Chapter 180: Catching a Ride

The sky was turning dark.

Li Baoni hurried down from the mountain with a tea basket, and the first thing she did when she got home was to hook it onto the scale—

"One jin and two liang."

This was her usual efficiency; to be precise, most people in the village had this efficiency.

Spreading the tea leaves on a plastic sheet on the ground to air, she walked into the bedroom and asked her husband, who was recuperating on the bed:

"How is it? Can you get up to go to the bathroom today?"

The man on the bed revealed a smile: "I did, the waist doesn't hurt as much, and walking around is okay too. It feels easier day by day, it won't be long before I'm better."

Li Baoni also breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's good."

She rambled on: "Now that the price of tea has dropped, a jin of buds only gives thirty yuan. What can sixty or seventy yuan a day earn?"

"The vegetable garden is also tidied up. I was thinking that when the dog days of summer come, if you can recover, I'll just go out to work."

As she spoke, she skillfully and expertly helped her husband stand up slowly, then walked a few steps slowly:

"I saw many factories recruiting on the 'Tremolo' app. I'm just fifty years old, just hitting the age limit. I can get more than twenty yuan an hour. If I work more overtime, maybe I can get seven or eight thousand a month!"

As she spoke, she couldn't help but sigh:

"You say, Until Wu Lan's family, why did the tea grow so well this year? I heard from several tea pickers that they can pick two or three jin in an afternoon easily. How thick must these buds be."

She couldn't do it; her hands were fast, but the tea leaves couldn't keep up.

Her husband laughed: "That's right, my waist breaking has delayed you from earning big money."

With Li Baoni's efficiency, if it weren't for taking care of himself lying in bed, she would definitely have gone to Until Wu Lan's house to help pick tea in early spring.

One hundred and fifty a day, much more stable than picking tea herself. This was the price given by fellow villagers without food and lodging.

In previous years, tea pickers came with food and lodging, and they only gave one hundred or even less per day. If calculated by weight, it followed the market price.

However, with the major famous teas promoting themselves, and their poor and remote area becoming less and less developed, the price of tea leaves dropped again and again, and most of them were used to fill the numbers for famous teas.

As a result, the local villagers gradually couldn't even afford to hire tea pickers. Now, throughout the year, there were actually not many incomes.

Every household that could move had gone out to work.

Just as she was pondering, she heard a shout from outside the courtyard: "Baoni, Baoni!"

Li Baoni was stunned, then hurried out: "I'm here, what's the matter?"

As soon as she asked, she couldn't help but reveal a smile: "Is it that someone is coming to work at home tomorrow? Don't worry, I'll be there early for whatever needs to be done."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Until Wu Lan with full expectation.

Now, people in the village were very willing to work for Song Tan's family.

The food was good, the money was good, much more cost-effective than working outside, but it was a pity that this work was sporadic, neither continuous nor stable enough.

Until Wu Lan shook her head, thinking about the few wealthy clients coming to the family, and explained the matter in a few words:

"This is someone Zhang Yanping found online to come fishing, and they have nowhere to sleep at night. I was thinking your house has a solar water heater and Wi-Fi, so arranging for someone to stay at your place should be okay? Just came to ask."

"Fifty yuan a night, no need to prepare meals, do you think it's okay?"

Li Baoni was overjoyed, why wouldn't it be okay?!

Rural courtyards were all large, and her house was the same as the old Song family's, built many years ago.

Besides the place where the children lived, there was an extra room left for tea pickers, which was now piled with sundries.

But it didn't matter.

"My son's room is clean, I'll go get a quilt later."

Seeing that she was already in a hurry to tidy up, Until Wu Lan smiled: "No rush, no rush, this young man hasn't eaten yet. After he eats at our house tonight, I'll have Zhang Yanping send him over."

"You tidy up slowly, no rush."

Li Baoni was happy, and couldn't help but ask one more question:

"Until Wu Lan, I see the scallions and garlic in your vegetable garden growing very well, when are you planning to sell vegetables?"

How could Until Wu Lan care about looking at her vegetable garden!

She only had tea leaves in her eyes now.

Hearing this, she was also stunned: "I'm not clear about that, Song Tan is in charge of this, she's the only one in the family who can drive."

Li Baoni smiled embarrassedly: "I wanted to ask, if she sells vegetables again, is it convenient to give us a ride to the hospital? It's time for a follow-up."

What a small matter!

"I'll go back and ask later. I'll send you a message when I've asked."

Until Wu Lan couldn't help but say to her: "If you have something, just say it directly, no need to rush to sell vegetables."

People were being polite, and Li Baoni was also polite.

Usually, there were cars in the village, but the village-to-village bus had to go around the town every day, and she felt quite embarrassed:

"You know, his waist is uncomfortable after sitting for a long time, and my follow-up isn't urgent for a day or two, just say when it's convenient."

The waist problem was indeed a big deal, after all, he was the strong laborer in the family. If the waist was broken, not only could he not earn money, but it also tied Li Baoni down.

Until Wu Lan knew the situation, and now hurried back home, grabbed Song Tan and asked:

"The garlic sprouts and scallions in your field can be sold, when are you going to sell vegetables?"

Song Tan went to the vegetable garden for a stroll every day, and by the way, contacted the two treasures. She knew how much the vegetables had grown.

Now it was the time when spring was warm and flowers were blooming, the green leaves were sprouting so fast, plus she had spiritual energy to urge them every night...

Look, what they ate today were the scallions, garlic, and coriander pulled directly from the vegetable garden.

As for the basil, Aunt Lianhua also pulled a handful in the field in the afternoon, intending to make a tofu soup tonight. Looking at Seventh Cousin's satisfied look, the quality of this batch of vegetables was better than wild vegetables!

Not to mention scallions and garlic, the baby cabbage would be ready for harvest in a few days.

However, what grew up first were these seasoning vegetables, small scallions, garlic sprouts, basil, and coriander.

The growth cycle of ginger was longer, and it hadn't grown well yet.

Among them, the yield per mu of small scallions and garlic sprouts was the highest. If planted well, planting three or four crops a year, a yield of six or seven thousand jin per mu was no problem.

Thinking that she should find a designer to polish the house, it was safer to have more money in hand.

Since that was the case—

"Let's go tomorrow, what's the matter? What vegetables do you want to buy?"

She now went to the street to buy vegetables every morning, and it had become a habit.

Until Wu Lan told her about Li Baoni's matter.

Song Tan nodded: "No problem, the vegetable market is not far from the People's Hospital, I'll send them directly, it won't delay things."

This was the reason why everyone knew that living in the village had no pressure and was comfortable, but everyone still wanted to run to the big city.

Besides education, another most important factor was medical care.

Without a car, when there was injury, illness, or pain, it was simply impossible to move an inch. ===== CHAPTER 181 =====