Although the watermelon was big, many people ate it. After finishing one watermelon, everyone was still not satisfied, so Gao Mingcheng cut another watermelon.
The watermelon had just been soaked in well water for a while and was not very cold yet, but watermelon is a cold food. After eating a few pieces of watermelon, the heat in the body disappeared and the whole person felt cool.
It's getting late, almost eleven o'clock, and it's time to get ready to cook.
Everyone brought the food together and cooked the meal together. The boys, who were stronger, were responsible for carrying firewood, lighting the fire, fetching water and washing the vegetables, while the girls wanted to show off their skills.
Gao Mingcheng led everyone into the kitchen and pointed out each type of kitchen utensil to everyone so that they could get started.
Although these people live in the county town, they are not like the rich kids in big cities. They are more familiar with the stoves and kitchen utensils in the countryside, and can easily get started.
Gao Mingcheng has an electric rice cooker at home, so cooking is much more convenient. He just needs to wash the rice, add water, and then plug it in.
As for the stove, it is shaped like two large and one small, with a total of three pots.
Normally, we only need to heat one stove to cook, but now there are so many people and dishes, so three stoves are all on. The smallest stove is used to stew pork bone and eel soup. This pot of soup is delicious and nutritious.
As for the other two pots, Song Xiaoxiao and Zhao Jinghe were responsible for one pot each, and each cooked the dishes that he was good at.
The lunch dishes included various meat dishes provided by everyone, eggs provided by Gao Mingcheng, and vegetables such as peppers, eggplants, and loofahs grown in the fields.
Everyone helped to cook, so it went pretty quickly. At twelve noon, ten dishes were on the table.
Among these ten dishes, there are two cold dishes, which are the peanuts and preserved eggs brought by Lin Ye and his friends. The preserved eggs are served cold and mixed with chili oil, which is very delicious.
The remaining eight dishes, four meat and four vegetarian, are a good combination.
Gao Yue opened the bottle of Si Te liquor he brought and poured a small glass for everyone. The liquor was strong, so no one dared to drink too much. Gao Mingcheng didn't even drink a sip because he had to drive back to the county town later.
Cars are relatively rare these days, so even though Gao Yue is studying at a police academy, he still can't drive. But he has thought about learning how to drive.
In previous summer and winter vacations, because of his father Gao Guobing, he often interned at the police station and worked on cases with the veteran police officers in the bureau. During last year's winter vacation, he was transferred to the detention center and stayed there for a month.
Combined with the knowledge he learned in school, it can be said that Gao Yue will be a qualified police officer after graduation.
Therefore, this summer, he did not rush back for internship, but went to Shanghai with his friends to see the world.
Now that he had returned to the county town from Shanghai, he learned that Gao Mingcheng had bought a car, so he prepared to learn how to drive.
At the dinner table, Gao Yue attentively picked up a piece of yellow eel for Gao Mingcheng and said, "Mingcheng, are you busy recently? If not, can you spare two days to teach me how to drive!"
In response to Gao Yue's request, Gao Mingcheng agreed immediately, but he also had conditions.
Gao Mingcheng said, "I can teach you how to drive and I can also lend you my car, but in August, my kindergarten will be recruiting students and preparing for the start of school. I will definitely be very busy then. You have to take half a month out to come and help me."
Gao Mingcheng was straightforward, so Gao Yue was naturally straightforward as well. Since his brother needed help, he didn't hesitate. He nodded and agreed, and asked what the name of Gao Mingcheng's kindergarten was.
Gao Mingcheng said: "It's called Love Kindergarten!"
Gao Mingcheng had already thought of a name for the kindergarten, but he was too lazy to think of one, so he just used the most common and obscure name!
Love Kindergarten, it sounds like a place that parents can rest assured!
"This is a great name! It sounds much better than the fertilizer plant kindergarten or the street kindergarten!" Gao Yue praised enthusiastically. After hearing this, other people also expressed that they could go over there to help when the time comes.
Gao Mingcheng accepted everyone who came and was very happy.
Except for him, everyone present was a college student!
The college students born in the 1990s are still very valuable. With them promoting and guarding their kindergartens, why would they still worry about a lack of topics and traffic?
Gao Mingcheng raised his glass and toasted everyone with tea instead of wine.
Gao Mingcheng said: "Thank you in advance. If you come to help me, I will provide you with three meals a day and give you a set of clothes!"
Lin Ye and the others laughed and said, "Great! We'll have fried chicken then!"
Yesterday’s fried chicken was so delicious, they haven’t had enough of it yet!
