“Brother, what do we do now?” Su Xiaoqiang asked Su Ze.
“Look for it!”
“This big goose must have gotten upset yesterday.”
“First it got abandoned by the swan, then it got bullied by the white fox.”
“Probably got angrier and angrier, then just ran away.”
Su Ze shook his head.
They were always giving him a headache.
After washing up and tidying up,
Su Ze and Su Xiaoqiang were about to go out and look for the big white goose.
“Ah Ze, good news, good news!”
Village Chief Su Jun had a smile on his face, holding a paper covered with red stamps, he came to find Su Ze.
When he reached the courtyard gate, Su Jun discovered
that Su Ze and Su Xiaoqiang were about to leave.
“Where are you going?” Su Jun asked, puzzled.
Seeing it was the village chief, Su Ze sighed and said,
“My big goose, I don't know what's gotten into it.”
“It ran away in the middle of the night.”
As he spoke, Su Ze showed the surveillance footage Su Xiaoqiang had pulled up to Su Jun.
Looking at the phone screen, the big white goose wearing a small backpack ran away.
Su Jun frowned, looking like an old man on the subway looking at his phone.
“This…”
“It really ran away…”
He had lived for decades.
Su Jun had never heard of a big goose running away before.
And this goose
was carrying a small backpack???
“By the way, village chief.”
“What good news did you just say?”
Su Ze remembered that the village chief had a smile on his face when he came over.
Hearing Su Ze’s question, Su Jun remembered what he came for.
Picking up the paper, he said quickly, “It’s approved, your artificial lake application is approved!”
“Su Ze, look.”
“The Forestry Bureau even expanded it for you.”
“A twenty-mu artificial lake!”
“When you dig it out, you won't even need it for watering, you can even raise sharks if you want!”
Su Ze took the application form, which was already stamped with the red seals of the Forestry Bureau and other subordinate units, from the village chief.
He glanced at the twenty-mu artificial lake area, nodded.
“Thank you, village chief.”
As he spoke, Su Ze put the application form away.
“Aren’t you happy?” Su Jun asked.
Su Ze forced a smile, “Yeah, I’m happy.”
“Village chief, the Forestry Bureau told me about this beforehand.”
“Let’s not worry about the artificial lake for now.”
“Village chief, help me think about where my big goose could have gone.”
Hearing Su Ze's words,
Su Jun thought seriously.
“Is it possible it went to the big lake in the village?”
“Or, somewhere else?”
“Too bad you don’t have a dog, otherwise the dog would definitely know your goose's scent…”
Su Jun's words were only half said, Su Ze’s eyes lit up.
“I don’t have a dog, but I have a fox!”
“The white fox!”
As soon as Su Ze finished speaking,
a white figure rushed out of the courtyard.
Su Jun, seeing this, took two steps back in fright.
“Fox…fox???”
“Ah Ze, why did you get another fox?”
Su Ze: “This isn't the time for that.”
“White fox.”
“The big goose is missing, take us to look for it.”
The white fox nodded: “Jī—jī jī—” (It's a piece of cake)
Su Jun, seeing this, was amazed.
“Wow, this white fox knows how to nod.”
“It wouldn't be able to understand, would it!”
While Su Jun was exclaiming, the white fox had already started sniffing the ground.
“Sniff sniff—”
“Sniff sniff—”
After sniffing for a while, the white fox found a direction.
“Jī jī—”
(This way!)
It called twice and then ran out.
Seeing this, Su Ze quickly followed.
Su Jun was left behind, exclaiming.
“This fox is amazing, it can actually find the goose!”
“Raising a fox as a dog?”
“It’s awesome!”
…
Following the white fox, the three walked for about half an hour.
They didn't stop until they reached the end of the mountain path.
Looking at the goose feathers all over the ground, Su Ze sighed.
“Looks like…”
“The big goose is probably gone!”
A whole lot of goose feathers.
On the edge of the cliff.
No matter how you think about it.
It must have been carried away by something.
“I should have stewed this guy yesterday.”
“At least the fat wouldn't have gone to someone else...”
Su Xiaoqiang looked at all the goose feathers, regretfully.
While Su Ze and his brother were lamenting, Su Jun spoke out to comfort them.
“It’s okay, it’s just a goose.”
“If you want to eat, you can take a couple back to my place.”
Su Ze's eyes lit up.
“Village chief, you're welcome to do that.”
“Let’s go, let’s go.”
Su Ze pulled the village chief, and they went directly to his house.
He remembered correctly, the village chief had a few geese, and several that were hatched not long ago.
The village chief had said so.
It was too kind to refuse!
…
“Coming, coming, the goose is on the table!”
Su Ze brought the big goose out of the kitchen.
The iron pot stewed goose, steaming hot, had a fragrant aroma, a unique aroma of the countryside.
They hadn’t found the big white goose in the morning, so they went to the village chief’s house and brought two geese back home.
And now, the goose was home, and it was being stewed.
Su Jun wouldn’t leave.
He had been craving Su Ze's cooking for a long time.
Today he finally got the chance.
“Haha, it smells great.”
“Ah Ze, I won’t be polite!”
Su Jun held his bowl, looking at the big goose on the table, his mouth watering.
Su Ze laughed: “Village chief, eat quickly.”
“See if you like it.”
As soon as Su Ze finished speaking, Su Jun couldn’t hold back and directly took a big piece of goose meat and put it in his mouth.
As soon as he tasted the thick soup with a hint of spice,
Su Jun’s brows furrowed, his eyes widened.
“Mm—!”
“This is amazing!”
“The goose meat is tender and chewy.”
“Delicious, delicious!”
As soon as he finished speaking,
Su Jun became a rice-eating machine.
He mixed the soup with rice, praising it the whole time, and finished three big bowls.
After the entire pot of goose was gone,
they finally put down their chopsticks in satisfaction.
After they were full and satisfied,
Su Jun asked about the artificial lake.
“Ah Ze, are you going to hire a construction team to dig this artificial lake?”
Su Ze said: “I have that idea.”
“Village chief, how much would it cost to hire a construction team to dig this twenty-mu artificial lake?”
Su Jun lit a cigarette, thought for a moment, and then said: “About two hundred thousand yuan.”
Su Ze was obviously taken aback.
Two hundred thousand?
That expensive?
He thought it would cost around one hundred thousand.
Su Xiaoqiang, at this time, also said, “Brother, the village chief’s price is actually a bit low.”
“I looked at a few construction teams these past two days, and their quotes were all over ten thousand yuan per mu of land.”
“Even the cheapest one would be two hundred and eighty thousand.”
Su Jun nodded, “About right.”
“Ten thousand to twenty thousand yuan per mu is the normal price, after all, it includes the cost of labor and materials.”
“Ah Ze, what are you thinking?”
Su Ze thought for a moment and said, “I don’t have enough money.”
“If it really can’t be helped, then we’ll just dig five to six mu for now.”
“We’ll expand it later if there’s a need.”
Although the reward for catching the wanted criminal arrived a few days ago.
The reward plus Su Ze’s savings, barely amounted to two hundred thousand.
But he couldn’t use up all his money.
The farm was going to need money for a lot of things.
So, they would just dig five to six mu for now.
Anyway, the application was approved for twenty mu, and it wouldn't disappear, they could expand later if they wanted.
However, after hearing Su Ze’s words, Village Chief Su Jun was silent for a moment, and then said,
“Ah Ze, I have a way.”
“We can still dig twenty mu of artificial lake, but we can save more than half the money.”
“Do you want to hear it?”