After hearing this, the old man thought of Zhou Dachun's clever climb over the mountain, and thought to himself: "We are both uncles, but when there is something good here, you think of the third brother's family. Without me to intercede for you, no one would want your family even if you picked it up."
Yang Chunyan thought this was a good idea. "In this way, we can collect golden cicada flowers, dry them and send them to Ning'an. We can also try to collect some bamboo fungus, dry them and send them to the provincial capital!"
Zhou Huaian: "Not bad, you have foresight, the price of golden cicada flowers is not bad!"
"Bang bang!" There was a knock on the door, accompanied by Zhou Huairong's shout, "Youngest, open the door! Why are you closing the door so early?"
"It's raining so hard, let's eat, close the door and go to sleep!" Zhou Huaian took the straw hat handed to him by the old man, put it on and rushed into the rain. He pulled open the bolt and saw that the eldest couple, the second couple, and Zhou Huaishan had all come with umbrellas.
Zhou Huajun asked excitedly as he entered the house: "Youngest brother, it's raining, and mushrooms will come out at dawn. What should we do about the red mushrooms?"
"Chunyan and I are discussing this!" Zhou Huaian turned his head and looked at the others, "What ideas do you have? Tell us too!"
Zhou Huaijun scratched his head. "What ideas can we come up with? We can just collect them like we did when we collected truffles!"
Zhou Huaian: "I told you last time that Dr. Xiao Wang said that the boss in the provincial capital asked us to expand the purchase volume this year and asked you to think of ways to increase the revenue. It seems that you didn't take it to heart!"
Zhou Huaishan said directly, "Our brains are not as fast as yours and Chunyan's. Aren't you discussing it? Just tell us and we'll do it!"
Zhou Huaian didn't answer, but looked at Zhou Huairong, "Brother, you have been the team leader for several months, don't you have any instructions?"
Zhou Huairong smiled and patted him, "I'm the dumbest among you brothers, so stop making fun of your brother!"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "It seems that you have followed Uncle Datian and Uncle Xu to the town for two meetings, right? Didn't you pay attention to what those leaders said in the meeting?"
Zhao Huifang and the others also looked at him, "Yeah, what did they say when you went to the meeting?"
Zhou Huairong thought for a while, "We said we should promote production, encourage everyone to work hard and get rich, and set up some role models for people to learn from. Someone also mentioned our truffle collection and asked Uncle Xu if we had reached the standard of a ten thousand yuan household.
Uncle Xu said, we are helping the pharmaceutical factory in the provincial capital to receive goods, and we just earn some wages, but we are still a long way from becoming a ten thousand yuan household!
Then the secretary of another village said that the pig-raising family in their village had a good harvest last year and was not far from becoming a ten-thousand-yuan household.
The mayor asked him to go back and ask, if the difference in money is not too big, the village would lend him some money first so that he can raise the total amount of 10,000 yuan and report it.
There are rewards such as certificates, rice and flour, and the most comfortable thing is a permanent 28-bar truck. "
Yang Chunyan remembered that Secretary Xu had asked Zhou Huaian about this last time, and the reason he refused was that his sixth aunt learned a lesson when she found out that his family had sold ox gall to borrow money.
Zhou Huaijun looked at him with sparkling eyes after hearing this, "A permanent 28-bar bike costs 200 yuan, right?"
"Yeah!" Zhou Huairong said, "At that time, I was thinking, not to mention my brothers, Uncle Datian and Uncle Xu's families were already ten thousand yuan households last year, how come they are not interested in these prizes at all?"
"After I got out, I asked Uncle Xu, and he said that the first bird to stick its head out gets shot, and the fat pigs get killed. If that pig farmer is really reported, he won't have a peaceful life in the future. Not to mention those who come to learn from him, even those relatives who come to borrow money and eat for free will ruin him."
Zhou Huaijun glared, "What they mean is that after the pig farmer gets the prize, he has to hand over his pig farming experience to others?"
Zhang Xiuxiang rolled her eyes at him, "Do you think you can get free food? When you ask Jiakang and the others to do something, don't you also have to take a piece of candy first?"
After hearing this, Zhou Huaijun didn't dare to say anything more.
Several people laughed secretly. Zhao Huifang said, "Youngest, Chunyan, we are still the same as before. You set the rules and we do the hard work."
Zhou Huaishan nodded repeatedly, "That's right, sister-in-law is right, you set the rules, we just do the hard work and hit wherever you point us!"
"I just discussed with Chunyan..." Zhou Huaian repeated to everyone what the two had just said.
Zhou Huairong nodded repeatedly after hearing this, "Yes, bring Uncle Datian and Uncle Xu's family together, especially Uncle Xu's family, I heard that Second Uncle Xu is going to be transferred to the county.
Uncle Datian said that it is easier to do things if you have someone in the upper echelons. We don’t bully others, but we are afraid of being bullied by people with a background. If we are on good terms with the Xu family, there will be someone to give us advice and say a few good words for us. "
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "Just now I asked you what instructions you had, and you said I was fooling you!"
Zhou Huairong rolled his eyes at him and said, "Why don't you just ask this directly?"
The old man said, "What the eldest brother said is right. Just like when that bastard Xiong Laoyao went to the town to report Laoyao for collecting truffles, it was fortunate that Director Xu got the letter. If it fell into the hands of someone else, who knows what would have happened! In the past few years, how many people have suffered from letters of denunciation?"
