Little Farm Among the Clouds

Who will you please?

This is really a problem. Ye Guosheng couldn't think of a suitable person for a while, but fortunately, he was not in a hurry, so Ye Guosheng didn't think about it any further, and instead said to Ye Chi: "Don't think about it, let's go first Pick vegetables, sell them for two days before discussing."

"If you sell vegetables for two days, you might be able to hire someone."

"Yes." Ye Guosheng thought for a while, and said, "At that time, I have to calculate the salary for others."

"Is it still a salary?"

"Yeah, hiring people means hiring people to work for us, and of course we have to pay wages."

Ye Chi frowned slightly thinking about the part-time job and salary, Ye Guosheng took a look, and was so cute by his little grandson, he couldn't help touching his fleshy face and said: "Okay, don't think about it ,Let’s go home first and have a good rest, get up early tomorrow morning to pick vegetables, fresh vegetables are easy to sell.”

Ye Chi's thoughts were pulled back in an instant, and he said, "Fresh ones sell fast."

"That's the reason."

"That's the reason!" Ye Chi said imitating Ye Guosheng's tone, and then bent down with Ye Guosheng to hold the vegetable picking tool, and took Dahei home.

After arriving home, the grandpa and grandson made lunch first. After lunch, they took Dahei to the foot of Jingshan Mountain to herd cattle. After a timely rain, not only the crops but also the weeds soared. In the evening, Ye Guosheng walked home with the big yellow ox until his belly was full.

Ye Chi looked at the big ox's belly and said, "Grandpa, the big yellow's belly is so big! It's bigger than me."

Ye Guosheng laughed and said, "Because I'm full."

"It's time to work when you're full."

"It's not working right now."

"Why don't you work?"

"Because I don't need it to work now." Ye Guosheng said softly, "Do you know why grandpa raises cattle?"

"Because grandpa said that oxen can plow the field."

"Well, it's also because it's honest, it can stay with grandpa on the mountain, and it can sleep in the corner at night, it's warm." Ye Guosheng glanced at Ye Chi and said, "Take another two years, and wait for Ye Chi to enter the third grade." Then, sell it."

"Why sell it?"

"I'll save the middle school tuition for you." Ye Guosheng has already started to save Ye Chi's tuition and so on.

"Don't sell it, the rhubarb is so good." Ye Chi continued: "I don't need my grandfather to pay the tuition when I go to school. My mother will come back and pay the tuition for me on August 31st. Don't sell the rhubarb .”

Ye Chi is a person who easily develops feelings for people and animals, which is very similar to his grandmother. Ye Guosheng said with a smile: "Let's see when the time comes, this cow is quite expensive, and it can sell for more than 1 yuan."

"Wow, that's a lot of money."

"A lot?"

"Well, a lot."

"That's a lot."

Ye Guosheng reached out to touch Rhubarb's back, and Ye Chi followed to touch Rhubarb's belly. After the grandpa and grandson arrived home, the sky darkened. After eating, they sat in front of the TV and watched cartoons, while Ye Guosheng sat in front of the bedside table Counting the change, I’m going to sell money again tomorrow, I got the change ready, the phone rang just after counting, Ye Guosheng reached out to answer it and said: "Ye Chi, put your brother's number."

"Ah, Brother Fang is looking for me!" Ye Chi got up happily, and threw himself on the bedside table to answer: "Hey, Brother Fang."

Lu Mingfang asked: "What did you do today?"

"I went up the mountain to herd cattle."

"Why didn't you call me?"

"are you going?"

"..." Lu Ming put it on the other side and fell silent.

Ye Chi continued: "I didn't know you were going, you didn't even tell me."

"..."

Ye Chi thought for a while, then continued: "Today is over, why don't I go find you tomorrow and we go up the mountain again, okay?"

Lu Mingfang finally said: "Okay."

"However, I won't be able to find you until tomorrow afternoon."

"What are you doing in the morning?"

"I have to get up early in the morning to pick vegetables. After picking vegetables, I will go to the market with my grandfather to sell vegetables. After selling vegetables, I will have lunch. After lunch, my grandfather and I will take a nap, so we can go to herd cattle in the afternoon." Ye Chi Say it one by one.

"Okay, I see. I'll find you tomorrow, that's all."

