Chapter 214: So Horrible
While Deng Shirong's family was tasting Guiwei lychees, Deng Changfu's family was also tasting Guiwei lychees on their own lychee mountain.
Of course, Deng Shirong's family ate to their heart's content, while Deng Changfu's family just picked a few to taste and then stopped, still unsatisfied.
After all, this stuff can be sold for fifty cents per pound. If their family eats to their heart's content, they can at least eat ten pounds, which would cost several dollars. Given their family's current financial situation, they absolutely cannot afford to eat like this.
After eating more than a dozen of them, Deng Shirong said to his eldest son, "Yuntai, go back and get three sacks. Pick two and send them to your second and third uncles."
Deng Yuntai responded: "Okay, Dad."
Deng Shirong looked at his nephew and said, "Dashi, pick a bag and bring it back for your parents to try."
Bu Dashi said quickly: "Uncle, I'll just bring a few pounds back for them to taste, and keep the rest to sell!"
Bu Dafang also said: "Yes, uncle, it's 50 cents a pound, and picking a bag will cost more than ten yuan. This is really a waste!"
Deng Shirong smiled and said, "Don't worry about how much it costs. If you can't even eat the things you grow yourself, then what's the point of living? Listen to me, pick a bag and bring it back for your parents to taste."
Bu Dafang and his sister also knew that their uncle was always generous, so they didn't say anything more when they saw this.
Deng Yuntai said: "Then I will go back and get the sack now!"
Deng Shirong hummed and said, "Send it to your uncle today. Tomorrow morning, bring a sack and pick one to send to your father-in-law and mother-in-law."
Zhang Xiuping couldn't help but laugh when she heard this: "My parents rarely had lychees to eat in previous years. If we send them this sack of Guiwei lychees, they will probably be very happy in the village for another ten days or half a month."
Everyone couldn't help but laugh when they heard this.
Litchi Mountain is not far from home. If you walk fast, it will only take about ten minutes to go back and forth. Deng Yuntai also rode his bicycle back, which made the journey even faster.
While picking lychees, Deng Yunzhen asked, "Dad, when will our lychees be sold?"
Deng Shirong said: "The lychees are not all ripe yet, let's sell them after May Day!"
Deng Yunzhen looked at the red lychees all over the mountain and asked, "Dad, how many kilograms do you think these lychees weigh?"
Deng Shirong estimated and said, "About 2,800 to 3,100 kilograms!"
Deng Yunzhen said happily: "Even if there are only 2,800 kilograms, it can still be sold for 1,400 yuan. After a few years, when the lychee trees grow up, the output is expected to increase several times. By then, won't it be easy to make 5,000 or 6,000 yuan a year?"
Deng Shirong smiled and said, "It's more than 5,000 or 6,000. In a few years, the price of lychees will probably go up. It won't be difficult to make 10,000 a year."
Everyone couldn't help but gasp when they heard this. In this era, a ten thousand yuan household is still very prestigious. One ten thousand yuan household every year, what does it mean?
Deng Shirong squatted down and patted a large watermelon on the ground, saying, "Although watermelons are much cheaper than lychees, the weight of watermelons is incomparable to that of lychees. After the lychees are sold out, the watermelons should be available for sale. I believe we will make a lot of money."
Zhang Xiuping smiled and said, "This watermelon is all thanks to my cousin and her husband!"
Deng Shirong nodded and smiled, "Yes, Ah Hu, Da Fang, you have worked really hard this year."
Jiang Dehu waved his hands repeatedly and said, "Uncle, we have been used to doing this kind of work since we were young. It's really not hard at all."
While helping to pick lychees, Bu Dafang echoed, "Uncle, you pay us so much, it's not that hard to do such a small job. I don't know how many people in the village envy us!"
This was not a lie. Ever since the couple came to help their uncle take care of the orchard, even if they told others that the two of them together made 50 yuan a month, people in their village were drooling with envy. After all, for rural people in this era, there were very few opportunities to make money.
Over the past year, the couple has given their sister-in-law ten yuan a month to help take care of the children, and has saved all the rest of the money.
Today, their savings have quietly exceeded 800 yuan, which is considered wealthy in rural areas at this time.
With such a generous income, and the delicious food they eat at their uncle's house, the couple is naturally very motivated to work.
Deng Shirong smiled and didn't say much, but he made up his mind to give his niece a big red envelope at the end of the year. After all, planting watermelons is not just about planting seeds and letting them grow. Just watering and fertilizing the mountains of watermelons is a big project.
It can be said that this year's bumper harvest of watermelons is inseparable from the hard work of my niece and her husband, so it is only right that we give them a big red envelope.
Soon, everyone picked three sacks of lychees, two of which were delivered by Deng Yuntai to his second and third uncles, and the remaining sack was taken home by Bu Dashi.
As for his nephew's husband's family, Deng Shirong had no intention of sending him there.
He was generous, but these Guiwei lychees were not cheap, and he would not give them to just any relative. His niece's husband's parents did not help take care of the children, forcing his niece to spend ten yuan a month to help her sister-in-law take care of the children. Based on this reason alone, he would not give these lychees to her.
In addition to picking three sacks of lychees to give to relatives, Deng Shirong also picked some extra to take home for his children who were still in school. On the way home, he happened to meet Deng Changfu and his family who were also returning from Lychee Mountain.
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Deng Yunqiang immediately asked, "Uncle Jiu, the lychees are starting to ripen now. When do you plan to pick them and send them to the supply and marketing cooperative?"
Deng Shirong said: "It's not all ripe yet, it should be almost ripe in a few days."
Deng Yunqiang said, "Uncle Jiu, let's pick them on the same day, and then have the supply and marketing cooperative send a truck in to pick them up."
Deng Shirong nodded and said, "Okay, have you prepared the bamboo baskets?"
Deng Yunqiang said, "It's already been prepared. I have woven seventy or eighty bamboo baskets. If you need them, Uncle Jiu, I can give some to you."
Deng Shirong waved his hand and said, "No need. I have already had people prepare it. There will be no shortage of bamboo baskets."
Deng Changfu interrupted and asked, "Jiu Gong, your watermelons are almost ripe, right? How much is the yield?"
Deng Shirong smiled and said, "They are almost ripe. I guess after selling the lychees, we can start selling watermelons. As for the yield, I can't estimate it, but it should be tens of thousands of kilograms!"
Deng Changfu was shocked and said, "Tens of thousands of kilograms! My god, the watermelon yield is so high!"
Deng Yunqiang has been calculating how much tens of thousands of kilograms of watermelon can be sold for. When he signed the purchase contract at the supply and marketing cooperative, he knew that the purchase price of watermelon was eight cents per kilogram, eighty cents for ten kilograms, eight yuan for a hundred kilograms, eight thousand yuan for a thousand kilograms, eight hundred yuan for ten thousand kilograms, and tens of thousands of kilograms, that would be several thousand yuan.
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Doesn’t this mean that the yield from growing watermelons is higher than that from growing lychees?
At this moment, Deng Yunqiang was shocked by the numbers he calculated!
At the same time, they were secretly regretting that when Uncle Jiu's family was planting watermelons, why didn't their family plant watermelons as well? (End of this chapter)