Chapter 435 Who hasn’t had their hair pulled by a child?
The holiday soon arrived. Gao Mingcheng borrowed a car from Xiao Jinfeng in advance, so he drove to Gao Guobing's house early in the morning.
After picking up Gao Guobing and his wife, the car drove to the door of the clothing store and stopped.
Many beauties got into the car holding their children, and Gao Shufang also came over with a cheerful step.
When Gao Mingcheng said that he would take Gao Guobing and his wife back to Gaojia Village for a walk today, Xuanyuemei and Gao Shufang, who had not been back for a long time, immediately expressed their desire to go back too.
Seeing Xuanmei was about to go back, Gao Shufang hesitated for a few seconds and decided not to go back.
But Gao Mingcheng said, "Let's all go back! Leave the store to Luo Li and Aunt Hu!"
Luo Li is considered a senior employee in the store. Although Hu Yinchen was mainly responsible for taking care of the children and cooking before, she has been in the store for half a year after all. She is familiar with selling clothes and the prices of most clothes.
Therefore, Gao Mingcheng handed the store over to the two of them.
Luo Li took on the responsibility of temporary store manager and said professionally, "Don't worry, I will definitely take good care of the store."
So the whole family returned to Gaojia Village.
At the end of May, the weather is sunny and not too hot, which is a good time to go back to the village.
Originally, this trip back to the village would definitely be relaxing and enjoyable.
But Gao Congye’s death cast a shadow over everyone’s heart.
When the car reached the Greater Khingan Range, Gao Guobing asked Gao Mingcheng to stop the car.
The offices of the village committee and the brigade are here.
The village primary school, grocery store and Gao Shouwang's garment workshop are also here, so this is a relatively lively place, and there are even people playing cards under the shade of the trees.
Gao Guobing got out of the car and said to Gao Mingcheng, "I'm going to talk to someone from the village committee. You guys go back to the village first. I'll go there myself later."
Gao Mingcheng probably guessed what Gao Guobing was going to say to the people in the village committee, so he readily agreed and took the others back to the village first.
As soon as Gao Guobing got out of the car, he was recognized by people, who greeted him and led him into the office to talk.
Soon, the jeep stopped at the pond in the old village. Zhao Dongmei and Gao Shufang got off here. Zhao Dongmei wanted to visit her old house and talk to the neighbors around her.
Gao Mingcheng did not get out of the car to accompany her, but said, "Aunt, Duomei and I will go back to pack up first. You and uncle must come to my house for lunch at noon."
Given Gao Guobing and Zhao Dongmei's identities, someone would definitely call them for dinner after they returned to the village.
But Gao Mingcheng had bought the meat dishes in advance. He would go back to clean the house and then prepare the meals.
Zhao Dongmei smiled and said, "Then I will definitely go to your house for dinner."
After the agreement, Gao Mingcheng drove the jeep to Niuweiling.
The car stopped under the shade of a tree on the side of the road. Gao Mingcheng got out first, and then Xuanyuemei also got out holding Xiao Xuxu.
"Are you tired of holding her? Let me hold little Xuxu." Gao Mingcheng was afraid that Xuanyuemei's hands would get sore from holding her, so he took little Xuxu over.
Xiao Xuxu is already seven months old and has grown into a big fat boy.
In his previous life, Gao Mingcheng's impression of his eldest son was that he was always thin, especially during adolescence, when he was as thin as a bamboo pole.
But now, little Xuxu eats well and sleeps well, with a lot of baby fat on his body, and looks particularly cute.
Xiao Xuxu has a relatively quiet personality and isn't very noisy, but when he came to the countryside, he became quite excited. He looked around with his eyes and made "ahhh" sounds with his mouth.
It’s a pity that Gao Mingcheng doesn’t understand baby language and can’t communicate with it.
But it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t prevent the father and son from talking at cross purposes.
Gao Mingcheng told Xiao Xuxu which land he had reclaimed, what vegetables were planted there now, which vegetables were ready to eat and which ones had to wait.
Gao Mingcheng was talking excitedly, and Xiao Xuxu was also talking excitedly.
People who don’t know the truth would really think that the father and son could communicate without any obstacles.
Many beauties couldn't help but smile when they saw the father and son like this.
The child was taken care of by Gao Mingcheng, so she was not idle either. Women were more careful, so she went into the house to clean.
The yard is much cleaner now that we no longer have chickens. There are only some dead branches and leaves blown by the wind, which we just need to sweep away.
After opening the door, the room was fine. After all, Gao Mingcheng had stayed here for two days a few days ago, so Xuanyue only cleaned the big table and then went to the kitchen.
There were more than a dozen eggs in the drawer of the cupboard. They should have been laid in the past few days, because the previous eggs were taken to the county by Gao Mingcheng to eat.
These eggs were picked up by Chen Duofu when he was managing the chicken coop and then placed in the drawer of the cupboard.
The chicks raised this year are naturally not yet at the stage of laying eggs. These eggs were laid by the chickens raised at home before. Every spring and autumn are the times when chickens are most willing to lay eggs. When the production is high, they can lay one egg a day.
It takes three to seven months for a chicken to hatch and lay eggs. If it is a laying hen that is fed feed, it will be able to lay eggs in three months.
But it usually takes six or seven months for the chickens raised by farmers to lay eggs, which means that the chickens raised by Gao Mingcheng will lay eggs in the fall of this year. By then, there will definitely be more eggs at home than we can eat.
