Chapter 70 No Money Again

"How much did you pick?"

"Five pounds. We picked some in the past two days. How about you? I see your whole family went out to pick. How many pounds did you pick?"

"It's twelve pounds."

"So much? Then you can make a lot of money, I only make one dollar for five pounds."

"I don't know when the harvest will be ready. We should pick more now and make more money. We have a big family, so if we pick more, the expenses will be high. Everyone needs to eat, so such a good opportunity is rare."

"Yeah, well, we're here. Leave the tea here."

"There was a note inside, but I don't know what it said."

"I can't read either. Take it down to show it to the village chief. Put down the tea leaves and let's go. They don't want to meet us, so we should stay here for a while."

"Coming soon."

A group of people dropped the tea leaves down the mountain and soon found the village chief: "This should be what that person left. Let's see what he wrote. Could it be that he won't accept tea leaves anymore? We should have sent hundreds of kilograms of tea in the past few days."

The village chief took the note, looked at the people who came over, put the note in front of his eyes and squinted. After reading it, a smile immediately appeared on his face: "Good, this is good. It says here that the more tea leaves, the better. No matter how much we give, that person is willing to accept it."

"Really? Any amount is fine? Well, well... my mother's family also has tea leaves, would you like to buy some?"

"Yes, yes, several of my relatives are picking tea leaves, can they bring some over too?"

"Village chief?"

The village chief glanced at the note again and nodded, "You can go get it, but let's make it clear in advance that this matter involves everyone in our village. Whoever tells any family member about it must register it and take fingerprints to ensure that it is not told to anyone."

"Yes, yes, they will definitely be willing to take fingerprints."

"That's great. I'll ask my kids to notify the relatives."

"Okay, okay."

…

The tea business can be done, and Tang Yuan naturally thinks the more the better. While it is still the tea season, he will pick as much tea as possible.

As for whether to reveal it or not, she was not too worried. The worst that could happen was that she would stop doing the tea business. Anyway, there was a barrier in between, and no one would think that the one who was actually doing the business was "Xiao Mei".

However, the most direct reason why she can do this is that she only buys here and does not sell nearby. This point alone can eliminate at least nine-tenths of the risk.

In today's market environment, those who receive money often won't tell others about it, but those who spend money are likely to report it out of anger. The ones who are most worried about her failure in business are definitely not her, but the villagers who want to make money by selling tea.

Not long after the message on the note was delivered, the amount of tea delivered that day was dozens of kilograms more than before. She estimated that the news of collecting tea had spread outside, and many people outside had not started picking tea on a large scale yet. These dozens of kilograms were probably picked for their own drinking.

But for her, no matter what the reason is, as long as the tea is fine, it's fine.

However, when she was harvesting tea leaves, she still saw people who wanted to "cut corners".

If you really want to fry tea leaves, the whole tea plant can be fried, but tea trees are just like ordinary trees, with young leaves and old leaves. Young leaves are the best, with distinct roots, while old leaves are the worst, not only do they taste bad, but they also look bad.

However, picking young leaves is very time-consuming, but picking old leaves is much easier. You can easily grab a handful of them. At this rate, picking dozens of kilograms a day is not a problem.

It's not that tea made from old leaves is not drinkable, but everyone is picking young leaves, and this family is picking old leaves. It's really unfair. She didn't want to be taken advantage of, so she wrote a note and stuck it on the tea made from the bag of old leaves, and put an empty bag next to it.

This bag of tea made from old leaves can be sold, but she is only willing to buy it at a price of one cent per pound. If you are willing, you can take the money, put the tea in the empty bag and leave. If you are not willing, you can just take the tea away.

But if you dare to use roasted old leaves as young leaf tea next time, she will stop buying from you.

The writing on the note was very clear, and there was a bag of tea that had not been taken away. Soon, someone who could read was called up to identify it. After confirming what was written on the note, everyone in the village was extremely angry. They carried the bag of old leaf tea down the mountain and gathered everyone in the village to beat the man up.

Finally, the village chief sent her a handwritten note apologizing and promising that such a thing would never happen again.

At the end of the guarantee note, there were fingerprints pressed one after another, proving that everyone in the village knew about the guarantee note.

After getting the guarantee, Tang Yuan gave everyone some sweet dates and returned a note stating that after the tea season, old leaves could be purchased at a price of one cent per pound, but in the current process of purchasing young leaves, old leaves could not be used as young leaves.

It is easy to pick old leaves, and you can grab a handful at a time. But according to the current price situation, it takes the time to pick two or three pounds of young leaves to pick forty to sixty pounds of old leaves. There are no other tools at the moment, so the burden on the opponent at the end of the day will be huge.

So nowadays, when people can pick young leaves, no one will pick old leaves. But when the season is over and the young leaves have grown old, people can still pick old leaves to make some money, and many people will be happy to do so.

