Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 426 Thoughts
The voice just fell.

Everyone rushed to reach out to their favorite barbecue.

Brother Dalang had quick eyes and quick hands, and he picked up a roast rabbit in advance. The fat and tender meat was roasted until it was brown and crispy. The fragrant juice was wrapped around it, giving off a little oily shine, and the tangy fragrance hit his nostrils.

Take a bite.

So hot! ! !

Brother Dalang breathed out because it was so hot, but he couldn't bear to spit out the rabbit meat in his mouth.

This roasted rabbit is so delicious, the meat is tender and juicy, and the flavor of spices is mixed, it is simply synonymous with deliciousness.

Regardless of burning his mouth, he took several more bites, swallowed it, and gave Li Hongbing a thumbs up with satisfaction.

"Hmm! It smells so good."

"It would be a pity if you don't become a cook!"

Others wolfed down the food to agree with Brother Dalang's praise.

"Eat slowly and remember to drink some white wine. Rabbit meat is cold in nature." Li Hongbing took two roast rabbits off the charcoal fire and wrapped them in grass.

"I'm going to deliver food to Xing'er."

Back to the old house.

"Myolie, I'm back, let's see what delicious food I can bring you."

Shan Xing was still lying on the bed when she heard Brother Hongbing shouting loudly in the yard and buried his head in the quilt angrily.

bad guy!

so bad!
There is no such thing as tormenting people.

It was so bad that people couldn't get off the ground for a long time, and their bones ached all over, as if they were falling apart.

A moment passed.

Li Hongbing walked into the bedroom and saw Shan Xing covering himself from head to toe and opening a roast rabbit wrapped in grass.

Suddenly the aroma of barbecue filled the whole room.

After tearing off a rabbit leg, Li Hongbing smacked his lips, made a eating sound, and said deliberately.

"Hey, this rabbit meat is so fragrant and delicious."

Shan Xing, who was hiding under the quilt, was so angry that his teeth were itching. He had been tossing for so long yesterday and had eaten a bowl of grain grits in the morning. He would be hungry by now.

Bad guys don't coax people either.

No wonder Sister-in-law Yuzhi said that men become bad as soon as they get married.

"Myolie, if you really don't want to eat it, then I'll eat it all."

Hearing the irritating words spoken by Brother Hongbing outside the quilt, Shan Xing pushed the quilt away fiercely, and what he saw was Brother Hongbing's evil smile, with the rabbit leg in his hand not moving at all.

Suddenly, Shan Xing lay on the bed, looking aggrieved, with tears welling up in his eyes.

Li Hongbing knew the joke was too big and apologized quickly.

"Myolie, I was wrong, don't cry."

Sudden.

Shan Xing's expression that was about to cry suddenly changed into a triumphant expression that was half-smiling.

"Mom is right, you are afraid of soft knives, so I have to use soft knives to deal with you."

I! !

Li Hongbing was speechless.

Why is my mother's elbow turned outward? Isn't she her biological child?

Shan Xing showed a sly smile like a little woman and stretched out her hands.

"Let's see if you dare to torment me again. Feed me. I'm so hungry."

Got it!
"The Queen Mother, please have a meal."

Li Hongbing took Shan Xing into his arms, tore the rabbit meat into thin shreds, and asked while feeding him.

"What tricks did mom teach you? Tell me."

Shan Xing ate the rabbit meat and shook his head.

"If you don't tell me, Mom won't let me tell you. If I tell you, it won't work."

"Don't tell me." Li Hongbing smiled evilly and stretched out his torture hand under the quilt.

After laughing and joking for a while, two roast rabbits entered their stomachs. Li Hongbing thoughtfully gave Shan Xing a full-body massage. The symptoms of muscle soreness were relieved a lot, and he could at least get out of bed and move around.

After settling down at home, Li Hongbing said something to Shan Xing and returned to the meadow without stopping.

A group of gentlemen, regardless of whether they were from the city or from the countryside, gathered around the bonfire, eating meat, drinking heavily, talking and laughing loudly, it was so lively.

"Brother, your new wife has been served well. Tsk tsk, you have to go back and serve her again this noon. Can your body bear it?"

Brother Da Lang was holding the bowl, his face was as hot as the red coals in the fire, and he was teasing with drunken eyes. The other dandy young men also had drunken faces and made bursts of ridicule.

"Nonsense, I'm nicknamed Dark Horse Silver Spear Zhao Zilong, seven in and seven out is just like playing." Li Hongbing said arrogantly, turning to look at Hongqi, "How much did these cowards drink?"

Hong Qi smiled wryly and held out three fingers, "Three jars of rice cakes are baked, and I can't even try to persuade them. They said this wine is just like chicken excrement. Do people in the city drink chicken excrement wine?"

Damn chicken shit!!
It's whiskey!
Li Hongbing thought about it and looked at the dandy young men who were staggering around and about to collapse.

"Forget it, ignore them. When they fall down, throw them into the haystack. It's not cold now, so the cold won't hurt anyone."

The villagers laughed loudly. This is how people in the mountains are drunk. They fall asleep wherever they fall. After a nap, they wake up and go home.

