When the brother and sister returned home, they found that only their grandparents were left at home. Xiang Jin asked, "Aunt Xiaoli has left?"
Their grandpa got up and went to the kitchen to cut watermelon for them. Their grandma said, "Well, she has left. She came to invite us to eat out at night, but we refused. She has already given it to them when she came to live here."
I've been in trouble, why don't I let people spend money again?
I asked her to go back early, otherwise it would be bad if your Uncle Yang Yue went out and booked a restaurant."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then heard her grandma say, "We have already agreed with her that we will go back tomorrow after your aunt comes."
The brother and sister nodded again, and Xiang Jin went to the bathroom to wash his hands and came out, then said, "Then we will wash these sheets and quilt covers when we get up tomorrow morning."
Her grandma said, "Your Aunt Xiaoli said no. She said she would take it back to them for cleaning. They have a washing machine there. We can just fold it and put it in bags for them."
"Oh, okay!" Xiang Jin's grandfather brought the watermelon. Xiang Jin picked up a piece and took a bite. Then she asked, "Will Aunt Xiaoli come over tomorrow? We need to give her the key to our room."
Woolen cloth."
Her grandma said, "Yes, school will resume classes tomorrow, and your Aunt Xiaoli will have classes tomorrow morning."
Xiang Jin nodded again.
"Ouch, what's going on? You look so miserable and haven't rested?" The next morning, when her aunt and Aunt Xiaoli arrived, they saw Xiang Jin sitting on the cool chair in the living room.
She had not yet woken up and looked listless, then her aunt said.
Xiang Jin yawned and called out, "Aunt, Aunt Xiaoli!"
Both of them smiled when they looked at her. Xiang Jin's grandmother looked at her and said, "Her brother came yesterday, and I shared a room with her that night, and her brother slept in the same room with her grandfather. This child
I’ve never been used to sharing a room with others, so I didn’t sleep well. When I woke up in the morning, I couldn’t stop yawning.”
Aunt Xiaoli and her aunt were both dumbfounded, and her aunt said, "It's okay, you can have a good sleep when you get to our fruit patch later, and then you can sleep how you want," and she followed her again
Ask Xiang Jin her grandparents, "Have they all been packed up?"
The two old people agreed, and then Xiang Jin and her grandmother took Aunt Xiaoli's hand and said, "Daughter, there are some ingredients in the refrigerator. Don't forget to eat them when the time comes. There is also a watermelon here.
A cantaloupe, don’t you forget to eat it then?”
Aunt Xiaoli said, "Oh, how can I finish eating this? Sister Xue brought me some fresh fruits and vegetables this morning. How about you cut them up and take them on the road to eat?"
Xiang Jin's grandma waved her hand, "It's not that far from their place. It takes more than forty minutes to get there. Do we still have some watermelon to eat when we get there? If you can't eat it, take it to school.
Share it with your colleagues."
Aunt Xiaoli nodded with a smile, "Okay, then I'll listen to Auntie. Oops, even when you came, we didn't entertain you properly. And Xiaobo, you didn't even get a sip of water.
We feel very embarrassed, how about you stay here for two more days and wait two days before leaving, so that we can also have a good relationship with the landlords?"
Xiang Jin's grandma made a displeased face, "Well, what kind of reception do you want? The day we came, you had already cooked a big table of delicious food to entertain us? This must be outside
Does a meal at a restaurant count as entertainment?
Okay, it's already very good. Your uncle, me, and Xiaojin are all very grateful to you for providing us with such a good accommodation environment. Look at how close it is to their examination room, only about ten minutes away.
, Our Xiaojin can sleep a little longer every morning. Their classmates live a bit far away and it takes more than half an hour to walk every day, so how early do you think those children have to get up?"
Aunt Xiaoli smiled and nodded, "Yes, that's the benefit here."
Following Xiang Jin, her grandmother said again, "Daughter, the auntie of the bed sheet and quilt cover listened to your honesty and didn't clean it for you. I'll trouble you to take it back there to clean it later. We'll do it in the morning."
They’ve all been packed and stacked, and they’re all in that bag, so don’t forget them when the time comes, huh?”
"Oh, okay, it's okay!" Aunt Xiaoli glanced at the chair in the living room and responded.
