Jiangdu City, Xie Xiaoke’s hometown is Taoyuan Village.

It is golden autumn October, which is exactly the season for rice harvesting.

Rice in southern cities is divided into three seasons: early, middle and late. Ten years ago, every household did not travel far away and stayed in the countryside with sufficient manpower. Rice can be planted in three seasons. Now there are basically only two seasons, some of which only plant one season or no planting. The harvest time of late rice is October.

In the scorching sun, there are several farmers wearing straw hats working in the rice fields. One of them is Xie Xiaoke's third uncle Xie Xiaoming. He makes a living by raising geese. He doesn't plant many rice in his family, only one season of late rice, and he harvests it alone, so he is not panic.

Jiangdu City is a mountainous area, with high and low land, and the harvester cannot drive in, so it has been harvested manually.

Xie Xiaoming and his son Xie Xiaodong were busy. Suddenly someone next to him brought a little fruit and stood on the ridge of the field and shouted: "Xiaoming, I've been working all morning, so I won't take a break for a while!"

Xie Xiaoming saw the other party holding the fruit and smiled and said, "I've brought something here!"

In this village, apart from playing mahjong, chatting and bragging and making jokes is a way of entertainment.

Afterwards, Xie Xiaoming and Xie Xiaodong came to the ridge of the field and chatted with the man.

The man's name is Huang Zhihu. He is a contractor. He works on construction sites all year round. This time he comes back to harvest rice and relax. At the same time, he has no work on the construction site, so he is also very anxious.

Huang Zhihu was not in the Three Treasures Palace for nothing. This time he came to Xie Xiaoming to contact Xie Xiaoke, because they have known that Xie Xiaoke is going to build Universal Studios in the past few days, and the construction of the cinema will definitely take a long time, so he wants to take care of things on this project.

"Come on, eat some fruit, there is ice water!"

Xie Xiaoming, Xie Xiaodong and his son took the water and fruit, said thank you, and started to eat it.

"Have the rice harvested at Huzi's house?" Xie Xiaoming said.

Huang Zhihu smiled and said, "No, isn't this a matter of mind? Isn't it done for the time being?"

Xie Xiaoming knew Huang Zhihu's personality very well. He knew that he was anxious to have nothing to do now. He often worked on construction sites and looked down on this income in the countryside. He asked: "I'm still anxious to get work? I said you have made so much money, and you don't want to take a break at home. You always work so hard, and you don't want your health?"

Huang Zhihu glared: "You don't know, my family expects me to make money. My daughter is about to go to high school soon. The tuition and living expenses are much more than before. What should I do if I don't make money?"

There are a lot of people like Huang Zhihu in the village. There are only one man in the family who makes money and supports a few people. The woman takes care of her children, does housework, and lives an ordinary life. If the man falls down or makes too little money, it will embarrass the family. Therefore, anyone with children at home and over 40 years old is working hard to support his family.

Xie Xiaoming is also very hard to raise geese. Although there are few rice seeds, instead they plant a lot of vegetables for geese to eat, the safety of labor has not decreased. He earns a little more money than small contractors like Huang Zhihu, but there is still a gap compared with those large contractors.

In short, in rural areas, once people are idle, they will have a strong sense of crisis, family expenses, children's schooling and other expenses, unlike in cities, where there are financial management, loans, Huabei, Baitiao and other things. Maybe some villages have them, but not here because their village does not have Internet access.

Even if there is, no one will borrow. People with more conservative minds will not borrow money. The bank loan conditions are very harsh and basically cannot be borrowed. There is no other way to make living expenses except to earn little by little.

Xie Xiaoming took a meaningful sip of ice water and said, "You are just a daughter, why are you anxious? My son is 21 this year, so I am not in a hurry. I will almost get married in two years. By then, I will basically spend all the small amount of money on me."

"Why are my daughter not in a hurry? My daughter is even more anxious. After she gets married, who will support us? How can I live when I get old if I don't save some money? It's unlike you have a son who will protect me from getting old!"

" Raising a child to prevent old age? It's just a self-comfort. How many people in the world don't want to raise a daughter!" Xie Xiaoming was very opposed to this fallacy. If his son had not spent all his savings after getting married, he wouldn't have to prevent old age at all.

After almost the gossip, Huang Zhihu began to talk about the topic: "It's not easy to say that, by the way, I heard that your eldest nephew has had a big deal recently. You want to build a Universal Studios in Songjiang District, Shencheng. Do you know?"

Xie Xiaoming nodded: "I have indeed heard of this, what's wrong?"

"Can you please tell your nephew that I want to work on his side? This project will probably take a long time to build. If I can take a job on your nephew's construction site, it would be enough for me to earn!" Huang Zhihu begged with a smile.

When Xie Xiaoming heard this, he felt something was right. Xie Xiaoke built Universal Studios. The entire project requires many small contractors. Instead of finding others, it is better to find your own acquaintances. Can everyone make money together?

However, Universal Studios does not build residential buildings, and it does not mean that you can just pull someone up. This point must be made clear. If Xie Xiaoke's project is delayed or the quality is not up to standard because of taking care of his acquaintances in his village, Xie Xiaoming, the uncle, can't afford it. He asked: "Universal Studios is not that simple. Many of the construction projects in it are much more difficult than building residential buildings. I can only ask if there is anything suitable for you!"

Huang Zhihu was very grateful: "Then I will thank you first, go to my house for dinner tonight!"

"Don't be so polite. Are everyone our own people? I can help and try my best to help. In the end, I have to check out the specific situation of Xie Xiaoke!" Xie Xiaoming said.

"Xiaoming, don't postpone it. At 7 o'clock in the evening, my family will prepare meals and wait for you. I'll ask Xiaodong to come over as well. That's it, I'll leave first!"

"Okay, then I'm not polite!"

After Huang Zhihu left, Xie Xiaoming thought for a while and said to Xie Xiaodong: "Xie Xiaoke's changes are really big now. He is doing well outside. When should you learn from him? Go to big cities to make a good start, don't stay in your hometown all the time!"

Xie Xiaodong envies his cousin, but he doesn't like Xie Xiaoke's life: "Everyone has ambition, I like a more comfortable life!"

"You are such a futile thing, no matter where you stay, I must bring my girlfriend home before the end of the year!" Xie Xiaoming said in an orderly tone.

Afterwards, the two of them finished the rest of the farm work and went back directly.

After returning home, Xie Xiaoming called Xie Xiaofeng, and Xie Xiaofeng told Xie Xiaoke about this.

Xie Xiaofeng's phone call reached Xie Xiaoke's phone at around 7 o'clock in the evening, which happened to be the time for Xie Xiaoming and Xie Xiaodong to have dinner at Huang Zhihu's house.
Chapter completed!