Chapter 196 Leisure Time
A lot of people grow plums here in Zhang An.
Many people plant one or two plum trees on the edge of the land.
Most of them are varieties such as crisp plums and bitter plums, so you don’t need to worry about them after planting.
When the plums are ripe and you go to work in the fields, you can pick some and eat them.
And the plum tree itself has a relatively large number of flowers, so the fruiting rate is considered to be a very high fruit tree.
So the price of plums has been like that over the years.
When Zhang An was young, plums cost only a few cents per catty. In recent years, they only cost two or three cents.
Due to the disaster this year, the price doubled and sold for 40 cents.
Huang Erye’s plums are indeed much better than crispy plums in terms of size and taste.
And because Mr. Huang had a good relationship with Zhang An, Ding Yi paid a high price.
He took these plums back and planned to sell them at the price of one piece.
If it were someone else he didn’t know, Ding Yi would give him a purchase price of fifty cents at most.
As for the price given by Ding Yi, Mr. Huang immediately nodded in agreement without even thinking about it.
Originally, he thought that if he could sell it for 50 cents a pound, it would be considered a high price.
Now it can be sold for an extra two cents, which is already a lot.
In fact, the price is indeed not low, especially in the past two years.
As someone who has experienced it, Zhang An knows that these sugar plums will be sold for tens of dollars per catty many years later.
But that happened many years later, and it was still because of the hype.
This is still closely related to everyone’s economic conditions and market.
Anyway, in the past ten years, it is an ironclad fact that sugar plums cannot be sold at high prices no matter what.
Even if someone touts or hypes it, it’s the same, because most people can’t afford it.
It’s a little more expensive, but maybe people think it’s delicious and bite the bullet and buy it.
But if it’s ridiculously expensive, others will just call you crazy.
Because the road out of the village is still a small road, it is impossible to drive in by car.
Er Huang had borrowed Zhang An’s black horse and the village chief’s pack horse early.
After they picked the plums in the field, they carried them back to the village on horseback to weigh them and load them into the truck.
After all, it is several thousand kilograms of stuff, and I don’t know how many times I have to go back and forth to pick it up.
After Ding Yi and Huang Erye agreed on the price of plums, they returned to the village with Zhang An.
He brought the truck here this time not just to collect the plums from Mr. Huang’s family.
Zhang An's strawberries, peaches and watermelons are all within his target range.
Since his supermarket sold cherries last time, Zhang An didn’t dare to look down on Ding Yi’s supermarket anymore.
Last time Ding Yi pulled back a lot of cherries from here.
But it’s not a big problem at all to sell two thousand catties casually every day.
Maybe the nature of most Chinese people is like this. If you sell it on the roadside, many people won’t even look at it.
But if you go into a shopping mall, set up a special counter, pack it a little, and see a lot of them.
When Zhang An took it to the street to sell it last year, he only sold two to three hundred kilograms in one morning.
Ding Yina Supermarket’s shipment volume has increased five or six times.
So after Ding Yi told him about this matter, Zhang An allowed him to come and collect it.
This year’s output is only a little, so it’s not appropriate to ask Lu Cheng to collect it.
But I took it to the city to sell it, and it was a little more.
Sold in Dingyi Supermarket, Zhang An was happy to take some time off.
"Hey, Zhang An, the root of the grass is really miraculous. I haven't coughed for a long time."
While in the field, Ding Yi found that he didn't cough anymore.
My throat felt very comfortable all the way back, and it felt great not to cough.
"I told you that it's not grassroots, it's called rock cabbage."
Zhang An gave Ding Yi a big roll of his eyes, why should he call him grassroots?
I have cured your problem and you don’t even want to call me an honorific.
It is simply to use people to face the front and not to use people to face the back.
“Yes, yes, it’s my fault, you rock cabbage, give me some to take back later.”
Ding had never lived in the countryside and mountains when he was a child, so he didn't know many things clearly.
Not only the rock cabbage, but also the bitter wormwood from last time, he also found it very magical.
The last time they came over to play, they saw a child mowing the grass by the river.
Accidentally, I made a big cut on my hand with a sickle.
The blood on the hand flowed out loudly, and they felt dizzy looking at it.
But the child acted as if nothing had happened. He walked to the roadside and cut a handful of weed tips.
After chewing it in your mouth, spit it out and cover the wound.
