After wandering around for a while, Zhou Yan said hello to Chu Wenshan and returned to his blueberry field.
"The stone has been polished for so long?"
After hearing Zhou Yan's father's complaint, the relatives and friends who were helping in the fields all raised their heads.
At this time, Zhou Yan discovered that not only his aunt was here, but his aunt was also here, and his younger cousin Zhao Zixuan and his cousin were also here.
"I met an acquaintance and chatted for a while." Zhou Yan walked up to his father and received a small basket for picking blueberries. He found a row of blueberries that no one had picked, squatted down, and looked for ripe ones among the branches and leaves.
fruit.
Blueberry plants are generally no more than one and a half feet tall, and there are no special machines. In order to ensure quality, it is best to pick them manually. Blueberries are quite spicy and like mountains, which undoubtedly further eliminates the possibility of mechanized operations.
sex.
"Shitou, have you ever picked blueberries?" Zhou Yan's father was a little surprised to see his son's skillful movements.
"You've never eaten pork, and you haven't seen pigs running," Zhou Yan smiled, "I just stayed at the acquisition shop for a while and asked how to rate fruits..."
The skin of blueberries is relatively thin. Although the thick-skinned varieties are specially cultivated, the family still dare not be careless when picking them. They pick, handle and handle them gently.
Although Zhou Yan’s father planted nearly four acres of land in the spring, he couldn’t handle the large number of relatives, so in just over two hours, all the ripe fruits had been wiped out.
During the break, my aunt quietly came up to Zhou Yan with a water cup: "Zhou Yan, you think we can grow blueberries over there, right?"
As soon as Zhou Yan heard this, he knew that the harvest of the old man's four acres of land was good, which even tempted his aunt who had saved hundreds of thousands of private money. He smiled slightly: "Aunt, you have to bend down to work every day, can you bear it?"
Come on?"
"You have to endure it even if you can't bear it!" My aunt glared angrily at Zhou Xiaohui, who was talking to Zhou Yan's cousin, "Your brother's grades are quite poor, so it's only thanks to your tutoring that his English scores are pretty good, and everything else is fine.
That’s it…”
"Auntie," Zhou Yan smiled and shook his head, "can you still pick up your tailoring skills?"
"Why are you asking?" My aunt was a little surprised, "I'm from the countryside. I make clothes, and I don't make much money even if I spend my time doing it. I'm still blamed behind my back..."
“Ever heard of haute couture?”
The aunt frowned slightly and thought hard for a while: "I seem to have heard of it somewhere!"
"The clothes of rich people are all tailor-made, and even the clothes are sewn by hand..."
Zhou Yan was stopped mid-sentence by his aunt: "Zhou Yan, your grandma and grandpa came from farmers' fields, how can you know any rich people?"
"Your nephew and I know a lot of rich people..."
"Let's talk about it!" My aunt was still a little reluctant to pick up her tailoring skills again.
However, Zhou Yan is not someone who likes to give up easily. During lunch, he mentioned the matter of asking his aunt to do haute couture to his parents again...
After hearing this, Dad just asked lightly: "Is this reliable?"
"I know an old guy who does fashion design. I don't have to worry about whether the clothes are good or not. Plus my aunt's skills..."
Hearing this, Mr. Zhou Yan winked at Mr. Zhou Yan.
"Fourth brother, let's talk about this," Zhou Yan's mother was very concerned, "I think you should listen to the stone. It is indeed very profitable to grow blueberries, but you also saw it this morning. All the money you earned was hard-earned money. You have been doing it since you were a child.
Didn't suffer much..."
"That's right..." The aunt at the side also helped, "Being a tailor means you can't be blown by the wind or wet by the rain..."
"Okay then, I'll think about it when I go back..."
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, after Zhou Yan drove his aunt and uncle home, he was stopped by his father when he returned to the door: "Shitou, I have something to discuss with you!"
Zhou Yan had no choice but to stop and follow his father to the greenhouse behind the yard.
After entering the door, Dad looked at Zhou Yan who was full of confusion: "Stone, the price your people buy blueberries for is a bit too high, the minimum is twenty..."
"This is the price outside," Zhou Yan smiled, "In the supermarket, the price of blueberries is as low as fifty-one pounds..."
"This is also..." Dad was frightened, "Can eating this thing make you immortal?"
“Fight cancer!”
With just two words, Zhou Zhenghai understood.
"Purple sweet potato has a similar effect," Zhou Yan sighed slightly, "Is the harvest of that batch of tea leaves in the spring okay? There are some things that I can't explain clearly on the phone!"
"It's not bad. Ordinary fresh tea costs more than 100 yuan, and tender tips are even more expensive, starting at 1,000 yuan." Zhou Zhenghai looked pleased. "The group of people under your command guided the picking, and you also hired a professional tea frying master to make it."
The tea leaves look much better than the ones on the market that weigh more than a hundred pounds per pound!"
"Those who grow tea in our villages, the ones who grow the least, can earn 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a crop in the spring," Zhou Zhenghai said with joy. "The batch of blueberries in the summer is even more valuable. One acre of land can be sold for almost 60,000 yuan."
Seventy thousand..."
"Dad, picking blueberries is really a bit of a hassle. Why don't you give up part of it next year? Our family doesn't lack the money!"
"That's okay!" Mr. Zhou nodded hard, "Oh, I almost forgot about the real thing..."
As he said that, Zhou Zhenghai made a serious face and stared at Zhou Yan seriously: "Shitou, the income problem of your second aunt's family has been solved, but there is still your aunt's family. Don't forget that when you were a child, you were in your aunt's house."
We stayed at home for more than ten days..."
Nandianzi, where my aunt's family is located, has much better conditions than Zhoujialing. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and has a large population. But the large number of people also means another thing. Every imaginable way to make money has been done by someone.
As for Zhou Yan's aunt and uncle, they both just graduated from elementary school. They can't even read a lot of words in newspapers. They have to find acquaintances to help them settle accounts when selling grain...
Seeing his son's brows furrowed, Zhou Zhenghai sighed slightly: "If there is nothing we can do..."
"It's not that there is no way," Zhou Yan grinned, "But I'm afraid my uncle won't be happy with it!"
"any solution?"
"Contract a hilltop to raise chickens," Zhou Yan pursed his lips, "plant walnuts, chestnuts, hazelnuts or peach trees on it, and raise chickens under the trees. It's just the management of the fruit trees..."
"That's easy to say," Zhou Zhenghai said, patting his chest and confirming, "I'll find someone to help prune the fruit trees when the time comes..."
Zhou Yan breathed a sigh of relief, thought for a moment, raised his head and looked at his father: "Actually, as long as the market is guaranteed, it doesn't matter what you plant or raise, but it is precisely this market that is the most difficult to deal with..."
"Yes..." Zhou Zhenghai sighed deeply with deep emotion.
At around eight o'clock in the evening, the family was sitting on the sofa watching TV series, when Zhou Yan's mother's cell phone suddenly rang...
"It's the fourth child!"
I was a little surprised and pressed the call button: "Hello, fourth child?"
"Second sister..."
The two chatted for a long time before Zhou Yan's wife hung up the phone and looked at Zhou Yan meaningfully: "Your aunt has agreed, Shitou, the next step is up to you!"
"Mom, my aunt has to hire her own people," Zhou Yan couldn't laugh or cry, "Where can I go to find a group of tailors who can make clothes? Besides, my aunt and my sisters all know the basics, so it's not easy for problems to happen..."
"That's right..." I had no choice but to pick up the phone and call back.
"Fourth, the group of sisters who studied tailoring with you..."
