Chapter 804 804. Picking vegetables at night
At 11:30 at night, Li Lanhua got up as soon as the alarm clock rang.
Her family, Zhou Maozhu, went to help build the fermentation tank during the day. Now he was sleeping deeply and snoring non-stop, which made Li Lanhua, who had entered menopause and had difficulty sleeping, feel envious.
But when I think about how the couple can earn three to four hundred a day and save one meal, I can’t help but feel full of passion.
She had just left the yard when she saw Zhang Hong, who had gone up the mountain with her, also happened to arrive at the door: "I was about to call you."
Li Lanhua said happily: "I set the alarm - didn't you say you wouldn't come tonight?"
Working for eight or nine hours during the day, although she was only responsible for watching the machine and taking her time to pack things. Packing is not tiring, but picking vegetables in the middle of the night is not that easy, right?
Zhang Hong sighed: "Well, I haven't been able to sleep well these past two nights, so why not come do some work... I called Ulan at eleven o'clock, and she didn't show up yet. "I'm glad."
Li Lanhua laughed: "She's afraid that you'll faint and fall into the ground."
Zhang Hong didn't care: "This is a time-splitting point, but it's okay to be tired." Not tired, eight or nine hours during the day and four hours at night, but the food is good and I live in my own home! I would rather eat food cooked by other people’s chefs.”
"I work in the packaging factory next door. I stand on the assembly line 12 hours a day. I am paid 180 yuan, but I only have half an hour to wait in line for meals... Is that making money or a life?"
When talking about the topic of part-time job, the two of them inevitably discussed it - should they strive for this formal job next year?
After careful calculation, the wages of regular workers are definitely not as high as the daily income of part-time workers like them. But officially the harvest is guaranteed despite droughts and floods, and three meals a day are stable every month!
Zhang Hong thought for a while: "I still want to be a formal worker. This part-time worker makes a lot of money when he is busy, but if he is not busy, he will have no work, and it is not safe."
"Besides. , I don’t want to cook at home... I know that it’s not very delicious and it’s troublesome to have to cook it yourself after a long day.”
The canteen on the mountain is different. When they went to eat before, they discovered that Master Jiang was very organized and tidy, and the stove was wiped without any traces.
The oils and other things used are the same as what they use at home, the taste is good, and there are many varieties...
Who would want to make it at home when there are ready-made ones?
When she said this, Li Lanhua hesitated - what will she do next year?
While chatting and thinking, the two of them soon followed the bright street lights to the hillside.
At the entrance of the factory, two transport trucks were already waiting there. Wulan stood in front of a pile of plastic white baskets. When he saw the two of them coming, he quickly waved:
"Are you really planning to keep spinning? I don't want a large amount of food this day, so I should be able to do it. ”
If you pay 80 yuan for just three or four hours of picking vegetables, no fool would do it! Zhang Hong and Li Lanhua said resolutely:
“We’re all here... You first tell us what dishes you want and how to put them away, and we’ll do it now!”
“That’s okay!” they said happily. , Ulan is also happy:
"Tie this little bench to your body first, so that you can sit in the vegetable patch later for convenience."
"Then get the basket here, and after taking it, go to the water spinach in front and pick out the tender ones in rows. "
As you said, this water spinach has only been planted for a few months, can it still grow old?
Zhang Hong said "Hey" and without saying a word, imitated Ulan and tied a bench to his waist. Then, carrying an empty basket in one hand, he went directly to the vegetable field.
The water spinach is not the old variety of water spinach that they often grow on the ground in rural areas, but is as thin and straight as a young bamboo, about twenty or thirty centimeters high. When the night lights are turned on at night, the leaves and stems are as green as green apples. Just pinch it with two fingers, and it will make a crisp "click" sound when it breaks.
This is the first time for Zhang Hong and Li Lanhua to collect this kind of upright water spinach in the field. At first, they were a little rusty when they picked two roots. But once he became familiar with it, his hands flew around and his movements were particularly fast.
For a time, even the two of them were playing a particularly rhythmic rhythm in this ridge of vegetable fields.
And these pinched water spinach are even in size, neat in strips, green and tender, and neatly packed in rectangular white plastic baskets...
Whether it is obsessive-compulsive disorder or not, Seeing this state will instantly relax your brows.
While working, the two of them were still chatting: "This kind of straight water spinach looks cleaner and prettier than the ones we used to have lying on the ground... I don't know if they will save seeds this year. If so, I will do it next year." Plant some. "
"Yes, I went to the city and saw that they are selling this kind of food in supermarkets... I'll see if there are any stores like that next year. It looks tender and raw, and it should be delicious. ”
The height of the small bench is appropriate. The two of them didn’t feel tired when they first started working, and they even had enough energy to look at the surrounding vegetable fields——
Amazing! The water spinach alone probably requires five or six acres of land.
What’s rare is that there is still a gap in growth. Fresh ones are picked every day. No wonder the seed sowing work was not heavy at first and it took many days.
Moreover, water spinach can grow so well that one acre of land can yield two thousand kilograms. After picking one crop, it will take more than half a month to pick another crop...
Li Lanhua and Zhang Hong are also very excited when they think about the steady flow of work in the coming days.
After they finished picking a row of water spinach, other people in the village also came one after another. However, the division of labor is obviously different. There are those who pick amaranth - red amaranth, with its tender branches and leaves swaying in the evening breeze, is obviously delicious.
Looking at the green and fluffy chrysanthemum makes you want to pick it up, then cut it with a knife, mix it with the batter and steam it in a pot. It nourishes the heart and brain without gaining weight!
The most important thing is that it tastes delicious!
A little further away are those who cut leeks...
The new leeks in October are not the old ones in June. The leaves are thick and wide, and you can hold a handful in one hand, and the sickle is cutting them all over the root...
Oops! Regardless of whether it’s dumplings or scrambled eggs, it’s both kidney-tonifying and delicious!
And in the field on the edge, there are still people immersed in pulling onions and garlic!
Round and multi-clove garlic, purple-skinned single-headed garlic, tender garlic sprouts with unique aroma, and local red-headed chives with the same green tube...
Somehow, as he continued to do this work, the smile on his lips became bigger and bigger. Then, the voices of everyone talking happily could be heard all over the mountains and plains.
It is obviously late at night, but the lights on the mountain are brightly lit and everyone is bustling, and it is actually as prosperous as the day.
Ulan took Song Sancheng and kept moving the full vegetable baskets over to weigh them, and then sent the empty baskets over. In the cool autumn wind in the middle of the night, he was sweating all over.
The two drivers who were guarding the car were puzzled:
“There are no vegetables anywhere, why do you have to travel so far across the province? What a mess. The price of meat! Foreign monks can chant.”
Sure enough, I will not give up until the Yellow River is reached, and I will not rush to work until the deadline... I have already foreseen the days of burning oil and burning lights to catch up on updates...
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(End of this chapter)