When Xiang Jin and Yan Chen went back, Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng were not in the house. They still found them in the vegetable field. They were picking vegetables in the greenhouse and preparing for the vegetable vendors' harvest in the afternoon.
Work.
"Grandma Mo, Grandpa Zeng?!"
"Hey, you are back? Have you eaten yet?!" When Xiang Jin and the others went to the fields, Grandma Mo was bending down to pick peppers, and Grandpa Zeng was picking green beans in front of a row of shelves.
"Eat, have you eaten?" Xiang Jin and the others walked in.
"Oh, we haven't eaten yet. Three families came to collect vegetables in the afternoon. We haven't had time to make lunch yet. They have been collecting vegetables since morning. We just sent away several vegetable vendors," Grandma Mo said. Suddenly
They saw Ouyang Bo following Xiang Jin and the others, "Who is this child?"
Yan Chen introduced them to Jin first, "Oh, this is Xiang Jin's brother. We are going to Miyun Reservoir in two days, and he will go there too, so I invited him to stay with us.
For two days."
"Oh, good, good!" Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng were the first to express their welcome to him.
"Hello Grandpa Zeng, hello Grandma Mo," Ouyang Bo also hurriedly stood up and greeted the two old people politely.
"Hey, good, good, good, good boy, just be casual. You see, we are busy right now and can't entertain you properly. Why don't you be more considerate?" Grandpa Zeng smiled at him and nodded.
Nodding, Grandma Mo said apologetically.
Ouyang Bo said, "Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo don't have to be so polite. I understand them. I am a person who can be at ease wherever I go. I don't need to take care of you." After that, he walked forward and picked up an empty basket next to him.
Then I went to help them pick vegetables.
"Oh, no, no, kid, go out and play, go out and play, it's fine if your grandpa Zeng and I are here," Grandma Mo saw and hurriedly stopped her, then faced Yan Chen and Xiang Jin who were standing aside.
He said, "Chenchen, girls, you all go out and play!"
Xiang Jin and Yan Chen also stepped forward. Each of them picked up a basket and tried to help collect the vegetables. Xiang Jin handed the vegetable basket in his hand to Yan Chen, then took Grandma Mo's arm and led her to the door of the greenhouse.
Push direction.
"Grandma Mo, Grandpa Zeng, you two go out to rest first, and then get some food to eat. It's so late and you haven't eaten yet, so what's the point? Leave this to us, we have all eaten.
, and he also knows how to pick it!”
"Ah?!" Grandma Mo's footsteps stopped, wanting to stay and pick for a while, so Yan Chen advised, "Grandma, grandpa, you just go back first, you don't have to worry here."
Grandma Mo wanted to say something else, but Yan Chen and his grandfather said, "Then let's go back," and he walked out from the green beans shelf.
Then Xiang Jin asked, "Grandma Mo, Grandpa Zeng, do you have to pick all the peppers? Which vegetables have been picked, and which vegetables have not been picked yet?"
Grandma Mo nodded and said, "Just pick the peppers in this box, and we won't pick them after they're done. Don't pick the bell peppers today. We'll pick them again in two days when they turn redder. We've already picked the cucumbers and loofahs."
The corn in the corn shed has been chopped, and all the green beans need to be picked. The mushrooms haven’t been picked yet, and the eggplants haven’t been picked yet. There’s no need to pick anything else, let them all grow.”
"Oh, okay, we all know!" Xiang Jin and the others nodded, and then Yan Chen asked again, "Should each vegetable be packed in three vegetable baskets?"
"Well, if we pack it into three vegetable baskets, it will serve three customers, so we don't have to repack it again later," her grandmother said.
"Okay, I understand," Yan Chen nodded.
Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo went out.
Xiang Jin handed a pair of scissors to Ouyang Bo, "Use scissors to cut, so as not to hurt the vegetable seedlings. Some vegetables are very stubborn, and if you can't pick them off, you will pull them. That will easily hurt you."
Plant.”
"Oh, okay!" Ouyang Bo took the scissors from her hand, and then said to Xiang Jin, "Be careful when you cut, don't cut the plants, and pick the big ones instead of the small ones.
Don't cut them off, let them continue to grow."
Ouyang Bo said, "I know this, but you are too stupid to say that to me!"
