People who have been working in the fields all morning will often rest at home for a while, waiting until the sun is not so poisonous before continuing to work on the fields.
Zhang Xifeng was old and easily tired, so she had fallen asleep on the bamboo chair in the main room.
An old man in his sixties frowned tightly when sleeping.
Qi Qi was not sleepy, sitting on the wooden threshold of the hall door, holding her chin in her little hands, her eyes falling on the loquat tree in the corner of the courtyard.
The branches and leaves are luxuriant and green.
At the end of the branches, bunches of green and yellow loquats hang.
It is now the end of June, and loquats are normally ripe long ago. However, the skin of my mother-in-law’s loquats is not yet yellow, but is greenish-yellow. It looks like they are ripe in April.
The same goes for the corn given by Grandma Luo. When she first saw it, she thought Grandma Luo had picked the corn too early.
Not only is it small, the corn kernels arranged on top are not full enough.
Unexpectedly, my mother-in-law said that this was ripe corn. It was either picked early or it just grew like this.
The land in Taoxi Village was originally barren, and it has suffered several droughts in recent years, making it impossible to grow good food.
However, farmers rely on digging food from the fields to support their families. No matter how bad the land is, food still has to be grown.
Working hard, not having enough to eat, the cycle goes on and on.
Year after year, Taoxi Village gradually became the poorest village in Hagilu Town.
"It's so hard to live, Dandan."
"I used to pick up garbage, and people always bullied me because I was young. In order to earn money to buy food, I fought over paper scraps and received many beatings."
"At that time, what I worried about most every day was whether I could pick up garbage tomorrow and how much garbage I could pick up."
"I'm not afraid of being beaten, I'm just afraid of being hungry."
Qiqi turned her head and looked at the old woman sleeping in the main room, with a faint smile on her face.
"The two days I spent in Taoxi Village were the two most peaceful days I spent in my previous life and this life combined."
Here, she was not beaten or starved.
She could feel that her mother-in-law was different from her mother and grandma.
My mother-in-law really likes her.
There are also Uncle Chen, Second Auntie, Grandpa Village Chief and Grandma Luo...
"Edan, I like my mother-in-law and the others, and I want to stay in Taoxi Village."
In the sea of consciousness, Little Eggman looked at the two more wisps of purple in the savings pool, and was in a good mood.
Hearing what Xiao Zai'er said, he responded with a rare tone of voice, "If you want to stay, you can stay."
It is quite satisfied with the speed of energy collection in the past two days. If the little cub stays, if it can continue to get more sincere love, it may bring a big surprise to it.
So Little Eggman agrees with Little Zai'er's wish to stay.
"I remember Dandan said before that if I help you collect energy, you will be rewarded with good luck, right?"
The corners of Little Egg Man's mouth dropped slightly, and he was inexplicably wary, "What do you want to do?"
Qiqi smiled with crooked eyebrows, put her little head on the palm of her hand, and began to think, "I want to share the good fortune with my mother-in-law and others, so that they can have good luck. I want my mother-in-law to grow the most delicious sweet potatoes, and I want Chen Erbo to grow them."
I want the village chief’s grandpa’s family to have a good harvest of food——”
Before he finished speaking, a series of roars came from his mind.
"Stop it!"
"Shut up!"
"SHUT UP!"
"Shut up!"
Qiqi, "..."
The little eggman drank four times urgently, watching the energy fly away in front of his eyes twice, and his forehead was pounding with anger.
Prodigal cub!
What a loser!!
"Little Zai, from today on we have made a three-part agreement. From now on, you must, must, absolutely not say things like 'whatever you want to do' or 'whatever you wish for'!"
Qiqi was puzzled, "Why? My mother-in-law and others are good to me, and I also want to help them..."
"You can help if you want, just tell me quietly and I'll find a way." Little Eggman took several deep breaths before he could barely suppress the heartbreaking pain.
For energy, it has to endure.
These are the chips for it to get home. Anything less is equivalent to a stab in its heart!
In order to retain energy, it can only find other ways.
"The current problem in Taoxi Village is that the prices of the agricultural products grown have been lowered and people cannot make any money." Little Danman analyzed, "In this case, I will find a way to do it myself."
"But where can I find a way to get the goods? I heard from my mother-in-law that some people from the village used to go to the county to find someone to collect the goods, but when they heard that it was from Taoxi Village, they refused to accept it."
"It's not that they don't want to accept it, it's that there's someone behind it." Little Eggman sneered coldly.
He watched everything that happened in the old village chief's courtyard.
The two people who quoted and received the goods dared to show such faces because they were confident.
In all likelihood, they had some connections in the county, and they had already warned people in their circles not to collect goods from Taoxi Village privately.
He knows a lot about this little trick.
In a county, the circle of consignees is only so large. If they want to carve up a piece of the cake, they usually reach a tacit agreement in private and each harvests an area.
If you interfere in other people's areas, you will break the rules and you will be ostracized and retaliated by people in the circle, which is not worth the gain.
It doesn't matter that Taoxi Village has no connections, so naturally it can only be controlled by others.
"If you want to sell things, if you can't do it in the county, you can go to the city to find a way. Agricultural and sideline products wholesale markets, fruit and vegetable wholesale markets are all good."
"City?" Qiqi's eyes widened, "Huicheng?!"
Although she didn't know where Taoxi Village was, she was certain that it was also a village below Huicheng.
Because Daqu Village is a village in Yang County below Huicheng, even if her mother took her all the way down the mountain, there was no way she would be taken to another city.
Huicheng... She is familiar with Huicheng!
During the two years of picking up garbage, she traveled almost all over Huicheng. She remembered that there was a huge wholesale market for agricultural and sideline products in the west of the city.
She once picked up cardboard there for two days and sold it for three yuan!
"...But if the things grown in the village don't look good, will people be willing to harvest them?" This was Qiqi's last concern.
The two people who made the quotation today said that the quality of the goods in the village was not good and no one would accept it except them.
Little Eggman chuckled, "If no one collects or makes any money, do you think those two guys would be willing to work for nothing today? As long as the taste is decent and the quality is different, they can still be sold, but the price may be a little lower."
But no matter how low it is, it won’t be half price.
This is considered the only way out for Taoxi Village at present.
Qiqi's eyes lit up and she bared her teeth with excitement.
She turned around and ran into the main room, "Mother-in-law, mother-in-law! Things in our village can be sold!"
Zhang Xifeng woke up in confusion, and for a moment she didn't understand what the little boy's words meant. It was the first time she saw such a strong joy in her body.
The little eggman crossed his legs and rested his noodle hands behind his head. He was in a high mood for some reason.
Only the little boy believed what it said.
Most of the wholesale markets in big cities have fixed purchase channels and will sign contracts with the following suppliers to place orders.
If retail investors want to do door-to-door sales, there is basically no way.
But he is not lying to the little boy.
It might be a dead end for others, but Xiao Zai is different.