cultivating immortals and planting the fields

Chapter 53 The Village Chief Buys Melons
When the village chief Zhang Yourong heard that Zhang Wei’s watermelons don’t cost money, he really didn’t agree at the time: “No, definitely not, I can’t start this way, everyone loves your watermelons, it’s true, so many people in the village, they all love you. If you don’t want money when I come to buy watermelon from you, will you still sell this watermelon?”

Yes, it’s like green vegetables. At the beginning, everyone came to pick up a handful or two. When Zhang Wei’s green vegetables were sold for money, everyone was reluctant to eat them. It’s embarrassing to eat them for free, but they gave money It can be eaten, so people often come to throw a basket of green vegetables for one or two dollars.Why should a basket of green vegetables weigh three or four catties? Naturally, Zhang Wei would not say anything, anyway, he is not short of money for those two vegetables. , In Zhangwa Village, an unwritten rule has been formed. Anyone who goes to Zhang Wei's house to grab vegetables will bring a dollar and throw it at Zhang Wei's house.Count it as vegetable money.In the beginning, Zhang Wei was embarrassed to ask for the money. They were all neighbors in the village. Everyone bowed their heads and didn't look up.But everyone is too embarrassed to eat your food for nothing just to meet you.In the past, I didn't know that this dish was so valuable. If I knew it and ate it for free, it would really be a free meal.In short, in order to take everyone's face into consideration, Zhang Wei accepted this dish.In the end, Zhang Wei was too lazy to care who gave the money or not, so he got a basket and put it next to the vegetable field.Whoever picks up the vegetables just throws a coin into it.

Looking at the village chief, the villagers saw that the watermelons in Zhang Wei's house were rare, and they probably planned to eat cheap watermelons. Folks who come to buy a melon really weigh it by the catty, and it’s a bit pretentious. Simply, you can sell it by the catty. Anyway, he won’t sell the watermelon if it’s less than [-] catties. Anyway, the watermelon can grow until it’s ripe. Still gaining weight non-stop, Zhang Wei left a stubble, ready to see how big he can grow.

However, they don't know that this melon is no longer five yuan a catty, but Sun Xiaolei automatically raised it to ten yuan a catty. However, Zhang Wei will naturally not tell everyone the price of ten yuan a catty. Otherwise, who would dare to come and eat his melon, a melon weighing more than 40 catties cut open him, Mr. Zhang, Ke Ke, and Sun Xiaolei would not be able to finish it. It would be better for everyone to share it together. It is better to be happy alone than to be happy together. This is Zhang Wei's thought, which sounds very noble.

Seeing that Zhang Wei was so silent, the village chief felt a little embarrassed. He used to cook cheap vegetables here, but now he came here to cook cheap watermelon.After Zhang Wei made such a joke, he himself felt embarrassed after thinking about it.

"Xiaowei, we don't weigh these melons by the catty. Anyway, forty catties of these two melons is not much more than 400 yuan for two melons. It's a favor for uncle, and the change is not counted. Find a snakeskin bag for uncle. Uncle will walk away." After finishing speaking, he was ready to pay, and he took 200 yuan from someone else, and he was paying 200 yuan, who let his head get hot at that time to guarantee it.This melon was grown with great difficulty by this young man. Every time I come here, I see this young man busy here. Now they are still building a watermelon stand here in hot weather. It is not easy for a child from the city to come here.People who are blessed in the provincial capital don't know that when Xiang goes to his own country, isn't it just for money?

The village chief is thinking a lot here, but he doesn't know that Zhang Wei is thinking about how much money to keep over there. Besides, what the village chief just said is also reasonable. He can't sell melons here by himself. Can't even afford it.Well, let's make a half discount.

"No, village head, if we eat melons by ourselves, if I still keep the price, I'm too sorry, right? I really don't even care about the feelings of the villagers for the two money. Let the big guys know how you want me to pay back. Establish a foothold in Zhangwa. I plan to live in our village and never leave. We can’t sell melons at the price I sell to the city. Our folks come to eat melons. Whoever comes, I will cut and eat them. If you don’t come, I will I won’t send it away either. If you want to take it with you, then it costs 100 yuan a melon. We don’t care about the weight of the melons. We don’t sell melons that are less than 100 catties. Let’s start with you, the village chief. Lun, you can give me two hundred." Mengyi sounds like 40 yuan for a watermelon is quite expensive, but if you calculate it carefully, the market for watermelons that are currently on the market is much higher, and it is cheaper than watermelons in winter greenhouses , More than [-] catties of melons are not even two yuan and five catties.

"This"

"It's nothing like that. I have worked very hard to grow these melons. My family eats melons. I just collect hard-working money. If you have money, you will give it. If you have no money, you can cut it and eat it. I will find you a melon." Pack the snakeskin bag for you, there are scissors over there, you can just cut off the melon pedicle, and you can keep pulling.” After Zhang Wei finished speaking, he pointed to the scissors resting on the branch of the fruit tree, and went to the front yard to find the snakeskin for Zhang Yourong bag gone.

There are still snakeskin bags. The fish feed that Sun Xiaolei brings over is packed in snakeskin bags, and Zhang Wei keeps the bags for later use after spreading the fish feed.

When Zhang Wei came back with the snakeskin bag, village head Zhang Yourong had already cut off the two watermelons and hugged them together.Seeing Zhang Wei coming with a snakeskin bag, he quickly handed over two old people's heads.

"Here, Xiaowei, this is 100 yuan. This uncle will remember it. I'll bring it to you. If anyone in the village wants melons, it will be [-] yuan each." He stuffed the money into Zhang Wei's hand, Let Zhang Wei open the snakeskin bag and fill it with melons by himself.Not to mention, the snakeskin bag was filled to the brim after the two melons were loaded, and then Zhang Wei found a rope to tie the mouth. As if playing, he picked it up and carried it away.Those who have done farm work are different, that's what Sun Xiaolei said when he saw Zhang Wei's strength.

After sending Zhang Yourong away, Zhang Wei felt a little bit uncomfortable. We city people are planning to engage in urban discrimination, right? This Sun Xiaolei is his buddy, and the melons he sells are five yuan a catty. Although Sun Xiaolei sold it to the restaurant for 30 yuan a catty after changing hands, Zhang Wei didn't think so, even if Sun Xiaolei said today that he was adding five yuan to Zhang Wei's price, Zhang Wei didn't want it.However, Sun Xiaolei still insisted on paying ten yuan a catty.

Zhang Wei sometimes thinks, don't he love money?If you say you don't love money, why do you care so much about how much things can sell for?Sometimes Zhang Wei likes to count brightly colored bills.If you want to say that you love money, but Sun Xiaolei never agreed to increase the price for himself, even Sun Xiaolei often said that he regards money as dung.

Zhang Wei, who can't figure it out after much deliberation, can only attribute this to the fact that he has no paranoid interest in money, but he kind of likes the process of making money, or the process of success.Zhang Wei, who was thinking about it for a long time with his fingers, installed this excuse for himself.

However, when I think about it, the work under my hands cannot be stopped. The vertical sticks have to be buried, and the horizontal sticks need to be fixed. , to be inclined at 45 degrees, just to form a right-angled triangle with the vertical stick, the triangular structure is the most stable, this theorem may not be understood by Zhang Ye, but experience tells Zhang Ye to do this, so Zhang Ye told Zhang Wei how Only then can the shelf be built more firmly.

So, Zhang Wei asked Sun Xiaolei to put on the straps, and Zhang Wei tied up a small half of one side in one afternoon. It was a bit slow at the beginning, but it will only get faster and faster when it goes well.

(End of this chapter)