"Grandpa, hurry up." Mengmeng ran ahead with a water bottle hanging around her neck.

As she ran, the water bottle around her neck was swung back and forth, which looked particularly interesting.

They were going to the woods to the south.

The end of June and the beginning of July are the hottest times, with the highest daytime temperature around 37 degrees. At this time, people are reluctant to go out and walk around the crop fields.

When there is no air conditioning at home, it is actually even hotter.

Someone tried to find a way to carve out a shady place in the woods south of Caojiazhuang.

They cut off all the diagonally long branches above their heads, leaving dense leaves on the top of the trees. These leaves could perfectly block the sun no matter when.

If it rains, these leaves can also keep out the rain.

Someone built several square stone tables with stone slabs and bricks under the tree, mainly for playing cards and chess.

It's like a natural air-conditioned room here, but there are shortcomings. There are many trees and mosquitoes.

Many elderly people are not afraid of being bitten by mosquitoes. They wear long sleeves and long trousers and continue to play cards and chess here to kill time.

However, most young people and children cannot bear the mosquito bites and are unwilling to play here.

When Cao Zhenghu took his great-granddaughter out, he sprayed a lot of toilet water and mosquito repellent on her exposed arms, legs and neck, just to prevent Mengmeng from being bitten by mosquitoes, and the excruciating itching was like suffering.

I rode an electric tricycle here and saw that there were hammocks set up in the woods. There were four children swinging back and forth on the hammocks, swinging the hammocks vigorously, and taking them up there to enjoy themselves. Mengmeng was also envious.

I couldn't take my eyes away.

After getting off the grandpa's electric tricycle, Mengmeng pointed to the hammock and said to the grandpa: "Grandpa, I want to play too."

"Let's go, I'll take you over and talk to them." Cao Zhenghu held his great-granddaughter's hand and walked towards the hammock.

He thought about talking to the other party and letting his great-grandson play for a while, but who knew that these little bastards had no intention of respecting their elders and were enjoying themselves, so how could they let them out?

Cao Zhenghu was annoyed when he saw them ignoring him: "Mengmeng, grandpa will buy you a hammock."

"Okay, okay, grandpa, let's go quickly." Mengmeng turned around and was about to run towards the place where the electric tricycle was parked, but after running for two steps, she suddenly found that grandpa was still standing there.

Mengmeng was a little confused: "Grandpa, hurry up and leave."

"It's such a hot day, we won't go. I'll call your dad and ask him to go to the town to buy it." Mengmeng heard her grandfather say this. She was a little disappointed at first, but when she heard that her dad was asked to buy it, she

Happy again.

When Cao Shujie received a call from his grandfather, he was busy in the orchard and did not expect that his grandfather would come up with this trick.

But grandpa's operation was undoubtedly the most reassuring. Cao Shujie immediately agreed and said he would buy the hammock back as soon as possible.

Mengmeng thinks it doesn’t matter who buys it.

She and her grandfather were waiting patiently here.

Her father, Cao Shujie, actually drove to town and bought a hammock for him, and he didn't even use it for an hour.

After Cao Shujie personally selected two suitable trees, he unfolded the hammock, tied the ropes at both ends, then lifted Mengmeng up and let her play on it.

At this time, the four children in the other hammock saw it and their eyes were filled with envy.

They think Mengmeng is so awesome, and they actually buy it when people say they want it.

Two of the children had the nerve to come over and want to play with Mengmeng's hammock, but Mengmeng still remembered the time when they rejected her just now.

"No, no one is allowed to play, I can only play by myself." Mengmeng said simply and neatly. At this time, she was not hesitant.

At this point, Cao Shujie admired his daughter's straightforwardness.

"Mengmeng did a great job." Cao Shujie also praised him.

Mengmeng didn't care about this, she was having so much fun playing in the hammock.

Grandpa Cao Zhenghu was sitting at the stone table next to him.

There are three old people sitting on the other three sides of the stone table. There are two playing cards on the stone table, and four old people are playing cards.

This scene is particularly harmonious, making people feel particularly calm and warm in their hearts.

Cao Shujie stayed here for a while and saw that the mosquito repellent on his daughter's body was evenly sprayed and there were no traces of mosquito bites. He then drove away with confidence.

Mengmeng and her grandfather Cao Zhenghu played here all morning, and Mengmeng even fell asleep comfortably in the hammock.

Seeing her even breathing and leisurely swinging on the hammock, many children envied him.

But they were playing in a public hammock. Remembering that they had not let Mengmeng play for a while, no one had the nerve to ask Mengmeng to borrow a hammock to play with again.

"Brother Hu, your grandson is getting better and better now." Cao Zhengfang, who was playing cards, threw out a pair of aces and said, "Our family will also benefit from it."

