It was already nine o'clock in the evening when Gao Mingcheng returned home after having dinner at Xiao Jinfeng's place.

Xuanyuemei had already given little Xuxu a bath and was now coaxing him to sleep in the room. When Gao Mingcheng saw this through the crack in the door, he immediately lowered his footsteps and quietly went to the bathroom to take a bath.

It was a hot day, and Gao Mingcheng had been driving on the road all day. The shirt on his body kept getting wet and dry. It was white, and if he had worn black, you would definitely be able to see the crystallized salt on it.

After taking a cold shower, Gao Mingcheng felt relaxed all over. He didn't rush to put on his clothes, but just tied a big towel around his waist and walked quietly towards the house.

There was a night light on in the room, and the light was dimmer than in the living room, but for Gao Mingcheng, everything in the house was clearly visible.

I saw Xuanyimei wearing a pure cotton floral nightgown, lying on her side on the bed, with one hand under her head and the other hand gently on Xiaoxuxu's body, patting him from time to time.

She was already busy and tired all day, so when she coaxed her child to sleep at night, it was natural for her to fall asleep herself. However, Xuanyuemei was worried that Gao Mingcheng had not come back yet, and she wanted to talk to Gao Mingcheng before going to sleep, so she didn't want to fall asleep completely.

At this time, her eyes were narrowed, but she still retained some clarity of mind and resisted Zhou Gong's invitation.

Just before Gao Mingcheng bullied her, she was still complaining in her heart that Gao Mingcheng had not returned home so late.

The next moment, a warm and heavy object pressed on her body. She was startled and opened her eyes immediately, only to meet a pair of burning eyes.

"Ming Cheng..." Many beauties were touched and their faces instantly turned red as if they were burning.

Without waiting for her to make any move, Gao Mingcheng had already carried the troublesome little Xuxu to the crib next to him.

Without the obstacles that needed attention, the 1.8-meter-long bed was enough for Gao Mingcheng to give full play to his abilities, and he discussed life with many beauties.

Life is long and naturally needs to be explored again and again.

…

It was already August, but after Gao Mingcheng came back from Yangcheng, he took a day off. After a good rest, he prepared to drive back to Gaojia Village to pick up Gao Zhuang's family.

He drove to Gaojia Village at around eight o'clock in the morning, went to his grandmother's house to inform her, and then drove to Niuweiling to load the vegetables and eggs he was going to take with him.

Chen Dasong found him and told him about the grapes.

In an open space at the foot of the mountain, a row of grapes are planted. A bamboo rack is built so that the grape vines can spread and grow along the rack. After a few years of planting, the grapes gradually bear fruit. However, each bunch of grapes cannot mature at the same time.

For example, if there are 20 to 30 small grapes in a bunch, the grapes facing the sun will turn red and soft first, and at this time, the taste of the grapes is good. But the grapes in other places are not ripe yet, so they cannot be picked immediately.

However, while people are staring at the grapes, birds are also staring!

People want to wait until a bunch of grapes are fully ripe before picking them, but the birds will peck at each ripe grape. In the end, the birds have almost eaten most of the grapes before people can even start to eat them.

Chen Dasong said with a bitter face: "I also put a scarecrow on the grape trellis, but the effect is average. There are still some grapes left, although they are not very ripe... Mingcheng, do you think you should pick them?"

Gao Mingcheng said: "I'll go take a look!"

He walked towards the grape trellis, and Chen Dasong followed him.

When he arrived at the grape trellis, Gao Mingcheng indeed saw a bird pecking at the grapes. When it saw people coming, the bird flew away instantly, but it still refused to leave completely and landed on a treetop not far away.

Gao Mingcheng looked towards the place where the bird had just pecked and saw that the skin of a red grape had been broken and most of the grapes inside had been eaten.

Except for this red grape, the grapes next to it don't look fully ripe yet, and there are a few green grapes at the end.

Gao Mingcheng reached out and picked a grape, and ate the flesh in an instant like cracking melon seeds, leaving only the grape skin on his hand.

When you take a bite of the grapes, the first feeling is sweet and sour. The second feeling is that the grape flavor is really strong and not watery at all.

In general, the taste is not as sweet as the grapes produced in the Northwest, and the skin is even a bit thick, but this is a local variety, drought-resistant, insect-resistant and easy to grow!

Unlike later generations, many grape orchards here are planted entirely with very sweet grapes like Kyoho.

Gao Mingcheng ate one grape after another and felt that although the sweetness was not very high, the sourness was acceptable. Besides, it was not fully ripened naturally, otherwise it would be sweeter.

