Chapter 68 Beam Raising Banquet

When they arrived at the plum forest, Xia Wu explained the picking method, and they went in to pick green plums on their own.

There was an apricot orchard next door. Jindou and Heidou ran into the orchard skillfully, sniffing here and there, rubbing their wet noses on the grass, which felt a little itchy.

Jindou sneezed and almost fell backwards. He rolled on the grass and lay on his side. Suddenly, he raised his head alertly and looked not far away!

What is that?! It's round! Delicious fruit!

Jindou quickly got up and ran towards Guozi, but unfortunately his quick-eyed and quick-footed brother got there first.

“汪汪！”金豆后退两步又朝前挪动，眼巴巴地看着哥哥，希望它能分自己一口，它磨磨蹭蹭地往前爬，黑豆用两只毛爪子抱着杏子，舔啊舔的，金豆用爪子扒拉一下，哥哥没有揍它。

So we can eat together?

Jindou cautiously moved forward and licked it like his brother did.

Black Bean was not guarding the food. He was sure that it was the sweet fruit given by his owner, so he ate half of it without hesitation. When Golden Bean wanted to eat it, he gave the remaining half to Golden Bean and continued to run into the woods. If there was one fruit, he would definitely have two more!

"What are those two puppies looking for?"

Someone noticed the golden beans and black beans running around in the apricot forest and squatted down to watch curiously.

"Hey! They're picking apricots and eating them!"

"Xia Xia, are your apricots ripe too?"

Jindou and Heidou ran for a long time and finally found a fallen apricot. Their tails were so happy that they turned into propellers.

Xia Wu heard the noise and came over. "Some of the apricots are half-ripe, not fully ripe, and still sour."

She also saw Jindou and Heidou holding apricots and preparing to eat them, so she went over to pick up the fallen apricots.

"This apricot is ripe, but a bird ate half of it."

Xia Wu looked up and saw that there were indeed many birds circling in the apricot forest.

Tsk, looks like I need to be on guard against these air thieves.

"I like sour things. Your apricots look delicious. Can you pick one for me to try? I'll pay you."

This is true. How much can an apricot be worth? Xia Wu is not a stingy person.

"Wait a minute, I'll find some ripe apricots."

The apricots were all hidden under the leaves. It was estimated that the apricots on the top got more sunlight and ripened earlier. In any case, Xia Wu searched around for a long time but couldn't find any fully ripe apricots.

She could only pin her hopes on the two little ones, "Smell it, these are ripe apricots, see where there are more."

"Can it understand?"

Some people didn't even bother picking the green plums, just standing by to watch the fun.

Xia Wu smiled and said, "No matter whether he can understand or not, let's give it a try."

Black Bean and Gold Bean ran away and began to sniff again. Suddenly, Gold Bean stopped, looked up and shouted, "Woof woof, woof woof!"

Xia Wu walked over, dug in the direction of the bird's call, and picked up an orange-yellow apricot, which was probably as big as a baby's fist. It felt soft to the touch and was indeed ripe.

"Can you really find it?"

"These two puppies are amazing!"

"What breed of dog is it?"

"It seems to be our local dog. My family raised one when I was a child. It's not picky about food, loyal and smart."

"Dad, I want a puppy like this too!"

Jindou was so praised that he was at a loss and even jumped up and down as he walked.

After a while, Hei Dou also found ripe apricots. Xia Wu picked the apricots and wandered around in the apricot forest for about twenty minutes. She picked more than a dozen apricots.

I guess one is enough for each person.

Xia Wu called out, "Jindou and Heidou, come back."

The two little ones immediately ran back to her.

Xia Wu distributed apricots to everyone, one for each person. In the end, there were three left, which they washed directly in the water channel. Everyone didn't care much and just peeled the skin and started eating.

The sun apricot has a strong apricot flavor. It is still small, and one bite of it is full of orange, sour, sweet and delicious flesh.

Xia Wu ate a ripe apricot herself, which tasted much better than she had imagined. She peeled the remaining two apricots and gave them to Jindou and Heidou, one for each dog.

"Good baby, you did a great job!" Xia Wu rubbed the furry heads of the two little ones.

"Xia Xia, these apricots are really delicious. Will they be available online soon?"

"Yes, it will probably be available in another week."

"Okay, I love apricots, I'll definitely buy more when the time comes."

There is a large orchard, and in addition to apricots, there are also plums, peaches, pears, etc. These people are envious and everyone wants to try them, but they are not ripe yet, so they can't eat them even if they want to.

Xia Wu took them for a walk around the mountain and happened to see Yang Guojun going up the mountain to deliver cold drinks to the workers who were building the house, so he simply took them to have some drinks as well.

