically talked about the house.

"Not in a hurry?" Lu Chun stood in a deserted place on the south side of the market and said, "It's not too late to wait another two years."

Lu Dong directly asked, "Brother, are you and Sister Fang rushing to get married?"

Lu Chun said very seriously: "Of course! Getting raped without the purpose of getting married is called hooliganism."

Lu Dong analyzed: "To get married, you must have a place to live. Sister Fang works in Quannan, and you work in Qingzhao. This place cannot be placed in Lujia Village. Do you want to go to Quannan to buy a house?"

It seems that the newspaper office also moved from the west to Xincheng later, but this cannot be said.

Lu Chun stayed in the university city, and his future was bright.

"I'll think about it again." Lu Chun was very cautious: "This is not a trivial matter."

Lu Dong guessed that Lu Chun might want to discuss it with Fang Yan, but did the two talk about this step? It's not easy to ask too much.

"How are the two people that Brother Bei took away yesterday?" Lu Dong asked.

Lu Chun said simply: "That woman made a mistake first, and she lost a sum of money in the end."

Lu Dong reminded: "That man has a problem with the old couple."

Lu Chun nodded slightly: "They have been listed as key observation objects."

After chatting for a while, Lu Chun didn't waste time anymore. It was normal to bring people into the market. After the thieves made a fuss in the market, it has been quiet until yesterday.

With the arrest of the fat woman's son, some theft cases were naturally solved. Most of the cases on the construction site in the university town were done by those two people.

But the two never admitted to stealing anything from the temporary market in the university city.

In the next two days, that is, Friday and Saturday, Lv Dong didn't come to the University City, but he dragged his things to the University City in the morning to ask Qiao Weiguo to sell daily necessities.

Because the apple orchard has to pick apples.

The orchard was about to expire, and Hu Chunlan mentioned more than once that she would go to the University City to help. Lu Dong temporarily comforted his wife and asked her to rest for a while after harvesting the apples.

When the pig's head was chopped off last time, the two discussed it, and Lu Dong was investigating the situation of Malatang.

He also said what he mentioned to Lu Zhenlin. If the village makes a living by stewing, Hu Chunlan said that he would follow the village.

After all, that's what she does best.

And I feel that after all these years, I owe a lot to the village.

On the day of fruit harvest, many people from the old street came to help. The older ones helped cook, the women picked apples and put them in net bags, and the men carried them out.

The trucks of the county cannery factory are parked outside the gate of the orchard, and a large platform scale is placed at the gate. The fruit is carried out and directly loaded on the scale. Before each truck is pulled away, the bill is settled once.

There is no way, the public company said that it will be paid tomorrow, and it may not be paid until next year.

Those who live in the countryside are unwilling to take risks.

The closed flour mills used to collect grain and beat the IOUs, and there were still unfulfilled ones. Those who bought the flour mills asked the county to solve them. The county said that the problems left over from history should be turned to the flour mills.

For farmers, there should not be too many similar lessons.

The county cannery is also going from bad to worse, and it is estimated that it will not last for a few years.

Filled with apples, the cannery took the fruit away, and a group of people in Lujia Village sat down temporarily to drink water and rest.

Lu Zhenlin came over to check the situation, looked at the entire forest, and said, "This large forest will be gone soon."

Lu Dong was holding a teapot to pour water for someone, and then said, "When will you start chopping?"

"Next month." Lu Zhenlin sighed: "The county will send people here."

Iron Rooster took a sip of water and interjected: "Third Uncle, what do you do with the cut down tree?"

The second grandpa answered: "What else can you do with the cut down apple tree? It's useless, so it's piled up as garbage."

The iron rooster has an idea: "It's cold and I drag it back to light the chicken?"

Lu Zhenlin stared and said, "It hasn't been cut yet!"

Lu Dong poured a circle of water, sat on the saddle and looked at the trees.

Nail ran out of the woods, holding a broken earthen basin in his hand, and shouted, "It's a big show! It's a big show!"

This kid is addicted to watching movies all day long.

Lu Dong went over to take a look, the nail caught a mantis and a big cricket, the mantis clamped the cricket with a big knife, its triangular head leaned over, and was gnawing on the cricket's head.

Lu Lanlan, who was eating the apple, glanced curiously and turned her head away quickly.

Praying mantises gnaw on other bugs, which is a bit scary for girls.

Lu Lanlan looked at the beast squatting on the roof of the columbarium again, shuddered, and grabbed Lu Dong's arm: "Brother Dong, accompany me to find the purple eggplant."

