Chapter 64 Life is full of hope

In Naye Village at that time, almost every head of the household knew how to weave bamboo. Most villagers could weave things like rice baskets, winnowing baskets, chicken coops, pot lids, baskets, dung baskets, sieves, mats, pillows, fans, etc.

Deng Changping was sitting at the doorstep weaving weaving vines. Although his life was difficult now, he was full of energy and full of hope for his future life.

And this hope was brought to him by Jiugong.

Originally, after dividing the land and working on their own, Deng Changping had the confidence to make his family live a better life than before. As a result, Jiugong lent him all the land at home to farm. Now he and his wife grow rice on both their own land and Jiugong's land.

He went to the fields this morning and saw that the seedlings were growing well. If there were no natural disasters or man-made calamities, a bumper harvest in the fall was foreseeable.

Taking advantage of his free time now, Deng Changping plans to weave more millet vines, otherwise when the harvest comes, there won’t be enough millet vines to store the grain.

Just when Deng Changping was busy making up his story, a voice came from the side of the road: "Changping, my dad wants you to come to my house. He has something to tell you."

Deng Changping looked up and found that it was Azhugu who spoke. He nodded quickly and said, "Okay, I'll be there right away."

After saying that, Deng Changping put Gu Luo aside and stood up and walked towards Jiugong's house.

Because there was a small river between his home and Jiugong's, after Deng Changping jumped across the river, he saw Jiugong sitting under the longan tree at the door of his house smoking. He quickly smiled and greeted him, "Jiugong."

Deng Shirong nodded at him and asked, "Can you handle the work in the fields?"

Deng Changping said: "I am busy enough. I am only busy when I am plowing, harrowing, transplanting rice and harvesting rice. I am not very busy at other times."

Deng Shirong had also worked in the fields, so he naturally knew all this. He didn't waste any words and got straight to the point: "It's like this. I need to hire a few workers. Each worker will get 36 yuan a month. If you can spare the time to do it, you can take the job."

Deng Changping was surprised to hear this and said, "Jiu Gong, are you working at the tile factory? I can spare the time."

Ever since the news about the wages at the tile factory spread, everyone in the Bangjie Brigade envied those who could work at the factory. Even the hardest working plasterer could earn 45 yuan a month, which was better than many people who were paid by the government.

Nowadays, although the salary has been lowered to only 36 yuan a month, Deng Changping believes that as long as Jiugong publicly announces in the village that he wants to recruit people, there will probably be dozens of people rushing to sign up, if not a hundred.

Deng Shirong shook his head and said, "I'm not working in the tile factory. I'm planning to transform my mountain into an orchard and plant fruit trees. Your job is to cut down all the trees on the mountain for me, cut down all the weeds, and then cultivate the mountain into terraces, and dig tree pits according to the spacing I give."

Deng Changping was surprised and asked, "Jiu Gong, you want to transform the mountain into a fruit garden?"

Deng Shirong stuffed tobacco into the mouthpiece and said with a smile: "Not bad, I think the orchard should be worth doing in the future. When I grow the fruit trees here, you can also join me. I think you can make money."

In later generations, when people mentioned orchards, everyone knew about them. But in this era, in the entire Shuangwang area, except for Baiping Farm, there is no team that specializes in growing fruit trees. The existing fruit trees are either wild or planted randomly by villagers, and there are not many of them.

Therefore, Deng Changping had no idea about fruit tree planting.

However, Jiu Gong has always been a capable person in his heart. Since Jiu Gong said that planting fruit trees should be able to make money, it must be correct. He will first see how Jiu Gong does it, then discuss it with his parents and wife and try it too.

Thinking of this, Deng Changping smiled and said, "Okay, since you are my role model, I will follow your example when the time comes."

Deng Shirong struck a match, lit the tobacco on the pipe, took a few puffs, and blew out the pipe shit (the burned tobacco). Then he said, "Then it's settled. I've hired a few more people. You can all go up the mountain to work together tomorrow!"

"OK."

Deng Changping responded and said, "Jiu Gong, if there's nothing else, I'll go back first!"

"Um!"

As soon as Deng Changping went back, Deng Yunzhu came back with four people.

The oldest of the four is Deng Yunkun, who is 48 years old this year. The remaining three are young and strong young men. Two of them are Deng Yunkun’s sons, named Deng Changdong and Deng Changliang, and the remaining young man is named Deng Sihua.

The reason why Deng Shirong picked out these four people was mainly because these four people were famous in the village for their good character.

In later generations, Deng Changdong, Deng Changliang, Deng Changping and Deng Sihua were recognized as the four most honest and trustworthy people in Naye Village. Deng Yunkun had already passed away at that time, otherwise he would have been counted.

Being able to gain recognition from the entire village and even from people in several nearby villages is not an easy thing to do in any era, but Deng Changdong and his three companions did it.

"Uncle Nine."

"Nine Lords."

"Nine Ancestors."

Four people arrived and greeted Deng Shirong one by one.

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Deng Shirong hummed, and after the four of them sat down, he went straight to the point and said, "I asked you to come here because I have a job for you to do. The salary is 36 yuan per person per month. Do you want to do it?"

The four of them's eyes lit up when they heard this.

As I said, there is no place to make money in the countryside these days. Even if there is a job that pays only a dozen yuan a month, everyone will rush to do it, let alone 36 yuan a month, which is a high income that you can never dream of.

Therefore, the four of them didn't even have to think about what kind of work they would do, and they all answered that they wanted to do it.

So Deng Shirong repeated what he had said to Deng Changping before, and finally said, "If there are no problems, you can start working in the mountains tomorrow!"

Deng Yunkun nodded quickly and said, "Okay, Uncle Jiu, we will go up the mountain to work early tomorrow morning."

Deng Shirong stood up and said, "Then it's settled. I still have to go to Bangba to talk to the carpenter Changcai about something, so I won't say any more to you!"

"Uncle Nine/Grandfather Nine, we will go back first."

Upon hearing this, Deng Yunkun and the other three greeted each other and went home with great excitement.

Especially Deng Yunkun and his two sons, they walked back with light steps. It was just clearing the land in the mountains, which was not very hard for them. After all, they were used to doing this kind of work.

If they work like this for a month, each person can earn 36 yuan, and the combined monthly income of the father and his two sons is over 100 yuan. This is simply pie in the sky!

They had to hurry back to share this happy event with their families.

(End of this chapter)