Yang Weiguo said happily: "I followed the instructions of the teacher who came to Wang Zhen's house last time and pruned the peach and cherry trees. Then I used ropes to pull the branches down to shape them. After they grow and take shape, I don't need to climb the trees to pick the fruits anymore. I can just stand under the trees and pick them."
Zhou Huaian praised: "This is a good idea, brother, when can you come to my house and teach us how to prune the pear, peach, pepper and mango trees at home."
Brother Yang nodded readily, "I'll go after we finish harvesting the grain."
After the pears were carried into the yard, Wang Zhen picked one up and discovered that his family's golden flower snow pear was bigger than a big-bellied canning jar, and one person could not finish one.
After peeling the snow pear, the flesh is white, tender, juicy, sweet and refreshing. Xiao Jiuer also likes the taste of snow pear. He holds a piece and sits there chewing it until his chin is full of juice.
Everyone talked about some problems during the harvest this year. It turned out that Yang Weiguo's purchasing point and drying room in the neighboring Yunnan Province were also targeted by the cooperative. In the end, he adopted Zhou Huaian's method and harvested less himself and let them do the harvesting.
Brother Yang smiled and said, "I went to the town yesterday to do some work, and I heard from my classmates that Mr. Feng's purchase point in Hengshan Town was fined by the cooperative and two tractors of mushrooms were confiscated."
Zhou Huaian looked at him in surprise, "They only collect red mushrooms, how come they are also targeted by the rental society?"
"Later, they added morels and matsutake mushrooms, buying all kinds of them, big and small, and snatched up all the supply from the cooperative. Since they couldn't get any morels from there, they went after them!"
Brother Yang gloated, "I heard from an old classmate that they had just brought back two tractors of goods when they were stopped. The price of matsutake is not low, so they must have lost a lot of money."
Zhou Huaian sighed, "There's really no need to fight against stone with egg. I asked the people in Baicaoping, Baicaopao and Bailingshan to carry the mushrooms and sell them to the cooperative, and they stopped biting me."
Wang Zhen: "If you take a step back, you will have a broader horizon. I reduced the supply of televisions, refrigerators and tape recorders and replaced them with newer toys and school supplies. The profit is not much lower than that of selling electrical appliances."
Zhou Huaian looked at him in surprise, "Are you also afraid that they will bite you?"
Wang Zhen smiled and nodded, "My father is in that position, and I am a self-employed person, so I have to be more careful and cautious. If I am bitten by the enemy, it will be troublesome."
Zhou Huaian finally understood why he said it is better to be safe than sorry. "Yes, there is no need to provoke a mad dog. The little flat-headed guy from the cooperative even laughed at me in person for being as timid as a mouse!"
Brother Yang said with a smile: "It's good to be timid. The bold ones had two tractors of goods taken away. If it were me, I would not be able to sleep for several days."
Before they could finish their conversation, someone from the clinic came and called Wang Zhen and Yang Dongmei to help.
Yang Weiguo smiled and handed the passbook to Zhou Huaian. "Your family's dividends are all in the passbook. Thanks to my listening to you this year, I bought land over there to build a drying house. Otherwise, if we relied on the drying house in Yangjiapingzi, we wouldn't have even made half of last year's profit this year."
Zhou Huaian took it and looked at the passbook which showed 42,000 yuan. He then handed it to Yang Chunyan and said, "Look, you have done a good job this year, brother!"
"Brother, thank you for your hard work." Yang Chunyan thought that it might be because the weather here was drier than that in the neighboring Yunnan Province, and the mushroom resources were indeed not as good as those next door.
This year, the two families each gave half of their shares as a favor because they bought land and built a kiln there.
Zhou Huaian felt that his family only invested a little money every year, and they got so much money without even taking a look at it. Brother Yang brought people to work there, and he gave half of the shares to his brother.
The original 40% is now only 30%, but 30% of the shares is still more than 10,000 more than last year's 40%.
The family invested 13,000 yuan in total, including the purchase of land, a four-wheel tractor, and the construction of a drying house, plus start-up capital. After one season, the capital investment was earned back, and more than 20,000 yuan was earned plus assets.
Adding the 50% share of the family's earnings, this quarter's income is more than 100,000 yuan. No wonder I often heard people say in my previous life that in the first few years of opening up, as long as you dare to work hard, there are opportunities waiting for you everywhere.
Brother Yang was also very happy. "The Feng family took away a lot of the supply from our purchasing point. I heard that they even bought land in the town to build a baking house. Otherwise, there would be more than this."
Yang Chunyan said hurriedly: "Brother, this is already good. The purchasing point at home is taken care of by my sister-in-law and my husband. My husband has to go out to see patients from time to time. We are already very satisfied that the two of them can earn so much."
She felt that the supply of goods at her mother's purchasing point had decreased, mainly because the location of Yangjiaping Brigade was a bit remote, with only a few small villages near the village. It was normal for the supply of goods to be intercepted by the purchasing points in the town.
Zhou Huaian also nodded, "Brother, Yan'er is right. We are already very satisfied to be able to earn so much in one season."
Brother Yang was very happy to see that the two men trusted him unconditionally as before, “The truffles should be even better at the end of the year. The weather over there is more humid than here, and we can produce more than a thousand kilograms of truffles every day now.
