Deyuan City, Xihe Province, is an industrialized city located in the north of China. Since the seventies of the twentieth century, Deyuan has become the largest steel exporter city in Tay Ha province. Even in the country, it is one of the best output values.

Liu Qian parked the car in his garage, carried a black leather bag, walked into the elevator quickly, and returned home.

"Wife, what are you going to eat tonight?" Liu Qiantong is in his early fifties, with a round face and white face, and a slightly bald crown on his head, but his personality is outgoing and open. He put the key in the hallway, sniffled, smelled a fragrance, and immediately said aloud with a smile.

"Didn't you shout yesterday that you hadn't eaten lo mein for a long time, a refrigerator of tomatoes, I made egg lo mein, hand-rolled noodles, enough for you to eat. Walking out of the kitchen with a spoon was a round woman with a smile in the corner of her eye.

Liu Qian has been married to his husband and wife for nearly 30 years, rarely quarrels, the two are harmonious and beautiful, and their daughter is well-behaved and sensible. The couple has been in the clothing business for many years, and now they have several stores under their names, and they are already wealthy by rent.

A while ago, my daughter, who was studying outside, sent them a tomato seedling, saying that it was an indoor tomato variety, planted in the corner.

Liu Qiantong has always loved his daughter as his life, and took his daughter's words as a holy decree. He received the fresh tomato seedlings in the transparent ball, and immediately went to the flower and bird market to buy a beautiful purple sand round pot, planted the tomato seedlings seriously, and went home every day without forgetting to water them.

As the tomato seedlings sent by her daughter sprouted branches and leaves, they climbed half of the wall, bloomed small yellow flowers, and then produced red tomato fruits like lanterns. Liu Qian and his wife understood the intention of their daughter to send a tomato seedling from afar.

It turns out that there are such fun tomatoes now. Liu Qiantong is even more energetic when he takes care of tomatoes. At the same time, he asked his daughter to buy 20 seedlings of vine red jade tomatoes.

In the corner of more than 180 square meters of his house, ten trees were planted. Ten trees were planted along the walls of the company.

The two of them were happy to plant, but they didn't expect that after the second batch of ten tomatoes matured, the fresh-keeping room of the refrigerator was completely occupied by this kind of red jade tomatoes that tasted good.

Every day, more than a dozen tomatoes ripen and are picked to fill a small bamboo basket.

No matter how delicious the food is, if you eat it every day, it will not taste good.

"Go, pour the washing water over the tomatoes. Zhang Mei took the plate and said to Liu Qiantong.

"Obey! Wife!" Liu Qian joked with his wife like a young man.

"I can't put all the tomatoes in the refrigerator, so you can take them all tomorrow and share them with the people in the company." Placing the marinade of tomatoes and eggs on the table, Zhang Mei went into the kitchen to prepare the hand-rolled noodles. The two of them now run an import and export clothing trading company. The office site is also quite large.

"Hahaha, there are also ten trees planted in the company. Liu Qiantong smiled awkwardly as he poured a pot of water into the pot where the tomatoes were grown.

Zhang Mei rolled her eyes and said, "Then I don't care about you, I just listened to my daughter's planting two trees, but you want to plant them all at home, now it's okay, I can't finish eating!"

"It's okay, I can't finish the old lads I'll give me. Liu Qiantong waved his hand nonchalantly, he went to the kitchen to fill a basin of water, and poured water on the living room, bedroom, balcony, and the rest of the tomatoes in the study. After watering, he washed his hands and helped Zhang Mei set up the dishes and chopsticks.

"You can do it yourself, it's really not good, let's take a basket and go to the gate of the community to sell tomatoes. Yesterday, the tomatoes in the supermarket were more than three yuan a catty, and we sold them for two yuan a catty, and Baoding rushed to ask for it!"

Wealthy families in Deokyuan City just talk casually, but in a building in a neighborhood in Gwangju City, Lingnan Province, in the 90s, there is an old woman about 70 years old, holding small scissors with thread cutters, cutting off ripe tomatoes on the wall and putting them into a plastic basket on the side.

After a while, the tomato fruits in the plastic basket were piled high.

