Chapter 1624

If you distinguish young people by their energy levels, Qiao Qiao is undoubtedly a high-energy person.

Perhaps because his brain doesn't consume much energy, he, like a child, has abundant energy from morning till night; it's hard for him to feel tired until his battery is down to 1%.

For example, now, despite entering the high-temperature season, he gets up at 4:30 in the morning to prepare, and starts digging up potatoes and opening blind boxes at 5:00—

Regarding this, Song Tan only accompanied him once, and the next day she promised Yun Duo overtime pay and threw this job to her.

She would rather cultivate than watch him dig and dig and dig in the big field... it felt endless.

If she watched for two more days, Song Tan was really afraid she would drive the small excavator over and flip all the potatoes out in one go.

But Qiao Qiao dug like he was digging sand, never getting tired of it.

After digging until past 7:00, he switched to picking cucumbers, and couldn't bear to leave even at 9:00, dragging it out for another half hour...

Only then did he go home to eat breakfast, which had been adjusted for the high-temperature weather.

Regarding his endless energy, Lu Chuan was actually willing to accompany him: "Anyway, I have to exercise and work when I get up early, so accompanying him until 9:30 is no problem."

Song Tan laughed: "You also said you have to exercise when you get up early."

The good figure she appreciated didn't come for nothing, and morning was when Lu Chuan's writing was most inspired; accompanying Qiao Qiao to livestream and disrupt his rhythm wasn't a wonderful thing for an emotionally sensitive writer.

On the contrary, Yun Duo was ecstatic: "Overtime pay? Me? I'll do it!!!"

In the summer morning, people in the village came to work around 4:00 or 5:00, and the dormitory wasn't 100% soundproof, so she woke up early anyway. Now that she could earn this overtime pay, she didn't know how envious She Min and Gao Xinzhi were!

Yun Duo was even coy: "Anyway, I'm idle when I get up early, it's so embarrassing to mention overtime pay... Boss, why didn't you call me yesterday?!!!"

She was already starting to feel heartache for the overtime pay she lost yesterday.

Song Tan sighed: "I don't want to be a 'cow or horse' at all when I work, why are you so happy..."

Yun Duo was happily calculating her salary on her phone, and without looking up, she said: "It's hard not to be a 'cow or horse' when making a living in a big city; not hating the world is already high moral character. Look at 'Gastrectomy Brother', 'Self-study Sister'... they would rather pick vegetables than go back to earn a high salary!"

"It's different here; wow, the village is quiet at 9:00 in the evening, I sleep soundly! And I eat soundly!"

In short, jobs are different, aren't they?

If the people making a living in big cities could save their entire salary every month, I don't believe they wouldn't have motivation.

She, Yun Duo, was determined to save up the down payment for a house and car for herself and her sister when the boss's real estate project opened!

One set for sister, one set for her, how can she not work hard?

Hearing this, She Min also agreed in a low voice: "I used to think I was a low-energy person, feeling tired before even going out."

"I only discovered after coming here that it was because I didn't eat well, didn't sleep well, and didn't have enough sun."

She had a lot of energy during the day now, a lot of energy!

Song Tan:...

Fine, fine, fine, the employees are so active and proactive, she doesn't even need to draw a pie, saving trouble.

Back to Qiao Qiao.

He only took a short nap during the hottest time at noon, then attended classes, did homework, read books, and studied; when it was past 4:00 in the afternoon, he put on his hat and rushed out:

"Sister! Let's go pick tomatoes together!"

Song Tan:...

"Officer Xiao Yang isn't home, you seem to be very happy working every day."

Huh?

Qiao Qiao was a bit bewildered: "I'm not working, digging potato blind boxes is very interesting. Picking cucumbers is also very interesting—so many cucumbers, having to quickly pick out the straight ones that are about the same size, it's like Whac-A-Mole."

"Sister, don't you like it?"

Song Tan didn't answer.

She thought to herself, when I was harvesting, I used a spell to make the rice fall down neatly, which was much more interesting than your game.

Hmph (ˉへˉ).

But Qiao Qiao was already chattering: "Cucumbers, tomatoes also need to be sent to Yang Zhengxin! And sweet melons, I've smelled the fragrance of the navel of that 'Green Treasure', I'll go pick a few first!"

The "navel" he mentioned was the fruit navel on the Green Treasure sweet melon.