Even the bandage was wrapped casually with grass leaves and vines, and then continued mowing like a normal person.
They were all curious, so they waited for the children to finish mowing the grass and went over to see how it was going.
The boy knew Zhang An, so he opened the chewed mugwort and showed it to them.
The wound that was dripping with blood just now turned into a scar in just a short time.
This is faster than the hemostatic medicine sold in the city.
“This stuff is available everywhere. I’ll get some for you to take back later, but remember not to use it too much.”
This rock cabbage can be found casually in the mountains now, and Zhang An also grows it in his own space. Yes, so I have a bunch of them at home.
“Don’t worry, I’m just taking this thing back as a spare. It’s so bitter, so of course I won’t eat more if I can.”
I swallowed a little in the morning, which is better than those Western medicines Tablets are much more effective.
But this thing is too painful. I heard Zhang An say that you can’t use it more than once, so he can definitely use it as little as possible.
Hearing what he said, Zhang An just shook his head.
This rock cabbage is already considered good, if only I could give him a try of coptis.
I’m afraid this man won’t want to eat for several days.
After arriving at the nest and Taolin, we walked around. As expected, Ding Yi took down all the things from Zhang An's house.
Especially the strawberry, which directly stunned Ding Yi.
Although this stuff is expensive, he has eaten it often before.
This is the first time Ding Yi has seen such a big strawberry.
After tasting it, I couldn’t refuse it, and finally complained to Zhang An that their strawberries had too few fruit.
Zhang An was speechless, thinking that it was not something I could decide on my own.
But if it didn’t hail, there might be more knots.
After all, during the time of the hailstorm, the strawberries in this field were blooming and pollinating.
That day, not only the things planted in the ground suffered heavy losses, but also the bumblebees that flew out to collect honey from the beehives.
Many of them have never come back, and they probably will never come back.
"Mom, let's find some people to pick fruits later. Ding Yi will take them back today."
When he got home, Zhang An told his mother.
When Wang Fang saw Ding Yi coming early in the morning, he seemed to be waiting for something.
After all, so many things in the house are ready for sale. It would be best if Ding Yi collected them together.
"Okay, I'll go find someone right now."
After hearing Zhang An's words, Wang Fang put down what she was doing and went out to call for someone.
The busiest days of summer are over. This time is spent on hoeing and fertilizing the fields.
There is also watering the rice fields, removing tares and spreading fertilizers. This kind of work is not too tiring.
So Wang Fang went out to look around, and soon found all the fruit pickers. When picking peaches, the great sage in the family was very helpful.
Although it is not big, it can pick peaches much faster than everyone else.
But Zhang An can understand, after all, this is the bloodline engraved in his bones.
Ever since the family bought a TV, it often crowded together with the monkeys to watch Journey to the West.
Every time he sees Sun Wukong, this guy doesn’t blink.
As time passed, I even learned several somersaults.
So from then on, the monkeys called him the Great Sage.
This guy is the same, and he has been calling himself a great sage since then.
Just call the Great Sage and it will come running.
After listening to Ding Yi’s words, everyone picked peaches and watermelons first, because these two things are durable.
Pick strawberries at the end of the day. They are more expensive, so try to pick them as late as possible.
Zhang An and Ding Yi were not in such a hurry this time, because there was not much output, so they were not worried about not being able to sell out and rotting in the ground.
So Ding Yi did not take them all away at once, but asked people to come over and pick them every day, so that they would be fresher when sold.
Ding Yi came here for several days and sorted out the inventory of Zhang An's family.
In the end, there were only a few unripe ones left in the field, and Ding Yi planned to pick them when they were ripe.
However, Zhang An said that he would not sell it. His family was a big grower after all.
It doesn’t make sense that after so many things were grown, they were all sold before even being eaten.
And not only do you eat it at home, you also have to give some to relatives and friends at home.
If they are all sold out and I don’t have a bite, I will be laughed at.
Just like last year, a family in the village killed a big fat pig.
In the end, because the price was better, I sold all my pork.
After killing a New Year pig, their family didn't have any meat left.
Even the meat for the Chinese New Year has to be bought on the street. Even now, many people still laugh at that family when I mention it.
After these two days, the work at home is finally over.
This year, Zhang An’s family will wait for the autumn harvest and then celebrate the New Year, so they don’t have to be so tired.
During this period, Zhang An also enjoyed his leisure time.
