Xianjia Pastoral

Chapter 89

In the next few days, Cheng Wei ran back and forth between Huangjia Village and Raohe Town.The documents for contracting the land have been completed, but there are still many things to be resolved in the future.

The second is to run around for the construction of the manor. Cheng Wei has his own ideas about the appearance of the manor, but the construction needs to be handed over to professionals. The location of the manor also needs land inspection and evaluation, so Zhu Biao’s father was invited. Take a field trip.

After Zhu Zhang brought people over to investigate, he promised that the rough plan could be completed in a few days.At that time, he will bring another group of people over to design the appearance of the manor, water conservancy layout and related equipment for Cheng Wei.

After solving these two matters, Cheng Wei started to burn the mountain.Burning mountains in the village is considered a major event, and according to the rules, it must be an auspicious day.

Cheng Wei thought about going to the countryside to do as the Romans do, anyway, it would be a few days, so he simply left the matter of choosing a date to Huang Mingquan.After the latter checked the old almanac, he told Cheng Wei that the eighth day of this month was a good day, but it was actually two days later.

Time flies, and soon it will be the day to burn the mountain.On this day, all the men, women and children in the village gathered around the entrance of the village. It was rare for Huangjia Village to be so lively.

Standing in front of the crowd, Cheng Wei was a little speechless. After Huang Mingquan chose the auspicious day for him, he asked the other party to find dozens of strong villagers by the way.

Although Yanziling is only a low-slope land, it is not said that a gust of wind will blow the flames to other hills when the mountain is burning, but relevant precautions must be taken.

The best way is to find someone to form an encirclement at the foot of the mountain, so that any accident can be dealt with in time.

It's just that right now, Huang Mingquan is looking for him for him, but the conditions he said at the time are "a little bit" different.

"Ahem, Uncle Quan. Are you sure you recruited according to my request?" Cheng Wei asked helplessly.

Don't be afraid of [-], just in case, the burning of the mountain must not be sloppy.An old man with slow hands and feet would definitely not be able to deal with an accident, let alone a playful child, that's why Cheng Wei had to ask Huang Mingquan in advance.

"Xiao Cheng, what. I know what you want to say, but the young people in the village haven't come back yet. This group is already the strongest."

Are you kidding me?Immediately, Cheng Wei secretly complained.

Of the twenty or so people in front of me, only half were young men and women. Except for Huang Mingquan's grandson, Huang Shi, the others seemed thin.What's even more absurd is that the remaining half of the people are almost all elderly people who are over fifty years old.

Seeing Cheng Wei sighed in disappointment, Huang Mingquan immediately reassured him, saying: "Xiao Cheng, don't look at their age, it is really necessary for everyone to be able to work in the fields."

"Forget it, Uncle Quan, you can bring some more people over here." The quality of the personnel is not good now, and they can only be made up by the quantity, so we can't just drag on like this.

Immediately, Huang Mingquan yelled at the crowd of onlookers: "Is there anyone else who wants to help look at the mountain? Raise your hand and have a look."

"Me! Me! Me!"

Almost everyone in the crowd raised their hands, Cheng Weila's young man was paid.The day before yesterday, I cleared a gap at the foot of the mountain in advance to burn the mountain, so I asked for their help.However, it is equivalent to half a day of farm work for them, and Cheng Wei only offered one hundred and one day's remuneration, and the elderly who saved a little could eat for half a month.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze. The ones over there come over, and the other brats come too." Huang Mingquan shouted.

Cheng Wei didn't know what to do at this moment, and sighed secretly that his decision to stay here was really right?Seeing that Huang Mingquan pulled a dozen people in succession, but these people were either elderly people in their 60s or [-]s, or children who were half-grown.

Even an eight- or ninety-year-old old man would have been pulled into the team by Huang Mingquan if Cheng Wei hadn't stopped him quickly.

I'll go, I said your eyes should be brighter.I really want to be recruited by you, this uncle is not here to help me, but to harm me.There are many potholes on Yanziling, if this old man falls and knocks there, Cheng Wei doesn't know how to face the other's family.

"Dear fellows who have been selected, it's a trivial matter to help look at the mountains. But Xiao Cheng will still give each person 50 yuan a day, and you will all watch closely when the mountains will be burned."

This number was suggested by Huang Mingquan, and Lu Wei, who was acquainted with the other party, also adopted this idea.Dou rice nourishes kindness, bears rice nourishes hatred.He understands this truth.

Moreover, if these old people take too much, they will feel uneasy, and they will still eat as much as they eat, and give as much as they cook.

"Don't worry, Lao Huang. Don't dare to say anything else. If I can't do this well, I'll just hit him with a piece of tofu."

"That's right, Xiao Cheng is a nobleman in our village. He won't get paid as much as he says, and we are willing to do it for him."

As soon as Huang Mingquan said this, the villagers were not happy, as if they didn't work for the money.Unexpectedly, in just a few days, Cheng Wei's influence had surpassed that of the old village chief.