Generally, the one that emits a mature fragrance from the fruit navel means the sweet melon is ripe.

Song Tan responded: "I'll taste it first in a while, the Boyang No. 9 next to it is also about ready, you break a few and send them together."

Boyang No. 9 is also a type of sweet melon, with thin skin and tender flesh, looking like a thick, short, fat version of a cucumber, and carrying unique pumpkin stripes.

You can break it into two pieces with a light snap.

"Officer Xiao Yang is staying in the dormitory now, it's not appropriate to eat alone, and studying math is hard on the brain, let him eat more."

"It's not hard," Qiao Qiao said blankly: "Yang Zhengxin said studying math is very interesting, like playing a game, passing one level after another. He once solved it in one go after four hours, he was so happy!"

Song Tan thought to herself, it's a good thing you and Chen Chi didn't study high school math seriously, otherwise, based on their family's IQ, it's eight or nine out of ten that it wouldn't be such a happy experience.

She picked up a few more baskets: "Pick more to send to Brother Lu Chuan's friends, and I also want to send them to my friends."

Qiao Qiao nodded, and at this moment, got on the tricycle and set off with Song Tan.

The sun overhead was scorching, and both of them were wearing hats, long sleeves, and long pants, fully armed, looking steaming hot.

Lu Chuan felt it was hard work just looking at them, and shouted from behind:

"It's too hot, don't pick anymore, my friends will bring their children to stay at the homestay during summer vacation, we can eat them then."

Although he wasn't actually too hot, working himself and his girlfriend working were two different things.

After thinking about it, he told Lu Jing and rode his bike to follow them.

Lu Jing, who was happily drinking homemade iced milk tea at the homestay:...

Oh my! What a hot day!

A few silly children.

Also, Little Chuan can ride a tricycle so gracefully now!

White long-sleeved silk-linen shirt, dark gray silk-blend trousers—hey, hey, hey! This delicate son! How can he wear this to work!

Looking at the mountain again, Song Tan was also disgusted with him: "Don't ruin your clothes, Mom will inevitably nag when she sees it later."

This "Pea Prince" boyfriend still couldn't wear textiles with rough fabrics; although he said he could wear them, every time he had a look of endurance, as if he felt itchy all over.

Lu Chuan put on gardening gloves, his movements reserved and elegant, pleasing to the eye as if a CEO were putting on his sheepskin gloves.

"You are under the scorching sun, picking fruits and vegetables for me to send to friends, I can't sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor."

Song Tan laughed to death: "This outfit of yours won't do!"

Silk-linen blend fabric, not to mention whether it will snag when shuttling through the fluffy cucumber leaf field, just the fact that this fabric is so thin, if a leaf or branch scrapes against his clothes later, he'll be uncomfortable for a long time.

"Why don't you wear this to break corn?" That would guarantee he wouldn't come again next time.

Lu Chuan's movements paused: "This thickness should be fine."

"It's not fine."

Song Tan shook her head.

The crops on their mountain were managed meticulously, using trellises and then hanging vines to control the plants.

They looked neat, ventilated, breathable, and well-lit, and were also convenient for management.

But these rows and lines were different from using pots on a balcony.

In pots, people can turn to all sides to prune and pick, but planting in the ground means people walking into the forest. Branches and leaves extend from all sides, which is not worth mentioning for farmers.

For the "Pea Prince," it was truly difficult.

Let alone the fluffy cucumber leaves, even the Provence tomatoes, which had a strong smell, were infinite-growth types; even though they had been topped and pruned in time at home, the mature plants were still about two meters tall.

And tomato branches and leaves would emit a smell as soon as they were touched, which was also not wonderful for Lu Chuan.

Song Tan pushed him and showed him her face: "I'm not sweating, I'm playing with Qiao Qiao here, don't make trouble."

"If you really want to help, make more of that sweet melon ice ball sparkling water, we love drinking it."

Everyone has their own specialty, it's really not necessary.

Seeing Lu Chuan hesitate, Song Tan laughed again: "If it really doesn't work, it's summer, go back and buy us some clothes or something."

His meticulousness is definitely right for logistics; he remembers the sizes and needs of everyone in the family much more clearly than Song Tan.

Lu Chuan paused, but in the end, he smiled helplessly: "Alright then, I'll go back first."

