Chapter 245: As long as you work, there will be endless work
Gao Mingcheng found the contractor and started asking about the decoration materials.
He briefly outlined his idea, then asked the contractor where to buy these things and the approximate price of each item.
The contractor was a thin, dark man, who mainly led the construction team to build houses for people. As for soft furnishings, he was not very good at it.
After listening to Gao Mingcheng's story, he immediately said: "We have to go to the provincial capital. Anyway, there is no such thing for sale in the county."
Gao Mingcheng was not too surprised to get this answer.
Trendy things often start to become popular in big cities and then slowly spread to small towns.
Well, it seems I still have to go out for a trip.
When opening a store, decoration is also an extremely important part. A well-decorated store can attract more customers. With increased customer flow, more business can naturally be concluded.
Gao Mingcheng also asked about the completion date of the house's hard decoration so that he could arrange the time to go to the provincial capital. He learned that it would take about a month to complete the hard decoration, so Gao Mingcheng was not in a hurry for the time being.
He planned to wait for Xiao Jinfeng to bring back the tangerine saplings, and then ask Xiao Jinfeng's transportation company whether it would go to the provincial capital. If so, he would take Xiao Jinfeng's car, and after buying the decoration materials, he would transport them back together by truck.
He is now a car owner. If he wants to drive a tractor to the provincial capital, that's fine, but it will be very slow. A truck will take about four or five hours, and a tractor will take at least a few more hours.
If you drive a tractor, you can't go there and come back on the same day, and if you encounter bad weather, you can only bear it, because tractors are not like trucks, which have a cabin to protect against wind and rain.
After leaving his new house, Gao Mingcheng bought some long-lasting snacks and then returned home.
There are a lot of things to do at home right now, and the most important thing is picking tea seeds.
After Gao Mingcheng came back from the medicine trade fair last year, he started picking tea seeds. This year is the same. The villagers have already started picking tea seeds. The reason why Gao Mingcheng is not so anxious is that he has no intention of competing with the villagers for the tea seeds on the hill. His target is the tea seeds in the deep mountains.
There are large tracts of wild tea oil forests deep in the mountains. Once you get there, you can just pack them in sacks!
Last year, Gao Mingcheng picked up thousands of kilograms of tea seeds in the mountains near Gaojia Village alone. Now, he has covered a wider area and found more tea oil forests.
As long as he is willing, the amount of tea seeds he picks this year will definitely double.
It was only noon when we got home.
But Xuanyuemei was not at home, and there was nothing to eat at home, only some porridge left over from the morning.
He knew that Xuanmei might be having lunch with Dong Feixia, and he was too lazy to cook for himself, so he just made a bowl of cold porridge and paired it with the snacks he had just bought today, which was his lunch.
After deceiving his entire being, Gao Mingcheng took two sacks and prepared to go into the mountains.
Since he came back, the black tiger and the elf have been circling around him. Now they followed him into the mountain. Gao Mingcheng did not scold them and let them follow him if they wanted.
He ran fast all the way. When he encountered a steep slope, he had to climb it with his bare hands. When he encountered a deep ditch, he jumped if he could, and had to take a detour if he couldn't jump.
He was in good physical condition and fast, but fortunately, Black Tiger and Elf were also two good dogs with rich experience in going into the mountains. They followed closely all the way. So half an hour later, the man and two dogs arrived at a wild tea oil forest.
This sunny hillside is covered with tea oil trees, some tall and some short, all laden with fruits.
This year, the weather was dry and the fruit production decreased. However, the tea oil fruits are produced in the first half of the year and take several months to mature. Therefore, the number of tea oil trees is still large, but they are much smaller.
When the weather is good, one tea fruit contains two or three plump tea seeds. However, this year the tea fruits are small. When you break them open, there is usually only one tea seed inside. If there are two, they are very small.
It has been several days since the Frost Descent, and the ground beneath the oil tea trees is covered with tea seeds. Some are infested with insects, and some of the shells have burst open, revealing the dark tea seeds inside.
Tea seeds are black, but if you peel off the hard skin, you will find a tender green or tender yellow kernel inside, and tea oil is found in this kernel.
After arriving at the destination, Gao Mingcheng bent down and began to work, intending to pick up the intact things on the ground first. While he was working, the two dogs were playing and fighting beside him.
When Gao Mingcheng was picking tea seeds, he came across some hornet's nests on the treetops.
When the Camellia oleifera blooms, there are many flowers, the flowering period is long, and the nectar flow is also very large. It is originally a good nectar source, but bees cannot collect nectar from Camellia oleifera flowers. If they collect it by mistake, the nectar will rot.
But everything has its reason for survival. Bees cannot pollinate tea oil trees, but wasps can.
In winter, when there are few flowers, hornets will come to the oil tea forest to forage for food and build nests.
Gao Mingcheng did not intentionally provoke the wasp. This thing stings people very painfully and has a certain amount of poison. He did not intend to test the law himself, and he was too lazy to run for his life.
Perhaps he conveyed the idea of peaceful coexistence to the hornets, so the hornets did not attack him harshly. When Gao Mingcheng's hand went around a hornet's nest and picked a few plump tea seeds, the hornets were buzzing right in front of him.
This is probably what is meant by dancing on the edge of a knife.
Gao Mingcheng spent the entire afternoon picking tea seeds in the mountains. After filling the sacks he brought, he prepared to go home.
The sack was very big, and when it was full it weighed about 100 pounds.
Gao Mingcheng was walking very fast with a bag on one shoulder.
The two dogs followed quickly, fearing they would be left behind.
When you get home, spread the tea seeds on a clean cement floor to dry in the sun. After being exposed to the sun, the outer shell of the tea seeds will crack, making it easier to clean out the tea seeds inside.
Gao Mingcheng is very familiar with this job and does it very attentively.
He spends most of the year eating tea oil because he can get a lot of it.
After picking these two bags, Gao Mingcheng never went into the mountains again. Now the days are short and the nights are long, it gets dark earlier, the mountain roads are complicated, and it is easy to get lost when it is dark.
While there was still some time, he strolled towards Xiaofushan. Xiaofushan had changed a lot and was bare everywhere.
There is still water in the pond at the foot of the mountain, but not much. The frost has passed, but there is still no sign of rain. The groundwater level has dropped, not to mention the well water in the old village, even the well water in Gao Mingcheng's home has dropped a lot lower than before.
He looked up at the clouds in the sky with a rosy glow, his brows slightly furrowed.
The clouds are thin and translucent, with little water content. You can tell at a glance that there will be no rain for the time being.
In the next few days, Gao Mingcheng went into the mountains to pick tea seeds. There is no such thing as too much tea seeds, as long as you can pick them, you must bring them home.
Some families in the village grow rapeseed, and use the seeds to extract oil. Rapeseed oil is extremely fragrant when used to cook dishes, and it is best for frying fish.
I wrote this chapter while I was half asleep. I don’t know if there’s something wrong with me. I can’t hold on any longer and am going to sleep. Good night.
(End of this chapter)
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