cultivating immortals and planting the fields

Chapter 77 Cleaning Up the Wasteland (3)

When Zhang Wei returned home, he carefully fished out a large watermelon from the well water, then put the treasured knife in his waist, took out two more boxes from the big Zhonghua box in the house, and put them in his pocket. Holding a large watermelon in a snakeskin bag in one hand and a large flat wooden cover in the other, Xiangcunxi prepared to cut watermelon for everyone to eat.

Most of these people in the village are people in their 50s or a little older. They are used to smoking dry pipes, and they are smoking filter-tip cigarettes. Although the cigarettes cost dozens of yuan a pack and taste good, they always feel that the cigarettes are boring. Smoking three filters is not as vigorous as smoking a puff of dry tobacco.Therefore, I went to three packs of cigarettes for most of the morning.Working for his own family can't let others smoke his own cigarettes, so Zhang Wei took two more boxes of Dazhonghua, and it is estimated that there will be no problem smoking until noon.

Seeing that the day is approaching noon, it is estimated that I will not be able to do much work even if I work.

Zhang Wei carefully placed the watermelon on the ground, then leveled the wooden board, raised and lowered the knife, and brushed a few times. A large watermelon was evenly divided into more than 40 parts by Zhang Wei. It is estimated that each piece weighs about one catty.

"Come on, everyone, eat melons. It's been hot all afternoon. Eat a piece to quench your thirst." Zhang Wei warmly greeted everyone to come and eat melons. Without his calling, everyone gathered around him while he was cutting melons. Smelling the scent of melon, everyone began to swallow their saliva.As soon as Zhang Wei put down the knife and greeted, everyone picked up the melon and began to gnaw it.

"Well, no wonder people who have eaten Xiaowei's watermelon said that this melon is delicious, this melon is delicious, the flesh is rusty, the taste is sweet, and it is juicy when it enters the mouth."

"Haha, it seems that I made money from working this morning. There are good cigarettes to smoke and big watermelons to eat. I heard that the watermelons in the provincial capital cost four or five yuan a catty. How come this piece of melon costs four or five yuan?" No, it’s almost catching up with pork.”

Everyone was talking about Wei’s watermelon while eating. It was nothing more than a question of price and taste. Zhang Wei was gnawing on the watermelon while smiling, and he only answered a few questions. Anyway, everyone didn’t give him something delicious. You're being polite, so of course he doesn't need to yell. Whoever finishes eating can get a new piece and continue eating.

"What four or five yuan? Third uncle, you have no information. That was the price Xiaowei sold watermelons for the first time. Yesterday, Boss Sun from the provincial capital came to see the land and raised Xiaowei's price on the spot. Now it is 30 yuan. It’s a catty. Everyone, eat it clean and don’t waste it, it’s much more valuable than pork.”

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Yesterday, Uncle Sun raised the price of watermelon to 30 yuan a catty. Other than Zhang Wei, Mr. Zhang, and the village chief, Zhang Yourong, we can know about it here. Mr. Zhang will never disclose the price of his own products. Needless to say, it was the village head Zhang Yourong who said it.

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone was so startled that they spit out the watermelon they gnawed in their mouths, choked a mouthful of watermelon juice in their throats, and coughed.

"Xiaowei, you can say that you sell watermelons to the provincial capital for 30 yuan a catty, is that true?"

The third uncle that the village head called just now swallowed the watermelon in his mouth, then spit out a watermelon seed in his mouth and squeezed it into his palm. He asked Zhang Wei carefully, is it worth 30 yuan a catty? Watermelon is amazing too.Could it be that the people in this provincial city are so easy to earn money?

"Third Master, don't care what the price is in the provincial capital. If anyone in our village wants to eat melons, he can go to my backyard to pick them. There are a lot of big melons. Hehe." Zhang Wei avoided this question lightly. He felt that the watermelon Buying 30 yuan a catty is nothing to brag about.

