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Chapter 66: A Handful of Sweet Melon Seeds

This large piece of wasteland near the blacksmith shop was once bought by Lin Bo's grandfather, and later it was divided during the land reform, and then it became a commune, and this land became publicly owned by the village.

In the past, when there were many people in the village, anyone who wanted to grow them could come here to grow some sweet potatoes and watermelons. In recent years, the number of people in the village has decreased, and the land around the village cannot be planted. This place has been deserted for many years.

The arrival of Sun Linmu made Luo Meng think of one thing. Although no one is contracting their mountain land for the time being, whoever wants to plant it can plant it. People like Sun Linmu who rent here temporarily can also open a small piece of mountain land by themselves. The people in the village will definitely not care about it. It is good to have seeds in the wasteland. After a few years of planting, it will become a field. If they take it back at that time, it will be the same as picking up ready-made ones.

It's just that if someone contracts this land in the future, the crops they planted before will be useless, either the buns will be cheaper, or they will be pulled out by him, and no one will lose anything.Moreover, this mountainous area is right next to the blacksmith shop, so it's fine if the other party is easy-going, but if he's a fussy one, there will be more bumps and bumps in the future.

Sun Linmu was arranged by Luo Meng in a side room opposite Boss Xiao, so that Aunt Ayun and the others lived on both sides of the room, and if there was any movement at night, there would be someone on both sides to take care of them.

Sun Linmu lived in the room in front of the second floor. He wanted to rent it for half a year, so Luo Meng charged him 200 yuan for the rent, and put him another 500 yuan as a deposit. He signed the contract and wrote the receipt. It's over.

A new boy came to the blacksmith shop, and the reactions from the original residents were quite enthusiastic. Boss Xiao was not an enthusiastic person, but this time he insisted on following the enthusiasm. In his own words: "If I am right Others are not enthusiastic, but they are enthusiastic towards Aunt Ayun and the others, that seems so weird, people have no idea, can they still treat me as a serious person by then?"

When Xiao Shulin returned to the house after Luo's family left, Boss Xiao mysteriously showed him a shirt. Xiao Shulin didn't see anything unusual after looking left and right. Isn't this what his father was wearing this morning? Clothes, what's there to see?

"Tsk! Didn't you notice that the button was nailed?" Why are the young eyes so awkward?

"Oh, it's not badly sewn." Xiao Shulin looked at it and thought it was nothing to look at, so he threw it on the stool again.

"You didn't see anything?" Boss Xiao stretched out his hand and picked up the shirt again, folding it neatly like a baby.

"She sewed it for you?" Xiao Shulin is not out of his mind. If his father can do this, he must not have sewed this button by himself. Who else could it be if it wasn't Aunt Ayun?

"How did you see it?" Boss Xiao asked again, thinking he didn't see it just now.

"You can see it just by looking at it." You can see it by looking at your own father, so do you need to look at other things?

"Hey, you kid."

Boss Xiao was overjoyed, and went upstairs again with his shirt in his hand. Xiao Shulin smiled with the corners of his mouth pulled, and then fastened a button. See how happy he was. Why do you show mountains and dews?

As soon as he thought of Luo Meng, Xiao Shulin also went upstairs. He still had to make up lessons. Last time, he suffered from lack of experience. A lot of information in this format has been downloaded.

After arranging Sun Linmu, Luo Meng went back to the village, and first went to the home of the village chief Luo Quanshun.

"Uncle Quanshun, where are you at home?" As soon as Luo Meng entered their yard, he saw Luo Quanshun waving a cattail fan and staring at their two dolls doing their homework.

"Yo, Romon is here, come in and sit down."

"What are you doing? You're so old, you still have to watch over your homework with grandpa?"

"Hey, Xiuzhu is fine, but this Luo Wenfeng is not. How long has it been since the holidays? I only wrote two pieces of homework for the summer vacation. When the school starts, I have to be caught again. Last year, I asked his sister to help me. I’m just writing, as long as he’s like this, if I put it aside, I’m sure I won’t even be able to pass the junior high school entrance examination.”

