Chapter 57 315 Incident
In Chunshi, on the No. 26 bus heading to the company, Tian Xiao held the handle of the bus with one hand and held his backpack with the other, falling asleep to the rhythm of the shaking of the bus.
There was a sudden commotion, which startled her. She looked around and saw that most of the people standing there were office workers who were suffering like her.
The few seats on the bus are all occupied by elderly people.
These elderly people do not have to work, receive a good pension, and bear the responsibility of taking care of the food and drink of the next generation. Their most demanding job every day is to take the bus for free regardless of the time, running from the east to the north of the city, spanning more than ten kilometers to grab discounted goods.
They seem to not need to sleep. Every day before the bus leaves, they can be seen at the bus stop.
Sometimes, before the bus has even stabilized, these elderly people, who should be walking with difficulty, run faster than the young people.
Tian Xiao has been commuting to get off work for one, two, three, four... five years. He basically takes the bus, and the few times he has been able to grab a seat are very few.
Even if she managed to grab the seat, some local old ladies and men would still choke her so much that she would have to stand up and give up her seat.
Based on the above, Tian Xiao does not have a good impression of these elderly people.
The sudden noise was caused by one of the old ladies. She answered a phone call. She didn't know what was said on the other end, but she suddenly screamed: "Ah ...
The old lady drew out her voice, an anxious and painful look on her face, and slapped her thigh hard, making an "Ah" sound as she slapped.
"He's so young!! How could he get this disease?"
This one sentence instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the car, and the car became quiet.
"Oh my! I told him not to eat takeout every day! He just wouldn't listen! Stomach cancer—oh no! Why isn't it my disease?"
The old lady looked at the scenery sliding past on both sides helplessly, her dry hands tightly grasping the shopping cart. She ignored the gazes of the crowd and burst into tears.
The car was so quiet, with only her crying and another crying sound coming from the loud speaker on the cell phone.
"Xiaoran is only 28 and hasn't married yet. Mom, what should I do?"
"Driver, stop the car, I want to get off!"
The old lady finally realized that she had to go home and could no longer continue to go shopping for groceries with her old friends carefreely.
There was a bus stop not far ahead. The bus stopped and the old lady got off the bus, wiping her tears. She almost couldn't stand, and the old man who was traveling with her helped her down.
The car started again, and the old lady's figure was getting farther and farther away. Tian Xiao looked back and saw that she had actually taken a taxi.
"Xiao Ran is her eldest grandson. I heard he got into the best university in our province and joined a big company right after graduation. He earns at least this much a year! How could he suddenly get sick? And it's stomach cancer? Sigh, he's so young, what a pity."
"Young people nowadays work so hard. We didn't have to work as hard as they did before. How many young people can cook? They eat takeout every day. Who knows how it's made? It's definitely not clean!"
The old people were discussing loudly without paying any attention to the young people in the car.
Tian Xiao felt sympathy for the unknown young man who had cancer, but he also sneered at these ungrateful old people. The old guys knew that they enjoyed themselves when they were young and that the young people had to work hard, but they still had to compete with them for seats every day.
She adjusted her posture and tried to rest the tired side of her waist.
She closed her eyes again. It was still half an hour's drive to the company, so she could still sleep a little longer.
but--
I'm still complaining in my mind.
If you have enough time and work is not so hard, who would eat takeout every day? It is expensive, not tasty, and unhygienic.
Young people, it’s really difficult.
The carriage became lively again, with the elderly people chatting animatedly forming a sharp contrast with the lifeless young people.
I don’t know whose cell phone suddenly started playing loudly, and the volume was so loud that almost everyone in the car could hear it.
"During March 15th this year, a well-known fast food chain was exposed for using expired ingredients... These ingredients harbor a large number of bacteria, which can cause diarrhea and vomiting in consumers, and long-term consumption can increase the risk of cancer..."
The sound stopped abruptly, and a young man plugged in his wired headphones with a red face, silently apologizing to the people around him.
We were just talking about someone getting cancer, and now we hear about food safety issues. This is really...
Tian Xiao couldn't sleep.
The atmosphere in the car was extremely depressing because that fast food chain was very famous in Chun City, with one almost every one or two kilometers. Because of the taste and price, it was the first choice of many young office workers.
Tian Xiao is also one of the regular customers.
She pulled out her phone and searched. Sure enough, a lot of news had already been reported. The fast food chain repeatedly used old oil, even scooped vegetables from the garbage bucket at the end of the day to package them for customers to take out. There were also reports of washing vegetables in the toilet, using expired ingredients, and sprouting potatoes...
