The next morning, when Lingpingan woke up, he saw an unread text message on his mobile phone.
"The grapes are ripe..." He looked at the content of the text message. This text message was sent by Uncle Zhang, the village chief of his hometown on the outskirts of the city.
He just said one thing - the grapes in the village were ripe, and he asked if he would like to leave a few dozen kilograms for him as in previous years.
This is of course a must.
Lingpingan immediately replied with a text message: "Uncle Zhang, please leave about fifty pounds for me..."
The grapes from my hometown are first-class!
Especially for making wine, it’s great!
Although Lingpingan doesn't drink, his aunt likes it.
Not long after, the text message came over again.
Uncle Zhang:Okay!
Lingpingan picked up the phone and quickly started washing.
He has to rush back to get the grapes today.
Considering it just rained yesterday, we have to hurry up.
Otherwise, if the picked grapes are kept for a long time, they may go bad, which will also affect the taste of the final wine!
When we reached the stairs, Kitten Best was already waiting.
"Little darling..." Lingpingan picked it up and said, "How about we go to our hometown in the suburbs today?"
"There are many vines and strawberry fields over there!"
Meow!
The kitten meowed and seemed very happy.
Lingpingan held it in his arms, walked downstairs, turned on the computer first, and set the update for today.
By the way, he looked at the collection.
32…
When I went to bed last night, it seemed to be 28?
An increase of four?!
good!
He laughed and turned off the computer happily.
Then he hugged the kitten, walked out of the door, and closed the store door.
Then we got on the bus and headed towards the rural areas in the eastern suburbs.
The bus circled around the city, and soon left the city and entered the villa area on the outskirts.
Villas are lined up one after another among the mountains, forests, streams and lakes.
Some servants and servants wearing traditional Silla costumes were chatting and laughing next to each villa.
Lingpingan looked at it and shook his head.
The federal empire has recently launched a retro trend.
Tang style, Han Dynasty and so on.
Therefore, Silla servants have become very popular!
The Silla Kingdom seems to have identified this business opportunity and launched customized services.
I heard that the monthly salary of highly trained Silla maids has reached an eye-popping tens of thousands!
Higher than the salary of many senior engineers!
The bus drove out of the villa area and soon entered stretches of countryside.
What you see are all vegetable greenhouses and fruit growing bases.
Like most large cities in the federal empire, Jiangcheng City has large areas of suburban rural land.
These places are prohibited development areas protected by law.
Mainly forests, orchards, and vegetable fields.
There are historical reasons for this.
The emperors, generals and ministers who founded the Federal Empire had an unforgettable fear of hunger!
According to many historical materials and memoirs, at first, the question that Taizu and his heroes thought the most was - when can we make the people not hungry?
Therefore, the state system is designed to prevent people from going hungry.
However, Emperor Taizu never expected that less than thirty years after his death, there would no longer be a famine in the Federation.
Because the Northern Zhou Dynasty was liberated.
The vast and fertile land of the Northern Zhou Dynasty could produce several years of grain in one year.
Then came the establishment of the Southern Zhou Dynasty and the Western Song Dynasty.
This is just great……
Cheap overseas food is flooding in.
Except for the northeastern region, grain cultivation in all other places in the mainland has been sentenced to death economically.
then……
Today's native rural areas have been completely transformed into orchards and vegetable gardens.
Especially in rural areas surrounding cities, not a single acre of land is used to grow food.
Every city can proudly declare: "We are the home of vegetables and fruits!"
The only problem is - vegetables and fruits are really expensive!
In the vegetable market now, cabbage is more expensive than pork, and even more expensive than Grade C beef!
As for fruit?
Anyway, Lingpingan remembered that when he was in school, he had lunch at school, and if fruit appeared on the menu one day.
It must be a holiday.
Usually, most lunches are junk food.
Chicken legs, beef, sea fish, prawns, etc.
I feel like vomiting when I eat it!
The obesity rate among teenagers is rising steadily.
Thinking of these, the bus had already turned into the terminal.