"Master, it's getting dark, why doesn't my grandma come back to cook? I'll look for her." Luo Wenfeng, the hairy monkey, saw someone coming to the house, so he wanted to find an excuse to escape.

"Bacheng is at your Uncle Xingyou's house. Why do you want to find her? I'm hungry. Let's warm up the rice noodles at noon and eat some padding first."

"I'll go and have a look." Luo Wenfeng said, and ran out of the yard in a flash.

"Xiuzhu, today's homework is almost finished. You can also play for a while. When you come back later, remember to call grandma back." Luo Quanshun asked his granddaughter to go out to play. At this time in the evening, the village The children here love to go out and wander around.

"Luo Meng, why did you come to see me today?" The grandchildren left, Luo Quanshun cleaned up the mess that Luo Wenfeng left behind, and asked about Luo Meng's reason for coming.

"I just want to ask, does anyone want to contract the tens of acres of mountain land near our blacksmith shop?" Recently, the market for growing vegetables in their village is good. Whether anyone is interested in that mountain land needs to be confirmed first. .

"Recently, there are a few young people in our village who want to come back. If this young man comes back, the land of each household will not be enough. It must be a mountain. There are people who ask about it, but they are all interested in it. The back of our village is next to several hills of your Niuwangzhuang."

"At the foot of Wo Niu Mountain, there are many hills, big and small. The place where the iron shop used to be is not bad, but there are few springs on that mountain, so it is not easy to divert water for irrigation. It is okay to grow sweet potatoes and so on. If you want to grow vegetables, it’s enough to carry water, anyway, no one is interested in that piece of land at present, what’s wrong, you want to take over that piece of land?”

"What's the price of that land?" Luo Meng really doesn't have much money on hand recently. If it's expensive, the land doesn't matter. Anyway, there is a land as big as Niuwangzhuang, which is enough for him to toss That's right, from now on, the blacksmith shop will only rent a house, and will not engage in other things.

"A little further up the mountain is the cemetery of our village. It is impossible to designate forest land for you this time." Luo Quanshun laughed when he said this.

To put it bluntly, the last time Luo Meng bought the area of ​​Niuwangzhuang, the village organized a bundled sale, and Luo Quanshun was not happy about it.

If it is just the mountainous land in their village, the price must be more than 12 yuan per mu, but if the steep slope forest land is pulled down, the price will naturally not go up, and even if the price is too high, Luo Meng can't take it. They suffered a loss in Dawan Village, and they took advantage of the people in Wangjiazhuang.

"Then how much do you estimate?" Luo Meng knew that the barren hills near Dawan Village were already in different markets than a few months ago.

"Recently, our village grows vegetables well, and the price of this mountain land has increased accordingly, but it probably does not exceed 30 yuan. If you want to buy it, I will tell the village. This land is small, and it is all in our village. Within the scope, basically we can make decisions by ourselves.”

To be honest, since the establishment of Niuwang Village in Luomeng, their village has become very prosperous in growing and selling vegetables. Recently, he, the village head of Dawan Village, has become much tougher, and his words in the village are more important than before. , These are all thanks to Romon, so if Romon wants to buy another piece of land, he is also very willing to help.

In fact, this matter really does not require his efforts. In the spring, Wang Dasheng from Wangjiazhuang visited Niuwangzhuang once, and at that time, Luo Meng gave him a trick to ask them to raise bees to make honey.

Now every household in Wangjiazhuang has raised several broods of bumblebees, and it was quite difficult at the beginning. Their place is not nourished by a spiritual spring like Niuwangzhuang in Luomeng, and bumblebees are particularly difficult to take care of. , easy to be frightened, and if it is not done well, the nest will have to be blown up. Several families are so tossed that they want to split the beehive and burn it.

Recently, there has been an improvement. The few families who got started first made money first this time. After shaking the honey once, it can sell for [-] yuan per catty. At this moment, I also saw hope and found motivation.

In this way, the few township cadres and town leaders who came out of Wangjiazhuang had a good impression of Luo Meng. This time, if he wanted to occupy the land again, he naturally had no reason to embarrass him.

