silent farm

Chapter 152 Not Enough
The last chapter had fewer words, but the water had already been poured, so I had to break the chapter!There are three more chapters to follow, one chapter will be updated immediately, and the other two chapters will be updated after [-] pm.

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Returning to Brazil from Huaxia, Li Sheng also took the farm's helicopter back to the farm after two connecting flights.It was already past nine o'clock in the evening when he returned to the villa.

As soon as he entered the door, Tia, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV with her knees hugged, jumped off the sofa and ran over barefoot when she saw him.She stopped about one meter in front of him, raised her head and said cheerfully, "Are you back? Are you hungry. I'll cook for you."

Before Li Sheng could speak, she turned around and ran into the kitchen.

Li Sheng watched her disappear into the kitchen, and the three grown servals also rushed in.He pursed his lips, sat silently on the sofa, pretended to be pudding, turned his head to look at him, and continued to sleep.

Tia did go to cook, but it was fried rice with eggs.

Li Sheng looked at the fried rice that had already been made, and asked, "Did you cook the rice by yourself these days?"

Tia was sitting opposite him waiting for him to eat. Hearing his question, she shook her head: "If you are in class, you will have lunch in the cafeteria."

Li Sheng took a look at her scallion-like little hands, there were no knife wounds on them, and then he lowered his eyes and prepared to concentrate on eating.

He just put the fried rice into his mouth, and Tia asked nervously, "Is it delicious?"

"Generally, it's much worse than what I do." Li Sheng said while chewing, "I'll do it in the future."

"Oh!" Tia seemed to be listless, and stopped talking.

Li Sheng ate a big plate of fried rice for half an hour.Seeing this, Tia was even more disappointed.Li Sheng usually eats the same amount of rice and more dishes, and it only takes 10 minutes at most to finish eating.Now that it took twice as long, she felt that what she did was not to his liking, so she ate so slowly.

What she didn't know was that Li Sheng hadn't had anyone cook for him for more than two years after his mother passed away, so he was just a little absent-minded.After he finished eating, he patted his stomach lightly and said, "I'm full."

Tia's spirit returned immediately. Although the cooking was not delicious, it didn't make him hungry.She stood up and reached for it.

Li Sheng held her slender wrist and said, "I'll do it myself."

Tia nonchalantly withdrew her hand.Li Sheng took the plate and went to the kitchen.Tia looked at his back and sat on the sofa in frustration, hugging her knees and resting her chin on them.This posture was maintained until Li Sheng washed the dishes and came out.

Seeing her listless, Li Sheng frowned slightly, but immediately smiled and said, "What's wrong? Are you unhappy today?"

Tia raised her spirits and said, "No, I was just wondering, is it difficult to learn Chinese?"

Li Sheng was taken aback, and asked, "Why did you think of learning Chinese?"

Tia pouted, but immediately smiled and said: "I heard that Chinese is very interesting. Thousands of words can express all meanings. There are also idioms, and each idiom needs a long paragraph to express clearly in other languages. , but Chinese only needs four characters. There are also folk jokes and allegorical sayings evolved from customs."

If she hadn't said it, Li Sheng wouldn't have known that Chinese is so interesting.But since she wanted to learn, Li Sheng would not object.However, he felt that Tia was very busy now, and if she was studying all day like before, he was worried that her body would not be able to bear it.He smiled and said, "If you want to learn, I can ask a teacher to teach you. If you don't like self-study, I can buy some basic tutorials for you."

"Then can you teach me?"

Li Sheng smiled and said, "Of course." If it is teaching foreigners to learn Chinese, any Chinese who can look up a dictionary can do it.The pronunciation of Chinese characters is standardized, which is somewhat different from that used in many countries such as English.With a dictionary in hand, the meaning of Chinese characters can be understood at a glance.

And the grammar is not as complicated as English.What is the continuous tense, what is the past tense, and what is the future tense, all kinds of changes seem very old-fashioned.

English has certainly been used for a shorter period of time than Chinese, but it is conservatively estimated that English has 17 words, not including names of places and people.It is said that there are [-] in preparation or abandoned, but there are still [-] still in use.There is also a little exaggeration, and it is said that there are dictionaries that have collected millions of English words.Li Sheng couldn't figure it out. With so many words, is there really someone who can memorize them all?
It is conservative statistics that there are only [-] words, but only [-] are needed to communicate normally. What is more, [-] commonly used words in the United States can communicate normally.In other words, among the [-] words they created, at least [-] words are not used by ordinary people.And these words may be added every day, and some will disappear every day.

And Chinese characters are the most unique and complicated writing in the world. If he wants to master it, Li Sheng has no choice.He has studied in school for 16 years, and he dare not say that he has learned Chinese.

So he still added a sentence: "If you want to learn well and learn quickly, you'd better hire a professional teacher to teach you."

Tia shook her head and said, "I just need to be able to speak and write. Usually I can learn by myself, and it won't waste your time. I will only ask you if I don't understand."

