Song Tan's Notes

Chapter 1335. Start picking tea

Compared to Liu Liu's ambition and determination to make money, the others who were joining in the fun seemed much calmer.

Especially the top guy, Nian Xu, who was carrying a basket and was shy: "I see that all the girls are picking tea. I am a grown man, so I feel a little embarrassed to be among them."

The stomach-cutting brother had a blank expression on his face: "Why, I'm not a man?"

  Not only him, but there were four other men beside him, all carrying baskets! They were all here to recuperate, so why did they have to be the backdrop?

Everyone stared at him, and Nian Xu fell silent: "The main thing is... life is pretty good here. I don't have any tea picking skills, and I still have to go out to earn money. I feel embarrassed..."

That's true, after all, they have never done this job before. The tea from Yunqiao Village has a light taste, and the spring tea is mainly tender Maojian - the tip of the leaf that has not yet unfolded on the stem. There are many fat people among them, and their fingers are short and fat. If they work hard in the field for a long time, they can't pull out many tea leaves...

That's so embarrassing.

Just as they were struggling, the self-study sister walked by them carrying a basket, looking down on them as she walked: "Why are you so hesitant? We are here to work, and the boss hasn't even found any problems with us, but you are the ones who are weaker than us."

"What? Are you all so unconfident at work? I understand that you haven't been promoted or had a pay rise for so many years, and your health has been ruined."

She is an extrovert and chats with people coming and going in the village in the cafeteria every day. Now her dialect accent becomes much more natural.

  Even sharper!

Sister Danran has been nursing for a while, and now her cheeks are plump and healthy, and she speaks with more energy than before: "Don't say that, you're here too."

The youngest and least experienced girl with round eyes laughed, "Why think so much? Just treat it as an alternative spring outing! If we pick too few, just think of it as working for the boss for half a day for free. If it's okay, then we can earn this extra money with peace of mind!"

"No overtime, no socializing, no superiors, as long as you are serious, it doesn't matter how much you pick. Where can you find such a good job?"

"Our company's cleaning lady earns 2500 yuan a month and still gets criticized!"

It’s so heartbreaking!

But it also makes sense.

As they were talking, everyone had already followed the main force to the tea mountain.

The tea mountain they came to was not the tea garden originally owned by the Song family, which was near the chestnut orchard, but the larger, abandoned tea mountain that originally belonged to old man Li's family. It had more than ten acres of old tea trees and more than a hundred acres of tea seedlings.

The tea seedlings are now growing vigorously, and some of them have been interplanted with early-maturing watermelons.

The old tea tree was carefully pruned after I took over last winter. After a winter of fertilization and cultivation, coupled with the suitable weather this spring, it has now grown layer upon layer of green and tender leaves.

If anyone in the village saw this, wouldn’t they say that the Song family is capable?

The vegetables are grown well and the tea leaves are also so healthy!

Today, Wulan is reminding novices: "We barely have enough staff to pick tea, so you can just come here for fun, as long as the tea you pick is up to standard." "Also, if you have no experience, it's best for each of you to pick a row and pick slowly. Because if you run around, the efficiency of the people behind you will be much slower when picking the tea trees you have picked."

"We need to pick off the tips of each tea tree as cleanly as possible. If we don't, they will grow into leaves later. The tea tree will think it has grown enough, and the buds it produces will be thin and light, making it difficult to pick later."

While talking, he asked them to look at the middle-aged ladies who had tied the baskets around their waists skillfully and were picking tea leaves quickly with one or both hands.

Wulan even shouted: "Don't take the leaves with you, or we won't give you such a good price."

This was half a joke and half a serious one. The aunties in the village naturally knew that the weight and efficiency of Maojian and bud leaves were naturally very different. Originally, everyone had some small calculations because of the high price of 50 yuan per catty, but now that Wulan had reminded them, they felt embarrassed.

In addition...

As for tea picking, it does not seem difficult at all to the villagers. Besides, it is not the hottest time of the year yet, so it cannot be said to be very hard.

And there are not only them in the fields in front of them, but also a group of young men and women - what if the quality of their Maojian harvest is too poor, there are so many employees here, and Wulan really doesn't hire them, wouldn't they be the ones who suffer the loss?

Everyone stared at the young man, and each of them was worried!

  The young people have no idea how much an experienced old farmer has in mind. They have seen and learned, and then they select the fruits row by row, tie the basket around their waist in a proper manner, carefully pick a handful of Maojian, take a photo and send it to their Moments!

Okay! Let’s get started!

Meanwhile, the experienced Wulan did not forget to make a big promise: "Practice more, and you will be able to pick more when you are more familiar with it. When you are leaving, I will give you half a day to pick tea leaves. I will fry all the tea leaves you pick as a souvenir."

  long time?!

Everyone quickly calculated in their minds - I heard that an experienced worker here can pick 4 catties a day, which is catties in half a day. They are new to this, so catty should be enough, right?

How much dry tea does one jin of Maojian produce? About 2.5 liang.

  Wow! ! !

Who wouldn't be tempted by this? Who doesn't know Qiao Qiao's tea? At the beginning, it was 1 yuan per kilogram, and later it was sold by gram, and you had to fight for it every day!

  And they can earn money, take care of their health, and get tea!

After saying this, the young master Nian Xu, who was a little uncomfortable at first, became energetic! Liu Liu's moves were even faster than lightning, and he was fully focused!

There is a rich young man among their colleagues. She often hears him say that he wants to pay a high price for tea. If she can get two or three taels of tea, she wonders if she can sell it to him directly?

Thinking about money and children, she became more excited!

But the lady from the same village in front laughed: "Oh, it's only for the young people, don't we have any?"

Wu Lan also laughed and said, "They are working overtime after finishing the night shift, and they come from all over the world, so just treat them as classmates of Qiao Qiao!"

"Why, you earn several times more than them, right? Are you envious of this?"

That's true.

  No one knows how much this tea is worth, but how can the expensive tea be as valuable as money? Moreover, every household has some tea, so what they need to do is to speed up the process and not let the young people catch up!

After all, I heard that these people are all from big cities coming here for vacation... Tsk, people in big cities really don't know how to enjoy life!

However, Maojian cannot be given to you, so Wulan added: "If it is still dry when we pick summer tea, I will let each of you pick for half a day, okay?"

Update 1. Update 2 later, late at night.