Chen Qijue nodded and said, "Yes, I was so excited to come back last night."
Gu Yunyang smiled and said that those who didn't know the specifics might be overthinking things.
Chen Qijue said, "Yesterday, we brought a black goat with us. We rounded it down to 140 jin (70 catties), which is the price of a whole goat. We charged 6 mao (0.6 yuan) per jin. That's 84 yuan."
There are also five rabbits, each costing three yuan, so that's 15 yuan.
Two pheasants and two wild ducks were each supposed to cost three yuan, but I was given 12 yuan directly.
So yesterday I collected a total of 111 yuan.
That's a good number.
Gu Yunyang smiled; the price he had discussed with Xie Weijie was higher than this.
But that's the price based on net weight.
Yesterday, they gave the other party a whole sheep, along with a lot of offal, bones, and the sheep's head and tail, all of which had to be removed.
It's possible that some people prefer the lamb from these cuts, and there must be quite a few.
But the price will definitely drop a bit.
At six cents a pound, it's not bad.
Chen Qijue was somewhat excited: "Just this once, I went out for four days and brought back 111 yuan."
If we go out once a week, we'll earn over four hundred a month.
A year...
Seeing that Chen Qijue was about to do some math for them on the spot, Gu Yunyang quickly interrupted him: "Brother Chen, don't bother. We can't organize trips every week, and besides, we might not get this much every time we go out."
Chen Qijue was stopped and cooled down a bit, but he still insisted: "But, it's not necessarily impossible."
"Let's keep a calm mindset. We shouldn't focus our main efforts on this. Our sugar workshop is the real business going forward."
Gu Yunyang's reminder made Chen Qijue and Gu Hanping realize what was going on.
Gu Yunyang said, "The commune has approved our application to build a sugar-making workshop. In addition, we also need to hurry up and plant more sweet potatoes as soon as possible."
Gu Hanping nodded and continued, "That's true. Sugar production is quite profitable and relatively stable."
Sweet potatoes are not picky about the soil, so we can grow more of them.
Our Red Flag Brigade, to say nothing of anything else, is that there are a lot of mountains.
However, we have a question right now: should we plant sweet potatoes in all our vegetable gardens?
Also, if we plant fruit trees on the mountain, should we cut some of them down?
Chen Qijue said confidently, "Of course we need to. We have too many fruit trees around here. Besides, these fruits are not very useful. We can't eat them all, and we can't transport them out. Even if we could, we wouldn't be able to sell them."
That's just how it is; there's an abundance of fruit, and most locals grow it.
The current situation is that we can't even get enough to eat, so what's the point of having fruit?
There are too many locals, so people from other places can't get any food.
This situation will gradually ease as traffic conditions improve.
At least, they can all be sold.
As for the price at which fruit farmers sell their produce, that cannot be guaranteed.
The wealthy ones are mostly middlemen.
Gu Yunyang shook his head: "No, these fruit trees are also part of our brigade's wealth."
"But what we're discussing now is that although we have a fair amount of land, we don't have enough to grow sweet potatoes. The sugar mill is our only source of income. These fruits are pretty useless anyway. All the children in our brigade—no, all of them combined—can't possibly eat that many."
A single fruit tree can yield dozens or even hundreds of kilograms of fruit.
For example, pest control is good, and fertilization is also in place.
A single mango tree can produce five or six hundred kilograms of fruit.
Even now, the yield is not that high because of inadequate fertilization and the inability to completely eliminate pests.
That weighs about three or four hundred pounds.
If fertilization is done properly, pests are well controlled, and branches and leaves are pruned to control excess fruit, then...
Producing over a thousand kilograms a year is not a problem.
Gu Yunyang, however, rejected Chen Qijue's idea again: "If we can't finish the fruit, we can do other things with it. Sweet potatoes don't need that much sunlight, and our fruit trees aren't that dense. We can plant them under the fruit trees. We just need to take some measures."
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