"Okay, that's not difficult! I'll prepare it for you!" Gao Mingcheng nodded and agreed generously.
At the end of the month, he will go to Yangcheng to purchase goods again. He will buy a few freezers at that time. Before the kindergarten starts, he will marinate a batch of chicken and freeze it in the freezer. When he needs to eat it, he can just take it out to thaw it and fry it in a frying pan. This can save a lot of time.
On this topic, everyone discussed how to recruit students. Gao Mingcheng had a set of operating procedures for kindergarten enrollment, but he also listened carefully when Gao Yue and others put forward their opinions and ideas.
Some people say to spend money to advertise in newspapers, while others say to print some flyers and send them out.
Gao Yue said, "I've visited Mingcheng's kindergarten. It's pretty good, much better than other factory-run kindergartens. So the fees must be higher than those of factory-run kindergartens. Even if we advertise everywhere, some people are reluctant to spend money to send their children here."
"So, I think we should start by promoting it to the people around us. Think about it, and see if there are any relatives who have children of the right age. Promote it to them, and then take them to the kindergarten to have a look. Once they see the environment of the kindergarten, I think it will be a success in nine out of ten cases."
Zhao Jinghe said immediately: "Sure, my cousin's son is just five years old! He and his wife are both working and have a good income. I will do some ideological work for them and ask them to send their child to the Love Kindergarten!"
After she spoke first, the others also started thinking in their hearts whether there were any suitable candidates around them.
Because we were talking about this topic, everyone was eager to speak, so we slowed down our eating pace. Fortunately, it was a hot day, so the food didn't get cold easily. Even if it did, the taste didn't change much. By the time we finished the meal, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.
At this time, the sun was very strong and it was very hot outside. Since everyone was not in a hurry to go home to do anything, Gao Mingcheng suggested that everyone take a rest for a while and set out to return to the county town at 3 pm.
Naturally, everyone had no objections and helped to clean up the kitchen and the dining table. There was some leftover food, which they prepared to feed the chickens.
Gao Mingcheng wore a straw hat, carried a bucket of watermelon rinds and leftovers, and strode to the chicken coop, preparing to give the chickens a snack, letting them eat some watermelon rinds to cool down.
Because the weather was hot, all the chickens were lazily lying in the shade of the trees. There were about three or five chickens squatting on an orange tree. Some chickens stayed in the cool chicken coop, lying on the ground without moving.
However, when Gao Mingcheng poured the watermelon rind on the ground, the originally lazy chickens immediately rushed over here quickly.
They were full of energy and after occupying a favorable position, they began to peck at the watermelon rind and even fought. The strong rooster took the lead and occupied a good position, eating happily bite by bite. The smaller chickens were driven to the back, but they did not give up and waited for an opportunity to come forward and take a bite.
Seeing them eating happily, Gao Mingcheng had the urge to open a watermelon immediately and eat it. After eating the watermelon husk, he could throw the rind to them.
Of course, Gao Mingcheng couldn’t eat a whole watermelon now, as he had just had lunch.
As he was staring at the chickens fighting for food, Zhang Chengyuan came over wearing an old straw hat and carrying a hoe.
"Brother, what are you going to do? Have you eaten?" Gao Mingcheng greeted him and asked Zhang Chengyuan if he had eaten lunch.
It's two o'clock in the afternoon now, Zhang Chengyuan should have eaten, right?
Gao Mingcheng thought uncertainly.
Zhang Chengyuan nodded and said, "I've had some porridge. I'm going to turn over the sweet potato vines and weed the pepper field."
Since he had met Gao Mingcheng, Zhang Chengyuan added: "The rice in your field is almost ripe. It will be ready for harvest in a few days. I heard from the villagers that some people are going to harvest the rice tomorrow."
Gao Mingcheng has now completely given up on the farm work in the village. Although he is in good physical condition, he doesn't like to work. It would definitely not work if he just left the fields idle.
So he said, "Brother, you can do whatever you want. If you are too busy, it's okay to do less. For example, when weeding, you don't have to weed too often to avoid being too tired."
Zhang Chengyuan rejected Gao Mingcheng's suggestion and said seriously, "That won't work. If there are too many weeds, the vegetables won't grow well."
In the absence of herbicides, the weeds in the fields are really impossible to eradicate!
You just finished weeding today, and within two days, new grass has grown again!
As the saying goes, wildfires cannot be extinguished; they will spring up again with the spring breeze!
Gao Mingcheng couldn't argue with Zhang Chengyuan, so he just let him do what he wanted.
However, he did not let Zhang Chengyuan work alone. While Zhang Chengyuan went to turn over the vines in the sweet potato field, he picked up a hoe and went to the pepper field.
