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"Xiao Tan." The gentle female voice sounded again.

"Why?" This troubled hapless guy is not in a good mood right now.

"Ahem, you're here, lady boss. The boss said he's gone to work." The colleague at the side quickly pushed Xiaoqin.

"Boss lady!" Xiaoqian was dumbfounded. The Zhang Banxian in their village said that luck is a thing that ebbs and flows. Is it true? Today he snapped up a jar of candied red bayberry from Luo Meng's house because of his luck. Want to drop the chain everywhere?

"Xiaoqin, come here, let me say a few words to you." The proprietress said softly.

"Okay." Xiaoqin lowered her head, resigned to her fate, and walked into the proprietress' office under the sympathetic eyes of her colleagues.

"Xiaoqin, are you 25 this year?" After entering the office, the proprietress beckoned him to sit down on the sofa.

"Yeah." Xiaoqin nodded.

"Oh, at this age, you've already been married in your hometown, right?" the proprietress asked again.

"Yeah, the dolls are running all over the place." Xiao Tan sighed. In fact, in the city, men 25 and [-] are really young, but it's different with them. Can afford cocoons.

"I opened a milk tea shop in Pedestrian Street, you know? Business has been good recently, and I recruited a younger girl. I only found out after I asked, that she is still from the same village as you."

"Oh." Xiaoqin nodded, but still didn't respond. The city is getting bigger, and there are more fellow villagers, so it's not surprising.

"You said you, why did you react like this? I have been watching for you for the past two days. Not to mention, this girl is really pretty. Although her appearance can only be regarded as average, she is honest and capable. She will definitely be a housekeeper in the future. I was just thinking, if you two can make it, that would be a good thing." It is true that the proprietress observed the girl, but it is hard to say whether she did it for Xiaoqin.

"Then can people see me?" Xiaoqin is now working as a technician in their company, and usually spends more time in the workshop than in the office, because he has just entered the industry, and his salary is less than four thousand, plus he is short. Thin and thin, his hometown is still in a remote village. With his income, he can't even think about buying a house in the city for the time being. This condition is really not good.

"What's wrong with you? I think you're fine. If you're not good, I can tell you about it? Wouldn't that delay the girl's life?" The proprietress feigned anger.

"My..." Xiaoqin rubbed his hands, being praised by the proprietress, he didn't know what to say for a while.

"Hey, look at your hesitation. If you are always like this, when will you be able to talk to a girlfriend? Listen to me, don't think about it, let's go and have a look, you can go to my milk tea right now Buy a cup of milk tea from the shop, secretly, first look at the person, if you think it is suitable, I will help you match." The proprietress did not give him a chance to retreat, so she made a decision directly.

"Now?" Xiaoqin asked in surprise.

"It's not that we have to wait until now, let's go, fate waits for no one." The proprietress waved her hand and drove away.

"Then what, I still have work on hand." Xiaoqin was a little stage frightened.

"If the fat man says something later, you can tell him to come to me." The fat man the proprietress was talking about was naturally her husband.

Now that she said so, Xiao Tan hesitated and left the office, thinking that when he arrived at the milk tea shop in a while, should he behave more sunny or gentle?

"Xiao Qin, how are you doing?"

"My lady boss didn't make things difficult for you, did she?"

"It's okay, buddies, if you don't stay here, you have your own place."

"It shouldn't be."

"Oh, where are you going?"

"No, is it time to leave?"

"Hey! I haven't got anything yet!"

"..."

More than an hour later, when the colleagues in the office were still lamenting that Xiaoqin was so unlucky today that he was too unfeeling to the proprietress, the protagonist of this incident came back from the outside with a happy face and went straight to the proprietress's office.

"How is it? Does it look good to you?" the proprietress asked him.

"Appropriate." Xiaoqin said shyly and timidly.

"As long as you look suitable, I'll help you match the match when the time comes, there's a great chance." The proprietress said.

"Thank you, lady boss!" Xiaoqin was really grateful this time.

"I heard you snatched a bottle of candied fruit today?" the proprietress asked casually.

"Candied red bayberry! It's yours!" This time Xiaoqin was very straightforward. If you miss the candied red bayberry, you can grab it another day. A good girl is hard to come by.

