Chapter 28: A Lot of Fruit
Before this, Han Ying had already bought the fruits and vegetables from several fruit and vegetable farmers who asked for help online.
One of them is a vineyard. Han Ying harvested nearly 500,000 kilograms of grapes of several varieties in the neighboring Nan Province and Ning Province.
Then he went to several other provinces and bought 300,000 kilograms of peaches of various varieties.
Including peaches, yellow peaches, large peaches, blood peaches and so on.
There are also 200,000 kilograms of bananas.
300,000 kilograms of longan.
As well as 400,000 kilograms of apples of various varieties and more than 80 acres of vegetables.
However, the largest number of buyers came from a fruit farmer last month.
It was a lychee orchard, and the fruit farmer had several lychee orchards covering thousands of acres.
Although the harvest this year is better than in previous years, the number of people coming to buy lychees is decreasing and the quantity they want is small, and the price is not good.
So he turned to the Internet for help.
After seeing this, Han Ying decisively turned into Lei Feng and went to buy all his lychees.
She bought nearly one million kilograms of lychees at a price 50 cents cheaper than other fruit merchants.
There are many varieties of lychees, including Black Leaf, Guiwei, Niumici, Zhuangyuanhong, Baitangpeng, Feizishao and so on.
And now Han Ying has to transform herself into Lei Feng and go to a melon farmer's field to pick watermelons!
After getting off the train, Han Ying wanted to take a taxi to the village where the fruit farmer lived.
But I didn't expect that as soon as I walked out, I saw a man in his forties waiting at the exit holding a sign.
Han Ying was stunned for a moment when she saw Xia Jing's name on the sign.
She thought it was someone with the same name, but soon she received a call.
"Miss Xia, have you gotten off the train? I drove here and I'll be waiting for you at the exit. I have a sign with your name on it, and you'll be able to see it when you get out."
When Han Ying heard that the other party was holding up a sign and waiting for her, her face suddenly turned red and she felt embarrassed.
Where else would you find someone holding a sign and waiting for someone these days except at the airport?
But Han Ying didn't show it.
She walked straight towards the sign with Xia Jing's name on it, "Hello, I'm Xia Jing!"
"Hello, Miss Xia. My name is Zhao Dayong. I grow watermelons. My car is outside. Shall we go over now?"
Zhao Dayong was obviously surprised when he saw Han Ying.
Although he felt that Han Ying's voice on the phone was young, he didn't expect her to be so young and beautiful.
"Sister, you are so beautiful!"
Han Ying nodded and was about to follow Zhao Dayong when she saw a little head sticking out from behind his thigh.
A pair of big eyes blinked at her.
"Thank you, you're cute too!"
Han Ying lowered her head, bent down, raised her hand and touched the child's messy hair.
"This is my little daughter Yaya. Please forgive me for making fun of you, Miss Xia."
Zhao Dayong used his big hands to mess up the little girl's already messy hair, making it even more messy.
The little girl looked only six or seven years old.
In fact, if Zhao Dayong hadn't told Han Ying, she really couldn't tell that this was a little girl. She thought it was a boy.
Han Ying held the little girl in her arms and rode in Zhao Dayong's pickup truck for more than half an hour before they reached their village.
The little girl kept staring at Han Ying along the way.
She said she wanted to be as beautiful as her sister when she grew up.
As he spoke, he pulled his messy hair.
Han Ying learned from Zhao Dayong that the little girl was not actually his child.
But it's his sister's child!
It’s just that his sister and her family died in a car accident two years ago.
Only the little girl was left and he adopted her into his own household registration.
Zhao Dayong divorced his wife a few years ago.
There is also a son and an old father in the family.
There are no women here, they are all rough men who don't know how to take care of others.
Gradually, the little girl became like a boy.
Han Ying took out a comb and a pack of hair ties from her bag.
I braided two beautiful little braids for Yaya in the car.
She was so beautiful that she kept admiring herself in the mirror all the way.
After getting off the car, Han Ying directly gave the comb and the pack of hair ties to Yaya.
And tell her that even if the adults at home don’t know how to help her tie her hair, she can try to learn it herself.
She was also given a small doll and asked to learn how to tie the doll's hair.
Seeing his little daughter happily holding the doll, Zhao Dayong gratefully thanked Han Ying.
They were busy tending the melon fields all day and neglected to take care of their children at home.
After getting off the car, Zhao Dayong wanted Han Ying to go to his house to rest for a while and eat something.
However, Han Ying said that they should go directly to the melon field to take a look.
Zhao Dayong's family planted more than 100 acres of watermelons.
There are four varieties in total, 8424, Midu, Seedless Watermelon, and Mo Tong.
They are all good varieties and their prices are much higher than ordinary watermelons.
Although it is more expensive than other watermelons, it also requires more effort to take care of than ordinary watermelons.
The watermelons are ripening one after another even without any ripening drugs.
And the output is even higher than in previous years!
However, this not only did not make Zhao Dayong's family happy, but instead made them look worried.
"To be honest, Miss Xia, I really can't sell my watermelons. If I sell them for only a few cents, I can't even get back my investment. That's why I have to ask for help."
Zhao Dayong's old father Zhao Jianguo followed the two of them to the melon field.
Looking at the endless melon field, the old man secretly wiped his eyes.
Zhao Dayong's family takes care of the melon field this year in the same way as in previous years.
But they can't explain why the watermelon harvest is so abundant this year.
In previous years, the watermelons his family grew weighed eight or nine kilograms each.
It weighs at most twelve or thirteen pounds, and the annual yield per mu is about 7,500 pounds.
But I don’t know what’s going on this year?
Every watermelon on the field weighed fourteen or fifteen kilograms!
Many of them directly reached 17 or 18 kilograms or even more than 20 kilograms!
The yield per mu has far exceeded 10,000 jin!
Higher production should have been a good thing.
But such big watermelons are not good for the watermelon varieties grown by Zhao Dayong.
His watermelons are not grown with any ripening agents; all of them ripen naturally.
Therefore, the ripened watermelons that generally sell for four or five yuan outside the retail market cost at least five or six yuan at his store.
By this measure, a watermelon costs about 50 yuan, which is acceptable to most people if they grit their teeth.
But now each of them has grown to more than 14 or 15 pounds!
The retail price of a watermelon is at least 70 yuan, which is too expensive for many people.
However, the large size of the watermelons is only one of the reasons why they cannot be sold.
The main reason is that cold air has frequently invaded various parts of the country in recent times.
The temperature has dropped significantly, and fewer people are eating watermelon!
This caused the sales of watermelons to plummet.
Since the fruits are not selling well at the retail level, fruit merchants are naturally unwilling to purchase more.
The watermelons are already ripe, and if we leave them there any longer, they will probably rot in the ground.
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