"Hey, it doesn't matter whether we take advantage of the glory or not, we will all be buried with our legs cut off and we won't live for a few more years. Aren't you taking this matter lightly?" Cao Zhenghu was very open-minded.

But Cao Zhengfang does not see things more clearly than he does.

"Our family is not doing well. We still have to earn money to support our family. It makes me feel uncomfortable just looking at it."

"Our family is not like your family. Shujie is as capable, and you are not short of money." Cao Zhengfang said this.

As soon as he finished speaking, Cao Zhengyin, the former village accountant next to him, also said: "No one can say otherwise. I am very convinced that Shujie will be the village director. Others should not even think about it."

"That's right. When Jiangang was the village secretary, he always took money out of his own pocket. But what happened? He did too many bad things and was called away by the King of Hell in advance." Cao Zhenglin said.

Only old men like them dare to say such harsh words, but if a peer or young person says it, they will be beaten immediately.

But the older generation is somewhat superstitious. They feel that what Cao Zhenglin said is very close to the truth. Otherwise, how could Cao Jian, who was in his 60s and considered young, suddenly become ill and leave?

…

Friday, June 28th.

On this day, Cao Shujie received a text message stating that the 15 million two-year low-interest loan approved by Yiling Rural Commercial Bank had arrived in his account.

Seeing the money, Cao Shujie felt no worries at all.

However, with the arrival of this money, it also greatly alleviated the problem of insufficient cash reserves in his hand.

After the funds arrived, Cao Shujie did not invest the money in the stock market again. He had a strong idea in his mind that he could do peripheral things, but it was best not to touch illegal things.

Moreover, Cao Shujie has his own investment discipline and bottom line.

He is also very clear that he relies on the memory of his previous life to collect a handful, but some people are naturally adapted to the capital market. They use this market to take whatever they want and purely regard it as their own cash machine.

With Cao Shujie's size, in the entire market, if he thought he was invincible, he would have been beaten to death long ago.

When the time passed from June to July, the temperature rose further. According to weather forecasts, the highest temperature in some areas has exceeded 40 degrees.

This is an unimaginable high temperature. Cao Shujie knew in his heart that if it continued, the human body would not be able to bear it under such conditions, and various problems would likely occur.

In fact, this is indeed the case. News reported that a worker at a construction site worked outdoors for a long time. As a result, no one noticed the abnormality of heat stroke in the early stage of the disease. Over time, it caused heat stroke...

This is destined to be an annoying and pessimistic fact. Many netizens have criticized it online, but it is of no use.

Many construction companies still do whatever they want.

…

Fortunately, after the continuous hot weather, there was finally a heavy rain.

Looking outside, Cao Shujie was also worried as the heavy rain showed no signs of stopping after a day and a night.

A moderate amount of rain is a good thing, but if it rains too much, it will be a disaster and may cause other problems.

Fortunately, the drainage in Caojiazhuang is still very good, and there has been no village waterlogging.

Even so, Cao Shujie put on a split raincoat that afternoon, put on his rain boots, held an umbrella, and walked outside with a shovel.

He was going to visit the orchards around Caojiazhuang.

If the rainfall is too heavy and the water cannot be released, the roots of the fruit trees may be soaked.

Unlike him, the fruit trees planted in the orchard are the lifeblood of many people in Caojiazhuang, and they really cannot tolerate any great losses to these fruit trees.

Cao Shujie thought of this, and many experienced fruit farmers in Caojiazhuang also thought of this.

When he came to the orchard west of Caojiazhuang, he saw many people carrying shovels on the orchard and observing the scene in the orchard.

Some people walked into the orchard, but as soon as they stepped in, their feet sank 10 centimeters deep. If they tried to walk forward, they couldn't pull their legs up at all, and even their rain boots were left in place.

Seeing this situation, Cao Shujie understood that it was really raining in the crop fields this time.

But he looked up at the dark clouds in the sky, which were still piled together. They were so thick that they made people feel oppressive and breathless.

The amount of rain did not seem to have decreased significantly at all. Looking at this appearance, no one dared to say how long the rain would last.

Cao Shujie was also worried.

Someone saw him coming, called him Director Cao, and told him his worries.

"It's okay. Don't worry. Besides, even if something goes wrong, we still have insurance. The worst we can do is waste half a year while we plant new fruit seedlings." This is how Cao Shujie comforted people.

Although it doesn't sound good, it is a fact.

Hearing him say this showed that there was still a way out, and many people felt at ease.

"Can't you get in the ground?" Cao Shujie asked.

Several people next to them almost nodded in unison: "Director Cao, you can't go in now, and you can't walk at all. I suggest you wait until the rain stops and let it dry for a day before going in. Otherwise, even if you go in, you won't be able to do it in this situation.
To be continued...