If it snows, that's all. In the early years, drunkards often froze to death on the roadside. Later, more and more people died. After drinking, the host would force the guest to stay at home for the night, or else he would send him home himself. .

After lunch, everyone would brag a bit and then get back to work.

Carloads of haystacks were pulled to the livestock shed. In order to prevent the heavy snowfall in winter from blowing to the livestock, Li Hongbing deliberately surrounded the haystacks around the livestock shed to form a haystack wall.

Fu Sheng looked at the haystacks more than three meters high.

"Uncle Red Soldier, you must have prepared enough fodder. Your livestock shed only has two to three hundred animals in total, so you cannot store so much fodder."

"It's not much. I bought another batch of livestock and will deliver them in two days. The mountains will be closed when it snows, so prepare them in advance." Li Hongbing remembered that the pigs and sheep he bought were still at the third brother Fang's place.

When it comes to who can raise livestock well in the village, Fusheng ranks first. If it weren't for Li Hongbing's original strength, his breeding level would not even be as good as Fusheng's.

Especially after the village launched tourism, Fusheng built several new pig pens and raised more than 40 pigs and more than a dozen sheep.

"Just feeding grass is not enough. Animals need to be fed with feed to grow meat. I will go to the town to buy winter feed in a few days. If you want to stop by, I will bring some feed back for you."

Li Hongbing waved his hand, "No, I don't feed the animals, they just eat grass."

eat grass!

Cattle and sheep eat grass normally.

It is impossible for pigs to eat grass. I have lived half my life and raised pigs for half my life, and I have never seen a pig that only eats grass.

The grass has high water content and low nutrition. The pigs grow slowly, take a long time to be slaughtered, and the meat quality is not good.

Fu Sheng shook his head in disbelief.

Looking at the plump black pigs running around in the grass on the meadow, they looked like they were just eating grass. I had an idea in my mind, but it was stuck in my throat and I was too embarrassed to ask.After all, pig farmers have their own unique skills.

It's not easy to talk to outsiders.

Even I have a recipe that can make pigs gain fat faster and make them less sick.

When Mr. Li was still alive, he had been treating illnesses and treating people for decades, so he must have had a recipe for raising pigs.

This kind of prescription is passed down to men but not to women, and is passed on to the inside but not to the outside world. It is best for outsiders not to inquire about it.

Turning around, Fu Sheng continued to pull the haystack.

Li Hongbing shook his head helplessly. To be honest, no one believed it. The animals in his barn were indeed not fed with feed and only ate grass.

thought here.

He took out his mobile phone and called Brother Fang and asked him to deliver the pigs and sheep he ordered last time to the village. Looking at the haystacks like the Great Wall, he added another two hundred adult sheep.

After all, when the mountains are closed by heavy snow, the B&B cannot go out to purchase ingredients, so this batch of sheep can also respond to emergencies.

When it comes to snow-capped mountains, we have to stock up on winter vegetables.

Every year in mid-October, Caogou Village starts to store winter vegetables, pickle sauerkraut, and make bacon. According to the weather in previous years, the first snow will fall in the mountainous area by the end of October. If the road is blocked by heavy snow, the mountain will be closed until the next year.

If the family is poorer, they pick up more jars of sauerkraut to survive the winter. Even the vegetables grown in the vegetable garden cannot withstand the winter weather of more than ten degrees below zero.

When Li Hongbing was a child, he had never seen frozen vegetables in the vegetable field. The outer leaves of the vegetables were frozen hard and brittle, but when brought indoors and heated up, they became soft and floppy, and the juice of the leaves flowed all over the ground.

Grandma will carefully peel off the cabbage layer by layer, leaving the edible part, but the taste will be much worse, just as unpalatable as Lao Caibangzi.

If the conditions at home are good, you can cook meats such as bacon, fish, chicken, and duck, and store winter vegetables, usually radish, potatoes, Chinese cabbage, and sweet potatoes, which are long-lasting, but they must be placed in the cellar.

Thinking of driving to and from villages and towns, Li Hongbing's foot ached when he stepped on the brake.

Suddenly, a light flashed.

"If you have money, why go to the town to buy winter vegetables? Why don't you let them come to the village to sell them? Just treat it as the first big fair in Caogou Village and hold a job fair in the village."

As soon as I thought of it, I called the village committee and asked Chun Sheng to discuss it with Fang Wanda and contact the village chiefs of each village. As for the big collection, I asked Fang San, a local snake, to help summon local businesses.

After the phone call was made, several carts of haystacks happened to be pulled to the barn to tell the villagers about the big market held in the village.

Everyone in the village was so happy that they couldn't help but smile.

If the village can also hold a big market.

Then there will be no need to travel hundreds of miles back and forth to buy household items in the town.

And holding a large market is also a symbol of status and financial resources. For so many years, only Songbai Town has been able to open a large market, and other villages have not dared to think about it. If the large market is completed, apart from Songbai Town, Caogou Village will be the first in the forest area. village.

