When the villagers had almost arrived, the village chief picked up the loudspeaker and talked about business:
"Yesterday, Mingkang's family received a busload of tourists. You have all seen and understood the general situation. What I want to say here is that our village plans to cooperate with the travel agency for a long time. The travel agency is responsible for attracting tourists, and we are responsible for receiving them. What is the content of the reception? What? Three steps: picking, eating, and strolling. Therefore, if each orchard wants to receive tourist groups, go to the village committee to sign up in the next two days and fill in the types of fruits and approximate maturity time of each orchard. It is best for travel agencies to do this in advance. Good arrangement…”
Before the village chief could finish speaking, there was a buzz of whispering below.
Some were eager to try and raised their hands on the spot to express their intention to participate;
Some frowned and sighed, worried that tourists would damage the orchard.
"This matter is not forced, it is all voluntary. If you are willing, come to the village committee to sign up. If you are not willing, forget it." The village chief added with a loudspeaker, "But let me make it clear first that after the list is finalized, it will not be changed for at least one year. . Don’t be jealous when people see how much they earn by hosting tourists. The opportunity has been given to you, but you don’t cherish it.”
As soon as these words came out, some people expressed their intention to sign up.
Qi Hongbing excitedly said to his parents: "Dad, Mom, let's sign up too. I see Uncle Mingkang raised his hand. His family just received a busload of tourists yesterday. If they don't make money, they will definitely not receive them again, but he raised his hand." Hands on."
Mother Qi was a little excited at first, but when she heard him mention Xu Mingkang, she calmed down immediately and thought to herself, wouldn't her son want to have anything to do with Mingkang's daughter by signing up and hosting the tour group?
no!
Cuihua said more than once that Xu Mingkang’s daughter was lazy and vain. She was not famous for her clothes, but she was a typical princess who was sick and died. With such a daughter-in-law, would the family still have peace in the future?
He immediately retorted: "We won't sign up! You may not know it when you just came back. Wangjing Village has also received tourist groups before. People in their village said that after the tourists left, the ground was in a mess and the orchards were ruined. Even the profit was still there." Not much wasted. Let’s learn a lesson and sell it to the acquirer in a down-to-earth manner. Why do we have to deal with all this trouble?”
No matter how Qi Hongbing tried to persuade him, Qi’s mother would not agree until she died.
The Xu Ming family also does not plan to sign up.
Mainly Wang Cuihua said: "The idea of picking up tourists was definitely the one that Xu Yin came up with. If others don't know about her virtues, how can our family not know about her? What good idea could she have? If it can make everyone earn Once she gets the money, she won't owe a lot of debt outside."
Her son asked curiously: "Mom, could it be that Shanshan made a mistake? Yin Yin doesn't look like she owes a debt outside."
Wang Cuihua looked determined: "I must owe it! Otherwise, why would she come back? She said before that she would not return to her hometown even if she died. She thought it was poor and backward and had nothing to offer."
“Then does Uncle Mingkang know that she owes money outside?”
"You definitely don't know. Why don't you die if you know it? Don't tell anyone else. It has nothing to do with our family anyway. If you tell me, you will make a fuss."
Wang Cuihua was so happy to watch the show that she didn’t bother to remind her cousins in the next room.
"So," she said confidently, "I suspect that girl has received money from the travel agency or commission, so why can't she be so active in connecting our village? So don't believe her, let her talk about it, we won't sign up Just don’t sign up!”
At this time, the village chief was already talking about the second notice - about the families who signed up to take the group, they must hand over 200 yuan to the village for each group pick-up, which will be used to maintain the environment of the village. When the money is enough, they can also build mountain roads and Build a pavilion or something.
"Look, before you make any money, you have to pay to the village." Wang Cuihua pouted, "It's done, and Xu Yin and the village will be the ones who get the advantage. Our family is determined not to sign up!"
In addition to her and the Qi family, there are four or five other households that have not signed up.
That’s a lot!
The village chief originally thought it would be good if half of them signed up, but he didn’t expect that there were 41 households.
There were so many households that signed up, and he didn’t have time to ask why they didn’t sign up. After he collected the list and the forms filled in by each family with the types of orchards and approximate picking seasons, he gave them to the young man from the village committee who knew how to use computers, and asked him to sort them out, input them into the computer, and send them to the travel agency.
Gu Chenyu is also very active when it comes to profitable business. After receiving the documents, he started planning a one-day picking trip to Xiangcheng.
The first group to come was the retired teachers group.
They went to the village chief’s big cherry orchard.
After two hours of picking, we will have a farm meal with fresh ingredients and original flavor at the village chief’s house. In the afternoon, we will enjoy the cool weather, take photos and chat by the valley stream.
At the end of a happy day, each person carried two baskets of large cherries for the children of each family. Some even went to Xu Yin’s cherry orchard to buy a few baskets of small cherries, and happily got on the tour bus back to Anshi.
As soon as the tour group left, the villagers rushed to the village chief’s cherry orchard to see if it had been ruined. They found that it was quite good. How could it be as scary as the people in Wangjing Village said?
“Village chief, your family receives very few tourist groups?”
“There are quite a few, 42 people came, and four tables were set up at noon. I heard from the tour guide that they are all retired teachers from the Normal College.”
The village chief has not yet recovered from the high profits calculated by his daughters-in-law. After speaking, he walked home lightly.
Others murmured in their hearts: Old teacher? No wonder the quality is so good. A different group of tourists would probably not have such good quality.
“Which company will pick up the tour next time?”
"It's my home." A villager responded excitedly, "My nectarines have matured in the past few days, and the travel agency has arranged for me to pick up the group the day after tomorrow."
“Is it also a group of retired teachers this time?”
“I don’t know. But I heard from the village chief that two cars are coming. One car is going to my peach orchard to pick peaches, and the other is going to Mingkang’s house to pick cherries.”
That’s right, Xu Yin’s family picked up another tour group. It was a spring outing organized by a junior high school class in Jiang County.
At this time of year, primary and secondary schools all over the country organize spring outings for students.
In previous years, we either went to parks, amusement parks, or visited museums. This year, in response to the Ministry of Education’s call to actively carry out student labor practices, all schools are discussing whether to take students to outdoor labor practices.
Jiang County No. 1 Middle School is no exception.
When I was facing the high school entrance examination in the third year of junior high school, I was not organized.
The class teachers of the first and second grades of junior high school met together to discuss whether it would be better to take the students to which big farm owner to harvest rice and wheat, or which vegetable field to fertilize and catch insects?
Teacher Xu, the head teacher of Class 18, is the daughter of a retired teacher who came to Xu Yin’s house to pick small cherries and also went to the village chief’s house to pick big cherries.
After graduating from normal school, she applied to teach at Jiang County No. 1 Middle School. She had heard from her parents about the orchard in Qianjin Village, Xiangcheng, and tasted the large and small cherries they brought back. She thought it would be good to organize students to experience picking labor.