The tricycle buzzed and drove down the mountain again. Qiao Qiao looked at his back and said happily: "Brother Lu Chuan looks so skilled now!"

Song Tan laughed instantly: "Hmm, after staying in the countryside for a long time, the 'fairy air' of the big city is gone."

He even learned to drive a tricycle, really...

She felt a bit embarrassed: sorry for that face!

The two of them arrived earlier than Yun Duo, and at this moment, without mentioning the livestream, they picked a bunch in the vegetable field; cucumbers, tomatoes, Green Treasure, Boyang... each of them picked several large plastic baskets.

These were to be packed and sent out first, enough for their family, including Lu Jing, to send to friends and relatives.

Estimating it was about enough, they stopped.

Qiao Qiao got on the tricycle again: "Sister, I'll go back and put these in the cold storage separately, and bring Sister Yun Duo up to livestream in a while."

The amount of vegetables and fruits sent to friends and relatives is different from those in the store, so they must be put in the cold storage separately. When Brother Xiao Zhang comes over in the evening, stick the labels and pack them first, so as not to mix up the shipping labels.

Song Tan nodded: "Go ahead, I'll eat a sweet melon first."

She looked at the two pieces of hanging vine melon fields in front of her, and at this moment, after thinking about it, she chose Green Treasure.

The tender green melon skin had a texture of white frost, and she picked one with just the right maturity; the melon stem came off with a light twist, and then she washed it in the water channel from the pool next to it, and she could break it in half directly.

The fragrance of the opened Green Treasure was even richer, and the mature flesh inside emitted a unique sweet fragrance. Song Tan had just scooped out the melon pulp when she saw a dog head stretch out from the melon field—

"It's Princess today."

The silver-white hollow eye mask was extremely exquisite; Princess, this dog's expression was also both aloof and stable.

—If its eyes weren't staring at the sweet melon.

But Song Tan wasn't Qiao Qiao, who had no bottom line for spoiling treasures, so she said coldly: "Don't even look, you can only eat the melon pulp."

When she was a child, she actually loved the sweetness of the melon pulp, but there were too many seeds, and the texture wasn't wonderful.

But Princess clearly wasn't picky at all.

At this moment, it crawled out from the other side of the vegetable field, its fur shiny and oily, and you couldn't tell it had given birth to five puppies before.

Song Tan sat on the stone steps by the water channel, and Princess sat down too, its big tail wagging behind it, causing a pile of grass clippings to fly.

One person and one dog sat side by side, both lowering their heads to eat the sweet melon, looking exceptionally tacit.

It was just that the dog's mouth was bigger; even though Princess was clearly eating sparingly, with a roll of its tongue, two large lumps of melon pulp had already entered its stomach like ginseng fruit.

It wasn't like other dogs that loved to act spoiled; even if its eyes were staring straight at the sweet melon, it didn't make a sound.

It just kept looking, kept looking, kept looking...

Song Tan, who hadn't finished half the sweet melon:...

"Forget it, forget it, you only turned a month old after giving birth to puppies anyway—come, this half is for you, you supplement your body."

The shiny, oily, and even slightly fat Princess showed no signs of needing supplementation.

But these days, pet owners are clearly becoming more and more indulgent toward their children, with no bottom line, so Princess got half a sweet melon.

The whole dog settled down, lying on the ground as smooth as silk, pressing the semi-circular sweet melon with two paws, and cleverly eating from the inside first.

Fruit flesh is fruit flesh, fruit skin is fruit skin; these two have to be eaten separately anyway, otherwise it affects the taste.

Song Tan frowned, watching it eat so skillfully, and couldn't help but look around:

"Why do I feel like you seem to have a lot of experience eating this..."

After Song Tan finished the sweet melon, washed her hands and wiped her mouth by the water channel, Qiao Qiao's tricycle brought Yun Duo up the mountain.

Compared to them, Yun Duo was fully armed, the silk scarf in front of her sun hat only leaving two eyes, and she even wore sunglasses over her eyes.

Although she was only responsible for the livestream, the cuffs of her sun-protective clothing were looped over her thumbs, only willing to expose her fingertips.

Song Tan was a bit puzzled: "Why are you wrapped so tightly today?"

She didn't usually.

Yun Duo said while organizing the phone stand: "I ran into Aunt Zhang Hong yesterday; aren't we going to have a matchmaking event after the autumn work is finished?"

