Chapter 216: Uproar

"Is this true? In the second year of growing lychees, I can earn 1,500 yuan?"

"It's absolutely true. This is what my third aunt said. She saw people from her village collecting money with her own eyes. How could this be false?"

"Oh my god! I work so hard for a year and can't even make 200 yuan. Now people can make 1,500 yuan a year by growing lychees? Why should I keep working? I should just turn the hill at home into an orchard and grow lychees!"

"I think so too. There is really no better job than growing lychees. I will start reclaiming my hilltop tomorrow."

"Then let's go together. Have you found out where these lychee seedlings came from?"

"My third aunt said that the lychee variety grown by the people in her village is called Guiwei, and they bought the lychee seedlings from Lingshan County."

"Where is Lingshan County? We are not familiar with it. What should we do?"

"That's easy. I'll ask my third aunt to help me find out."

"Will people tell me?"

"Don't worry about this. My third aunt told me that it was Uncle Nine from their village who took the lead in planting lychees. He had already asked the villagers to follow suit. However, many people in their village were afraid of taking risks and did not dare to follow suit."

"Risk? What risks can there be in growing lychees?"

"How can there be no risk? My third aunt told me that it costs several hundred yuan just to buy lychee seedlings. We often encounter typhoons and hailstorms in our area. If we encounter such natural disasters right after planting the lychee seedlings, wouldn't it be fatal?"

"Ah? It costs several hundred yuan to buy lychee seedlings? Why are they so expensive?"

"What do you think? A lychee seedling costs only a few cents. This orchard must have hundreds or even thousands of trees. It is normal to cost hundreds of dollars."

"Damn, I have to invest so much money, where can I get it from?"

"I can't actually take out so much money. I can only borrow from relatives and friends, or go to a credit union for a loan. Otherwise, where can I get so much money?"

"This...I need to think about it!"

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Conversations like this happen all over the country.

In this day and age, if you make money by opening a factory or doing any other business, even if someone makes a few thousand or tens of thousands of dollars, it will not cause such a sensation, because such an operation is difficult for other villagers to replicate and the risk is too great.

But being able to earn so much in a year by planting lychee trees has a completely different meaning.

Because litchi planting is not a difficult task for the villagers, this success can be completely replicated. If others can make a lot of money by planting litchi trees, then they should be able to make a lot of money by following suit. Therefore, the harvest of Deng Shirong and Deng Yunqiang caused a huge sensation in the surrounding area.

Many families carried their tools up the mountain to open up their orchards the next day.

Of course, there are also many people who become hesitant because they know that the initial investment will cost at least several hundred yuan.

After all, a few hundred yuan is not a small sum of money. It takes all the family savings or even loans to get it together. Not every rural person has such courage. Even if the money seems easy to make and the risk seems not big, those villagers with stable personalities are still unwilling to take such risks.

Just when these cautious villagers were hesitating, Deng Shirong's watermelons went on sale again.

This naturally caused an uproar in the village.

Because Deng Shirong's lychee mountain has been covered with thorny plants and is locked with a door, many villagers do not know that Deng Shirong's family has planted so many watermelons this year.

It was not until all of Deng Shirong's relatives came to help and baskets of watermelons were transported back home from Litchi Mountain, and then the supply and marketing cooperative sent trucks to weigh and load the watermelons, taking them away one truck after another, that the villagers were completely shocked.

According to statistics, Deng Shirong's family picked a total of 62,315 kilograms of watermelons. Based on the purchase price of 8 cents per kilogram, the total sales amounted to 4,985.2 yuan.

When the villagers who were watching saw the purchasing staff of the supply and marketing cooperative handing the huge sum of nearly 5,000 yuan to Deng Shirong, they were completely excited!

If the more than one thousand yuan income from selling lychees by Deng Shirong and Deng Yunqiang's family before was like an ordinary bomb for the villagers, then the several thousand yuan income from selling watermelons this time was equivalent to an atomic bomb. The explosive power of the two is really incomparable.

After all, watermelon planting not only requires less investment than lychee planting, but the early harvest is also much higher than lychee planting. Who wouldn't be tempted by this? The production team leader Deng Yunjun asked excitedly, "Uncle Jiu, how much does it cost to plant this watermelon?"

Deng Shirong did not choose to hide the cost and directly announced it: "The cost of growing watermelons is not high. I invested more than 100 yuan to buy seeds this year."

Deng Yunjun said excitedly: "That's great. Next year I will also plant watermelons. This method requires little investment but yields great rewards. It is really suitable for us!"

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Deng Yunqiang also said excitedly: "Yes, I invested more than 100 yuan and earned nearly 5,000 yuan. It's really scary. I must grow watermelons next year!"

The other villagers also echoed the sentiment. Every one of them was extremely excited by Deng Shirong's income. If it were not the wrong season, they would have wanted to buy watermelon seeds and plant them immediately.

Seeing that the villagers were about to lose their minds, Deng Shirong could only remind them: "Watermelon is indeed worth growing, but I suggest that you plant it on a small scale first, and then plant it on a large scale after you have accumulated enough experience. In addition, in addition to watermelons, there are other fruits that are also worth growing. The current situation in the country is really good. No matter what kind of fruit it is, as long as it can be grown, you can definitely make money."

The villagers all nodded in agreement, but only they themselves knew what they were thinking.

Deng Shirong just gave a reminder and didn't want to say anything extra, but he could foresee that if the villagers planted watermelons on a large scale next year, some people might suffer losses due to improper management.

By then, I believe everyone will be able to calm down.

After the villagers left, the news of Deng Shirong's watermelons selling well naturally spread as quickly as the lychees in the previous few days. Now those villagers who had been hesitating about whether to plant lychees no longer had to worry about it.

They have all allocated manpower to cultivate orchards, planning to plant watermelons next year.

Just as villagers from all over the area were enthusiastically cultivating their own orchards, Deng Shirong attended the full moon banquet for Deng Changyuan's daughter, and then took his eldest son, daughter-in-law, nephew, and his late wife's three nephews and nieces on a bus to the county town.

At this time, the hotel in the county town is estimated to be completed soon, and we can prepare for its opening this time.

(End of this chapter)