In the following days, as long as it didn't rain, Wei Mingrang concentrated on picking tea on the mountain.

Because Wei Mingrang picked tea with the fastest speed and the highest efficiency, when the family needed to farm or sell vegetables, Hu Mengxian didn't let Wei Mingrang do it, so he let him concentrate on picking tea.

For family affairs, you only need to pick up water every two or three days.

With the passage of time, Wei Ming has increased the speed of tea picking, and finally reached the level of about 20 catties per day, which is breathtaking.

Such skills, even if you can't get into college, are enough to live well by picking tea in Meitan.

In 2018, Meitan took the road of tea planting and tea tourism with a more resolute attitude, and the scale of tea planting in the county was larger, and the salary of tea picking was at least 15 yuan a catty.

It is also a place with a large population and convenient transportation.

In remote places in the countryside, the population is small, the workers are few, and there are many teas planted, and the harvest is not finished, so the boss has to send a car to the city to pick up the tea pickers, and is responsible for two meals at noon and afternoon, and the salary can also be higher at 16 yuan, 17 yuan, or even 18 yuan a catty.

In that case, 20 catties a day is an income of more than 300 yuan, and even if you only pick tea for 20 days a month, it will be 6,000 yuan, which is higher than the income of many part-time jobs.

Even if the salary in 2005 was only 5 yuan a catty, and 20 catties a day was only 100 yuan, but the consumption level in this era was even lower, right?

Wei Dagui works as a workshop director in a furniture factory in Guangdong, and his monthly salary and bonus add up to only about 2,000 yuan, which is already an enviable high income.

Wei Mingrang can earn 100 yuan a day at home, which is simply too capable and able to earn money in the eyes of many villagers.

Moreover, they are also well-read, highly educated, polite, and have high-quality potential stocks.

Therefore, the villagers, neighbors, and tea pickers who came from other places to pick tea all had a good impression of Wei Mingrang.

Some people even tried to introduce Wei Mingrang to his girlfriend, saying that he could try it first, and then talk about it if it was not suitable, but Wei Mingrang refused.

Wei Mingrang does not refuse to make friends with beautiful women, nor does he exclude watching the singing and dancing videos of beautiful anchors, and he will look at beautiful girls when he meets them on the road.

Everyone has a love for beauty, and Wei Mingrang is just a layman.

Moreover, scientists have said that men looking at beautiful women more are good for physical and mental health and longevity.

But if he is in a match and gets married, if he wants to live a lifetime, Wei Mingrang only recognizes Yao Qiaolin.

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On the evening of July 12, Wei Mingrang heard the voice of his father Wei Dagui for the first time after being reborn.

Wei Dagui has a PHS mobile phone, but he doesn't have it at home, and he doesn't have a landline, and the calls are all made at the neighbor Guan Bin's house, and Guan Bin or his family members came to call Wei Mingrang and Hu Mengxian to answer the phone.

Guan Bin opened a small furniture factory, collecting wood to make some small rural furniture, and his biggest business was to make desks and benches for a township primary school.

The furniture factory hired three or four workers, which is a relatively wealthy family in the village, so they have landlines and telephones to take care of business.

Later, Guan Bin served as the leader of the Tongxin Villager Group, although he was the same as Wei Mingrang, he was more than ten years older than Wei Mingrang.

plus he also makes furniture, so he can talk to his father Wei Dagui, and the relationship is very iron.

got a notice from Guan Bin's daughter-in-law Yang Litong that the two younger sisters were doing their homework and taking care of the house, and Wei Mingrang went to Guan Bin's house with his mother to wait for the call.

After waiting at Guan Bin's house for a while, Wei Dagui called the phone again, and Hu Mengxian asked Wei Ming to answer first.

Wei Mingrang didn't push back, because he knew that his parents would definitely quarrel when they called.

For his father, Wei Mingrang's feelings are very complicated.

Wei Dagui was the most courageous of his father's seven siblings since he was a child, and he began to sell rice candy and do small business in the streets and alleys before graduating from junior high school.

When he was 18 years old, he bought more than 30 catties of pork to find the leader of the credit union, borrowed 1,800 yuan, and bought a walk-behind tractor, which is one of the very few people in the village who can drive in the 80s.

Selling twist flowers, vegetables, peppers, corn, and pigs, Wei Dagui drove a tractor to many places.

I have encountered robberies, scammers, deceived others, and fought with people, and I have very rich social experience.

Later, because he wanted to marry Hu Mengxian, he was separated from the old house and had no money, so he sold a tractor and repaired the current red brick house on the side of the national highway.

The tiles were all covered at the back, and they were originally built with cow felt, and Wei Mingrang had memories of cow felt before he went to elementary school.

Later, he traveled north and south, doing business, working part-time, going to prison, carrying cement, working as an electrician, and finally working in the furniture industry.

A young man in the mountainous area of Guizhou who has not finished junior high school, can become the workshop director of a large furniture factory in Guangdong, has dozens of people under his command, can check English dictionaries to make orders from the United States, and is proficient in the use of various automatic processing equipment.

The wife of the family is also very capable of running the house, and the three children are also very sensible.

It stands to reason that with the income of this family, it will not be poor.

After all, Wei Dagui is a manager, not a general worker, one person's income is as high as two or three people, and his wife and children are also in good health, and no one is disabled.

The two old men have also passed away, and even if they have not passed away, the eldest and third are in charge, not under Wei Dagui's control.

So, why didn't Wei Mingrang's family afford to build a cement building? Why did Wei Mingrang have to earn his own living expenses for the first semester of college? Why did his parents quarrel when they called?

Just because of the word "bet".

As a result of growing up in a mixed society, in addition to being experienced, he was exposed to a lot of unscrupulous hobbies, which caused Wei Dagui's complexity.

Smoking and drinking are nothing, and the most serious thing is gambling.

While working in Guangdong, he suffered from stomach problems, and Wei Dagui quit drinking. But this gambling has run through his life from youth to middle and old age.

During this period, the family poverty and relationship tension caused by gambling can no longer be described as "every family has a scripture that is difficult to read".

Because of gambling, Wei Ming let his parents never stop quarreling and fighting since they got married, and it was common to smash bowls and things.

Hu Mengxian's mother's home is not far away, there are many relatives, and she is not a reluctant person.

Therefore, Hu Mengxian often scolded Wei Dagui for only caring about his own gambling and not caring about his family, while Wei Dagui quibbled that he was not gambling to win money, but to buy more meat for his wife and children.

It seems that he gambled because of his wife and children.