Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 580 - Chapter 580 580. Irresistible Summer Vacation_1

Chapter 580: 580. Irresistible Summer Vacation_1 Chapter 580: 580. Irresistible Summer Vacation_1 The right candidate for the chef was something Seventh Uncle still had to ponder, while Qi Lin also hung up the phone with a bitter smile on his face.

“What’s up?” Tai Xiaodong, who had stayed for a few days and picked up the dialect rather quickly, asked curiously at this moment.

“Nothing much,” Qi Lin said helplessly, “A fellow from my hometown called, wanting to buy dried fish and shrimp…”

Qi Lin said they weren’t for sale, but the person on the other end didn’t believe it and insisted on getting a price.

Qi Lin: …

In the end, he found a video of people buying fish, bustling and chaotic. The footage was just taken haphazardly, but in any case, the price shouted amidst the din was a desperate… 40 yuan per catty.

On the other end of the line, the owner of the small shop in Tugou Village also fell silent.

Like, how can people from outside be so rich? Fish selling at 40 yuan per catty and they’re scrambling for it like this! In their water-scarce area, local fish never sold at that price!

Linzi is really making something of himself!

He sighed, turning his head to see his wife humming a tune while stewing fish, about to heat oil in the pan for frying shrimp…

Suddenly, he felt guilty.

…

On this side, Song Tan was discussing holidays with Zhang Yanping: “You haven’t had a proper day off since March; once the tea egg is on the shelf tomorrow, you’ll all take a month off.”

She figured: What’s left to do every day but preparing the tea egg marinade, clearing the mountains, and honestly, the fields don’t need much looking after.

Wait till the mountain clearing is over in September, before starting to build houses and prepare for planting… It would be just right to come back then!

And Qiaoqiao, though not having long class hours each day, certainly deserves a summer break…

The most important thing was that she had dragged Zhang Yanping back for a few months, not letting him go home once (even though he didn’t want to return), Auntie must be grumbling in her heart!

As for Wu Lei…

He was purely a bonus, so to speak.

But the bonus Wu Lei had no clue, he only knew he was performing well, and Tantan had specially approved for him to go home to coax his parents and to woo Lili…

It has to be the cousin who has his best interests at heart!

But for Zhang Yanping, it was like a bolt from the blue!

“Can’t we just not have the vacation?”

He had just escaped the awful food outside, hadn’t enjoyed two proper meals, and now he had to take a holiday and go home! Going home meant not only missing out on good food but even facing the prospect of taking civil service exams!!!

No, no, absolutely not!

Song Tan also felt a little guilty–when Brother Yanping arrived, he was a plump, fair man, strolling through the market to everyone’s delight.

Now, tall, sturdy, and tanned, frowning as he was, he didn’t betray a worried look but rather a ferocious demeanor!

To send him back to Auntie like this… ah, this…

Song Tan felt guilty too, and now stammering said: “Well… Brother Yanping, you’ve been here for so long and haven’t gone back even once, Auntie has been calling my mom more and more frequently… maybe you should still go back for a visit…”

Zhang Yanping was even more aggrieved: “I’m afraid if I go back, my mom will sign me up for civil service prep classes!”

And rightly so, although Brother Yanping might be terrible at physical labor, he had managed the online store without a hitch. A talent like this, taking civil service exams is surely a waste, right?

And with his look… where does he resemble a clean and impartial civil servant? He’s the spitting image of a gangster with a guardian dragon on the left and a white tiger on the right!

On the other hand, Xin Jun wept as well, truly not wanting to return.

Here, life was like home to him. His job was easy and fun, he hardly ever worked overtime, and he had regular meals and an appropriate amount of exercise… His health had improved tremendously!

Moreover, with a salary of 5,000 a month, he could hardly spend it all–the most significant expense was buying Ultraman toys for the student Qiaoqiao…

Every so often, Song Tan would share some good stuff with him, which he could also send back home as holiday gifts.

Having worked from March until now, in four months, he had saved up sixteen thousand, truly an unprecedented feat.

Not to mention the food–it was simply delicious!

Going home? Well,

He would have to stay up late at the agritourism without pay, and he would only get money from his parents as charity.

He’d run around serving tables and buying groceries, worn out like a dog–no, that’s not right! Even Song Sancheng’s pets lived better than him!

With all this in mind, who would want to go home?

When his mother called, he even lied that he had a job, teaching no less! And he wasn’t even a regular staff member yet!

With this in mind, his mother started to think that being a teacher was good; not being regularized was normal, after all, she had heard it usually takes a year. So, she quietly dropped the subject.

Now it’s the holidays, truly the summer break… but he didn’t want to go back at all!

Only Wu Lei packed his bags with joy–though there wasn’t much to pack, just a few clothes (his old work clothes were provided by Song Sancheng), and he even brought some tea leaves, fish, and shrimp back for his parents!

Tantan had said that this was all deducted from his salary, and he should take it home to please his parents. Ah, he never thought about these details!

Last time he bought peaches with his salary, his mother was pleased for a long time! Even the topic of housing faced less resistance.

The only problem was–with a salary of three thousand a month, he had worked for two months and only had 800 in hand. After some expenses… cough, he had only 186 left now.

Next month is Qixi festival, and he’ll be on summer vacation with just over a hundred in his pocket… What gift should he buy for Lili?

Might as well use that hundred to buy a regular train ticket, then take the subway to see Lili! After months apart, going to her personally to ask for forgiveness, explaining his hard work, showing her his suntanned skin and calluses from laboring…

She would surely be moved!

…

The three of them had holidays, and with two looking so dismal, the likes of Tai Xiaodong and others felt a shared sense of gloom, instinctively turning their gazes towards Professor Song:

“Teacher, we’re creating an affordable agricultural project for impoverished mountainous regions, we need to see it through to the end, right?”

“Exactly, it’s still barren land here! Some of the crops we’ve recommended may not even survive the winter smoothly; we need to keep track of their progress, right?”

“Song Tan’s village has limited potential for development. It’s not easy for her family to have the formulas and projects to gradually drive the local economy… Teacher, they’re just ordinary families pouring their life savings into farming. Anyway, we are working the fields here, and it’s far more complex than at the experimental plots.”

Professor Song pondered for a while: “Agricultural projects depend on human efforts as well as on the weather, and there are too many uncontrollable factors… A message from the experimental station at the border a few days ago said that this year’s hail completely wiped out the local apricot harvest…”

“If that’s the case, let’s stay for a while longer and provide more support!”

“The ordinary farmers don’t have access to resources. If you have come across any superior varieties, you can also help us test them out.”

“In fact, I’ve been pondering over the matter of grafting mature apple trees these past few days, and I’ve made some progress. In a couple of days, I’ll ask someone to confirm, then we can discuss planning with Song Tan.”

“As for Cardamom, Tai Xiaodong, I remember you stayed at the Yunnan-Guizhou experimental station. Could you inquire locally if there are any varieties that are exceptional in cold and heat resistance? Now that it’s summer, we could try planting a few different kinds here.”

Well, that’s why Professor Song is the teacher, isn’t it!

Yan Ran and the others exchanged glances, and at this moment they could not help but chuckle.