The whole family travels through time and space, and the three of them struggle together

Chapter 115 Fruit Bag

In the morning, Zhou Sisi tidied herself up and went out to have breakfast.

Chen Xiuying nagging her: "Xu Wu has already left for morning exercises, and you're just getting up now."

Zhou Sisi was annoyed by her nagging and responded with, "Yeah! Got it! I'll get up early tomorrow."

Then, she felt something was wrong. Which part was it?

After thinking for a long time, she finally remembered what was different. Usually, her father would say a few words after her mother finished talking, but this morning, it seemed that he was not there!

"Where's my dad? He went to work so early in the morning?" Zhou Sisi wondered, my dad is more enthusiastic about going to work than me.

Chen Xiuying couldn't help laughing when she thought of what Zhou Dajiang had done last night. "Your father is still sleeping on the kang. He hasn't gotten up yet."

Zhou Sisi immediately protested, "I woke up late and you blame me, but isn't my dad awake too?"

"Your father is different from you. He just went to bed this morning." Chen Xiuying explained for her husband.

"Why did you go to bed this morning?" Zhou Sisi was puzzled.

When Chen Xiuying thought of what Lao Zhou learned from her, she couldn't help laughing again.

This made Zhou Sisi anxious, "Don't just sit there and have fun by yourself, share it with me!"

I couldn't hold back my laughter twice in a row. It must be that Dad made a fool of himself again.

Chen Xiuying stopped laughing then. Seeing this, Mrs. Yu hurried away, saying that she was going to wake up her grandson. Yu Quan had already taken his children to work in the mountains.

Chen Xiuying then said, "Your dad was showing off last night. After explaining how to make the pesticide sprayer, he started brainstorming with others. He ended up getting himself into trouble."

"What is brainstorming?" My mother had so many new words that she could hardly keep up.

“It’s about pooling ideas and turning one into two, two into three, and three into four.”

Zhou Sisi was still confused, "What's the matter? Why doesn't he sleep?"

Chen Xiuying: "He started talking about wheelbarrows with ancient people. After talking about wheelbarrows, he branched out and talked about baskets with wheels. After talking about baskets, he talked about small carts for buying vegetables. That's not all. He also talked about spray bottles for spraying pesticides, water pipes for drainage, and then from nozzles to shower heads, and then to showers.

You think they can let him go? I can't let him go either. I have to catch him and ask him. That's not all. They have a night shift. Several technical backbones on the night shift heard about this new thing as soon as they got to work. If the day shift knows about it, we night shifts have to keep up, otherwise, we won't be able to keep up with the pace of the factory! So your father told them again.

Zhou Sisi imagined his father being chased and questioned, and felt sympathy for him. "That's really pitiful for him."

"Yeah, I originally wanted to punish him by not letting him sleep on the kang at night. But in the end, I didn't need to punish him, he just tossed himself around and couldn't get on the kang!"

"Puchi!" Zhou Sisi spat out all the soup in her mouth, feeling sorry for her father for a second!

Zhou Dajiang had no idea that the mother and daughter were talking about him behind his back, so he slept until noon before getting up from the kang.

Seeing his wife bent over and cutting paper, he asked, "Did you go to see the doctor today for the medicine you tested yesterday? How is the effect?"

Chen Xiuying replied while cutting the paper: "I've seen it, it's very good. The tree we treated last night has no aphids left. I've written down the ratios. When you have time, find someone and go to the mountain with my senior brother to collect the herbs."

"Okay, what about the rubber? Have you heard from your senior brother?"

"Not this yet." Chen Xiuying still lowered her head, her hands moving non-stop.

Seeing his wife busy and noisy, not even looking at him when she spoke, Zhou Dajiang asked curiously, "What are you doing? You don't even look up when you talk to me."

Chen Xiuying then looked up at him and said, "I'm researching how to make paper bags."

"The paper bag you mentioned for 'bagging'?"

"Well, the aphids didn't expect this and caught us off guard. I figured we couldn't wait until the moment came. We had to do everything we could to prepare for it."

"Have you made it yet? These paper bags are made of white paper, so they're not cheap."

"Not yet. I've cut the paper, but I still need the wire. This is just a sample. I'll use straw paper when I actually make it."

“How much does it take?”

"The apple side hasn't bloomed yet, so we don't know yet. We have to see how much fruit is set."

Zhou Dajiang saw that his wife was still indifferent and guessed that she was probably depressed because she didn't punish him last night!

So he pulled his wife aside and started to talk nonsense, "Wife, I said something wrong yesterday, and you're still mad at me? Didn't I punish myself yesterday?"

Chen Xiuying looked at him with amusement. "Your trivial matters, I must be exhausted from arguing with you every day! I'm anxious to make peach bags, so I can prepare the peach trees first. They'll cost at least 20,000 or 30,000 yuan."

"Oh, that's a lot. This is only our first year, and those small trees won't bear fruit until next year."

"That's right!" It makes me happy just thinking about it.

Zhou Dajiang was happy about the good start, but felt sorry for his wife's hard work, so he suggested: "Why don't we go to the village to find other people to help, give them some wages, and finish the work faster."

Chen Xiuying rolled her eyes at him and said, "Do you think everyone else is as idle as you? Everyone is busy working in their own fields right now."

Zhou Dajiang: "It's okay. If the adults can't do it, don't we still have the elderly and children? As long as you're quick, you can at least earn a few cents a day. As long as you spread the word, there will be people who will do it for ten or fifteen cents!"

"Okay then, you arrange it."

"Okay, I'll go to the factory and buy some wire later. You can make the sample first, and I'll take care of the rest."

Before Chen Xiuying could even utter the word "OK", Zhou Dajiang hurried out.

Chen Xiuying looked at her husband's back and couldn't help but sigh in her heart: This man, when he's a dog, he's really a dog, making you hate him so much! When he's reliable, he's also really reliable, making sure he can do everything for you properly! He really feels sorry for her, so it's not in vain to be with him.

Zhou Dajiang came to the factory to buy wire and confirmed the progress of the sprayer and cart he mentioned yesterday. He felt relieved to know that trial production had been arranged.

From the drawing to the finished product, it would take at least four or five days, so he went to take care of other things first.

So, over the next few days, Zhou Dajiang first took Yu Quan and Yu Fuan to see Chen Xiuying's senior brother to identify the appearance of Sophora flavescens. Then, he took them and the two brothers Guo Long and Guo Hu to collect Sophora flavescens throughout the mountains. After two or three days, they finally gathered the required amount.

Chen Xiuying also prepared samples. Zhou Dajiang still used the old method and asked the head of the village, Zhang, to help promote it. The elderly and children in the village who had time could ask Chen Xiuying to learn how to make sticky fruit bags.

Moreover, once you have learned how to make the materials, you can take them home and get paid based on the quantity.

When the elderly, who were idle at home, heard that sticky fruit bags could make money, they were very interested and would gather a few acquaintances and go to Dajiang's house together. The children were even more excited. Not only were the sticky fruit bags fun, but they also offered money. No matter how much, at least they could put some money in their pockets.

Chen Xiuying was delighted to see everyone so enthusiastic. She didn't mind having more than enough, as there were still fruit trees to come. As long as the quality was up to par, the more the better.

Time always flies when one is busy. A day passed after Zhou Dajiang finished collecting herbs. Seeing that the samples from the factory were almost ready, but there was still no news from his eldest brother, he couldn't help but feel anxious. "Wife, how about you go and take another look?"