Chapter 120: Visiting Relatives
Since you have collected Li Tiezhu's fish, you can catch some of them later and put them in a small space. After using the space spiritual spring to improve it, it will be used as food for pets.
There was no one in the morning, so it was just right for fishing. Take out the net from the straw shed, scatter a few nets in the pond, catch hundreds of kilograms of fish, throw them all into the small pool in the space, filling the small pool that was almost dried up.
The fish raised by Li Tiezhu is not small anymore and tastes good. It is much better than purely artificial fish raised. However, in Qinglong Town, the fish raised cannot be sold at a good price. In addition to the fry and early feed, free-range food can't make a lot of money. If a disease plague occurs, it will be a big loss.
Recently, there was a man who was raising turtles in the village next door. He borrowed 70,000 or 80,000 to raise a pool of old turtles half large, but he didn't know what disease the old turtle was infected with. He died within two days. The man was disheartened and hanged himself that night.
This is widely spread in Qinglong Town, and there are all things to say. Some say he is greedy, some say he does not understand technology and raises it blindly, but more of it is fear of breeding, because the money you earn for several years of breeding is not enough to lose money at once.
So Lijiazhai has many ponds, which have been there for several years, but no one has contracted. Even the ponds at the village grounds are not raised by every family.
Li Zhuangzhuang, the son of the village chief, has been very anxious recently because the breeding density is too high, and many fish have died. The dead fish cannot be sold at a price and have not even recovered the cost. Just so, this whole thing can be considered as a response to Li Qingyun's proposal, and passively reduced the breeding density.
However, Li Zhuangzhuang told everyone that he had lost a lot today. Even if the remaining fish can be sold for 5 yuan per pound, it will be at most guaranteed to make a capital guarantee. This year has been in vain. I don’t ask for anything else, but I just want the remaining fish to be fine and wait steadily before the Spring Festival.
Li Qingyun caught fish and poured half a bucket of spiritual springs for the pond, causing the big fish in the pond to jump over and compete for the spiritual springs. The good guy actually saw several big black fish jumping out of the water. There are such big black fish. I don’t know how much the fish fry in the pond is ruined by them. It is also a lucky thing to make a few thousand yuan a year in a small pond.
After pouring out the Lingquan, some of the lotus flowers in the small space were transplanted. The lotus flowers in the space grew fast and the roots were rooted. Even so, Li Qingyun threw them into the pond. Anyway, their vitality was extremely strong and they almost survived if they were touched with water.
After doing all this, I saw that the pond was filled with lotus flowers every now and then nodded with satisfaction, cleaned the fish net, put it back to its original place, and took gold and copper coins home for dinner.
I eat rice dumplings in the morning, and tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. Everything we need to prepare is complete. The atmosphere of festivals in the mountain village is not strong now. Unlike before, young people are at home, racing dragon boats, celebrating temple fairs, eating rice dumplings and listening to big dramas... Now traditional customs are gradually changing. The young and strong rural laborers are working out, who still races dragon boats? Who is engaged to a opera troupe?
It is very simple to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival now. On the fifth day of the fifth month, I eat rice dumplings, boil salted duck eggs, and insert some mugwort leaves at the door... Now there are fewer people who drink realgar wine. It is said that realgar wine is poisonous, and ordinary villagers know it, so they stop drinking it. Only some elderly people are hard to change their habits, so they still drink a little.
After breakfast, Li Qingyun's sister and nephew were about to go back to the city. Li Qingyun went to Grandpa Wu's house to pick up a cart of wine and took her back to the city. Since it was said that the boss in the city collected wine, he had to do it himself.
He only raised one thousand kilograms of wine in this car, and filled ten jars of wine. Because it was half of sorghum wine and Xiaowuliang wine, the price this time was fifteen yuan per kilogram. This price seemed very low to the people in the city, but for the people in the village, it was already considered a high-priced wine.
Li Qingyun promised that the brewed small Wuliang roast will be purchased at a stable 20 yuan per kilogram. Grandpa Wu's family was happy for a long time and said that with this money, they would not have to worry about the equipment for forming another boiler and could expand production with confidence.
To change backward and poor mountain villages, you have to do it step by step. If you want to eat a fat man in one bite, you may scare your relatives and friends.
Before driving, Li Qingyun's parents asked him to come back early and go to his grandfather's house at noon. On the Dragon Boat Festival, Chen Xiuzhi also had to go back to her parents' home to visit relatives. No matter how much things she gave, this etiquette is indispensable.
Li Qingyun was just like a good thing when delivering wine. After sending her sister home, she didn't go in and sat down. She just said she wanted to rush home to visit relatives, so she hurriedly left.
Found a place where no one was there, he put ten jars of wine from the back of the car into a small space, moved it to the wine cellar, ignored the sleeping python and left.
When we returned to Lijiazhai, it was past ten o'clock. Fortunately, Li Qingyun's parents had already prepared gifts and put them in the car and were ready to set off.
Now that the family is rich, Chen Xiuzhi is willing to leave her parents' home. She brought two bottles of Wuliangye that Secretary Huang took last time, and carried a few boxes of good-packaged nutritional products. She cut more than a dozen kilograms of pork and two chickens, and it was full of them. This pile of gifts was not ashamed.
After taking the ferry to the Xiandai River, there is a small mountain road to the north, and the car is barely accessible. After driving three or four miles, it is Chenjiagou. This village is larger than Lijiazhai. There are many small ponds around the village, but there are not much arable land to plant, so it is economically poorer than Lijiazhai.
