Wang Jiachuan contacted the bureau, which then contacted the provincial government, eventually finding the provincial zoo.
They were quite interested when they heard there was a baby black bear that was only a few months old.
A few days later, people from the bureau came and took the little black bear away to the provincial zoo.
The spring reforestation season only lasts about half a month. Everyone on site mobilized, and they managed to plant all the saplings in the ground before they sprouted.
The two students who were injured by the black bear have stabilized after emergency treatment and have survived.
Both of them were seriously injured and probably won't be able to be discharged from the hospital for a while, so the school has arranged for them to take a long leave of absence.
Anyway, these days academic performance isn't that important. Once you finish high school, get a diploma, then go up the mountain as an educated youth, wait a few years, and become a factory worker.
With the afforestation completed, the work at the forest farm has temporarily come to an end, with a break of about a month.
Perfect timing! We can use this time to go into the mountains and gather cattle hair to generate more income.
In the past two years, the export price of Niu Mao Guang has been rising steadily, and market demand has also been increasing.
To support export earnings and generate income for families in the forest area, the forest farm creates all the necessary conveniences for its employees and their families to go into the mountains to work and earn money at this time of year.
The security at Qianchuan Forest Farm has always been very good, so the security department leaves one person on duty every day while the others go into the mountains to generate income.
Needless to say, the small repair shop stopped work immediately.
Last year, when they were harvesting cattle hair, Sheng Xi'an suggested that they come up the mountain earlier this year, build a shack, and the four of them live in the mountains.
During the day, Sheng Liancheng led his eldest and second eldest sons into the mountains to harvest vegetables, while Sheng Xikang was responsible for kneading and drying them. At night, the four of them would go together to pick wild vegetables.
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but when I actually tried to put it into practice, I realized that this approach was unreliable.
The first one is Sheng Xikang, who doesn't know how to knead a cow hair at all.
This is a skilled job, something Sheng Xikang had never done before. If you ask him to go up the mountain to dry the vegetables, who knows what he'll do with them.
Another thing is that Sheng Xiping was hired this year. He works in the security department and has to be on duty one day every seven or eight days.
Therefore, living in the mountains is not very realistic.
Therefore, Sheng Xi'an's suggestion had to be abandoned, and he could only continue to go up the mountain every day as in previous years.
Sheng Liancheng led Sheng Xiping, Sheng Xi'an, and Sheng Xikang, who had specially asked for leave to skip class.
The four of them carried dry food and water, and every morning they would take the forest farm's commuter bus until they reached the end of the work area, then go into the forest to search for ox hair in the ditches, ponds, and meadows.
Sheng Xi'an worked in the educated youth team for a year, which greatly improved his strength.
In addition, he had gone into the mountains with his father and brother to plunder cattle hair last year, so he was quite familiar with the area and plundered a lot every day.
Sheng Xikang was young and had never done this before, so he didn't know much. He didn't manage to catch much in the first few days after he went into the mountains, but he gradually got the hang of it and was able to catch most of a bagful.
Sheng Liancheng and his three brothers went into the mountains to gather vegetables, and every night they would cook several pots of blanched wild vegetables.
At night, the whole family would turn on the lights and go outside to pet cows and peek at the hairy cats, continuing until quite late.
The forest farm will also provide convenience at this time, delaying the power outage by one hour.
It's not enough to just pluck the hairy ox hairs, scald them, and pull them out; the most important thing is to dry them in the sun.
If the vegetables are dried in time and kneaded properly, they will appear thicker and have a better color, thus fetching a higher price.
If the vegetables aren't dried in time or kneaded properly, they'll turn a dull, unappealing color and won't fetch a good price.
Zhang Shuzhen is good at kneading vegetables, but the four of them already harvest a lot of vegetables. This year, they also had a new grandson. She has to knead and dry the vegetables, and also take care of the grandson. How can she keep up with all that?
Although Xiao Xinhua can't crawl yet, he can roll over. What if he falls down on the ground by accident?
Zhang Shuzhen initially thought she would carry the child while working, but drying the cow hair in the sun required being under the blazing sun, and Sheng Xinhua was only a few months old. How could Zhang Shuzhen bear to leave her grandson in the sun?
Seeing this, Zhou Qinglan decided to simply carry the child to school.
There was some empty space at the back of the classroom, so we put two desks there, then turned one of the desks upside down, surrounded it with boards, and padded it with bedding or something similar.
These days, school desks are big, the kind that can seat two people, enough to fit a child.
When Sheng Xinhua was awake, Zhou Qinglan would carry him on her back to teach the students. If Sheng Xinhua fell asleep, she would put him in the simple crib made of desks.
When get out of class is over, the children in the class help look after the children.
Fortunately, Sheng Xinhua is an easy child. As long as he is full, he will not cry or make a fuss. When he wakes up, he will stare at his surroundings with his big eyes.
He listened very attentively when Zhou Qinglan was lecturing; anyone who didn't know better would really think he understood it.
After more than twenty busy days, excluding the few days when it rained and they couldn't go up the mountain, the Sheng family dried nearly 300 jin of dried mustard greens this year.
The forest farm has a designated purchasing point, and this year the purchase price of ox hair has increased by two cents.
This season, Niu Maoguang and his family scraped together 1,500 to 1,600 yuan.
Although Sheng Xiping was married, they did not separate their households, and the money from selling Niu Mao Guang was still managed by Zhang Shuzhen.
"Okay, then I won't give the money to you two. I'll put it together for now."
I'm thinking that if we save up some more money, we can rebuild that old house on the west side next year or the year after.
The second son is nineteen this year. Once he turns twenty, it'll be time to start looking for a partner and getting married.
Let's build the house first and be prepared, so we won't be caught off guard later.
Zhang Shuzhen took the two thick stacks of money, checked them carefully twice, and only spoke after confirming that they were correct.
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