A grill room is not cost-effective, so I built a small grill room with two floors. The bottom is a stove, and the top is like an oven. There are more than ten layers of grills, but it is much more convenient than an oven. I think you can make one and use it to bake large quantities of truffles when you collect them. "
Zhou Huaian: "Okay, draw a blueprint for me and I'll ask someone to build it when I get back."
"It's similar to the principle of firing a kiln." Brother Yang found a pen and paper, drew the blueprint and handed it to him, "Remember to transfer the money and give me the passbook."
Zhou Huaian took the blueprint and looked at it. "I'll go and save it later." Then he asked, "Brother, have you decided on the wine?"
"It's settled. Weimin said that almost all of their 50-proof liquor was ordered by us. He also said that the price of liquor may increase next year. He said that the price of sorghum has increased by another cent per pound this year."
"What's a one-cent increase? Planting crops is a loss. Look at the sorghum and corn this year. After working hard for a year, the harvest of one acre of land is not as profitable as what I get from growing herbs. After we harvest the sorghum and corn, we will plant mugwort on the remaining mountain land."
"They all planted mugwort?" Yang Weiguo looked at the two in surprise, "Did your grandfather and mother agree?"
He also harvested mugwort a few days before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, but there were few people in his family, and he harvested several thousand kilograms of mugwort in a few days. He brought it to sell a few days ago and made a few hundred yuan, but he never thought that he could grow it and sell it at home.
Zhou Huaian nodded proudly, "Why not? In the past two years, the money earned from selling the Viola yedoensis, dandelions, and plantains in the medicinal fields is much more than that earned from growing potatoes and sweet potatoes."
"The benefits of growing herbs are real and they have seen it. They all agreed as soon as we told them. My grandfather even asked Uncle Datian,
He said that if people use wasteland to grow cash crops, the higher-ups won’t care as long as the village doesn’t intervene, but they can’t occupy good farmland, otherwise all the land will be taken back.”
Yang Weiguo sneered, "If you want to take it back, just take it back. You can save yourself from paying the public grain tax and being bullied by those people! This year, they added an education surcharge. I paid for corn and sorghum but didn't get a penny. I even lost a few bucks."
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "So I think it's more cost-effective to grow mugwort. At least you don't have to plant it every year."
Yang Weiguo smiled and nodded, "Yes, we can't limit ourselves to a certain limit. I'll go back and ask someone to dig some to plant in the mountains."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Brother, when my family started digging mugwort to plant, many people in the village followed suit. We were able to plant more than ten acres of mountain land, and many of the seedlings were harvested from Baicaoping and Bailing Mountain."
Zhou Huaian took over the conversation, "Exactly, I didn't expect so many people to follow suit. I thought that only Ding Dingmao, Lao Xu, Lao Li and a few others who are used to following me would follow suit.
Who would have thought that Xu Laosan, Datian, Erchun, Ma Chunhua's family would also follow suit, and then dozens of families in the village would follow suit. However, none of them planted as much as my family and Ding Dingmao."
"Just wait and see next year. Once everyone has tasted the sweetness, they will definitely use more mountain land for planting."
"That's better. It saves me from running out to collect the goods."
Yang Chunyan looked at the time and said, "Huaian, Mom has been gone for more than an hour. Go down and take a look, and transfer the money to our account."
Zhou Huaian looked at Yang Weiguo, "Brother, shall we go down and take a look together?"
"Okay, I want to buy some things too." Yang Weiguo stood up and went out to pick up Xiao Jiuer who was having fun playing on the steps, "Yaoyao, come with uncle to the street to buy some candy."
"I don't want candy, I want a big train!" Little Jiuer pointed at the toy train on the ground and struggled not to let him hold her.
Among the toy cars that Yang Dongmei has, the little one’s favorite is the green train. Cars, buses and dolls are not as attractive as it.
"Okay, uncle won't hold him. The little guy is so busy playing that he doesn't even care about food." Brother Yang put him down and said to Zhou Huaian, "Wang Zhen brought back a lot of toys this time. Da Shuang and Xiao Shuang don't even go out every day. They just play with toys at home and have brought a bunch of babies home."
"These are rare goods this time. I guarantee that even the older ones in my family will rush to play with them when you take them home." Zhou Huaian walked out with him.
The two went to the bank first, deposited the money, and then walked to the corner. They saw that Li Qiuxia and her husband had added another table to their stall. One of them was busy selling popsicles, and the other was busy scooping ice powder. Gao Xiaobin was also helping.
Brother Yang went to Xinhua Bookstore to buy account books, and Zhou Huaian also bought some. When he saw there were new baby books, he bought some more.
The two of them carried the things out and walked to Wang Zhen's department store. After taking a look around, they saw that there were indeed many toys and some school supplies placed in the home appliance cabinets, and quite a few people were buying toys and school supplies.
The two men came out of the department store and saw a crowd of people in front of them. They heard bursts of gongs and shouting from inside. They went over and saw Zhou's mother carrying a monkey on her back, squeezing in the crowd to watch the fun. They leaned over to take a look and found that it was the monkey performer.
"Mom!" Zhou Huaian patted her and said with a playful smile, "So you were just watching the fun here. I thought you were waiting for the butcher to kill the pig and buy it!"
"You scared me. I thought it had three hands!" Zhou's mother rolled her eyes at him, turned around and saw Yang Weiguo, and then greeted him cheerfully, "Brother, I haven't been to our house to play for a long time. Come and play when you have time!"
"Okay, Aunt Nian, come to my house when you are free." (End of this chapter)
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