Chapter 11: Picking Lychees
Now it's Hong Yan's turn to make a difficulty, these thirty lychees are not too much, and they are not too much, and they depend on their parents and themselves, and they can't be picked in an afternoon, not to mention that it's almost two o'clock now.
Just when Hong Yan was worried, he suddenly saw the famous farmers and uncles resting under the banyan tree.
"Hey, I forgot about them." Hong Yan touched his head, quite self-deprecating
The migrant workers and uncles who were chatting with the boss of the food processing factory just now saw it in their eyes, and looked at Hong Yan happily walking towards them, guessing that they should have talked well.
Before Hong Yan could get closer, the uncle who greeted Hong Yan at the beginning asked, "How is it, it's a good talk." ”
Hong Yan said happily: "It's okay, they decided to buy my family's lychees, but the time is a little tight." Then he asked with some doubts: "I want all the uncles to go to my house to help pick lychees, how about a salary of 150 yuan a day?" "Hong Yan is worried that Genting is a bit far away, and they may not be willing to go.
As soon as they heard about this good thing, how could the migrant workers and uncles disagree, in the past, it was only 200 yuan to pick lychees for others, but now it is 150 yuan in half a day, how could they disagree, and happily followed Hong Yan home as he spoke.
Yunding Township is about half an hour's drive from Lingxiao County, and it takes ten minutes to reach Hong Yan's house in Yunding, not to say how far the distance is, just because the road is narrow, although the county has built a cement road, but it is only a little wider than a single lane, and sometimes if you want two cars to intersect, you also need to test the driver's driving skills.
Nearly an hour later, Hong Yan and his party arrived at home, Hong Yan briefly explained the situation in the county town to his parents, and his parents were also surprised.
After finishing speaking, Hong Yan took tools and led the migrant workers and uncles to their own lychee fields. When they arrived at the local area, the uncles began to get busy, and at this time, Hong Yan's parents also rushed to help. With the help of his parents, Hong Yan hurriedly went to the house of Uncle Zhang, a bamboo weaving master in the village, and bought a hundred bamboo baskets at Uncle Zhang's house, each box can hold fifty catties of lychees. This year's lychee sales are not good, Uncle Zhang thought that his bamboo basket would also be unsalable, but he didn't expect to sell a hundred today, and he was also happy, and he wanted to leave Hong Yan for a few drinks. Hong Yan hurriedly excused himself, and then went to the village commissary to buy a few packs of cigarettes, a box of mineral water and some bread.
After tossing for more than an hour, when he returned to his own field, his parents and uncles had just finished picking two lychee trees, and Hong Yan thought to himself that at this rate, it was estimated that he would have to work overtime at night.
"Uncle Li, come on." Hong Yan called one of the migrant worker uncles, who was the first to greet Hong Yan in the county town, and now he is the leader of this group of migrant workers.
Hearing Hong Yan's call, Uncle Li climbed down from the tree and walked in front of Hong Yan to wait for him to speak.
"Uncle Li, at this rate, I estimate that the thirty lychee trees at home will not be able to be picked before dark." Hong Yan said
Uncle Li looked at the lychee forest behind him, turned around and said affirmatively, "It's true that I can't finish picking." ”
There were seven of them, plus Hong Yan and his parents, even ten people were a bit difficult in such a short period of time.
Listening to Uncle Li's reply, Hong Yan continued: "Uncle Li, if you work overtime at night and pick all these thirty lychees, I will give you three hundred alone." As he spoke, he stuffed a few packs of cigarettes that he had just bought at the commissary into Uncle Li's hand.
As soon as he heard that there were three hundred, Uncle Li's eyes suddenly lit up, slapped his thigh, and said, "Okay, since you are so refreshing, let's fight." ”
After speaking, he didn't wait for Hong Yan to speak, and turned his head and beckoned his people to work.
In two hours, it was about to get dark, so Hong Yan ran back to the village, borrowed a generator from the village committee, and borrowed a few high-power lights to pull back his lychee field.
In this way, everything goes according to plan.
The next day, it was still light.
After a night of struggle, thirty lychee trees were picked, and Hong Yan was very satisfied with the fruits in front of him.
At this time, in the kitchen of Hong Yan's house, Hong Yan's mother and a young girl were busy by the stove.
"Auntie, Brother Yan is really amazing, he sold all the lychees when he went out, and he sold them at a good price."
It was Zhou Rin'er who spoke, the eldest daughter of the Zhou family, who just came back from school last night this weekend.
Hong Zhou's two families are also world friends and happen to be neighbors, so whoever has a family will help each other with everything, because she knows that Hong Yan brought back a few people to pick lychees all night, so she came over early in the morning to help make breakfast.
Hong Yan's mother's name is Liang Xiu, in her early forties, a typical image of a rural woman.
Liang Xiu looked at Zhou Rin'er in front of her and liked it more and more, Zhou Rin'er not only studied well, she didn't let her parents worry about it since she started studying, she also got scholarships every year since she started high school, and she was well-behaved and long-behaved. When she was not born, the two families agreed that if they gave birth to a daughter, they would set a baby kiss, and Hong Yan was teased by his classmates because of this when he was a child. However, after so many years, Zhou Rin'er is getting more and more beautiful, and the people who stimulated Hong Yan before are now salivating with envy.
"Rin'er, you're 19 years old, you can find a time to settle the matter between the two of you, and get married when you graduate, so that your parents and I can hold our grandson as soon as possible." Liang Xiu looked at Zhou Lin'er with a smile, this girl is definitely the best choice for the best daughter-in-law in Liang Xiu's mind.
"Auntie, what are you talking about......" Zhou Rin'er stomped her foot when she heard what Liang Xiu said, and her face suddenly turned hot and red to the base of her neck.
Seeing Zhou Rin'er, who was looking down at his feet with his red face and his fingers still fiddling with the corners of his clothes, Liang Xiu smiled again and said: "I was already Yan'er's mother when I was your age, what is there to be ashamed of, besides, your parents are more anxious to hold their grandson than me, but they are embarrassed to say, haha." ”
After saying this, Liang Xiu thought about it for a while and said: "Yan'er, everything is fine, but it's just an elm head, you have to dial him more when you have the opportunity, otherwise I don't know when he will be able to open his mind." ”
Zhou Lin'er nodded lightly and said in a voice as thin as a mosquito: "Hmm." ”
At this time, Hong Yan and the others came down from the mountain one after another, carrying baskets of lychees.
As soon as he arrived at the yard of his home, Hong Yan saw Zhou Rin'er's father, Zhou Shusheng, setting a table under the magnolia tree in the yard. He hurriedly put down the basket in his hand, ran to Zhou Shusheng in three steps and said anxiously: "Uncle Zhou, how can you do this, your leg is not good." ”