Chapter 102 Selling Lotus Roots
"Brother Chen, the two-week trial period is over. Weimin has performed very well during this period. I plan to officially hire him. The salary is the same as we agreed before, 45 yuan a month, including food and accommodation, and some benefits during the holidays. If there is no problem, you can ask Weimin to come and sign the contract. You also have to report to the nearby police station."
There is a large flow of people at the dock, with all kinds of people. Non-local people who stay here for a long time need to register with the police station for easy management.
Chen Wenjun was overjoyed and stood up abruptly, saying, "No problem, definitely no problem! Brother Lu, wait, I'll have him come over to sign the contract with you in a bit."
Chen Wenjun left the recruitment office and found Hong Weimin who was taking careful notes at the dock. He did not dare to disturb him and waited until he was almost done before telling him about the matter.
Hong Weimin was overjoyed and kept saying, "I'll go find him after I finish my work here. By the way, Wenjun, I know how to choose seafood these days. Tell me what you want in advance, and I'll keep an eye out for you. If I come across something good, I'll save some for you."
Chen Wenjun patted Hong Weimin on the shoulder, and everything was said without words.
The advantage of having acquaintances at the dock is reflected here. Every day, Chen Wenjun would ask Lin Qin to write down the number of seafood needed to Hong Weimin, and Hong Weimin would always leave him the most cost-effective ones.
Of course, this operation would definitely not be hidden from Lu Lin's eyes, but Lu Lin didn't care. After all, it didn't matter who he sold his seafood to! Chen Wenjun was his big customer, and he also wanted to maintain a good relationship with Chen Wenjun, so he turned a blind eye.
With Hong Weimin's help, Chen Wenjun no longer needs to come in advance to grab the goods, which makes things much more convenient for the couple.
Now Nanyu's pigsty was finally completed.
The pigpen is located close to the slope, next to the hill, about fifty meters away from where they live. It is built entirely with red bricks and is about three hundred square meters in size, so it is spacious.
Because there is a faucet installed, you can get water from Nanxi.
Lin Yi raised ten piglets at once.
In order to raise these ten pigs, he had to reclaim wasteland and plant a lot of corn, cabbage, cucumbers and other fruits, and even several acres of sweet potatoes and taro.
The entire Nanyu seems to be undergoing a large-scale construction.
When Chen Wenjun and Lin Qin came back from delivering the goods, they found that Huang Yuezhen and Lin Yi had just finished work.
The two were somewhat speechless.
Lin Qin advised: "Dad, cousin, you don't become fat just by eating all the food you want. There is always work to do at home. How are you going to sleep tomorrow if you're all busy like this?"
Huang Yuezhen smiled naively, "I feel very at ease when I'm working. We can't delay the planting of those vegetables. Spring ploughing only lasts for this period of time. Besides, didn't you just come back? You have to go out early tomorrow morning, and I can sleep until eight or nine o'clock!"
Lin Qin was helpless. "Cousin, my cousin was hired by Mr. Lu at the dock recruitment office. He is paid 45 yuan a month, including food and accommodation. With my cousin's help, we can sleep an extra half an hour in the future."
Huang Yuezhen was so excited that she couldn't speak clearly.
Lin Yi laughed, "Okay, okay! It will be fine once he gets this job. As long as he works hard, he can keep doing it. Forty-five a month, five hundred and forty a year. Food and lodging are all there, so there is no place to spend money. He can bring a lot of money back at the end of the year!"
After all, he is his nephew. Lin Yi was so relieved that he felt like he could wake up laughing even in his dreams.
Lin Qin followed up by saying, "Dad, you forgot about your cousin's wife! The couple can bring back a thousand this year!"
Huang Yuezhen was really frightened by this number. She said with a silly smile: "Cousin, I dare not even think about it."
Lin Yi said loudly: "Everyone go to bed and continue working hard tomorrow."
From then until the beginning of summer, Lin Yi and Huang Yuezhen planted all kinds of fruit trees on the slopes of Nanyu. The ten pigs grew rapidly under their care.
Lin Qin hadn’t seen her own pig for two months and couldn’t recognize it.
They also fenced off three large uncultivated plots of wasteland in the back to raise chickens, ducks and geese.
Lin Qin discovered it when she was wandering around the pigpen.
Now, no matter who comes to Nanyu and sees these things, they will exaggerate and say that their family is a "rich family".
Just when Huang Yuezhen thought she could retire, the lotus roots in the paddy field were ready to be harvested.
Lin Yi had planted seven or eight acres of land at that time. He was extremely nervous about the harvest and was suspicious all day long. Sometimes he suspected that the lotus roots were not good enough, and sometimes he was afraid that he could not sell them at a good price.
Lin Qin wanted to dig one out in advance to see how it goes, but he wouldn't let her.
More complicated than women.
After several days in a row, Lin Yi finally took the initiative to say that he wanted to dig lotus roots, which made Lin Qin breathe a sigh of relief.
There are some tricks to digging lotus roots. Using brute force to dig can easily break the lotus root nodes. You must apply force in the direction of the lotus root's growth to pull out the lotus root strips.
The silt in the water was black and smelly. Lin Yi and Chen Wenjun also put a lot of loaches and eels into it, and no one knew what they looked like.
On the day of construction, Lin Yi led everyone to clean up the lotus roots, leaves and pods on the paddy fields.
Huang Yuezhen followed Lin Yi into the water. As soon as she entered, she stepped on a yellow eel and screamed in fright.
Lin Qin was about to laugh at her, but she also encountered the eel, and her reaction was even worse than Huang Yuezhen's. Eels and loaches are very slippery.
Lin Qin was not sure if he could catch it with his hands.
Chen Wenjun gave them the scoop net he had prepared in advance.
With the scoop net, the three people were able to do their work with greater force.
Seeing that they were gradually getting the hang of it, Chen Wenjun said, "I'll go to Nangang to get the goods today, and Aqin will help me when I come back."
Lin Qin nodded at him, "With my cousin here, I can pack more things without him."
After Chen Wenjun left, the three of them started to get busy.
I was not used to it at first and was scared by the eels and loaches running around. But after a while I got used to it and could even ignore them.
When the lotus roots from an acre of paddy field are harvested.
Lin Yi and Huang Yuezhen were busy catching the eels and loaches.
Lin Qin used a water pipe connected to the faucet to start washing the pile of lotus roots.
The washed lotus roots were packed into fertilizer bags and piled aside.
When Lin Qin finished her work, she turned around and found that Lin Yi and Huang Yuezhen had already caught several large buckets of eels and loaches.
There are quite a few of them, but unfortunately these two things have a strong smell of mud and need to be raised for a few days before they can be eaten.
Lin Qin decided to keep the fish at home for three to five days before selling them, so that the price could be higher.
Huang Yuezhen said excitedly: "Tomorrow I will bring some lotus roots to cook and see if Mr. Huang wants to buy some. These are all fresh."
Lin Yi was very happy to hear this, "Yuezhen, thank you for your help."
Huang Yuezhen didn't care.
After getting up and washing them, he and Lin Yi lifted the scale bar and weighed the lotus roots one by one.
After the final statistics, this acre of paddy field yielded a total of 3,850 kilograms of lotus roots.
Since these lotus roots have not been sold yet, Lin Yi does not plan to dig any more.
When Chen Wenjun came back from wholesale seafood, Lin Qin immediately reported their achievements.
Chen Wenjun was shocked by the amount and said thoughtfully, "Let's go to Nangang tomorrow to see if anyone wants to buy it. We can also ask around at the vegetable market. If anyone is willing to buy it, we will sell it wholesale to them at 30 cents per pound."
(End of this chapter)
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