Xiang Jin and her aunt suggested, "Then let's go. Xiaoli also has classes to attend later."
So everyone picked up their things and went out, and Xiang Jin's grandmother handed the key to the door outside the house back to Aunt Xiaoli.
After getting in the car, Ouyang Bo asked excitedly, "Auntie, how is our fruit and vegetable field growing now?"
Her aunt smiled and said, "That must be pleasant. It is a large melon field. Several trucks of watermelon and cantaloupe are brought to other places every day. The grapevines are also a large area of green. If they bear fruit, then it will be
It’s called spectacular, but it’s in the stage of growing seedlings now, and you’ll know when it comes.”
Xiang Jin and her grandparents had cheerful smiles on their faces, while Ouyang Bo looked excited and yearning, "Auntie, I will work at your place during the summer vacation, helping you pick vegetables and melons?"
Xiang Jin was suddenly surprised, "Aren't you going back?"
Ouyang Bo said, "Why go back? There's nothing to do when you go back?! Why don't you just stay here and earn a little money?"
Her aunt immediately agreed, "Okay, as long as you are not afraid of hardship and tiredness! Then I will pay you how much you pick for the kilograms of fruits and vegetables you pick in a day."
Ouyang Bo nodded vigorously, "Okay, okay!"
Xiang Jin saw the happy and encouraging look on his face, so he said scornfully, "Can you be more successful?"
Ouyang Bo turned his head and looked at her with a puzzled and unconvinced expression, "How come I can't make a difference? I'm self-reliant, so why can't I make a difference?"
Xiang Jin glanced at him sideways and chuckled, "If I were you, I would choose another way to make money, that is to find a place to sell watermelons instead of facing the bright sun every day.
Picking watermelons in the field.
Of course, I am definitely not discriminating against people who work hard like this. I just think that if there is an easier and more comfortable way to make money, why don't I choose a more comfortable one?"
Her aunt joked while driving the car, "Oh, this is indeed the big boss of our family. His ideas are different from ours. Xiaobo, I think what your sister said makes sense. Why don't you sell it instead?"
Watermelon, right? Picking vegetables and watermelon, this weather is really tiring, and you kids might not be able to stand the heat."
Ouyang Bo said, "I want to, but how can I have so much money? This cart of watermelons has money for everyone, and I can't afford that much."
Xiang Jin looked at him with contempt again, and then he used his fingers to settle the score with him, "You have no money, who are you going to offend? Let me settle it with you?"
You have at least three hot pot restaurant customers, right? I heard that they will ask you for three or four meals of hot pot base ingredients every month. You can earn one yuan as an intermediate fee from this pack of hot pot base ingredients. Then you
You already have an income of several thousand yuan a month, not to mention you are still earning more.
And the fruits and vegetables field has given you bonuses in the past two or three months. At least you now have 40,000 to 50,000 yuan in hand, right?
If you say you have no money, who will believe it? If you don’t use that money, why are you holding on to it? Waiting for it to give birth to you? How much interest can you earn in the bank? "
Ouyang Bo said with a surprised expression, "No, you know how much money I have in my hand? Isn't this too scary for you?"
Xiang Jin rolled his eyes at him angrily, "Nonsense, if I don't know what I'm doing, how can I be the boss?"
Ouyang Bo gave her a thumbs up, "Awesome! But I have stopped taking orders from the two hot pot restaurants in our city and asked them to contact Uncle Tao directly."
"Why?" her aunt asked.
Ouyang Bo said, "The distance is too far, and I don't have a mobile phone. It's not convenient to contact them, so after I cooperated with them for a time, I asked them to go to Uncle Tao to cooperate, so now I
The only customers are the hot pot restaurant near our school."
Xiang Jin said, "Now you know, right? Intermediaries will eventually be replaced by manufacturers and end customers. If manufacturers want to stabilize their sales channels, they will definitely try their best to find them."
end customer.
In order to obtain greater profit margins and maintain a stable supply of goods, end customers will try their best to find manufacturers from original channels.
So once the two parties are connected, what will happen to you as a middleman? So being a middleman is really not a long-term business.
So, don’t be reluctant to part with your tens of thousands of dollars. Take advantage of the hot summer season and quickly take some out and find a place to sell watermelons and cantaloupes. The watermelons we grow in our own land are so fresh and sweet.
