Chapter 102: Harvesting Walnuts
Wu Chengfeng followed Sun Qiang to the west of the village, and saw many people driving tractors, riding electric tricycles, and pushing wheelbarrows, all of which were loaded with walnuts, and they were all beaming, waiting for these walnuts to be exchanged for money.
Wu Chengfeng followed Sun Qiang to the west of the village, and he saw a long queue in the west of the village, and there were all kinds of vehicles in this long line.
Sun Qiang looked along the crowd, and suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he pointed to the front of the team and said, "That's my dad!
Wu Chengfeng followed Sun Qiang to a man in his fifties at the front of the team, this man was sitting on an electric tricycle with a cigarette in his mouth, he was dressed plainly, and he wore a certain cyan hat. This man is Sun Qiang's father, and his figure is a little rickety. Wu Chengfeng heard Sun Qiang say that his father had surgery a few years ago and his health has not been good.
"Dad!" Sun Qiang shouted.
Sun Qiang's father was stunned for a moment, he turned around and saw Sun Qiang, and asked in surprise, "Qiangzi, why are you back?"
"Dad, our store is closed! I'll bring my colleague Xiaofeng back for two days!" Sun Qiang explained.
"Hello uncle!" Wu Chengfeng said.
"Hello! Hello!" Sun Qiang's father heard Wu Chengfeng's salutation, and he seemed very useful.
"Dad, how long have you been standing in line here?" asked Sun Qiang.
"It's about two hours!" Sun Qiang's father spit out a puff of smoke, looked at the front of the team, and said: "There are only three people left in front, and in about twenty minutes or so, it will be our turn!"
"It's been so long!" Sun Qiang was a little surprised.
"It's okay!" Sun Qiang's father glanced back and said, "Look at the people at the back, it is estimated that they are all in vain today!"
At this time, a person suddenly came over and whispered to Sun Qiang's father: "Old Sun, let's discuss something!"
The person who was talking to Sun Qiang's father was about thirty years old, with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, and a pair of small eyes purring.
When Sun Qiang's father saw the comer, the disgust in his eyes flashed, and he said, "Yang Kun, what's the matter?"
"Lao Sun, that's the ......" The man named Yang Kun smiled all over his face and said: "Lao Sun, our two families have a good relationship, can I join the team?"
"No!" Sun Qiang's father refused: "I want to cut the queue like you, didn't I come early in vain?"
Yang Kun was sternly rejected by Sun Qiang's father, feeling that his face was gloomy, and he said: "I don't know how to work around at all, no wonder my son is twenty-four or five, and he can't marry a daughter-in-law!"
"What did you say?" Sun Qiang's father glared at Yang Kun angrily.
Yang Kun looked at Sun Qiang next to him and clenched his fists, he didn't dare to be stiff, and said, "I didn't say anything!" After Liu Kun finished speaking, he hurriedly went to the front.
"This person's mouth is really lacking in morality!" Wu Chengfeng said.
"Hehe!" Sun Qiang sneered twice and said, "Xiao Feng, do you know who he is?"
"Who? Could it be the son of your village party secretary?" asked Wu Chengfeng puzzled.
Sun Qiang shook his head and said, "He is Liu Lulu's cousin!"
"Liu Lulu?" Wu Chengfeng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered who Liu Lulu was, with a look of surprise in his eyes.
Liu Lulu worked as a summer worker at the string shop where Wu Chengfeng used to work, and once lived with Wu Chengfeng. At that time, Wu Chengfeng heard Sun Qiang say that Liu Lulu's mother was from their village, and after Liu Lulu's parents divorced, Liu Lulu's mother took Liu Lulu to live in Sun Qiang's village. Especially after several years, Wu Chengfeng has almost forgotten Liu Lulu, and now that Sun Qiang mentions this, Wu Chengfeng has mixed feelings in his heart, and the previous things involuntarily come to mind.
"How is Liu Lulu now?" Wu Chengfeng asked with a complicated expression.
"She married in our neighboring village the year before last and now has a son for almost a week. I heard my mother say that Liu Lulu was not well married! Last winter, her husband lost money in online gambling and borrowed more than 100,000 yuan in online loans. In order to repay the online loan, they sold all the cars they bought when they got married!" Sun Qiang said.
"Hey, everyone has their own life!" Wu Chengfeng sighed.
"Some people's lives are very good! Do you see the person in front of you who is in charge of collecting walnuts? He is the son of our village electrician!" Sun Qiang said this, with an envious look on his face.
Wu Chengfeng saw a young man in his twenties at the front of the team, he looked white and clean, and shouted loudly to make people line up. That Yang Kun just now was muttering something in front of the young man.
Wu Chengfeng pursed his lips and said disappreciatively: "An electrician's son, what's so spirited!"
"You don't know this!" Sun Qiang said: "In our village, the electricity used by the electrician's home does not cost a penny! In the electrician's house, the air conditioner is open 24 hours a day. In the few wealthy families in our village, the air conditioning will not be turned on 24 hours a day. Electricians also have refrigerators, microwave ovens, electric heaters, etc., which can use electricity anyway, and they don't need anything else at home. When Sun Qiang said this, he lowered his voice and said: "I also heard that electricians can also manually adjust the number of words in the meter by themselves......"
"Ah......" Wu Chengfeng said in surprise: "Isn't that using power for personal gain......"
Sun Qiang rolled his eyes and said, "It's like this in many places! Also, let's talk about the electrician and his son Zhou Bin, who is the same age as me." After graduation, I didn't go out to work, and played mahjong with a group of old ladies in the village every day. I heard that he secretly has some ambiguous relationships with a few old ladies. Now Tiancheng Company asked him to harvest walnuts here, and gave him 200 yuan a day!" Sun Qiang said this, with a look of envy on his face.
When Wu Chengfeng heard this, he frowned and said every day: "How can Tiancheng Company find such a person to be responsible for harvesting walnuts?"
Sun Qiang shrugged his shoulders and said, "No way! Tiancheng Company's walnut harvesting site is at the entrance of our village, and Zhou Bin's father is responsible for all the electricity in it." Tiancheng Company should also let Zhou Bin be here because of this relationship!"
"So that's the case!" Wu Chengfeng almost understood.
While talking, the people in front of Sun Qiang's father had already sold walnuts and drove their car away. Now it's Sun Qiang's father's turn, and he is ready to drive the electric three wheels to the weighbridge. At this time, Zhou Bin suddenly stopped Sun Qiang's father and said, "Old Sun, you wait a minute!"
Sun Qiang's father was stunned and asked suspiciously, "Why?"
Zhou Bin said impatiently: "I'll tell you to wait a minute, why do you do so much nonsense?"
After Zhou Bin finished speaking, he waved his hand at the place and shouted, "Yang Kun, come here!"
"Okay!" Yang Kun replied loudly, he also rode an electric tricycle, and when he passed by Sun Qiang's father's car, he smiled proudly at Sun Qiang's father, and then drove the electric tricycle to the weighbridge unhurriedly.
Wu Chengfeng saw Yang Kun talking to Zhou Bin in front just now, Wu Chengfeng saw Yang Kun stuffing a box of cigarettes into Zhou Bin's pocket, and he saw something wrong at that time, and sure enough.
Sun Qiang's father saw that Yang Kun had cut the queue, he was furious, jumped off the tricycle, ran directly to Zhou Bin, and said loudly: "I queued for more than two hours, why did you let Yang Kun cut the queue with a word?"
Zhou Bin rolled his eyes and said impatiently: "I'll have the final say here, I'll let him weigh first, he will weigh first, and if you shout again, you won't let people accept your walnuts today!"