Chapter 474 The Joy of Harvest

Early in the morning, Gao Mingcheng took Fan Licheng, said goodbye to Fan Chengyao, and returned to Jiangxi with a truckload of goods.

The journey was relatively smooth. Gao Mingcheng was considered an experienced driver and was capable of settling some troublesome matters. By the time he arrived at the county, it was already noon the next day.

When passing through the county last year, Fan Licheng followed Gao Mingcheng to Gaojia Village.

This time, Fan Licheng took the initiative to propose to stay in Gaojia Village for one night.

Gao Mingcheng naturally agreed. He left his clothes and the things he bought with Xiao Jinfeng and asked Gao Mingwan, who was taking a break, to send them back to the clothing store. He also informed Xuanyuemei and said that he was going back to Gaojia Village.

Immediately afterwards, he drove Xiao Jinfeng's second-hand jeep and took Fan Licheng back to the village.

Fan Licheng likes this small mountain village very much because people are always interested in things they don't have.

Just like people from a small mountain village go to a big city, they will be shocked by the prosperity of the big city and yearn for it from the bottom of their hearts.

This time when they returned to Niuweiling, there were actually three dogs coming out to greet Gao Mingcheng.

Black Tiger and the elf rushed in the front, and there was a big yellow dog standing a few meters away from him, not too far or too close, but staring at him all the time.

Gao Mingcheng only looked at the big yellow dog for a few seconds and then looked away. He thought it was someone else's dog in the village and it just came here to play.

After interacting with the two dogs, Gao Mingcheng introduced Fan Licheng to Black Tiger and Elf again. The two dogs had a strong sense of territory and were very wary of people they were not familiar with.

Fan Licheng looked at the two strong wolfhounds in front of him with shining eyes and stretched out his hand towards them. The two dogs sniffed his scent and smelled a faint familiar smell.

The vigilance disappeared from the black tiger's eyes, and it lay leisurely under the shade of the tree, its tail twitching occasionally.

Gao Mingcheng led Fan Licheng into the house and said, "It's too hot now. Let's go back to the house and rest for a while. I'll take you to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables later. You can pick whatever you want to eat!"

"Okay." Fan Licheng responded obediently, his eyes constantly looking around the small farmyard.

To be honest, Gao Mingcheng's yard is not very good. After all, when he built the house, Gao Mingcheng did not have much money and it was not easy to use all of it on building the house. Therefore, the room area is small and the decoration is very ordinary. But the yard is big enough.

However, because Gao Mingcheng has lived in the county for a long time, this small courtyard has been neglected, and weeds have grown in the cracks in the cement.

Especially that well, the outside of the well mouth was covered with cement, but the inside was pure soil, without bricks and cement, so a lot of ferns grew at the well mouth.

This fern also has medicinal value and is harmless to the body.

Since pulling it out would bring the soil from the wellhead into the well, and new soil would grow again, Gao Mingcheng simply did not pull it out. At least it would not delay the water extraction.

After resting for a while indoors, Gao Mingcheng took Fan Licheng to Xiaofushan.

There were not many fruits in Xiaofushan last year, but this year there are a lot of fruits in Xiaofushan, but unfortunately they are not ripe yet.

In the area where citrus fruits are planted, the branches are full of green fruits, but it will take another month or so for them to mature.

The persimmon tree is also bearing fruit this year. The tree may not look big, but the fruits are quite dense. There are more than ten fruits on one small tree, and each fruit is as big as a child's fist.

Gao Mingcheng doesn't like eating persimmons, so he only planted one persimmon tree.

Eating too much of this stuff is bad for your health. If you don't cover it properly until cooked, it will taste astringent. Although it tastes good when made into persimmon cakes, if it rains, all the persimmon cakes will get moldy and all your work will be in vain.

At the top of Xiaofu Mountain, there are some tea oil trees planted.

At this time, tea seeds are hanging on the trees. After the frost falls, they can be picked, dried and pressed for oil.

Fan Licheng was walking in the orchard of Xiaofushan. Although the fruits were not yet ready to be picked, his face was still full of joy.

Deep down, Chinese people are full of anticipation and love for the harvest.

Fan Licheng picked a handful of radishes at random. At this moment, radishes were the only ones he could eat.

