The leisurely life of the reborn daddy

Seeing that the two were about to bury their heads in their studies again, Cao Shujie called them to go eat first.

"Don't work so hard. Once the lab is built and all the equipment is in place, there will be plenty of work for you to do." Cao Shujie held Fu Xianghui and Tong Jiayi.

I took them to the Fuxing Hotel in front for a meal.

While eating, the two of them were still telling Cao Shujie about their various wonderful ideas.

At this time, Cao Shujie would also express his ideas and discuss them with them.

Cao Shujie had to admit that he liked this atmosphere deep down.

He himself is also a research enthusiast, otherwise he would not have created something like 'nutrient solution'.

In addition, the first generation of nutrient solution was originally developed by Cao Shujie, and some of his brilliant ideas provided great reference value to Fu Xianghui and Tong Jiayi.

It is also much smoother to derive the second-generation nutrient solution from the simulated state.

However, the second-generation nutrient solution developed by Cao Shujie was only an incomplete version. Due to the lack of relevant equipment, he hardly touched that thing in recent years.

When the three of them were discussing together, every time an idea was proposed, he would get stuck and perform various simulations and calculations in his mind.

The three of them were so engrossed in discussing these things that the meal took a little too long.

The waiter knew that Boss Cao Shujie was entertaining guests, and no one came to disturb them during the meal.

The waiter waited until Cao Shujie and the other three left, and then went in to clear the plates. It was almost 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

Because he was drunk, Cao Shujie did not drive.

He called Song Baoming again and asked him to come to Fuxing Hotel to drive.

He separated from Fu Xianghui and Tong Jiayi and strolled to Qingshi Town Central Primary School alone.

Mengmeng came out of school and saw her father standing at the school gate. She ran towards him and threw her schoolbag to him. She turned around and looked for her car but couldn't find it. "Dad, where is your car? It's so hot. Come in and use the air conditioning."

The weather in June is particularly hot, especially around 6pm, it is also stuffy.

Cao Shujie told her, "The car is at the hotel entrance. Let's wait here. Your uncle Song will be here soon."

Mengmeng came close to her father and smelled the alcohol on him. She understood immediately and pointed at Cao Shujie with a sly look and said, "Dad, you are afraid to drive because you are drunk."

She seemed to have discovered Dad's little secret, and also seemed to be threatening Dad, saying, "If you don't give me benefits, I will expose you."

"Dad was talking to someone and didn't drink much." Cao Shujie didn't hide it from her. It wasn't a big deal.

As they were talking, Song Baoming drove over in his Range Rover.

After the car stopped beside him, Cao Shujie opened the back door first to let Mengmeng get in, and then he sat in the front seat: "Lao Song, take me back to Caojiazhuang."

Song Baoming nodded and didn't say much.

On the way, Mengmeng reminded her father that their school was about to have summer vacation.

Cao Shujie really didn't want to pay attention to her, but he also knew that if he didn't tell her again, this girl would nag all the way home: "Don't worry, Mengmeng, I've already told your mother, she will take you out to play after you have a holiday."

After that, Cao Shujie said to Song Baoming, "Old Song, when Mengmeng goes on summer vacation next month, you can drive the original GL8 and take my parents and the three of them out for a ride."

"Okay!" Song Baoming agreed without any hesitation.

After returning to Caojiazhuang, Mengmeng said to Cao Shujie and Song Baoming: "Goodbye, Dad, goodbye, Uncle Song."

After saying that, she pushed open the car door, jumped out, and ran home.

"This child doesn't look like a girl at all." Cao Shujie complained.

Song Baoming smiled but said nothing.

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"Oh!" When Daha saw Cao Shujie coming in, he stood up on his two hind legs and waved his two front legs in the air.

"Da Ha, what do you want to do?" Cao Shujie leaned over and touched its head.

Daha's dog head was twisting back and forth around Cao Shujie's neck, appearing particularly intimate.

Grandpa Cao Zhenghu was cooling off under the shade of a tree in the yard, fanning himself back and forth with a palm-leaf fan in his hand, looking particularly comfortable.

He watched his grandson and Daha playing and started laughing too.

After a while, Cao Zhenghu called him: "Shujie, come here."

After hearing this, Cao Shujie went to wash his hands first, then walked to his grandfather and rubbed his shoulders and arms. However, as soon as he put his hands on him, he felt that his grandfather's body was full of bones.

He was just skin and bones. This made Cao Shujie feel bad. His grandfather had lost a lot of weight.

