16. Fruit growers
Chapter 16 Fruit Growers
With this fall, Lu Junyuan's foot injury was immediately exposed.
Zhou Jiayi didn't believe Lu Junyuan's rhetoric, and asked directly, "Does your injury have anything to do with Xiao Hanlin?" The β‘β‘ group in the class had been discussing this matter every day before, and although Zhou Jiayi didn't have much Internet access, she also knew something.
Lu Junyuan just wanted to shake his head, but was stared at tightly by Zhou Jiayi, "Don't lie to me, how many classmates were in No. 1 Middle School before our class, I can ask them for verification." β
In fact, if you talk about it carefully, this matter really has something to do with Xiao Hanlin, his academic performance is good, and he was also admitted to the real yΓ n class this time, although he is not in the same class as Lu Junyuan, but this military training is that every two classes are a company, and then divided into several platoons according to the number of people, as the saying goes, it is not that enemies do not get together, but fortunately, with the high-pressure control of the instructor, Lu Junyuan and Xiao Hanlin have been safe.
The 739 base is close to the mountains and forests, and the nearby rural people make a living by growing apples, and the price of apples in Jiangping County has hardly exceeded one yuan, which has a lot to do with this.
Every year at the end of the military training is the perfect time for the apple harvest, the soldiers of the 739 base to help the surrounding fruit farmers pick apples, the students who come to participate in the military training are also driven ducks to the shelves, to be a day before the military training show to be a fruit farmer, the instructors will be according to the picking results and training results to evaluate the best students.
Among all the people in the company, Lu Junyuan and Xiao Hanlin are the default candidates for the best students, and they are also competitors to each other.
Early that morning, when the students arrived at the orchard, they began to pick in a company, with the girls in charge of the low places and the boys in charge of the high places, and the trees in the mountains and forests were luxuriant, and the fruit trees were no exception.
Xiao Hanlin was bold, he was not scared at all, he moved quickly, but wherever he could reach out and hook it, the fruits were picked by him, compared to Lu Junyuan, who had to take care of other classmates, the number of apples picked by Xiao Hanlin kept rising.
Although the fruit farmers who instructed them were trying to remind the students to pay attention to safety, Xiao Hanlin was bent on outperforming Lu Jun, and even jumped back and forth between the trees that were far away, without any regard for his own safety.
There is an idiom called happiness and sorrow, just when Xiao Hanlin was silent in the joy of defeating Lu Junyuan and winning the best student's face, the trembling branch under his feet finally couldn't support it and broke apart.
Xiao Hanlin's basket with apples in his arms fell straight down, a girl standing under the tree was so frightened that she forgot to hide, Lu Junyuan, who was standing next to her, wanted to catch the basket to avoid injury to his classmates, but he didn't think about it for a moment, the falling object had gravitational acceleration, the basket didn't catch, and smashed his own foot, not to mention, there was a big living person who fell from the tree and smashed on his leg.
Wound on wound, bone cracked.
Fortunately, although the base is in the countryside, there should be no less, because he slept on the top bunk and had difficulty moving, but also with the approval of the instructor, slept in the fruit farmer's hometown for one night, and the next day Lu Junyuan, who was wearing a plaster, sat with the instructors and watched the military training show throughout the whole process.
Some classmates felt sorry for him, he couldn't participate in the show after training for so long, and some classmates felt that his kindness was overflowing, and even Xiao Hanlin, who finally got the outstanding students, felt that he was invincible for the first time.
"You're really idle." Zhou Jiayi was a little annoyed in her heart, although she knew that Xiao Hanlin should not be blamed for this, but she still couldn't help but say, "You don't care what others do, you don't want to run when you see the frame smashed down, and heroes also have superpowers." β
I have to say that in terms of counting people, Zhou Jiayi has inherited the excellent skills from her mother, plus her knowledge is wider than Li Qiumei, and when it comes to people, even Lu Junyuan can't resist it, so he can only nod.
"Okay, after all that, don't you feel dry mouth?" Lu Junyuan pointed to the cardboard box in the living room, "I brought two boxes of apples to you from there when I came back from military training, it's good, wash one and taste it." β
"You picked it yourself?" Zhou Jiayi asked, and said, "It's all like this, and you're still thinking about bringing us apples, don't you think it's heavy?"
Although she complained, Zhou Jiayi still washed two apples and nibbled them one by one.
It was rare for Lu Junyuan to come back, but Zhou Jiayi didn't rush to read a book, but sat in the living room and chatted with him about military training.
"It's not in the mountains, it's close to those small hills in the south, our instructor don't look strict, in fact, he is only in his early twenties, and he gets along very well in private, I was injured and lived in a villager's house, or he came to pick me up early in the morning and carried me back to the base."
