Chapter 159 Home Visit

"Hello, Secretary. We are students from the Civil Engineering Department of Tongcheng University."

Early in the morning, Yang Guofeng was preparing to go out and drive to pick up the elderly people in the village to go to the courtyard with the well. It must be said that since Xia Wu came back, Yang Guofeng, the village secretary, has become busier and more productive.

He is already fifty years old and may have to retire in a few years. However, even if he finds a suitable successor, Yang Guofeng has decided to continue serving the villagers after retirement. In his opinion, picking up and dropping off the elderly is a job that suits him very well.

Yang Guofeng hummed a little tune and just opened the door when he saw four young men standing at the door, looking at him with smiles on their faces.

Then start introducing yourself.

"Uncle, my name is Zhou Hui." The leading boy spoke first.

"My name is Jiang Di." The second tall and thin boy continued.

"My name is Ma Xiaohu." The fattest boy immediately followed.

"My name is Qian Xin." The last gentleman wearing glasses spoke last.

"Uncle, please help us find a job!"

The four of them spoke in unison, their voices so loud that they attracted Yang Guofeng's wife, "Guofeng, you haven't left yet?"

Yang Guofeng quickly replied: "Not yet, someone came to see me."

As he spoke, he called Zhou Hui and the other three into his house, wiped his sweat, and said, "You college students, why do you think I'll find you a job?"

How could he be able to find jobs for college students?

"Uncle," Zhou Hui spoke first, "you might not know this, but you're quite famous on the forum. We're all Xia Xia fans, and we've been fans of her for a long time. We came to our village for summer vacation this time, and we thought playing all day wouldn't be enough, so we wanted to find a summer job here. We're unfamiliar with the area, so we'd like to ask for a favor."

His words attracted Yang Guofeng's attention.

Yang Guofeng asked with great interest: "Do you still know me?"

"Of course I know, uncle. You're the HR of our village, responsible for issuing work tasks and recruiting. Am I right?"

HR Yang Guofeng knew what he meant. He squinted his eyes and smiled, nodding, "Then you're right. Xiao Wu did give me the job of recruiting people, asking me to help check. We don't want those who are cunning and dishonest, and we don't want those who like to cause trouble. We are all honest people."

Yang Guofeng asked again: "What is a forum?"

He is now very curious about young people's things and wants to learn everything.

Zhou Hui explained the forum to him, downloaded and registered a forum account on Yang Guofeng's mobile phone, and helped him log in.

"You can post and communicate here. Even Xia Xia is here. It's really interesting."

Yang Guofeng held the phone in his hands as if it were a treasure, and felt that this forum did have some substance.

"I understand, but you may have found the wrong person. If you really want to find a job, it would be more convenient to go directly to Xia Xia. She knows what needs manpower and how many people are needed. I always listen to her."

Zhou Hui quickly said, "Uncle, we don't have to find a job at the villa. The thing is, a few of us haven't graduated yet, and we still have a year to go. But I've already told Xia Xia that if she needs someone after graduation, we can come here to work. But it's summer vacation now, and we can't take up a regular job position and leave after a few months. So we want to find a part-time job this summer to earn a little money so that we can continue our studies when school starts."

Yang Guofeng seemed to understand, "Oh, then what kind of job can I help you find?"

"I heard that our county is planning to build a comprehensive road network. It seems that they are going to develop the county. I think since they are going to build roads, they must need people on the construction site. Uncle, can you help us ask if they can get us four into the construction site?"

The main reason is that the entrance to the construction site is not open now, so Zhou Hui and his friends can't find the door even if they want to find work.

Yang Guofeng understood, "You college students, is this what you do?"

"Don't worry, uncle. We are professionals in this field. It's a good opportunity for us to practice."

"Okay, since you're so willing to do this and you're Xiao Wu's fans, I have to help you. Where do you guys live? Leave me your contact information and I'll go to the county today to ask around. I'll get back to you once I've found out."

This was not a difficult task, and Yang Guofeng could still help. He did not hide it and simply agreed.

Zhou Hui smiled happily and said quickly, "We live in the village. We rented the house from Fourth Master Yang. This is my WeChat..."

