"Who said it wasn't? I don't even have an appetite to eat now." Master Qi's voice also sounded weak.
"It's the same. I only have an appetite when I eat cold noodles now." After replying, Master Duan sighed, "It would be great if I could buy a fan."
"Compared to fans, I think relying on watermelons to beat the heat is more reliable." Then Master Song looked at Li Xu and said, "Xiao Li, how long will it take for the watermelons at the fertilizer factory to ripen?"
I don’t know why, but this summer is so hot that people are losing their energy.
What’s worse is that we can’t buy electric fans.
In the past, people did not have electricity at home, only factories and units had electricity. Even if there were electric fans, not many people would buy them.
Therefore, the supply and marketing cooperative only prepared two fans at that time to prevent any units from having such needs.
Tang County was not fully electrified until last year. By the time the electricity was connected, summer was almost over, so the supply and marketing cooperative applied to the higher authorities to allocate some fans to Tang County the following year.
Since the two fans had not been sold for several years, the supply and marketing cooperative did not dare to ask for more and planned to get a few to test the waters first.
As a result, this summer has been unusually hot.
Several fans were not sold out and were directly divided up by several salespeople.
As we all know, supplies are distributed according to plan these days, and the amount of supplies that each region can get is limited. This year, only a few fans were distributed to Tang County, and there is nothing we can do if they are not enough.
People were so angry that they scolded the director of the supply and marketing cooperative countless times. She was so angry that she sent documents to the municipal supply and marketing cooperative every day, hoping that they could get some fans.
It has been half a month since the first day of posting, and there is no news at all.
This made everyone think that there was no hope.
Speaking of the watermelons at the fertilizer factory, this was a short-term project that Li Mei came up with following Li Xu's advice.
Ever since Li Mei came back from Wuhan a few months ago, she has been very busy.
But this is understandable. In order to see the benefits as soon as possible, she is making progress in several aspects at the same time. How can she not be busy?
In fact, for Li Mei, there is only one problem that can make her embarrassed.
That is the number of fruit seedlings.
It's not so difficult to grow trees like peaches that have a slow growth period, as Li Mei has time to cultivate the seedlings. But it's different with watermelons. If you miss a year of this, you'll lose a year's worth of money.
Watermelons generally ripen from May to September, but in Tang County it is in late June or early July.
If Li Mei wants to make some money from watermelons this year, she needs to find a large number of watermelon seeds in a very short time.
This is not an easy task.
For this purpose, she also offered a reward throughout Tang County, and would give financial compensation to anyone who could provide watermelon seeds.
It turns out that this trick really worked and allowed her to get a large amount of seeds.
However, the germination rate of these seeds from the previous year is a bit low. Even though Li Mei used several germination methods, only a few of them sprouted.
Many owners of these seeds do not know how to preserve them. They just want to keep the seeds and bury them in the ground this year. Whether they can grow melons depends on fate.
It would be a pleasure if it grows, but there is no loss if it doesn't.
It is precisely because of this mentality that many seeds are not preserved properly and cannot germinate.
Because it takes a long time to harvest and germinate, it is already mid-July and the watermelons grown by the fertilizer factory are not ripe yet.
Hearing the question, Li Xu thought for a moment and replied, "It will only be a matter of a few days, but the price of these watermelons will not be low, so you should be mentally prepared."
"I understand. In this awful weather, it would be absurd not to sell at a high price. Besides, your sister spent a lot of money on watermelon seeds. If she doesn't sell them at a higher price, she won't be able to make back her money."
"It's all understood. Don't forget, if the watermelon is sweet, don't eat the seeds. The fertilizer factory will recycle them."
In fact, the seeds that can be preserved are all produced from watermelons of good quality.
There is no need to save the seeds of poor quality melons, and no one would think of keeping them for planting.
Of course, the good quality of the previous generation does not mean that the quality of this generation is also good. We can only say that there is a greater hope.
"I know. To be honest, Xiao Li, if the director of the fertilizer factory wasn't your sister, I wouldn't be willing to spend this effort for a few cents." Master Wang groaned.
"That's right. It's too troublesome to make money from this. Not only do the watermelon seeds have to be cleaned, but they also have to be free of damage. Not only that, but we even have to leave a small piece of watermelon for the people from the fertilizer factory to taste whether it's sweet or not." Master Qi quickly agreed.
Someone had sold watermelons before, and the fertilizer factory had informed the entire city of its requirements for purchasing watermelon seeds, so everyone knew the requirements.
Liu Gang interjected, "If the fertilizer factory doesn't do this, who knows what kind of melons the seeds they send us will produce? This is actually for everyone's benefit. If they're not stricter, and a lot of low-quality seeds get mixed in, we melon buyers will be the ones who suffer in the future."
"That's right. If it weren't for the buyer, the fertilizer factory wouldn't want to go through so much trouble." Li Xu followed up with an explanation.
These days, when buying watermelons, there is no choice at all. You can't try them, and you can't return them if the quality is poor. Whether you buy a good watermelon or a bad one depends entirely on luck.
If Li Mei wants to keep this business going for a long time, she must work hard to improve the quality of watermelons.
However, if we want to improve the quality now, we can only work hard on the source of seeds and try to use seeds produced by good melons for planting.
It is for this reason that Li Mei formulated such seed harvesting requirements.
Although doing so may lead to fraud, it is indeed the best method that fertilizer factories can use.
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