Zhao Yingyue has been retired for more than ten years and lives in the old house of the unit with her wife. Her children and grandchildren are busy with their own careers and studies, and she doesn't have much to do on weekdays except for going out for a walk and chatting with other old people.

A few months ago, her son's family came to visit her with their grandson and planted a tomato in her living room. She lived for more than seventy years, but she had never seen a tomato that could climb up the wall.

Zhao Yingyue felt that this climbing tomato was a good plant, and asked her son to buy her fifteen. The three-bedroom house of more than 90 square meters is covered by climbing vines full of vitality.

It didn't take much effort to grow the climbing tomatoes. Except for the beginning, it took a little effort for my son to move more than a dozen large flower pots and transport the soil, so he didn't have to work too hard when the seedlings were planted. Even an elderly man in his seventies like Zhao Yingyue and his wife doesn't spend much effort. At most, carry a pot of water every day and water it in time.

After a month of taking care of it, the tomatoes finally ripen fruit. Zhao Yingyue and her wife happily picked the first few ripe tomatoes and tried various ways to eat tomatoes.

It's just that as all the tomatoes in the house are ripe, Zhao Yingyue and her wife can't eat these tomatoes.

Despite being grown indoors, this tomato bears fruit in an unexpectedly large number. In the blink of an eye, in just a few days, a small basket was put into a pointy one.

For their son's family, they planted two trees in the living room.

Sending it to neighbors and relatives once or twice is a favor, and giving it away every day still thinks you are a fool!

This problem, which had troubled Mrs. Zhao for several days, was solved one early in the morning, after the old lady went out for morning exercises.

The old lady went out for a walk, passed by the intersection next to an elementary school, and saw a middle-aged woman with a plastic foam box behind her bicycle, selling steamed buns and milk.

The old lady had a flash of inspiration, she can also take the tomatoes at home to sell!

A tomato bears 1-2 fruits a day, and sixteen tomatoes sometimes produce more than 20 tomato fruits, which is about ten catties!

She also pushes a bicycle and takes her wife to sell tomatoes in other neighborhoods.

Mrs. Zhao thought of doing it, and when she got home, she immediately took out the dusty old bicycle in the utility room and cleaned it. The bike hasn't been used since they're older.

She went to the grocery store next to the vegetable market and bought a stack of white plastic bags, took out the electronic scale in the kitchen, and made a solitaire that said, "Grow your own tomatoes, two yuan a catty."

After cleaning up, he dragged his wife, pushed the bicycle, put the tomatoes in the big basket in front of the bicycle, and walked slowly to a neighborhood on the next street.

Two old men who are 150 years old together, put their bicycles on the side of the road at the entrance of Jiale Community, and as soon as they lit up the simple signboard, they immediately attracted a lot of attention, and in less than five minutes, a middle-aged woman carrying fish, meat and vegetables stepped forward to ask.

"How old are you, why do you still come out to sell vegetables?"

Mrs. Zhao said with a smile: "Seventy-three this year, I can't finish the tomatoes I planted, so I sell them cheaply." ”

"Bring me three pounds. The middle-aged woman looked at the tomatoes in the basket, and they were indeed full and fresh, and they were much cheaper than the price of more than three yuan in the supermarket.

"You wait. Mrs. Zhao smiled, before she retired, she was an accountant of a state-owned enterprise, and she had been in the office all her life, but she didn't expect that the first time she did business, someone would take care of her so quickly.

The middle-aged woman hurriedly said, "It's okay, it's okay, your old man take your time, don't be in a hurry." ”

The old lady looked like a lot of tomatoes in the basket, but after a few customers came, they were sold out. Less than ten catties, bought nineteen yuan.

Mrs. Zhao held her wife's hand, squinted and smiled happily, and kept muttering that she would come tomorrow.

She was not short of money, but the income from selling tomatoes was like a windfall, which made her very happy.

Since then, the old lady picks a basket of tomatoes every day, pushes her bicycle, and sells them in the nearby community.

When the vine tomato was not yet popularized in thousands of households, the old lady could earn a few hundred yuan a month by selling tomatoes.