Back at the gas station, Chen Mu greeted a young man in the business room: "Alex, don't watch TV, come out for a while, I'll ask you something."
"Come on, Brother Mu."
The young man trotted out quickly, his movements were agile, like a monkey.
Chen Mu pointed to the saplings next to the gas station, and asked, "When the forestry company delivered the goods, did you count them? Is the number correct?"
The young man replied: "I roughly counted them when they delivered them, and there was no big discrepancy. Later, after they left, I carefully counted them again, and the number was exactly the same as that on the list."
"Good job!"
Chen Mu was relieved, and asked again: "Is the camel here? Did you give it milk?"
The young man replied again: "I came twice, but every time I wanted to feed it, it left, so I couldn't feed it."
"Is that so..."
Chen Mu frowned. It seemed that Hu Xiaoer really recognized people, and he didn't just drink milk from anyone. If he wanted to go out to do errands in the future, he had to think carefully about what to do.
Seeing that Chen Mu hadn't spoken, the young man said again: "Brother Mu, after the saplings arrived, I saw that there were no customers in the gas station, so I went to plant the tree by myself for a while, not far from the one you planted."
Chen Mu took a look, but couldn't see clearly in the night, but there were indeed some more trees in his forest farm.
"Thank you, Alexandra, you've done a good job."
Chen Mu had to express his appreciation to the employees who worked consciously. He took out fifty yuan, handed it to the young man, and said, "This is your salary."
Then, he drew out another twenty and handed it to the young man: "This is your bonus, because this time you really helped me a lot."
The young man was very happy, took the money, folded it carefully, and stuffed it into his pocket: "Thank you, Brother Xiaomu."
Chen Mu patted the boy on the head: "Let's go, um, it's already dark, if you don't want to go back, you can stay here for one night and leave tomorrow."
"No, I'm going back, my mother is waiting for me at home, and now I can still see the road!"
The young man's tone was very firm, but he didn't leave immediately, but looked at Chen Mu, hesitating to speak.
Chen Mu asked curiously, "Why, do you have anything else to tell me?"
The young man hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother Xiao Mu, can I come to work with you every day from now on?"
Chen Mu looked at the young man, but didn't speak immediately.
The young man was called Alecun, and he was only fourteen years old.
His mother is a Uyghur woman with a congenital mental retardation. When she was young, she was not watched by her family for a while, and she didn't know which man she had sex with, so she became pregnant and gave birth to him.
In such a family, life is undoubtedly difficult, especially after the grandfather and grandmother passed away one after another, the life of the mother and son became even more difficult.
Although Alequin was young, he had to wander around, looking for work opportunities and supporting his family.
When Chen's father and Chen's mother were alive, they often helped Alecun and asked him to help at the gas station, which was regarded as a temporary worker.
This time, Chen Mu and the old Uighur were going to bring tourists into the village, so they couldn't take care of the gas station, so the old Uighur called Alikun over again.
Seeing that Chen Mu didn't speak, Alecun thought he was unwilling, and quickly patted his chest to promise: "Brother Xiao Mu, although I am young, I have the strength to work. As long as you are willing to let me work, I will definitely work hard, no Will be lazy."
Chen Mu asked: "Then you won't go to school anymore?"
"No more, no money."
Alexandra's reasons are good and powerful.
Chen Mu thought for a while, then nodded: "Okay!"
Alecun was surprised and delighted, but he didn't expect Chen Mu to agree so readily, and quickly asked tentatively, "Starting from tomorrow?"
"Well, starting tomorrow!"
"Great, thank you, Brother Xiao Mu."
Alecun was so happy that he almost jumped up.
Chen Mu waved his hand: "Let's go, let's go, it's late, be careful."
Alecun agreed, and trotted away.
Chen Mu stood where he was, looking at the young man's back, feeling a little pity.
Although Alecun's mother was mentally retarded, Alecun was very smart and quick-witted. I heard that her academic performance in school had been pretty good. It was a pity that such a good seedling dropped out of school halfway.
However, Chen Mu couldn't say anything to persuade the other party to continue to study. He felt that at this moment, the most important thing was to provide young people with a way to live well, as long as they survived, everything would be hopeful.
Besides, the gas station really needs more staff, because his stall is starting to grow.
Let’s not talk about preparing to travel, because I don’t know if it will be successful or how it will be. I will only talk about planting trees. It’s too tiring to work alone. Hiring more little guys to help can speed up hurry up.
In fact, Chen Mu has already thought about it. If he can earn money from tourism in the future, he will invest more in planting trees and hire more people at that time. Therefore, recruiting Alecun as a It's an advance measure.
"Well, I have to think about how to advertise travel on the Internet."