"Grandpa, what's wrong?" Cao Shujie asked him.

Cao Zhenghu said: "Is the school about to start summer vacation?"

"Yes, they will be released next month. Mengmeng will be released earlier, as her school will release her on the 5th." Cao Shujie told him.

"It may be a little later for junior high school and high school, around the 15th," said Cao Shujie.

In fact, he wasn't quite sure.

Cao Zhenghu nodded and said to his grandson, "Shujie, then you call your brothers and tell them to come back for two days when Yichuan and Yixin have their summer vacation."

"Oh, okay, I'll tell them." Cao Shujie agreed.

This was just a matter of a WeChat video. Cao Shujie didn't say anything. He called his eldest cousin Cao Shubin on WeChat for a video chat in front of his grandfather. After his eldest cousin's profile picture appeared on the phone, Cao Shujie said to him, "Brother, grandpa misses you. I asked you to wait for Yichuan to have summer vacation and come back to stay for two days."

"Okay, I'll wait until Yichuan has summer vacation and then go back." Cao Shubin agreed.

The fruit trees he planted last year will not bear fruit until next year at the earliest, so he is not busy during this period.

Besides, my son is going to take the college entrance examination next year. He will be very busy when he enters the senior year next semester, and I will have even fewer opportunities to go back then.

Cao Shujie let his eldest cousin talk to his grandfather for a while before sending a video to his second cousin Cao Shuxin and saying the same thing.

Second brother Cao Shuxin also agreed readily.

"Grandpa, we will definitely go back when Yi Xin has vacation." Cao Shuxin said to his grandfather.

Looking at his grandfather's thin face, Cao Shuxin felt unhappy.

Besides, he also wanted to go back to see his old father Cao Jianlin.

We got together during the Chinese New Year, but after just a few months, I suddenly realized that these older generations have aged a lot.

After hanging up the video chat with his cousin, Cao Shujie didn't rush into the house. He chatted with his grandfather outside for a while and asked his grandfather if he wanted to go out and play together next month.

"Shujie, with my body like this, I'll fall apart after running a few steps." Cao Zhenghu said.

He knew that he was already 89 years old this year, so he decided not to cause trouble for the children.

When Cao Shujie heard his grandfather's refusal, he felt a little disappointed, but he didn't say much.

Because of his health, grandpa hasn't gone out to play with them much in the past two years.

I usually hang around at home, and occasionally go out to chat with old friends. But as the elderly people in the village have passed away in the past two years, there are fewer and fewer old friends who can talk to my grandfather.

Until now, grandpa hardly goes out.

This situation is not good, but Cao Shujie has no solution at the moment.

When Grandpa was not in good health before, he could still take Grandpa to seek medical treatment, and took Grandpa to see Dr. Lu, but even Dr. Lu passed away...

To be disrespectful, Grandpa Cao Zhenghu is actually living longer now than Cao Shujie remembered in his previous life.

Cao Shujie didn't understand whether this could be considered as helping his grandfather change his fate in disguise, but due to his limited ability, Cao Shujie wanted his grandfather to live to be over 100 years old, but it was difficult to do in practice.

Wang Yuelan came in from outside holding her grandson's hand. Seeing her son and father-in-law chatting in the yard, Wang Yuelan greeted them.

When Cao Yirui saw his father, he broke free from his grandmother's hand, ran towards his father, and yelled for Cao Shujie to hug him.

"Ruirui, you weigh more than 30 kilograms, I can't hold you." Cao Shujie refused.

But the little guy disagreed and stretched out his arms, wanting his father to hold him.

"You are such a great ancestor." Cao Shujie bent down and picked up his son. His arms obviously dropped down and he could indeed feel that his son had gained weight.

Cao Zhenghu looked at the little guy and he also laughed happily.

With four generations living under one roof and a little grandson and a little granddaughter around him, Cao Zhenghu feels that his life has been worthwhile.

Wang Yuelan put her grandson down and went to the kitchen to finish cooking.

Cao Shujie watched his son outside and played with him to prevent him from going into the house and disturbing his sister while she was doing her homework.

When I chat with my grandfather again, I feel that time passes very quickly.

His wife came back on an electric bike at dusk.

Seeing the old, middle-aged and young people in the yard, she called out "Grandpa" and called her son over.

"Shujie, Mr. Xu from Quancheng will come to transport cattle in a couple of days. Did I tell you about it?" Cheng Xiaolin asked her husband.