She said so, what else could Li Sheng refuse?He can only nod.

Seeing him nodding, Tia gave him a gorgeous smile, and then asked aggressively: "The day after tomorrow is weekend rest, can I bring Dallalo to play at home?"

Dallalo is her younger brother, now a year and a half old, toddling and babbling.But that little guy is just not very good at Li Sheng. Every time he went to the new camp in Taklolo, he would cry as soon as he hugged the baby.This made him a little helpless.But he wouldn't bother with a child who didn't understand anything.

And he plans to go out the day after tomorrow, and it would be boring to leave Tia alone at home: "You can bring him to play whenever you want. By the way, I'm going to Manaus this weekend. Do you have anything you want to buy?"

"You want to go out?" Tia blinked and said. "Can I go with you?"

Li Sheng was a little speechless: "Don't you want to play with your brother?"

"I... I often play with him at noon."

Li Sheng thought she was going to the Jiluoluo Tribe during the lunch break. After all, it was not far from the school, and it took more than ten minutes to get there by an all-terrain vehicle.How did he know that these days Tia would take her brother back to the villa to live with her at night.I just knew that he was coming back today, so I didn't bring it back because I was afraid that he would be unhappy.

Li Sheng didn't go out to do any important things, he just went to buy some things.If he went by himself, he might be back in two hours.What's the point of her going?
But all along, Tia has never had the opportunity to contact the outside world, and he can understand if she wants to go.And he also thought it would be good for Tia.So he still agreed: "Then let's go together. Is your brother going too?"

"Can we go alone!" Tia shook her head, looking at him and said.

Li Sheng didn't think deeply about it. It would really be inconvenient to bring a child with him: "Then it's up to you. I'll go up and take a shower first."

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In the morning of the next day, Li Sheng came to the South District and found several main management personnel to learn about the situation of the farm during this period.Both production and management of the farm have entered the track, and many things have been done step by step, and there are no special things.

It was Zhang Feng who talked about recruiting new workers.Li Sheng returned to China to recruit, and he also recruited in Brazil.Now more than 40 suitable workers have been recruited, including Brazilians and Chinese workers.But the point he told Li Sheng was not this: "The transportation team also needs to increase its manpower now. The number of the fleet has increased. Although there are enough drivers, there are not enough reserve drivers. Once the fleet needs to operate continuously, some drivers may need to drive for a day. A car of more than twelve hours."

Driving for a long time is very dangerous for the driver.Therefore, Li Sheng stipulated that after driving for four hours in a row, the driver must rest for one hour, and he also forced a driver to work no more than twelve hours a day.Therefore, in the fleet on the farm, the drivers probably work in two or more shifts.

Li Sheng thought about it for a while. The people he recruited in China this time don't know when they will arrive at the farm.I think maybe we can recruit some more people here."How many people do you need?" he asked.

"Forty more are needed." Zhang Feng thought for a while and said. "I think it's more difficult to hire experienced drivers. They usually have families and it's difficult to stay on the farm for a long time. I think we can hire some experienced drivers and some newbies. The salary of the newbies and Relatively few. And you can hire some young Indians from the surrounding area.”

The Indians in the Amazon Basin are generally not highly educated, but as long as they are smart, the level of education will not have much impact on learning to drive.

The proportion of Indians in the total population of Brazil is very small, but in the Amazon plain, the proportion of Indian descendants is not small.They mainly live on the banks of the Amazon Basin, forming small-scale settlements.There are also many people who have entered the city and lived a marginalized life.

And these Indians are more able to withstand the pressure of life. Li Sheng hired them, at least not worried that they would not be able to accept the pressure of overtime and continuous work like the Brazilians in big cities.At the same time, Silent Farm can also gain the favor of Indian descendants.Perhaps at some point, such goodwill will bring no small benefit to the farm.

So Li Sheng agreed with his suggestion: "Then do as you want." He also told the other party about his domestic arrangements, mainly about how many people he has recruited in the country and how many more people he plans to recruit .

When Zhang Feng heard Li Sheng say that he had recruited more than 70 unmarried female workers from domestic labor recruitment agencies, he also laughed.He knew Li Sheng's thoughts, and he very much agreed with this idea.It can also be seen from this that Li Sheng attaches great importance to these Chinese workers.

Many of the Chinese workers on the farm have not yet established a family. Once they return to their hometown to get married, half of them may not come to work again.But if both husband and wife work on the farm, they will not easily give up the high-paying job on the farm.This shows that Li Sheng hopes to keep the Chinese laborers on the farm.That is undoubtedly a clear expression of a kind of attention.

Of course, those female workers may not only choose Chinese workers on the farm, maybe they will return to China to get married after they earn money.Maybe start a family with workers from other countries.But after all, Huagong is close to the water.The boss gave the opportunity, but if he couldn't grasp it, he could only say that he was incompetent.

(End of this chapter)