Chapter 368 Busy Summer, Open Source
In Xiqiao Village, Li Yongshou also arranged for an excavator to come the next day as agreed. In order to save time for Zhang's mother and others, he called three excavators at once to work together, one for excavating the mountain and two for clearing the land. Such a large scale operation even alarmed the village chief, who even went to the Zhang family's old house.
Zhang's mother was feeding chickens and ducks, and was a little confused when she saw the village chief coming.
The village chief coughed awkwardly and asked hesitantly, "Hey, Jianye's family, is your Jianye here?"
Mother Zhang shook her head and asked, "What's the matter?"
The village chief asked awkwardly, "I just saw that your family was reclaiming land and mountains at the end of the village, so I came to ask, nothing much, hehe."
He couldn't say that he heard many people in the village discussing this matter, and it would be embarrassing if he couldn't answer it.
Mother Zhang didn't think much about it and replied casually: "Opening up the land is of course for planting things, otherwise why bother? It's not like we're going to build a house!"
The village chief was stunned for a moment and felt more and more embarrassed. He nodded in agreement with Zhang's mother and said a few more words before leaving.
Seeing that the village chief left without even entering the house, Zhang's mother curled her lips, closed the doors of the chicken coop and duck coop, and turned back into the house.
After a few days, the mountain and the land were opened. Zhang Wanwan paid the masters' wages and immediately contacted Li Zhijie, who quickly sent workers to install the fence. According to Zhang Wanwan's requirements, the fence was two meters high and had spikes on it, which provided a good anti-theft effect.
In order to block the sight of the villagers, Zhang's mother made a barrier with vines and wooden boards. The chickens and ducks raised on it are very safe. In addition, this is the end of the village and there is another road leading to the outside. In the future, she will not have to take the village main road to deliver goods and can avoid the sight of the villagers.
With the addition of a farm on the hill, the three members of the Zhang family are even busier. In addition to taking care of the chickens, ducks and fields at home, they also have to take care of the farm and vegetable fields at the end of the village. They are so busy that they don't even have time to sit down and take a breath.
Zhang Wanwan felt that this was too hard, but her mother enjoyed it and even said that being busy made her feel more at ease.
After hearing her say this, Zhang Wanwan gave up the idea of hiring anyone.
July and August are the hottest times of the year in Pushi, with temperatures reaching around 38 or 39 degrees Celsius, and occasionally even 40 degrees. Every day at dawn, Zhang's mother goes to clean the hill at the end of the village and take care of the farms and fields there. Zhang Wanwan and Zhang Baiyan deliver the goods at home. After Zhang Baiyan drives out on his tricycle, Zhang Wanwan begins to clean up the farms and vegetable plots at home. The family is busy until around nine o'clock before they can have breakfast.
After breakfast, it's time to do housework. Fortunately, Zhang Baiyan has already got his driver's license, so he doesn't have to go to the county town every day. When he is free, he is responsible for the three meals a day for the family of three. Thanks to Zhang Wanwan's deliberate guidance, his cooking skills have improved by leaps and bounds in more than a month. Even his mother, who always likes to criticize him, praised him out of character. With the recognition of his family, Zhang Baiyan has become more confident in cooking, and he even takes the initiative to look up recipes online and cook for them.
At the end of August, Zhang Wanwan, who had been busy for two months, took some time off to look at her income during this period.
Previously, she spent about 80,000 yuan on reclaiming land and buying chicken and ducklings and seeds. She had only more than 10,000 yuan left. During this period, she earned another 80,000 yuan, and now she has almost 90,000 yuan, which is equivalent to recovering her capital. She had thought of buying a small truck for Zhang Baiyan to drive, but a brand new small truck costs more than 100,000 yuan. A second-hand one is cheaper but has many problems, and it will probably cost a lot of money to repair it later, which is not cost-effective. After much thought, she decided to wait a little longer. Now the chickens and ducks raised at the end of the village will probably take another two months to be released from the cage, and the vegetables cannot be harvested so quickly. By the time the vegetables can be shipped there, her income here will increase several times. She will endure it this year and see the situation next year.
The Mid-Autumn Festival came in a blink of an eye, and Zhang's father, who had disappeared for almost three months, finally showed up. When he happily carried a bag of mooncakes distributed by the company back to his old house, he found that the house was full of mooncakes, and the packaging was even more exquisite than the bag in his hand. The house was filled with a rich sweet fragrance, which made him drool.
Zhang's father immediately put the mooncake in the living room and ran to the west row of houses. Seeing Zhang's mother sitting on a small stool with her hands moving non-stop, he asked in surprise, "What are you doing?"
Zhang's mother only had time to look up at him, then continued to work with her head down, saying, "Of course it's packaging and shipping. I'm so busy. Now that you're here, help me. I can go feed the chickens and ducks after you get started. I really wish I had three heads and six arms now."
Father Zhang was stunned and muttered, "I mean, aren't you doing breeding? Why are you doing this?"
Zhang Wanwan took a deep breath and said, "It's your precious daughter. A month ago, she said she wanted to take advantage of the current customers and make another fortune during the Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, she asked Zhijie to bring people to paint the four houses on the north side, buy an oven, and order a batch of packaging boxes online. I didn't understand it at the time. Later, she tried to bake a batch of egg yolk cakes and posted them on WeChat Moments. Someone immediately placed an order. At the beginning, there were not many orders, but within a week, the order volume increased. Later, your girl launched some lava mooncakes from Hong Kong Island, which are rare here. The quantity made on the first day was sold out on the same day.
During this period, she has been busy making egg yolk pastries and lava mooncakes. The prices are so high that I am embarrassed to say it, but there are still a group of people scrambling to buy them, and even the vegetables and eggs at home are out of stock. Now the chickens and ducks on the hillside cannot be released from the cages, and the vegetables in the vegetable garden are not ready for shipment. The girl has pushed a lot of orders. Okay, I won’t talk to you anymore. Come and help quickly. During this period, I have to work until after 10 o’clock every day before I go to bed, and I have to get up at five o’clock the next day. It’s really day and night. Fortunately, I can take a nap at noon, otherwise I really can’t stand it. "
When Mr. Zhang heard this, he knew that he would never let Mrs. Zhang get tired, so he hurried over to help her with the work.
Zhang Wanwan came over with the freshly baked mooncakes. She was very surprised to see Zhang's father. "Dad! Aren't you busy over there?"
Father Zhang nodded randomly, frowned and scolded: "If you are busy here, you should tell me, I can come to help at any time. Look at you two, how thin you are now! Especially your mother, she just recovered from a serious illness, and you still order her around like this!"
Zhang Wanwan knew the magical effect of the spiritual spring water, so she naturally didn't worry about her mother's health. However, Zhang's father didn't know about it. Zhang Wanwan could only pinch her nose and accept it. She smiled twice and said, "Dad, I will pay attention next time."
Having said that, Zhang Wanwan hurried away.
With the addition of Father Zhang, Zhang Wanwan and her family obviously felt relieved, especially since Father Zhang could do everything. Mother Zhang simply let him take care of the chickens and ducks, and even assigned him the work of watering the vegetables and applying fertilizers.
(End of this chapter)
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