After the transaction details were confirmed, the villagers were very happy. Xiaomei, the original middleman, also gained a lot of benefits, mainly various kinds of food. Unknowingly, she had stockpiled goods in her game space.

…

"Here, here, this is where they sell tea, right?"

"Yes, it's here," Tang Yuan just came over and saw some people coming in groups. He immediately spread out the thick cloth he had prepared in advance and put down the bags full of tea leaves. "These are all new tea leaves from this year. Look, the roots are clearly visible. These tea leaves are all good."

"One ounce and a half is still a bit expensive. We are going to use it to cook something, and we just want it to have a little tea flavor."

"Then you can come back after a while. We will collect a batch of old tea by then. The quality is not as good as this batch, but they all have tea flavor and the price will be much cheaper," Tang Yuan said. "It will be better to buy this tea to drink tea. If your family does not have the habit of drinking tea often, just buy two or three taels and use it to entertain guests when they come."

"That's fine. Then give me three ounces, no, four ounces of tea leaves," the other party said, taking money from his wallet, "that's exactly two yuan."

Tang Yuan nodded, looked up, and saw a familiar wallet in the other person's hand. He subconsciously said, "This wallet is very exquisite."

"Yeah, I think so too. It's only a few dollars, so it's easy to carry when you go out," the other person shook the wallet in his hand, "It's very convenient to use. If you don't have anything else to do when you go out, you only need to bring such a small wallet."

Someone nearby was curious: "Where did you buy it? How much is it?"

"It's only five bucks, and it's just..."

Tang Yuan lowered his head again, wrapped the four ounces of tea leaves the other party had requested in some old newspaper, tied a thin string around it, and handed it to the guest.

At this moment, the customer next door got the address of the wallet and nodded: "Then I'll go check it out tomorrow. I have to go there every once in a while."

Tang Yuan smiled and curled his eyes.

This is called killing two birds with one stone, selling both tea and wallets, doing one thing and making two profits.

"Give me a pound of tea, I want the good ones. I bought some yesterday and my family said they were good. The tea I bought elsewhere is not as good as yours, and your tea is cheap," the other party paid, "Give me two pounds, it's new this year, you can keep it longer."

"Okay, it's still the same as before. I'll give you two packages for one kilogram. If you want more, I'll wrap it with an extra layer of old newspapers." Tang Yuan stacked up the newspapers and packed the tea leaves skillfully. Two kilograms of tea could be divided into four packages.

It was the time to buy vegetables. The market was bustling with people. As soon as the last customer left, the next customer would come. Sometimes, there would even be two or three customers queuing up to buy tea.

Tang Yuan brought 50 kilograms of tea leaves today, hoping that they would last longer. However, as more people came, her 50 kilograms of tea leaves were quickly sold out. Even after they were sold out, there were still many customers waiting to buy.

Faced with this situation, she couldn't say she would come tomorrow, so she could only say she had to go back to get it.

"You guys can go shopping in the market now, or take your shopping home. I'll come back in an hour, okay?"

Everyone was in high spirits today, so naturally they would not refuse and nodded in agreement.

Tang Yuan packed up his things and hurried home, bringing back another fifty kilograms of tea.

This time, there were fewer people in the market, but she still managed to sell 30 kilograms of tea.

In this way, she sold a total of 80 kilograms of tea today, and at 8 yuan per kilogram, she earned 640 yuan.

She sold tea quickly in Hong Kong and collected tea quickly on the other side. The population of the village below was large, and the people in the village had relatives from all over the place. In addition, tea was produced in abundance nearby, so she could collect two to three hundred kilograms of tea on average every day.

With this amount, based on a one-month tea season, there would be at least 6,000 kilograms of tea.

Such a quantity could not be sold in just one market, so every evening when she went to deliver the small purse, she would set out early, bring dozens of kilograms of tea, and sell it at the entrance of the big market as soon as she got off the bus.

The big market had a large flow of people, and the dozens of kilograms of tea she brought each time would be sold out in no time, which did not hinder her from handing over the small wallet before dark.

In this way, I collected and sold at the same time, collecting two or three hundred kilograms and spending forty or fifty, and selling eighty or ninety kilograms and earning six or seven hundred.

After transferring the money from one hand to the other for about half a month, she was surprised to find that her RMB was not enough again.

Since she started her business, her two largest sources of income have been from selling apples. She earned RMB 400 from 400 kilograms of apples, and from reselling Rolex watches. She paid more than HKD 6,000 for a Rolex and received RMB 1,000.

I thought that the 1,400 yuan would be enough to pay for knitting sweaters and embroidering for at least a year and a half.

As a result, I spent six or seven hundred yuan just collecting tea in half a month!

Help! I’m out of money again!