Apart from the fact that Cheng Wei invested a large sum of money in the village, the villagers found that the new couple was very easy to communicate with after these days of contact, and they would not think about those rich people putting on airs at all.

Huang Mingquan was choked by the villagers' reaction, and quickly changed the topic to excuse, saying: "Xiao Cheng takes care of us so much, we must have some self-knowledge, don't we? To be honest, how can our old bones help? If you want to repay, call back the young people at home, I don't believe that hanging out with Xiao Cheng will be worse than being in the city."

Cheng Wei must have a lot of manpower to run the manor, and he can't always hire short-term labor like this.Huang Mingquan's words not only helped the villagers to seek favor, but also solved Cheng Wei's manpower problem in the future.

"That is, I told my eldest son that he will come back after finishing his work this month."

"Yo, it's still next month. My son and daughter-in-law will be back next week."

"Your son can't compare with my son. My son is a technician, so he doesn't just leave."

"What do you mean! Want to fight, right?"

"Come on, let's see who is afraid of whom."

It's hard to imagine that two elderly people in their 60s can still roll up their sleeves and scream at this time.Fortunately, Huang Mingquan went up to dissuade them in time, otherwise many people would be hurt in the fight.

A group of people and the spectators came to Yanziling in a mighty manner, Huang Mingquan and his son Huang Shi split up.Huang Shi took the younger generation around to guard the back, while Huang Mingquan took the rest of the elderly to watch nearby.

Cheng Wei stretched out his hand to check the wind. There was very little wind from the north. Today is indeed a good day for burning mountains.

In order to start the fire successfully, Cheng Wei even bought a lot of hay and sticks from the villagers for the furnace. Of course, these hay did not cost much, and they were all wheat stalks and straws left by the villagers.

Now Cheng Wei is ordering his hands to spread the dry grass and firewood branches layer by layer on the vegetation full of water in an arc in a downwind position.

"Xiao Cheng, everything is ready." Huang Mingquan came out and said.

"Set fire! Burn the mountain!"

Cheng Wei also held a torch in his hand, and after giving the order, he walked towards one of the fire spots, and the villagers at the other fire spots also started to act after hearing it.

First, the weeds on the surface burned, then the dry firewood in the middle, and finally the vegetation below.Due to the relationship of being full of moisture, it is crackling and crackling when it burns, accompanied by bursts of thick smoke.

The smoke was very pungent, and Cheng Wei immediately asked everyone to back away for a certain distance, and the next thing to do was to wait until the fire started and spread to all parts of Yanziling.

Suddenly, there was movement from a pothole not far away, and a yellow and white hare poked its head out, as if sensing the imminent crisis, it hurriedly left the cave and jumped towards the back of the mountain.

Several hares jumped out one after another, one of them was too close to the fire source.Not long after leaving the cave, they were fainted by the thick smoke, and many villagers had the urge to go up and pick one up when they saw it.

Of course, this situation is impossible now, unless they dare to rush into the fire with their lives.After the fire is completely extinguished, there will be plenty of time for them to go up and pick up wild animals.The land of Yanziling has been abandoned for a long time, and one can imagine how many mountain products there are in it.

After burning for a while, the fire has spread to the entire periphery of Yanziling.

"Attention, the wind direction has changed." Cheng Wei warned.

The villagers everywhere got ready quickly, scooped up a ladle of water from the buckets under their feet, and immediately extinguished the flames once they burned out of the boundary.

Fortunately, the southeast wind was not strong, and it only accelerated the burning speed on the west side of Yanziling. After a while, the wind stopped, and the fire spread steadily to the surrounding area.

The fire was completely extinguished after eight hours, even faster than originally expected.One reason is that there are few trees in Yanziling.The second reason is that there are external forces to help, and a few gusts of wind blew in the middle to speed up the entire burning speed.

Of course no fool would run up to pick up wild animals right now. Although the fire had stopped, the ground at this moment was like a well-cooked iron plate. If people walked on it, they would definitely be scalded.

Just taking advantage of this spare time, Cheng Wei ordered everyone to pour the buckets they brought over the periphery of Yanziling, so that even if the fire revived, it would not affect other hills.

"Huh." Cheng Wei twisted his clothes, it was too hot.Standing ten meters away from Yanziling is like being in a sauna.

"Xiaowei, give you water." Liang Meilan handed him a bottle of water. Cheng Wei didn't want her to follow along, so he let her stay in the house. Now that the mountain fire has been extinguished, he came to bring water to the villagers. .

"Uncle Quan, let the villagers go back first, I'm afraid it won't be cold here today." Cheng Wei suggested.

Huang Mingquan said with a haha: "Yeah, okay. Then we will come to search the mountains tomorrow. Xiao Cheng, don't worry about us coming to your place to pick up bargains."

"It's nothing. Although Yanziling is contracted by me, the wild animals inside are not under my control." After speaking, he and the villagers left Yanziling, chatting and laughing.

(End of this chapter)