After leaving Luo Quanshun's house, Luo Meng stopped by Luo Xingyou's house to see how his online shop was doing.

Luo Xingyou’s yard is quite lively. I heard that he bought a computer this time and wanted to open an online store at home. Many people in the village came to watch the fun. Seeing the couple taking pictures and uploading them, Also very fresh.

"Why, are you all here to watch the fun?" As soon as Luo Meng entered the yard, he was taken aback by the people in the yard, and thought that the people in his village would not be optimistic about this online store when he first started. Unexpectedly People these days are very receptive.

"Xingyou told us that in the shop he opened this time, the owner's name will be written on the products. Is this your idea?" Wu Dongmei asked him loudly when she saw Luo Meng coming. up.

"How do you know?" Romon chuckled twice.

"Could it be that he thought up this ghostly thing by himself? The few of us guessed it was you."

"Why, isn't this a bad idea?" Romon asked with a smile.

"It's not good, it's great, it should be done like this, so as to save people like us from being dragged down." Wu Dongmei is also open-minded, half-truth and half-false. up.

"I don't know who is holding back who, so I'm going to be stingy at you. If you buy it once, you don't want to come back again." Cao Fenglian is not one who is willing to suffer, so this is more aggressive.

"Then let's make gestures and see whose business is better?" Wu Dongmei immediately posted a battle post.

"Okay, it's just two months. If anyone loses, please treat the big guys to dinner. Then don't give us a pot of rice noodles."

"When the time comes, whoever loses will go to the street and beat two pork legs and come back, kill two chickens, add black beans and cook a big pot, and let the whole village eat together." Wu Dongmei has recently made some money, but Not as stingy as before.

"Well, Xingyou, don't you see that each of our households has to be counted separately? You said that other people in this family can't figure it out. Don't they sell chili sauce? Do you want to put the photo on the jar, or should we take one too?" The old man in the village liked novelty, and as he talked, he wanted to take a photo again.

"Then why don't you get one for each person?" Luo Xingyou also thought it was a good idea, but he still wanted to ask Luo Meng what he meant.

"You can figure it out." Romon waved his hand, indicating that he doesn't care about this matter.

"If you want to shoot, let's start with Romon." Someone in the crowd said again.

"Whatever you want, he was the first one, and the beans have all been shipped over."

"Come on, Romon, don't be shy, we haven't seen anything in the world, are you afraid of taking a picture?"

"No, I haven't taken a shower yet." After a busy day, I'm sweaty, so why take pictures like this?

"Why take a bath? I'm not going on a blind date. It's okay. Let's sell grain. Don't you have to look like a farmer? It's good like this. Come on, what, Xingyou, take a picture of him first .”

"Eh, okay."

Just like that, Romon was forced to take a half-length photo. He was wearing a gray-blue T-shirt with sweat stains on the collar. His face was unwashed, and it was black and greasy. A red brick wall, overall, very peasant.

The next day at noon before 11:30, Guo Daguo brought Hou Jun to Niuwangzhuang. Luo Meng saw that he was indeed a fat man. Seeing that his height was no more than 1.7 meters five, his weight must be at least Two hundred and five, she looks white, and wearing a bellyband and holding a carp can be put on a calendar.

The fat man came to Niuwangzhuang with a sad face, and had lunch with everyone, and the gloom on his face disappeared immediately: "Senior brother, why did you bring me here now?"

"I heard that your cooking is delicious?" Romon asked him.

"That's right." The fat man was praised generously.

"How about, let's try the craft first?" If it's not suitable, ask Guo Daguo to return it to him later.

"What do you want to do?" the fat man asked.

"It happened to be some watermelon seeds in the past two days, so you should get this one first." It happened that both Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin didn't know what to do with this watermelon seed.

"This is simple." The fat man said, and went to Guo Daguo's truck to drag his luggage. He dragged a large box out of the car, opened the box, and there were all kinds of seasonings inside. Picked a few out of it for later use.

