Chapter 1477: Strawberry [Tian Tian]

The yield of strawberries in Tian Tian's family this batch wasn't high.

However, her family's external debts from last year had been paid off quite a bit. Even if the whole family had conflicts, the reduction of external debts still made everyone feel relaxed.

Tian Ye would be in his third year of high school in the second half of the year. Now that he was back for three days during the May Day holiday, Tian Tian stuffed him with 200 yuan: "Take it to buy two pieces of clothes, and put the rest in your meal card; don't save on food and drink. I'll buy you some bread, beef jerky, and braised eggs; there's no shortage of money at home, don't save."

This dark boy had been picking fishy grass by the pond at Song Tan's house last summer and was tanned, but because the food was good, he had grown taller and looked exceptionally thin.

Tian Ye also laughed: "I know, I'm not hungry. Sister, are you selling strawberries these few days? I'll go to the city with you."

"Then you have to go." Tian Tian didn't say no: "They all say it's hard to find a job now; you follow and learn. If you really can't find a job after college, our siblings will farm together; there will always be a meal to eat, don't panic."

Tian Ye smiled: "Okay."

If this income was good, he really wanted to study agriculture or veterinary medicine; he felt that being a pet doctor was also quite stable now.

Tian Tian picked two red-to-black strawberries and gave them to him and Sun Ziqiang, while saying her plan: "There are many tourists during the May Day holiday. There is a fork in the road in front of Song Shu Town, and the traffic is heavy. I plan to pick some and set up a stall on the roadside to try it out."

Her personal QR code and payment code were all printed, just waiting for repeat customers after eating tomorrow.

Tian Ye tasted a strawberry and was instantly surprised: "Sister, this strawberry is delicious!"

"Right!" Tian Tian also laughed: "This is an important topic for graduate students. If we hadn't performed well at Boss Song's, it wouldn't have been our turn."

She was heavy-hearted, and everyone, including Teacher Tang, knew it, but no one said anything. Those who could help all put in effort. Just because of this, she always remembered it and completed the task meticulously.

This piece of strawberry field recorded data in great detail every day, and there was data anytime, anywhere.

"It's a pity the yield is low..." Tian Ye looked around, and the two types of strawberries were indeed not as lush as other people's greenhouses.

"It's quite okay." Future brother-in-law Sun Ziqiang said on the side: "After all, they bore a batch during the New Year, and it's quite rare to have a yield now. And the taste is delicious. Just this alone is not a loss!"

And the resistance was also good. There was only one not-so-serious powdery mildew in early spring, and there were aphids in mid-April. The problems weren't big, and they were solved quickly even without pesticides.

It was just hard work. Natural pest control needed to be done over and over again. Fortunately, the old couple would also come to help, and plus the scale wasn't big, so the workload wasn't much.

Sister Yanran said that there might be an outbreak of red spiders in the summer, but by then the strawberries wouldn't be flowering and bearing fruit. Whether it was garlic leaves or chili water, they could use them casually, and buying more yellow boards should solve it.

True Red Zhenhong Meiling and Saga Snow Rabbit could have a yield of two or three thousand jin per mu at Song Tan's, but here at Tian Tian's, it would be a thousand jin at most this year. Now it was early May, and the late-ripening True Red Zhenhong Meiling was only ripe in small quantities. However, the Saga Snow Rabbit was already white-to-pink. Standing in the field, one could smell a rich strawberry fragrance.

When Secretary Xiao Zhu called, Tian Tian was estimating the strawberry yield—

"Go sell strawberries? Okay, okay! Thank you so much, Secretary Zhu!"

"Is the traffic heavy? Strawberries aren't durable. If it's not heavy, I'll pick less and let my brother go to the roadside to sell some more."

"Yield... pick them now, and we can go sell them after lunch... there should be about thirty or fifty jin? The maturity period of open-air cultivation will be dragged out a lot, and the maturity isn't so neat."

"Okay, we're picking them now!"

Tian Tian hung up the phone and hurriedly said: "Pick them, Secretary Zhu said let the tourists taste them. Today we must let them eat well, drink well, and spend money happily."

Tian Ye responded, then looked at the time: "I'll tell Mom to hurry up with the cooking; we'll just eat two mouthfuls at noon."

It was almost 11:30 now. The three of them prepared the packaging boxes first, then ate a mouthful of food. Picking for half an hour and then tidying up a bit, and finally riding a bike to Yunqiao Village, it would be about the time when everyone had finished eating and was strolling around.

The only pity was that there were more ripe Saga Snow Rabbits now. This strawberry with white flesh and pink seeds didn't have as strong an impact as True Red Zhenhong Meiling when looked at from afar. But its rich fragrance was exceptionally unique, and it looked very high-end, so it should be easy to ask for a price.

The family was busy happily again.

Song Tan was truly their family's noble person!

And Tian Tian thought for a moment, then went back to the house to take a stack of packaging boxes: "Ziqiang, you go pick the big ones first, pick three boxes of red and white each, and then pick two boxes of white to send to Yunqiao Village together in the afternoon."

Six boxes of red and white for the Song family, one box for the village cadres, and one box for Sister Yanran and the others on the mountain.

People who were used to good things might not look down on this; it was mainly a heart.

And in the canteen on the mountain in Yunqiao Village, everyone swayed around the top of the mountain, and even specially crossed a gentle slope to come to the single dormitory building next door, only then returning with satisfaction:

"The scenery on this mountain is really good!"

The only drawback was that it was surrounded by fences everywhere, and it wasn't very convenient to enter the vegetable garden for a turn.

But correspondingly, the climbing frames in all directions were either planted with vegetables or Jin Yingzi. Looking near or far, it was a bustling scene, and the pastoral atmosphere was really exceptionally strong.

Just strolling like this, their physical strength was almost consumed. Holding the spirit of 【Since we're here】, everyone finally paid money and got a number card at the canteen.

One or two people felt that 30 yuan wasn't expensive, but a family of five, six, seven, or eight people came. Calculating like this, they felt they could go to a restaurant for a sumptuous meal. But they were unfamiliar with the place in the mountains, and there were restaurants in town, but wouldn't that delay time?

In the end, most of them compromised.

There were also those who were reluctant to spend money, but the tables and chairs in the canteen could still be used. They also prepared their own lunch, and some people asked if they could heat it up with lunch boxes.

That was naturally no problem.

Therefore, everyone gathered together lively. This feeling of group outing and eating big pot rice actually added a lot to the emotional value.

Just at this time, the employees on the mountain also calculated the time and came down early.

The first to enter was the security team that had just finished a patrol.

Quite a few people had met them on the road. At this moment, seeing them enter the canteen after simply cleaning at the water pool outside, they walked in with quite a bit of oppressive force.

There were children who asked curiously: "Uncle, why are you still wearing gloves? Isn't it hot?"

The employee who was asked grinned: "Because I have a secret on my hand—are you brave? Only if you are brave can you look!"

"Xiao Hong," someone said to him: "Don't scare the children to cry."