After Chen Mu entered the business room, he closed the door and began to ponder.
In the past few days, he accompanied Cheng Zijun and the other three around the two villages. He also took a lot of photos himself, and they were all saved up to be used as advertising materials.
Lying on the bed and flipping through these photos, he quickly selected a dozen or so and was going to post them online to test the waters.
But going online is a matter of fate, Chen Mu looked at the mobile phone without the slightest signal, so he could only throw it away and go to sleep.
The next day, before dawn, Alexandra came.
Chen Mu rubbed his eyes and opened the door. Looking at the Uighur boy with dark circles on his eyes, he couldn't help but said angrily, "Why are you here so early? I was woken up by you, tsk tsk, what are you doing like this, People thought I was a black-hearted boss exploiting you, a child laborer."
"No, I'm just too happy to fall asleep."
After Alecun entered the door, he pushed Chen Mu to the living area behind, and said courteously, "Brother Xiao Mu, you can continue to sleep, I can watch here."
Chen Mu really wanted to continue to catch up on sleep. After thinking for a while, he said, "I'll look for it for you. In the future, if you bring a key yourself, I won't open the door for you."
"Will you give me the key to the gas station?"
Alecun showed a flattered look, showing a pair of neat but slightly yellowed teeth.
Why are you so excited, isn't it just a key
Chen Mu didn't want to talk to the child, so he turned his head and went back to sleep again.
After sleeping for more than an hour this time, Alecun hurriedly rushed into the bedroom and called him: "Brother Mu, brother Mu, wake up quickly."
Chen Mu's dream was interrupted again and again, and he was only close to kissing him just now, so he couldn't help but angrily said: "What's the matter, I will kill you today if I don't explain it clearly."
Alecun quickly replied: "Brother Mu, the camels are here again."
"oh?!"
Chen Mu woke up all at once, got up and ran to the door, and saw Hu Xiaoer's solitary figure as expected.
Not seen for a few days, this guy is getting dirty again.
The previously washed fur was once again covered with dirt.
The white color turned to earthy gray, so it couldn't be seen that it was a white camel anyway.
Chen Mu thought for a while, and it seems that this is fine, it is too eye-catching if it is whitewashed, but it is low-key and connotative if it is dirty, and it is not afraid of being recognized by others.
As soon as he appeared, Hu Xiaoer immediately took the initiative to come over, but when he saw Alecun behind him, he stopped again, moved his mouth, and did not approach.
Chen Mu brought a big bowl and milk, and said, "Come on, drink the milk first, and we'll talk about it later."
After the milk was poured, Hu Xiaoer lowered his head and drank it himself.
Chen Mu pulled Alex Kun to his side, and introduced: "This is a small employee of our gas station. If I go out in the future, he will be responsible for breastfeeding you. You can drink as much as you want. Don't be shy, I know you. It's not that thin-skinned."
When Alecun heard the word "little employee", he immediately puffed up his chest, and his sense of identity and belonging to his unit immediately exploded.
Hu Xiaoer didn't know if he understood, he didn't raise his head while drinking the milk, and only raised his head when he finished drinking, showing a happy smile.
At noon, the old Uyghur man who had taken a half-day leave came back riding a little donkey. Chen Mu left the gas station in the care of the old man, while he led Alexandra to the forest farm to continue planting trees.
It has been three days since I bought the saplings, and it will be too long if I don't plant them again.
Especially in such a dry and hot weather, the saplings are easy to die in the sun, so it is better to plant them all quickly.
When two people work together, the speed is more than doubled.
One person moves the seedlings, and one person digs the hole. After the hole is dug, the saplings are put in directly, and then filled with soil and watered.
At the beginning, the cooperation between the two was a little rusty, but the more they worked, the more they cooperated. In the end, it only took a minute or two to plant a tree, which was not only fast, but also not tiring.
The two of them worked until the evening, and they had already planted 700 of the 1,000 saplings that had just been delivered, and they only needed to spend half a day tomorrow to plant all the rest.
Looking at the newly planted saplings, which almost doubled the green area of the forest farm, Director Chen felt extremely relieved and happy.
He has already started thinking about finishing the rest tomorrow, and then he can go to the forestry company in Bahe Town... Well, he can simply place regular orders in the future, let them deliver the saplings and then pay for it, so as to save it over and over again Running into town, wasting time.
When Director Chen was planting trees today, Hu Xiaoer stayed in the forest farm all the time. At night, he finished drinking the milk and left.
This made Director Chen realize that Hu Xiaoer really only seemed to be close to him, and he would only come to the gas station when he was around, otherwise he would run to hide somewhere by himself.
"It seems that our father and I are really destined!"
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