"Oh, I'll just say you young man. Girls nowadays don't know what to buy. In this way, while you are online to take half a catty of their thorn rose buds and come back, let the customer service girl send the two orders together to save money. How much is the shipping fee, I'll give you the money." The proprietress said and took out 200 yuan from her wallet and handed it to Xiaoqin.

"Well, get change." Xiaoqian lowered his head and rummaged through his pockets.

"What change are you looking for? Really, when the matter between the two of you is over, remember to buy us a drink then."

"Hey hey." Xiaoqin happily left the office.

"What's the matter? Overstimulation?" Colleagues came over to express their concern.

"The peach blossoms are about to bloom," Xiao Tan said beautifully.

When he explained the reason, he immediately scratched the wall with envy among the bachelors in the whole office. Their proprietress has a nickname called Sister Hong. There is nothing impossible, and everyone lives happily after marriage.

"Guys, you're lucky, grab a bottle for me tomorrow!"

"Brother Qin, come, have a bottle of Coke."

"Xiaoqin, look at my brother, I'm already old, it's not easy to be single!"

"Brother! Let's go out for a drink tonight, and I'll treat you."

"Oh, little Tan..."

Speaking of which, on the side of Luo Meng and the others, they didn't know that their own bayberry and strawberry preserves had risen to a level that was related to the marriage of all bachelors. In the past two days, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin were busy making bayberry wine.Red bayberry wine is very popular in the local area because it can relieve summer heat and relieve greasyness, and can dispel bad qi and dispel rheumatism.

In the past, when there were no pesticides, rice farmers had to go to the field to weed weeds twice a year. The first time was to dig the weeds out of the ground when they were just sprouting, otherwise they would wait until they grew up. If it is too late, it will rob the fertility of the rice field. The second time is naturally to clean up the fish that slipped through the net, usually during the season when weeds are growing wildly.

After weeding twice, there will basically be no more weeds in the rice fields, but soaking in water for a long time, not to mention hard work, is not good for the health, so bayberry wine is deeply loved by local farmers. If you take a sip after dinner, you will feel refreshed, and if you sleep well, you will be full of energy the next day.

In the early summer of this year, the villagers of Dawan Village will weed the paddy fields again. They have used herbicides for the past few years. There is no need to worry about weeds. Now that pesticides are not used, this farm work has become very strenuous again.

"Oh! It's better to use pesticides to save trouble!" The villagers on the ground complained again and again.

"I heard that your rice is scheduled to go out for hundreds of catties? You still use pesticides, so you are ashamed to charge them six yuan per catty?" Wu Dongmei, who was on the other side of the field, straightened up and thumped her sore cheeks. lower back.

"That is to say, where is the time to spray medicine now? Don't kill all the rice with medicine." The man said just now.

"If the price is so good every year, I'd rather be a little tired." Wu Dongmei said.

"You really want money and life! What about Qihua, why do you have to do this work alone? Isn't it tiring to make steamed buns in Niuwangzhuang every morning?" She was asked.

"I went to work on the small soil slope. Didn't Luo Hanrong carry water up the mountain with carts? There are pumps for pumping water, and there are carts for water transportation. But there is so much water, just moving them from the back of the cart. It has exhausted their family, and the weather has been hot recently, and there are so many pigs over there, so we can't ask for help." Wu Dongmei bent down to weed the weeds as she said.

"I said, you two, are you going to die? It's Niuwangzhuang and Xiaotupo's, as well as the work in your own field. Don't you worry about getting tired?" The other party shook his head.

"While you are still young and have the strength to earn more money, when will the situation in our village be as easy as it is now?" Wu Dongmei said with a smile: "That's in the past, and there is nowhere to make money. Earn it."

"That's true." The people on the ground over there also laughed.

"When our girls and boys are adults, then we should rest and have to rest, don't you think?"

"I said it's different when you become a leader, how good you can talk now!"

"Hahahaha..." The country woman's bold laughter came from the rice field.

At Niuwang Village, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin were also worried, but what they were worried about was not the weeds, but the water source.People in the village grow rice in the fields, as long as the paddy fields are not dry, there is no need to change the water frequently, but Luo Meng and the others can't do it. If the water quality cannot be guaranteed, the crabs in the fields will have problems.