Mr. Yang Si’s house is almost becoming a B&B.

Zhou Hui and his friends originally wanted to rent a house in the village, so they posted on the forum asking if anyone knew how to rent a house or to ask directly in person.

Fortunately, after posting a question, I found out that some families in the village only have orphans and widows, and it is not suitable to rent a house to men. Yang Shuhua replied to them and learned that they were four male college students. He simply let them live in his house, 100 yuan per person per month. There are no single rooms, so two people share a room. If you can cook, meals are provided, and if you can't cook, forget it. Water and electricity are all free.

You can also use Yang Shuhua’s 5G network.

With these conditions, plus the rent of only one hundred yuan a month, it is much cheaper than renting in some cities.

Zhou Hui and his friends simply rented it for two months.

There is a patient living in Fourth Master Yang's house, Qi Wei. He has been in the village for several months. He drinks Chinese medicine every day and follows Xia Wu's grandfather to practice boxing for health preservation. Now his physical condition has recovered well. At least from the surface, you can only see that his complexion is a little bad, but everything else is fine.

Qi Wei can't eat food that is too strong, so he cooks his own meals. When Fourth Master Yang and Yang Shuhua go to the small courtyard with a well on the mountain to eat, Qi Wei cooks and eats by himself at home. Sometimes when he has nothing to do, he follows Old Master Yang to learn Chinese medicine, and goes with him to other villages to treat people. Together with Yang Hongwen, he acts as the left and right protectors.

He was away from home most of the day.

Zhou Hui and his friends played for more than a week and experienced everything they should have experienced. The village is not like the city, where there are not so many paid activities to experience, but the air is good and the pace of life is slow.

This kind of life is very comfortable for some people, but for some young people who like to have fun and have fun, it becomes a bit too monotonous after a long time.

Zhou Hui and the others don’t want to stay in the house playing with their phones every day. Wouldn’t that be no different from being in school?

So they thought of finding a part-time job.

Jian Manxue and Huang Ying, who arrived on the same day as them, have already found part-time jobs, doing small tasks like making steamed buns and picking vegetables with the village employees.

These are all light jobs. They can be done faster with them around, and the old people can work slower without them.

In other words, there was no need for two more positions, but Xia Wu still accepted them and paid them.

Zhou Hui and the others felt embarrassed to do this, fearing that it would add too much burden to Xia Wu, so they thought about finding something to do elsewhere.

Then I heard Yang Shuhua say that the county was going to build a road. This was a big project and it would probably take at least half a year to complete.

It was also Yang Shuhua who reminded them to go to Yang Guofeng and find a job for themselves.

After finishing his work in the village, Yang Guofeng rode his electric scooter to the county. After searching for a long time, he happened to meet the construction team who were doing business in the county. So he took the initiative to ask if the construction team was short of staff. If so, he had four younger people here, college students, majoring in civil engineering, who were suitable for their majors. It would be great if he could find them a summer job.

The boss of the engineering team readily agreed, and after they took the job, they heard a lot of gossip.

Someone donated money to the county, at least tens of millions. The money must be used for road construction and practical construction in the town. With so much money, it stands to reason that some people would secretly put some of it into their own pockets after the accounts were settled. But this time, no one dared to touch the money.

The reason is very simple. They heard that a big shot, a powerful figure, came to this small and broken place called Donghua Town. But they didn't know how big a figure he was.

The engineering team's bidding was conducted according to the procedures. If Zheng Peng didn't have the skills, he wouldn't dare to take on this porcelain job.

He will stay in Donghua Town for the next six months. It’s always a good idea to build good relationships with the people here.

The task given by the higher authorities is to repair the town's roads as quickly as possible, the sooner the better, while ensuring the quality. After Zheng Peng completed the bidding, he started working overtime. He has more than a dozen work teams under him, and the manpower may not be enough. He will have to recruit people anyway if there is a shortage of manpower. Why not give face to Yang Guofeng and do him a favor?

Yang Guofeng easily got a part-time job, exchanged contact information with Zheng Peng, and was taken aside by the town leaders.