Xiang Jin said, "Aren't I afraid that you have never done farm work?"
Ouyang Bo rolled his eyes at her angrily, "Have you ever eaten pork and never seen a pig running? I've seen everything picked in Grandma Mo's basket."
"Okay, be careful, don't damage the plant! It's not easy to grow a vegetable seedling in this weather," Xiang Jin reminded again.
"I know! Don't worry, it won't be broken!"
Xiang Jin stood aside and observed him for a while, and she felt relieved when she saw that he was indeed very gentle in his actions, not careless or frizzy.
Yan Chen said, "Then you pick peppers here, and I'll pick eggplants over there!"
"Oh, okay," Xiang Jin walked to the other end of the pepper field and picked it.
Half an hour later, Xiang Jin and the three of them had picked peppers, eggplants, and green beans. After moving the vegetables back home and storing them, they went to the mushroom shed to pick mushrooms.
"Wow, so many mushrooms?" Looking at the rows of mushrooms on the shelf, Ouyang Bo couldn't help but exclaimed. Then he hurriedly picked up a basket to pick, but was stopped by Xiang Jin, "This
You don’t need to pick the ones on the side, come over here and pick them!”
"Don't you need to pick the ones here?" Ouyang Bo was confused.
Xiang Jin pointed to the mushrooms on both sides and explained to him, "This side has already been picked. You see, the ones left are all small mushrooms, while the ones over there are all big mushrooms. Go pick those over there."
"Oh, is that true?" Ouyang Bo took a closer look and found that the mushrooms over there were growing much denser and much larger.
So he followed Xiang Jin there, and then Xiang Jin taught him how to pick a mushroom that looked intact without picking up the spores and small mycelium around it.
Ouyang Bo said, "I didn't expect that there are so many things to pay attention to when picking mushrooms?"
Xiang Jin said, "That's natural! You don't know how many mushrooms you will lose with your rough picking method just now, at least a dozen."
Think about it, if you pick one mushroom, you will lose potentially a dozen mushrooms. If you pick a basket or how many baskets, how many mushrooms will you lose in total?
Therefore, this is also a meticulous job, and there is no room for sloppiness, otherwise the losses will be huge!
Also, if the mushrooms picked are incomplete in appearance or damaged, they will not be sold at a reasonable price, and the loss will be huge! You can pick slowly, don’t be in a hurry!"
"Oh, okay, I get it!"
Just when they were picking the last two rows of mushrooms, they heard the sound of a truck driving outside.
Xiang Jin said, "The person collecting the vegetables should be here."
"Yeah," Yan Chen responded softly.
Ouyang Bo said anxiously, "No, we haven't finished picking yet?"
Xiang Jin said, "Don't worry, they all come in batches and will not rush together. This is the first customer, and the second and third customers will be half an hour apart, that is,
It is said that we still have an hour to get to the last customer, and we will definitely be able to pick all these mushrooms in this hour."
"Oh, that's good, that's good," Ouyang Bo breathed a sigh of relief, "I thought they all came together?"
Xiang Jin asked, "How is that possible? If that were the case, wouldn't it be easy to get confused if they were all piled together? This one needs to be loaded, that one needs to be weighed, and that one needs to pick vegetables. And it's very easy.
Missing payment.
So Grandpa Zeng and the others arranged their arrangements at intervals one by one. They prepared the dishes that each customer needed in advance. When they came, they weighed them directly on the scale, and then went directly to the car. This was both orderly and orderly.
It improves efficiency and benefits both buyers and sellers without any delay!”
Ouyang Bo nodded his head, "Oh, this is good, this is good!"
About ten or twenty minutes later, Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng came in to carry mushrooms. Xiang Jin and the others picked more than a dozen baskets, and Grandpa Zeng and the others carried out fourteen baskets this time.
Seeing that there were only two baskets left, Xiang Jin whispered to Yan Chen, "Is this a big customer coming back? At least a big customer who collects mushrooms!"
Yan Chen said, "Well, that's true!"
Xiang Jin said, "No, we have to hurry up. I think the second customer will come soon, otherwise we won't be able to get enough by then."
"Yeah!" So the two of them sped up their movements.