The homemade sour plum soup is cooled and chilled, and a little honey is added to it. It tastes no worse than the fruit drinks in the milk tea shops outside.

Especially after walking around and sweating a lot, having a cup of sour plum soup is so comfortable.

After cooking for the workers, Wang Yuexia was not idle either. She made green plum jam with two other women in the village.

Xia Wu asked the guests if they wanted to take the green plums they picked home. If they wanted to take all of them home, they could weigh them here. If they didn't want that many, they could keep them and make green plum sauce.

"Xia Xia, let's see how to make green plum sauce first?"

Some people are undecided. They also want to make green plum jam, but are afraid that they don’t know how. It’s a good opportunity for them to watch the process. If they learn it, they can make it themselves at home.

The picked green plums need to be washed and the stems removed. This is also a new job. If some people join in the work, the work can be done faster with more people. Pour the washed green plums into a pot, add water and boil until the skin breaks.

The fragrance of plums wafts halfway up the mountain.

When the flesh becomes soft, take it out, drain the water and put it into the pot and boil it with yellow rock sugar...

At the end of cooking, the green plums no longer look like the original fruit. When mixed with rock sugar, they turn amber in color and smell like sweet green plums.

The freshly cooked green plum sauce was still hot, so Xia Wu asked Wang Yuexia to scoop out some and share it with everyone.

After tasting it, many people decided to keep the green plums and go home to make sauce.

Of course Xia Wu wouldn't stop her. She could make a small profit by selling the excess of three pounds at six yuan per pound.

After playing in the mountains until three or four o'clock, some people would drive home to avoid the danger on the road after dark.

Xia Wu sent them down the mountain. After they finished buying things at his home and paid the fees, the guests dispersed and planned to go to the village to enjoy the autumn wind.

Buy chickens, eggs, vegetables... In short, they want to buy some of what they can take home.

Lu Yuan bought half a pound of loquat honey and five pounds of wild honey from Xia Wu. Xia Wu had no tea at home, so he recommended Yang Guofeng to him. In the end, he bought all the tea from the village secretary's house at the price of one hundred yuan per pound.

By the time all the guests had left, it was already dark. Xia Wu was exhausted after a busy day. While waiting for dinner, she began to calculate the little money she had earned that day.

The head fee alone is over 2,000, plus the miscellaneous jams, honey, and vegetables we sell...

Xia Wu roughly calculated that he had earned more than 5,000 yuan today.

If you keep going like this, wouldn't it be easy to make tens of thousands of yuan a month?

But that's not the way to calculate it. As the fruits on the mountain ripen more and more, Xia Wu will be at a loss if he doesn't divide the project into more detailed parts.

Ever since Xia Wu opened Yantou Mountain to welcome netizens to experience rural life, the villagers have been very happy. Why? Because everyone can make money.

For example, the village store can make some money by selling cigarettes and water. Mr. Yang Siye and his old friends can earn more than ten or twenty yuan a day by pulling a cart.

He also makes money by renting out the fishing rods he makes himself.

There are also various kinds of straw weaving. Yang Guojun can't weave them all by himself, so he gives the work to the villagers and sells them on his behalf with Xia Wu. He takes a 10% commission from the sale, so the villagers can also earn money.

People who come to visit want to bring something back, such as chickens and ducks from the village, chickens and duck eggs, various vegetables from their own vegetable gardens, and now also tea picked from the mountains. In the past, they could only produce and sell them themselves, but when tourists come, they can sell them to these outsiders.

It’s much better than going to town to sell vegetables.

Yang Guofeng sold most of the tea at home and earned 500 yuan. He thought this was a good business. There were wild tea trees on Zimu Mountain. In previous years, only people in their village who wanted to drink tea would come back to roast it and drink it, especially in the summer. They would brew a pot of tea in a big pot early in the morning, and drink it after it cooled down to relieve heat and quench thirst.

Before, Yang Guofeng had never thought that tea could be sold for money. Now that he has tasted the sweetness, he told the villagers the good news.

The tea trees on the mountain are wild and not owned by individuals. Anyone who wants to make money can pick them.

Now is a good time to pick tea.

The wild tea on Zimu Mountain is different from that in other places. In other places, the tea picking season is in February and March, and it is the pre-rain and Qingming tea season. But in February and March, the wild tea on Zimu Mountain has only small leaves and has no tea flavor.

Only after April, when the small leaves grow into big leaves, can the tea picked at this time be fried and have the effect of drinking cold tea to relieve summer heat.

The house on the mountain has been completed. According to local customs, firecrackers will be set off and a meal will be served before completion.