Didn’t you try it last night?
Let me tell you, a watermelon weighs at least ten kilograms. Excluding the shipping fee and the manual transportation and unloading fees, if you earn 20 cents per kilogram of watermelon, you can earn at least two yuan per kilogram of watermelon.
If you sell dozens or hundreds of watermelons a day, it still costs a few hundred yuan, right?
Let me tell you that in the fruit and vegetable field, you will be exhausted and work hard all day, and you will only earn forty or fifty yuan at most. And if a melon is damaged, you will have to pay compensation according to the price. If a melon seedling is damaged, then
The compensation will be even more, at least five times the price of the melon. If you don’t believe me, ask your aunt!”
Then Ouyang Bo looked at her aunt, "Aunt, is that so?"
Their aunt said, "Yes, it is indeed the case. We provide accommodation for them, and we also have a guaranteed salary of several hundred yuan a month. We also get commissions for picking fruits and vegetables every day. Counting it in a month, each of them
The wages are already very high, even higher than the wages of ordinary employees in those coastal cities.
How can we give them such generous wages if they are so restless and careless while working? No matter how many fruits and vegetables we have, they are not enough to cause harm to them, so in this area
Our control is very strict."
Ouyang Bo nodded, then said "Oh", and then asked her where are their watermelons sold now?
Then his aunt said, "Don't think about it in our city and the two nearby counties, because there are several customers in these three places who buy goods from us, and they sell five or six tons of goods every day."
Tondela, why don’t you just find a place to sell it in some nearby town?”
Then Ouyang Bo asked Xiang Jin and their grandparents, "Is there anyone selling watermelons in Shengshui Town?"
Xiang Jin and her grandparents all said in unison, "Yes!"
"Ah, you have everything?" Ouyang Bo suddenly looked disappointed.
Xiang Jin said, "That must be the case. The lady who owns the small restaurant and her brother have always been Grandpa Zeng's vegetable customers.
Now that Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo have moved to our contracted land, and they are still growing vegetables in greenhouses, they must have to check in for a while, plus there is still a long journey from Shengshui Town to our contracted land.
It’s closer, and the roads are wider and easier to walk on, so it’s not surprising that they will naturally continue to become their customers, right?”
Ouyang Bo sighed, "Oh, I also said that I would find a place to sell it in Shengshui Town. This way I will be more familiar with it here."
Xiang Jin comforted him and said, "Oh, actually, as long as you are willing, you can still find customers to buy your watermelons."
I once read in a newspaper that at a certain construction site in a coastal city, six hundred people consumed one thousand kilograms of watermelon every day. Our city is also a prefecture-level city after all, and the urban permanent population is only three or three.
Four hundred thousand, right?
Six hundred people can consume 0.5 tons of watermelons. According to what my aunt said before, they haul five or six tons of watermelons every day, which is only enough to feed more than 6,000 people. There are still more than 300,000 people.
People can’t eat watermelon.
It's summer, especially in this weather. No fruit can be better than watermelon to relieve the heat, right?
Therefore, my suggestion is that you should go to the urban area to sell it. The people there are working-class people and they can still afford a watermelon or half a watermelon a day.
So, you only need to spend two or three days visiting and investigating to see which places are in demand for watermelons, and then take the watermelons there to sell them. If you can't do it alone, I can still take you.
If you want to make money, let's do it together with acquaintances, so why worry about not having a way out?"
Ouyang Bo invited her, "How about you come with me?"
Xiang Jin waved his hand, "I'll forget it, I won't compete with you for profit. Besides, my next work focus is on how to fill in the application form, and I don't have time to care about your business."
When it came to filling in the application form for the college entrance examination, Ouyang Bo suddenly became interested, "Hey, how many points can you get in this college entrance examination? Do you estimate it?"
Xiang Jin said, "It should be no less than six hundred and sixty-seven."
"Six hundred and sixty-seven?" The family was immediately very happy, and then her aunt said with a smile on her face, "Then you can go to a key university, right?"
Xiang Jin and her grandma nodded happily, and Ouyang Bo said, "Not only that, you can even go to the two most prestigious universities in our country!"
"Really?"
The family was extremely happy again. Her aunt drove the car to the side of the road and stopped. Then she turned her head and stared at Xiang Jin with a doting look in her eyes and said, "Xiao Jin, you are really good.