Ouyang Bo saw the two of them speeding up, so he also speeded up the movements of his hands. However, he broke a few of them when he speeded up. When Xiang Jin saw it, he said, "You should keep the same speed as before. You
Don’t compare yourself to us, we have done this often before and are more skilled than you!”
Ouyang Bo felt a little upset, but he still accepted her suggestion, and as expected, he slowed down and took actions lightly.
Following the sound of a truck moving, Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng each carried a basket and walked in to pick with them.
"Then the customer left?" Xiang Jin asked.
Grandma Mo said, "Well, let's go!"
"Where is this customer? He asked for so many mushrooms?" Xiang Jin was curious.
Grandma Mo laughed when she mentioned this, "Speaking of which, does this have something to do with you and Chen Chen?"
"Ah? Is it related to us?" Xiang Jin and Yan Chen were both surprised, and then looked at each other and then looked at Grandma Mo and the others.
Grandma Mo nodded and said, "It's Manager Xiao who runs a clothing factory in the county, and his uncle and old man.
He originally opened a fruit supermarket in the county town, but then the business of the fruit supermarket was not very good. Then his brother-in-law, the manager Xiao, suggested that he change the fruit supermarket into a fruit and vegetable supermarket, and then he changed it to a fruit and vegetable supermarket.
Introducing him to come to our place to bring vegetables, saying that we have a full range of vegetables here.
Who knows that when he brought it back, he really sold a lot of money, especially our fresh mushrooms, which are the most popular in the city. It is said that many hotel and restaurant owners are
We get one or two baskets of goods from him, and some residents in the surrounding streets also weigh the jins and jins, so he takes the most of the mushrooms in our house."
Ouyang Bo said, "Didn't you say that mushrooms should not be stored overnight? Especially if they cannot be kept overnight, they will easily spoil. It should be almost four or five o'clock when he takes them back now, so he can only wait until tomorrow to take action.
Got it!"
Xiang Jin said, "No, since many restaurants and restaurants are buying baskets from him, it means that the owners of those restaurants and restaurants have reached a long-term cooperative relationship with him.
He pulled it back and threw it away from them, and then put the rest directly in the store for sale.
People like them who open supermarkets in the city don't have to say whether they're open or not. As long as they want to, it doesn't matter if they open the door all night long to do business.
Since he only came to buy these vegetables at this time, it means that he does not have to worry about the sales of these vegetables. They may have already reached a tacit understanding of sales with the surrounding residents. He must have brought them back at this time just for the purpose of selling them at night.
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Besides, the temperature is low this winter, so the mushrooms are stored much better than in the summer. Even if they can’t sell them all on the same day, they can still sell them the next day.”
Grandma Mo said, "What? Their mushrooms are not allowed to stay overnight every day."
Ouyang Bo looked at Xiang Jin in surprise, "Hey, I didn't expect that you were right?!"
Xiang Jin said, "There's nothing surprising. As long as you remember that few businessmen are willing to lose money, if you think it's impossible or unbelievable, then he must have something to rely on, otherwise he wouldn't dare to do that.
Do."
With the addition of Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo, picking the mushrooms became faster. In a short time, they picked several more baskets, and only the last row was left.
"Uncle Zeng, Aunt Mo?!" At this moment, shouts came from outside.
Grandma Mo said, "It's Xiao Gao here!" Then she and Grandpa Zeng went out.
"Xiao Gao? Isn't that the brother of the proprietress of the small restaurant?" Xiang Jin looked at Yan Chen.
"Well, that's them," Yan Chen nodded.
Then Xiang Jin guessed, "Now that the whole school is on holiday, they won't be able to order much food from now on, right?"
Yan Chen shook his head, "I don't know!"
Unexpectedly, in the end, Xiang Jin guessed wrong. Not only did the proprietress and the two brothers not pull less, they also increased the amount of vegetables they harvested from their vegetable growers in Baytou.
Finally, Xiang Jin and the others found out from Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo that the proprietress and her brother had taken advantage of the winter vacation. The whole family had now opened four stalls selling vegetables, two of which were in Shengshui Town.
, one is on the campus of Maode Middle School, and the other is still on the street in their hometown.
Xiang Jin said, "The boss lady and her brother are very ambitious. Do they want to earn money from the people of Shengshui Town and establish a vegetable monopoly in Shengshui Town?"
