Chapter 56 Selling Fruits and Sending Manuscripts
After arriving home, Su Mo washed the shepherd's purse she had dug, transferred the hazel mushrooms that had been dried in the bamboo sieve yesterday to a bamboo basket, and hung the shepherd's purse on the bamboo sieve.
The weather here is dry, and the hazel mushrooms that were dried yesterday at noon are now almost dry. It is estimated that they can be stored in the evening after drying for another afternoon.
The shepherd's purse is not fresh at this time, and Su Mo is not prepared to keep it for making dumplings. She will just dry it when it is crispy and see how she will eat it in the winter.
After finishing all this, Su Mo went to steam a large pot of rice, cut some ham, bacon and bacon, and fried three or four pots of vegetables.
Make more at one time to avoid her cooking meat too frequently and being targeted.
Although every household has a private plot at the door or behind the house, and the houses are quite far apart. But people at this time have very sensitive noses, especially for the smell of meat, which can be smelled at the slightest bit.
Su Mo served the portion for lunch and put the rest into the space for later.
Eating buns every day is quite boring.
After dinner, Su Mo took a nap on the wooden bench in the living room, and then went up the mountain in the afternoon to start looking for wild ginseng.
Each plant has its own unique energy, which ordinary people cannot feel, but for wood-type mutants, this feeling is very obvious.
Just like ordinary people looking at colors, as long as they are not color blind, every color is clear at a glance.
Su Mo spent two days wandering around the mountain. After searching the nearby mountains, she started to go deeper. After two days of searching, she didn't find any wild ginseng, but she did pick up a lot of mountain products such as hazel mushrooms, chestnuts, and walnuts. She even caught two pheasants and picked up a few pheasant eggs.
Su Mo also found a shorter way to the Lijiaao cattle shed, which takes about an hour to get there from the mountain.
In the past two days, Su Mo has also absorbed a lot of wood energy, and her supernatural power has a tendency to upgrade to the middle stage of the first level.
At this time, the plants have not mutated, and the wood energy is very pure. In addition, at the first level, the supernatural power itself is easier to upgrade.
On the 8th, after Su Mo came down from the mountain at noon, she did not plan to go up the mountain in the afternoon.
Counting the days, Su Tingqian and his wife should be in the cowshed in the next two days. She had to go to the county to buy another piece of coarse cloth to make cotton clothes for them.
In addition, her four manuscripts were polished and she planned to mail them today.
After lunch, Su Mo wrote a letter to the editor she knew well, telling him that he had come to the countryside in Northeast China as an educated youth, and asked him to pay her as much as possible for her royalties. If he had to give her tickets, he had to give her national tickets, otherwise she couldn't use them.
After a short rest, Su Mo pushed her bicycle out. On the way, she ran into Li Cuihua.
Su Mo didn't know about the feud between Li Cuihua and Li Yue'e. When she saw the auntie who greeted her warmly at the brigade headquarters when Lu Changzheng drove her back that day, she called out, "Auntie."
Li Cuihua saw that it was Su Mo, "snorted," and turned away.
Su Mo was puzzled. Could it be that she had offended this auntie one day without knowing it? Li
Cuihua had been feeling depressed these days. She thought Lu Changzheng had married a useless educated youth who went to the countryside, but she didn't expect that this educated youth who went to the countryside was actually a relative of Secretary Geng of the commune.
On the day they had the banquet, Secretary Geng even accepted the gift as the representative of the woman's elder. This shows that the relationship between the two families is very close.
To have a relative who is a secretary, the Su family must not be a small family, which gave Li Yue'e an advantage for nothing.
Why was she so blinded by shit at that time, thinking that Su the educated youth was not that good, and trying her best to match them up.
It was really a case of losing the rice while trying to steal the chicken!
One can only hope that this Su the educated youth will be a useless person in the future, so that her daughter-in-law can still suppress her.