Every morning I get up, eat something, and go to Carpenter Lin’s house.
Wang Fang knew that her son was learning carpentry from Carpenter Lin recently.
So I asked Zhang An to send some bacon sausages. After all, this courtesy is indispensable.
Others can ask for it, but you can’t refuse it, otherwise it won’t sound good if you say it out loud.
It happened that Carpenter Lin was building furniture for Zhou Yang’s house during this time.
Carpenter Lin asked Zhang An to do many simple things himself.
This activity is called craft work because the skills are all learned.
After several days of practice, Zhang An can handle some wood by himself.
Coupled with Carpenter Lin’s step-by-step instruction, Zhang An was able to build some furniture on his own.
Lin Carpenter was very satisfied with this, because Zhang An mastered it so quickly.
When he went to be an apprentice, he only practiced planing skills for several months.
In the evening, Mrs. Zhang came over.
"Xiao An, the light at the head of my kitchen can't be turned on. Please go and check for me."
In rural tile-roofed houses, most people's kitchens are behind the main room or behind the main room. In the side room.
Although the windows are all open, most of them are very small, so you can’t see clearly after it falls at night, so you need to light up the lights.
"Okay, I'm going to get my stuff."
Zhang An returned to the house, found some tools and a flashlight, and went over with his second wife to see what was going on.
Entering the kitchen, Zhang An casually pulled the switch twice, but the light bulbs did not respond.
The switches nowadays are basically wire boxes. After connecting the wires, they are nailed to the pole.
Then a nylon wire is tied to the metal shrapnel, and the switch can be switched by just pulling the wire on the wire.
Pull once to open, and pull again to close.
So many people will try twice when there is a power outage or the light fails.
Especially children, they like to pull switches at every turn.
This kind of thing is not uncommon for adults in the family.
Because it keeps turning on and off like this, it damages the light bulb and the switch.
After pulling the switch a few times and finding that the light bulb didn't light up, Zhang An first thought it might be because the light bulb was broken.
So I immediately took off the incandescent lamp and tried it on other lamp holders. I found that the incandescent lamp was fine.
Since the light bulb is good, there is a problem with the wiring.
But there is no electric pen now, so Zhang An can't be sure whether the wire is charged or not, and he doesn't want to reach out and touch it.
So I used a flashlight to look at the wires to see where the mice had bitten them.
But after searching for a long time, I found that the entire wire was good.
Finally, Zhang An opened the lid of the wire box and found that the wire box had been burned.
The wiring ends have been burned, forming an open circuit.
So now everything behind the switch is in a power-off state, no wonder the light bulb doesn't light up.
"Hey, the switch is burned out. I'll go home and get a switch to replace it."
Zhang An's family bought a lot of switches last time, and they still have quite a few of them.
There are pull-wire ones and push-type ones at home.
But Zhang An still found a pull-wire switch for Mrs. Zhang to put on.
One is because they are familiar with each other, and the other is because the wire box is indeed safer.
Although the push switch is convenient, sometimes it is dangerous for the elderly to turn on the lights when they have just finished their work and have water on their hands without drying them.
After returning, Zhang An replaced the switch in a few clicks.
Zhang An was not in a hurry to go back. He walked around the house and checked all the wiring in Grandma Zhang's house.
Normally, the old people live by themselves, and these things still need to be inspected and repaired from time to time.
Because there are too many wooden structures in current houses.
If a fire breaks out due to an electric shock there, it will be a big deal.
After checking it, I found that the wiring was loose in only two places.
Zhang An cut off the electricity, reconnected it, and tied it with black tape.
"Mom, it's okay, I'm going back."
Before going out, Zhang An said to his second mistress.
"Why don't you eat here? I'm going to cook." Grandma Zhang said kindly to Zhang An.
"My mother has already made it. By the way, my glutinous rice and eggplant are ready to eat. Why don't you bring some to eat."
The eggplant during this period is very fresh and tender, similar to the green ones. The chili is very delicious when mixed together.
Most people’s eggplants have just produced a small eggplant and are not edible yet.
But Zhang An’s family matures earlier than other families because of the spring water.
“Okay, I will pick it myself.”
The old lady did not refuse the wishes of her eldest grandson and his family.
Even if she didn’t pick it herself, Wang Fang would pick it and bring it to her.
I feel numb. When I just opened Writer Assistant, I realized that the chapter last night was not published.
(End of this chapter)