Yan Chen smiled and said, "That's true!"
Grandpa Zeng said, "The Chinese New Year is coming soon. According to the importance that people in our country attach to traditional festivals, especially in preparation for the New Year, they will be very willing to do so. So, the price of vegetables in the market recently
The level will be much higher than before.”
Then Xiang Jin asked, "Have your vegetable prices been higher than theirs recently?"
Grandma Mo said, "In addition to raising the price of mushrooms by two cents per kilogram, we also raised the price a little bit, but we didn't mention much. After all, we are also doing long-term business, and now there are more and more
People are starting to learn to grow vegetables in greenhouses.
By next year, there will definitely be a lot more households in our county. If you raise too much with others now and hurt our feelings, others may not come to you to buy something by then."
Xiang Jin and the others nodded, "That's true! Well, Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo, why don't you just plant this kind of mushroom in the future? I don't think anyone is planting this thing yet. Our family can plant a few more varieties."
"
Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo looked at each other and smiled, and then Grandma Mo said, "Chenchen's aunt has mailed us several new mushroom seeds and planting methods. We are currently in the trial planting stage. We will see if they can be used during the New Year.
There are ready-made mushrooms to eat.”
"Really?!" Xiang Jin's eyes suddenly lit up with a little excitement.
Grandma Mo smiled and nodded, "Yeah, it's in the shed next door."
Then Xiang Jin asked, "What kind of mushrooms are they growing?"
Grandma Mo looked at Grandpa Zeng and said, "Are there straw mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, and whatnot, apricot... oyster mushroom?"
Grandpa Zeng nodded, "Yes, that's King Oyster Mushroom!"
"Pleurotus eryngii?" Xiang Jin's eyes were even brighter, "This mushroom is good. It is said that this mushroom can grow very big, and the flesh of the mushroom is tight. One or two of them can weigh one kilogram.
, and it is said that this mushroom tastes very good whether it is sliced and fried or cut into cubes and cooked in soup.”
Grandma Mo's eyes suddenly widened with a smile, "Yes, Chenchen's aunt told us the same thing when she called us. She said the commercial value of this kind of mushroom is even greater."
"Yeah," Xiang Jin nodded vigorously, "Then you don't need to plant other vegetables from now on, just plant some for your own consumption."
Grandpa Zeng said, "It depends on the situation. It still needs to be planted. At present, many people have just begun to explore and plant some green leafy vegetables. Things like cucumbers and peppers have not been grown yet. We still have these.
market, so we still have to continue planting.”
Xiang Jin asked, "Are you busy enough? Just like today, you don't even have time to prepare lunch! Otherwise, you can just invite some people to pick vegetables for you?"
Grandpa Zeng waved his hand and said, "If this doesn't work, you still have to do it yourself. Not to mention that many people in Wantou also grow Dameng vegetables themselves. Whenever others come to our place to harvest vegetables, they will also go to their place to harvest vegetables.
Everyone is busy working, and the remaining ones are all with bad hearts. If we let them come here to help us pick vegetables, we don’t know what will happen to our vegetables, so I don’t worry!”
"Then you can't ignore your own health?" Xiang Jin asked.
Yan Chen took the opportunity to express his opinion, "If that's the case, why don't you, grandpa and grandma, move the mushroom shed to the next county? Xiang Jin and I have taken a fancy to a piece of sandy land in the next county and thought we could plant watermelons and grapes there.
It's the most suitable.
That place is very big, probably dozens or hundreds of acres, and the terrain is relatively flat and gentle. We want to contract it and use it exclusively for growing watermelons and grapes. When the time comes, we will allocate a piece of land for you.
Grow mushrooms.”
Her grandmother laughed and said, "When did you go to the next county?"
Xiang Jin said, "We didn't go to the next county. We saw such a place from the county records."
Grandpa Zeng said, "I know which place you are talking about. It is at the junction of the next county and our county. There is a village called Huaishupo Village."
"Yes, yes, yes, Grandpa Zeng, you know that place?" Xiang Jin was excited.
Grandpa Zeng said, "You know, that place used to be within the jurisdiction of our county. Later, when the country re-divided counties, that place, along with several other towns around it, was placed in the next county.