"Okay, then one day the third master commits a melon crime, so I will go to your yard to cut melons and eat them. Don't say that the melons are not ripe, haha, eat melons, eat melons..." The third master heard Zhang Weiyi say , Feeling that this melon has really been sold to thirty, and I scold my mother in my heart, this mother's city people really have money.While talking, he gnawed a few more bites in his mouth, but this melon is really delicious, the more he eats, the more he wants to eat it, the bright red flesh of the melon is gnawed into his mouth, and the tongue just stirs it, and after chewing it, he will feel It's juice, and it's sweet and sweet. Swallow it in one bite, and the stomach is full of comfortable taste.

"Third uncle, isn't it just 30 yuan a catty of watermelon? This year, I plan to plant two acres of Zhang Wei's watermelon on the collectively planned land at the east end of our village. Send a watermelon to the big guys for a taste. At that time, Xiaowei’s melons will be in season, so that people in the city will not eat them first, so, uncle, if you want to eat this watermelon again, your melon seeds will also be eaten. Don't stuff it in your pocket, give it to me, Xiaowei's melon seeding village has collectively booked it." Zhang Yourong was so focused on several tasks, he gnawed on the watermelon in his mouth, and he didn't miss talking to everyone, his eyes still Looking at the watermelon seeds that everyone spit out, everyone spit out a few watermelon seeds in twos and threes in front of others, but there was none in front of the third uncle.

Originally, this watermelon had few melon seeds, one watermelon only had [-] or [-] seeds, but Zhang Yourong was going to plant two acres of melons, so why would he need a thousand seeds?As long as Zhang Wei cuts the watermelon, the village head Zhang will definitely arrive on time. He doesn't know whether he wants to eat the watermelon or pick up Zhang Wei's watermelon seeds for the benefit of the village collective.But let alone, the village chief Zhang really picked up all the watermelon seeds he ate these days, even picked up the watermelon seeds that fell on the ground from the watermelon smashed by the thief that day.

Thinking about it, there should be watermelon seeds on the two acres of land. Zhang Wei's watermelon can't be thickened, it's twice as thin as the usual watermelon, and I don't know what it is.Therefore, Village Chief Zhang planned to pre-prep the watermelon seeds to accelerate germination when he went back today.The land also needs to find crops from the two villages so that it can be rectified. Well, this pig manure needs to be collected more. Regardless of whether it is true or not, urea fertilizer is not used anyway. It would be good to add more pig manure, this kid Zhang Wei It is said that the watermelon in his backyard is full of pig manure from Mr. Zhang's house.When collecting pig manure, Mr. Zhang’s will charge more.

Village head Zhang is multitasking, eating watermelon and planning the affairs of the village, and watching everyone not to find the watermelon seeds.

After a while, everyone barely managed to get rid of the 40-jin big watermelon, and everyone was belching. The last few pieces were eaten by everyone after a few minutes of rest. At that time, everyone ate really delicious food. No more, Zhang Wei ate two yuan, and Master Zhang also ate two or three yuan, none of which was eaten by the village chief. Five melons, in the words of the village chief, he often ate melons at Zhang Wei's these days, the amount of melons It's worked out.

Zhang Wei scattered a circle of Zhonghua cigarettes for everyone, and then cleaned up the residue on the ground with the village head.

Zhang Wei packed up the watermelon rinds to feed the little bamboo rats. Humans eat watermelons and they eat the skins. Zhang Wei's watermelons are not wasted at all, and this little thing likes to eat the bare watermelon rinds that everyone gnaws on.Zhang Wei picked up the watermelon rinds piece by piece and put them into snakeskin bags, while the village head looked for watermelon seeds around the place where everyone gnawed on the melon just now.

After eating the watermelon, everyone regained their strength. Under the scorching sun, they were ready to work for an hour. By then, it would be nearly twelve o'clock, and it was time to have lunch after going home for a rest.

(End of this chapter)