Chapter 308: End of May

A series of dog barks rang out from the back mountain, and Zhang Yanping and Sun Shouping scrambled down the mountain in a sorry state, quickly disappearing.

The person in charge at the construction site nearby instantly pricked up his ears: "What's wrong? Did something happen on the back mountain?"

He became sharp—if something happened on the back mountain and he was the first to discover it, and then lent a hand, would he be able to go to their house for two more meals later?

He blamed himself for being too shallow before; he shouldn't have said the excavator guy was a foodie! If he had known it was this delicious...

His tears were already flowing from the corners of his mouth.

The person in charge stood up, looking at the back mountain eagerly, while a worker resting nearby looked at him and laughed: "There's such a big dog on the mountain, it'll press you into the ground with one paw, don't go join the fun."

Person in charge: ……

He sat back down dejectedly.

Not long after, he saw the big, big dog guarding the back mountain rushing down, like a wild boar charging, running all the way to Song Youde's house, opening its mouth to complain:

"Woof woof woof woof woo..."

"What's wrong?"

Song Tan quickly came out to look and saw Dawang standing in the courtyard, aggrieved, its little bib on its neck already crooked, with two strands of floral cloth hanging down from the side, looking both rustic and sloppy.

"What happened?"

Wang Lifen followed her out, and as soon as she saw Dawang's appearance, she laughed: "Who untied our Dawang's bib?"

"Woo..."

Dawang walked up to her, rubbed its big head against Wang Lifen's ear, making the old lady's heart melt, and she quickly patted it:

"Come, sit down, I'll tie it for you again."

Saying sit, Dawang actually knew it was tall and sturdy, so it skillfully lay down.

At this height, Wang Lifen could sit on a stool and tie the bib for it perfectly.

The two cloth strips at the back of the neck couldn't be tied simply; they had to be flattened, tied carefully like a trench coat belt, and pulled into a bow of the right length.

It also had to be close to the neck, otherwise, if it fluttered too much, it would easily get caught in the bushes. If the cloth strips hung too long, it would affect Dawang's eating...

Of course, being able to keep it so well was all thanks to Dawang's cautious movement on the mountain.

It was only then that Sun Shouping and Zhang Yanping returned as if nothing had happened.

Dawang got angry when it saw them, and let out a fierce woof, complaining about who the culprit was.

Sun Shouping "slid" behind Zhang Yanping: "It wasn't me! He was the one who untied the bib!"

Zhang Yanping:???

What a good brother.

Zhang Yanping looked at him and smiled fiercely: "Tan Tan, your Sun Ge wants a jin of our tea; buy a jin of tea and give him a jar of beef sauce."

"Sure."

Song Tan also smiled: "I wouldn't give it to anyone else, but Sun Ge came all this way, it's not easy, so I have to give it—by the way, 10,000 yuan a jin, did you tell him?"

"Sun Ge, we can't take card payments here, how are you paying?"

Sun Shouping: ……???

At dusk, Sun Shouping carried the tea, silver ear fungus, honey, and green chili beef sauce, holding the cucumber his good brother had gifted him in his arms. Taking a bite, he felt it wasn't a crisp cucumber, but his own impoverished heart.

……

Entering the end of May, cicadas chirped, rain became completely scarce, and the progress of the house changed day by day.

Zhao Fangyuan arrived early in the morning with her father's truck. Arriving at the building where the main frame had been completed, she carefully did the final inspection and measurement.

Of course, it was still a long way from completion; currently, only the main building had been covered, and other places were just frames.

And Zhao Fangyuan came this time, on one hand, to check the quality, and on the other, while the construction team was building the side rooms, she also had to hurry and get all the interior decoration, water, and electricity for the main house in place.

If they didn't do both at the same time, how could they let people move in with peace of mind in July?

Although the houses in the village were brighter and better ventilated than those in the city, and they all used environmentally friendly materials, how could they be at ease without airing them out a bit more?

But Song Tan wasn't worried at all; instead, she helped load vegetables for the vegetable vendor, Old Zhao.

Not seen for a while, Old Zhao looked increasingly spirited; those who knew him knew he was a vegetable seller, but those who didn't might think he was running an enterprise!

Song Tan looked at his money-making appearance and asked curiously: "How is it? It's much more comfortable to rent a small storefront to do business, right?"

Honestly, if it weren't for her parents' reluctance to leave their homeland, Song Tan would really want her parents to sell vegetables; not to mention anything else, they would be less busy and could get some rest.

Now... it would just have to be Old Zhao's gain!

"Comfortable is comfortable," Old Zhao sighed, half-truthfully: "It's just that your family's stuff is too scarce. Take these cucumbers, for example; you only give me two hundred at a time—good heavens, everyone who comes to the stall buys them to eat as fruit! It's not enough at all."

"And these chilies, there are so few, I sell them to people by the count. And these eggplants, I don't even want to talk about you, only 200 at a time—you just have to stick to this number, right?"

"Also, I saw you had cowpeas in the garden last time, why didn't you give me any cowpeas?"

How much money could cowpeas sell for? They were everywhere here in the summer, and they had eaten enough of them when they were little; they really weren't rare.

【To be honest, I've been using the source-switching app to catch up on books recently; the source-switching is great, the reading voices are many, and it works on both Android and Apple.】

Song Tan's mind was increasingly sharp: "I'm planning to make them into sour cowpeas and sell them online."

This way, it was convenient to raise the price and preserve them.

Anyway, their permit had already been issued, and the green chili beef sauce was selling like hotcakes every day. Everyone left comments in the review section saying it was expensive, but they still kept buying it while gasping for air—it was truly mouth-watering!

Old Zhao: ……

So, was their sworn brotherhood going to disappear?

He walked around the courtyard twice, then said unwillingly: "You should at least expand the scale next year; with just this little bit of stuff, it's not even enough to sell in the city. And you're still putting it online..."

Song Tan thought: She originally did it mainly for her family to eat; making money was secondary.

Besides, back then she had just leased the mountain and still owed the village money; how could she have the ability to expand the scale?

But next year was uncertain.

But she didn't say anything definitive: "We'll see next year; anyway, you won't be left out."

With her words, Old Zhao felt relieved. He threw his daughter aside, stuffed two chili sauce meat buns into his arms, and quickly drove back to the city.

On the other side, Zhao Fangyuan held a bowl of porridge in one hand and a big bun in the other, eating and sniffing, spicy and satisfying.

She had already eaten three; unlike her dad, who ate three and still had to stuff two more, humph! There wasn't even enough for her to eat in the pot!

By 6:00, when the sky was already bright, the village gradually began to ring with noise.

Seventh Great-Uncle looked at the fresh beef delivered early in the morning and nodded with satisfaction.

Aunt Lianhua and her mother-in-law sat together, smiling as they put on thick gloves and masks for their increased wages, washing the green and red pointed peppers one by one, and then putting them into the large-capacity blender to the side.

The beef was also chopped into small pieces and put into another machine.

Accompanied by the buzzing of the two blenders, the entire courtyard slowly permeated with that pungent, spicy scent again. ===== CHAPTER 309 =====