There is no wife in wife cake! Isn't this a scam?
At ten o'clock in the evening, the village committee was still brightly lit and bustling with people. The teenagers breathed a sigh of relief, and the villagers felt much more at ease to see their savior return.
Pei Xu held the loudspeaker and arranged the work: "Fellow villagers, please bring your packed mangoes to line up. Make sure there are no spots or damage to the skin. We will weigh them again and affix the corresponding barcodes. The fruits have been picked for more than two days, and they must be shipped out tonight."
Cheng Enyue and Jiang Lin were responsible for weight checking, Xiang Chuzhe and Song Yifan were responsible for quality control, and Pei Xu and Li Xuran, one registered the quantity of each household, and the other affixed the barcode.
Wang Zhou and Chen Jiadong rushed over and asked for help: "Pei Xu, our village is in chaos now. Everyone got so anxious that they started quarreling this afternoon. Please come and help us."
Chen Jiadong was at a loss, saying: "In the past, we simply divided the fruits and sold them to buyers one basket at a time. We didn't understand the standards of e-commerce and were afraid of complaints and compensation."
Pei Xu responded while registering: "Uncles, you go back first. Make sure the quality of the fruit and the weight cannot exceed ten kilograms, otherwise it will cost more to ship. We will arrange the rest."
The busy figures of the teenagers were stretched out very long under the light.
After passing through several villages, the last logistics transport vehicle slowly drove out of Liujia Village at around 8 a.m. The teenagers touched the heads of several young men with satisfaction and tiredness, praising them: "You did a great job in the overall planning. Liujia Village is lucky to have you guys helping, otherwise we would still be busy now."
Jiang Lin leaned on Li Xuran's shoulder and yawned loudly, saying, "Let's take the computer to Aunt Guan to connect with the logistics order."
The delivery machine made a swish sound, and the delivery orders kept coming out. Aunt Guan asked in confusion: "Don't you have 100,000 orders? Why are there only more than 10,000 orders now?"
Jiang Lin didn't know how to respond for a moment. He thought for a while and said, "Maybe some villages don't have transportation tracks. Picking and transportation is indeed a big problem."
Aunt Guan handed him the total quantity list for him to sign, and reminded him: "The delivery speed must be improved, otherwise the return rate will be high."
The teenagers held an emergency meeting. Pei Xu said, "We still have nearly 90,000 orders that have not been shipped. Now we must come up with a practical way to speed up the delivery. Otherwise, if there are large-scale order returns, it will not only disturb the villagers, but also be a blow to them."
The villagers fought with them all night, picking mangoes under the scorching sun during the day. Their clothes were soaked with sweat, but it could not hide their happy smiles, which also strengthened the determination of the young people.
Jiang Lin suggested: "We must complete the weight and quality control in one step, otherwise we will have to do repeated work."
Li Xuran said worriedly, "I really want to learn the 72 transformations from Sun Wukong. I want to pull out all the hairs on my legs and transform into dozens of Li Xurans to supervise the work for me."
This made everyone smile knowingly because they had a common dream at the moment.
"Let's get back to the point. What we are facing now is not only this batch of orders, but also the next batch, and after we leave..." Li Xuran glanced at their expressions. It seemed that mentioning farewell at the moment of separation made people feel repulsive.
Pei Xu reminded: "We are talking about serious matters."
Li Xuran continued, "The problem that the villagers are facing now is picking and transportation. Some farmers only have aunts or grandparents at home. They are old and their hands and feet are not agile. It is difficult for us to urge them to make progress, but we are also too busy to help, so I think..."
"Assembly line!" everyone said in unison.
The assembly line is implemented in their work, and they have long formed a tacit understanding.
Pei Xu smiled and said, "We divide each village into groups according to age. The elderly are responsible for screening and packaging the fruits at home, and the rest are divided into a picking group and an assembly line transportation group. People at the foot of the mountain drive tricycles to be responsible for transportation. Each group selects a team leader and a deputy team leader, and work efficiency has skyrocketed!"
Jiang Lin added: "We have to emphasize the criteria for fruit screening with them again, and there are no problems now."
Cheng Enyue reminded him, "If we don't pick the dark red roses in our field, they will turn into big flowers. I roughly estimated that we can make more than a thousand gift boxes from this crop of flowers. I can do it by myself, and you guys can pick the mangoes."
At four o'clock in the morning, the teachers in the lighting group turned on the big lights in the field, and countless small flying insects lingered around.
The young boys rubbed their sleepy eyes and picked dark red roses in the fields with bamboo baskets on their backs. Dewdrops condensed between the stamens and once touched, they turned into a few small drops of water and fell to the ground.
Cheng Enyue's eyes were sparkling with happiness, and Pei Xu understood his gaze. Once on an anxious late night or early morning, when he was busy in the fields alone, his brothers, with the flashlights of their cell phones, pierced through the darkness and walked towards him firmly.
"Have you ever eaten wife cake?" Jiang Lin asked to liven up the atmosphere.
Cheng Enyue said with a smile: "Is it the legendary wife cake without the wife in it?"
"Ah? Didn't you say that if you buy a wife cake you can give it to your wife as a gift?" Song Yifan said with a wicked grin.