"Okay, Brother Fang—" Before Ye Chi finished speaking, he heard the sound of "beep—beep—" from the microphone, and he muttered, "Don't let me finish my sentence", and he didn't mind at all. He hung up the phone without hesitation, then sat on the stool and continued watching cartoons.

After watching the cartoon, I read the storybook with Ye Guosheng, who was wearing presbyopic glasses, under the lamp. When I encountered a word that didn’t have pinyin, I asked my grandfather. After the first story, the grandpa and grandson lay on the bed and discussed about the big bad wolf and Little Red Riding Hood until they fell asleep.

The next morning Ye Guosheng got up for a run on time, and when he came back from the run, he saw a child standing at the gate of the courtyard. He rubbed his eyes and took two steps forward before he recognized it was Lu Mingfang, and immediately shouted: "Mingfang."

Lu Mingfang was wearing a blue sportswear, and called "Grandpa Ye" with a sullen face, but he was handsome at a young age. Ye Guosheng asked with a smile, "Why are you here?"

"Come and pick vegetables on the mountain with you."

"Does your grandpa and grandma know?"

"know."

Mrs. Lu and Mr. Lu told Ye Guosheng in advance that Lu Mingfang took the initiative to do some things, which shows that he has initiative in this world, which is good for his condition, especially contacting with nature, which is a good thing Son.

So Ye Guosheng didn't reject Lu Mingfang's kindness, he smiled and invited Lu Mingfang into the yard, and asked Lu Mingfang to wake Ye Chi up, while he went to the kitchen to cook some porridge.

Lu Mingfang turned around and walked towards the room. At this moment, the room was still dark. He reached out and turned on the light in the room, and saw Ye Chi crawling on the bed and soundly asleep.

He called "Ye Chi", but Ye Chi didn't wake up, he stood by Ye Chi's bed and watched Ye Chi sleep, sleeping like a little suckling pig, or a little suckling pig dreaming sweetly, did Lu Mingfang come back? call.

When Ye Guosheng came in, he saw Lu Mingfang standing in front of the bed calling Ye Chi to sleep, he smiled and said, "Ming Fang, why didn't you call Ye Chi?"

Lu Mingfang said, "He's sleepy."

"When you wake up, you won't be sleepy."

Lu Mingfang glanced at Ye Chi, but didn't shout.

It was Ye Guosheng who stepped forward, patted Ye Chi's face, woke Ye Chi up, Ye Chi rubbed his eyes, saw Lu Mingfang, his eyes lit up immediately, and shouted excitedly: "Brother Fang!"

"..." Lu Mingfang turned around slightly, with Ye Chi on his back.

Ye Chi was not affected at all, and lay down on the bed, stretched his little head, and shouted: "Brother Fang! You are here!"

Lu Ming let out a "hmm".

Ye Guosheng smiled and put Ye Chi's clothes on the bed, and said, "Don't let me let you go, put on your clothes quickly, don't freeze."

Ye Chi didn't shout anymore, quickly put on his clothes, brushed his teeth, drank a bowl of porridge, packed two steamed buns and walked towards Jingshan with Ye Guosheng and Lu Mingfang.

"Brother Fang, I'll give you a bun to eat."

When Ye Chi handed Lu Mingfang a bun with his right hand, he had already started biting the bun on his left hand. Lu Mingfang had never eaten while walking, let alone accepted a bun from others like this, but Ye Chi handed it over. He took it without hesitation, took a bite like Ye Chi, and felt that not only was the bun delicious, but the whole feeling was different, and he couldn't help but feel happy.

After arriving up the mountain, he and Ye Chi Ye Guosheng picked vegetables together. After picking two baskets full, Lu Mingfang was about to go home.

Ye Guosheng asked: "Ming Fang, you won't go to the market with us?"

"I'm not going." After speaking, Lu Mingfang ran away towards home.

Ye Chi looked at Ye Guosheng with a small face and said, "Grandpa, Brother Fang is still afraid of crowds."

Ye Guosheng sighed.

Ye Chi said: "Brother Fang won't be afraid from now on."

"Yes, let's go."

The grandfather and grandson came to the market familiarly, and put them together with the stall wearing the cotton cap as usual. The man wearing the cotton cap had not seen Ye Chi for a long time. After talking with Ye Chi for a while, he turned his head to look at The vegetables in the basket were tender and green, and he smiled and said, "Uncle Ye, your vegetables are so fresh, and you just picked them this morning?"

"The garlic sprouts were picked yesterday, and the others were just picked."

