Chapter 29: Consultation
The next day, when Su Rui finished resting and packing up her things, Lu Fei came to call her to go to Lu's mother for dinner.
After getting along, Lu Fei also put away her previous contemptuous attitude, but her tone was still arrogant, "My mother said that she has something to talk to you about, so you don't have to go to the orchard tonight." She blinked and smiled, "That's a good thing!" ”
"Why don't you ask me what's going on?" Although she is in a superior family environment and her thoughts are more mature than her peers, in the end, she is a little girl's troublesome nature, especially with peers like Su Rui, who seem to be older than her, she can't help but want to tease her.
"You'll know when it's time." It's a good thing to say it, and she doesn't need to inquire in advance to prepare for it, it only takes three or two minutes to walk over.
Lu Fei said angrily: "You are as boring as my second brother, no wonder you two can come together." ”
Mother Lu beckoned Su Rui in, the meals had been set, and at the dinner table, Su Rui sat upright, waiting for Mother Lu to speak.
Lu Mu smiled, "Let's eat." ”
Lu Fei touched her arm and whispered, "My mother has always been silent about eating, and she will talk about anything after eating." ”
Lu Mu glared at her, "Since you know, shut up and eat." ”
Su Rui doesn't like to talk when she eats, especially at the dinner table.
Lu Mu secretly observed her, through two close contacts, she was able to determine that Su Rui's quiet and decent was not intentional, it was a very natural performance, she didn't chirp when she ate, she didn't hurry down the chopsticks, she only clamped the vegetables in front of her, along the edge of the plate, and she wouldn't rummage over meat or anything like that...
Often from a person's performance in eating, you can see some of her daily living habits, whether she has been well educated, whether she will take into account the feelings of others, whether she loves to be greedy and cheap, etc., can be reflected from some small things.
In general, Lu Mu was still satisfied with Su Rui's performance, and the smile on her face unconsciously increased.
Su Rui and Lu Fei helped clean up the dinner table, and Lu's mother didn't stop them.
Sitting on the small sofa, Lu Mu said: "You also know that this year's orchard harvest is very good, but the sales are not high, and now most of the apricots are ripe, and if it continues like this, it will rot on the branches sooner or later." She sighed: "This year, the entire fruit industry is sluggish, and now it's just that the business of the apricot orchard is bleak, and I am afraid that it will affect the next season of peaches, if the industry can not recover this season, I am afraid that this year even the cost of maintenance will not be recovered." ”
In recent years, the country has relaxed land use, and most of the production bases have expanded the scale of planting, resulting in the expansion of fruits this year.
The atmosphere became gloomy.
Lu Fei interjected: "So Mom, just according to what I said, with Su Rui's help, it will definitely be sold." ”
"Do what?" Su Rui wondered.
Lu's mother glared at her daughter, and she had to let her speak slowly, "Didn't you make two cans of green apricot jam for Lu Fei yesterday, she gave it to me to taste, it was delicious, so this girl wanted to make the apricots that couldn't be sold into sauce and sell them." ”
Lu Fei didn't hide it from her, "I made some more in the kitchen today, but it tastes like it's not as delicious as what you make, so you see that if it's okay, let's do it, if it sells well, I'll give you a share of the salary." As she spoke, she couldn't hide her excitement.
Today, the two of them tried it in the kitchen for a day, and made one with green apricots and ripe apricots, according to Lu Fei's description of Su Rui's steps to make sauce, the taste of the sauce can be different from Su Rui's, and when Su Rui made it at that time, she didn't hide it, and she didn't know what was going on?
So after thinking about it, Lu Mu felt that this should be related to talent, just like some children are born with good physical flexibility and are a seedling of dancing, and some children have an open voice and are suitable for singing, and Su Rui is the kind of person who has a special feeling for cooking.
"I can do it, but this day, without a refrigerator, the sauce can only be stored for a week." Su Rui said: "If you can't sell it within the expiration date, the sauce will also be bad." ”
Unless it's preservatives or vacuum-packed, but apricots are seasonal fruits, and it's not easy to prepare in such a hurry, so she doesn't expect much from the jam business.
As soon as she heard that the shelf life was so short, Lu Fei's excitement also went down, even if she sold it, did she want people to eat it up in a few days? It's not a necessity, and no one wants to buy it.
"You kid, what did my mother tell you, don't think too much about business at the beginning, lest the higher the hope, the greater the disappointment." Lu's mother doesn't expect her daughter to really be able to make a sauce to bring up the orchard's business, whether she sells it or not is secondary, anyway, if the apricots can't be sold, she has to throw it away, and it's also a good thing to give her children exercise.
Su Rui is not interested in the jam business, but she is interested in what Lu's mother just said, the orchard business is not as good as day by day, watching a stubble of apricots turn from green to yellow, from yellow to red, and is about to rot on the branches, she is also really distressed.
The orchard is the Lu family's industry, Lu Feng has helped her again and again, and the two have now established a relationship, so she can't stand idly by.
"Auntie, the orchard business is not good now, and making apricot jam is a way out, but so many apricots are ripe on the branches, and it is impossible to pick them all to make sauce, even if they are made, it will be difficult to sell them for a while." Su Rui boldly proposed: "I have an idea, if you organize tourists to come and experience picking, and turn the orchard into a tourist attraction, what do you think?" ”
Because there is a highway in Dalin Village, so she dared to make this suggestion, in the era in which she lived, rural tourism was a very prosperous industry, almost every golden autumn season she will participate several times, green vegetable base, apple orchard, strawberry garden and so on.
"I think that's a good idea!" Lu Fei's eyes lit up, "Yesterday morning, I saw red apricots hanging on the branches, and I couldn't help but want to come down and taste it, just like the book says, Adam and Eve can't resist the temptation of red apples, if the people who live in the city really come here to play, they must not be able to resist this temptation!" ”
Mother Lu glanced at her daughter, "You are embarrassed to say what happened yesterday." But she thought about it for a while, "If a large number of fruits are unsalable this year, our orchard will have quite serious losses, it is better to plan some new ways out in advance, Su Rui said this idea is ingenious, I think we should be able to try it." ”
Not to mention that her daughter has itchy hands when she looks at the red fruit, even she likes it very much.
Especially the retired old cadres in the compound, many of them love to climb mountains and fish or something, but unfortunately there are not many places to go.
Most of the fruit trees are low, and if they can solve the safety problem and push the orchard out for picking, I believe that they will love this activity if they come once they come.