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When Mengmeng heard what her mother said, she couldn't understand, so she asked: "Mom, why?"

"Why don't grandparents come?"

Cheng Xiaolin thought about how to tell her daughter about this, but after much deliberation, she didn't have a better way to say it.

Thinking of leaving this arduous task to her husband to solve, she said: "Mengmeng, when your father comes down after taking a shower, you can ask him."

"Oh, okay." Mengmeng was so thoughtful that she kept waiting at the stairs for her father to come down after taking a shower.

Cheng Xiaolin went to the kitchen to look at the pots again. She had to say that the renovated kitchen was easy to use.

Cheng Xiaolin felt that if the surrounding convenience and related supporting facilities were not considered, the small two-story house they built themselves would be much better than their previous house in Beijing.

While she was busy cooking, Cheng Xiaolin was also listening to the actions outside, for fear of being cute and knocking herself again.

It felt like it had only been a few minutes. The soup she had stewed was not ready yet, and her husband had already come down from the shower upstairs.

"Daddy, daddy." Mengmeng shouted as loudly as she could.

Cao Shujie felt very comfortable after hearing this. He asked: "Mengmeng, why are you calling me daddy?"

Cheng Xiaolin heard her daughter ask loudly: "Dad, why aren't my grandparents here? I want my grandma to play with me."

"Oh, I want to, but they don't want to come, what should I do?" Cao Shujie asked his daughter.

When Mengmeng heard her father ask this, she scratched her head and thought hard, but in the end she couldn't come up with a solution. She was so anxious that she almost cried: "Dad, I don't know either."

Seeing her serious look made Cao Shujie laugh.

Cao Shujie played with Mengmeng in the living room for a while, and Cheng Xiaolin called him over to serve food and rice.

The first meal after arriving in his new home was simple and plain, but Cao Shujie felt it was particularly delicious.

After dinner, Cao Shujie rushed to wash the bowls. When he came back, he saw his wife and daughter eating bananas.

Mengmeng is lazy and won't chew anything slightly hard.

Obviously the apples grown at home were more delicious, but she disliked them because they were too hard, so she took a few bites of them, leaving two cracks in the apples, and then stopped eating.

Cheng Xiaolin also said: "Husband, buy a juicer another day and squeeze some apple juice for Mengmeng."

Cao Shujie agreed immediately, but he felt that the squeezed juice completely destroyed the original taste and was not delicious.

That night, after Mengmeng fell asleep, Cao Shujie took his wife to another room.

More than half an hour later, Cheng Xiaolin lay in her husband's arms, looking up at the roof with the afterglow of moonlight shining in from the window, and vaguely saw a little gloss reflected by the lampshade of the lighting lamp, which was not obvious.

The two of them quietly enjoyed this rare moment.

…

Before six o'clock the next morning, Cao Shujie got up from the bed and felt that the temperature in the room had not dropped significantly and was still at 24 to 5 degrees. At this time, even though it was already below zero outside, in the room

I don't feel cold even wearing thin clothes.

Cao Shujie was particularly satisfied. He felt that this was the life he wanted.

Wearing autumn clothes and long trousers, I came down from the second floor, went to the kitchen connected to the first floor, turned on the gas stove, cooked millet porridge in a small pot, then sprinkled a layer of Xinjiang jujube inside, half-covered the lid of the pot, and

The fire simmers slowly, it takes about half an hour.

Taking advantage of this time, Cao Shujie started cooking again, making a soft egg for his daughter, and then poured some soy sauce and sesame oil on it, which smelled delicious.

Seeing that there was still a piece of tofu in the refrigerator, Cao Shujie took it out again, cut it into long strips, lightly oiled it, and then fried the tofu with green onions.

About half an hour later, the red date and millet porridge was ready. When you opened the lid, a strong aroma of dates filled the kitchen, making you want to eat it.

Stir it again with a spoon, and the big red dates inside will be boiled directly. The jujube meat will be integrated into the millet porridge, dyeing the millet porridge into maroon red.

The barking of Daha and Erha came from outside, and Cao Shujie remembered that he had not walked his dog today.

When he went to the bedroom on the second floor, he saw that his wife and daughter were still sleeping. Cao Shujie left a text message for his wife, telling her that breakfast had been prepared and kept warm in the pot, and that he was going to walk the dog.

After putting on thick clothes, he led the dogs away from home and went directly to the dam from the north intersection. Within a few minutes, he arrived at the Yellow River dam. Seeing that there was no one on the dam, Cao Shujie untied the ropes for them.

Let them run wildly for a while.

Cao Shujie found a stone strip by the roadside and sat down, waiting there slowly.

About half an hour later, the four dogs ran back to him one after another, rubbing against his body one by one, showing the closeness between themselves and Cao Shujie.