"As far as your conscience in selling vegetables is concerned, it is really fresh to say that it is fresh."

Ye Guosheng smiled and said, "Otherwise, how can we sell it at a good price?"

In the past, Ye Guosheng didn't know the market price. After he knew, his vegetables were a little bit more expensive than other vegetables, but because they were fresh and natural, and Yechi was calling for them, they could be sold out in a short time every time.

Today, as soon as Ye Chi called out, many acquaintances came to buy vegetables. Ye Guosheng warmly greeted him, and saw a familiar person, a man in a gray coat, looking over here.

Ye Guosheng immediately shouted: "Shunzi!"

Ye Chi looked up, he thought for a while, and recognized Shunzi, who was the one who asked Grandpa for a debt when he first came here, and then Grandpa gave him all the money, Shunzi.

Shunzi looked at Ye Guosheng in surprise when he heard the words, and shouted, "Brother Ye!"

Ye Guosheng was skilled at selling vegetables, and it wasn't a big problem to greet Shunzi while selling vegetables, so he asked, "Shunzi, long time no see."

Shunzi said shyly, "Yes."

"How have you been recently?"

"That's it."

At this time, a vegetable buyer crowded over to buy vegetables, Ye Guosheng responded, and said to Shunzi, "Shunzi, come here and stand here, let someone buy vegetables."

"Eh!"

Shunzi responded, and stood next to Ye Guosheng, thinking that he would be able to go out by himself, but unexpectedly more and more people rushed over, he couldn't leave in a daze, watching Ye Chi and Ye Guosheng busy, He was also embarrassed to stand, and awkwardly offered his hand until the two baskets of vegetables were sold out, and the crowd who bought but didn't buy gradually dispersed.

Only now did Ye Guosheng have time to talk to Shunzi. Shunzi was an honest person. Because he was short of money, he came to ask Ye Guosheng for the debt Ye Hongtao owed. Speaking of which, I always feel a little guilty.

Ye Guosheng quickly discovered the problem and said, "Shunzi, our relationship was so good before, why is it like this now?"

Shunzi said, "Brother Ye, last time when it came to money, my family was really in trouble, so I went to your house..."

"I know, I know everything." Ye Guosheng smiled and said, "Didn't I tell you last time? You did the right thing."

"But--"

"It's okay for me to owe money, but you, the borrowed person, seem to have done something wrong."

"The main thing is that you didn't borrow the money, it was your son."

"He borrowed it in my name." Ye Guosheng said: "Otherwise, you wouldn't lend it to him, right? This shows that you treat me as a brother. Brothers will settle accounts clearly, and it should be."

Sunja didn't know what to say.

Ye Guosheng turned to ask: "What are you doing here this early in the morning?"

Shunzi said, "Come to buy vegetables."

"What food to buy?"

"Buy something that the younger son and daughter-in-law like to eat."

"Isn't your youngest son and daughter-in-law out of town?"

"I'm back." Shunzi said with a bitter face, "I came back recently."

"Isn't it a good thing to come back? Why are you so worried?"

"Oh!" Shunzi sighed, and told Ye Guosheng about his youngest son and daughter-in-law. In fact, there was nothing extraordinary about it, but the youngest son and daughter-in-law had problems in their business recently, and they didn't make any money. If you want to raise a six or seven-year-old child with him, he has already raised a big grandson, so he has to raise this little grandson.

The problem is that since the steel factory here was closed and he was given early retirement, he couldn’t find a job. In recent years, he has been doing casual work with others, going to the countryside to collect some grain today, and doing a part-time job tomorrow. A little money.

But recently everyone dislikes him for being too old, afraid of accidents, so they don’t call him when they have jobs. He and his wife live frugally, so there is no problem. Now that his son and daughter-in-law are in trouble, he also wants to help, but I have no ability.

Ye Guosheng sighed.

Ye Chi follows Ye Guosheng every day. Ye Guosheng has 70 years of life experience, like a huge life treasure, instilling all kinds of knowledge into Ye Chi all the time, making Ye Chi have the innocence of a child, but also a little strange The same understanding, for example, now, he easily understood the matter of Grandpa Shunzi, his little brows could not help but frown, and suddenly he raised his brows, and said in a clear voice: "Grandpa Shunzi, then you come to work for my grandpa." , my grandfather will give you your salary."

Shunzi was taken aback when he heard that.

