Escape: I rely on the food exchange system to survive to the extreme

Chapter 120 It’s better to work honestly...

"Huh? Picking tea?"

After dinner, Mei Qian heard her grandma announce the timing of her new job, and secretly sighed in her heart.

She knew that there was definitely something wrong with her mother's sudden enthusiasm for Mr. Tao. Did they talk about a new relationship later?

Mei Qian couldn't help but think in her heart, even if Mrs. Tao shouldn't be angered by what happened with Mei Shitou last time, wouldn't she be worried if she learned about new work from Mr. Tao in such a short period of time?
"Yes, it's right next to Peach Blossom Village, very close.

There is a tea garden over there, and every year before the Qingming Festival, the steward of the tea garden hires some farmers from the surrounding area to pick tea. "

The south is rich in tea. Although Yao Lin is not the main production area, there are many tea gardens in the tea mountains.

"But we are not very good at picking tea."

As soon as Jiang finished speaking, Mrs. Mei immediately added: "You can learn it, it's very simple~"

"How much do you earn from picking tea?"

Mrs. Mei's cheerful look made everyone else wonder how much money she made, so her mother couldn't wait to tell everyone about it?

Even Mei Qian's bean curd is not as urgent as she is now.

As a result, Mrs. Mei's answer was - five coins per basket.

According to the Tao Tea Garden, there are special tea-picking bamboo baskets, and it is possible to use only one bamboo basket for a full day.

However, the picked buds have to be inspected by the people in charge, and those who pass them off as good or slyly remove old leaves will be charged less.

This answer not only made Mei Qian feel disgusted, but also Han and the others felt that the money was really small.

One basket a day is more than enough, isn't it basically five bucks a day?
Mrs. Mei had a panoramic view of everyone's expressions and snorted dissatisfiedly in her nose, saying: "Isn't that too little? Last time we went to Qian'an Temple to work for so many days, didn't you only get ten yuan per person? Share it. After a day of hard work, I didn’t even have three bucks!

Not to mention the five bucks for this day, there is also a nest at noon, so you can have some fun! "

When Mrs. Mei brought up selling bean curds, Han scratched her head and wanted to refute, but she didn't know how to refute.

She always felt like something was wrong, but she couldn't put her finger on it.

But Mei Qian understood. Even when Mei Qian looked at her mother who was snickering and her father whose eyes were twitching, their family probably knew it.

She said that the money given to them was treated as wages, but in fact, wasn't the money earned by Douhua still used for food and drink for the family?

As a result, when Mrs. Mei said this, some people in the family really couldn't tell the difference, and their labor force instantly seemed worthless.

"It's a lot less than going to work on the dock for a day."

Mrs. Han murmured, and Mrs. Mei heard it clearly and said, "Yeah! Shitou made a lot of money, but something happened, and he paid a lot back afterwards!"

As soon as he said this, Han immediately fell silent, and Mei Shitou also scratched his head in embarrassment.

You're talking about yourself again.

Seeing that everyone was silent for a while, Mrs. Mei struck while the iron was hot and immediately slapped the table and said: "Okay, we will pack up tomorrow. Everyone except Yusheng and Shitou will go! Thirty money a day, plus six nests Nest~"

Mrs. Mei did what she said, and two days later the whole family went to Li Changshou's house. When Mrs. Tao saw Mrs. Mei, she almost lost her temper.

"This is..." Mrs. Tao looked at Mrs. Mei, with some hesitation on her face, "This... are all going?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Mrs. Mei looked at Mr. Tao and asked suspiciously, "Is it possible that there is a limit on the number of people in Zhuangzi?"

"Ah, that's not true." Mrs. Tao shook her head repeatedly, but she never thought there would be so many people in the Mei family.

Although he had a lot of family members, but they were either young, had gone to work as laborers, or tended the fields at home, so the only manpower he could spare was Tao himself.

If it hadn't been for what happened to Li Changshou this time, Mr. Tao might not have chosen to pick tea this year. But now that their family has lost some money, they have to make up for it from other places.

But among everyone, Mei Qian was probably the least motivated.

Picking tea is hard work that is visible to the naked eye. This is different from the farmhouse tea-picking project. If you want to really make this money, your eyes and hands must keep your eyes and hands away from the tea trees at all times.

Over time, even if green is a protective color, I can't stand it.

Not to mention that when it was hot at noon, at a glance, the short tea trees did not even provide a place to rest in the shade.

Tea picking is really hard work!
Sure enough, just as Mei Qian expected, Mei Qian was wilting that afternoon.

Also wilting with her was Cui Er.

At the beginning, the two of them could still have fun and talk to each other. By the end, they didn't even have the energy to sigh. They stretched out their hands to pick the buds, and the results of the picking made everyone stunned. .

That evening, unlike Mrs. Mei's imagination of five yuan per person and thirty yuan per day for the family, her family ended up with twenty-four yuan.

After returning home, oh no, on the way home, Mei Qian and Cuier were despised and criticized by Mrs. Mei.

"You two can't fit into a basket together. Are your hands broken or something?"

Mrs. Mei was so angry when she found out about the situation, "The manager hates you two to death, and even told you not to come tomorrow. It's a waste of their nest!"

Mei Qian & Cui Er: Crying on the face, smiling on the inside.

What about such a good thing?
But the next second, Mei Qian heard her mother continue to say: "You two are like this, bring some dry food by yourself tomorrow.

You are so useless, so I begged the manager and let you continue to come tomorrow, but they said they wouldn't give you any food. "

Mei Qian:? ? ?
Then she fucks for two bucks a day?

"Well, milk, I can go to the mountains to collect herbs and sell them in the town." Cui Er immediately put forward her own suggestion when she thought of being exposed to the sun for a few more days.

"That won't work. It's dangerous in the mountains."

"It's on the side of the mountain. I won't go inside. There are some herbs on the outside."

"That's not possible. It's not safe this spring. When the stone is healed in a while, I can consider it if you two go together. You can just pick tea with us during this period."

Tweety: "..."

Not only could she refuse to pick tea, she even made her next plan.

Seeing Cui'er like this, Mei Berry suddenly felt that this matter was difficult. The only reason why she could not go tea picking was that she had to find something that was safe and made more money than tea picking, and it had to be something she could do at the moment.

It's just that she really couldn't remember it for a while.

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“Where is it safe to pick tea? You can still see snakes!”

On the second day of tea picking, Mei Qian was startled by several small non-venomous snakes one after another, and she couldn't help but say such a thing.

"At least I won't be involved in a lawsuit for no reason~"

Cui'er, who had resigned herself to her fate, sighed, walked to Mei Qian and whispered to her.

She and Shi Shi were still discussing this matter in the room last night.

"Nai was probably left a little shadowed by what happened to Brother Shi last time, so she wanted the family to do some honest work."

"Be honest and do your duty..." You can't make a fortune.

Mei Qian didn't say the second half of the sentence, but as Cui'er said, she probably wanted to be safe recently.

Thinking of this, Mei Qian took a deep breath and walked towards another tea mountain, while talking to Cui'er not far behind her: "A tea garden like this, in fact, if there really is something..."

She was talking about the smile she had shared with Cui'er just now and wanted to joke about some dangerous events that she had seen happen in the tea garden before, but she saw the blood stains that had not yet dried under the tea tree not far away...

Mei Qian: Killing chickens in the tea garden is exquisite!

Steward:? ? ?