Su Yan didn't know what they were thinking. Since her mother-in-law asked outsiders to call her, she would definitely help if she could.
Chen Yuhe was examined, her lower body cleaned with moxa leaf water, and the newborn was examined. Fortunately, Chen Yuhe was in good health and everything was normal after giving birth. She didn't need to go to the hospital and just stayed at home to recuperate.
Huamin took the time to help wash her bloody pants and the dirty mattress on her bed.
Zhong Lingshan and He Na couldn't help, and Su Yan would definitely not help wash.
A week after her third baptism, Lu Fengnian named her Lu Yilin. Hua Min said that Su Yan's mother was Jiang Lingling, so Lu Fengnian changed her name to Lu Yiqian.
Su Yan knew nothing about this matter. She had been busy taking care of peonies and orchids, and picking lychees and early cherries these days.
While the children were not at home, she took out a basket of fresh cherries and a basket of lychees from the space.
Lu Ting came back at noon, and Su Yan said to him, "Lu Ting, the situation is getting better. Isn't your friend in charge of the fleet? This year we'll sell fresh cherries in southern cities, and then come back to bring space lychees back to Beijing to sell."
"Well, but it's not convenient for me to go to the South, and I'm worried about you and my friends going there."
Su Yan also knew that it was not a good idea for a single man and a single woman to travel far away together, and Lu Ting's status did not allow him to go out alone.
"How about I borrow your friend's car for half a month and drive there myself to sell fruit."
"No, if there's no man in the car, what if we get robbed? Apples are selling for 30 cents a pound in the north, but 35 cents a pound in the south. Lychees are selling for 10 or 20 cents a pound in the south, but only 30 or 40 cents in the north. These big cherries are only 40 cents a pound at most."
In those days, meat was only 60 or 70 cents, and fruit was very expensive at 30 or 40 cents. Moreover, not many lychees were shipped from the south to the north. Most northerners had only seen canned lychees in supply and marketing cooperatives, and fresh lychees were rarely available.
Su Yan wanted to say that Lu Ting didn't know the value of things. In the future, domestic cherries of average quality can be sold for twenty to thirty yuan per pound.
The cherries grown in her space were all imported varieties. When she was alive in her previous life, late-ripening cherries were sold at a retail price of 121 kilograms, and the fruit vendors who came to buy them would charge 70 to 81 kilograms.
In her previous life, she used to sell half of the good fruits and let tourists pick the rest themselves, and the price was still not cheap.
Why else would she have planted so many cherries? It's a shame she died just as the fruit yields boomed and she started making a fortune. It's unknown whether she and the original owner were related in a past life, or if she truly swapped souls.
Although she doesn't have as much money in this life as in her previous life, she has four excellent children and a lover. What else is there to be dissatisfied about?
Since Lu Ting was worried about her leaving the country, Su Yan planned to sell 20,000 kilograms of cherries to Lu Ting's friend at the price of 30 cents per kilogram.
It’s just that there isn’t enough space for so many cartons and bags, and cherries are not potatoes, so sacks can be used.
"Lu Ting, can we find someone to order some bamboo baskets and cardboard boxes?"
"Yan Yan, let's process the cherries into dried cherries and store them in sacks. I can ask someone to find a way to get a few dozen cartons, but for so many, we have to order from the factory, and it's not convenient for me to know anyone to order from them."
Su Yan sighed. It looked like she would have to endure for two more years. State-owned enterprises were indeed difficult to run. Lu Ting was waiting to be promoted to the next level before he turned forty, and he couldn't let anyone catch him.
"Okay, then I'll throw the cherries into the machine to pit them and then send them back to the roasting room."
Every year at this time, Su Yan is extremely busy. Although machines have replaced her hands, she still has to do some things herself.
The cherries need to be roasted, and so do the lychees, longans, and kiwis. Fortunately, she directly pruned the grapes and let them dry in the shade on the tree before harvesting them.
The fruit harvest months are the busiest. When harvesting grain, you just have to spread the grain out on the road to dry, and then store it in the warehouse a week later.
"Yan Yan, your brother sent a telegram saying he'll be home on July 10th."
"Okay, come back if you want. I'll go back to my parents' home after the kids have their holidays. By the way, why haven't Yirou and the others come back yet?"
"I forgot to tell you, my dad took them to the farm cafeteria for dinner. We had a meeting there this morning."
Su Yan looked at the dishes on the table and smiled, shaking her head. "Ningning was clamoring for meat last night, and An'an wanted to eat pickled fish. In the end, they didn't come back at noon."
"We'll eat it ourselves and cook it for them another day."
"It's good that they're not home. There's no need to turn on the TV at noon."
The couple sat down to eat. Lu Ting talked about visiting an old leader in a few days. "Yan Yan, next week, my dad and I are going to Zhongnanhai to visit an old leader. It's his 70th birthday next week."
Su Yan knew the status of the old leader. Several of his children were leaders in important departments. She was naturally very happy that her father-in-law wanted to take Lu Ting to celebrate his birthday.
"Lu Ting, should we send a pot of orchids to that leader?"
"But in your flower garden, only the Jianlan Fushan Qidie orchid is in bloom. The other orchids are just leaves now."
"The Su He Guan Ding should be able to bloom next month, but it's not a good gift to give away." The Su He Guan Ding was only discovered and named in the 1990s, so it's indeed not a good gift to give away now.
"You said before that Su He Guan Ding is very expensive and I can't even buy one with my annual salary?"
Su Yan smiled and gave Lu Ting a look, "Do you want to buy it? I'll sell it to you."
Lu Ting smiled and waved his hands, "No, no, I've already handed over all my salary, where would I get the money to buy flowers?"
When the orchid craze hit in the 1980s, she believed that there would definitely be people who would buy those top-quality orchids with good appearance, which cost tens of thousands of dollars each.
Scarcity makes things valuable. It is impossible for her to sell dozens of top-quality orchids at once. If there is an orchid auction, she will definitely send the top-quality orchids in her space for auction.
She sells orchids in her store herself, ranging from dozens to hundreds of dollars per plant.
During the peak period in the 1990s, a Su He Guan Ding plant was sold for 4 million yuan. At that time, the Su He Guan Ding in the space was put up for auction.
"Send a pot of Clivia and a pot of Emerald Orchid to that great leader."
"But how am I going to explain these orchids to my dad?"
"Send your dad a pot of Clivia this afternoon, and tell him that we have a few pots of orchids at home."
"If there are several orchids in a pot, one won't be too monotonous."
"I will transplant 2 to 4 Jade Orchids into each pot, and only plant one Clivia per pot. You told your dad that I like to grow flowers, and you asked your friends to help buy these flowers."
Su Yan planned to move a few more orchid pots out to grow, and then give one to her father and two to her eldest brother so that he could smooth things over.
Only if the eldest brother is well can the Su family be well in the future. After graduating from college, the second brother ended up working as a technician in a factory. Unless he goes out to do business in the future, he will have to work in the factory for the rest of his life.
After dinner, Su Yan took Lu Ting back to the space. She first checked whether the nutrient soil she made was fermented well, and then went to the flower garden to start selecting seedlings. After selecting the seedlings, she planted a few Clivias in pots one by one, watered them, and took them out of the space.
"First, take a pot of Clivia to your father. If he asks, tell him that the seedling is a five-year-old one."
"Okay, I'll be leaving first."
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