Chapter 138 It’s better to be busy than idle
Every household in the village is full of joy.
In the past, the only way to make money was collecting grain, but now we not only collect grain, but also grow vegetables.
Shen Qingyue now runs the cafeteria and needs quite a bit of food every day.
Now every household in the village has idle land. Even the land in front of and behind the houses has to be surrounded by a fence, which is a great place to grow radishes and potatoes.
When they are not busy, a few women like to gather at the entrance of the village, chatting while drying vegetables.
Vegetables that can be used for drying do not look good.
Dry it and keep it for your own consumption.
For example, Aunt Yun is with Shen Qingyue this year. She collects eggs for her, sells pickled vegetables, and sells two crops of radishes. Her pockets are very fat this year.
Several young wives said, "This year, we calculated that we can earn more than 30 yuan every month." They either sell vegetables or go to work for Shen Qingyue.
It’s almost as much as a salary!
"My mother-in-law is getting more and more stingy. She didn't let me eat meat before, but at least I had vegetables from the fields. Now I can sell vegetables for money. What's worse is that she's not doing well at the dinner table!"
Aunt Yun was slicing bamboo shoots with a thin knife and placing them in a basket. She said, "That won't do. You have to eat well before you can, or you won't have the energy to work."
Aunt Yun continued, "We eat well at home now. We stew meat every few days. When we get tired of it, we stir-fry vegetables. We change things up."
"Your family is well off!"
After a while, they heard the sound of a car. Upon closer inspection, they saw that it was indeed Shen Qingyue. The villagers immediately stood up and said, "Ah, Yueyue!"
"Are you tired? I have a towel here. It's all clean. Wipe your sweat off."
Shen Qingyue smiled and said, "No, thank you." Then she entered the large courtyard. Here, there were always helpers busy inside and outside.
Shen Qingyue went back to change her clothes.
The weather is getting hotter day by day. The sweat is sticking to my body.
As soon as Shen Qingyue left, the aunts sighed even more: "Yueyue is so polite. She keeps saying thank you. How can she be worthy of it?"
"Like a city dweller."
If the vegetables in the village are not enough to sell, they also collect some from villages outside.
When Shen Qingyue came out, she saw a woman with shiny, tanned skin, carrying a large bamboo basket on her back and holding a little girl by her hand!
I walked more than ten miles under the scorching sun carrying more than 100 kilograms of potatoes. I heard that the vegetables were being harvested here.
As soon as she came in, the woman looked a little timid.
Shen Qingyue had such a beautiful courtyard with high walls that she was embarrassed to enter, and she was afraid of getting her feet dirty when she stepped on the ground.
Seeing Shen Qingyue again made him feel even more ashamed, but there was nothing he could do. The family was really struggling to make ends meet. The autumn harvest was still half a year away.
Had to try my luck here.
The dark-skinned woman hesitated here, and Shen Qingyue asked, "Are you here to sell vegetables?"
The woman nodded quickly and held the child tightly, fearing that the child would cause trouble here without any caution.
Shen Qingyue pointed to the place and said, "Weigh the dishes there!"
On weekdays when Shen Qingyue is away, Aunt Dahua helps with the harvesting of vegetables and temporarily takes over the accounting job.
The woman hurried over, put the basket down, and placed it on the scale. One hundred and thirty pounds of potatoes.
Each potato is the size of a fist. The woman carefully cleaned the dirt off the potatoes and then dried them in the sun to remove moisture.
These potatoes are smooth and new, very good potatoes.
Aunt Dahua was also shocked by the number on the scale: "My goodness, it's so heavy, even a grown man might not be able to lift it. Which village are you from?"
The woman said, "I'm far away, which side of the mountain is that? I heard it from my sister-in-law. There's no news from our village yet, so I came out to check it out first!"
Aunt Dahua said, "These potatoes are eight cents a pound. That's ten yuan and forty cents in total."
When the woman heard this, her nose flared with excitement: "Sell!" Then she whispered: "Do you buy this often?"
Shen Qingyue said beside him: "We collect it every day. But the quality of the vegetables must be good."
Not all villagers are simple and honest.
Shen Qingyue's current price for vegetables is fair, and many people are willing to pay. If anyone passes off inferior products as good ones, I won't buy their vegetables next time!
When the woman heard this, she said, "Then I will leave the best in my house to you."
This price is much higher than what the vegetable vendors in the village offer. If the vegetable vendors buy it, not only will they cut the price in half, but I heard that they still use eight taels as the scale!
But it’s useless for everyone to know. If the vegetables are not sold at a low price, they will rot in the fields.
How much can you eat at home?
Shen Qingyue greeted the child, who was probably only four or five years old. He followed the adults and walked for more than ten miles without crying or making a fuss.
At this moment, the child hesitated for a moment and then came towards Shen Qingyue.
The little child stood shyly beside Shen Qingyue. Although she was young, she could also discern kindness.
Shen Qingyue made a bowl of sour plum soup in the kitchen and brought it out to the child. The little guy took a sip and his eyes lit up: "Sweet."
Then she ran over to give it to her mother.
Her mother was afraid of being laughed at so she said she didn't want to drink, but after walking for more than ten miles, her lips were cracked.
In the end, he couldn't resist the child and drank it in one gulp.
It tastes sour and sweet with a hint of coolness. After drinking it, I feel like I’m coming alive.
The woman felt more and more embarrassed. She didn't know how many good things were put into this bowl of sour plum soup. Sugar water definitely didn't have such a mellow taste.
The woman received ten yuan and forty cents. After thinking for a moment, she took out forty cents and gave it to Shen Qingyue: "Miss, that little sweet drink is quite a lot of money. I don't know how much to give you. Keep this forty cents, don't despise it!"
Forty cents was enough for her to carry five pounds of potatoes.
Shen Qingyue said: "No money, I think the child is cute, give her some to try, you're welcome."
The woman offered it repeatedly, but the man refused to take it. Then she said, "Thank you very much."
Aunt Dahua saw that the woman's shoes still had her toes exposed and said, "I have a few pairs of shoes that I don't wear anymore. If you don't mind, you can take them back and wear them!"
Aunt Dahua was a kind-hearted person and gave the man two pairs of shoes. The man was so grateful that he put them on immediately and left with his child.
When he left, he said he would cut half a pound of meat for the child to make dumplings. The child jumped for joy.
When Aunt Dahua saw them leave, she couldn't help but say, "How pitiful."
Their village was poor before, but now life is good and almost no one wears patched clothes or shoes with holes.
The village chief came over for a stroll. Seeing Aunt Dahua with her back turned to wipe her tears, he hurriedly asked what was wrong, and ended up hearing Aunt Dahua say this.
The village chief also sighed: "It was like this in the past few years." The comparison made him feel that life here was better.
Aunt Dahua saw the village chief coming every day and said, "Don't come here so often if you have nothing to do. Is there nothing going on in the village?"
The village chief sighed and said, "You only come here because there's nothing to do in the village. I envy you now. At least you have something to do."
He is a person who cannot sit still, but he feels uncomfortable being idle now.
The village chief went to Shen Qingyue to ask and chat to see if there was any barbecue festival or something like that recently.
It is better to be busy than idle.
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