Su Mo didn't know about Li Cuihua's entanglement. Seeing Li Cuihua turned around and left, Su Mo also pedaled her bicycle and left in a flash.
Still in a remote place on the road to the county town, Su Mo took out a bamboo basket of apples and a bamboo basket of pears that had been prepared in the space, and hung one basket on each side of the back seat of the car.
The other bamboo basket was prepared by Li Yue'e, and there were two.
Now with one basket on each side, the bicycle is balanced and much easier to ride than last time.
Su Mo went straight to the door of the county supply and marketing cooperative, poked her head inside, and when Sister Liu looked over, she waved at her. When
Sister Liu saw Su Mo, she quickly prepared the things the customer wanted, and after the settlement, she made an excuse to go out.
"Oh, sister, I haven't been here for a long time, your niece misses you." There were quite a few people at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, and Sister Liu greeted them with a smile.
"I went up the mountain to harvest during this period, and I just picked up some mountain products. I'll give you some to try." Su Mo also said, making an excuse casually.
In Qingxi County, many relatives in the countryside send mountain products to relatives in the city, and no one thinks it's a big deal.
"Oh, how can I do that? Come on, come home and have a seat." Sister Liu smiled and led Su Mo home.
After they entered Sister Liu's small courtyard and closed the door, Sister Liu said, "Sister, why are your apples so good for so many days? My relatives come to ask about them every day."
"Something happened at home and I was delayed. I came as soon as I had time." Su Mo said.
"Are these two baskets apples?" Sister Liu asked, and was about to lift the earthen cloth covering them.
"One basket of apples and one basket of pears. Do you want pears?"
"Oh, why are there so few apples?" Sister Liu felt a little sorry. The apples were very easy to sell. She sold them at 70 cents per pound and sold them all on the same day.
"Apples are good this year, and everyone is reluctant to exchange them, and wants to keep them for themselves." Su Mo said nonsense, "Pears are also good this year, I also exchanged a basket, do you want it?"
Although there are many fruits in her space, the quantity of each variety is not large, so it is best to sell them together, otherwise if one of them is sold out, there will be nothing left when it is needed.
Sister Liu lifted the cloth of another basket and saw that the white pears were also big and yellow, and exuded a sweet fragrance. The appearance was no worse than apples, and she immediately decided: "I want these pears too. But these pears are a little cheaper than apples. The supply and marketing cooperative sells them for 40 cents a pound, and I will give you 45 cents."
"Okay." Su Mo had no objection. It was wholesale, so this price was not bad.
"Sister bought a big scale a few days ago. Let's weigh it this time. I won't take advantage of you." A few days ago, the basket was two or three pounds heavier.
The scale at that time was not the kind of scale in later generations, but a long pole with a weight hanging on it, and people had to carry it when weighing things.
Su Mo and Sister Liu weighed the two baskets of fruit. After removing the weight of the bamboo baskets, there were 56 kilograms of apples and 53 kilograms of pears. Apples were 0.5 yuan per kilogram, earning 28 yuan; pears were 0.45 yuan per kilogram, earning 23.85 yuan.
The total income from selling fruit today was 51.85 yuan.
[PS. The fruit prices refer to the prices of the Changsha Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Hunan in 1971. Pears in the Northeast may be slightly cheaper. But white pears are relatively expensive, so it is estimated that they will not be much cheaper.]
After selling the fruit, Su Mo and Sister Liu went back to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought a new piece of coarse cloth and two kilograms of kerosene. When she was having dinner at Li Yue'e's house two days ago, she heard her say that the kerosene was running out, so today she brought her a kilogram back.
A piece of coarse cloth costs 15 yuan, kerosene costs 42 cents per pound, and two pounds cost 0.84 yuan plus the invoice.
Su Mo is not going to go to the black market today, she has to hurry back to make cotton clothes. After sending the letter containing the manuscript to the county post office, Su Mo rode home directly.