Seeing that Yang Guofeng was very pleased, the leader smiled happily and revealed some information. This time, the town not only got the opportunity to build a road, but also several investment opportunities. If they could take advantage of this favorable situation, Donghua Town would definitely get rid of the title of a poor town in a poor county, and maybe the whole town could be revived.

He received more information than Zheng Peng. He knew that the donor had named the donor and said that the donation was to Yanggou Village. The town leaders knew clearly about any changes that had taken place in Yanggou Village in the past two years because of Yang Guofeng.

They couldn't get close to some big shots no matter how hard they tried, so it was better for them to make friends with Yang Guofeng.

In short, thousands of words can be summed up in one sentence: the road on the Yanggou Village side should be built first.

Moreover, the town has already been communicating with the county and plans to integrate the thirteen villages in Donghai Town, find out the characteristics of the villages, and work hard to develop other villages. At that time, the entire Donghua Town will be treated as a whole to keep up with modernization and promote economic construction.

These big pancakes filled Yang Guofeng's heart and made him feel hot.

If Donghua Town can really develop, the people in the village will definitely come back.

On the way back on his electric bike, Yang Guofeng felt very happy. Even the scorching sun could not extinguish the happiness in his heart.

On the way back, Yang Guofeng met Yang Mingyuan's new teacher, Yan Lingling, and stopped to say hello to Yan Lingling.

Yan Lingling came to the town market to buy vegetables. Compared to when she first met her, she has now naturally integrated into the slightly backward life of the town. Yang Guofeng has often heard the children in the village praise Yan Lingling, saying that she is a responsible person and a good old-fashioned person.

Very caring about children.

You have to know that most of the children in the primary school are left-behind children, who are raised by the elderly and are not very attentive in their lives. Yan Lingling will care about the children's physical health, help some children cut their fingernails, supervise them in taking a bath, and make home visits from time to time.

The children know who is truly good to them and can sense it, and Yan Lingling is indeed the most responsible teacher in these years.

Yan Lingling was also very happy to see Yang Guofeng: "Secretary Yang, are you here to do some business?"

Yang Guofeng smiled and nodded, "Just a little errand. Didn't Teacher Yan go home for the holidays?"

Yan Lingling is not from Donghua Town, she should be from the city.

Logically, she should have gone back to her home during the summer vacation. After all, life in the village is quite hard.

Yan Lingling bought some meat and seemed to have some rice wine brewed by nearby villagers. She said she had been back home for a few days and had just arrived.

"It's hot in the summer, and many children like to go to the river to play in the water. Although I told them about this at a meeting before the holiday, I was still worried. So I thought I'd take advantage of the summer break to do some home visits so I could supervise them while they do their homework."

Yang Guofeng thought to himself, Yan Lingling is indeed a responsible teacher.

He liked young and idealistic people like this, and immediately became even more enthusiastic. "When are you going to visit our village? Why don't you come to our village first? Those naughty kids are like monkeys when they are let loose. They run to the water all day long and probably forget about their summer homework."

When Yan Lingling heard this, she agreed.

"Then I'll go to Yanggou Village for a home visit tomorrow."

Yang Mingyuan is indeed a naughty child, but he is also very sensible.

Yang Guofeng got a good job for the village girl Meimei. After saying goodbye to Yan Lingling, he hurried back to the village to inform her.

"What!? Teacher Yan is coming to visit our home?"

During lunch, Yang Guofeng announced this great event in public.

The children who were enjoying their meal suddenly felt dizzy and cried out in grief when they heard the news.

"Why a home visit? I'm so scared! I haven't even finished my homework!"

"I don't want the teacher to visit my home!"

There is no doubt that the relationship between students and teachers is like the natural hostility between mice and cats. When children hear that the teacher is coming, even during the summer vacation, they will be worried and can't even enjoy their meals.

Soon, the children were being twisted by their elders. "Your teacher should come more often and supervise you. No one can control you all the time! Sooner or later, you will die!"

About eighty to ninety percent of the people in the village work for Xia Wu.

The old people in the village would also come to work for Xia Wu.

It was a natural thing to eat at her place.

The elderly have all come, so it's normal for children to come too.

Every day, about a hundred people eat in the courtyard by the well.

