Chapter 1842: Luck with Money is a Bit Poor

After this fragrant roast duck that left a lingering aftertaste, a mist-like rain fell finely and densely for two more days.

It fell so much that Until Wu Lan, who couldn't stay idle, was about to grow hair all over her body, so a group of people called friends and companions and simply went to play mahjong.

Teacher Tang was puzzled: "Your room for roasting fire in the winter is so spacious, and I see there's a mahjong machine too; why don't you play at home?"

She also wanted to learn the local mahjong.

It's more comfortable at the old Song family's; going to someone else's house inevitably means being looked at and chatted about like a Western spectacle. Many people have heavy dialects, and the old lady found it exhausting to listen, so she was too lazy to use her brain.

Until Wu Lan didn't know Teacher Tang's subtext, and said quite experiencedly at the moment: "That won't do at home; otherwise, the tea and snacks will be endless."

For those playing cards, there are those watching, and a cup of tea for each person is standard, plus some melon seeds, fruits, and snacks—you could eat ten thousand yuan worth in an afternoon.

How is that like going to someone else's house comfortably?

"And there seems to be someone in the village who wants to do this business of taking a cut from playing cards. They don't take much, just enough for snacks and tea money."

If she calls people to her own house, isn't that cutting off someone else's path to wealth?

Professor Song knew his wife's eagerness to try, and said to her at the moment: "If you're bored, go play at the factory. The young people there play cards and games, playing things like Werewolf; Sister Yanran and the others say they really know how to play."

And most of the employees recruited speak Mandarin, so there's no obstacle to chatting. Everyone is from out of town, so it's actually more comfortable.

That makes sense, that makes sense!

It's just that...

She looked at Song Tan: "Your employees are playing cards, and you don't care?"

Song Tan was also helpless: "If I don't let them play cards, then what?"

There's really no place for entertainment in this village. They've been here for a long time, and there's nothing to spend money on, and the stakes in the card games are small.

Fighting for an afternoon, it might only be thirty or fifty yuan; it's not as exciting as Happy Beans.

On this wet, rainy day, just turn a blind eye to this kind of fragmented entertainment activity.

When Old Lady Tang heard this, she turned around and went to find Until Wu Lan to exchange 100 yuan in cash, and went up the mountain ambitiously.

And on the mountain?

Some were playing cards, some were playing games, and others were binge-watching dramas. Seeing Teacher Tang talking to Yun Duo, someone immediately came over:

"Assistant Yun, Assistant Yun!"

"What is it?" Yun Duo turned her head.

She had to drive to town to pick up a batch of express deliveries in a while, and also help Aunt Zhang Hong arrange the factory; things were quite miscellaneous.

The employee who came over smiled and said: "Our canteen is quite spacious, and the air conditioning is always on. It's become an activity center now, hasn't it?"

That is indeed true.

Yun Duo nodded.

With so many people, it wouldn't look right if they were all stuffed in the dormitory without a place to play.

Anyway, because the canteen is large, it's inconvenient to turn the air conditioning on and off frequently, so it's just left on. What a spacious and comfortable activity center it is.

In the winter, there was even a stove in each of the two corners.

Not to mention anything else, when cleaning up every day, the tables and chairs are tidied up neatly, and there's plenty of open space.

A table of people playing poker in the corner, and a table playing mahjong—that's also exceptionally comfortable.

According to Song Tan, having all entertainment activities under everyone's eyes is actually more controllable. Otherwise, if someone gets addicted to playing cards and the money amount gets higher and higher, that would really be a problem.

Now, these thoughts flashed through Yun Duo's mind rapidly, and she followed up patiently and asked: "If you have something to say, just say it. I'm going to town in a while; do you need me to bring anything?"

Several employees smiled: "That... we just want to ask, can the boss buy a TV with a bigger screen and put it here?"

For binge-watching dramas and movies, it's still more lively with more people.

Huh?

This was something Yun Duo hadn't thought of. Clearly, when she went to restaurants outside, there were often TVs in the lobby.

"Okay!" She said crisply: "I'll go ask in a while."

Everyone was overjoyed: "Great, great, sorry to trouble you. We've been binge-watching Korean dramas recently and want to cast them to watch and roast them together."

Yun Duo was extremely envious.

Since she started her job, she has to study, take notes, and keep work records until after 9 o'clock every night. Then thinking about the fragrant breakfast, she can't stay up late at all.

Thinking about it now, watching TV is like something from a past life.

However, among these people, like the self-study sister and the stomach-cutting brother, they have all been tempered in society for a long time and have a set of skills to be as relaxed as they are now.

She is the opposite; she doesn't know anything, so she has to take this opportunity to learn in multiple fields.

For example, this TV set—because she had no need for it herself, she didn't think of it at all.

There are card tables in this canteen, and she didn't notice this point; it's really not right.