"It can't go on like this. There are groupers in the ditch again. We can't empty the water in the ditch. If the water level in the crab field is shallow, the temperature is too high and the crabs can't stand it." Luo Meng really had a headache this time. Well, farming is a matter of relying on the sky for food. Although he took advantage of the geographical advantage of Niuwangzhuang and made a fortune growing vegetables in the past few months, the continuous drought that followed made him feel a little too much.

"It's really not possible, let's build another reservoir on our mountain, so that there is still some water in the creek." Xiao Shulin said.He has recently started to learn how to weave baskets from Luo Quangui. This guy is very good at his work, and he started to do it in a few days. Now he can design by himself.

"Hey, who would come here on such a hot day?" Romon sighed.

"Kill two more pigs." Xiao Shulin said while working.

"We don't have a few pigs left in our family." Luo Meng felt sorry for his pigs. Since raising them last year, their family hasn't eaten a few pieces of pork yet.

"If we continue to do this, we will have to pump water from the reservoir." Xiao Shulin's hands paused. Speaking of which, the water storage capacity of the reservoir in the village is also very limited, and now the whole village points to it for irrigation. , The two sides of the small soil slope and the blacksmith shop are pumping water every day. If it continues like this, I really don't know if it will be able to bear it.

"You said, isn't it almost July now? How about we recruit a group of summer workers to come back to work?" Summer jobs are good, you can work for two months, unlike those who go to work in the city, they can only work on weekends Time to come over.

"Can children work?" Xiao Shulin was a little worried.

"Don't underestimate them, the kids nowadays are quite thoughtful." To say that today's kids are delicate, there are indeed quite a few, but nowadays, because of the development of the Internet, the kids' horizons have been broadened, some precocious students, very He already had a lot of ideas when he was a few years old, and it was only after visiting the student forums of the three high schools that Luo Meng got a better understanding of the current middle school students.

"How about this basket?" At this moment, Xiao Shulin handed over a basket he had just finished to Romon.

"Hey, it would be nice to pick strawberries for Luo Meihui and Luo Meiling." Luo Meng felt that their Xiao Shulin was simply too talented.

The baskets that Luo Quanshun wove before were all simple and practical, ordinary baskets, which were very common here. After Xiao Shulin learned it for a few days, he searched for some information on the Internet, and went to Luo Xingyou and the others to print out a lot of pictures. Finally, according to the Due to my own preferences and material limitations, I made such a delicate and generous basket.

"Then I'll weave baskets to make money from now on." Xiao Shulin grinned, obviously satisfied with Romon's reaction.

"The money comes slowly." Luo Meng felt sorry for his daughter-in-law.

"Anyway, idleness is idleness." Apart from selling vegetables in the morning, they also need to take care of snacks in the reservoir and crab fields. Chen Jianhua has already arranged other things properly. In the afternoon and evening, the two of them were quite free.

"Then I'll help you."

"to make."

"After two days, let's buy some new colorful bags and bring them back."

"Take some better photos."

"Leave this to me."

"What kind of style would you like to weave?"

"If you sell them online, you can make fruit baskets, vegetable baskets, and laundry baskets, and you can also make some storage boxes..."

Xiao Shulin has always been a man of action. He drove to Tongcheng early the next morning to buy all the colors of the packing belts, and then devoted himself to weaving for a few days. He made many different styles of packing belt products. The only thing that is the same is , their workmanship is exquisite.

"How much does this one have to sell?" Luo Meng said that he wanted to help Xiao Shulin, but he couldn't help much in reality. At most, after Xiao Shulin made a basket, he took it to the mountain and put some on it. For fruits and vegetables, find a place under a big tree or by a ditch, and take a few photos with a full rural flavor.

"A dozen or twenty, anyway, it's pretty quick to make up." Xiao Shulin smiled and looked at it with Luo Meng's camera. Not to mention, the shots were really high-end.

"That's too cheap!" Romon felt that it would be appropriate to sell it for thirty or fifty at least.

"Smaller ones, you can weave several in an hour." Xiao Shulin is not only dexterous, but also very strong. Weaving this kind of basket is very handy. Luo Quangui's most troublesome problem with the wire is that he can just break it with his fingers. Out to the extent you want.

"It's cheaper for those guys." Luo Meng hummed, looking at the basket Xiao Shulin had woven over and over again, the more he looked at it, the more beautiful it became, and it would be a pity to sell it: "Let's put these in our own home first. "