, if that’s the case, you can bring great glory to our family.”
Xiang Jin said, "Everyone, don't be so happy too early? First of all, the score has not come out yet. The estimate I made is just my estimate. Maybe I am just self-righteous? So this estimate cannot be true.
Huh?
Secondly, the admission scores of various colleges and universities this year are still unknown. What if my final score does not meet their minimum admission standards?
The third thing is, do you really think that the two top universities in the country must be the best?
Let me tell you, they are only the best in terms of overall strength, but they may not be better than other schools in some professional fields.
Therefore, even if my score in the college entrance examination meets the admission standards of these two schools, I may not choose one of these two schools.
When I choose, I have to choose a major that I like, and one that will be beneficial to my future career development, so I am trying to take a precautionary approach to prevent you from being disappointed with me."
Her grandparents expressed their stance, "No, no, we will support whatever school you choose."
Her aunt then said, "That's right, that's right, no matter which school you choose, it must be from a major prestigious university!"
Then Xiang Jin asked, "Oh, by the way, aunt, who is responsible for feeding the sheep and cows in our family? Does everyone take turns feeding them?"
Her aunt said, "Yes at first, but then Master Chen, who knew how to cook, brought his parents over. Her mother worked carefully in the vegetable field picking fruits and vegetables, but her father had a slight lumbar spine.
It was inconvenient and we couldn't squat in the fields for a long time, but he was also an honest man, so we gave him four to five hundred yuan a month to help us take care of those animals.
He didn't put much effort into it. He just collected the discarded vegetable leaves and damaged fruits in the field every day and fed them to the cattle and sheep, and then cleaned the cattle and sheep pens every day.
Those ones."
Xiang Jin nodded, "How many sheep and cows do we raise in total?"
Her aunt said, "There are about seventy sheep, and there are only five cows. These are mainly used for farming. Maybe two more will be sold by then."
"Yeah, sure," Xiang Jin nodded again.
After the car drove for about twenty minutes, Ouyang Xue stopped the car again, "You guys wait in the car, I'll buy some groceries. Xiaobo, come on, let's go and carry the groceries with my aunt."
"Oh, okay!" Ouyang Bo got out of the car.
Xiang Jin immediately opened the door and got out of the car, "Auntie, I'll go with you too!"
"Okay!" Ouyang Xue responded with a smile.
Looking at the small market here, Ouyang Bo asked, "What should I buy?"
Her aunt said, "Buy some pork, buy two chickens, buy some fish, and buy some tofu. You are here today, and since everyone has been working really hard recently, I simply invite everyone to have a meal together."
"
Xiang Jin said, "I'll pay for it later, even if it's my invitation!"
Ouyang Bo was surprised when he looked at her. Their aunt immediately laughed. Looking at Xiang Jin, her eyes narrowed into slits with smiles. Then she came close to Xiang Jin and whispered to her, "Boss, this is
Do you want a treat?"
"Yeah!" Xiang Jin responded lightly.
Her aunt smiled even more cheerfully, "Okay, then the boss will give you the money!"
Then the three of them, the aunt and nephew, went to a meat stall together, and then they bought a large piece of pork belly and pork belly, as well as a whole bunch of ribs. They followed a few others and bought two live chickens.
, plus a few fresh grass carp, and then went to buy a few pieces of old tofu and dried tofu, a large bundle of vermicelli and a few kilograms of soybean sprouts, all of which were paid by Xiang Jin.
It cost her more than two hundred and nearly three hundred yuan in total.
Her grandparents were surprised when they saw it, "Hey, why did you buy so many?"
Ouyang Xue said jokingly while buckling her seat belt, "The boss is going to inspect the work today and wants to invite everyone to have a meal together."
Xiang Jin and her grandparents were stunned for a moment, then looked at Xiang Jin and laughed.
The car started again, and after driving for about ten or twenty minutes, they arrived at their destination. Then they saw a large field of fruits and vegetables appearing in front of them. There were also scattered fruits and vegetables around the field.
There are several newly built brick and tile houses. Although the brick and tile houses only have one floor, they are not very low. They are about four or five meters high.
There is a house that has two floors connected and has five rooms. This house is where her aunt and Grandpa Mo and Grandma Mo usually live. The upper floor is a bedroom, and the lower floor is used as a bedroom.
