When Zhou Tianyu woke up, it was already past eight o'clock. The sun was hanging brightly in the sky. He walked around the yard twice and was sweating all over.
The house was quiet. His father had just returned carrying a dark blue pesticide barrel.
"Dad, it's so hot, why are you still spraying medicine now?"
"You have to. We were too busy in the spring to take care of the fields. Your mother had to pick tea leaves from the fields. The grass in the tea and vegetable gardens has grown very tall."
Forget about pulling out weeds. His tea garden is much bigger than Song Tan's, covering more than ten acres. Pulling out weeds is not just a matter of pulling them out gently. The roots of the weeds are deep, so it takes a lot of effort to pull them out. It's very tiring!
Moreover, the couple weeded the tea garden of more than ten acres manually for nearly half a month. When they looked back, they found that the weeds had grown lushly again in the first few acres of land.
We still have to rely on spraying pesticides.
After all, if you pick fresh leaves and sell them at the market every spring, you can earn tens of thousands of dollars in two months!
Zhou Tianyu nodded, then asked, "Where's my mother?"
Zhou Maozhu put down the medicine barrel and said while washing his hands and wiping sweat, "She went to Song Tan's tea garden. There are some cut tea branches in the garden. They need to be transported back. It takes three or five truckloads to pluck the leaves. But that's in the yard. There's no sun, but there are fans... It probably takes until ten o'clock."
"If you're hungry, there's some porridge in the pot. Eat it first."
Zhou Tianyu was a little unhappy: "It's so hot, why do you let my mother do this?"
"What?" Zhou Maozhu raised his voice, "150 a day for transporting and arranging! If it weren't so hot, how could you get such a high price? Wouldn't it be stupid not to make money?"
At 5 or 6 in the morning, we go to the mountain to put the tea branches on the tricycle, and Zhang Wangjia rides his bicycle to deliver them to the yard. The tea branches are loose and not tied, so it usually takes seven or eight trips.
They were not tired, they were just moving things from the field to the truck. It was just a little hot and they were sweating a lot.
Next, when it’s almost hot at 8:30, I can go back to the yard to pluck leaves and work until 10 o’clock.
In the afternoon, I work from 4 to 6:30, and I don’t have time to go home and cook...
That’s it, 150 a day, it’s really hot. The price is this only because Song Tan’s family doesn’t want the old lady to move things around!
Those old ladies who don’t do this and just pick the leaves make 100 a day.
"If your mother wasn't still young, she wouldn't have to do this job."
My mom is still young? My mom is already fifty!
Zhou Tianyu was speechless.
But he thought about it and felt a little uncomfortable: "Then you fry tea leaves for her family in the spring, and my mother picks leaves for them in the summer... We are basically his employees."
They are almost the same age and from the same village, but his monthly salary is enough to buy one and a half kilograms of tea... Why is there such a big gap
Zhou Maozhu sighed, "I think so. Zhang Wang from the back mountain works for Song Tan's family. It's not much per month, 2,500, but food is provided—"
Oh my goodness, if it were the same feeling as the day before yesterday, if it wasn’t for the purpose of saving money, he would do it even for 1,500!
Speaking of this, I was really envious: "You didn't see it, Zhang Wang's family was like stepping into a coffin at the beginning of spring, they were totally out of spirits."
"Now! His face is round and his complexion is so good! Even with his limp, he walks with a breeze! He is so strong! And the work is not hard, he can even drive a tricycle!"
2500, the salary is not high for the villagers. But the problem is, this is a job near home!
Besides, Zhang Wangjia is lame, how can he do any heavy work
Prepare fertilizer, look after the fields, peaches and watermelons, and transport some things by bike...
Isn’t this beautiful!
Looking at his son's haggard face after resting at home for a day yesterday, Zhou Maozhu couldn't help but feel a little disgusted: "You make more than 10,000 yuan a month, how much have you saved?"
Zhou Tianyu shrank back instantly, hesitating:
"The cost of living there is high, and you have to rent a house, pay for water and electricity, and commute... You have to have a meal and socialize from time to time..."
With an average of 15,000 yuan per month, it was good to save 5,000 yuan. He worked hard for more than two years, and fortunately he did not go from having nothing to being heavily in debt, but instead saved 50,000 yuan...
cough!
Compared to other young people, I work very hard!
Zhou Maozhu used his phone to calculate: "Two and a half years, saving 50,000, an average of 1,600 a month? Then how do you spend the more than 10,000 a month?"
I was so confused that I couldn't understand how they lived like this! Where did all the money go
Zhou Tianyu also feels aggrieved!
He rents a house there for over 2,000 a month, and lives in a remote and small place! And he works overtime at the company, so when he's hungry, he orders takeout drinks or something. Is that normal
He also has three people under him, and they occasionally eat, drink, and sing songs...
In short, he has been very restrained and has not even applied for a credit card!
Zhou Maozhu couldn't understand why drinks cost twenty or thirty yuan a glass, and why takeout started at twenty yuan for delivery... He just muttered:
"You're not as good as Zhang Wang's family. At least he saves all his money. He can save more than 20,000 yuan a year! I heard that Song Tan said that he would provide food for the Dragon Boat Festival and would not give out any rice, flour, grain or oil. He just bought me a new set of clothes..."
Zhou Tianyu was depressed: "You always say Song Tan, Song Tan... Isn't it because her tea tastes good that she is famous? Whatever variety they are, can't we learn from them and grow some too?"
"What?!"
Zhou Maozhu never expected his son to be so bold, and immediately raised his voice: "They are just making tea, right? They spent millions to improve the soil and water, and invited experts and professors to give guidance!"
"How do you study? With the 50,000 yuan you saved?" He thought for a moment and exaggeratedly gave an analogy:
"His tea branches are worth more than 50,000!"
What
Millions?!
Zhou Tianyu almost cried - we are all from the same village, why are you so outstanding
That's really unthinkable. He can't even make millions by selling blood.
But then again—
"How come she is so rich?"
"What do you know!" Zhou Maozhu decided today to cure his son's extravagant habit. Song Tan spent millions of dollars without saying a word, and even built a villa for his family, but he still drives that second-hand pickup truck when he goes out!
Unlike my son - he doesn't even bother to talk, and even hires a car to come back from going out (he is lucky to meet Zhang Yanping and the others, and the cost is 60 yuan for the four of them!). There are buses and private cars from the city to the town, and it only costs 20 yuan to get to the town. Then he can pick me up on a motorcycle. How convenient!
This child is so extravagant!
At this moment, he spoke more and more seriously: "Song Tan went to the provincial capital right after graduation. He has a lot of connections! He can get a loan of several million yuan. He also invited experts. The experts he invited are all from the news!"
"Why are they so low-key? Unlike you, you give away tea worth 10,000 yuan a kilogram with just a wave of your hand. You are so arrogant!"
"With your current wealth, who would care about you if you went to the bank to apply for a loan?"
Zhou Tianyu felt embarrassed when he heard this.
Because, with only 50,000 yuan... it's not even enough for a down payment in Yuncheng, and if you go to the bank... you can at most apply for a credit card.