Chapter 253: First Scale (Two in One)

Niu Mengjun suspected that she had heard it wrong. In her impression, Ju Hongxian and the Dai family were incompatible.

Just three months ago, they were still fighting fiercely in front of the entrance of Dongfang Convenience Store.

Moreover, Wang Tu Douzi is in charge of the tractor in the village and can earn about 2,000 yuan a year. In the entire Zhazi Forest Farm, this income has already exceeded that of most of the forest farm employees.

Although I hear Ju Hongxian complaining from time to time, about having a fight with Wang Tu Douzi over something, the family is generally peaceful and stable. How can they seem to be short of money?

“Hongxian, are you feeling unwell?” Cao Yanying reached out and touched the other person’s forehead. She felt that it was about the same temperature as her own head, and she couldn’t help but be confused.

Ju Hongxian pushed the old sisters’ hands away, frowned, and sighed unwillingly.
“Hey, it’s all because my Wang Tu Douzi is not doing well enough!
Tell me, both of you, how good our life was in the village in the past!
We are not afraid of meeting Qi Shunli.

But ever since the Dai family rose to prominence, our family’s voice in the village has become less and less powerful!”

“Hong Xian’er, you are being a bit mean to yourself. Mrs. Jiang from the Dai family doesn’t usually hang out in the village. She stays at home watching TV and taking care of her granddaughter every day. Aren’t you the one who interacts with the sisters the most in the village~”

“That’s what I said~” Ju Hongxian supported her face with her left hand, her face full of worry, “But her brother and son are too cruel. I heard that Jiang Weiqun’s brother is now the director of the forest farm.

Dai Song is also in the spotlight. It seems that he will go to work in the forest farm after the New Year. Now, the former villager not only makes money, but has also transformed himself into a formal employee of the forest farm.

Although my husband, Wang, has more employees than the forest farm every year, he is not as stable as them!

They have a stable job provided by the government, but we are living from hand to mouth, and it costs a lot of money to maintain a tractor every year.
Besides…if one day they let Qi Shunli take back the tractor, our family would suddenly lose the way to make money!”

Ju Hongxian didn’t treat the two sisters as outsiders at all, and every word she said hit the real pain point.

“Back then, I was a well-known girl in the village… No, I was one of the most beautiful girls in Tuanjie Village. I could farm and dance the Yangko.

Alas, but now the situation is stronger than us. We live in Tuanjietun and have to consider the future.

If they gain power and want to retaliate against us, then I will definitely have to do everything I just mentioned.

So, I thought I would take this opportunity to help others with some work.

I’m not like other old women who hope that she can set up a breeding farm in the future and provide me with a livelihood.

We are just expressing our feelings…”

When Ju Hongxian said this, she couldn’t find the right words to express what she was thinking. She was so anxious that she kept gesturing with her hands in front of her chest.

Niu Mengjun, who was standing by, saw this and quickly added, “Express goodwill!”

“Yes, yes!” Ju Hongxian slapped the table, “Mengjun, Yingza, what do you say? Let’s go to Old Dai’s house and talk about it later.”

Niu Mengjun and Cao Yanying are both extraordinary people, as they can tolerate Ju Hongxian’s temperament and maintain a good relationship with her for many years.

Besides, since Ju Hongxian had said so, the two of them naturally stopped being shy. The three of them hit it off immediately and got off the kang, holding each other and walked towards Dai Song’s house.

In Dai Song’s yard, villagers were shoulder to shoulder.

They all heard that the Dai family was going to enclose the vacant land in the south of the village to build a breeding farm, so they came forward and offered to help.

The first people to arrive were those relatives who were quite familiar with the Dai family and would visit them from time to time.

These people came one by one, and when they arrived at the Dai family, they were brief and to the point, saying that it was time to start work, and they just needed to let them know and asked them to keep the things.

After that, Jiang Weiqun happily agreed, and both sides were very happy.

But as time went on, the Dai family realized something was wrong;
Why are there more and more people coming?!
The land in the south of the village is only five acres, not five hundred acres. Why did all the people in the village come over and say they wanted to help his family with the work?

It would be fine if there were just a lot of people, but the key point was that many villagers who didn’t have good relationships or reputations also mixed in with the villagers. They came together and said they wanted to help with the work, and they specifically talked to Nan Chunwan and Dai Xiaoqian, who were easy to talk to.

Fortunately, Tang Liping and Jiang Weiqun discovered the situation in time. They found that the two were surrounded by a group of old women and could not escape, so they immediately rushed over to help the two women out.

Therefore, Jiang Weiqin directly announced that she had enough manpower and thanked the villagers for their enthusiasm. If there was work in the future, everyone could come if they were willing to help, but now they should leave her yard immediately and stop making noise, which would delay her family’s cooking…

These words just happened to fall into the ears of the three sisters Ju Hongxian who arrived late. The three of them looked at each other and blinked their eyes.

“It’s over. We missed the chance. This has nothing to do with us anymore!”