So the villagers spoke one after another and asked Li Hongbing to take care of the gathering.

"Uncle Hongbing, hurry up and go to the village committee to do your work. We'll be here as long as we're here. We promise you won't have any errands."

"That's right, our village can hold a big fair, and our ancestors can laugh while underground."

"Now that we have money, we should hold a big fair."

Li Hongbing shook his head and laughed, feeling swollen. Thinking that half a year ago they were farmers who relied on the weather, but now they are all hardened.

"Okay, you go ahead and go to the cafeteria. I'll ask Master Su to cook a few tables and we'll get them all."

After that, he left under the welcome of all the villagers.

Come to the village committee.

Fang Wanda and Chunsheng were arguing with each other, and Jianjun was on the side trying to stop the fight.

"What's going on? We can't talk properly if we have something to say. Why are we arguing?" Li Hongbing walked into the office.

Seeing the village chief coming, Chunsheng hurriedly stepped forward and said aggrievedly, "Village Chief, Director Fang said that the opening of the reservation channel will be postponed. When the time for the mass gathering is determined, 1000 more reservation places will be added and publicized online."

"Village Chief, there were too many people last time, and the tourists almost tore down the village."

Li Hongbing looked at Fang Wanda and asked for an explanation.

Fang Wanda took out a piece of paper with a calm expression, "Mr. Li, this is my temporary plan."

"According to the current situation of Caogou Village, it can fully accommodate 4000 tourists, and tourists do not enter at one time."

"By opening a large fair, we can not only exchange goods and materials with people through the flow of people and fireworks, but also allow tourists to experience a lot of traditional culture."

"Moreover, increasing the number of tourists will not only promote consumption, but also expand the tourism market of Caogou Village and develop a leisure channel."

Li Hongbing took over the plan, saw the dense documents on it, and secretly admired that it was indeed a professional doing professional things.

With a simple phone call, Fang Wanda can make a plan and even make detailed plans for the venue.

"Jianjun, what do you think?" Li Hongbing looked at Jianjun.

Jianjun glanced at Chunsheng and said, "I think Director Fang is right. We should increase the number of places and publicize the event to the outside world."

"Jianjun, why are you turning your elbows outward? You are still not from Caogou Village, dog." Chunsheng was immediately angry and accused him uncontrollably.

"What are you talking about!" Li Hongbing glared at Chunsheng and blocked his curse words.

When Chun Sheng saw Li Hongbing delivering the goods, his eyes looked like he was about to eat someone, he shrank his neck in fear.

Li Hongbing said with a rare serious expression.

"I don't know what you are thinking. Isn't it because you are afraid that by holding a big fair, people from other villages will take away all the tourists' money? You are thinking like a small farmer. Why can't people from other villages make money?"

"Our village only has such a small area. It's fine for one, two, and three years. What happens if the tourists get tired of it after a long time? Only when everyone makes money can we work together to make Caogou Village better and make the village more lively." Now, when money flows, everyone can make money."

"This is called revitalizing resources, giving full play to the advantages of rural resources, activating the village collective economy, and strengthening rural characteristic industries. This is the key to rural revitalization. Do you understand?"

Chun Sheng blinked his eyes and knew without thinking that he didn't understand at all. Li Hongbing sighed secretly. After all, Chun Sheng had followed Uncle Huaizhong for so many years, and his thoughts had become solidified, making it difficult to change.

"Jianjun, do you understand?"

Jianjun frowned, thought for a moment, shook his head first, and then nodded.

"Brother, understand a little, but not much."

Li Hongbing was very pleased. As long as he could understand a little bit, he would understand a little bit today and a little bit tomorrow. If he accumulated it bit by bit, he would understand everything.

"Wanda and Jianjun are responsible for this matter. Chunsheng, you will be responsible for the sanitation of the village and ask the villagers not to litter. When I first came to the village committee, I saw a lot of vegetable leaves in the alley. How many times have I told you not to litter in the alley? When it comes to choosing dishes, it’s all a matter of turning a deaf ear.”

Originally, the village chief was absent and he had to take care of everything in the village, but now he was delegated to manage health. I couldn't stand the gap. What would the villagers think?

"Village Chief, I went to patrol the streets."

Chunsheng agreed with disappointment, picked up the broom, and walked out of the village committee like a deflated balloon, which he had worked hard for half his life.

Looking at the bleak back, Fang Wanda couldn't bear it. She came to live in the village by herself. It was Chun Sheng who enthusiastically arranged the arrangements. Even the bedding was brought from home.

Chunsheng must have felt uncomfortable when he was demoted from deputy village chief to in charge of health.

"Mr. Li, are you speaking too harshly?"

Li Hongbing shook his head.

"The drums can't be beaten, and the words can't be spoken clearly. Now the development of the village depends on me. If you still want to be like before, I support you from the front and they hold back, then I'm going to go home and hug you." It’s uncomfortable for my mother-in-law.”

"That's it. You guys arrange the time as soon as possible. If you can't figure it out, tell me and I'll take care of them. I haven't talked to them for a few days and my skin is itching again!"

(End of this chapter)