Eating melons

Their beautiful fantasy was shattered the next day, but instead of being unhappy, they became even more excited.

The next morning, just as Wei Wei and Jiang Qi were about to make breakfast, Li Zhibin and Xiao Xuemu came to their door.

Wei Wei was stunned when she saw the two of them. "What's wrong with you? It's so early in the morning. What's going on?"

Two grown men coming to act as door gods so early in the morning, if they weren't familiar with each other, it would be scary, okay?

Xiao Xuemu: "I have something I want to discuss with you guys, it's about the private plot. Yu Xi told you about the situation yesterday, right?"

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi nodded. "I told you, what's the matter?"

Xiao Xuemu: "So you guys want to open up new land?"

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi nodded affirmatively, "Yes, of course."

Xiao Xuemu: "We thought that you two wouldn't be able to reclaim much wasteland, and Li Zhibin and I don't really want to farm, so how about we work together?

Li Zhibin and I will go with you to open up the wasteland. We will give you the land to plant when the time comes. You can just pick some vegetables for us to eat during the week. How about that?"

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi couldn't hide the excitement in their eyes when they heard this. What else? Of course it's great! What else do you want?

This was a huge advantage for them. Even if they were to clear the wasteland with just two people, they might not be able to open up much land. Just when they felt that the land was not enough for planting, this labor force was immediately delivered to their door.

As for the dishes they usually eat, they definitely can't eat much. You have to know that Xiao Xuemu probably has space.

As for why they want to open up the wasteland, it must be to hide their tracks, so they must not eat much vegetables on a normal day. Even if they eat a lot, it doesn’t matter, as long as they can help open up the wasteland and make money.

Wei Wei: "Okay, no problem. We just felt that there wasn't enough land to plant crops!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin were stunned.

Li Zhibin asked uncertainly, "Not enough to plant? Two mu of land isn't enough? Is it because the crops can't bloom?"

He couldn't think of any other reason except this one.

Although Wei Wei and Jiang Qi didn't understand why they were so shocked, they nodded. They really might not be able to open it.

Xiao Xuemu noticed something was wrong, "Do you know how big an acre of land is?"

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi shook their heads. "I don't know, maybe it's one-seventh the size of Aunt Liu's private plot!"

Li Zhibin and Xiao Xuemu didn't expect that the two of them didn't know how big an acre of land was.

Li Zhibin: "Who told you that this is the calculation?"

Jiang Qi: "No one told me! Even if it's not calculated that way, it shouldn't be much different!"

Xiao Xuemu sighed, "Aunt Liu's private plot has two mu of land. One mu of land is half the size of Aunt Liu's private plot."

Jiang Qi and Wei Wei paused after hearing this. "Two acres of land?"

Xiao Xuemu nodded.

Wei Wei: "That's not right! Aunt Liu's family of more than ten people only has two acres of land, and we each have one acre? That's not right! Is there such a good thing? Even if there is such a good thing, it shouldn't be the turn of outsiders like us!"

Xiao Xuemu: "That's because the land allocated to us is wasteland, and we need to reclaim it ourselves.

We have to work and reclaim wasteland. How much wasteland do you think we can reclaim? Even if we do, can we take care of it? Not to mention that we might leave at any time and return to the city, and then the reclaimed land will belong to the team."

After Xiao Xuemu said this, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi also reacted, "This captain is a talent! He knows how to make the best use of things."

Xiao Xuemu: "Captain, you're really capable. Let's make a deal, we'll work together next year!"

Wei Wei nodded, "No problem."

The four of them chatted for a while, and Wu Mei next to them also got up, so Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin went back.

As soon as Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin left, Wei Weiyan could no longer hide the excitement in her eyes.

Wei Wei: "Four mu of land! The two Aunt Lius have such large plots of land. Does that mean we can plant as much as we want?"

Jiang Qi nodded. "Yes, as long as we can open it. However, we can't manage such a wide field. If we only take care of our own plots and don't pay attention to the work, the people in the team will definitely not be happy."

Wei Wei didn't care, "It's okay, we can plant those vegetables that are easy to take care of, the kind that don't require much attention, and just plant a large area of ​​each.

For example, water spinach can be eaten as soon as it grows after being planted. As long as there is enough water, it can be eaten continuously without much care.

There is also wood ear vegetable, which is a wild vegetable. As long as it is planted and grows, it can be eaten forever and does not require any care.

The same goes for chives, and you can also grow a variety of peppers."

She didn't know anything else. These were all planted in pots on the balcony by her mother in her previous life, so she only knew a little about them.

They grow vegetables mainly to sell them. Since they want to be lazy and make money at the same time, they might as well grow those that are easy to grow. They are not growing them for eating anyway.

Jiang Qi nodded after hearing Wei Wei's words. "That's fine. We don't know how to grow vegetables anyway. If we plant more of each, we'll always have some left. As long as some of them survive, we won't lose money. We can still make some money."

Wei Wei calculated the growth cycle and price of these vegetables, and couldn't help laughing as she thought about it.

That night, the two of them discussed what vegetables to grow all night long, and they were still excited the next day.

The next day we will be harvesting radishes, green onions and other vegetables. They will all need to be shipped to the city, so we should collect them now.

Although the work was tiring, everyone's face was filled with joyful smiles, which was something Wei Wei and Jiang Qi could not understand.

Because in their eyes, even if there are so many vegetables, they can't be sold for a few hundred yuan, and these few hundred yuan have to be shared by the entire team.

They were so tired every day for such a small amount of money that they could hardly stand up straight, so this kind of joy was something they could not understand or empathize with.

But since they learned about the private plots, the two seemed to understand this joy a little.

The two of them usually cannot understand that kind of feeling because many of their fixed perceptions have not been changed.

If a few hundred dollars are shared among so many people, each family may only have a few dozen dollars at most. However, money is spent very carefully nowadays, and these few dozen dollars may not be spent in a year.

The two of them have been traveling through time for almost half a year, but they rarely go out to buy things.

Usually, we spend money to buy vegetables in the brigade, but a basket of vegetables in the brigade only costs a few cents, which is no different from not spending money.

But most of the time I buy them in the system mall, and the prices in the system mall are those of the 21st century.

Therefore, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi's cognitive habits towards money are still those of the 21st century.

Now let's do the math. If all these radishes and cabbages were sold to the system, they wouldn't feel tired even if they worked in the fields for three days and three nights. That's all money!

If they cultivate four acres of land, they can sell it to the system. They believe that even if they are tired, they will still have smiles on their faces.

However, even if they can understand this feeling, these radishes are now to be sold to the county town, not to the system, and have nothing to do with them.

I'm still tired and my back aches, so I still can't laugh.

The vegetable harvesting campaign lasted for five days. All the vegetables to be shipped to the city had been transported away, and the only ones left in the fields were left for the team's own people.

However, the team also distributed a lot of vegetables during these five days, most of which were not so good-looking.

Wei Wei sold all the cabbages that were shared by Jiang Qi. Even the cabbages that didn't look that good were sold for two yuan per pound.

I spent 400 to 500 yuan just on groceries in these five days. I feel less tired when I see the money.

The vegetables have been harvested and the grain has been dried. The next step is to pay the public grain tax, but this has nothing to do with this group of educated youth.

Now that I don’t have to work, it’s time to go dig wild vegetables.