In the kitchen, one is used as a financial accounting room, one is used as a reception room, and two are used as warehouses. If the fruits and vegetables requested by customers have been picked, but they have not arrived yet, they are all moved to the kitchen.
Placed here.
Their fruit and vegetable field is indeed growing well. As far as you can see, it is a large area of green, and there are watermelons and cantaloupes next to each other in the fruit field, both large and small.
The same thing happened in the vegetable field. The tall and short saplings were covered with bunches of vegetables, such as bright red tomatoes and bell peppers, purple eggplants, green peppers and wattle sticks, as well as cucumbers and green beans.
, and vegetables such as cowpeas that hang densely like noodles.
Ouyang Bo's face lit up when he saw such a large-scale planting of vegetables and melons, the workers in the fields who were busy harvesting vegetables and fruits, and several large trucks parked on the roadside.
With a happy smile, and his eyes flashing with excitement, he turned sideways and looked at his aunt, "Aunt, do you still have a straw hat at home? Give me one too, and I'll help pick vegetables too.
.”
Ouyang Xue said, "Wait a minute, help me put these things in the kitchen, and I'll get them for you."
"Okay!" Ouyang Bo picked up the two bags and went to the kitchen without saying a word. Xiang Jin and the others also helped.
Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng are not at home, they are probably busy in the fields.
Xiang Jin shouted to her aunt, "Aunt, get me one too?!"
Ouyang Xue turned sideways and said, "Don't you want to sleep? Why, you also want to go to the ground? And the sun is shining brightly at the moment."
Xiang Jin said, "I haven't dozed off for a long time. The sun is still bearable right now. I won't go there until eleven or twelve o'clock."
Her aunt nodded, "Okay!"
Then her grandparents said, "Then we will cook for you at home!"
Her aunt then responded, "Okay, but there are still some meat ingredients in the refrigerator. You use that first. If it's not enough, you can cut some of the ones we bought today. We have a total of twenty-two staff here, including you."
Three, that’s a total of twenty-five meals.”
Xiang Jin and her grandparents nodded, and then asked Xiang Jin how many dishes to cook in total. Xiang Jin thought that there were so many people and the weather was so hot, so she said, "Let's make eight. There are fans there."
There are also bean sprouts, which can be used as a cold dish at that time, and the two-sword pork, I will pick two of them later.
Bring back some cucumbers. Let’s make a piece of white-cut pork together. In addition, stir-fry the pork belly and bell peppers. Then braise the pork ribs and tofu. Use the dried tofu with the two vitex strips, eggplants, and the meat.
Let’s stir-fry a vegetable together, then have a braised fish and a vegetarian stir-fried water spinach.”
Her grandparents listened carefully and remembered, and then nodded, "Okay, that's how we do it?"
Then Ouyang Bo said, "There are two more chickens here, don't you want to eat them?"
Xiang Jin said, "Forget it, it's too late. It's too late. When it's free later, Grandpa Zeng and the others can get it for themselves."
Ouyang Bo nodded, "Okay!"
Her aunt found some straw hats, and Xiang Jin asked her aunt how their room was arranged. They had to put the packages away first.
Then his aunt stood downstairs and pointed to several rooms upstairs and introduced them, "The second room up here belongs to your Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng, the fourth one belongs to me, and the other three rooms
It's up to you to choose, but there is no air conditioner in the first room, only an electric fan, because I haven't had time to buy an air conditioner yet, and the air conditioners in those rooms are all those that your grandpa Zeng dismantled from his hometown.
Came here."
Xiang Jin said, "It's okay. We'll bring all the furniture in our school here later. We also have two air conditioners and a refrigerator. My grandparents said before that they didn't know what to do with them.
Well, this is just the right time."
Her aunt said, "Okay!"
Then Ouyang Bo said, "Then I'll stay in the first room. Xiaojin, you can sleep in the third room, and let your grandparents sleep in the last room."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay!"
Ouyang Bo stretched out his hand to her and said, "Give me your backpack. I'll carry it for you so you don't bother to run away."
Xiang Jin nodded, took off his backpack and threw it to him.
Xiang Jin's grandparents also handed him their backpacks and handbags, asking him to take them with him.