Ye Guosheng turned his head and said, "You can't call him Grandpa Shunzi, Shunzi is his nickname."

Knowing that he was wrong, Ye Chi covered his mouth with his small hand, then lay down on Ye Guosheng's ear, and asked in a low voice, "Grandpa, what should I call him?"

Ye Guosheng said: "His surname is Yang, and he is the third eldest in the family. You can just call him Mr. Yang."

Ye Chi nodded, and immediately shouted at Shunzi, "Master Yang."

Shunzi responded with a smile: "Hey, it's fine to call him Sanye, you don't need to call him Sanye Yang, it's more unusual. Hey, this kid is so handsome and magnificent?"

"No." Ye Guosheng paused and said, "Hongtao's."

Shunzi was stunned for a moment, but he soon figured out that the child was innocent, and he still kept a kind smile on Ye Chi. At this time, Ye Guosheng thought about Ye Chi's words again, and asked, "Ye Chi, what happened to Ye Chi just now?" say what?"

Ye Chi replied: "Master Yang."

"That's not it." Ye Guosheng said, "You asked your third master to work for grandpa?"

Ye Chi nodded.

Ye Guosheng looked at Shunzi thoughtfully upon hearing the words.

Shunzi asked, "Brother Ye, what kind of job do you do?"

"Follow me." Ye Guosheng didn't answer directly directly, but packed up the baskets, and when he was about to pick them up with a pole, Shunzi hurried over and said, "Brother Ye, I'll pick them."

"It's okay, I'll come."

"I'll come, I'll come. I'm older and stronger than you. I picked this up as a joke." Shunzi picked up the pole skillfully, and then asked, "Where are you going?"

Ye Chi answered first: "Go to the mountain."

Ye Guosheng looked at Ye Chi upon hearing the words.

Ye Chi raised his face and asked, "Grandpa, am I right?"

Ye Guosheng smiled and touched Ye Chi's little head: "That's right."

Ye Chi said happily: "I will lead the way."

"Okay, you lead the way."

Ye Chi immediately ran forward with his short legs, turning his head and saying to Shunzi from time to time, "Master Yang, just ahead."

"Okay, you run slowly."

Ye Chi ran ahead.

Ye Guosheng introduced his "small farm" to Shunzi in the back.

When Ye Chi ran to the fork in the road, he yelled at his yard: "Dahei! Come out! Let's go!"

Then staring at the dog hole under the courtyard wall, silently counted "three, two, one", a small black thing came out of the dog hole, it was just big black!

"Big black!"

"Wow!" Dahei wagged his tail.

"Let's go!" Ye Chi waved his little hand and ran towards Jingshan.

Dahei jumped up and chased Ye Chi.

Shunzi who was walking behind said, "Brother Ye, do you have a dog? This dog is so smart."

"It's a bit smart, but it's very timid. It's even afraid of the family's big rooster. It was picked up by Ye Chi from the side of the road. Ye Chi treats it well, and it is also very close to Ye Chi."

Shunzi looked at Ye Chi who was running with the little black dog on the road, looked at the smile on Ye Chi's face, turned to Ye Guosheng and said, "Brother Ye, why do I look at Ye Chi like Mrs. Ye?"

"Like it?" Ye Guosheng looked proud.

"Like, looks alike, and looks alike in vivaciousness."

"Me too."

As they walked and talked, they arrived at the foot of Jingshan Mountain. When they saw the lush green vegetables, Shunzi was taken aback immediately, then turned around and said, "Brother Ye, why did you grow so many vegetables this year?"

Ye Guosheng laughed.

Ye Chi hugged Dahei breathlessly and said, "Master Yang, there are still vegetables on the mountain, which were grown by me and grandpa."

"What did you plant?"

"Yeah." Ye Chi put down Dahei, waved his little hand and said, "Just sprinkle it like this, and a lot of small cabbage can grow out, it's so simple."

"so easy?"

Ye Guosheng said: "The main reason is that the soil quality on the mountain is good, and there is no need to fertilize or anything. It can grow by itself, so it is relatively simple. The mountain has to be watered and agricultural fertilizers are applied."

"Brother Ye, you are really capable."

Ye Guosheng said: "I don't have the skills, just slowly plant what you plant every day. After the planting is over, they will be cooked together immediately. Ye Chi and I must be too busy, so Shunzi, if you are free, would you like to help my brother?" ?”