After staying in the mushroom house for a while, Zhou Ziwen felt a great sense of accomplishment as he watched the mushrooms flourish and begin to mature.
He calculated that the mushrooms in the mushroom house covered an area of about 300 square meters. Judging from the current growth rate, he could harvest at least 20 kilograms per square meter. 300 square meters meant 6,000 kilograms. At 20 cents per kilogram, 6,000 kilograms would cost 1,200 yuan.
In this era when the average daily wage is only fifty cents, more than one thousand yuan is a huge fortune.
No wonder, whether it was the team leader or Uncle Wu and the others, they all smiled and spoke enthusiastically when they saw him these days.
Seeing these mushrooms, Zhou Ziwen finally found the reason.
After coming out of the mushroom house, Zhou Ziwen returned to his yard, took the stepping stone and tools, and set out for the sweet potato field again.
Today he decided to continue sweeping the sweet potato fields. As the main food, there are a lot of sweet potatoes grown in the village. It will take at least two or three days to sweep them all.
Tayun was already very familiar with the task of finding sweet potatoes. Zhou Ziwen just gave him some guidance and Tayun immediately got into work mode.
Zhou Ziwen was very pleased to see it working so hard.
This dog was not raised in vain, and can finally contribute to this family.
The whole morning was spent in busyness. Seeing that it was almost time to get off work, Zhou Ziwen called Tayun and set off on the journey home.
This morning, his backpack was full, and he even added half a sack of extra stuff. Estimating the weight, it was less than 100 kilograms, but definitely at least 80 kilograms.
When they returned home, the Chen sisters were very surprised that Zhou Ziwen could dig up so many sweet potatoes.
"This is just the beginning! There are so many fields of sweet potatoes in the village. If I go and dig for a few more days, I guess we won't be able to eat them all until next year." Zhou Ziwen said with a smile.
The reason why he was able to dig so many sweet potatoes was that no one competed with him for them. After all, whether they were villagers or educated youth, they all had to go to work and did not have much time to dig sweet potatoes.
In the village, the people who can come out during working hours are basically half-grown children.
However, these children either dig vole holes or run to soybean fields, corn fields, peanut fields, and wheat fields. Sweet potato fields, yams, and potato fields are the places they dislike going to the most.
In places like soybean fields, any leftovers will be left on the ground. If you are careful, you can pick up the seeds one by one and pick up several kilograms in half a day.
As for sweet potato fields that are buried underground, you can only rely on luck. If you are unlucky, you won’t be able to dig up anything.
But Zhou Ziwen is different. He has Tayun to help him. Tayun’s dog nose is very sharp. Otherwise, there would be no such job as drug detection dog.
Under his training, Tayun has mastered the skill of finding sweet potatoes.
If you calculate it this way, it seems that it is all his credit that we were able to dig up so many sweet potatoes.
If it weren't for his tireless training, Tayun wouldn't have become so powerful.
Thinking of this, Zhou Ziwen felt a sense of pride.
"There are so many sweet potatoes, we can't eat them all, right?"
The eldest sister of the Chen family thinks a lot. She worries about lack of food and she also worries about too much food.
"If you can't finish it, you can make it into sweet potato flour, taro starch, or dried sweet potatoes. There are plenty of ways to make it." Zhou Ziwen said casually.
"But I can't do any of these!" Chen's eldest sister felt a little disappointed when she said this.
She felt that she was not qualified to be a sister, as this kind of thing was obviously done by women.
"It's okay, I'll teach you!" Zhou Ziwen said to comfort her.
Zhou Ziwen somewhat understood the girl's thoughts. After all, cooking and housework were her best skills. However, when she really needed to use them, she found that she didn't know how to do them. This feeling of loss was very frustrating.
"Then I'll learn from you." The eldest sister of the Chen family nodded heavily.
Although they will be a family in the future, Zhou Ziwen and her sister are not married yet and they just eat together now.
During the time they lived together, the contributions made by the two sisters were insignificant. Instead, most of the things were done by Zhou Ziwen, which made her feel a little disappointed.
"Okay, let's cook first. After dinner, I still have to go dig sweet potatoes in the afternoon." Zhou Ziwen waved his hand, interrupting the eldest sister of the Chen family's wandering thoughts.
He found that this girl was good in every way except that she thought too much and was not as straightforward as Yiyi.
This was also the reason why he chose to be with Yiyi instead of her.
This girl is too smart and thinks a lot, so she is not easy to pursue.
After lunch, Zhou Ziwen rested for a while. After the Chen sisters came to work, he also started his own work.
Taking Tayun with him, carrying a backpack and a shovel, Zhou Ziwen came to the sweet potato field again.
Looking at Tayun sniffing around in the sweet potato field, Zhou Ziwen smiled like an old father.
This afternoon, Zhou Ziwen was digging sweet potatoes. His harvest in the afternoon was better than in the morning, and he actually dug nearly 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes.
Zhou Ziwen calculated that in just a day and a half, he had dug more than 200 kilograms of sweet potatoes. If other people knew about this harvest, they would be shocked.
Especially those people in the Youth League Institute, they would probably be so envious that their eyes would turn red.
However, when Zhou Ziwen dug sweet potatoes, he did so when everyone was at work. Even if he met people, he would just avoid them from a distance and did not come into close contact with them.
Of course, Zhou Ziwen just didn't want to draw too much attention. In fact, even if someone saw it, it wouldn't matter. After all, he dug it openly and didn't steal or rob.
If you dig before the harvest, it is considered stealing and you will be severely punished if you are caught.
But picking it up after the harvest is a benefit provided by the production team to everyone.
Whether it is sweet potatoes or soybeans, there will be some left in the fields after harvesting. Whoever picks them up will own them.
After returning home, seeing that it was still a little while, Zhou Ziwen hurried to the Mushroom House and completed his daily clocking-in work.
After getting off work and returning home, Zhou Ziwen began to enjoy his life as a rich man again.
Chen Shiying was busy cooking for him, Chen Qiaoyi was busy giving Tayun a bath, and after that they washed his clothes and cleaned the house. They were very busy.
Zhou Ziwen made a cup of tea and leisurely read a book in the yard.
At the beginning, he felt a little embarrassed and wanted to help, but was kicked out.
After getting used to it, he began to enjoy it.
After dinner in the evening, Zhou Ziwen was preparing to take Tayun out for a stroll to help digest the food, but before they even left the house, Chen Yang, Liu Lingling and several other old educated youth took the lead and went up.
"Brother Ziwen, are you going out?" Chen Yang asked with a smile.
"Yeah, let's go for a walk." Zhou Ziwen nodded, but he was wondering in his heart, shouldn't these guys be guarding the production team now? How did they have time to come to him?
Could it be that they wanted to ask him to build relationships with several leaders of the production team?
It was common knowledge that he had a good relationship with several of the production team leaders. After all, bringing a new technology to the village was something that could never be overemphasized. (End of this chapter)
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