Wang Yuexia definitely couldn't handle it all by herself, so Xia Wu found two more people to help her prepare meals for so many people.

There are always two dishes and one soup every day, and there must be meat.

The leftovers were fed to the village cats and dogs.

Over time, the elderly in the village became radiant, the children in the village became healthy and strong, and the cats and dogs in the village had shiny fur.

Xia Wu also had dinner in the courtyard with the well today. The weather was too hot and Liu Guizhen was too lazy to cook, so the family went to the courtyard to eat.

Not all children are unhappy. At least junior high school students don’t have these anxieties. Instead, they stand by their elders and teach their younger elementary school brothers and sisters a lesson, so that they can correct their attitudes.

Xia Meng, a high school student who is not a student here, will have even less worries.

Considering that Yan Lingling was coming to visit her home and would definitely have to eat here, Xia Wu found another excuse to eat chicken. Experts said that chickens that were 180 days old were the most delicious, and the chickens she raised in the mountains were just at their best stage, so of course she had to eat them while they were still delicious.

Xia Wu doesn't just eat. When the chickens are almost finished eating, she will continue to replenish the flock to ensure the number.

Otherwise, what will you eat in winter after finishing the meal?

When the children heard that they would have chicken on the day of the home visit, they became happy again.

Wang Yuexia was thinking about a new dish and asked everyone if they wanted to try braised chicken, which was unanimously agreed by the villagers.

So I decided to have braised chicken.

Xia Wu asked Ji Yunzhou: "Will you send grandpa two more chickens tomorrow?"

Ji Yunzhou shook his head. "I'll call and ask first. Grandpa said last time that he wanted to come to the village to take a look."

Mr. Wang didn't want to eat the small pot meal in Bailou. He also wanted to come to the warehouse to eat the big pot meal and experience the feast that Mr. Ji talked about.

I heard that Mr. Wang rarely went out since he suffered a stroke and became paralyzed on one side. Xia Wu was very happy to hear that he was coming to the village to visit. He also asked Ji Yunzhou what else Mr. Wang liked to eat and he would cook it for him tomorrow.

Ji Yunzhou found out from asking that Mr. Wang liked to eat braised pork, and he wanted the old-fashioned kind, a big piece, coated with honey and fried before being braised.

Xia Wu thought about it and was afraid that Wang Yuexia’s cooking would not be good enough, so she quickly found the contact information of Chef Zhang and asked him if he had time to come to the village to cook a meal tomorrow.

The town's middle school was on summer vacation, and Chef Zhang was unemployed at home. He and his son separated, and the father and son did different jobs. Chef Zhang only worked at the school window, while his son prepared banquets for people.

During the busy summer vacation, Chef Zhang would occasionally help his son with some work, but most of the time, he stayed at home listening to opera and taking care of the fruits and vegetables grown in the yard.

When I received Xia Wu's call, an excerpt from "The Golden Flower" was playing on the TV: "This is the unpredictability of life. I don't want to be reunited today~"

Chef Zhang held a kettle in one hand to water the succulents, and took out his mobile phone from his pocket with the other hand to answer the call.

Xia Wu explained her purpose. The local chickens on the mountain were ready to eat and the potatoes were ripe. The employees wanted to eat braised chicken. With so many people, at least a dozen chickens would have to be killed. Coincidentally, there was also a very important person who wanted to eat old-fashioned braised pork, so she thought of Chef Zhang.

Chef Zhang was shocked and said that Xia Wu was really generous to his employees.

Chef Zhang had long taken a fancy to the more than one hundred chickens raised by Xia Wu. Not only him, but also the veteran chef Ma Xueqing had taken a fancy to them.

The result? Xia Wu simply couldn't bear to sell more!

If you want to sell it, a genuine free-range chicken from the mountains would cost at least two or three hundred yuan each, and a dozen would cost two or three thousand yuan...

Xia Wu actually made it so easily for his employees to eat.

Chef Zhang's heart was bleeding. He said to Xia Wu, "I don't want your wages. How about giving me two chickens?"

The meal cost 600 yuan, but considering that he had to cook for more than a hundred people, Xia Wu agreed.

