"Tian Tian, Ula grass is worthless and it's everywhere in the mountains. Besides, almost everyone in our rural area knows how to weave things. Weaving things can make money, but can the people around us just watch us make money without doing anything? They must want to weave things like us."
"Our county town is so small. Let's not talk about where we can sell all the things we have woven. There is no such thing as Ula grass in the mountains. They will definitely fight for the Ula grass."
"China is so big, we can sell it not only in the county, but also in other places, other provinces, other regions. There must be many people who want to buy it. We can also ask other brigades to join us. There are so many people in our country, so we don't have to worry about not being able to sell it. We can also grow Ula grass."
Ula grass can also be used to weave many straw handicrafts for use as decorations. This should not be a problem for Tian Lisong and his friends. They have been learning to weave things since they were young, so they should be able to weave those handicrafts if they think about it.
Ula grass is light and cheap, and it is also very good to use as decoration at home, but the current environment is a bit bad.
But it doesn’t matter. When the situation gets better after a while, I can make some handicrafts and sell them.
Ula grass is only available here, and they can fully utilize this advantage to turn their county into a woven city.
Those straw bags are so beautiful. Tian Tian saw a lot of them on the Internet in her previous life. You can also weave all kinds of straw baskets, straw coasters, straw fans, and even straw stools. You can weave a lot of things with Ula straw.
Tian Lisong listened to Tian Tian talking more and more outrageously, but seeing how happy Tian Tian was, he didn't want to discourage her enthusiasm, so he had to agree, "Okay, I got it. I'll find time to talk to your uncle. It's getting late now, and you've been busy all day. Go back to your room and go to sleep."
Tian Tian didn't want Tian Lisong to agree now, but she still nodded happily. As long as Tian Lisong was willing to discuss it with Tian Ligang, that would be fine.
Although Tian Lisong said this to get rid of Tian Tian, he did not lie to Tian Tian. The next morning, he really went to discuss it with Tian Ligang. Hao Gu Zhao was also at Tian Ligang's house, and the three of them began to discuss the matter.
After discussion, they felt that although Tian Tian was exaggerating a bit, this thing could really be done. They felt that the other things were unnecessary, but the straw mat that Tian Tian mentioned could really be woven.
"Wait for me to go to the supply and marketing cooperative in a couple of days to ask. If it's possible, we will talk to other people in the team and try to compile a few first." Tian Ligang said.
"I think we shouldn't try this. There's no technical requirement for weaving straw mats. If people from other teams knew about this, they would follow us and weave them. We'd better make as much as possible this year. We may not be able to make as much next year."
After all, Caodianzi is not a consumable item. As long as you preserve it well, you can keep it for many years. People who buy it this year will not buy it next year.
"I think we can weave fewer straw mats, but we can weave more of the insoles that Tian Tian mentioned. Insoles are consumables." Gu Zhao thought that what Tian Tian said was feasible, but there were indeed many inappropriate aspects in the current environment.
"Insoles are in a bad enough condition. Now every household makes their own insoles, and the insoles they make are no worse than those made from grass. They fit the feet better and are more comfortable to wear. People in rural areas don't buy insoles anymore. They either make them themselves or just soften the insoles with Ula grass." Tian Lisong said.
Their family hasn't bought a pair of insoles in all these years. They were all made by Grandma Tian and Lin Meiyu themselves, with all kinds of beautiful patterns on them.
Even his sister Tian Lijuan's family never bought insoles.
"Let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow and ask. Gu Zhao, you have a good relationship with the supplier of the supply and marketing cooperative. You can talk to him about it. If he agrees, let everyone know tomorrow to hurry up and edit it."
"How much should we charge? Although Ula grass is not expensive, it is actually quite laborious to weave. If it's too cheap, it's not worth the time we spent."
"The insoles are only three cents a pair. Even though they are made of straw, they are not worth much. We don't care how much the supply and marketing cooperative sells them for," said Tian Lisong.
The supply and marketing cooperatives usually sell for a cent or two more than what they charge, so the price is not expensive either.
"A straw mat is only five yuan a bed, and it takes a lot of effort to weave this one!"
"That's our expectation, but we don't know how much they will give us. I still have a straw mat and some straw sandals your aunt made for me. You can take them to the supply and marketing cooperative and ask them, and let them take a look."
"Okay!" Gu Zhaogang took the things and went to the supply and marketing cooperative to ask.
Gu Zhaocai came back the next day. The prices were actually about the same as they expected. The insoles were also three cents a pair, and the price of the straw mat was a little lower, at three dollars and fifty cents a bed.
Tian Lisong and his friends were not disappointed. The price was already very high. They immediately told everyone about it and asked everyone to hurry up and weave mats. Now some people in the village were happy and some were worried. Some people did not get too much Ula grass from the mountains in the autumn. They just got as much as they could weave hemp ropes. As a result, most of the hemp ropes have been woven, and the remaining Ula grass is not enough for them to weave mats.
Now they knew they could make so much money by weaving a straw mat, much more than they made by selling hemp ropes. They all regretted not cutting more Ula grass to keep at home in the fall, and started borrowing Ula grass from all over the village.
Nowadays, every household uses Ula straw to weave mats, so how could they lend it to others?
No one wanted to tell other teams about this, so they went up the mountain in the snow in the middle of winter to cut grass, and they could use it after drying it.
In the following days, their team was quiet. Everyone was weaving straw mats at home and had no time to visit neighbors and chat.
Old Mrs. Tian's family was no exception. The whole family worked together to weave straw mats.
You have to roll the Ula grass into a rope first, and then weave it bit by bit.
Originally, weaving straw mats was very slow. It might take a week to weave one mat, or at least four or five days.
Now the whole family is working together, and there is no work to do at home. It only takes three days to weave a bed.
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