Sure enough, when she went down the mountain and told Song Tan, she agreed immediately.

"Don't just get one; our canteen is large, put one on each side. You place an order directly and buy two 100-inch TVs. Ask clearly about the accessories; someone in our security team knows how to install them."

Cultural construction of entertainment spirit—she really neglected it!

Although a sports area was built at the village committee, basketball, table tennis, badminton, etc., are all fine, but with this rain, indoor activities are still more popular.

And after employees get off work, they might prefer entertainment methods that don't consume physical strength.

"How about this, you do your homework, see what kind of large equipment is suitable for playing movies, and I'll donate it to the square at the village committee. We can organize everyone to watch movies together later."

Yun Duo nodded decisively: "Okay!"

She agreed verbally, first noted it down in her memo, and then planned to go online to do her homework and buy the TV, while responding to Aunt Zhang Hong's instructions about express delivery on WeChat...

Song Tan looked at her busy like a spinning top, and suddenly felt lucky again:

It's so good to have employees to help with work!

No wonder those big bosses always look full of energy; it turns out that small decisions like buying things don't consume them at all.

But Yun Duo's busyness clearly didn't end that simply.

Because after some communication, she, who had already sat in the car, got out again: "Boss, Aunt Zhang Hong asked, can the eligible men and women who came that day take two melons when they leave?"

Song Tan was stunned: "Yes, we are responsible for picking up and dropping off those without cars, and we will give an extra melon to those with cars."

Yun Duo laughed: "Aunt Zhang Hong said that she participated in the matchmaking meeting that day and added many girls' WeChats. This time she pulled them into a group and wants to invite them to come and play."

"It doesn't mean we have to force them to date; it's mainly that more opportunities mean more paths. What if, right?"

Song Tan: "... Aunt Zhang Hong is really something."

Penetrating the interior and making the other party trust her so much that they are even willing to sacrifice precious time and energy to make this trip to the countryside.

She admits that her melons are delicious, but many people here probably can't imagine how delicious they are.

The reason is Aunt Zhang Hong's charm.

What else is there to say? Since the other party is so dedicated, Song Tan made a prompt decision: "I'll ask Seventh Cousin if he can make some snacks for everyone to eat."

But this request really made Seventh Cousin pause for a while.

"The ones our family often eats and loves aren't suitable."

Eating roasted soybeans makes people fart easily. People here are just extending their little tentacles of affection, and then—pfft—how unsightly that is.

Rice sticks are dry, and they make people's mouths crack easily.

Especially their family's rice sticks; once you eat them, you can't stop. The old Song family has had cracked mouths I don't know how many times.

Finally, there's toasted rice—

After eating this, how can they objectively evaluate the craftsmanship of their canteen?

Song Tan: "..." Oh, right.

They are holding a matchmaking meeting for employees, so they can't engage in food fraud. Eating and drinking should be left to Chef Jiang to organize.

After all, he is a senior hotel chef, and this kind of experience should be very rich.

It's a good thing she dismissed this idea, because when she went to instruct Chef Jiang, he was already prepared.

Aunt Zhang Hong also urged repeatedly: "Tell everyone in the family that day, and take the trouble to help cover the security work."

"I'll arrange for them to train or something when the time comes; it has to be when everyone is there to look impressive."

"The tea and tremella soup provided by the canteen can continue to be provided. Don't give them other delicious food; otherwise, everyone will just focus on eating, and who will remember to chat?"

"As for the melons given away when leaving..."

Aunt Zhang Hong hesitated: "Can we have them go to the fields to pick them together in pairs while chatting?"

Just those two melons, a twist and they fall off. Aunt Zhang Hong doesn't even let go of this little opportunity. No wonder she is so easy to succeed in doing things!

Skill!

It's all skill!

By the way, she also heard her mention: "Where did you buy this wire fence? It looks of good quality. Is it expensive?"

Then, without waiting for Song Tan to ask, she babbled: "I'm thinking that the soil and water in our village are so good, we can't waste the pool water on this mountain. We must collect more soybeans in the village next year."

But everyone makes quite a lot of money planting vegetables, and I'm afraid people won't be willing to plant more. When the time comes, the soybeans won't be supplied, and the quality will go up and down—what's going on?

So she also made a prompt decision: "My daughter plans to have a second child, and being busy with beans is day and night; it's too exhausting. It just so happens that my son-in-law is coming to help, so the couple will be responsible for that hillside at the entrance of the village."

"We'll fence it off then."

"I've already made an appointment with Master Xiao Sun before. When the rain stops and the soil dries, he will come to help me tidy up that piece of land."

Speaking of this, she couldn't help but be proud: "Master Xiao Sun tidied up that piece of land on Stone Slope last year, right? How neat and detailed it was. I saw his good work, and people in the village saw it too. There will be quite a few people opening up wasteland and mountains to plant vegetables and beans next year! If I don't act early, I don't know what number I'll be in line."