Jiang Lin said: "When I was in junior high school, I lived in the school dormitory. Some people in my class fell in love prematurely. So on Valentine's Day, a boy bought a bouquet of flowers and put nine wife cakes in it to express his love, which meant a long and lasting relationship with his wife."
Xiang Chuzhe said enviously: "The God of Pure Love!"
"But what?" Jiang Lin changed the subject. "We are a key school in the city. We don't allow dating. They were caught by the class teacher and were scolded in the office. The class teacher asked, "He gave you a wife cake. Did you feel very touched?"
"You must not admit it." Song Yifan said.
Jiang Lin looked at him and said, "The girl said she was very touched. If there were no husband cakes on the market, she would have bought nine husband cakes in return so that she could live with her husband forever."
Li Xuran gave a thumbs up: "Pure love warrior."
"Since then, boys in our school have followed suit and must give wife cakes on Valentine's Day. However, according to unofficial statistics, many of them broke up, so later wife cakes became a curse for breaking up. Students joked that it was because there was no wife in the wife cake. There is also a saying that if there is only wife cake but no husband cake, how can they make a pair?"
His brothers were amused by him. Cheng Enyue suddenly had an inspiration and said excitedly, "Aren't there seven rose cheeses in a box? There are seven compartments in the gift box. When we were on a business trip, we looked at the samples in the factory and felt that they were a bit monotonous. Now we can add some mood messages, such as Monday to Sunday, and some important holidays in a year, to send good wishes. Because most of our hamsters are girls, if the romantic, gentle and delicate creativity can bring some surprises to their lives, I think it's great!"
Song Yifan teased him: "That's a very good idea, but don't stop working, you're just slacking off."
Cheng Enyue picked two leaves and threw them at him, saying with a smile, "You are acting like an overseer."
Pei Xu flattered him: "It's our chef who is so clever and skillful. I can see that our rose cheese is so hard to come by!"
Jiang Lin strongly supported him, "Brother Yue, go for it! We brothers will listen to your orders!"
The villagers lit up their lights, and went out in groups, carrying bamboo baskets on their backs, peeling eggs as they went to work, and greeted the young men enthusiastically: "Xiao Xu, why are you here so early?"
Pei Xu straightened up and responded, "Good morning, everyone!" He looked down at his watch and it was just past five in the morning.
The villagers were divided into several groups to work in the mountains. Aunt Song praised them, "The young men got up really early. Their enthusiasm is similar to ours in the past. My children, who were born and raised here, are not willing to do farm work either. They can't compare to them."
Aunt Xu praised them sincerely, "They are smart. When I saw them coming back the night before, my heart suddenly dropped. There were so many mangoes piled up at home and in the village committee. It was frightening to see them."
Liu Huabao gathered several friends from other villages to act as customer service. Several teenage boys sat quietly in front of the computers. Their hand speed, acquired from years of playing games, came in handy and they responded to customers quickly.
"Brother Xu, the customer asked if the address can be changed?" Li Chenyu asked.
Li Xuran leaned over and patiently taught them, and encouraged them: "Work hard! I will pay you 200 yuan a day, and when the mangoes are sold out, I will treat you to a meal at KFC."
The young man held up two fingers to each other, and said in shock: "Two hundred yuan a day, my God, that means I can make 2,000 yuan in ten days."
"There's also KFC, this is too good to be true! We go and help others carry bricks until our fingers hurt, and we only earn 20 yuan at most."
Li Xuran encouraged him, "Brother Xiaobao and his friends are learning to run their own media. If you are interested, you can follow them to the village committee to learn. You are not yet adults, and it is difficult for you to find a job outside. It is better to learn a skill. I cannot guarantee that you can make money, but I think that compared to playing games in Internet cafes, learning a skill is improving yourself. What do you think?"
Li Jun asked weakly: "Brother, we have a few friends who often play games with us. Can they also come to class?"
Li Xuran said with relief: "Of course! You are welcome to come."
When the day comes that we leave, perhaps there will be some traces left of our presence.
Pei Xu sat in the driver's seat of the tricycle and shouted, "Jiang Lin, hurry up!"
Xiang Chuzhe came out with a few computers and acted as Jiang Lin's mouthpiece: "Brother Xu, Brother Lin said he doesn't want to be in the same group with you anymore. He wants to go to Wangjia Village."
"Guide, you are in danger! You don't even want to be the chairman's dog anymore." Pei Xu waited for him to climb onto the carriage and started the tricycle.
Xiang Chuzhe laughed and said, "I don't want to, but Brother Lin gave me too much. After I return to Beijing, I can go to his friend's recording studio to record songs!"
Pei Xu lowered his mouth, his face turned from sunny to cloudy, and he sent a message to Jiang Lin in a sarcastic tone: "How can the sky in Peijia Village compare to the blue sky in Beijing?" Then he attached a picture of the sky.
Jiang Lin replied: "Yes, I haven't breathed the air of Beijing for a long time. I can't wait."
Pei Xu hadn't looked at Jiang Lin straight in the eyes for two days since he came back from his business trip. Jiang Lin was puzzled and said aggrievedly: "I was worried about disturbing his rest and embarrassed him, so I took a shower in another room. Am I wrong?"
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