Chapter 1000

Su Xinghui said, "Who says it isn't?"

Lu Xiaoya said, "But this kind of thing should also blame Shu Rong herself; she is too self-respecting."

Su Xinghui said, "This is probably that poor people must have hateful points. What is truly pitiful is her family and son."

Lu Xiaoya nodded. She is a kind girl. Thinking of that pair of poor old people and that poor child, she sighed.

Su Xinghui laughed, "Forget it, Xiaoya, let's not talk about these things. Let's watch this dragon lantern dance well."

Lu Xiaoya nodded. She calmed down and watched the dragon lantern dance again.

The two shopped on the street until nearly five o'clock in the afternoon before going home to eat. As soon as they got home, Guo Suhua was busy cooking. Lu Xiaoya hurriedly went into the kitchen to help. Guo Suhua wouldn't let her help. The two pushed back and forth for a while. Su Xinghui said, "Alright, you two go and rest. I'll cook. Xiaoya, you chat with my mom in the living room."

Su Xinghui pushed them both into the living room and started cooking himself. Lu Xiaoya accompanied Guo Suhua to talk. Guo Suhua was more than satisfied with this prospective daughter-in-law, Lu Xiaoya, and chatted with her happily.

Su Xinghui cooked quite nimbly. In less than half an hour, dinner was ready. Lu Xiaoya let Su Wenjun and Guo Suhua sit at the dining table, and she went to serve rice for both of them and handed it to them. Both of them smiled happily and said thank you. Who wouldn't like such a sensible prospective daughter-in-law?

Lu Xiaoya stayed at the Su family for two days. On the morning of the fifth day, she and Su Xinghui got into Zhang Kaishan's car and drove towards Jiangcheng.

On the way to Jiangcheng, Zhang Kaishan saw many small trucks loaded with vegetables driving towards Shangjun. He said to Su Xinghui, "The sales of vegetables in your Pengjiawanzhen this year are really good."

The small trucks popular in Shangjun County now are commonly known as "three-jumpers," which can generally carry more than a ton of goods. Carrying vegetables can carry at most one ton. However, this is quite suitable for vegetable vendors. Shangjun County is close to Pengjiawan, and the vegetable vendors here generally use this kind of "three-jumper" to carry vegetables.

Su Xinghui nodded and said, "The other day when I went to the street, I met a vegetable farmer from Pengjiawanzhen. He said that in the few days of the New Year, his family earned more than 1,000 yuan just by selling vegetables."

Compared to the per capita income in rural areas in 1995, earning more than 1,000 yuan in a few days is an incredible figure.

Zhang Kaishan was moved, "Really earned more than 1,000? That's really quite a lot."

Su Xinghui laughed, "His family planted several mu of greenhouse vegetables, all of which are off-season vegetables. In the few days of the New Year, it was raining and snowing, so the vegetable prices were already high, not to mention off-season vegetables. The vegetable prices were much higher than usual. This vegetable farmer didn't sell to vegetable vendors. He picked vegetables in the middle of the night every day and carried them to Shangjun County with his son to sell during the day. Naturally, his income was high."

Lu Xiaoya was shocked, "Pengjiawanzhen is 20 kilometers away from the county town. He carried them to the county town to sell with his son?"

Su Xinghui nodded and said, "Yes, coming directly to the county town to sell, the price is higher. For farmers, being able to sell a few more yuan is good, not to mention so much more? That day he was selling vegetables on the side of the road, and the urban management wanted to drive him away. I happened to run into it, so I led him to the side of the agricultural market, helped him find a temporary stall, let him set up a stall there, and chatted with him for a while."

Lu Xiaoya fell silent all of a sudden. Although she is not a girl who doesn't understand the hardships of the people, and she is very sensible and well-educated, such things still exceeded her imagination. Carrying a load of vegetables, walking dozens of kilometers every day to the county town to sell, this is too incredible.

Zhang Kaishan said, "There shouldn't be many vegetable farmers who do this, right?"

Su Xinghui laughed, "Not many. If there were many, then what would so many vegetable vendors rely on to eat? Then how could there be so many 'three-jumpers' running on this road? After all, not everyone can endure such hardship. In those few days, it rained and snowed every day."

Zhang Kaishan nodded and said, "This is good. If farmers all face the circulation field directly, that is not a good thing. It is better to have a division of labor. However, for vegetable vendors, we must strengthen management and not let them suppress vegetable prices too low, which will dampen the enthusiasm of vegetable farmers."

Su Xinghui said, "We will pay attention to this issue. Up to now, vegetable prices have been controlled quite well, and farmers are still relatively satisfied."

Zhang Kaishan said with satisfaction, "Well, the county is still very at ease with the work in your town."

In fact, what Zhang Kaishan wanted to say was that as long as it was the work in the place where Su Xinghui was, he was very at ease in his heart.

In less than an hour, the car drove to Qingyu Township. Zhang Kaishan asked the driver to drive in and stopped at the door of Yu Maode's house. Su Xinghui got out of the car, took out the gifts for his aunt and uncle from the trunk, and went in with Lu Xiaoya to pay a New Year's call to Yu Maode's family.