Chapter 764: Picking Vegetables at Night

At 11:30 at night, the alarm clock rang and Li Lanhua got up.

Her husband Zhou Maozhu went to help build the fermentation pond during the day, and at this moment, he was sleeping soundly and snoring like thunder, making Li Lanhua, whose sleep was not very good due to menopause, feel a burst of envy.

However, thinking that the couple could earn three or four hundred a day and save a meal, she couldn't help but feel full of passion again.

She had just left the courtyard when she saw Zhang Hong, who was going down the mountain, just arrived at the door: "I was just planning to call you."

Li Lanhua said happily: "I set an alarm—didn't you say you wouldn't come tonight?"

Eight or nine hours of work during the day, although it was only responsible for watching the machine and packing and boxing without haste, it wasn't tiring, but picking vegetables in the middle of the night wasn't that easy, right?

Zhang Hong sighed: "Sigh, I haven't been able to sleep well at night for the past two days, so I might as well come and do some work... I called Wu Lan at eleven o'clock, and she wasn't happy."

Li Lanhua laughed: "She was afraid you would be tired and dizzy and fall into the field."

Zhang Hong didn't care: "This is just spreading the time out. It's not tiring. Eight or nine hours during the day, four hours at night, but the food is good, and I live in my own house! I'd rather eat the food cooked by the chef."

"The family next door to me works in a factory doing packaging, 12 hours a day standing on the assembly line, the wage is 180, but they only give half an hour for queuing for meals... Is that earning money or earning life?"

Talking about the topic of working, the two couldn't help but discuss—should they strive for this formal worker position next year?

The wages of formal workers calculated carefully certainly wouldn't be as high as their daily income as temporary workers. But formal workers are stable, with three meals a day, and stable every month!

Zhang Hong thought for a while: "I still want to be a formal one. This temporary work is quite profitable when busy, but there's no work when not busy; it's not safe."

"Besides, I don't want to cook at home... I don't cook well, you know. It's quite troublesome to come back after a tiring day and have to cook."

The canteen on the mountain is different. They found out when they went to eat before that this Master Jiang does things in an orderly manner and loves cleanliness; the stove was wiped without a trace.

The oil and such used were the same as what they used at home, the taste was good, and there were many patterns...

With ready-made food, who would love to go home and cook by themselves?

She said this, and Li Lanhua hesitated—what should she do next year?

Just chatting and thinking like this, the two soon followed the bright streetlights to the hillside.

At the factory entrance, two transport trucks were already waiting there. Wu Lan stood in front of a stack of plastic white baskets and waved to them when she saw them coming:

"Are you really planning to work continuously? The amount of vegetables I need for the first day isn't large, so it should be fine."

Picking vegetables for three or four hours and getting eighty yuan, only a fool wouldn't do it! Zhang Hong and Li Lanhua said decisively:

"They all came... tell us what vegetables you want and how to pack them, we'll do it now!"

"That's fine!" They were straightforward, and Wu Lan was also straightforward:

"First tie this small stool to your body, it will be convenient to sit in the vegetable field later."

"Then take a basket here, and after taking it, go to the water spinach field in front and pick the tender ones row by row."

Saying this, this water spinach had only been planted for a month, so could it be old?

Zhang Hong said "hey," and without a word, learned Wu Lan's appearance and tied a stool to her waist, then carried an empty basket and went directly to the vegetable field.

That water spinach wasn't the old variety that crawls on the ground that they used to plant, but thin and straight like tender bamboo, about twenty or thirty centimeters high.

When the night light was turned on, the leaves and stems were as green and tender as green apples. With a light pinch of two fingers, a crisp "click" sound was made when it broke.

Zhang Hong and Li Lanhua were picking this kind of upright water spinach in the field for the first time. At first, they were a bit unfamiliar with picking two. But once they were familiar, their hands danced, and their movements were especially fast.

For a time, even though there were only two of them, they played an exceptionally rhythmic rhythm in this vegetable field.

And these water spinach picked down were uniform in size, neat in shape, green and tender, and were neatly coded in rectangular white plastic baskets...

Regardless of whether it was obsessive-compulsive disorder or not, seeing this state would instantly relax their eyebrows.

While working, the two chatted: "This kind of straight-stemmed water spinach looks cleaner and more beautiful than the ones that crawl on the ground... I don't know if they keep seeds this year. If they do, I'll plant some next year."

"That's right, I went to the city and saw that the ones sold in the supermarket are also this kind... Look at the seed shop next year, it looks tender, it should be delicious."

The stool height was suitable, and the two didn't feel tired when they started working, and even had the energy to look at the surrounding vegetable fields—

Amazing! Just this water spinach field must be five or six mu.

The rare thing is that the growth has differences, and there are fresh ones to pick every day. No wonder the work of sowing seeds wasn't heavy, but it was dragged for many days.

And water spinach can grow; one mu of land can harvest two thousand jin. After picking one crop, it can pick another crop in half a month...

Thinking of the endless work in the coming days, Li Lanhua and Zhang Hong were also full of passion.

And after their water spinach was picked, others in the village also came one after another. But clearly, the division of labor was different. Some were picking amaranth—red amaranth swaying its tender branches in the night wind, clearly also delicious.

The green and fluffy garland chrysanthemum looked like it made people want to grab a handful, and then chop it with a knife, mix it with flour paste, and steam it in a pot; it nourishes the heart and brain and doesn't make you fat!

The key is that the taste is delicious!

Further away, there were people cutting chives...

The new chives in October are not the ones that were old in June; the leaves are thick and wide, and you can grab a large handful with one hand, and the sickle cuts them at the root...

Oh my! Whether it's dumplings or stir-fried eggs, it's kidney-tonifying and delicious!

And in the field on the edge, there were people burying their heads and pulling onions and garlic!

Round multi-petal garlic, purple single-head small garlic, tender and uniquely fragrant garlic sprouts, and local red-headed small green onions with green onion tubes...

I don't know why, as the work went on, the smile at the corner of the mouth became bigger and bigger. And afterwards, the sound of happy talking and laughing rang out all over the mountains and fields.

Clearly it was the middle of the night, but the mountain was brightly lit, and everyone was lively, even having the prosperity of the day.

Wu Lan pulled Song Sancheng to constantly move the full vegetable baskets over to weigh them, and then sent the empty baskets over. In the cool autumn wind in the middle of the night, she was forced to break into a hot sweat.

But the two drivers guarding the truck were puzzled:

"Where is there no vegetable picking? Why do we have to cross provinces and run so far? It's really tofu plate meat price! The monk from outside can chant scriptures." ===== CHAPTER 765 =====