Lingpingan hugged his pet and walked out of the car.
The bus stop is located right next to an agricultural product distribution center.
As soon as you get off the bus, you can smell the rich fragrance of fruits and vegetables in Lingpingan.
He walked over and took a look. Boxes of strawberries had been packed, and grapes one after another, green grapes, red grapes...
There are also mountains of bananas and pineapples.
All are seasonal fruits!
However, Lingpingan flinched after looking at the price.
The cheapest banana costs ten yuan a pound here!
As for the expensive ones...
Strawberries cost 28 yuan per pound, and they are still second-rate.
The highest grade first-class products are not available here. Those high-end fruits have been booked in advance at high prices.
Fortunately...
Lingpingan hugged Best and said, "Little darling, luckily my brother is still a farmer!"
The Federal Empire has many systems that are still exactly the same as they were three hundred years ago.
One of them is the household registration system.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Emperor Taizu divided the people into "scholars, farmers, industry and merchants" according to tradition.
After Emperor Gaozong, the era of constitutional government began, following the edict left by Taizu on the "Steps of Training and Constitutional Government".
In the councils of ministers and officials at all levels, each profession must have representatives with fixed seats, who are selected from the corresponding professions.
For example, now, education and scientists account for a very large proportion in the Central Council of Ministers.
The Federal Empire Education Committee and the Federal Empire Science and Technology Development Committee are both superpowers throughout the empire.
Similarly, seats for farmers have always been reserved.
It's just relatively few.
But the identity of a farmer is becoming more and more useful.
The ancestors of Lingpingan have always been farmers.
Although, he had already moved to the city as early as his grandfather's time.
However, the occupation marked on his ID card and household registration book has never changed!
His registered place of residence has always been Qilipu Village, Dongmei Town, Jiangcheng City, where his ancestors lived.
The countryside of the Federal Empire has been very united since ancient times.
Especially in Guangnan!
The relationship between the township and the party is as strong as classmates and comrades.
People from the same place will automatically stick together once they meet them.
In many past film and television works, people from Guangnan often played the role of heroes who encountered injustice on the road.
The plot basically involves the protagonist being bullied overseas, and then a tall, thick-set man on the side of the road, upon hearing the protagonist's Cantonese accent, immediately pulls out the revolver hanging from his waist and kills him.
So much so that people once formed stereotypes.
I thought that the people of Guangnan were the kind of heroic knights who rode tall horses with revolvers on their waists and performed chivalrous acts in the vast wilderness of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
But actually that was more than two hundred years ago.
Nowadays, the heroes on horseback have disappeared in the wilderness of the Northern Zhou Dynasty with the development of society and technological progress.
However, Guangnan people still have a strong sense of rural clique.
As long as we are in the same place, everything is easy to discuss.
Even, as long as the ancestral home is in the same place, it is easy to say.
As a farmer, the most important thing for Lingpingan is that he can go to orchards and vegetable fields and pick the fruits and vegetables he wants to eat.
And the price is very cheap!
Basically, it's less than 30% of the market price.
That means he is lazy!
If you are diligent, you can eat vegetables and fruits every day!
Not only that, every time someone from the village comes to the city for shopping or entertainment.
I would bring him some vegetables and fruits from the village.
So, holding Best in his arms, Lingpingan set foot on the road home.
He knows this road very well!
Before he was ten years old, his parents would take him back to his ancestral home in the countryside once a week.
One is cleaning the ancestral house, the other is worshiping ancestors, and the third is buying some vegetables and fruits.
However, after her parents died, Lingpingan rarely came back.
Especially after graduating from college, in addition to going back every year to worship ancestors during the New Year, I also come back to buy grapes for wine.
As for his ancestral home, he entrusted it to a distant relative in the village and asked him to help take care of and clean it.
For this reason, Lingpingan paid him 500 yuan every month.
Holding Best in his arms, Lingpingan walked straight ahead along the road, and then turned into a left-hand path before a bridge and entered a country road.
After climbing over several small hills, a small village next to a river bend came into view.
