Apocalypse: My Sweetie Is Tough but Cute-Chapter 58 - 0: Insisting on Going Despite the Dangers Ahead
Chapter 58: Chapter 058: Insisting on Going Despite the Dangers Ahead
The villagers originally had dried vegetables and cured meat, and if some families didn’t have enough hands to go into the mountains, she could buy a little from them, while other families who could devote labor to harvesting wild vegetables in the mountains while working in the fields, she would purchase at preset prices.
Like this, Su Shu made an initial purchase agreement of one hundred thousand yuan with the villagers, which included seasonal wild vegetables, mountain produce, and labor costs for airing and drying goods by the villagers, among other things.
For amounts exceeding the agreement, she would also pay in cash, which is to say, as long as the villagers of Peng Village had the capacity to harvest, she would pay every penny.
Old Peng had done a great service for the villagers and felt very happy, urging his neighbors with a rare smile on his face.
“There’s money-making work now, everyone better be alert and work hard!”
“Haha, rest assured, old man, just watch!” the crowd roared with laughter.
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After much effort and finalizing the arrangements, Su Shu felt much lighter on her shoulders. The kids were playing together in a group, and the adults gathered in another, laughing and brimming with joy as they discussed where they might find which wild vegetables on the mountains the next day. In their happiness, they teased each other about whether their old arms and legs could still manage climbing, which was always met with playful retorts like “Psh, I still don’t know if you’re up to it, old-timer!”
Su Shu sat next to Old Peng on a stone bench in the courtyard of the village committee.
Suddenly, Su Shu remembered she had wanted to see if she could buy a couple of fruit trees for Xiao’ai, so she asked Old Peng about it.
“Grandpa Peng, I want to ask, does anyone in our village grow fruit trees?”
Old Peng said, “Fruit trees?”
“Yeah.”
“Sigh, we really don’t have those. Even if we did, they’d be very old ones planted by families a long time ago. Fruit trees are cash crops, they need to be sold when in season. You’ve seen our location, it’s not convenient to come and go, so people don’t grow them. Why, Xiaosu, are you thinking of buying fruits too?”
“Oh, it’s not that, my niece really loves fruits, so I was thinking about buying some from the villagers in the next couple of days.” Since there were no fruit trees, she didn’t say much more. The villagers’ own trees would at best yield one or two per household, how could she buy them?
Thinking it over, Old Peng suddenly shouted at a round-faced woman in the crowd: “Hey, the wife of the Second Virtue, didn’t your eldest lad go to Fairy Spring in the mountains a while ago?”
On the other side, the wife of the Second Virtue stopped laughing and turned around with a smile: “Yes, Old Peng, what’s the matter?”
“Are the orchards by Fairy Spring still there?”
“Yes! Still there, quite a few, my eldest said they’ve already set young fruits, might turn red in a few days. The young ones are always hanging around there, saying they’ll call us over to pick them when they’re red.”
Old Peng turned to Su Shu and said, “We have an orchard behind the mountains by Fairy Spring. It grows wild peaches. If you’re interested, I could have someone take you to see tomorrow?”
“Wild peaches? Are they sour?” Su Shu asked.
Normally wild peaches are sour and not very tasty, right?
“Haha, they are not sour. They might be a bit sour in other places, but those by the spring are not sour at all, they’re quite tasty,” he reassured her.
“Great, then I’ll go take a look tomorrow.”
In the evening, smoke rose from the chimneys, and the village was serene and peaceful under the rosy sunset.
Xiao’ai had been playing so hard, suddenly having so many enthusiastic playmates to introduce her to all sorts of new rural games, she was glowing with joy.
Su Shu just sat nearby, watching Xiao’ai’s happiness and waiting for the supposedly lively pig slaughter feast in the evening.
However, as the sun set and the afterglow vanished, and the darkening sky gradually enveloped the earth, the bonfire in the central square of the village remained unlit.
Sudden urgent footsteps came from behind, and out of curiosity Su Shu turned around, only to see a villager rush into the courtyard of the village committee.
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She stood up and blinked, hearing two sets of footsteps walking briskly outwards.
Old Peng’s expression was grave, “What’s going on? We told him not to go there when he left, why does he never listen? We old folks might as well talk to the wind. Once they get a bit of confidence, they think they can do what they want, but if they anger the mountain god, we’ll be the ones to suffer!”
