"Mr. Yu, it's already so late and there's no rest yet?"

Lei Huanxi pushed open the door and walked in.

Yu Minghua, who was busy there, didn't even raise his head: "There are too many things, so many problems have accumulated here, so how can I have time to rest."

“No matter how busy you are, you have to rest.”

Lei Huanxi pulled Yu Minghua out of his desk without saying anything, pressed him on the sofa, handed him a bag of biscuits, and then filled his teacup with water:

"Look, are you all moved by what I, the boss?"

Yu Minghua laughed and said, "Mr. Lei, how could he praise himself like this?"

"Hey, I'm doing a good job, why can't I praise myself?"

Lei Huan replied with a happy smile: "When I was a child, I went to school. If I was praised by the teacher, I would tell my grandfather to spend several days when I went home."

"Where are your parents?" Yu Minghua asked casually.

"I've been neglecting me for a long time."

Lei Huanxi said without caring at all: "Mr. Yu, I'm going to tell you that my life experience can be made into a movie, really. I always thought that my biological parents were actually human traffickers."

"ah?"

"Really, I was abducted by them. As a result, before they could take me, something happened. They could only take me back to their hometown in panic. Fortunately, I met a very good grandfather, who took care of me, taught me how to do things, and taught me how to be a human being. If it weren't for my grandfather, I knew what it would be like."

Yu Minghua never thought that this young boss would have such a tortuous past.

Lei Huanxi looked excited: "I said that my experience can be made in movies. Later, I finally found my biological parents. Guess what? My mother is the boss of a large group, and my father is even more amazing. He is so famous, Qiao Crazy, have you heard of it?"

Yu Minghua shook his head in confusion.

By the way, I don’t like orchids, so I have heard of Qiao Crazy’s name?

Lei Huan said happily: "It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of it. Anyway, my real father is really famous and very big. The pot of orchid he planted can definitely be sold at a sky-high price. I'm not bragging at all."

"Success." Yu Minghua raised his thumbs up: "You are so happy that you have ended your hardships."

"What a pity, what a pity." Lei Huanxi suddenly sighed: "The person I am most sorry for in my life is my grandfather. My grandfather worked hard all his life, but he never enjoyed the blessing of a day. Fortunately, I heard that my grandfather left was quite peaceful and he had not suffered any crime, but I never saw him again."

"Actually, I also come from the countryside." Yu Minghua said after a moment of silence: "I was the only college student in the village at that time. In that era, it was rare for a college student to be born in the family. My parents sent me to Hengyang because I hope that I would study well, start a family and start a business in the city, and stay away from the poor countryside.

To be honest, it is very difficult for farmers to get rich by relying on the fields. According to their hometown, they are exhausted and unable to make money. Most young people leave their hometowns to work and make a living, while those who stay behind are the elderly, weak, women and children, and there are not many real laborers. Farming has always been a heavy labor. My hometown is located in a hilly area and cannot use modern machinery, so they can only rely on manual labor.

The sweet potatoes, corn and other crops grown by the elderly have high yields and large moisture content. When the fields are far away, they cannot get the crops that are too heavy. They can only go nearby and have to abandon the fields in the distance.

It is common for the good fields to be covered with water plants or trees to grow.

The most common scene in rural areas is now: the old man is walking in front, holding a plow and holding a cow on his back, the old woman holds the grandson in one hand, and the other with a water cup or a few biscuits, and goes to the field to work together.

Looking around, the fields are full of elderly people working, and children sit on the ridges of the fields to play with mud or catch grasshoppers.

In the fourth month of the lunar calendar, it is the day to harvest wheat and plant rice in the countryside. I clearly remember that it is difficult to get busy in the farming season. I was worried that my mother was too tired, so I called and said, "Mom, I'll go back and help."

My mother quickly stopped me: 'No need, the wheat has been collected and the seedlings have been planted. You are also playing when you come back, and you are still running around in a car. You are both spending money and suffering. Come back to the New Year.'

I didn't believe that I could finish all the crops at home so soon, so I took a week off and bought a ticket to go home secretly.

When I got home, it was almost dark. My mother hadn’t come back yet. My neighbors said to me: ‘You are back just right. Your mother is harvesting wheat. It’s okay if you come back to cook, so that she won’t come back to cook after finishing her work in the field.’

I ran to the edge of the field and saw that the transplanted field was still a pool of water, and the seedlings did not move at all in the field.

‘Didn’t you say that the farm work has been done? Why is it still a big white field after the rice seedlings are planted?’ I questioned my mother there.

Mom smiled embarrassedly: "I don't want you to come back and suffer. I'm hot and tired. I'll just do it myself."

On the way back, herbicides and pesticides were everywhere on the fields. I asked my mother: ‘Aren’t these poisonous? Why are they still used so widely?’

Mom explained that the young people have gone out and the fields are all grown by the elderly. The old couple planted more than 20 acres of land, and they rely on manual weeding to catch insects. They are too busy all day and night, so they can only use medicine.

‘If the medicine is mild, it cannot be cured. You have to apply strong medicine. If you buy medicine, you don’t buy it one bottle at a time, but you move it home in boxes!’

In our village, every year, children accidentally drink pesticides and die. Careless parents put pesticides randomly. The children don’t know what they say and think it’s a drink, so they pick it up and unscrew the lid and drink it.

I remember the second year after I left, a child in the village opened a bottle of DDT and drank two sips, and held it in front of the adults and said, "This is quite delicious, I'll give you a try?"

When the adult saw it, he picked up the child and ran to the hospital, but the child foamed at the mouth after a few steps."

Speaking of this, Yu Minghua sighed: "You may have never encountered this before, but it often happens with us, so I have been thinking that when I have the ability in the future, I must go back to the countryside and help my family completely change the status quo. But until now, my wish will probably never be realized."

Lei Huanxi nodded silently.

Although the Xiantao Village where I was was very poor at that time, at least the things that Minghua said had never happened.

Speaking of which, I haven’t returned to Xiantao Village for a long time, so I have to find some time to go back and take a look.

After all, it's a place to raise yourself.
Chapter completed!