Gu Yunyang looked at Gu Hanping, who was already impatiently heading down the mountain, and shook his head: "He's an impatient person, he can't even wait this little bit of time."
He looked back at the three lychee trees, where many of the lychees had already ripened by his artificial ripening methods.
"There are about 400 jin left. Tomorrow, another 600 jin or so will ripen. The day after tomorrow, it will reach 800 jin, which will be about all the lychee from these three trees."
1,800 jin (600 kg), I wonder how much I can get in return.
Fruit is cheap these days, costing at most a few cents per pound.
But these are early-maturing varieties, so they might be a bit more expensive.
But even if you sell all that fruit, you won't actually get much fertilizer in return.
Fertilizer is in short supply and expensive.
Insufficient domestic industrial capacity has led to inflated prices for industrial products.
The high cost of shipping imported fertilizers is what caused these issues.
But we still have to use fertilizer, no matter how expensive it is.
This year and next year will still be years of disaster.
We need to stockpile more food.
There are plenty of sweet potatoes, but eating them every day gets boring.
Moreover, eating sweet potatoes causes more flatulence.
Just as he was pondering this, Gu Hanping arrived with his men.
Upon seeing these three early-ripening lychee trees, the villagers were somewhat surprised: "We've been here before, and they do seem to ripen earlier. But not this early."
Okay, someone helped plug the vulnerability.
With mountains all around, it's not certain that people will come to every mountain peak.
Gu Yunyang came here because he saw that there were no other people around, so he chose these three lychee trees.
Gu Hanping directed people to climb the trees and pick lychees, constantly reminding them, "Be careful, use scissors to cut them down. Tomorrow morning, Secretary Gu and I will take the lychees to the city to sell, so we can buy fertilizer later. I've noticed that there has been some drought these past two years, so to be on the safe side, we should use more fertilizer and save more grain."
Look, Gu Yunyang realized that he wasn't the only one who noticed it.
Gu Hanping noticed it too.
A few hundred kilograms of lychees isn't actually that much. With so many people, if each person picks a few dozen kilograms, that'll be enough.
But the lychee tree is very tall, and the fruit ripens in a scattered manner.
It took quite a bit of effort to pick the ripe lychees.
It wasn't until almost dinner time that Gu Hanping and the others finally picked all the ripe lychees from the lychee tree.
A group of people carried the lychees down in baskets on their backs.
Gu Hanping had someone bring a scale over and weighed it.
"433 jin (218 catties)".
The quantity is considerable, but it's still not enough to exchange for sufficient fertilizer.
Gu Hanping's expression was not good.
Just like he said before.
The weather this year is not good. Although they do not lack water, there are some signs of drought.
I don't know what next year will be like.
If a drought really occurs, I don't know how many people will starve to death.
Preparation is key to success; lack of preparation leads to failure.
Gu Hanping felt that he still needed to plan more carefully. Even if there was no drought, it would be good to harvest more rice.
They are still used to eating rice, and they don't really like sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Gu Yunyang walked over and asked, "What's wrong? Are you worried that you haven't given enough things and won't be able to get much fertilizer?"
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