In the past, there would occasionally be one or two orders that were particularly large, and some of them were purchased to be given away.
Xu Qingzhi was just making a suggestion, she wouldn't stop someone from giving the gift as a gift. After all, who would complain about a vegetable seller buying too many vegetables?
She called the courier in advance and told them that there was a lot of cargo today and they would need a bigger truck.
After a while, Wang Yanmei and Xu Fuqiang came back with the aunts who had finished picking bayberries.
The amount of bayberries ordered was not much, only about 200 kilograms.
The only people who came to help pick the fruits today were Aunt Zhou and two other aunts, three people in total.
The bayberries have been picked, but it is definitely not enough for a few people to pick the vegetables right now.
Xu Qingzhi didn't think of delaying picking the vegetables until tomorrow, so that people would get the vegetables the day after tomorrow.
There are more than a thousand kilograms of vegetables. If you call more people to help, the picking process can actually be done quickly.
Moreover, it is easier to do the work with more people.
Xu Qingzhi stood up and discussed with Wang Yanmei, "Mom, please help me call some more people, about 20 will be enough. I posted a notice to sell vegetables this afternoon, and now I have ordered about 1,800 kilograms. More people will help us pick them faster."
Wang Yanmei took a deep breath and said in disbelief: "What, 1,800 kilograms?"
Xu Qingzhi nodded and said, "Yes, call more people to help pick the vegetables. It won't be difficult to pick more than a thousand kilograms of vegetables if we divide the work and cooperate."
"Aren't those people afraid that there might be something wrong with our vegetables?" Wang Yanmei was originally worried that the vegetables from the seven acres of land at home would not be sold for the time being.
Especially the tomatoes at home. Even if you pick them once a day, you still can’t pick them all. The yield is so abundant.
"There was nothing wrong with our food. Shanshan's brother helped me find a lawyer and asked someone to help. Everything has been handled." Xu Qingzhi said truthfully.
"I can tell at first glance that Si Ran is a simple-minded kid. I was right." Wang Yanmei's eyes were very sure, and then she looked at her daughter: "He helped you, did you give him money?"
"No, I asked him to come for dinner tonight."
Wang Yanmei hit her arm and taught her, "Eating is eating, paying is paying, one thing is another, you can't take advantage of others, pay what you owe. Our family has some money now, don't be as stingy as your father."
Xu Qingzhi was originally listening to her mother with her head down, but when she heard this, she subconsciously looked up at her stingy father.
Xu Fuqiang was inviting his three aunts to eat tomatoes, and he washed one for Grandpa and Shanshan respectively, and he was eating one himself. When he met his daughter's gaze, he didn't understand what was going on and smiled like a fool.
Xu Qingzhi wanted to laugh, but she held it back. She tried to defend her father, "Mom, how is Dad stingy? Two years ago, on your birthday, he bought you a gold necklace worth seven or eight thousand yuan. Did you forget?"
"Okay, you always support your dad in our family." Wang Yanmei put her hands on her hips, "I'll call someone to help."
Wang Yanmei walked aside and made a phone call to help.
Xu Qingzhi thought to herself, how could she be siding with her father? Although her father was not generous to outsiders, he was very generous to his family. This is called knowing how to live, not being stingy.
She looked up and shouted to her father, "Dad, I want to eat tomatoes too."
"I know." Xu Fuqiang took out a tomato from the basket, washed it, and threw it to Xu Qingzhi: "Catch it."
A perfect parabola, Xu Qingzhi successfully caught the tomato, took a bite, and it was sweet and juicy, with a particularly strong tomato aroma.
However, if the tomato was not caught and her mother saw it, that would be a different story.
Xu Qingzhi had already imagined that scene in her mind. She and her father would definitely be scolded by her mother for wasting food.
Xu Dongru had helped once before and knew how to install it. He sat on a small stool and helped silently.
Wen Shanshan also helped with the inspection and threw aside a few rotten bayberries.
These rotten bayberries will naturally not be thrown away and wasted. In the end, they will all be collected and taken to the back mountain to feed the chickens and ducks.
Chickens and ducks are all scrambling to eat this fruit that is full of spiritual energy and they love it very much.
More than twenty boxes of bayberries were packed very quickly, and there were still a few dozen kilograms left. Xu Qingzhi took them to the kitchen to wash them, put them in three stainless steel basins and ate them. He used the remaining part to make sour plum soup.
Wang Yanmei called over twenty people from the village to help pick vegetables.
Everyone lives not too far away, and it’s even faster to get here by electric bike.
Those who had picked vegetables once or twice before all wished that the Xu family would call them more often. After all, the pay was high and the payment was quick. Apart from the fact that picking vegetables was a bit tiring, it was not tiring at all compared to helping people build houses in the hot sun.
It was about five o'clock, which was supposed to be the time for dinner. When Yan Mei called, everyone thought it would be ok to have dinner later tonight, so they all came to help pick vegetables.
Seeing this, Wen Shanshan took the initiative to say, "Qingzhi, I'll pick some too."
"Grandpa will help you pick some too." Xu Dongru, who was standing by, ate two bayberries and stopped. It was not because they were not delicious, but because he knew that these bayberries could be sold for money, so he ate less.
He seldom eats fruit. He only eats it twice, when his juniors visit him and buy some apples and bananas, or during the Chinese New Year. He never buys any when he goes to the market, as he thinks that these things are not filling his stomach and it is a waste of money to buy them.
"Delicious, these bayberries are so delicious." Wen Shanshan on the side ate one bayberry after another and put them in her mouth.
The aunties who helped pick the vegetables also tried some. For many of them, it was the first time to pick vegetables and eat bayberry.
"Is this bayberry grown by Fuqiang? It tastes delicious."
"The last time I bought bayberries, they didn't taste as good as this one. That one was so sour as hell."
"This bayberry is really delicious. My grandson will definitely love it. Bayberry, how much is it?"
The aunt, who had asked Wang Yanmei once before, took the initiative to help her: "The bayberries have been sold out. Let's eat them fresh. If you want to take some home for your children, just put two in your pocket."
The aunts that Wang Yanmei called to pick vegetables were all on good terms with her, and none of them gossiped.
Hearing that it has been sold, I don’t have to force myself to buy it.
Wen Shanshan ate one after another non-stop. Seeing that Grandpa Qingzhi next to her didn't eat, she asked, "Grandpa, why don't you eat?"
Xu Dongru took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped his mouth and then his eyes, "You young people like to eat it, so eat more. I'm old and don't like to eat these things. Just taste them."
Wen Shanshan didn't expect that there are people who don't like to eat such delicious bayberry.
However, she nodded obediently and didn't say much.
Just like Jiang Xiao likes to eat durian but she doesn’t like to eat durian, everyone may have different tastes.
Xu Qingzhi saw through the old man's thoughts at a glance, and he didn't insist on asking him to eat in front of so many people. The old man was stubborn and wanted to save face, so he would be unhappy if he told him the truth.
Later she would go to the back mountain to pick some fresh bayberries, and when she sent grandpa home, she would just throw the bayberries into his house.
(End of this chapter)