Coupled with the pictures of the kitchen secretly taken by the reporter, Tian Xiao felt nauseous and almost vomited.
Damn it, she was still thinking of ordering takeout for lunch today!
The 315 report was like a fuse, quickly igniting the uneasy atmosphere in the car.
"Damn it, this world wants to force us young people to die, right? The welfare benefits are eaten up by the previous generation, and we can only work like cattle and horses. We might as well be cattle and horses. After all, the grass that cattle and horses eat is clean. We are like dogs, eating what is fished out of the slop bucket, what is stepped on by others, and cigarette butts..."
The complaints resonated with young people, who vented their anger one after another.
They are also the apple of their parents' eyes at home. Everything they eat and use is always clean from childhood to adulthood.
As a result, when they leave school and enter society, they become office slaves, office slaves, office slaves, not even human beings.
996, free overtime, long commutes, and now the safety risks of food delivery, are these really forcing young people to die?
Tian Xiao did not join in the complaints. When the bus arrived at the company's current platform, she numbly followed the crowd and got off the bus. Looking at the buildings in front of her, the people coming and going made her heart beat faster and her vision went dark.
I feel so tired. I don’t know if it’s because I slept too late last night or because I’m too depressed. Tian Xiao really wants to put everything aside and run home.
But she didn't have the courage. She could only go into the company, sit at her workstation, and waste the whole morning.
At lunchtime, a colleague asked Tian Xiao what he wanted to eat. Tian Xiao shook his head and said, "I'm not hungry, so I won't eat for now."
"Hey, did you see the 315 news too? It's so disgusting! I don't know what to eat anymore. I might as well just bring my own lunch from now on!"
Tian Xiao curled his lips stiffly and smiled in agreement.
In fact, she is very good at cooking and she also likes cooking.
It's just that after graduating from college, I found a good job and have been working here ever since. There are office buildings everywhere nearby and the location is so good, so accordingly, renting a house is very expensive.
With Tian Xiao's salary, she couldn't afford to rent a house nearby. Helplessly, she could only look for a house in a remote village in the city. She had to take a 40-minute bus ride to work every day, which took more than an hour round trip.
If you really want to be picky, I actually do have time to cook, but I'm just too tired.
Tian Xiao looked sick, and his colleagues tactfully went to complain to others. Tian Xiao ordered himself a cup of coffee, turned on his phone, put on headphones, and opened Kuaishou, which was flooded with food safety reports.
She really couldn't understand why she always tried so hard to report on food safety, but no one ever cared, as if such problems only needed to be exposed.
Contemporary netizens are the easiest generation to fool. They only have a seven-second memory. Once the hype is over, they will have to eat again.
What else can we do?
Out of sight, out of mind. Tian Xiao closed her WeChat account and opened it. The group chat she had pinned showed 99+ messages. She clicked on it out of habit.
"You've all seen today's news, right? It's so heartless! They say we are the flowers of the motherland, but how can we water flowers with nuclear wastewater?"
"Look, luckily we cook at home, it's safer than eating out."
"Safe? You should read these news first before you speak!"
Someone threw out a few links, and just looking at the titles was shocking enough.
Vegetables and fruits soaked in medicine, poultry and livestock injected with hormones...
"After seeing these, do you still dare to eat?"
"If I don't dare to eat, I'll starve to death. Living in this era, the only way is to take everything lightly. Amitabha."
Some people are like Buddhas, unwilling to accept reality but unable to resist.
"I've decided that from now on I'll buy organic vegetables from Xia Xia and avoid takeout as much as possible. Even though the world is absurd, I still want to live until the 22nd century."
"Brother, you are very ambitious! May I ask how old you are?"
"Female, 37 (grin)"
"This is too bad to survive, right?"
Xia Wu had just put the organic vegetable packages on the shelves for a few days when the annual 315 arrived. The food safety reports that had been preheated a few days in advance were shocking. For a time, the price of organic vegetables in the market doubled.
Even Xia Wu's small shop was affected, and the vegetable packs priced at 69 yuan were almost sold out.
The vegetables grown by Xia Wu could not be sold in time, and Qiu Lan wished that the vegetables in the vegetable garden could be harvested three times a day. However, no matter how much she hoped, she could only wait patiently for the cut leeks to grow again.
Originally, I just wanted to help a few familiar families solve the problem of selling vegetables and get through this awkward period. Unexpectedly, the 315 incident happened and fans in the group begged Xia Wu not to take the organic vegetable packages off the shelves.
