Chapter 136
Li Erdan nimbly avoided Xu Xiuqin's hand, pretending to be aggrieved.
"Auntie, this colorful pheasant is a good thing. It is very nutritious and can cure palace cold. You will not have stomachache when you visit relatives. I didn't say anything wrong. Why are you angry?"
"You little bastard, you're still pretending to me. As soon as you rolled your eyes, I knew what you wanted to do." Xu Xiuqin glanced at Li Erdan, "I made the noodles just now. I'll go back and steam the buns first.
He will roll over and eat by himself."
"Auntie, you are still good to me!"
With a bright smile on his face, Li Erdan responded loudly and went to the backyard with a hoe. There were still seeds planted in the ground. The vegetable seedlings were growing well, but the grass was growing more vigorously and needed to be weeded every day.
I had just been working for a while when I heard Zhang Laosan's voice coming from outside.
"Is Erdan at home?"
"I'm busy behind the scenes, come over here!"
After Zhang Laosan walked in, he saw Li Erdan hoeing the ground, and he immediately stepped forward and grabbed Li Erdan's hoe.
"You are the treasure of our village. How can we let you hoe the ground? Third uncle will help you."
Li Erdan did not refuse, took out a cigarette from his body and handed it to Zhang Laosan, and lit one for himself.
"Uncle, do you have anything to do with me?"
"I just came back from the fields and heard about Teacher Zhang. Speaking of which, Teacher Zhang is somewhat related to our family. When Teacher Zhang came to our village to teach, I was the one who introduced him."
What Zhang Laosan said was true, and Li Erdan had also heard some stories about it. It was said that Qi Facai gave him five kilograms of eggs and asked him to help introduce the person.
And Li Erdan knew Zhang Laosan better. This guy would never be so attentive if nothing happened.
"Let's not beat around the bush. Uncle, just tell me. What do you want me to do for you?"
"I heard from the people in our village, Erdan, you know a big shot like Boss Meng, why don't you introduce me to a job? I heard that working in Boss Meng's construction team, the salary is very high, and some people work for a whole day.
It’s more than three hundred, and I want to go too. How about you help me tell Boss Meng?”
Li Erdan asked doubtfully: "Uncle, it will definitely be better for us to grow vegetables in the future than for you to work in the construction team. Why do you think of going to work?"
"That's a formal job. I heard that Boss Meng also pays some insurance and money to those workers. You don't have to worry about it when you get old and can't work. You also know that I have two boys in my family. If I don't work hard, I won't be able to work hard in the future.
Their two children can’t even get a wife.”
Zhang Laosan sighed as he spoke, and looked up at the sun in the sky, "We can't face the loess and turn our backs to the sky all our lives, and let our children do the same. Erdan, you have to develop outside if you have the chance. Only outside can do it."
Make big money."
"Wait for Boss Meng to come to our village school in two days. I will talk to Boss Meng then." Li Erdan also agreed and did not continue to persuade.
Those who stayed in the village couldn't find good jobs, didn't have any skills, and earned some money outside but didn't have enough to spend on themselves, so they had no choice but to come back to farm.
At present, the income from vegetable cultivation has just begun, and it is not enough to change the deep-rooted ideas of the villagers.
After Zhang Laosan returned, Li Erdan had been thinking about this issue: what should be done to make the village develop faster.
There are hundreds of people in their village, and most of the people who stay in the village are over forty years old, and there are even fewer men. Basically, they have gone out to work.
Just as he was thinking about these things, Dong Xiaogang ran in, panting heavily.
"Er...Brother Erdan, go and take a look. The medicinal materials in the medicinal field are all yellow. They are just like the hay in winter. The medicinal materials are all dead."
There was a hint of crying in Dong Xiaogang's voice. This is all money. He made two hundred thousand yuan after buying the last batch of medicines. Brother Erdan also told him that there will be more next time.
As a result, the medicinal herbs for the second time have not grown yet, and now they are yellowing in the ground.
Li Erdan had a surprised smile on his face, "It turned yellow so quickly, that's great!"
This is good news. The stronger the medicinal effect of Donghuang grass, the faster the absorption of the medicinal properties of those medicinal herbs.
Originally he thought he would have to wait until tomorrow, but he didn't expect that he would be mature today.
"Brother Erdan, don't scare me. Are you crazy? The medicinal materials have turned yellow and we have no money. How can we be okay?" Dong Xiaogang stretched out his hand to touch Li Erdan's forehead and looked at Li Erdan.
Does the egg have a fever?
After slapping Dong Xiaogang's hand away, Li Erdan took out a small wooden box from the room and walked quickly outside.
"We have a treasure growing in our medicinal field, but you can't buy it with money."
Li Erdan explained something, which made Dong Xiaogang think he was really stupid.
When the two people ran to the place where they wanted medicinal materials, they saw a dozen people standing there, all of whom were older people in the village.
"This medicinal material was planted too densely, otherwise it would not have turned yellow so quickly. This is a waste of good seeds!"
When those people saw Li Erdan coming, they immediately shut up.
Old Uncle Dong came over with a guilty look on his face, "Erdan, I'm sorry for you. I planted the land in this condition. I will bear the loss and I will compensate you."
Before Li Erdan could say anything, Fang Dagui came out and shouted in a loud voice: "Just pull him down, old Dong. Erdan trusts your family so much, but you have planted the land like this. I think you will still be the best in the future."
Stop growing medicinal herbs with Erdan, let me do it!"
"Who in our village doesn't know that I am the best farmer. Erdan, if you give me the medicinal seeds, I will definitely win better than them. This will definitely not happen."
"It's okay to plant some for our family, I guarantee you will grow better."
Those people all talked about it. The story that Li Erdan gave Dong Xiaogang 200,000 yuan had already spread in the village.
Two hundred thousand is a huge sum for anyone, and they are already jealous.
But they also know that Dong Xiaogang has been following Li Erdan since he was a child, and the two have a very good relationship.
Now I know that Dong Xiaogang planted this medicinal field to look like this, and they all had a small idea to squeeze Dong Xiaogang out of it.
"Old Dong, you can't afford to compensate for so many medicinal materials. Look at what your family has done. Don't harm Erdan. Maybe Erdan can't supply the medicinal materials and you have to compensate others."
"That's right, Xiaogang doesn't know so many things. You don't watch the farming. You can't be so careless."
Both Old Uncle Dong and Dong Xiaogang were so embarrassed that they couldn't hold their heads up, and their hearts were full of guilt.
Before Li Erdan came just now, Old Uncle Dong was blushing at the comments made by these people, and now he was even more speechless. The medicinal materials in dozens of acres of land were just gone, and he felt extremely uncomfortable.
Chapter completed!