While sitting in the yard peeling chestnuts, suddenly there were footsteps outside.
Several figures appeared outside the half-closed wooden door of the small courtyard. The wooden door is short and has a hollow bamboo bar design. You can see who is coming at a glance.
It was the uncles who helped carry chestnut balls before.
"We went home and brought gloves and sickles."
The implication is, come and help peel the chestnuts.
Xu Fuqiang stood up and said, "How embarrassing is this? This chestnut ball hurts my hands very much."
"What are you afraid of? I work every day. The calluses on my hands are so thick that I'm not afraid of thorns." One of them said with a hearty smile.
Grandpa went into the house to pour tea and brought it out.
The people were willing to help, and they were kind-hearted. They were all acquaintances in the village. The host was polite, but there was no reason to be polite and drove the person away.
Suddenly, there are several more main players peeling chestnuts.
Xu Fuqiang greeted a few people and went to his home for a meal before leaving.
It is normal in the village to do a favor for a meal. In addition, everyone has helped out at the Xu family before, so everyone knows how delicious the Xu family's food is, so they all nod in agreement.
When Xu Fuqiang went to the backyard to drink water, he called his wife and told her that there would be more people to eat at night.
There are several baskets of chestnut balls and it will take a while to peel them all, but of course it will be much faster if someone helps.
The chestnuts that have just been peeled out have plump flesh and a lighter color on the outside. The color will become thicker after a while.
The adults started chatting again.
Xu Qingzhi squatted obediently on his side and peeled them. From time to time, he would be a little lazy and find a trick to make the chestnut balls peel easily and automatically, and he would just pick up the chestnut meat inside.
The man in black short sleeves said: "Old man, do you want to sell so many chestnuts? The price of chestnuts has dropped again this year."
Xu Dongru was quite concerned about the price of chestnuts before, but now that she has the income from the pine cone ornaments, she is no longer nervous about money, so she doesn’t care anymore: “First, let’s eat it at home. My granddaughter loves to eat this. It was because she grew it back then.
If you can’t finish it, you can sell some later.”
After hearing this, the man in blue short sleeves saw Xu Qingzhi next to him and boasted with a smile: "Qingzhi is a promising person. The big star returned to the village to grow vegetables, and now the vegetables are still selling so well."
Someone echoed: "Yes, that vegetable is really delicious. The rice porridge that the helpers drank in the morning was also delicious, and the fried water spinach tasted very good. No wonder the vegetables can be sold at such a high price."
Xu Qingzhi is most afraid that when her elders are chatting with each other, if she suddenly praises herself, she will inexplicably feel her toes digging into the ground, so she only raises her head and smiles politely at others.
The topic turned from her to chestnuts.
"I feel like these chestnuts are really worthless. My father-in-law has also planted chestnuts and is going to harvest chestnuts in a few days. I heard that this year's harvest of new fruits was only three yuan per catty, but in previous years they could be sold for six yuan.
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"That's not true. In the past, when there were few people growing chestnuts, the prices were high. Now more and more people are growing chestnuts, so the prices are cheaper. Many people who want to make money don't grow chestnuts anymore."
"I heard that some places are famous for their good varieties of chestnuts, and some people are willing to buy them from there. This kind of chestnuts can be sold at a good price, and some people even pay ten yuan a pound."
"Hahaha, that chestnut is good. We are poor and have loamy soil, so don't expect ten yuan a pound. It's good if we can sell it."
"Anyway, hurry up sooner rather than later. Old man, you hit the chestnuts quite early. Now you can sell them for three yuan. I'm sure it will drop to two yuan later. This is a crazy market."
"That's right, your rice seems to be kept in your house, but you haven't sold it?"
"No, last time I sent it over, they said my metal exceeded the standard and refused to accept it. In previous years, I didn't get this excuse."
"The neighbor next to me also said that his rice exceeded the standard this year, and he refused to collect it. Please see if you want to send it to the millet factory. He just sent it to the millet factory."
Xu Qingzhi listened carefully and looked up twice.