When Luo Meng saw it, he couldn't help but think, 2000 yuan a month and the materials he brought, wouldn't he still have to lose money?

Hou Jun took the melon seeds that Luo Meng gave him to the stove. This man looked unreliable. As soon as he got on the stove, he immediately changed his aura. Luo Meng looked at his pile I was too lazy to learn the materials, Xiao Shulin looked at it, shook his head and left the kitchen.

"Looks like we'll eat ready-made ones in the future." Romon said to Xiao Shulin.

"Yeah." Xiao Shulin nodded, thinking the same way. He usually cooks a few dishes as a hobby. Compared with others, he seems too amateur.

I don't know how Hou Jun made a pot of watermelon seeds. He just cooked it for more than two hours.

After I made it, I tasted one first, and said, "Your family's melon seeds are good." Then I grabbed a handful, squatted in the yard and knocked, without treating myself as an outsider at all.

Luo Meng also tasted one, and it was really delicious. The melon seeds are plump and big in size, and when you chew them in your mouth, you can still chew the fragrance of the nuts. Fatty's seasoning is also good, neither thick nor light. Well, the melon seeds are processed by him in this way, and it tastes more delicious, but it is not like those packaged melon seeds outside, which are full of seasoning flavors when eaten.

This big pot of fried watermelon seeds, Luo Meng shoveled a big bowl and asked Luo Hongfeng and the others who were picking vegetables to take it to the village, and asked their old men and women to taste it too.

He also asked the old man in the yard to taste some, and put the rest away first. After dinner in the evening, he distributed it to everyone. He asked everyone to taste the first pot of melon seeds.

When there was nothing to do in the afternoon, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin stayed on a balcony in the courtyard and ate melon seeds, and the melon seed shells were thrown directly under the balcony. This thing is also degradable and can be returned to nature directly.

Xiao Shulin was willing to chew melon seeds by throwing them into his mouth, mainly because he thought the action of chewing melon seeds was too unmanly to watch, so he couldn't do that.So Luo Meng dragged out a small table from the house in a doggy manner, peeled and peeled a bunch of melon seeds, and then let Xiao Shulin eat them in one bite.

This girl doesn't need to eat melon seeds, just staring at their grove and drooling is happier than eating anything.

Not far from the balcony, under a big tree, Hou Jun, the cook who just arrived in Niuwangzhuang, sat there with a bundle of straw and knocked melon seeds, and he lay down after knocking, and fell asleep when he lay down. .

Dongnanxixi, Erlang and Yaya happened to be playing nearby, and the dog's nose was sharp. The melon seed incense in Hou Jun's hand had already attracted their attention. Seeing that someone fell asleep, they squatted down. Looking at it from afar, do you want to go there?this is a problem.

First, Yaya stood up from the ground and pretended to walk along the small path in front of Hou Jun. After a while, she walked over there again, turned her head to look at the fat man, but did not respond, and then this guy was not far away. squatted down.

This girl lay on the ground, looked left and right, then moved towards the fat man, moved a little closer, and then moved a little closer, and then pawed, and first picked up a few melon seeds scattered on the haystack, Rolled it into his mouth with his tongue, squinted his eyes and chewed.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…

"Woof!" A pup in the southeast and northwest barked at it, probably not agreeing with the husky's actions.

"Woooooooh..." Erha licked his mouth after eating a few melon seeds, then stretched out his paws to pick the melon seeds in the fat man's hand, which shocked the fat man.

"Well." The fat man babbled, turned over and continued to sleep.

"!" Erha hunched his neck and waited, and when the fat man stopped moving, he went to find his hand holding the melon seeds and continued to pull.

"Wow!" There was a bigger one in the southeast, northwest, and turned to look at Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin on the balcony.

"Come." Luo Meng waved at them, and the puppies immediately entered the courtyard happily wagging their tails, and Erlang followed behind.

Erha saw that they were all gone, looked up at Luo Meng on the balcony, and then at Hou Jun's fat hand holding the melon seeds. Pulling for a long time failed to get him out. After several considerations, the big dog finally decided to keep up with the large army.

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