"These apples are bought in the villagers' homes, now there are many orchards on the mountain, although the apples are not valuable, but they can barely make them food and clothing, originally there are merchants driving big cars to collect apples at this time of year, I don't know why they didn't come this year, the villagers planted early-maturing apples, not released in summer, there is no cold storage in the village, if all are broken, it is a big loss, the students know more or less after they have bought some." This kind of explains why I didn't bother to bring back two boxes of apples.
After talking about this place, Lu Junyuan simply told Zhou Jiayi what he was thinking about, "I stayed at the villager's house for a day, and that aunt cared for me very much, killed the chickens at home and stewed soup for me, and gave me the only table fan in the house at night...... I wanted to ask my dad if he had anything to do with it......"
Lu Junyuan didn't continue, but Zhou Jiayi understood that the relationship between the Lu family's father and son was not good, Lu Junyuan didn't know how to talk to his father, and he was also worried that Lu Boyi, who was doing real estate, didn't know anyone who was in the fruit business at all.
Zhou Jiayi didn't say anything like Lu Junyuan being nosy, because she knew very well in her heart that Lu Junyuan was that kind of person, and if others treated him well, he would repay him with ten points, if it weren't for this, he wouldn't have stayed to make up for his own lessons.
"Actually, I have an idea." Zhou Jiayi has a lot more life experience than Lu Jun, she remembered that when she was in college, many girls drank apple cider vinegar in order to lose weight, of course, it is vinegar, but it is actually a sweet and sour drink.
"But we don't have a way to make zuΓ², and we don't have an experienced master, so it's very difficult to succeed at the first time. It can only be said that it is to contact this kind of manufacturer to see if there can be cooperation with large orders. After saying apple cider vinegar, Zhou Jiayi immediately said: "In fact, the juice factory can also say this." β
Zhou Jiayi remembers that when she was a child, she would often buy popsicles made of fruit juice jelly in the summer, and there were rumors that they were made from broken apples.
"But now they seem to be adding sweeteners, flavors, colors or something, and they don't necessarily want it." Zhou Jiayi denied her idea again, she frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Yes, there is no need to be so troublesome at all, we can just gather customers online, and then you can contact the courier to help send these fruits to customers, by the way, you can also open a Taobao store, which is specially used to sell fruits." β
At that time, the popular industry of e-commerce had not yet been formed, and in the small county town of Jiangping, the entire express delivery industry was in a lackluster situation.
At this moment, Zhou Jiayi would never have thought that in order to come up with a way to help the villagers for Lu Junyuan, Jiangping would take advantage of the east wind of e-commerce to become a well-known apple picking base in the country in the next few years.
Although Taobao has been born for more than three years, in Jiangping County, where computers have not even reached households, buying and selling online is simply unthinkable.
Lu Junyuan rarely buys things online, he doesn't have any special hobbies, although Jiang Ping is small, he has all kinds of organs, which is enough to meet his daily life, not to mention that his stepmother Wei Shanshan occasionally sends him some new clothes, electronic products, and even books. So after hearing Zhou Jiayi's idea, he didn't respond to it, but hesitated: "Will this work?"
Zhou Jiayi, who knows the trend of the industry in the future, is full of confidence, "Of course it works!" You don't see, how many people later made a fortune because of Taobao and became well-off, bought cars, bought houses and houses.
"Let's go, go to your house, I'll tell you how to do it?" The more Zhou Jiayi thought about it, the more excited she became, she couldn't think of any way to improve the situation at home because she had no money before, but it didn't cost much to open a Taobao store, a typical no-capital operation!
Lu Junyuan sat still and didn't move, Zhou Jiayi urged him, "Why are you stunned, let's go." β
"I want to go too." Lu Junyuan looked at his feet, and then at Zhou Jiayi, who looked dazed, crying and laughing.
Zhou Jiayi reacted, the embarrassment on her face flashed, and she laughed twice, "I forgot when I was excited, what is it, I'll go to your house and move your notebook down, oh, that's not good, I don't have a network cable at home." β
"It's okay, my computer has a wireless card." Lu Junyuan said, "The key is in my jacket pocket, just behind the door. β
Lu Junyuan came back and was still wearing the camouflage uniform, perhaps because he was injured and did not exercise much, there was not much sweat on the clothes, and there was even a faint fragrance of laundry detergent.
There is no girl who doesn't like to buy clothes and shoes, even Zhou Jiayi, who is overstretched in the imperial capital, when the website interface opens in front of her, it seems that her two completely different lives have found a connection point.
"Oh, that's it, register an account first, and then log in, you see, these things are sold on it, and there are fruits or something, you try it, anyway, it's free to open a store now, how much can be sold, we will decorate the store pΓΉ to look good, and then go to other places to publicize it, there will definitely be a lot of customers." Zhou Jiayi said excitedly pointing to the computer.
Lu Junyuan, who has a computer, of course, also surfs the Internet, but he either uses MSN to find some foreigners to practice English conversations, or looks up some study materials on the Internet, and websites like Taobao are almost never touched, but this does not prevent him from being interested in such a model.