Yang Guojun chose an auspicious day and bought two thousand firecrackers.

The house on the mountain is said to be used as a warehouse, but in fact it meets the standards for living.

It covers an area of ​​about half an acre, with two-story terraced buildings, a cement floor in front of the door, and trees planted in the yard.

The first floor can be used as a storage room to store things, and the second floor can be used for employees to live in. There are several rooms with complete water and electricity facilities, and the network cable has also been pulled. Xia Wu plans to buy home appliances slowly.

There is also a well in the yard. It was originally on the mountain and could resist drought when it was not raining. Later, it was planned to be located in the residential yard. The water pumped out is cool groundwater, which is convenient to use.

Xia Wu named this courtyard located halfway up the mountain "Shuijing Courtyard" and also reserved a room for himself.

You can see Zimu Mountain by opening the back window, and standing in the front corridor, what comes into view is her territory.

Xia Wu planned to get rid of the smell in the house and move in on a good day.

To celebrate the completion of the courtyard with the well, Yang Guojun went to the butcher shop next door to order a pig, intending to treat the villagers to a banquet.

I don’t know how this news got to the group. As soon as Xia Wu turned on his phone, he received many messages.

"Xia Xia, I heard the house on the mountain is finished? Can we go over there and play in the next few days?"

In order to hold the banquet, Xia Wu stopped all recent parent-child travel projects.

Xia Wu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Where did you hear the news?"

Lu Yuan came out to claim it. Last time, he bought a lot of agricultural products in the village and brought them back to the city. Before leaving, he wanted to buy some more local pork, so he added the contact information of many villagers.

A few days ago, he asked about buying meat again. The villagers of Yanggou Village told him that Xia Wu’s house on the mountain was about to be completed, and Yang Guojun bought a big pig, weighing at least two or three hundred kilograms, to entertain guests.

Lu Yuan kept this in mind, and then "inadvertently" brought it up when chatting in the group.

Ever since Yantou Mountain opened its doors to the public some time ago, those who have been there have been praising it highly after returning, praising the scenery of Yanggou Village, the plants and trees here, and the authentic farm food.

The key is that they not only praise it verbally, but also provide pictures and videos.

Every time a group of people go there, they will post photos and videos in the group when they come back.

Things like spare ribs with green plum sauce, sweet and sour fish, and even the most common bok choy are all described by them as being the best in the world.

The group members were almost blinded by envy.

So now Yanggou Village and Yantou Mountain have become a paradise in the hearts of group members, and they are all waiting for the opportunity to experience it.

"Xia Xia, a pig weighs at least two or three hundred pounds. Building a house is a great thing. Why don't you give us a chance to experience the special features of your place?"

"Yeah, I was planning to go this week, and I have the money ready!"

Zhou Hui was more anxious than anyone else. To be honest, he was the one who founded this group. He had wanted to go to Yanggou Village for a long time. It was not far away, but he always...

I had an exam last week and finally had some time this week, but Xia Wu refused to receive netizens. Isn't he treating him like a Japanese?

Netizens wailed one after another.

Xia Wu was thinking that there were more and more fruits and vegetables ripening on the mountain recently.

Cucumbers, tomatoes, peas, melons, cantaloupes, apricots, loquats and raspberries. Instead of looking for some suckers to buy them all, it would be too much for the villagers to pick them and sell them online.

Lu Yuan suggested, "It wouldn't be a waste for us all to go. Let's go for a family tour package. Two adults and one child for 298. How about that?"

"What should single college students like us do without children?"

"250 for two people?"

"…Who am I calling 250?" Zhou Hui protested weakly.

The group members were enthusiastic, and Xia Wu didn't want to disappoint these old fans, so he reluctantly agreed. "Of course, I can. As for the price, I don't plan to charge too much. 100 yuan for adults, 60 yuan for children, 8 people per table, and 12 dishes per table. What do you think?"

If it's just for food, the price can't be too high. But since they're here and see the fruits and vegetables all over the mountains, she doesn't believe these people can resist!

Just happened to come and give her some money. Xia Wu planned to save money to buy a car.

Otherwise, it would be really troublesome to run back and forth between the village and the town.

The meal cost one hundred yuan per person, and the group members were so happy that they started to sign up in a chain to come and eat.

By eight o'clock in the evening, there were more than a hundred people wanting to come.

Xia Wu told Yang Guojun about this. Yang Guojun slapped his thigh and said, "One pig is not enough. I will go and order another one!"

Since there are so many people, we can’t have separate tables, so we just cook in a big pot and everyone can serve the food themselves.

When Xia Wu mentioned it in the group, everyone agreed.