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Later, I heard that the desertification in that area was very serious, and the crops that people planted did not yield much harvest. People gradually moved to areas with more forest coverage, and that area was abandoned and no one wanted it.
, in the end, the county government had to take back that piece of land, and instead redistributed land to them in other places and encouraged them to cultivate wasteland."
"Yes, yes, that's what we learned from the regional records. Grandpa Zeng, I didn't expect you to be so familiar with this place," Xiang Jin said.
Grandpa Zeng said, "When I was organizing work in the town, I had a colleague who lived in that place. Then I often heard him mention that place. The more I heard about it, the more I remembered it."
"Oh, that's it," Xiang Jin nodded, and then said, "Yes, Grandma Mo, Grandpa Zeng, you can move the mushroom shed there. Then we can build it bigger and plant more mushrooms."
Pleurotus eryngii, a very popular mushroom, is close to our county seat and also to several other towns, so sales and transportation are very convenient.
Grandpa Zeng, you usually like to take care of flowers and plants, and you are also very experienced in tree grafting. We don’t need you to help us with any heavy or tiring work. We just need you to help us with the occasional work.
The employees will provide guidance on planting techniques, such as how to cultivate melon seedlings and prune branches.”
Grandma Mo glanced at Grandpa Zeng and said, "We know a little about growing mushrooms and other vegetables, but we have never grown watermelons or grapevines? And it's still in sandy soil. It can really be grown in sandy soil."
Watermelon and grapes. What if this gets messed up by you?"
Xiang Jin nodded confidently, "Yes, watermelons and grapes are products of the desert. What they like most is land with relatively good water permeability. Look at the people in northern Xinjiang who grow watermelons and grapes.
How good it is, and about this kind of planting, Grandma Mo, you don’t have to worry, she should be familiar with all the techniques in this kind of planting."
Yan Chen said, "I told Uncle Tao about this. He said that he knew a comrade from Northern Xinjiang in the army. He is currently working in the cooking class. He will have a month of family leave after the new year.
He can go to Northern Xinjiang with him when the time comes, and see if he can
Find an expert over there who has experience in planting in this area and bring him back to help us guide you. Grandpa, if it is convenient for you, you can go with us. As for harvesting vegetables at home, I will ask Uncle Tao
Just arrange for two people to be brought over from the provincial capital."
Grandma Mo just looked at Grandpa Zeng without saying a word, waiting for him to make up his mind.
After being silent for a while, Grandpa Zeng nodded and said, "Okay, then I will follow your Uncle Tao."
After the matter was settled, Yan Chen looked at Xiang Jin and asked, "Is your aunt sure you want to leave her job?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "I don't know!"
Yan Chen said, "If she is determined to resign, she can also go to Northern Xinjiang with her. I think this is a good opportunity."
Xiang Jin nodded, "I'll ask her then!"
"Well, good!"
Now that the matter was over, Xiang Jin asked, "Grandma Mo, what happened to the bacon we marinated before? Have you turned it over? If not, let's turn it over now?"
Grandma Mo said, "Turn it over, turn it over, we turn it over every three days, and we can take it out to wash and dry tomorrow."
Xiang Jin said, "Then I'll make some pieces of smoked bacon."
"Do it, do it, yes, there are fruit trees there, and you can also use cypress branches. When the time comes, let Chenchen go cut it for you on the tree on our back slope!" Grandma Mo said with a smile.
"Okay!" Xiang Jin responded readily, and then she turned her head and asked Ouyang Bo, "Does your family like to eat smoked bacon?"
Ouyang Bo said, "It should be okay. Our family doesn't have the conditions to make smoked bacon, so I'm not sure about it, but I still like the taste."
Xiang Jin said, "Okay, let's do half of it then?!"
"good!"
"Is there anything else?" Yan Chen then asked Xiang Jin.
Xiang Jin was stunned for a moment, then blinked, "No more!"
Yan Chen said, "Okay, then let's go to Aunt Liao's house and pay her the money for the pork!"
"Oh, yes, yes, I almost forgot, let's go, let's go! Let's come back later and shave some cypress branches on the slope. We can save some time tomorrow!" As she said that, she took Yan Chen outside the house.
After pushing for a few steps, she looked back at Ouyang Bo, "Do you want to go to Aunt Liao's house with us?"