After coming down from Xiaofushan, Fan Licheng went to see the chicken coop again. There were not many chickens left in the coop. Most of the chickens stayed in groups of three or four under the fruit trees. Some were pecking at insects, and some were standing on the branches.

"Come, let's experience picking eggs." Gao Mingcheng handed Fan Licheng a small bamboo basket and led him to pick eggs.

Chickens are poultry. Even if they are raised freely in the mountains and fields, their activities are limited. They move around within a hundred meters or so of the chicken coop. Only a very few roosters will go farther.

These roosters have not been castrated, so they have a strong sense of territory and often fight. Originally, the roosters' bodies were covered with shiny colorful feathers, as if they were wearing a brocade robe, but after the fight, their feathers became messy and showed signs of falling off and becoming bald.

Sure enough, for breeders, only castrated roosters are good roosters!

The two are now picking eggs from the chicken nests in the chicken coop. There are more than a dozen chicken nests in a row, and there are eggs in each nest, some with only one or two, and some with four or five.

Gao Mingcheng told Fan Licheng not to pick up all the eggs, otherwise the chickens would run outside to lay eggs.

Fan Licheng said in confusion: "But we have to pick up all the eggs in my chicken coop."

Gao Mingcheng thought about the situation at Fan Licheng's grandparents' house and said, "Your chickens are kept in pens, so their range of activities is limited. Even if you pick up all the eggs, the chickens can only lay eggs in the chicken coop. But mine is different. My chickens are free-range, so they have more choices."

After hearing this, Fan Licheng suddenly understood.

Picking eggs is also a very interesting thing. The feeling is similar to the feeling of harvest. After picking up a basket of eggs, you will feel a little proud and sense of accomplishment.

After picking up all the eggs in the chicken coop, we will go to the mountains to pick more.

Since many of the fruit trees in Xiaofushan are not big and the bushes have been cleared, picking eggs is not very difficult.

Gao Mingcheng instructed Fan Licheng to look for eggs in the haystacks under the shade of some trees.

In addition to these haystacks, some chickens were particularly smart and found several suitable holes in the ground to lay eggs.

However, after discovering this, Gao Mingcheng simply dug some holes in the ground at appropriate locations, making it easier for chickens to lay eggs and for people to pick up the eggs.

It took them half an hour to pick up all the eggs.

"Uncle Gao, how much can so many eggs sell for?" Fan Licheng asked excitedly as he looked at two full baskets of eggs.

Gao Mingcheng smiled and said, "Have you never bought eggs before? If you buy them by the pound, they are 1.5 yuan per pound. Large eggs are about 20 cents, and smaller ones are cheaper. Have you counted how many eggs you picked up just now?"

Fan Licheng recalled the number of items he had picked up. Although he did not count them carefully, he had a rough idea in his mind.

He calculated it in his mind, and a disappointed expression appeared on his face: "Ah, that's not much money in total!"

Gao Mingcheng smiled and said, "Why don't you just eat meat? 20 cents a piece, it's cheap for you, but it's not cheap for many people. Prices have risen a bit in the past two years. Before, it was only a few cents a piece! Even this is an important source of income for many villagers' family expenses in the first half of the year."

"Have you heard of the Chicken Butt Bank? If there were no eggs to exchange for money, many people in the village wouldn't have been able to afford to buy salt!"

Fan Licheng was young and did not experience those difficult times. When he could remember, his family was already very wealthy.

His grandparents started firing kilns again and sold porcelain, his father went to Guangzhou to do business, and his mother went to Hong Kong to develop her career.

Therefore, his understanding of money must be different from that of ordinary people.

I just couldn't bear it anymore, so I wrote this little bit.

I went to practice driving today. The driving school is far away, and I thought it would not be easy to go there, so I practiced more. It was my first time touching a car, so I practiced the S route and reverse parking, and I got a feel for it. But the cars in the county driving school were really rubbish, like scrapped cars, shaking constantly, and the sun was scorching. After I came back, I felt exhausted.

Even now, my head still hurts, and I always have the urge to vomit when I smell gasoline.

Come on, friends who have practiced driving, tell me if this is a sign of physical weakness or a relatively normal reaction?

I'm going to sleep and get enough rest tomorrow before working! I don't plan to practice driving recently, I feel my body can't take it, (灬灬)

(End of this chapter)