Chapter 64: Encounter
"Isn't this the son of Lao Tong's family? I heard that he collects people's grain these days?"
"That's right, there is such a thing, there are still a lot of varieties of ground eggs and sweet potatoes."
"What do you think he thinks, he was finally admitted to university, and he didn't easily earn money in a big city outside, why did he return to the village like a fool?"
"I don't understand, what is the purpose of going to school? It's not to get into a good school, get ahead, and climb out of our remote village."
"His brain lacks roots, I think his study is in vain, and his life is ruined if he runs back to the countryside."
"Instead of enjoying happiness in the city, return to the village to suffer"
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Tong Chen hurriedly came out of the alley, and his ears heard several old people sitting together at the entrance of the alley chatting with each other, he didn't hear all of them, but Tong Chen also knew from their eyes that they were discussing themselves.
Although Tong Chen still had a little bit of a mustard in his heart, he was no longer surprised, as if he hadn't heard, he passed through the alley and stepped into the main road.
This time, Tong Chen rushed home non-stop, he didn't dare to stop, the time was tight and the task was heavy, he had to race against time and do his best.
After some thought, Tong Chen knew in his heart that it was difficult to earn so much money a day by selling eggs alone, and he had to increase the types of goods he sold, such as noodles and sweet potatoes.
In Tong Chen's view, people in the county have no land, and if they want to eat, they can only buy them, and some people buy ordinary farm products.
Of course, there is an interesting episode in this, when Tong Chen first started, there was no specific purchase of agricultural products, when he entered a farmer to buy, he just wanted to buy a few randomly, but when people asked the price, Tong Chen was a little confused, he said that the price people did not accept at all, and he did not have a low price in his heart, and he did not know the current specific market of the thing, so that the acquisition failed, and lost a lot of face.
For this reason, he did not continue to the second one, but went to the relevant sales place in the county to start to understand the price, his eyes lit up at that time, and he also did a simple market research to understand what was selling faster at this time, what was profitable, what was more lacking, and so on.
This tossed down, more than a day passed, he also decided on a few types to sell, and then flew a lot of time to start buying in person, at first some villagers did not believe it, Tong Chen said it badly, and the scene took the goods with one hand and paid the money with one hand, and the villagers were relieved.
The ten-day mission deadline, two days passed without any income, Tong Chen's heart became more and more anxious, and he even had a premonition that this mission was dangerous.
The only good news is that the last time he sold eggs, the business has been maintained, that is, Tong Chen and his father Tong Fucheng have been taking care of it, and the daily income is not low.
This can completely share part of his task pressure, so that the difficulty of the task is reduced a little, and the system does not deny it...
Watching Tong Chen buy all kinds of agricultural products, Lin Wanru and Tong Fucheng couldn't sit still, they never thought that their son would continue to do what these college students shouldn't do, this is completely nonsense;
Last time she sold eggs, Lin Wanru thought that Tong Chen was on a whim, and it would be over after the sale, and it was time to leave home and find a job, but she didn't expect him to continue, and it looked like he was going to make a big deal.
After the family finished dinner, Lin Wan stopped Tong Chen.
Tong Chen's heart sank, realizing that the situation might not be good.
"What the hell do you think about this?, why do you continue to fool around?", Lin Wanru said expressionlessly, and Tong Fucheng on the side also pulled a face.
Of course, Tong Chen knew what his mother was talking about.
"What is it like for a college graduate to go back to a small village to sell eggs and potatoes instead of taking root and working in the city?";
Tong Fucheng pursed his lips and said, "What is the purpose of your college? Is it just to let you still go back to your hometown to farm and sell things, who wouldn't sell some eggs?"
Lin Wanru persuaded bitterly: "We college students should do the things of college students, instead of going back to the countryside to do the things that farmers do."
Tong Chen was very helpless in his heart: "Mom, who said that college students can't go back to the village to do things, they must stay in the big city forever? Your understanding is completely incorrect, according to what you said, the city will only develop faster and faster, the countryside will only become more and more backward, and the gap between urban and rural areas can only get bigger and bigger, this is completely wrong, now the country has put forward the rural revitalization strategy, the countryside will only develop better and better, as long as you work hard in the countryside, you will definitely have a future, and now many college students and village officials are not specifically coming to our rural areas."
Lin Wanru shook her head when she heard this: "I think the sentence I heard you say so much, the city is getting better and better, isn't it?
"Although it can't be compared now, but the countryside will become better in the future, no, it can't be said that the city and the countryside should be two concepts, the city has the advantages of the city, and our countryside also has its own uniqueness, maybe, the countryside will also become the yearning of urban citizens in the future, and they will also come to our countryside to travel and eat", Tong Chen immediately argued.
Tong Fucheng was even more angry: "I think you are daydreaming, just where we don't birds, people from big cities will come to travel?"
"How could it not be?".
"If possible, it will be a long time later," Lin Wanru interjected.
Alas, they can't say that they can't go together at all, they think of two different things from me, and it's no wonder that their growth environment is completely different from mine, and their outlook on life and values are also different, so it's not unusual to talk about not being able to go together.
"What kind of college student village official do you say, you are not a village official, what can you do if you stay in the village all the time? How can you earn more in the city than in the countryside, listen to your parents, or obediently go back to the northern city to find a good job."
Tong Chen did not continue to argue with Lin Wanru, he knew that no matter what he said, it would be difficult to change his parents' minds.
This night, Tong Chen had some difficulty sleeping, and his parents were the same.
On the third day of the mission, Tong Chen rode his three-wheeled bicycle to the county seat.
Before, Tong Chen also expected that his father could go to sell with him, so he could bear less pressure, but now it seems that he thinks too much, Tong Fucheng is angry, and completely ignores Tong Chen, how can he continue to accompany him to sell eggs.
In addition to eggs and some tools, the body was filled with other agricultural products that he had purchased.
After coming to the farmers' market (morning market), which was still crowded, Tong Chen walked down in a circle, and found that after the autumn harvest, there were really a lot of various crops in the market, which was good news for people who wanted to buy things, but it was not good news for Tong Chen.
didn't find any good location, so Tong Chen had to come to a corner, pack up his things, and wait for customers to come to the door.