"OK!"

Chef Zhang was very happy. He hung up the phone, stopped watering the plants, and went back to the house to look for his kitchen utensils.

Suddenly, he thought of something, took out his cell phone and sent another message to Ma Xueqing.

"Is Yanggou Village having another wedding? They asked me to cook a meal. They said they'd make braised chicken and pork, and they promised to give me two chickens afterward. What did she promise you?"

Chef Zhang was very scheming. He knew that Xia Wu would not go to such great lengths to ask Ma Xueqing to cook, but he still asked this question even though he knew the answer.

In fact, it is just showing off.

As expected, after receiving the news, Ma Xueqing's eyes almost popped out of his eyes with envy.

"This guy's cooking skills aren't as good as mine, just a little better. He's closer. If I were over there, how could they choose him over me? And he's so proud of himself!"

Ma Xueqing was furious the whole morning, and the more he thought about it, the worse he felt. Those were authentic free-range chickens!

Delicious!

"Si'er, buy me a ticket!"

Xia Wu didn't know that she had called another group of people with just one phone call. She also called Master Pu down from the mountain. At this time, the old man, the young man and Ji Yunzhou were selecting chickens in a place where the chickens would move.

"That one is good, with lots of meat, absolutely delicious!"

Mr. Pu's eyes are like the fiery eyes of a monkey. He is very good at picking chickens. If you ask him, there is no need to pick the chickens raised by Xia Wu. They are all good!

Comparison is the thief of joy. Mr. Pu raises chickens every year, and releases more than 2,000 chicks at a time. However, he is alone, and he has to raise bees and look after the chickens, so he simply does not have that much time. The chickens have a high mortality rate due to poor care.

There are more than 2,000 chicks, but after raising them for a year, only 60 or 70 of them will remain.

However, the chickens that can survive such a harsh mountain environment are all kings of chickens and taste amazing.

Some people wanted to spend thousands of dollars to buy the chickens raised by Mr. Pu as fighting cocks, but he was unwilling.

The chickens he raised were so beautiful and could contribute their lives in the pot, but they couldn't fight for life and death with their own kind.

The chickens raised in the mountains have their feathers unclipped and can fly. Once they find they are about to be caught, they flap their wings and fly up into the trees.

Catching chickens became a difficult task.

Fortunately, Mr. Pu is a strong fighter among them. With his skills, Xia Wu successfully caught the chicken to be eaten tomorrow.

Mr. Ji is here. Mr. Park is a friend of Mr. Ji. Even if he has social anxiety, he still has to meet his friend.

Mr. Park promised to come down the mountain for dinner tomorrow, but he has to go back after dinner.

Xia Wu did not make things difficult for the socially anxious old man and agreed.

Early the next morning, the chickens that were caught were slaughtered and plucked. While they were doing it, Chef Zhang came with kitchen utensils on his back. Without saying a word, he squatted down and started helping to pluck the feathers and cut open the belly.

"Chicken offal is great! These offal also have chicken feet. I can put them together and make another dish!"

It's only seven or eight o'clock now, but you can imagine how active Chef Zhang is.

He was considered to be Wang Yuexia's half-cooking master, and taught Wang Yuexia many dishes. When the master came, Wang Yuexia took a back seat and helped, checking and preparing the dishes, working enthusiastically.

As a result, less than half an hour after Chef Zhang arrived, Ma Xueqing also arrived.

Wang Yuexia was extremely surprised: "Mr. Ma, why are you here too?"

You know, Ma Xueqing is not close to Tong City. To come here so early, he must have set off at least yesterday.

Chef Zhang was also surprised: "The boss really invited you?"

Ma Xueqing wanted to say yes firmly, but he was indeed not invited.

Rubbing his nose, he said to Wang Yuexia, "It just so happens that I was planning to come here to play for a few days. How come I ran into this old guy here too?"

Wang Yuexia was confused and said happily, "You're here at the right time today! I've cooked lunch for you!"

She knew Ma Xueqing liked to eat.

Chef Zhang saw through it but didn't say anything. He looked at Ma Xueqing with amusement.

This old thing!

People who stutter are really good at pretending!