Ouyang Bo, who originally felt that he had been abandoned by the two of them, quickly raised the corners of his mouth after hearing her words, "Okay!" Then he stood up from his seat and walked straight towards her.
They walked over.
After going out of the house, Xiang Jin handed the money he had prepared to Yan Chen, "You can give it to her later."
Yan Chen didn't answer, "No, I have money here!"
Xiang Jin rolled his eyes at him angrily, "I'm the boss too, okay?"
Yan Chen laughed immediately after hearing what she said, and then reached out to take the money, "Then Boss Xiang, how much is it here?"
Xiang Jin said, "Six hundred!"
Yan Chen directly took out two hundred and zero rolls and stuffed them back into her hand, "Based on the share ratio, you don't need to pay that much!"
This sentence immediately silenced Xiang Jin, so after she opened her mouth she could only say, "Okay then!"
When they went there, Aunt Liao was washing sweet potatoes by the well in the yard. Looking at the piles of sweet potatoes, Xiang Jin couldn't help but ask, "Aunt, why are you washing so many sweet potatoes?"
Chickens, ducks, or pigs?”
When Aunt Liao saw them entering the courtyard, a smile immediately appeared on her face, "Hey, girl Jin Yatou, Xiao Chen, are you on holiday?"
"Yeah!" The two nodded.
Then Aunt Liao looked at Ouyang Bo who was with them, and asked Xiang Jin with a smile on her face, "Is this your brother?"
"Well," Xiang Jin nodded, "We can still tell we look alike, right?"
Aunt Liao said, "They look like, they look like two brothers and sisters. The young man is also energetic and good-looking!"
"Hello, aunt!" Ouyang Bo's face turned slightly red, a little embarrassed.
"Oh, okay, okay! Come on, let's go up and talk," Aunt Liao put down the half-washed sweet potatoes, and then led them to the street eaves to meet them.
"Aren't you going to wash the sweet potatoes?" Xiang Jin asked.
Aunt Liao said "Hey", "Don't worry about that, it will be the same when I wash it later."
As soon as they reached the eaves of the street, Aunt Liao brought stools for them to sit on, and then went to bring an iron pot to light a fire for them to roast. Xiang Jin took her hand to stop her and said, "
Auntie, please stop working, we are not cold, and we will go back later."
"You've just arrived and you're going back? Why don't you sit here for a while while Auntie cooks you a bowl of afternoon tea?" Aunt Liao's expression wrinkled slightly.
Yan Chen refused and said, "No, Aunt Liao, we have to go back and cut some cypress branches later."
Xiang Jin nodded to Aunt Liao, "Well, we plan to make some smoked bacon tomorrow. Auntie, do you want to smoke it? Can we bring it together then?"
Aunt Liao asked, "Didn't it smell so much?"
Xiang Jin said, "It's smoked. Auntie, I was just going to tell you. Can we borrow your silkworm rack for a while?"
Aunt Liao responded without thinking, "Okay, okay, we won't be raising silkworms anymore anyway, just use them casually. This can actually dry a lot of meat when the time comes. If you need it then,
As for this pot, you can use it when the time comes!"
"Okay, thank you, Auntie!" Xiang Jin's eyes narrowed with a smile.
Then Yan Chen took out the money and handed it to Aunt Liao, who took it with some embarrassment, "Look, I'm collecting your money now?"
Xiang Jin said, "Look what you said, Aunt Liao, you have worked so hard to raise a pig, shouldn't you be paid for it? We would be embarrassed if you didn't."
Aunt Liao laughed, and then she did not count the money, but directly took out three cards and gave them to them.
Xiang Jin and the others naturally won't accept it, "Auntie, what are you doing? We are not allowed to accept it. If you refuse to accept the money, we will have to return the meat to you?"
"Hmm, you want to cry again?" Aunt Liao stopped, obviously disapproving.
Xiang Jin directly pressed her hand back, "Take it, take it, don't be polite to us? You don't need to be so polite to us. You see, we are not polite when you bring us things.
It was collected generously."
Aunt Liao sighed and said, "Okay, I'll accept it then! Just wait a moment, I'll go in and come out."
Several people thought she had gone into the house to put money, so they nodded.