After Xuanyuemei cleaned the kitchen, she went out with the basket.
This time I came back, I only bought some meat and no other vegetables because there were plenty of them in my own vegetable garden.
When she arrived at the vegetable garden, Gao Mingcheng was also there holding his child, with two dogs following closely behind them.
In the past, when Gao Mingcheng was alone, he had to manage all the vegetable fields. He had to decide what vegetables to plant and when to plant and transplant them. But this year, after hiring two more employees, Boss Gao was liberated. He didn't need to worry about management at all. He just let Zhang Chengyuan take care of it and plant all the land that needed to be planted.
Now he is in his own land, inspecting the condition of various crops.
"Duomei, there are amaranth and water spinach planted over there, which are all edible. There are also cucumbers, celery, beans and edamame, you can take care of them!" Gao Mingcheng was afraid that Duomei was not familiar with the situation in the field, so he quickly pointed out the location of various vegetables.
Because of the terrain of the mountain, the wasteland he reclaimed was not a large continuous piece of land, but some was under this hillside and some was under that hillside.
But many beauties do not need Gao Mingcheng's guidance, because they are very familiar with their own places.
She also knew something about her brother Zhang Chengyuan's planting habits and knew what vegetables he planted in what kind of land.
"You take good care of the children, I'll take care of the kitchen stuff!" Xuanyuemei picked the vegetables with a bamboo basket and went to pick them with full confidence.
She first picked some Amaranth. The Amaranth in the field was growing very well. The leaves had a red center and green edges. They looked pleasing to the eye. When fried, the soup turned red, so it was also called a blood-replenishing vegetable.
Then I pulled out two more lettuces. We have been eating the lettuces one after another and are almost finished. The rest can be taken to the county. After freeing up the land, we can plant other vegetables.
While pulling out the vegetables, Xuanyue noticed that the leaves of the potatoes had turned yellow and the stems had begun to wither. She immediately said, "Mingcheng, the potatoes can be dug now. If you don't, they will rot in the ground."
Gao Mingcheng also walked to the potato field. After taking a look, he knew it was time to dig the potatoes.
The last time he came back, the leaves of the potatoes were still relatively green, but they started to turn yellow in the past day or two.
"Then we'll come and dig them up in the afternoon, so we can take them back to the county and eat them slowly," said Gao Mingcheng.
Potatoes can be planted three times a year, but they are generally planted in spring and autumn. This is because the local potatoes here are not very big and the yield is not as high as sweet potatoes, so some people don't like to plant them.
Gao Mingcheng grows a little bit of everything because he wants food diversity.
If potatoes don't sprout, they can be eaten for a long time.
But there is no need to worry about sprouting. Just cut off the rhizomes with sprouts, roll them in wood ash, and then bury them in the soil, and you will grow a new batch of potatoes.
While the couple was talking, they saw Chen Dasong and his son and Zhang Chengyuan coming down from Xiaofushan.
Some of them were carrying hoes, and some were carrying shoulder poles, and it seemed that they were fertilizing the fruit trees in the mountains.
At first, Gao Mingcheng asked Chen Dasong to manage the orchard, Zhang Chengyuan to manage the vegetable field, and Chen Duofu to manage the beehives, but in fact, the three of them often worked together.
Gao Mingcheng greeted the three of them enthusiastically when he saw them: "I have developed the photos I took last time and put them in the car. I will bring them to you later."
Everyone was very happy to hear that the photos had been developed, and their eyes were full of anticipation.
Seeing this, Gao Mingcheng walked towards the jeep. The bag he brought back was still in the car.
Seeing that it was inconvenient for him to hold the child, Chen Duofu immediately said, "Let me hold the child."
Gao Mingcheng gave little Xuxu to him. Little Xuxu was indeed easy to take care of. He did not cry or make a fuss even when someone else held him. Instead, he seemed very happy and reached out to grab Chen Duofu's hair.
Chen Duofu has not yet married and had children, and has no experience in raising children. He was unable to dodge and his hair was pulled by Xiao Xuxu.
Although the child is small, he has strong strength in his hands. After the pull, Chen Duofu's facial features were deformed.
Gao Mingcheng immediately grabbed Xiao Xuxu's hand and asked him to let go of the hair in his hand. Then he said to Chen Duofu, "You have to be careful when you hug him. Sometimes he likes to pull people's hair. Last time, he tore Duomei's pearl necklace apart, and the pearls fell all over the floor. Now Duomei doesn't even dare to wear a necklace."
"You are not allowed to arrest people, do you understand?" Gao Mingcheng taught Xiao Xuxu a lesson in a serious manner, but Xiao Xuxu was not afraid at all. He grinned and his saliva flowed down, dripping onto the bib on his neck.
Babies love to drool, so the bibs need to be changed several times a day.
In order to save fabric, today's bibs only have a small piece of cloth on the chest, and the rest of the place is rope.
But this would easily make it crooked, so Gao Mingcheng borrowed the round bib commonly used in later generations and installed buttons to fix it. This way, it could absorb more saliva and look more beautiful.
This kind of round bibs became very popular in later generations, which shows its beauty and practicability. Therefore, after Xiao Xuxu put on the new bibs, people often came to ask about it. So Gao Mingcheng simply asked Gao Shufang and others to make a batch of bibs and sell them in their spare time.
(End of this chapter)
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