He prefers to weed while standing rather than squatting and bending over to turn over the potato vines.
There are five rows of peppers planted in the field, with a total of more than one hundred pepper trees. The reason for planting so many is to dry the peppers.
The locals like spicy food. In summer and autumn, they mostly eat fresh peppers, but in winter and early spring, there are no fresh peppers and they can only eat dried peppers.
In the morning, Gao Mingcheng had already picked a batch of peppers, but there were still many peppers of different sizes hanging on each pepper tree, and white pepper flowers were still blooming at the top of the pepper trees.
This pepper must be picked continuously so that it can keep growing.
Gao Mingcheng gently waved the hoe, and the hoe turned over the weeds in the ground along with the soil and roots. Then he turned the weeds along with the roots and soil in the opposite direction and dropped them at the roots of the pepper tree.
He was doing the weeding and soiling work at the same time.
The reason why weeds with their roots and soil should be turned in the opposite direction is to make the weeds face downwards and the root system face upwards. When the roots of the weeds are deprived of soil and water, they will easily dry out and die.
The weeds underneath will rot and become fertilizer for the peppers.
Gao Mingcheng hardly needed to bend over. He just walked and weeded as he went, and he finished the work easily.
Zhang Chengyuan was still turning over the sweet potato vines diligently.
When the sweet potato vines grow up, roots will easily grow at the vine nodes near the soil, then penetrate into the soil and grow small sweet potatoes.
However, when the supply and demand of nutrients are insufficient, the main root system of sweet potatoes will not be able to grow large sweet potatoes. Overall, it is a loss.
Therefore, in order to obtain more and better sweet potatoes, the sweet potato vines need to be turned over several times during the planting process to prevent them from taking root in the soil.
Of course, since the roots have already taken root, some sweet potato vines will inevitably be broken during the turning process. These broken sweet potato vines can be used to feed livestock. In short, there will be no waste.
Gao Mingcheng glanced at Zhang Chengyuan, and simply weeded the eggplant field next to him, and picked a few tender eggplants.
If the eggplant is not picked in time, it will easily become old. When it becomes old, the eggplant skin will be thick, the seeds will be large, and the eggplant sac will be hollow, and it will not taste good.
He put the picked eggplants and peppers into the bucket he had brought earlier. When the bucket was full, he prepared to leave.
"Brother, I have finished weeding the fields. I'm leaving first." Gao Mingcheng did not forget to say hello before leaving.
"Hey." Zhang Chengyuan responded, but he didn't raise his head, still working seriously on the work in his hands.
When Gao Mingcheng finished his work and came back with a bucket of vegetables, Gao Yue and others were sitting in the main room talking about what they had seen and heard in Shanghai, among which they mentioned game consoles.
There are already game machines for adults in Shanghai. You can play by putting game coins in. This is something that people in small counties have never seen before.
However, Gao Yue said, "I'm not interested in the game console. I'm interested in the surveillance in Shanghai! It would be great if our county also had surveillance! With surveillance, it would be much easier for police officers to handle cases! And, they even have computers!"
"I really envy the police officers in Shanghai! It would be great if I could work there too!" Gao Yue imagined with longing.
What a pity, he doesn’t have the connections or the opportunity!
He studied at the police academy in the provincial capital, and it was remarkable that he was able to stay in the provincial capital after graduation.
If he is lucky, he will be assigned to the city. If he is not so lucky, he will go back to the county and work with his father.
Gao Yue envies Shanghai, but Lin Ye doesn’t need to envy it because he went to university in Shanghai!
This time, Gao Yue and his friends agreed to go to Shanghai after the holiday. It was also Lin Ye who suggested it. Lin Ye then received them in Shanghai and took them around the city.
"Lin Ye, will you stay in Shanghai to work in the future?" Gao Yue asked.
Lin Ye lay on the recliner and said in a more affirmative tone: "Yes! My teacher likes me, I should stay and work there."
As soon as these words were spoken, they instantly attracted everyone's envious looks.
Gao Mingcheng stood at the door and smiled. He was probably the only one who knew the future fate of these people.
In his previous life, Lin Ye did stay in Shanghai to develop his career. He started out working for his teacher, and later when he became successful, he opened a company.
In terms of how well he is doing, Lin Ye is the best among this group of people.
When the county starts preparing to build expressways and national and county roads, Lin Ye will come back with his team to participate in the design.
If Gao Mingcheng wants to form an engineering team to participate in road construction, then the good relationship between him and Lin Ye will be able to speak for itself. (End of this chapter)
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