In this way, all the soil and grass residue on their bodies was transferred to Cao Shujie, and Cao Shujie was so angry that he wanted to slap them twice.

But looking at the innocent faces of the four brothers, Cao Shujie couldn't bear the slap.

He was thinking about preparing a special set of clothes next time he goes out to walk the dog.

When he returned home from the dam with them, his wife Cheng Xiaolin was having dinner in the living room on the first floor.

"Honey, it's time to eat." Cao Shujie greeted his wife.

Cheng Xiaolin turned to look at him: "I just got up, and I was thinking about making breakfast. Who knew you had made it first."

"I woke up early and had nothing to do. I can't just wait for you to get up and cook." Cao Shujie said with a smile.

"Hehe." Cheng Xiaolin said with a smile: "Go and wash up quickly, change your clothes, and get ready for breakfast."

The dirt and hay clippings on her husband's body were clearly visible.

"Is Mengmeng still awake?" Cao Shujie asked her.

"Well, I guess she has to sleep until 8 o'clock." Cheng Xiaolin said.

His wife really guessed it right. When Cao Shujie had breakfast at home and went to the mountains, Mengmeng was still awake.

Cao Shujie had already gone out the door, but suddenly he remembered something, so he returned home and asked his wife: "Honey, do you have money there?"

"How much do you want?" Cheng Xiaolin didn't even ask why.

Cao Shujie said: "Give me 1,600, and I will pay Brother Chao's salary."

"Salary will be paid so soon?" Cheng Xiaolin was really stunned this time.

But she didn't say much, and stood up happily to get money for Cao Shujie.

After a while, she came back with a wad of cash and handed it to Cao Shujie: "Hey, it's exactly 1,600 yuan."

"Okay, I'm leaving." Cao Shujie folded the money in half and stuffed it into his trouser pocket, then walked out casually, followed the mountain road not far away, and soon arrived at the orchard.

"It's so convenient." Cao Shujie said with emotion.

He found that living here was much more convenient than living with his parents.

As expected, his father and Cao Shuchao came early and were busy in the orchard.

Seeing Cao Shujie coming, Cao Jianguo said to him: "Shujie, did you drink too much yesterday and didn't get up in the morning?"

Hearing what his father said, Cao Shujie waved his hand directly: "Dad, that drink is nothing. I sobered up last night. I got up at around 5 o'clock this morning to cook and walk the dog."

"Look how busy you are." Cao Jianguo said to him.

Cao Shujie smartly kept his mouth shut this time and did not argue with his father about this issue.

"Brother Chao, come here." He turned around and saw Cao Shuchao working, and Cao Shujie called him.

"Shujie, do you have something to do with me?" Cao Shuchao asked him.

Cao Shujie smiled and asked: "Brother Chao, do you remember how long you have been here?"

"I came here on the 4th, and it's been 27 days since today." Cao Shuchao said directly without even thinking about it.

Starting from the 4th, he worked here for 12 hours every day without a day off.

And during this period of time, Cao Shuchao worked hard without complaining and never complained or said anything about hardship.

If rated as the best employee, Cao Shujie would give him the award without hesitation!

From this we can also see how much a middle-aged man in need of money can handle?

"Brother Chao, look, November is over today. Tomorrow will be December, and the Chinese New Year is less than two months away."

"When the new year comes, I plan to buy another batch of calves, sheep and pigs, and maybe raise some domestic geese. By then, our workload here will definitely be greater than now, and the tasks will be more arduous.

Brother Chao, the burden on your shoulders is also very heavy."

When Cao Shuchao saw this scene, he felt familiar yet strange. He seemed to have seen some big bosses telling their employees this in TV dramas, but he never thought that he would also enjoy this treatment one day.

Just when he was thinking about what Cao Shujie would say next, he didn't expect that Cao Shujie would follow the routine.

"But Brother Chao, don't worry. If I can't do it when the time comes, I will continue to recruit people. But no matter how many people come in the future, we will have corresponding bonus subsidies for those who do well."

Having said this, Cao Shujie paused for a moment. He looked at Cao Shuchao and said seriously: "Brother Chao, you have worked 27 days this month and your salary is 1,485 yuan. In addition, I always think you have done a very good job, so I decided to give you another salary."

You receive a performance bonus of 115 yuan, plus one yuan, the total is 1,600 yuan."

After finishing speaking, Cao Shujie took out the stack of money folded in half from his trouser pocket. Regardless of Cao Shujie's stunned look, he handed the money to Cao Shuchao and specifically told him: "Brother Chao, count it and see if it's right.

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Cao Shuchao: "..."

He suddenly didn't know what to say.
To be continued...