Cao Shujie nodded: "I told you, we'll just have to weigh them when the time comes, and leave 200 heads for the Farmhouse Restaurant and Xinjiang Hotel."

"Okay, I'll tell them and reserve it in advance." Cheng Xiaolin nodded.

From the very beginning, a portion of their cattle would be reserved for the farm restaurant and Xinjiang Hotel.

"Did you tell me how much it cost this time?" Cheng Xiaolin didn't know about this.

When Cheng Xiaolin heard her husband say that it would still be sold at 18.5 yuan, she didn't ask any more questions.

In fact, the normal market price of ordinary beef cattle has dropped to around 12 yuan, so the price they sell is still relatively strong.

Few people in this area know the selling price of their beef cattle.

Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin are honest and kind-hearted people, but that doesn't mean they are stupid.

It’s like they have diversified their investments, and the only one who truly knows about all the investments is Cao Shujie himself.

Even his wife only knew part of it and didn't know the details.

Cao Shujie wanted to explain it to his wife in detail, but Cheng Xiaolin thought it was too troublesome and retorted with just one sentence.

When Wang Yuelan called them to have dinner, Cao Shujie helped his grandfather into the house.

But grandpa doesn’t eat much at night, only two eggs.

When resting at night, Cheng Xiaolin told Cao Shujie that something was not right with her grandfather.

Cao Shujie also understands this, but he has never admitted it directly.

On this point, Cao Shujie is not as free and easy as his grandfather, and he can take it easy.

He also told his wife: "Grandpa just asked me to call my eldest brother and second brother and ask them to wait for Yixin and Yichuan to come back for summer vacation and get together."

After finishing speaking, Cao Shujie was silent for a while.

Cheng Xiaolin was not in a good mood either.

It’s not that they think too badly, but there are some things they know clearly.

"Shujie, you have tried your best." Cheng Xiaolin advised him.

Cao Shujie lay down slowly.

After seeing this, Cheng Xiaolin wanted to say something but couldn't. In the end, she hugged her husband from behind and fell asleep with her back against his.

That night Cao Shujie didn't even have a dream and slept till dawn.

The next morning when he took Mengmeng to Qingshi Town, Cao Shujie held a meeting with all the company's managers and told them that he would spend less time in the company in the future due to some personal matters.

No one cared about what the boss said.

They are used to the boss being away from the company often.

But they all understood that just because the boss wasn't coming didn't mean they could have their way.

When a company-wide meeting was held after the Spring Festival this year, Cao Shujie had already punished a group of people and even fired several managers. The department managers present did not think they could rest easy.

On the contrary, in order to make themselves feel more secure here, every department manager has tried his best and dared not make any mistakes.

Not only that, they even think about performing better when the boss is not around.

After the meeting, Cao Shujie held separate meetings with Fu Xianghui and Tong Jiayi to discuss the issue of nutrient solution with them.

Cao Shujie also told Fu Xianghui to keep an eye on the progress of the laboratory's construction.

This is the part that Fu Xianghui specifically mentioned to Cao Shujie when they were chatting and asked him to be responsible for it.

"The kiwis in the orchard will be ripe in a while. You can pick some and see how they taste," Cao Shujie said to the two of them.

Fu Xianghui and Tong Jiayi nodded repeatedly.

Even Tong Jiayi already knew that the fruit trees in Cao Shujie's orchard had used the first generation of nutrient solution. They really wanted to experience for themselves the difference between the fruits that had used the nutrient solution and those that had not.

Tong Jiayi even planned to spend half of his time every day to keep an eye on Cao Shujie's orchard and observe the growth of the fruit trees up close.

From the most intuitive perspective, the fruit trees in Cao Shujie's orchard are growing stronger, and the fruit ripening cycle is indeed shorter than that of normal fruit trees.

Other kiwifruits will not mature until mid-August, but the fruits on Cao Shujie's side are already the size of eggs. This is a huge difference, and people who know the business can tell there is a problem at a glance.

After arranging the work at hand, Cao Shujie would accompany Mengmeng to eat in the factory at noon every day. After she finished her lunch break, he would send her back to school and then go home directly.

The change in Cao Shujie's behavior was so obvious that even Cao Jianguo, who was setting up a stall at the door, noticed something unusual and asked his son if anything was wrong.

But Cao Shujie told him that nothing happened and asked him to just be at ease.

"King, if you have anything on your mind, just tell me. Don't keep it to yourself," Cao Jianguo said about his son.

"Okay!" Cao Shujie agreed, but still didn't say anything. (End of this chapter)