Song Tan nodded "Oh oh," understanding: "You want to wrap yourself whiter, and see if there's anyone suitable at the matchmaking event."

Yun Duo shook her head: "I'm at the prime age for building a career, what kind of partner do I need! I'm wrapping myself whiter so that I can see the matchmaking event, and not be picked by others saying this girl is too dark and they didn't like her."

She was very ambitious: "In short, I have to pick others—but I can't pick others while being unkempt; Aunt Zhang Hong said such men are sloppy, and she won't accept them, it's only appropriate for everyone to be decent."

So, she must protect against the sun!

Qiao Qiao understood: "Sister Yun Duo, although you want to participate for the sake of participation, you want to participate decently and beautifully, right?"

Yun Duo nodded, a smile that no one noticed appearing under her mask: "That's what I mean."

Qiao Qiao frowned: "But you don't want to find a partner, yet you're going to participate in a matchmaking event. Then the person who chooses you, won't they miss out on someone else?"

He was very serious: "Several of the security guards really want to find a partner."

Yun Duo was speechless:...

Oh my, she was still young, forgetting what if someone really liked her?

And this matchmaking event was held by the boss with great sincerity for the employees' wishes, not the kind of matchmaking event in the city where people are urged by their families to gather without any screening.

Everyone who participates must have the willingness themselves.

So she took off her mask in frustration: "What you said makes sense, I can't delay others like this, I won't sign up."

Song Tan looked at her: "It doesn't matter, you can see a lot of experience as an organizer. Besides, sun protection and finding a partner don't have a necessary relationship, put it on!"

The two siblings wearing straw hats were purely for covering, but Yun Duo would really get tanned and sunburned.

"Put it on."

She reached out and helped Yun Duo hang the mask properly.

But after saying this, Yun Duo still opened a sun umbrella.

She looked at the golden sun on the horizon; although it was 5:00, the sunset was still hot and dazzling.

This umbrella wasn't for herself, but to shade the phone—otherwise, it would be hot enough to barbecue after a while, and there would be no need to livestream, the battery would drop rapidly.

And the sunlight was too dazzling, affecting the brightness, and she wouldn't be able to see the screen clearly.

She reminded: "I'm starting the livestream."

Song Tan also put on her gloves: "Alright then, let's get to work, Qiao Qiao."

"You can sell as much as you can pick."

But she had just finished eating the sweet melon, and what she saw in the camera at this moment were fields of sweet melons.

The fans who followed into the livestream room hadn't had time to be excited about the tomatoes, and at this moment, another huge surprise rippled out—

【Oh my! Are you going to sell sweet melons to us?】

【What? You're going to sell sweet melons?!】

【Post the link, post the link.】

【Are sweet melons also 9.9 for one, including shipping?】

【What beautiful things are you thinking about? Why isn't everything 9.9? Teacher Qiao Qiao, look at me, as long as you are willing to sell and I can grab it, price is not a problem.】

The fans who entered the livestream room a step late were confused, and at this moment, they also followed:

【Then after selling sweet melons, will tomatoes be posted later?】

Yun Duo hurriedly picked up the stand: "Family members, we just started the stream, we just found a random place, we are still selling tomatoes tonight. We aren't selling sweet melons."

Only a few rows of each type of sweet melon were planted, so selling them wouldn't meet the demand at all; they were just for eating at home and sending some away.

"But our tomatoes are very good, they are Provence tomatoes that are sandy when eaten raw—Qiao Qiao said! He wants his little friends to enjoy them too."

While talking, walking along the field ridges, before long, they arrived at the tomato field that was taller than her.

The red tomato fruits hung on the branches, as if they were within reach.

"Look!" Yun Duo showed everyone: "Such tomatoes are also 9.9 for two, including shipping."

Song Tan turned her head in front and was helpless again:

"Yun Duo, that's an ox-heart tomato—over there," she pointed to Qiao Qiao in the front row:

"The tall ones over there are Provence."

"Provence is suitable for eating raw; the ox-heart tomatoes here are big, the biggest one is about a jin, suitable for taking home to stew with beef brisket."

?? The last day of July! The word count this month has improved slightly, satisfied!

? Are you satisfied with the word count of this chapter? The result of staying up all night with insomnia...

? July is over! Waiting for the brand new August!

? I'm sleepy, I'm going to sleep, good morning everyone.