Not long after, Aunt Liao came out with a basket and a plastic bag, "These are some mountain fruits that your brother Xiangyang mailed to me two days ago. You can take some back to eat. The other half of the basket of eggs is for you, Xiaochen."
Help me take it back to your grandpa and the others, your chickens have been weaned from laying eggs for almost half a month."
Yan Chen did not refuse, but directly reached out and took the thing from her hand, "Thank you, Aunt Liao!"
"Hey, thank you for what? What's the big deal? Do you need to be so polite? Besides, you can just go to the greenhouse and pick whatever vegetables you want to eat, ah?"
"Well," Xiang Jin and Yan Chen nodded, and then Xiang Jin said, "Auntie, I want some sweet potatoes from you, and I want to eat roasted sweet potatoes!"
"Hey, take it, take it, take it as you like, wait, I'll find a basket for you!" As she said this, Aunt Liao forgot to walk into the house.
Xiang Jin shouted from behind, "We don't need a basket, just use a plastic bag!"
"Okay!" Aunt Liao's reply came from inside the room.
"Oh, why did you bring so many things back from your Aunt Liao's house again?" Grandma Mo, who was sitting on the street eaves picking vegetables, laughed when she saw each of them came back with the same thing in their hands.
Xiang Jin and the others said, "That's right. Aunt Liao is so enthusiastic that it's hard to refuse her hospitality."
Grandma Mo smiled and said, "Your Aunt Liao is just like that. She has nothing to do. When the time comes, give her some of what we have at home."
Yan Chen and Xiang Jin nodded, and Xiang Jin suddenly said, "Oh, I forgot to ask her just now. Brother Xiang Yang won't be able to come back to celebrate the New Year this year?"
Grandma Mo said, "No, I heard that he was originally going to come back, but something happened to one of his comrades, so he exchanged family leave with his comrades. His comrades are next year, so he went
He will be on duty for his comrades this year, and he will come back next year when it is his comrades' turn to go home to visit relatives. It is said that he will bring his partner back by then and throw the banquet at home."
"Really? Aunt Liao must be extremely happy!" The corners of Xiang Jin's mouth raised, and his eyes sparkled.
Grandpa Zeng suddenly interjected, "Isn't that right? Your Aunt Liao still wants to push this house to be rebuilt during the Chinese New Year."
Xiang Jin said, "That's no need. Brother Xiang Yang is developing well in the army now, and her future daughter-in-law will also work in the county. When the house is repaired, she won't be the only one living there. Oh, maybe
She has no choice but to live there. When she has grandchildren, won't she have to move to the city to take care of their children? The area around the child cannot be taken away in a year or two. At least she has to take him to study.
Bar?
In a few years, no one will live in this house, and we don’t know what kind of dilapidation it will be in.
But maybe by that time, she will have already adapted to life in the city and won’t be able to come back to live.”
Grandma Mo said, "Isn't that right? Your Grandpa Zeng and I persuaded her in the same way, saying that instead of suffering and spending money to repair that house, and then not being able to live in it, she might as well save the money in
There, I will use some of it to buy a spacious house for your brother Xiangyang in the city. It will be great for the whole family to live comfortably!"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, the key is that she doesn't have to waste time making money next year. She can continue to grow greenhouse vegetables. The price of vegetables will probably not be so popular next year."
Grandma Mo said, "That's the truth!"
Ouyang Bo asked, "Then dad and the others still want to promote the cultivation of greenhouse vegetables and develop animal husbandry throughout the city?"
Xiang Jin said, "So they have to open up the market and sell our agricultural and sideline products to all parts of the country, and they must be fast and seize the market first, otherwise they will lose it when others grow and develop it.
Got a head start."
Yan Chen said, "The future market will be like this, mainly dominated by the economy and information. Whoever seizes the opportunity will have the right to harvest the first or second round of capital market leeks."
Xiang Jin said, "Oh, okay, okay, let's go, let's go, let's cut down the cypress branches first, so as not to have to go to the back slope when it gets dark later."
Grandma Mo said, "Yes, yes, if you want to go, hurry up. It looks like it's going to snow again tonight. Be careful that the snow will be heavy tomorrow and we won't be able to cut it."
So Xiang Jin and Yan Chen each took a machete, and then the three of them walked up the back slope together.