Gao Mingcheng looked at the remaining grapes and said, "Let's pick them all. If we don't, it will be a waste of money! Grapes have thin skins and are easy to attract birds. How about this, next year I will get some bags that can cover the grapes. When the grapes are about to ripen, we can use the bags to cover the grapes for protection."

The principle of bagging is very simple. Just make a bag with paper, then cover the fruit, and close it near the fruit stem to prevent insects and birds from getting in.

However, current technology is limited, and the simplest bagging is made with expired newspapers, which is convenient and low-cost.

Of course, there are also disadvantages. That is, it is not waterproof. Once it rains, the newspaper will get soaked and there is a risk of it breaking. Moreover, the lead type on the newspaper will stick to the grapes, causing a certain amount of contamination.

In later generations, there are many types of bags, most of which are waterproof and breathable. In this case, when the grapes are only the size of soybeans, they can be directly bagged.

Gao Mingcheng didn't know whether he could find good quality bags, so his worst plan was to make a batch of bags with newspapers. He didn't plant many grapes anyway, so he could just use the bags to protect the grapes before they ripened.

In July and August, there is less rain. If it gets soaked by the rain, it is best to replace it in time.

While thinking this in his mind, Gao Mingcheng also told Chen Dasong the method and principle of bagging.

Although Chen Dasong was not very educated, he understood what was said and nodded repeatedly, saying that this was a good idea.

Chen Dasong smiled and said, "With the bag protecting it, the birds won't be able to eat it! In this way, other fruits can also be protected in bags."

Gao Mingcheng waved his hand and said, "Forget it. It's too much trouble to put bags on all the fruits on the mountain! Other fruits are fine, but grapes are easy to be eaten by birds."

Chen Dasong thought about the mountains of fruits and thought it would be a daunting task to put them in bags one by one. When he saw that Gao Mingcheng was not going to do that, he belatedly breathed a sigh of relief.

Gao Mingcheng and Chen Dasong worked together to pick all the grapes on the grape racks. Seeing that the grapes did not look good, Gao Mingcheng felt that he had to arrange the bagging plan for next year!

In fact, in later generations, in order to produce high-quality fruits, some orchards put all the fruits in bags, not just grapes, but also peaches, loquats, apples, oranges, etc.

After bagging, the fruit will look better and the selling price will naturally be higher.

Gao Mingcheng picked all the grapes at once. From now on, he didn’t have to worry about the fruits of Xiaofushan for the time being.

Because only oranges and grapefruits, which are the largest in number, are left.

After loading all the things into the car, Gao Mingcheng also went to Chen Dasong's house to take a look.

His family is already building a house. Now Chen Dasong and Aunt Liu sleep in the chicken coop at night, Chen Duofu and his wife stay in the guest room of Gao Mingcheng's house, and Chen Duoxi is miserable. He can't go to either place, so he simply sleeps in the utility room next to the new house.

Their family also raised a pig and some chickens, but it was not convenient to bring these to Gao Mingcheng's home, so the chicken coop and pigpen were still preserved. Next to the chicken coop, there was also a small room for storing miscellaneous items. Now Chen Duoxi sleeps here alone and also looks after the pigs and chickens at home.

Because the bricks and wood were prepared in advance and enough manpower was hired to build the house, the construction was completed quickly. At this rate, we will definitely be able to move into the new house by the end of the year.

After Gao Mingcheng visited Chen Dasong's new house, he passed by Zhang Chengyuan's house and chatted with Xuanyu who was at home.

Just as he thought, Xuanyu was pregnant this year and there were not many people at home, so they still didn't build the house.

Thinking about how their family was able to build a house very late in their previous life, Gao Mingcheng thought that this might be fate, the kind that even he couldn't support.

After taking a walk around Niuweiling and returning to the old village, it was already past ten o'clock.

Xi Nainai's family had already made sufficient preparations for this day, so when Gao Mingcheng came to notify them, they didn't need to pack much. They just needed to go to the fields and pick up all the vegetables they could.

In addition to fresh vegetables, there was also a large bag of various dried vegetables and dried fish, enough for them to eat for a long time.

You should also bring rice from home. After grinding it, you can eat it at home.

This year, my family didn’t raise any pigs or many chickens. So far, there are only five chickens left, and they are all packed up and taken away.

It was too late to kill the chickens, so they had to take the live chickens with them first, and find time to kill them when they got to the county. Gao Mingcheng told them that there were two freezers and a refrigerator in the kindergarten, so they could kill the chickens at once and freeze them to eat later.

