【10】Tear jerker at the farmers market
"Your plan sounds pretty good, but you've planned it all, so let it go.
A Kuan from the neighboring village also came back from outside last year and learned about the Huanong brothers making short videos. Although he is not as popular as the Huanong brothers, he is said to have made a lot of money.
And your advantages are much better than that Akuan. One is that you read more books than him, the other is that the village you live in is better than the village on the edge of their city, and the other is that you look handsomer than him.
Anyone who is worse than you can do it, so why can’t you? So if you have a plan, go and do it.” After hearing Li Bu’s plan, Li Wanfu agreed with Li Bunong’s plan and short video promotion after commenting and calculating gains and losses.
After picking up the wine glass and touching Li Wanfu for a while, Li Bu nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, when I go to sell lychees tomorrow, I will get the iron nets and wires I need back.
At that time, when the school is over, we will hire our uncle and others to give them 100 yuan a day, and ask them to help me build a few wooden houses for pheasants and pigeons to rest.
After I was done, I could also buy chicks, pigeons, and other things from the foot of the mountain.
And during this period, I can also shoot some videos of us building small cabins and chicks and pigeons growing up day by day. Now the office workers working in the city are so happy about our harvest in the countryside.”
"By the way, Xiao Bu, the equipment used to shoot videos is said to require a few thousand investments. Moreover, you raise chickens and build a wooden house. Are you sure you can handle the money you sell lychees this time?
Forget it, just think it was the last time that parents helped you. Parents could still take out 30,000 yuan. If you don’t have enough money, come to parents to get it.” Although they have always said that it was the last time that they helped Li Bu and the others, after calculating Li Bu’s investment, Li Wanfu, who was worried that Li Bu and the others would not have enough money, finally revealed his old secrets.
Hearing Li Wanfu's words, Li Bu first picked up the wine glass and touched Li Wanfu, then took a sip and said, "Dad, you should keep your money yourself, otherwise you will have to make trouble when you come back and find out. Moreover, we won't have much investment this time, so we don't have to take your old capital, we can handle it ourselves..."
"Okay, you can do it yourself. If the money is really short of money, come and ask your parents for it.
In the past, you were not good at playing tricks, and you knew you were fooling around outside all day long, and your parents didn’t dare to give you money.
Now you are doing things seriously, and your parents are willing to trust you once.
However, it was the same sentence. This was the last time. After asking for it, it would be gone. Parents are no longer young, and you are no longer young. Come and drink." After explaining to Li Bu a few words seriously, Li Wanfu picked up the wine glass and started drinking with Li Bu.
Since Li Bu didn't dare to drink too much, so he simply drank two cups with Li Wanfu, and after eating a large bowl of noodles with Li Yanmei, he left home to get a basket and went up the mountain to pick lychees.
When Li Bu and Li Yanmei came to the lychee garden with baskets, they were surprised to find that their parents, Li Wanfu, Li Aiguo, Liu Yan and Lin Xiang, were already wearing work clothes [bad clothes for work], and began to pick the premature lychee varieties in the lychee garden.
"Dad, you've all been drinking, so you'd better help me tie lychees under the tree. I'm younger, so I'll pick them from the tree." Knowing that the parents of both sides could not persuade them, Li Bu didn't persuade them, but instead climbed the tree and replaced Li Aiguo and Li Wanfu on the tree.
"Your dad, I'm not old yet. This lychee tree is simply a little bit of a word to us. But I'll give you a little face to be a young man and let you pretend to be fat on it." Although he said something unconvinced, Li Wanfu and Li Aiguo finally gave up their place on the tree and went up to pick it for Li Bu.
The litchi trees in Li Bu’s family are different from those of other farm growers.
The lychee trees planted on other people's farms can be picked by standing on the ground, while the lychee trees here of Li Bu and others need to climb up the trees to pick them.
In addition, the fruit trees of Li Aiguo and Li Wanfu were all planted together in the production team decades ago, and were later bought by them after they were disbanded.
The fruit trees that have been in the past few decades are no less than seven or eight meters tall, and the shortest is four or five meters tall. So in recent years, the age of the fruit trees has always been a headache for both families because they have not been at home.
But these are not problems at this time. Li Bu's slender and thin body is like a monkey. He climbed up to the top of the tree in a while, and there was a crackling sound of picking, and then a small basket of lychees were sent down.
After the lychees were sent down from the tree, Li Yanmei, Li Wanfu, Li Aiguo and others immediately began to divide the labor.
Some are responsible for selection, some are responsible for binding, and then they are framed and soaked in cold spring water, and finally picked it back to Li Bu's house to put it in.
Thanks to the help of two parents, Li Bu and his friends picked each other very smoothly and quickly today. They picked more than 1,500 kilograms of lychees, and they all got done in just over two hours.
After getting the lychees, Li Bu and Li Yanmei took a shower again, then had a simple dinner, and after preparing the breakfast to eat tomorrow, they hugged each other and started to sleep before the sun set.
It was still the same rule, it was less than three o'clock the next morning.
Li Bu and Li Yanmei hurriedly got up, washed, changed clothes, put lychees onto the van, and after checking the van's brakes and tires, they drove down the mountain again in the van.
After two years of being mature and skillful, Li Bu only took two and a half hours this time, and in less than three hours, he drove the car to the place where they sold lychees yesterday.
Moreover, since they arrived at only 5:00 or 6:00, there were very few people setting up stalls on the street, they unexpectedly picked up a better location than yesterday.
"Young man, I'm here to sell lychees again. You performed very well yesterday. When you left, the stall was clean and saved us a lot of trouble. The stall fee was twenty yuan the same as before." Li Bu chose the seat and just got the first basket of lychees down, the market manager came over with a smile to collect the stall fee.
After reaching out to take out twenty yuan from the bag, Li Bu quickly put a bundle of lychees in the bag and handed them to the market manager with the money, and said with a smile: "Brother, this is the lychees grown by his own home. Take them back for your sister-in-law and nephew to try them, hahaha..."
"Oh, ah... This lychee is about twenty yuan per pound, how can it be so expensive? Just take a few, just take a few, just take a few, it's three or four pounds here. It's too expensive, too expensive, really."
Although he said that he had spent money, the market administrator finally accepted Li Bu's lychees.
Li Bu's actions also moved the market administrator. In return, the market administrator took action directly, expanding Li Bu's stall by half, and also asked the sanitation worker to pull an empty trash can next to Li Bu to throw garbage for him.
It was still early, and some of the aunts who bought vegetables had not yet got up, so Li Bu, who had nothing to do, weighed the lychees in a bag of ten kilograms at the stall, and sang to cheer his wife up. "Since I started this home with you, I know that my responsibility has become serious.
I take care of it every day and night, and I will not let it suffer any wind and rain.
I want a baby this year, and it is what the elderly on both sides look forward to.
It doesn't matter whether it's a man or a woman, as long as we have a complete home,
Thank you for your hard work, thank you for your hard work, fate keeps us together and care for each other for the rest of our lives..."
Chapter completed!