My grandfather's family is located in the north end of the village, on the west side. There is a large courtyard there. The house is very dilapidated, but there are three or four houses. After the two uncles got married, they also lived in the courtyard. Li Qingyun's cousin got married and lived in the courtyard. The eldest cousin already has children, and the family is considered to be together for four generations, which is extremely lively.
Li Qingyun drove into the village, which immediately caused a sensation in Chenjiagou. Some chattering people pointed at the car. Until Li Qingyun opened the car window, his mother greeted the villagers affectionately. Only then did these people realize that it was Chen Xiuzhi who went back to her parents' home to visit relatives.
Now there are more people talking, and they praise Chen Xiuzhi for being worthwhile and her son is promising. When he was in college, he came to his parents' home to borrow tuition. Now he is better. After less than two years of graduation, he actually built a building and bought a car.
Of course, there are also some well-informed people. I heard that Chen Xiuzhi made a fortune by growing vegetables at home, and her vegetables were almost impossible to sell, but her vegetables cost ten yuan per pound, and the big boss in the city rushed to ask for them.
When Li Qingyun saw that there were too many people around him, he might as well ask his mother to get out of the car and talk, otherwise the frame of the car would be too high. If the child was not careful, it would be a problem.
In this way, when I entered the village, I slowed down and stopped and finally drove the car to my grandfather's house.
Grandpa was the village chief in the village and the patriarch of the Chen family generation. He was very powerful. When the car entered the courtyard, he saw Grandpa sitting under the tree to enjoy the cool air, squinted his eyes and watched his uncle teach children of the same clan to practice boxing.
When Li Qingyun was a child, he was very envious of the children who could practice boxing in this yard. Although he often played with this child when he was a child, whenever adults taught boxing, his grandmother would take him away with him with various excuses.
Thinking about it, I felt sad and crying. So, I have been back to the village for so long and I have only entered my grandfather’s house today, which has something to do with my childhood experience.
"Grandpa, uncle, won't you delay teaching boxing?" Li Qingyun asked with a smile as he got off the car.
Li Chengwen pushed his son behind and refused to let him complain. This is the rule of Chen's family. Saying a few sarcastic words will only make the relationship break. Besides, except for not teaching him to practice boxing, the grandparents and their family must not say anything else.
Li Qingyun's grandfather is chubby and not tall, but he gives people a very burly feeling. Looking at the flesh on his body carefully, he does not have the sense of muscle layering, and is no different from ordinary fat.
"It's Fuwa here. What a lie. You've been delaying a lot before, right? Haha, you guys are capable. When did you buy a car?"
The old man still likes this grandson very much. Because of the admission to Sichuan University, his face has been greatly shiny. Seeing Li Qingyun get out of the car, he laughed and greeted him and took the gift from him.
Before Li Qingyun could say, the old man narrowed his swollen eyes again and shouted happily: "Good thing, you kid are really rich. You actually bought two bottles of Wuliangye for grandpa. You have a good time today at noon."
"Haha, there are more good drinks in the future." Li Qingyun smiled and said hello to his uncle who was walking towards him.
My uncle is nearly fifty years old and is extremely strong. He has a simple smile on his face. He takes the things from Li Chengwen and says, "Why do you take so many things? Even if you have money, you can't buy them randomly."
As he said that, he shouted in the backyard: "Chen Sheng, come out and pick up your uncle and his family. He is stuck in the house all day long, he doesn't practice boxing well, and he doesn't plant crops well. He just thought about studying mushrooms. He studied for two years, but he has never succeeded. Alas, if you have half of the ability of the lucky baby, I don't have to worry about you."
Li Qingyun hurriedly persuaded, "Uncle, you are slapping me in the face. What can I do? The money I have for college was still borrowed from you. After graduation, I didn't find a decent job and I was forced to go back to the village to farm. I haven't dared to come here these days, just because I'm afraid you'll make a joke. Brother Chen Sheng's research on growing mushrooms? If he succeeds, he can make a fortune in a year."
The uncle complained: "You don't know. He wants to grow bamboo fungus manually. That thing is not as delicate as ordinary mushrooms. It has been fiddling with them for two years, so it's better to plant some ordinary mushrooms."
As he was talking, Chen Sheng ran out of the backyard wearing slippers, his hair was covered in mess, his face was unshaven, and his eyes were very bloodshot. When he saw Li Qingyun, a smile squeezed out of his face: "Fuwa, you are here. Just in time, I have something to ask you. When I was reading the information about growing mushrooms, there were many terms that I couldn't understand. I heard that the computer can access the Internet and check everything online. Can you help me check a few..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard Li Qingyun's grandfather coughing heavily and said domineeringly: "The guest is here today, he only eats, drinks, chats, and let go of all other things. Even if there is something big, I will talk about it after the meal."
"I know, grandpa." Chen Sheng was so scared that he was frightened when he heard his grandpa's impatient cough. When he was a child, he had been beaten a lot. Now if he didn't do that, he would also attract a fight from his grandpa.
The head of the Chen family is not a casual shout. It has greater power than the village chief. The whole village has the surname Chen, and I listen to the head. Fortunately, the old man is both the head of the clan and the village chief, otherwise it would be meaningless for other people to be village chiefs and they cannot command them. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!