This familiar high efficiency.

Song Tan blinked, and couldn't help but be curious again: "My Uncle Mao Zhu's family seems to also..."

Haha!

Aunt Zhang Hong became proud: "The two of them are as slow as anything. Just yesterday, Zhou Shunshui told me that on Master Xiao Sun's book, the Zhou Maozhu family is already ranked in the teens."

How many people in their village are tidying up land in total!

Song Tan was also speechless.

It's a good thing she reminded them, but Li Lanhua said she would go home and discuss it, and this discussion went to the very end.

It can be seen that some people are just a bit lacking in luck with money.

Isn't that so!

Li Lanhua was also sulking at home.

Song Tan reminded her to plan early, but when she told her family, Zhou Maozhu hesitated and said: Is there a higher harvest planting vegetables on the mountain?

Zhou Tianyu said that planting soybeans indeed cannot maximize economic benefits; it's better to plant more vegetables.

Plant vegetables, plant vegetables, plant vegetables!

Li Lanhua finally got angry: "You two just flap your upper and lower lips, you sure know how to arrange things!"

"Tianyu, you haven't even packed your luggage to come back, aren't you still planning to continue working in Beicheng? It's just me and your dad at home. He's busy stir-frying tea for most of the year. Who's going to give me a hand?"

There are many types of vegetables—planting this today, planting that tomorrow, fertilizing this today, weeding that tomorrow.

"That hillside is such a large slope, I can't even finish weeding, and you want to plant more types of vegetables..."

Don't even think about it; they have this plan, and other families also have plans to expand production!

When summer comes, cowpeas, chili peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, etc., will all be harvested together. Why would people specifically come to the hillside to buy from her?

Vegetables emphasize freshness.

If they can't be sold in a day, they won't be fresh, and these things aren't durable. Who will help deal with them?

The more she thought about it, the more sulky she felt. Li Lanhua's eyes turned red instantly: "My luck with money in this life has been dragged down by you."

Once this was said, the father and son of the Zhou family didn't say a word.

After a while, they heard Zhou Tianyu persuade:

"Mom, don't worry. Aren't we discussing it at home? This, this hasn't even been planted yet, why are you crying first? If you can't handle planting vegetables, then plant beans."

Mentioning beans, this was another sad thing.

Li Lanhua was really about to shed tears: "I've asked, 17 households in our village have made appointments with Master Xiao Sun. By the time it's our family's turn, I don't know how far behind others we'll be."

Zhou Tianyu remembered that Sun Ziqiang was the one who married Tian Tian, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

"There are so many people driving excavators, does it have to be him? Finding someone else is fine too, Mom. If you can't find one, I'll ask my friends."

"What do you know?"

Li Lanhua refused flatly:

"I don't know about other excavator masters, but Master Xiao Sun has been working for the old Song family for so long. He knows exactly how the land on that mountain is tidied up."

Plus, he is diligent and detailed. Just that piece of land on Stone Slope—he piled up the big and small stones neatly on the side of the road.

If you change to another master, they are rigid and inflexible; would they be willing to do this?

Don't even think about it; there are plenty of excavator masters who can't get work now. Why is their village willing to wait in line for Sun Ziqiang?

It's really because everyone sees how he works.

Zhou Tianyu was even more awkward.

"But it's only August now, and we can't plant beans now. Isn't that a matter for next year? Why do we have to be in such a hurry these two days?"

Li Lanhua glanced at her son, not wanting to talk to him at all.

It's a good thing he also grew up in the countryside. If he hasn't eaten pork, hasn't he seen a pig run?

Who digs a hole and buries some soil before planting?

The soil slope on the mountain must be cleared of wasteland, deep-dug and shallow-dug, and ridges must be raised; otherwise, after a heavy rain, the mud and water will flow down with a crash—wouldn't that be a waste of effort?

The old Song family even specifically called Sister Yanran and the others to hold a meeting to talk about how to tidy up wasteland, maintain soil, and strive to plant high-quality crops.

It was said above that if the soil quality of the hillside is not good, they have to add decomposed fertilizer and bury base fertilizer inside.

If there is enough time, they have to hurry to plant another crop of Chinese milk vetch or something to fertilize the land in winter.

Although soybeans themselves fertilize the land, who would think the land is too fertile?

With all these things, they are just a couple; if they don't plan ahead, how long will it take to finish?

?? Here! My mom is coming to stay for a few days. The kitchen is very hot in summer, but my kitchen has no place to install air conditioning or window units. Does anyone have any good, economical, and practical cooling machines to recommend to me?

? I searched online, and there were many advertisements, and I was dazzled. ===== CHAPTER 1843 =====