"Grandma Xi, Gao Zhuang, do you think there is anything left?" Gao Mingcheng helped them move the things into the car, and then asked again.

Gao Zhuang locked the main door of his house, then locked the courtyard door, then said with a smile: "I've brought everything. If there's anything I forgot, I'll get it next time I come back!"

It's summer now, so you don't need to bring a quilt or thick clothes, nor do you need to bring pots and pans. Therefore, you don't need to carry a lot of things with you. When the weather turns cold, Gao Zhuang will come back and take the quilt from home with him.

Oh, you don’t have to bring it with you, you can just buy it in the county. After all, the quilt at home has been used for many years, and they will definitely go back to the village to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and it will be troublesome to move it back and forth.

Gao Mingcheng opened the car door and motioned for them to get in: "Okay, let's go!"

Xi Nainai and He Xiuman sat in the back seat with Xiao Yuanyuan, while Gao Zhuang sat in the passenger seat, looking outside through the front window. It was a familiar scene, but it gave Gao Zhuang a sense of strangeness.

It was the first time for him to see the village from this perspective.

The car was parked at the entrance of the village for so long, and they went back and forth several times to move things, so everyone in the village knew that Gao Zhuang's family would be taken to the county by Gao Mingcheng to live a good life.

Their eyes were filled with envy.

Who doesn’t want to live a good life in the county?

Although they thought so, most people still honestly carried their hoes and went to work in the fields. They had no skills and no reliable relatives to help them, so they could only farm at home for the rest of their lives.

It was okay for others, but Gao Yuanjian's family felt a little weird.

On this day, Gao Yuanjian smoked two more cigarettes than usual, but he still found that the cigarette box was empty, so he stopped smoking.

Gao Mingcheng didn't care what outsiders thought. When the car started, the wind blew in from the open windows, bringing a touch of coolness to everyone.

Little Yuanyuan leaned against the car window, looking out curiously, pointing outside and saying from time to time: "Grandma, there is a very beautiful butterfly!"

"Wow, that buffalo is so big, it's always in the water!"

“This buffalo is even more powerful, it has two calves!”

"Mom, what's the name of the white flower on this hill?"

Xiao Yuanyuan's chattering voice was full of curiosity about the unfamiliar environment. Xi Nainai and He Xiuman answered her questions from time to time. If they didn't know the answer, they could only gloss over it vaguely.

When Xiao Yuanyuan wanted to ask more, He Xiuman said that Xiao Yuanyuan would understand these things when she went to school.

Xiao Yuanyuan often heard such words, and people in the village also often said that whoever went to junior high school was educated.

So in Xiao Yuanyuan's heart, she also wanted to go to junior high school and become a educated person.

When she said this, Gao Mingcheng couldn't help laughing and said, "Xiao Yuanyuan, what's the point of studying in junior high school? You have to at least study in college!"

Xiao Yuanyuan asked curiously: "University? What is university?"

Gao Mingcheng said: "University is a place 10,000 times better than junior high school. After going to university, you will have knowledge, be able to understand things, and find a good job to make your parents proud."

Xiao Yuanyuan was still young, and she didn't understand much after hearing it, but Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman were very excited.

Gao Zhuang went to junior high school, but He Xiuman did not even finish elementary school. In their hearts, college is sacred and out of reach.

Now that they heard Gao Mingcheng say that Xiao Yuanyuan would go to college in the future, they suddenly had a clear direction for the future.

Raise your children well and live a good life!

Life will get better and better!

Amid laughter and joy, the car drove all the way into the county town and stopped outside the kindergarten.

The kindergarten is built on the street, and there is spacious space outside the courtyard wall for free parking.

Gao Mingcheng jumped out of the car and said to Xi Nainai and the others, "It's still early, let's move everything into the kindergarten first, and then we'll go to the clothing store to eat! In the afternoon, you guys tidy up your own place, and tomorrow, I'll call a few more people to clean up the entire kindergarten together."

Since Xi Nainai and her friends had just arrived, they naturally had no objections. They followed Gao Mingcheng's instructions and moved their luggage into the room set aside for them behind the kindergarten.

Standing at the gate of the kindergarten, He Xiuman looked at the brand new building and felt extremely excited.

This is where she will live and work in the future!

For this day, He Xiuman never forgets to read books in her spare time while farming. She also listens to broadcasts about fairy tales, memorizes the stories, and tells them to Xiao Yuanyuan.

I kept talking until Xiao Yuanyuan thought it sounded good and she was satisfied. (End of this chapter)