Chen Ming was among the first group to buy organic vegetable packages. After receiving the goods, she took photos as usual, wrote her thoughts, and also took photos of the dishes she cooked. After making a video, she forwarded it to the group to provide some reference for group members who did not buy.
The vegetables Xia Wu shipped were indeed organic and had a sweet flavor. Even stir-fried without meat, they were delicious. Chen Ming was particularly pleased with the combination of leeks and eggs. She made leek and egg pancakes, which were eagerly eaten by her family, who all praised their deliciousness.
Chen Ming also asked Xia Wu if there were any free-range eggs in the village. If possible, she would like to buy more to nourish the two children.
Xia Wu helped her buy a hundred local eggs from the village, which only cost one hundred and twenty yuan including the shipping fee.
It tastes much better than the feed eggs bought in the market.
With Chen Ming’s review in the past, some people in the group started to buy vegetable packages, but not many people cooked. Some people thought that organic vegetable packages were too expensive and not cost-effective, so the order volume has not increased.
Until 315 is coming.
When Xia Wu woke up, he found that he had received hundreds of orders for vegetable packages.
She immediately called all her old friends over to inform them of the good news of resuming work, and also helped them sell the vegetables they had left over.
When rural people are idle at home, they will grow vegetables. Even if they can't eat all of them by themselves, they will still grow more. In short, they will never leave the land empty.
Not only Qiu Lan, but even Mr. Yang Si and Shi Hongniang have a vegetable garden at home.
Selling vegetables to people outside means you don’t have to go to town and you can earn more money. Why not do it?
So in just a few days, the vegetable gardens of Qiu Lan and several other families were almost emptied out by the organic vegetable bags.
The same is true of Xia Wu's vegetable garden.
So, taking advantage of the good weather, Xia Wu decided to continue developing vegetable fields on the mountain and sow various seasonal vegetable seeds in the fields for free.
Not only that, she has not forgotten her plan to grow watermelons last year. She bought 8248 watermelon seeds, as well as various melon seeds such as small melons, cantaloupes, and cucumbers. She asked someone to plow five or six acres of land and planted a large area of vegetables and melons.
The group members' enthusiasm for organic vegetable packages has not dissipated, so Xia Wu can only turn his attention to the village.
The vegetables eaten by villagers at home are rarely grown with pesticides. It’s just that some people don’t like to take care of the land, so the vegetables grow sparsely and look unattractive.
Xia Wu told Yang Guofeng about selling vegetable packages online. Yang Guofeng slapped his thigh and immediately notified everyone of the good news.
From today on, villagers are not allowed to use pesticides when growing vegetables. They can only apply fertilizers and weed and catch insects frequently. They must take advantage of this trend to earn more.
As soon as he gave the order, the villagers were not allowed to play cards at the village entrance. He would check every house all day long, and if he saw anyone using pesticides, he would give them a good advice. "City people want to eat natural food. Who would dare to eat it if you use pesticides? If you pay more attention, you can make more money. Look, your cabbage sells for only a few cents per pound in town, but if you sell it to city people, you can get at least ten times more!"
No one can resist money, especially the villagers who work at home as farmers and have no source of income, who work almost as hard as they can.
Some smart people would ask around. When they heard that Qiu Lan was good at growing vegetables, they went to learn from her. Qiu Lan humbly attributed the reason to the bamboo shoot fertilizer piled up by Yang Guojun. For a while, some people came to the Yang family and wanted to spend money to buy fertilizer.
Yang Guojun had piled up quite a bit of fertilizer last year, from the production of the cows at Fourth Master Yang's house, the manure from the chickens, ducks, and geese he raised this year, mixed with bamboo shoot shells and various kitchen waste...
His fat hole couldn't get any fatter.
When villagers wanted to buy, he was not stingy and sold some to anyone who wanted.
With warm weather, ample nutrition, and consistent watering, the seasonal vegetables in every household's garden in Yanggou Village are growing rapidly. Box after box of organic vegetables are shipped out of Donghua Town by express delivery trucks and delivered to various cities at express transfer stations...
The pockets of the villagers in Yanggou Village are fuller now.
The villagers make money, and Xia Wu also makes money. After all, the things are sold here by her, and she has to pay for the packaging fees, delivery fees and labor costs. It can't be that she works hard because she is kind, right?
After selling vegetables for more than half a month, Xia Wu saved some money.
Looking at the flowers gradually fading on the mountain, Xia Wu made a decision: Plant Chinese milk vetch! Expand the bee colony!
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