“It’s too perfunctory to say there will be work next time!
There is no next time. The people who will do the work next time will definitely be the ones doing it this time. There is no point in having people who haven’t had their turn yet!”

The two of them were about to go back with glaring eyes, but they saw Ju Hongxian still standing there, standing on tiptoe to look into the house.

“Hongxian, let’s go back. Did you hear Jiang Weiqin yelling in the yard just now?”

“Wait a minute!” Ju Hongxian pushed the two sisters’ hands aside, “Look, who are these people coming out? The Qian family, the Wang family, the Su family… Let’s not talk about Jiang Weiqin. If it were you, would you dare to work on your own land? To put it nicely, you are here to help. To put it bluntly, you are just here to eat and drink for free!”

In the Northeast, when someone has a big job to do, it is customary for folks to come over to help and provide meals.

After Ju Hongxian said this, Niu Mengjun and Cao Yanying felt their heads buzzing. They thought to themselves, don’t talk about others, you are the same in their eyes.

But Ju Hongxian didn’t care about the expressions of the two sisters at all. She pulled them back and quickly came to the gate of Dai’s courtyard. When the flow of people at the gate of Dai’s courtyard became less, she immediately slipped in like a fat loach.

“Sister Jiang! Sister Jiang!”

Jiang Weiqun had just opened the door and was about to take her sisters-in-law and daughter back to the house to prepare dinner when she was stopped by the familiar voice.

Turning around, I saw Ju Hongxian, with a rosy face, pulling two old women towards me, making a DuangDuang sound.

Half a year ago, the best the two sides could do was to talk a few words in a very awkward situation, and then Ju Hongxian would smile and ignore them, and the conversation would end in nothing.

But now, there is a fat bear weighing more than 300 pounds living in the house.

Jiang Weiqun had just opened the door a crack when the waiter in the room used his mouth to push the door open and came out.

It was sleeping soundly in the house, and even dreamed of watching the sunset on Bald Mountain with the big mother bear. However, it was abruptly woken up by the noisy old woman outside the house who kept coming and going.

The little fat bear’s irritable little eyes were bloodshot and red. Now that he had the chance, he would definitely come out to see what was going on outside.

Then, as soon as they went out, they saw a woman who was as big as a mother bear rushing towards their family.

While running, the woman kept shouting “Ah ha ah ha~”, which made Xiao Erhan even more angry.

Ju Hongxian also noticed the fat figure coming out from behind the door. She stopped with a scream of “Oh my God!” and stretched out her hands to stop the two sisters behind her.

“Ju Hongxian’er, what are you doing here?”

While Jiang Weiqin was asking questions, Erhan had already waded out from behind her, floating sideways. Although Xiaoxiong’s head was turned to the side, his small eyes were fixed on the three women in front of him, and his mouth was “roaring” and spewing white air.

Although Ju Hongxian had seen the little fat bear before, she had always watched him from afar. How could it be like today, when they were in the same yard, only three meters apart?

Immediately his voice began to tremble, his tongue became numb, and his legs began to shake uncontrollably.

“Sister Jiang, your fat bear can’t bite people, right?”

Ju Hongxian held the two sisters’ arms and couldn’t help but take a half step back.

“No, our little Erhan never bites anyone.”

“what?!”

Upon hearing this, Cao Yanying and Niu Mengjun’s mouths immediately became like hanging horseshoes, and the corners of their mouths almost drooped to their shoulders.

“What do you want to say?” Jiang Weiqin ruffled the waiter’s neck hair, and the latter immediately stopped his tentative steps forward and turned his head, pretending to look at the scenery outside the wall.

Ju Hongxian was really panicking now. At this critical moment, she kept recalling in her mind some of the things Wang Tu Douzi had said to her, which she regarded as bragging;
For example, the little bear is very well behaved. As long as you don’t provoke it, it will never come to attack you. If you are steady, you may even be able to pet it…

Ju Hongxian felt less uneasy and explained with a smile,

“Sister Jiang, we heard that your family is going to enclose the vacant land in the south of the village and build a breeding farm.

It’s such a big place, your family will definitely not be able to handle it. My son Wang Tu Douzi can drive a tractor, so he can help out when the time comes. It will definitely be more convenient.”

Jiang Weiqin was indeed a little embarrassed when she heard Ju Hongxian directly bring Wang Tu Douzi out to show off.
Wang Tu Douzi is the only tractor driver in the village. Although his family knows people who drive tractors in other villages, Wang Tu Douzi lives in the same village as them and has a good relationship with Dai Song, so he has to give his wife some face.

Thinking of this, Jiang Weiqin asked the two sisters-in-law and Dai Xiaoqian to go back to the house first, and then turned to look at Ju Hongxiandao,
“Then I really want to thank Brother Wang on behalf of my old man.

When the breeding farm is established, you will definitely look for Brother Wang when you need to transport goods or livestock.

