Song Tan drove a small pickup truck to deliver the last bunch of fruit seedlings. When he came down the mountain again, he saw the big truck in front of him was in a hurry. The boss didn't even say hello and just stepped on the accelerator and drove away.
Wulan, who had just come down the hillside, was stunned:
"Hey, why are you leaving? I was thinking of inviting people to dinner, so I came back early to cook."
Here, Zhang Yanping was leaning against the gate, making faces:
"Tan Tan, you lived up to my trust and didn't let me go away empty-handed!"
The three brothers each received two bottles of honey and a pound of tea, and Zhang Yanping gave each of them five pounds of bamboo shoots...
This is the highest treatment among all customers!
He was afraid that Song Tan would be unhappy, so he said in a gentle voice: "They came all the way here to deliver the goods. If we have any cooperation in the future, we can visit each other often..."
Song Tan glanced at him and thought, I'm not that stingy. I didn't give it to you before because it was unnecessary.
Wu Lan, on the other hand, was already smiling happily:
"Oh Yan Ping! It has to be you!"
"What are you saying? Tantan, you just paid them tens of thousands of dollars for the goods, and they returned more than 30,000 dollars... So, you have enough money to hire workers tomorrow, right?"
Zhang Yanping also perked up: "Then you see, we don't need to dig these bamboo shoots!"
Song Tan thought about it and said sincerely: "Let's dig more."
After all, the spiritual energy has been created, it would be a pity not to dig it up, and there will be many places where you will need to spend money next!
Zhang Yanping: …
What can I say
Twenty yuan per pound of bamboo shoots was enough to arouse Wu Lan's enthusiasm. She also took out her hoe and basket and said, "Let's go, it's not dark yet, let's go to the bamboo forest and have dinner later."
Zhang Yanping wanted to cry but had no tears: "Aunt, you'd better take a rest. Tomorrow Tantan will hire dozens of people, and you will have to do the cooking!"
"Take a break tonight and arrange the help in advance."
Wulan stared at Song Tan:
"You are such a dear daughter!"
"Since you came back, the family savings haven't increased. All the work has come out every day. Even if your parents are hardworking, they can't order them around like this!"
Song Tan quickly comforted her: "It's okay, Mom, you can hire two helpers tomorrow. I will go to my eldest aunt's house after I sell the bamboo shoots and see if I can ask my seventh cousin to come back..."
Wulan was still complaining: "Isn't it for money to hire help? If you do this, I can't even take care of picking tea leaves..."
Tea is so valuable!
Song Tan suddenly realized that since she came back home, she had been paying for all the expenses, but her parents had not seen any of the benefits.
This won't work.
As parents get older, they will feel more and more short of breath and insecure when they don’t have money.
This is not a question of filial piety or lack of money, it is simply that this is their philosophy for many years -
When you get old, you need to save more money for your retirement.
But if all financial power is released, given the cautious nature of Ulan and Song Sancheng, they will not have to think about any future expenses and can just save money penny by penny.
Song Tan thought for a while and said, "Mom, please give me a card number. We have earned a lot this year and spent a lot, and you and my dad have worked really hard. How about this, I will give you two 20,000 yuan every month, and you can save it."
After hearing this, Ulan became even angrier!
At this moment, he swung the hoe hard and dug out a piece of bamboo shoot with a "bang". Then he glared at her and said, "Why, you are going to pay your parents a salary now! Then if I ask you to do something in the future, do you have to pay for running errands?"
Song Tan: …
She just knew it.
If you don't give them money, it's not reasonable for my parents to not see any money all year round.
After giving them the money, they felt like they were alienated.
She had to change her perspective: "Mom, the main thing is that you can see that our investment in the fields and mountains is quite large, and I spend money lavishly and without any rules."
"I'm going to give you some money every month, so you can save it for me and Qiao Qiao. If anything happens, we'll have to rely on you two."
After hearing this, Wu Lan thought to himself:
Twenty thousand a month, that's two or three hundred thousand a year. A couple could only save this much even if they lived frugally all their lives.
With this money, even if Tan Tan loses money this year, he won’t have to worry about it in the future.
Besides, considering the family’s current income, even if there is compensation, it will be very limited.
Then the money is also a layer of protection for the couple.
When I think about it this way, raising a daughter is so caring!
At this moment, her eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles:
"Really? Twenty thousand a month is a lot of money! Can you still take it out now? I do have a postal card that I don't use very often. It only has about eight hundred yuan of agricultural subsidies every year. I'll give you the card number when I get home."
Not to mention, even the posture of swinging the hoe seemed a lot easier.
Song Tan agreed with a smile.
Tsk tsk tsk.
Zhang Yanping, who was standing by, was amazed.
I don't know why, but I always feel that his sister's level of fooling her parents seems very high-end.
Then apply this situation to your own mother -
Well, forget it. His mother must think that money should be saved, but the root is still to take the civil service exam.
Compared to being urged to take the civil service exam, digging bamboo shoots in his hometown seemed not such a hard job. Endless energy surged in his body, and he easily broke off two bamboo shoots.
They waited until it was getting dark and could no longer be seen in the bamboo forest before they went back carrying their full baskets.
In one afternoon, nearly 400 kilograms of bamboo shoots were dug out.
Because there was a lot of spiritual energy this time, bamboo shoots were sprouting in the bamboo forest one after another. Song Tan thought about it, and while Wu Lan was tying up three or five kilograms of bamboo shoots with rubber bands, he said:
"Mom, I think the bamboo shoots can still be sold for two more days. Can you hire two more people to help dig the shoots these two days?"
She has no time.
Zhang Yanping's work is not very useful.
Wulan is adding weights to the bamboo shoots in her hands - some are dug directly from the ground, looking like winter bamboo shoots, plump and large.
Some are already grown young shoots, thin and long. Mix them on both sides as you like, as long as you can make a pile of three or five kilograms.
This thing is very heavy, and the price of twenty yuan per pound is really attractive, so Wu Lan did not object to the idea of hiring someone:
"Then tell your dad to call more people later."
I have work to do tomorrow, so everything has to be arranged tonight.
Xiang Xiang said, "Don't rush to the city tomorrow morning. Go to the town first and buy some more vegetables."
"There are so many people here, we have to start cleaning up early in the morning. We can't wait for you to come back from downtown to buy groceries."
"OK."
Song Tan agreed immediately.
She is now very familiar with driving on mountain roads, and it is no problem for her to go to town and back in half an hour.
"What vegetables should I buy?"
This season...
Wulan thought for a moment and said, "As long as you don't buy garlic sprouts, lettuce, cabbage and spinach, anything else will do. Other people in the village have these in their vegetable gardens, so we can just pool our money and it will come out."