When it came to her child's future, Li Lanhua was silent for a while, until Du Mei looked at the golden fruits hanging on the green dwarf trees in front of her and asked loudly:
"Is that an orange tree?"< br>
Ulan didn’t actually see it clearly because it was far away, but he knew that the only things they could grow here and still bear fruit at this time were oranges.
So he nodded affirmatively, and then twisted the handlebar:
“I need to pick more today!”
This orange grove is also a short slope. The orange trees look short from a distance, but they are more than two meters high up close.
The shiny green leaves seem to be waxed, becoming increasingly oily under the sunlight. The golden oranges hung among the branches and leaves, making the branches fall so heavy that they could not stand straight up at all.
Hearing the commotion, an elderly lady walked out of the yard. She looked to be in her 70s, with a stooped back. When she saw the crowd, she laughed:
"Picking oranges, right? ? You can pick it as you like, and I will weigh it for you next to you."
"What did she say?" Teacher Tang asked carefully, but Du Mei didn't understand.
But Aunt Lianhua laughed: "Let us pick whatever we want, and we can go to her place later to get weighed. It's the hometown dialect of our older generation, and it's a bit vague. It's okay if you don't understand. We are here!"
Du Mei was puzzled: "She is an old lady. She is so old. What is she doing with so many oranges? The children at home can't just do it without taking care of them."
This Li Lanhua knew, so she answered again: "Her son did it, but she didn't think much about it when she planted it. At this time of year, people are still working in other places, so I can only ask the old lady to think of something."
After all, it costs one dollar per pound. If you want to make money from orange trees, it is really impossible to hope. It is better to go out to work.
Everyone looked at the orange trees in front of them, and saw that each one of them was growing strong and stocky, but the branches were in a messy shape. It was obvious that they had not been managed and pruned, and the fruits were also densely packed.
Teacher Tang immediately put all thoughts of chatting behind him. He was so happy that he seemed to have fallen into the farmhouse's hand-picking project (although it seemed to be similar, but the price difference was huge), and then imitated everyone else and took out the plastic bag from his pocket. Come on, he shook violently in mid-air:
“I feel like this bag of mine can hold 20 kilograms!”
Ulan also laughed: “Teacher Tang, you can pick whatever you want! You can pick it as you like! Isn’t it only 100 yuan for 100 pounds?”
Teacher Tang was stunned.
That’s right. In the past, picking grapes at a farmhouse cost 10 yuan. Now it costs only one yuan a pound. Why can’t I convert it in half a day?
Think about it, it only costs 100 to haul a sack!
Rounding off, this is free of charge!
She shook the bag happily again: "It's okay! You don't need it! I have money! I'll pay for it today!"
Li Lanhua, who was watching on the side, suddenly reacted Come here——
“This is what your consumption habits are, right?”
Unexpectedly, Teacher Tang said seriously: "This is not true."
She was serious, and it sounded very similar to what she said: "This is a reasonable plan - I want 100 kilograms of oranges to be useful!"
No matter how useful it is, you alone weigh 100 pounds. Can you finish it?
Li Lanhua became vigilant and reminded: "You can't send these oranges! The express delivery fee is very expensive. Isn't this the price of a plate of tofu and meat!"
Teacher Tang:...
She really had this idea. After all, sending goose feathers from a thousand miles away is more of a gift than a gift! But this travel fee sounds really silly...
She then quickly said: "How is it possible? I am not the person to do this kind of thing. I plan to go back and eat all the food. It can be made into canned oranges."
Now it was Ulan's turn to be dumbfounded: "Teacher Tang, how expensive is it to make our own cans? Each glass bottle costs one yuan, and we have to re-package it on the mountain. Thread - if you want to eat it, I’ll ask Tantan to buy it for you tomorrow. A bottle in the supermarket costs 6 yuan, and there are two or three oranges in it.”
Teacher Tang:...
Okay, okay, you guys don't show any emotion at all, right? Does that 6 yuan bottle of canned orange have a soul?
The little old lady became angry: "That's what I said, actually I plan to use this to make tea - orange peel with Pu'er or Pagoda Dianhong, it is very interesting!"
Finally! We were talking about an area that everyone didn’t understand. Wulan opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but couldn’t. After trying for a long time, he could only say:
“Okay! Making tea is good, very good.”< br>
While everyone was chatting, they saw a few broken baskets piled up in the corner of the garden. They quickly put away the plastic bags again, and then each dispersed to choose their favorite tree——
Pick!
Oh, there are so many of them, I can’t even pick them all... How come these oranges can grow so well!
......
Picking fruits is a very addictive thing. Everyone talked and laughed, passing by the orange trees one by one, and quickly filled their baskets. Full.
And Li Lanhua was still upset: "Oops! I originally thought I would only get twenty or thirty kilograms, but looking at the basket I have and the bagging I have, I'm afraid it will weigh more than fifty kilograms! ”
"It's okay!" Wu Lan quickly comforted her: "These oranges last a long time, so you can eat them slowly. If you really think you have too many, just give me the extra ones. We have a lot of family members, so we should eat them quickly!"
< br>Ulan was not lying about this. After all, she had planned to pick a hundred or ten kilograms of oranges by herself. It would not be a problem for Li Lanhua to get another ten or twenty kilograms.
Li Lanhua nodded: "Okay! I'll go to the scale first."
The old lady by the yard is really old, and she doesn't even have a decent electronic scale at home, so I just took out a medium-sized old scale of unknown age. The heavy weights were hung on it, and the scale beam couldn't be supported at all.
Here, Wu Lan is still trying to persuade Teacher Tang:
"Is this orange peel tea delicious? Teacher Tang, how about we taste it, but don't make too much."
Teacher Tang vowed: "I'll just put this in my pocket! "
While sighing with Wu Lan: "The pure natural aroma of oranges is mixed with the aroma of tea, and it tastes very flavorful - by the way, I plan to teach Qiao Qiao later, so you can come too. Let’s learn?”
“I can’t learn, I can’t learn!” Ulan’s retreat was louder than anyone else’s: How can she learn anything new at her age? !
What's more, making tea... I'm afraid it's not as fancy as in the TV series. Can Qiao Qiao learn this thing?
"Why not?" The old lady was very confident:
"You have found a good teacher for Qiao Qiao. I see that Xin Jun has been teaching her every day, and Qiao Qiao is in the best condition now."
< br>"Besides, our Qiao Qiao is so handsome, aren't you curious about what he looks like when he is sitting there quietly making tea?"
Teacher Tang smiled expectantly: "I can guarantee that you are more handsome than the average man!"
Second update, good night.
I haven’t updated late at night for a long time, I’m so sleepy...