Chapter 9: Hong Yan's Troubles
In the afternoon, the scorching sun is in the sky, the scorching sun scorches everything, and there are few pedestrians on the street.
At this time, Hong Yan came out of the Lingxiao County Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Center with two baskets of lychees, looking depressed. Outside the gate of the wholesale center, he couldn't help but glance back and shake his head silently.
After a week, all the lychees have been improved, and looking at the improved lychees, Hongyan still has no confidence, because no matter how good things are, there must be demand. It wasn't his style to sit back and wait, so he volunteered to pick a basket of lychees and try his luck in the county seat.
It's just that he thought that his family's lychees were picked early enough, but he didn't expect that there were also lychees in the market that were on the same morning as his family, and there were quite a few of them. He walked around the wholesale center and asked several wholesalers for their purchase prices, which were so low that he didn't want to sell.
After coming out of the fruit and vegetable wholesale center, he looked around and found that there was a big banyan tree on the side of the road diagonally opposite the wholesale center.
When I arrived under the banyan tree, I found that there were already a few people sitting or lying in the shade, all dressed as famous farmers and workers. He ignored the others, put down the burden and found a place to sit down, at this time the sweat had soaked his shirt, he took off the straw hat as a fan and fanned it a few times, it seemed to be much cooler.
There were bursts of screams from the tree, and Hong Yan unconsciously raised his head to find the traces of the knowledge, and he was in a daze when he searched for it. Looking back on myself, I was born in the countryside, and my parents saved money to pay for themselves to go to college, although it was not 985 or 211 university, but it was also the first college student in the village. Now that I have just graduated from university, I want to show my ambition and work hard for a few years to make my parents live a happy life, but I didn't expect that the 30 lychee trees planted at home will have a bumper harvest. A bumper harvest is a good thing, but a bumper harvest for everyone is not necessarily a good thing, lychees are overflowing, and the purchase price is not as high as the labor cost, even if the price is lowered, no one cares. Seeing that his family was worried, Hong Yan patted his chest and confidently took over the task. Thinking that it was a big deal, he would go door-to-door to sell, and he couldn't sell it if he didn't believe it, but at the moment, it seemed that things were really not as simple as he thought.
"Almighty God, if you can let me sell all the lychees in my family, even if it is half of them, I will definitely do more good deeds to repay your kindness in the future." Hong Yan muttered in his heart, these lychees are most of the family's source of income for the past year.
Suddenly, a thunderbolt resounded through the heavens and the earth, and suddenly pulled Hong Yan's thoughts back from the clouds.
This thunder almost didn't scare Hong Yan out of a myocardial infarction, a good sunny day, cloudless, how could there be a sudden thunder, could it be that he swore indiscriminately and caused God's curse? That's not going to be it.
"Hey, lad." A famous farmer patted Hong Yan on the shoulder and shouted, "Look at what! ”
Hong Yan was taken aback again, looked back at the famous farmer, and muttered, "I was almost scared to death by you again!" ”
"Hehe, I thought you were out of your body, it's okay." After the farmer finished speaking, it didn't seem right: "What do you mean to be scared to death by me again, I don't seem to have done anything to you before." ”
Hong Yan glanced at him: "The thunder was so loud just now, didn't you hear it?" ”
The farmer looked at Hong Yan with eyes like a nervous disease, "Young man, are you okay, look at this weather, it's so hot, it is estimated that even the Dragon Lord is too lazy to go out, where did the thunder come from." After speaking, I wanted to reach out and touch Hong Yan's head to see if he had a fever.
"Go, go, don't look like I'm crazy, if you don't, you won't have it!" After speaking, he turned his face and stopped looking at the famous farmer, so as not to be angry with his eyes, could it be that he was hallucinating just now?
"Young man, I saw you just now that you were stunned for a long time, are you worried about how to sell your lychee?"
"Yo, how do you know?"
"Isn't that obvious, you look at those." As he spoke, he pointed to the various three-wheeled motorcycles, tractors, and board trucks parked along the road in the wholesale center. "This year's lychee harvest is bumper, but it can't be sold, you say it's not annoying!" Then he looked at his companion and shook his head and continued: "We come to Lingxiao at this time of year to help pick lychees, and in previous years, we could have an income of more than two hundred per day, but this year ......." As soon as he finished speaking, the companions around him couldn't help but sigh one after another, and everyone understood.
Hong Yan looked at this group of migrant workers, about forty to fifty years old, with dark skin, a slightly hunched back, and rough palms, looking like people who had been doing manual work for a long time, and he was a young man with fine skin and tender flesh. Moreover, during the conversation, I learned that they are all from neighboring towns, and their children have gone to the city to work, so they are reluctant to keep their family's one-third of an acre of land, and take advantage of the slack season to come out to work as casual workers, so that they can be self-sufficient and not add trouble to the children in the city. After all, cities have better incomes, more opportunities and various social services, and the countryside can only slowly wither in the development of the cities.