Song Tan's Notes

Someone else bought another basket.

The old man on the side of the road looked at the three remaining baskets and was also puzzled.

My brother in the village has difficulty walking, so I asked him to take him to the town to sell his goods. Now he is walking slowly towards the town with a bunch of baskets on his shoulder. How come he has almost sold all his goods before he even leaves?

I haven’t heard of a big fair in the town, so why are so many people driving here?

Before I could think about it, I saw another car stopped behind the previous one. The driver stared at the basket in front of him for a while in confusion. After asking the price, he decided to buy one too.

After thinking for a while, he quickly called out to the distant ditch: "Wu Lei, I'll look after the cattle and sheep for you. You ride your bike back home and ask your grandfather to bring some more baskets."

A skinny and strong young man in the ditch looked up and said, "Sold out so quickly? OK, my grandfather is practicing his craft at home. He has woven more than a hundred of these baskets."

The old man refused to admit defeat this year. What was wrong with being in a wheelchair? He wanted to learn a skill that could earn him 18,000 yuan a month! He had always woven baskets that were solid and sturdy, but he didn't know many tricks, so he lost in weaving straw mats.

This year I have to avenge myself from Tan Tan’s grandfather!

By then, I can earn ten or twenty thousand yuan by helping to weave straw mats in the summer. Oh my, that would be wonderful!

……

Thanks to the newly built roads and reliable navigation, although the mountain road is still winding, the flat and wide asphalt road is obviously much more comfortable to walk on than the mountain road.

By the time Secretary Xiao Zhu had leisurely finished his breakfast at Old Song's house, a strange car finally drove slowly into the village.

The reason why it is said to be an unfamiliar car is because the villagers have their own regional radars, and they know exactly who has a new car in the surrounding area. What's more, there are very few villages that can be connected to Yunqiao Village, so they don't even need to think too much.

The car followed the navigation and slowly stopped in the square in front of the store.

The people in the car got off the car hesitantly, and then looked around at the scenery: "This place looks okay, but I don't think it's as good as the photos on the Internet..."

"The guide says we have to go up the mountain, and at the foot of the mountain is just an ordinary wasteland - Hey, mom, look at this land! Outsiders, please scan the code!"

"There's another long notice here, but let me scan the code first."

Although the village looks deserted and not lively, there is a QR code there, and it seems that this place is not deserted at all.

The content of this QR code was put together by Party Secretary Xiao Zhu together with all the young people and cadres in the village. Now that the girl scanned the code first, a [Instructions for Visiting Yunqiao Village] popped up.

Wow!

It immediately felt like visiting a scenic spot! And it’s free!

The family gathered together, and before they started to take a closer look, the shop owner who had been impatiently holding back had already poked her head out:

"Are you here for tourism?"

Ah this.

The girl was a little hesitant. They were just driving around the city in their free time. Was it a tour or a picnic?

The father was quite talkative. He went to the store to buy a lighter and then asked, "Sister, what fun places are there in our area?"

The proprietress handed over the lighter with a smile: "Hey, if you want to ask anything, just ask directly. You don't have to buy anything specially. We don't have any fun places here. There are mountains and rivers. It's just more comfortable to stay here. It's not as prosperous as the city."

"But, follow this road all the way up the mountain, turn from the back mountain, and you will see all kinds of flowers blooming on the mountain of Old Song's farm. As long as you don't go into the garden, it's still very beautiful to watch from the outside." She remembered what Party Secretary Xiao Zhu had told her before, and now she added, "By the way, do you have a water cup? Remember to bring a big one, and then go to the canteen on the mountain to order lunch. If you order lunch, you can drink tea for free - but this is good tea that costs hundreds of thousands of yuan a pound, and it's limited to tourists during holidays!"

This elder sister!

The middle-aged man was at a loss for words. He just wanted to find out something about the mountains and rivers, but the more he talked, the more nonsense it became. Tea was even sold for hundreds of thousands per pound.

As for the water cup, as a middle-aged man, he never puts down the cup all year round, but his daughter only took a bottle of mineral water.

And lunch… I didn’t see any mention of farmhouses in the guide, so why is there a canteen in the village? A farmhouse canteen?

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw his daughter waving at him happily: "Dad, this village is quite interesting. Look at this guide, it says you can reserve lunch in the cafeteria, the holiday special is 30/person, you can eat as much rice as you want, and there is unlimited tea - hahaha, how funny!"

Because there are parentheses after "unlimited tea and water"——

(No thermos bottles, kettles or buckets are allowed to be taken away)

They came as a family of three, and a meal of 90 yuan was not expensive, but it was 30 yuan for a single person and it was a cafeteria meal, which felt a bit awkward. The thrifty mother shook her head and said, "There aren't many people here, maybe it's just made up on the Internet, let's go shopping first."

"If it doesn't work, don't we have food with us? Let's go to town and find a restaurant."

This is a fairly sound consideration.

The girl nodded, and the group swayed and prepared to go up the mountain. The girl looked down at the last line of notes again -

[The fresh vegetables from the local villagers' gardens are delicious and far superior to other vegetables in the market. You get what you pay for. If you think they are expensive, you don't have to buy them. Please don't get angry.]

Hey!

That's quite straightforward.

The three of them walked on the empty road, looking at the gradually desolate fields on both sides and the large tracts of wild grass in the middle. It was clearly a rural scene with nothing much to see, but somehow, the breeze seemed to carry the scent of green grass, making people feel particularly relaxed and happy.

"Wait a moment."

The lady boss of the small shop behind them greeted them: "Since you are here, do you want to pick wild vegetables? It's free, you can pick them in the wasteland for free. But don't step on the vegetables while you are digging them, otherwise you will lose a lot of money."

She held up a bunch of small shovels she had just bought in bulk: "The deposit is twenty dollars a shovel, and the rental is three dollars a day. If you buy it directly, it's ten dollars."

When asked this question, the girl snorted and said, "My mother and I don't know how to dig wild vegetables..."

However, the mother, who had always been frugal and managed the household, hesitated and grumbled: "Wild vegetables... Can we still dig up fresh shepherd's purse at this time? Now that we are here..."

Come here.

This magical sentence instantly defeated the father and daughter. The middle-aged man did not hesitate: "Give me two shovels - and two plastic bags?"

The proprietress smiled happily and pointed to another QR code next to her: "It doesn't matter if you can't recognize it, just scan this and identify it slowly. Once you pick them, they will be sorted out in the cafeteria, and someone will come to tell you which ones you can eat and which ones you can't."

"Pay attention to the disclaimer below. Make sure the people on the mountain have read it before you can eat it with confidence." (End of this chapter)