Chapter Seventeen: Provoking the Village People

  The old village chief blew his horn immediately! Issued a notice: Chu's family is hiring people to pick fruit, 50 yuan per person, working for one morning.

  The broadcast had just ended when eight people arrived, three men and five women.

  "Is this enough?" asked the old village chief.

  "Hmm! Hmm! That's enough, we should be able to finish picking in one morning. The people from Peng Ge's side have arrived, let's go over there first!" Chu Jiaqiang said.

  Among these eight people, Chu Jiaqiang recognized a few of them. Two women left a particularly deep impression on him. They were mother and daughter, the middle-aged woman looked not old at all, with fair skin and a plump figure that made many people secretly swallow their saliva. The woman lived in the west of the village and was a widow. Next to her stood a beautiful young woman around twenty years old who was said to have dropped out of school after finishing junior high due to family difficulties and stayed at home to help with work. This mother-daughter pair standing together looked just like two sisters.

  When they arrived at the back of Chu Jiaqiang's old house and saw the fruit trees laden with fruit, these people were all stunned.

  This time, Tang Paozi's people had arrived early and were moving in one package after another.

  "Alright, is everyone here? Let's get started then! Take down your items first, pack them up immediately, and weigh them." Tang Pangzi said succinctly.

  At this time, a man who was helping asked: "Don't you need to unpack?"

  Tang Pangzi waved his hand and said, "These boxes are all foam boxes, not heavy, Chu Laoxiong won't make much money from me." What kind of person is Tang Pangzi? Of course, he wouldn't mind these things. In fact, he also wanted to leave a good cooperative partner image for the Chu family, so that there would be opportunities for future cooperation.

  "How big are these peaches? How much per kilogram?" asked Widow Yang.

  "Peaches are about the same as other fruits here, all around 3 to 4 yuan per kilogram." Tang Baozi didn't hide it either. In fact, he was thinking of what Chu Jiaqiang said yesterday. The conditions here were really suitable for fruit growth. If everyone here could grow such high-quality fruits, they wouldn't have to be oppressed by the Chu family.

  Everyone present gasped, there are at least 3,000 to 4,000 kilograms of fruit here. Look at those fruit trees, they're all bent over as if they can't bear the weight. Even if we sell them for three yuan per kilogram, that's an income of around 10,000 yuan.

  This is a huge income in the Chu family village. To know, they generally cultivate twice a day, and the rice here is harvested twice a year, with an annual income of around 2,000 yuan, plus other income, it's only around 5,000 yuan a year. This is still under normal circumstances, if there are droughts or floods, there won't be this much.

  These people are already moved, thinking that this year may have to manage the fruit trees and try for a year.

  Seeing this scene, Chu Jiaqiang smiled slightly, this was exactly what he wanted.

  After three hours, all the fruits except for two large jujube trees were picked clean. At this time, the old village chief brought many villagers to come and visit.

  Second uncle helped to weigh the peaches, all at once. The most were over 1,800 catties, and they filled more than 20 boxes. Even the least was around 500 catties. Although Fatso's fingers were very thick and fat, they were very agile, and he tapped away on the calculator with a loud noise.

  "Alright, that's a total of 13,700. I'll round it up to 14,000 for you! Take care of me in the future, little brother. Hmm... Brother Chu, do you want to transfer the money or pay in cash?" Tang Baozi generously rounded up the number.

  This shocked all the onlookers again, three hundred is no small number! These people's hearts were racing with excitement.

  "Did you bring cash? Then let's use cash!" Chu Jiaqiang thought to himself, holding the cash and counting it out in front of everyone. It wasn't that he wanted to show off, but rather to further stimulate everyone's enthusiasm.

  As expected, many people stared blankly at the large stack of cash in Chu's hand, secretly swallowing their saliva.

  Chu's family carefully counted again and found that the amount was correct. He smiled: "Good!" And also paid the wages of the people who came to help today.

  The old village chief saw that his goal had been achieved and left leisurely.