Zhou Huaijun: "Grandpa is right. I heard that Uncle Xu's third son helps clean the town and only makes a dozen yuan a month. He can earn more than that in a day by collecting red mushrooms."
Zhou Huaishan thought about it and said, "Youngest, mushrooms are different from truffles. They will rot if you are not careful. When they collect the red mushrooms, whose part should the rotten part belong to?"
Zhou Huaian: "Of course the rotten ones belong to them! If we all want them, we might as well pay them five dollars a day and hire them to clean them up."
"Youngest," Zhang Xiuxiang said, "I think the price you set is not profitable, and you may even lose money. Think about it, they only make a dozen yuan for 100 kilograms of mushrooms, and after deducting the wages for hiring mules and horses, if a few kilograms of mushrooms rot, they will lose money."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan did some calculations and said, "Yes, if the price is really set at 3 or 4 cents per pound according to Second Sister-in-law's calculations, they will really lose money after deducting the loss and labor costs."
Zhou Huaian: "How about this, let's set the minimum purchase price at 30 cents per pound for first-class goods, and 10 cents per pound for second-class goods..."
Zhou Huairong interrupted him in surprise, "Is there a second prize this time?"
"There are second-class ones!" Yang Chunyan took out the fax sent by Wang Zhen, "The first-class ones are the big red mushrooms we sent last year. The second-class ones are smaller in size, but they must also be uniform in size, with intact caps and mushroom legs.
The purchase price of first-class goods in the provincial capital is the same as last year, so we still set it at 50 cents per pound. The second-class dry goods are sold at 6 yuan per pound, and we set the purchase price of fresh goods at 30 cents per pound. "
After hearing this, several people said happily: "Okay, if we have one more variety, we can make more money."
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "After discussing it, we will tell Uncle Datian and Uncle Xu the rules. With these two purchase prices, after deducting the loss and the money for hiring mules and horses, they will make a lot of money in a day.
Zhou Huaishan nodded, "Yes, there is at least 20 cents profit per pound, and the income for a month is not bad."
Zhou Huaijun thought about it and said, "Why the hell hasn't the youngest bear made any move yet?"
Zhao Huifang: "Yes, if we had known this, we would have made preparations long ago!"
Yang Chunyan: "The aunts have already agreed to come to our house to help when we start picking mushrooms. The dustpans and bamboo baskets have been prepared long ago. There is nothing else to prepare."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Brother, come with me to Uncle Datian and Uncle Xu, and second brother and second sister-in-law will go to Third Father's house to ask Huaizhong if he is willing to do it?"
The old man handed him the flashlight and umbrella, "Go! Come back soon as you promised."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian went out with a few others.
Yang Chunyan gave the child a bath, coaxed him to sleep in the cradle, and then she took a bath herself. Just as she came back from drying her hair and was about to let it dry for a while before going to bed, Zhou Huaian came back.
"What did Secretary Xu and Uncle Datian say?"
"After hearing this, both of them readily agreed. Secretary Xu said that he had nothing to do now, so he simply took Xu Lao San to the neighboring Yun Province to collect it. His family had ordered a tractor, and it would be just right to drive it to Ning'an the day after tomorrow.
Uncle Datian is going to Yunfeng to collect mushrooms from his mother-in-law. There are two towns over there, and the next province is just over the mountain. I haven't told Lao Xu and Li Wu yet. I'll call them when we go to pick mushrooms tomorrow."
"If we buy from several places, the coal we have at home won't last for a few days. You have to go and get two more trucks of coal tomorrow."
"I've already told my third brother to go!" Zhou Huaian wrung out the washcloth. "The hotel in the city will be renovated in a while, and we'll go there on the opening day."
"I don't think I've told my mom and dad about buying a house yet, huh?"
"Yeah! I told grandpa."
"Talk to them at lunch tomorrow."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Go to sleep! You're tired after a long day, and you have to get up early tomorrow."
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At the foot of the mountain, the youngest bear felt mixed emotions as he watched the rain gradually getting smaller. After the rain stopped, the mushrooms on the mountain grew with all their might. The whole mountain was full of money, but he could only watch others pocket the money.
Bastard, how come he has such good luck, even the heavens are helping him...
The Fang family did find out what it was. It was the red mushroom that no one in the mountains wanted. People over there called it red mushroom. However, no one in the boss's family who cooperated with him had ever made this before, so they asked him to send a batch over first and let them take a look before discussing the purchase.
Doctor Fang said he wanted to cooperate, but he didn't take out a penny of capital. He only had a little over 100 yuan left. What if this 100 yuan was also wasted...
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but curse, "Damn it, you have more tricks than a sieve, you want to make money but don't want to take any risks, you treat me as cannon fodder..."
Zhou Sufang saw him standing at the door of the main hall, "Youngest, didn't you say you wanted to collect mushrooms?"
The youngest Xiong took a puff of his cigarette and said irritably, "I would like to take it! I only have so little money..."
After hearing this, Zhou Sufang hurried over to sit next to him and said, "Youngest, your eldest brother's family should have some money. How about I go find him and tell them about the mushroom harvesting business? How about you brothers working together?"
The youngest bear sneered, "With people like them, you still want me to work with them. How could you come up with that?"
Zhou Sufang said angrily: "No matter what, you are brothers. It's better than you looking for outsiders to partner with you!" (End of this chapter)
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