It’s just that I do have enough people to enclose the land right now. You should have seen me reject so many people just now. So…”

Jiang Weiqun said this, putting her hands on her hips and shrugged, with an expression of seeing someone off on her face.

The little bear next to him felt Jiang Weiqun withdraw her hand and roared twice in response.

But it didn’t roar directly at people.

It was very smart. It knew that if it scared someone, something bad would happen, especially in Dai Song’s house, so it just roared twice towards the sky.

Even so, Ju Hongxian and the other two were frightened to death and almost sat down in the snow. Fortunately, Cao Yanying and Niu Mengjun supported Ju Hongxian from behind, so they did not embarrass themselves in front of Jiang Weiqun.

Ju Hongxian seemed unwilling to give in. She pursed her lips and wanted to fight for it again. But just after she said half a sentence, Fat Bear who was standing next to Jiang Weiqun lost his patience.

Suddenly, he turned sideways and jumped towards Ju Hongxian and the other two like a little toad, with his lips puckered and his little red eyes wide open.

If you don’t leave, I’m going to kill you!
The little fat bear’s fur was shaking with this jump. He looked chubby and cute, but at the same time, he almost scared the three people who were not familiar with Xiao Erhan to death.

The two people behind Ju Hongxian immediately fled out of the Dai family’s yard, howling.

Without the support of her two sisters, Ju Hongxian felt her butt sink and she fell directly into the snow. Less than two meters in front of her, the big fat bear was already pacing towards her like a crab!
“Oh my god!!”

In the critical moment, Ju Hongxian proved that her fat was not gained in vain.

The energy accumulated in the body was instantly mobilized and then transformed into strength, allowing Ju Hongxian to roll over in the snow, and then crawl out of the Dai family yard like a wild monkey in the Flower-Fruit Mountain on TV.

The big cotton shoe on my left foot flew away without me even noticing it.

After this episode, those people in the village who wanted to curry favor with the powerful gave up the idea and became afraid of the fat bear in the Dai family’s yard.

After all, it is illegal for people to kill others these days, but if a bear kills someone, there is really nothing you can do about it.

They drove the bear into the mountains. Regardless of how strong their connections were, just looking at the vast Greater Khingan Range, they would most likely not find the bear, and the matter would be left unresolved.

The vacant land in the south of the village was quickly built up with the help of the villagers.

At first, they only fenced off a two-hundred-square-meter space for the Dai family to move their existing livestock there, and then they completed the rest of the space little by little.

When the villagers saw the pregnant female roe deer and the yellow-haired little ones, they seemed to have foreseen their future days of working as laborers in the farm and earning money, and they became more excited.

Especially those villagers who didn’t get a turn but really wanted to help and earn some money, they all slapped their thighs in envy.

Wang Tu Douzi naturally came to help.

When he learned that his wife also wanted to come over to lend a hand, express goodwill and repair the relationship, he was very happy at first.

But as he learned the details of what had happened, he became so angry that his face turned red. He pounded the wooden fence with his fists and gritted his teeth in hatred for the old woman for bringing disgrace upon herself.

After calming down, he immediately went to Dai Song to apologize.

The Dai family certainly wouldn’t mind, and Jiang Weiqin even explained:

She was not targeting Ju Hongxian. She didn’t want her to come over to help because she really had enough manpower. And if you come, don’t you represent Ju Hongxian?

After hearing this, Wang Tu Douzi felt a little relieved.

As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers. Thanks to the efforts of the villagers, the wooden fence on the outermost circle of the five acres of land was completed in less than twenty days.

Those roe deer and yellow-haired deer that were no longer resistant to the captive environment were released from the small enclosure of about 200 square meters and immediately started running around happily.

Jiang Weiqin had scattered a lot of vegetable stalks and corn stalks on the snow in advance. These things had a fatal attraction to mountain animals. Soon the roe deer and small yellow-haired animals lowered their heads and started to scratch in the snow.

During this period, the Daisong brothers were not idle either, and they still went to the mountains for a walk every day.

Although we don’t get a harvest every day, we can occasionally catch a small herd of livestock.

Therefore, by the time the Chinese New Year was approaching, there were already 15 roe deer and 22 wild boars in the cattle pen, and these were the ones left after a lot of large blue pigs and old sows had been given away.

In order to maximize the use of space, Jiang Weiqun asked the two brothers to buy a lot of big geese from a goose-raising family in the village and start hatching chicks.

Jiang Weiqun believes that the main purpose of raising wild animals is to sell them for money, but raising affordable poultry such as chickens and geese can greatly improve one’s own diet. By the time Tang Liping’s child is born, these birds will be fully grown, and by then they can stew chicken soup and roast geese every day. What a comfortable life!
The two brothers not only caught roe deer and wild boars in the mountains, but also caught a musk deer.

What is surprising is that the musk deer they caught happened to be a female. Although it cannot produce musk, it can mate with the one behind the stove. I believe that in a few years, the Dai family will be able to make a lot of money from musk.

(End of this chapter)