Returning to the village to farm starts with activating the spiritual veins.

Chapter 18 Preparing Gifts

"I'll leave the accommodation and meal expenses to you. However, I have limited energy and can only host guests in March, April, September, or October."

After typing a few lines, Sun Ran pressed the send button and sent it.

After talking about selling tea, he chatted with a few silly roommates in the group chat.

After graduation, everyone went their separate ways. Some went home, some looked for jobs, and some were busy preparing for postgraduate and civil service exams, burying themselves in the library.

It seems like only a little over a month has passed since we took graduation photos and had our farewell dinner.

Although it's not as long as summer vacation, it feels different from before.

Now that everyone has graduated and entered the workforce, it seems like the distance between us has grown even greater...

As a result, during the chat, for some reason, a few silly guys started clamoring to come over to his house to play.

So he readily replied to the message.

Silly Number One: Why do these months look so familiar to me?

Silly Number Five: Second Brother, your abacus beads have already hit my face!

Sand Sculpture No. 6: Is there a problem? Isn't October the National Day holiday when everyone is free?

Silly Sculpture No. 4: Nonsense! One is for planting in the spring, and the other is for harvesting in the autumn. Isn't this just making us do hard labor?

Silly Number Three: Holy crap, I was just about to call my girlfriend, thank goodness I didn't have time to press the call button.

Silly Number One: Huh? When did you get a girlfriend, Third Brother? Why didn't we know?

Silly Number Four: Same question +1!

Silly No. 5: Same question +10086!

Silly Number Three: Damn it, I have dual SIM cards, can't I call my right hand with my left hand?

drip~

Just as Sun Ran was happily watching these idiots bickering, his phone rang again.

He closed the group chat and switched to the main interface, where a familiar profile picture had a red dot lit up.

Raise your hand and tap to open the chat window.

Big Fat:

"Seriously, what era are we living in? Why are you starting a micro-business?"

"Is it hard to find a job these days?"

"How about you come work for me first? The pay might not be high, but consider it a temporary job?"

Looking at the series of messages in the chat window, Sun Ran felt a warmth in her heart.

Da Pang's real name is Wang Jun, and his family used to be from the village.

However, unlike his family, Wang Jun's father was quick-witted and did well in business. He made money and moved to the city more than ten years ago.

He's from a wealthy family.

However, they didn't pick up any bad habits. The two of them were best friends since childhood, and they never lost contact with each other.

When he went to study in the city for high school, he often visited other people's homes. During winter and summer vacations, when Da Pang returned to the village, the two of them would play together a lot, going up and down the mountain and down the river.

It was only after he went to university that the two of them met less and less.

I never expected that after so long, she would still be thinking about him so much.

"It's not really a micro-business. I just collected some wild honey from the mountains and found that it's great for making tea, especially for helping with sleep, so I wanted to see if there was a market for it."

Sun Ran held his phone for a moment, typed in a message, and sent it. Soon after, a reply appeared in the chat window.

Big Fatty: Oh, okay, I'll transfer the money to you.

Sun Ran was speechless when she saw his reply.

Goodness, they don't ask anything else but how much it costs right away. Is this how simple and unpretentious the lives of the rich are?

"Let's not talk about money yet. Take it and try it out to see how it goes. Also, please give me some advice on what price would be reasonable for this tea in the future."

He replied with a single sentence.

Calming tea can only be produced in small batches now, and pricing is the most troublesome issue.

He wouldn't be willing to set the price too low, but he didn't know if it would sell if he set it too high.

Since Wang Jun's family situation happens to fall into the target customer group, listening to his opinion should be of reference value.

"When are you free? I can bring the stuff over and let you try it in person."

After thinking for a while, Sun Ran added another sentence.

The reply came quickly as usual; Wang Jun's reply came just seconds after he sent his message.

They happen to be free for the next two or three days, but will be busy again soon, so it's best to make the time to meet up.

Seeing this, Sun Ran quickly called his uncle, Sun Bolang.

It's about 50 kilometers from the village to the city.

If you take the bus, it will be at least ten kilometers longer, and the time spent changing buses, waiting for passengers, getting on and off will take at least four or five hours.

Taking a ride-hailing service is quite expensive, and while it's fine going there, the area is remote, so drivers might not be willing to go back.

It would be more convenient to borrow a car from my uncle.

He got his driver's license right after graduating from high school, and he had also driven around a few times during winter and summer vacations, so he didn't have any problems driving.

I asked my uncle, and he said he still needed the car today to buy fertilizer and pesticides, so I had to schedule it for tomorrow.

Once both sides agreed on the car loan, and a time was set with Wang Jun, the matter was settled.

Sun Ran turned off her phone, stood up, stretched, and turned to walk towards the kitchen.

I'll just repackage the honey fruit tea and other snacks now, and send them to my silly roommates when I drive past the town's courier station tomorrow.

He took out several disposable cups with lids, which he ordered online the day before yesterday after he thought of selling tea.

However, the deliverymen don't come up the mountain from his home, so he has to go down the mountain to the delivery station to pick up the package himself.

First, put in the dried fruit tea leaves such as lemon slices.

Then pour in some honey and shake well. That completes the preparation of one batch of calming tea ingredients.

Although the packaging was a bit simple and the sticky texture made it look rather unappetizing.

But since it's just for my own people to try out, as long as the tea can be brewed and it doesn't affect the taste, it's fine.

If there's a market for it, he plans to get a plastic sealing machine so he can package the honey into small packets similar to instant noodle seasoning packets.

Fortunately, honey doesn't spoil, and fruit tea and dried fruit are similar, so I don't have to worry about them spoiling when they're delivered by courier.

He hadn't harvested much honey these past few days, and he needed to save some for his family, so he prepared three portions for each person.

Then I found another glass jar and filled it with ordinary wild honey.

It weighs about one pound, and at market prices it would cost around a hundred yuan.

I also found some dried bamboo shoots, rice noodles, cured meat, pickled vegetables and other things at home, and packed them all together.

I'll send some to those idiots too, and I'll definitely bring some gifts when I visit my childhood friend tomorrow.

After all, it's been a long time since we last met, so it would be too impolite to show up empty-handed.

Well, we'll have to catch one of the little hens and bring it with us too.

As for whether people will find these old-fashioned things disgusting.

In any case, based on his understanding, that was absolutely impossible.

When he visited Wang Jun's parents back in high school, he brought similar things, and they never seemed to mind.

On the contrary, she would always be beaming with joy whenever she saw him, and would keep thanking him.

That wouldn't be an act.

After finishing the preparations for giving gifts, Sun Ran didn't have any free time.

After having some free time, he started checking the farm tools at home.

The rice transplanting is now finished, but we still need to fertilize the field again in a couple of days, and we also need to weed and spray pesticides if there are insects in the field.

All tools must be checked beforehand.

Then, when there's nothing else to do, I'll go check on my own vegetable garden.

Loosen the soil where needed, and water and fertilize where necessary.

While working, I casually picked a tender cucumber. It was homegrown and hadn't been sprayed with pesticides. I just wiped it on my clothes and popped it into my mouth to eat.

They're so fresh and crisp, they taste much better than the ones you buy at the market.

Yes, the vegetables in the field are growing well too.

There aren't enough people in my family to eat all of it, so I'll just bring some over to Wang Jun tomorrow too...