Looking at the proud expression on the old man's face, Xu Lai instantly found him incredibly adorable.
After the grandfather and grandson finished laughing, they got down to business.
Xu Lai took an electronic scale directly from the warehouse and picked out the greenest and best sweet potato vines from the pile of sweet potato vines cut by her second uncle. She weighed them and wrapped them in insulation cotton.
Xu Lai and Grandpa Xu simply dug out a lot of potatoes that had been stored in a pile of dry sand in a corner of the warehouse.
The grandfather and grandson weighed out eleven baskets, one after another, totaling a full 1,023 jin (approximately 500 kg).
After removing the two baskets that Grandpa Xu had dug out earlier, the grandfather and grandson dug out another large basket, bringing the total to exactly three hundred jin (150 kg).
Having prepared everything needed, Xu Jiangming continued with his work in the space, while Xu Lai left the space and returned to the truck bed. She took the prepared items out of the space and put them into the truck bed.
As soon as you step out of the space, a wave of heat hits you.
Xu Lai took out another bottle of chilled cola from his spatial storage, drank half of it, then locked the truck bed and returned to the driver's seat.
Back at the entrance of the Jinxiu Community Government Supermarket, before Xu Lai could even speak, Han Lei, who had been peering around, saw Xu Lai's truck and immediately led his men to unload the goods.
"These sweet potatoes look freshly dug, and the potatoes are very well preserved!"
After carrying these items to the office, Han Lei inspected each of the three items one by one.
He was particularly impressed when he saw the large, uniform potatoes and sweet potatoes without any wormholes.
These fruits are of good quality. Once the experts from the Ministry of Agriculture cultivate the seedlings and plant them, the fruits will be even better.
After weighing the three items again, Xu Lai, in order to maintain a good relationship with the supermarket, voluntarily rounded down the weight to zero.
While the other party was calculating work points, Xu Lai also mentally calculated them as well.
Thirty catties of sweet potato vines can be exchanged for nine hundred work points.
One thousand catties of potatoes can be exchanged for five thousand work points.
Three hundred catties of sweet potatoes is worth one thousand five hundred work points.
That's 7,400 work points.
Adding the two hundred work points earned from the previous transaction, the total is seven thousand six hundred work points.
Even if Xiao Rui is a doctor and Lu Ping is an IT professional, both of whom are high-paid workers, they would have to work year-round without a break to earn that many work points.
There was enough food and drink at home, and nothing was lacking for the time being, so there was no need to go to the supermarket. Therefore, the staff directly paid Xu Lai seventy-six work point cards with a face value of one hundred.
"This is the first time our supermarket has ever used a 100-yuan work point card!"
Moreover, more than seventy sheets were used at once, the staff joked with Xu Lai.
"These cucumbers were grown by my second great-uncle. I brought them here especially to give to you today!"
Xu Lai saw the three staff members in the office, plus Han Lei, making a total of four people.
So he reached into his backpack and took out six cucumbers, each about the length of a chopstick, giving two to Han Lei and one to each of the others.
The other one was left to the policeman who called Director Han Lei for her while patrolling at the door.
Han Lei and the others were incredibly excited as they looked at the bright green cucumbers covered in soft little thorns in their hands.
They could say that they haven't seen these fresh vegetables for at least six months since the torrential rain disaster began.
One of the staff members even gently held the cucumber under his nose and let him smell it.
"What a refreshing cucumber scent! It smells so good!"
The group carefully put the cucumber away and thanked Xu Lai sincerely.
Xu Lai returned the car keys, took her younger brother home, and the two siblings happily went home.
Around 5 p.m., Xu Haiguo, who had worked all day, finally returned home, his head covered in sweat.
As soon as he got home, he picked up the water on the table and gulped down three cups. Then he went into the air-conditioned room and blew in the air conditioning for half an hour before he felt alive again.
"Lai Lai took the potatoes, sweet potatoes, and sweet potato vines from her space to the community supermarket today and exchanged them for nearly 8,000 work points. You should resign as a staff member tomorrow!"
The family looked at Xu Haiguo, whose face was full of exhaustion, and felt sorry for him.
Thinking of the work points her daughter earned during the day, Song Qiu'e quickly tried to persuade her husband.
Xu Haiguo was not one to endure hardship without facing it.
Since his daughter helped him resolve the issue of using work points to address the neighbors' concerns about their family, he might as well not go to work.
Song Qiu'e prepared a very lavish dinner tonight.
In addition to a dish of braised chicken with potatoes, a dish of stir-fried goose eggs with chili peppers, a dish of braised eggplant, a dish of cucumber salad, and a dish of seaweed and egg drop soup, she also fried a bowl of sweet potato balls with freshly dug sweet potatoes.
First, prepare the ingredients: raw sweet potatoes, glutinous rice flour, sugar, and vegetable oil.
Sweet potato preparation: Wash and slice the sweet potatoes, steam them until cooked, and then mash the cooked sweet potatoes into a puree.
Mix the ingredients: Add an appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour, enough to form a dough; do not add too much. Add sugar to taste.
Roll into balls: Roll the mixed ingredients into balls the size of quail eggs.
Frying: Pour cooking oil into a pot, heat until small bubbles appear, then add the meatballs and fry over low heat until the color changes from golden to brown, about four to five minutes.
Finally, remove them from the water, drain off the oil, and place them in a bowl.
Xu Lai's favorite food is her mother's fried sweet potato balls. These balls have a golden and crispy outer skin and a soft, sweet and glutinous interior.
Every time my mom fries these meatballs, she can eat a whole bowl of them by herself.
This delicious meal was still prepared in the space. After it was ready, Xu Lai took the entire dining table out to the air-conditioned room outside the space to eat.
To help her father and second uncle relax, Xu Lai specially took out several cans of beer and herbal tea that the family was reluctant to drink.
A hearty and delicious dinner soothed the family's anxious hearts as the hot weather arrived.
After eating, cleaning, and taking a shower, the family went into the air-conditioned room.
Xu Lai insisted on giving the bed to Old Master Xu, so Old Master Xu, Xu Haiguo, and Xu Chao slept in the bed together.
Xu Lai and Song Qiu'e slept on the floor.
The family of five had a rare, comfortable night's sleep.
The next morning, the news that the Xu family in apartment 1702 of building 1 had successfully grown sweet potatoes and were exchanging them and their vines for work points at a high price spread throughout the neighborhood.
After breakfast, Grandpa Xu cut three pounds of fresh sweet potato vines from his spatial storage and took five pounds of large sweet potatoes to the Xiao family next door.
When he returned, Grandpa Xu brought back some news: "I just went to the Xiao family's house and ran into Xiao Rui who was about to leave for work. He said that the wireless communication equipment in our city has been repaired and that radios at home can be used normally!"
When Mr. Xu lived in the countryside, his favorite thing to do was to relax in his recliner, drink tea, and listen to the opera channel on the radio during his free time.
Upon hearing Xiao Rui say that radios could be used and that the government would use radio to disseminate various messages and announce the latest government policies to the public, he was immediately struck by the news.
After delivering the items, I chatted with Grandpa Xiao for a few minutes and then went straight home.
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