Having to rest for a while, Lu Dong came down and led Lu Lanlan into the fruit forest, followed by Nail.

Purple eggplant is a common wild fruit in the fields here, also called wild grapes. Each one is the size of a soybean grain, and it will turn purple when ripe. It is sweet and sour and delicious.

Lu Lanlan was greedy, but she didn't dare to look for it by herself.

There are a lot of orchards, and it is very troublesome to pick them one by one. Lu Dong simply pulled out the whole tree and let Lu Lanlan hold it.

The little girl picked it up as she walked, and threw it into her mouth. Her lips were stained purple when she ate it.

Lu Dong found four or five trees and pulled them all back in one go. Lu Lanlan's eyebrows were crooked with a smile, and she couldn't help but eat.

Nail is not interested in this, and looks for crickets everywhere.

When Lu Dong went back, a group of people were discussing the chicken farm of Uncle Tie and Aunt Tie.

"The price of the chickens in the last shop has dropped so much that we can barely keep our capital." Aunt Tie patted her legs and said, "They can make money from processing, but our farmers are not very risk-resistant. If there is a fluctuation in the market, we have to lose money. Processing This one, I think it’s pretty good, it can make money!”

Uncle Tie immediately retorted: "We have worked hard for many years, we just saved up this little money and invested it all at once, and we don't even have a bottom line!"

On the one hand, he loves money, but on the other hand, he also has considerations: "No matter how bad the market is in a year for raising chickens, as long as there is no chicken plague, it will still make money after all. The money is stable."

Others have little knowledge of the industry and can't mix their opinions.

Most of the time, Uncle Tie and Aunt Tie were talking, and everyone listened.

Lu Dong didn't know it very well before, but after listening to the two people talking and arguing, he roughly understood it.

As he was talking, Uncle Tie and Aunt Tie pinched, and Lu Zhenlin scolded him a few times, be honest.

Aunt Tie said: "Qiang Zi, who caught the chicken, said that if the things are processed, he can take them!"

Lu Dong had been listening all the time, and felt that this was the key, and asked, "Is he the only one to accept?"

Aunt Tie said: "We have been cooperating with him."

Lu Dong was thinking, although Uncle Tie was stingy, he was kind to his family, and Aunt Tie had nothing to say about the fat woman, thanks to Aunt Tie.

I didn’t know it before, but now I’ve heard about it. Lu Dong reminded me a little bit: “I don’t know anything about chicken raising and processing, but I do business in a university town. I need to make sure that there are enough customers and a big enough market before I dare to invest money in targeted purchases.”

Any business should not be carried on with a dull head.

As he said before, there is a market basis for the brine, and there is a certain gap in the market.

It is impossible for Lu Dong to tell Uncle Tie whether Auntie Tie can do it, and he can't judge without going deep into this industry.

I can only remind the previous sentence.

Aunt Tie didn't speak any more, as if she had thought about it.

"Mom! Look what I caught!" Nail ran out of the fruit forest at this moment, holding a long green rope in his hand: "Big worm!"

Seventh Aunt glanced at it and said, "Throw it away for fun! Don't take it home, or your father will have to drink again."

Nail said: "I know!" He leaned over and said, "Brother Dong, why don't you? People on the street say you like bugs, so I'll keep this big bug for you?"

What is a fun bug? Who spread this rumor? Lu Dong's face collapsed.

When the truck came back, everyone started to get busy again.

After two days of busy work, the orchard was finally picked, and the ones left on the trees were all small green fruits that were appalling to look at, and they were not used for canning.

When Hu Chunlan received the money, the first thing she did was to repay the debt, the public grain borrowed, the fertilizer on credit...

There is also an agricultural special product tax.

This is another tax that is levied on cash crops such as apples, pears and tobacco leaves.

This year is neither good nor bad. The money from selling apples is counted, and the final balance is just over 3,000.

One year, the orchard lost more than 2,000 yuan.

When the orchard contract really expired, Lu Dong and Hu Chunlan took all the things back to the old street, and tidied up one side of the main room, which was specially used as a warehouse for Lu Dong.

The county is also moving quickly. After the weekend, workers come to cut down trees and dig stumps to prepare for the replacement of Red Fuji next year.

A game of chess in the whole county can be called a county-level agricultural strategic plan.

The cut trunks and branches are piled up near the columbarium, like a hill.

There are very few roast chickens and ducks here, and the fruit trees cut down are temporarily useless, and there is a high probability that they will become firewood in the stove in the end.

If braised pork is made in the village, it will come in handy. Thousands of old fruit trees can be cooked for a while.