Immediately, Xiang Jin and her three aunts and nephews went to work in the fields together, while her grandparents went directly into the kitchen and started busy with lunch.
When the three aunts and nephews passed by the melon and fruit field, many people looked at Xiang Jin and Ouyang Bo with curiosity. Then someone asked Xiang Jin and her aunt, "Manager Ou, these are your nephews and nieces.
Son?"
Ouyang Xue smiled and nodded, "Yes, this is Xiaobo, this is Xiaojin!"
Everyone nodded towards the brother and sister, Xiang Jin and the other brother and sister also nodded towards everyone, and then someone asked, "Is she the one taking the college entrance examination these days?"
Ouyang Xue nodded again, "Yes, it's her. Just after yesterday afternoon, I picked them up to stay here for two days."
Everyone nodded. A middle-aged woman stared at Xiang Jin and Ouyang Bo and said, "Both the little girl and the boy are very good-looking. They are even more beautiful than the other!"
Being so praised by others, Xiang Jin didn't show any shyness or embarrassment, but smiled openly, because she had long been immune to such compliments, but Ouyang Bo felt slightly uncomfortable because he always felt
the word "beautiful"
It was used to describe girls. As a big boy, this word was inappropriate for him, but when facing such kind and simple working people, he couldn't complain and said what they said was wrong, so he had to turn his head slightly.
Pretend not to care.
At this moment, someone asked Xiang Jin, "Little girl, how did you do in the exam this time? Which key university in China can you go to?"
Xiang Jin said, "It's hard to say. The college entrance examination has just ended, and we don't know what the specific admission criteria for major colleges and universities this year are."
Then her aunt tried to smooth things over and said, "This year's questions are a bit difficult, more difficult than those in previous years."
Everyone nodded, and then her aunt added, "In addition, I would like to inform everyone that I received a notice from the boss saying that everyone has been working hard recently, and then she asked us to take her and invite everyone to have a meal together at noon today.
, so don’t go home and do it by yourself. After you finish your work, you can all come to our place for dinner. Please pass on what you heard to those who haven’t heard it?”
Everyone immediately became happy when they heard it, and then everyone smiled and said yes!
Following Xiang Jin, her aunt said, "Okay, I won't disturb everyone's work. Let's go to the vegetable field over there."
Everyone waved to them, and then the three aunt and nephew walked towards the vegetable field together.
Ouyang Bo asked Jin in a low voice, "It seems they don't know one of your bosses yet?"
Ouyang Xue said, "What your sister meant, so they always thought that this land was jointly funded and contracted by our family and Yan Chen's family."
Ouyang Bo nodded, "Oh, so that's it."
In a short time, everyone arrived at the vegetable field. Everyone stopped when they saw Xiang Jin and his brother and sister. Then when Grandma Mo saw Xiang Jin, a look of surprise appeared on her face.
, "Oh, Girl Jin, you're here?!"
"Well," Xiang Jin nodded towards her with a smile, and then walked towards her with a happy face, "Grandma Mo, I haven't seen you for a long time!"
Grandma Mo said, "Yes, Grandma Mo hasn't seen you for a long time. Well, come on, let Grandma Mo take a good look at you!"
Xiang Jin stood in front of her. Grandma Mo stared at her and looked at her seriously for a while, then frowned and said, "Well, I've lost weight!"
"Have you lost weight? No?!" Xiang Jin said, holding his own hands with both hands.
Grandma Mo nodded seriously, "Well, I've lost weight and my face has become swollen, but it's okay. The college entrance examination is over. Then let your grandparents give you a good make-up!"
Xiang Jin said, "Then I can't let my grandparents give me any more supplements. Then they will treat me like a pig!"
Grandma Mo laughed and said, "How could you say that, kid?" However, her eyes were still full of love, and she asked her, "How is it? How did you do in the exam this time?"
Xiang Jin said, "I don't know yet, but I should be able to go to college."
Grandma Mo smiled and nodded again, "That's good, that's good! Chen Chen also said it's no problem."
Xiang Jin asked, "Did he call you?"
"Oh, I called last night! He said he would be coming in the next two days."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then there was no answer. Ouyang Bo came over and greeted Grandma Mo, and then the two of them chatted again, and then Xiang Jin spontaneously carried a basket to pick vegetables.