Chapter 248 Big Customer
The village chief swallowed his saliva and hurriedly replied: "Yes, we have everything. The other vegetables are not as abundant as the cabbage, and they are charged by kilogram.
White radish and carrots cost one penny for two catties, green cabbage costs three catties, and lettuce is more expensive, one penny for one catty.
Fresh ginger is even more expensive, costing three cents per pound! Right now, at the end of September, it's still tender ginger, too watery and lacking in flavor, making it less effective in removing fishy smells and dispelling cold. Do you think you should wait until November to buy some?
By then, it was old ginger, with a strong and spicy flavor, and for the same price, it was more cost-effective, wasn't it? "
These women are all big customers, and we can’t let people think that their village is not authentic. We have to make it clear.
Shen Qing didn't care whether the ginger flavor was strong or not. What she wanted in pickled ginger was fresh, tender and juicy. Old ginger was too spicy and not as suitable as young ginger. She said, "It's okay, let's start with 50 kilograms of young ginger."
I don’t know if it will be available in November. If it is, I will buy old ginger. If not, I will use pickled ginger to remove the fishy smell when cooking later.
“Eighty pounds of each of the two kinds of radish;
One hundred kilograms of Chinese cabbage;
Fifty kilograms of lettuce."
The others pulled Shen Qing and asked, "Radish and lettuce are fine, they can be stewed with meat and made into dried radish and lettuce, but what do you want so many green vegetables for?"
We also have some that we grow at home. When we stew them, they have a green smell and they don’t taste very good.
Shen Qing smiled and said, "I plan to use it to make pickled mustard greens and make pickled mustard greens and meat buns to eat in winter."
Many dishes can be made with pickled mustard greens, but she thinks this kind of large-leafed green vegetable is the most suitable because the flesh is thick and it won’t be dry when cooked.
The pickled mustard greens made from Chinese mustard greens and radish tops always seem too dry. It is best to pickle these two into small pickles and go with porridge.
Mustard greens are very suitable for making pickled mustard greens, but they are not available here.
Others are not thinking about making meat buns with pickled mustard greens in winter, but what they are thinking about is that after the rain comes next year, the vegetables in the vegetable garden will not grow out, and the fresh vegetables stored will be eaten up or cannot be kept. Then they can only rely on pickled sauerkraut, salted vegetables, and steamed and dried pickled mustard greens!
"Then I'll also order 100 kilograms of greens! The others, 50 kilograms each."
Anyway, pickled mustard greens are durable, so it’s okay to just leave them if you can’t finish them after making them.
"I want 50 kilograms, and the others 20 kilograms each."
"I want 80 kilograms each, and the others 30 kilograms each."
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Shen Qing asked again: "Do you want to buy the radish and cherry seeds? How much is it?"
The village chief felt that today's shock was just one wave after another. After hearing the question, he came to his senses and said hurriedly: "This is free. If you want it, it's free!"
The radish leaves are kept to feed chickens, ducks and geese. Even when there are green vegetables and cabbages, the chickens, ducks and geese will not eat the radish leaves, but will give priority to eating the green vegetables and cabbages. The poultry are also smart.
Some people also use it to make pickles, but as farmers who make a living from growing vegetables, they can’t finish all the delicious vegetables. Who would want to eat radish cherries?!
When the final bill was settled, it was found that Shen Qing bought the most, over a thousand kilograms for a total of 418 wen. The village chief simply rounded off the amount and charged 400 wen.
In addition, more than 200 kilograms of radish cherries were given as a gift.
Shen Qing accepted everything that came his way. He took the white radish seeds back to pickle them, and the carrot seeds back to feed the rabbits. Nothing was wasted.
Other families bought much less, mostly around two hundred wen.
Including Liu Cuihua and what she brought for her two sisters-in-law, more than ten families bought more than three taels of silver at once.
Not to mention the village chief, everyone in the village came out!
Going to the vegetable garden to chop cabbages, pull radishes, pull young ginger, and pluck lettuce leaves...
Shen Qing looked at the lettuces that had been pulled bare and felt sorry for the leaves on the ground.
She asked, "Can I take these lettuce leaves?"
The old woman who was plucking the leaves advised, "These leaves have a bitter taste and are not tasty. It would be a waste of oil and salt to cook them."
If they went to the city to sell vegetables and left a few extra lettuce leaves, they would be criticized - it was one cent per pound, and they were buying lettuce, so who would be willing to spend one cent to weigh lettuce leaves?
Shen Qing wanted to say that she just liked eating lettuce leaves, but seeing the old woman's sincere eyes, she changed her words and said, "...I have chickens and ducks at home, so I'll take them home to feed them."
Old woman: ....Poor chickens and ducks, eating these bitter leaves.
In the end, Shen Qing successfully packed back three sacks of lettuce leaves.
Shen Qing and his group thought these people were so nice that they were willing to give away any vegetable leaves!
After all, when they were in Qili Village, the vegetable fields were limited, and they were reluctant to throw away the vegetables, except for the dead leaves and even the yellow ones. They chopped them up and mixed them into the paste and cooked them together.
The people in Fugui Village also think that Shen Qing and his group are amazing!
They bought a lot and didn't bargain too hard. They took all the unpalatable and useless vegetable leaves and thanked them.
The people of Fugui Village waited until the vehicle was out of sight, but they still watched it go reluctantly.
"Village chief, is our Fugui Village's fortune turning? Is it really going to be rich?" Otherwise, how could we meet such a good customer!
The whole village earned more than three taels of silver in one go!
"I don't have to go to the city all the time to sell vegetables. How much money have I saved on the city entrance fee? I can have a good New Year this time!"
"There are a lot more victims of the disaster. Let's buy more things to stock up. The world may become unstable in the future."
"Okay! I wonder if they will come back to buy next year..."
It's rare to meet such a straightforward customer.
The village chief also wanted them to come back next year, but, "Don't think about it, you see they are heading towards Hulu Mountain, and judging from their accents, they are not from here. They must have just arrived this year and have no time to open up wasteland and plant crops.
Why don't we cultivate more wasteland to grow vegetables next year? Besides those in the city who have no place to grow vegetables and can only buy them, who would be willing to spend money to buy vegetables?"
The villagers of Fugui Village sighed in unison.
What the village chief is saying is, who among the farmers is willing to spend money to buy vegetables?
Just now, each family spent more than 200 coins. If they reclaimed two more mu of land to grow vegetables next year, wouldn't they save 200 coins?
On the way back, Zhao Mingyue, Liu Cuihua and others were also settling accounts.
"You said that just for the vegetables we just bought, we would need at least one or two acres of wasteland to reclaim, right? If we use this one or two acres to grow medicinal herbs, how much vegetables can we buy with the silver we harvest?"
"Yes, the vegetable garden still needs to be taken care of all the time, which is much more time-consuming and labor-intensive than growing medicinal herbs. How many more brushes can we make with this time and energy?"
"It's not that we don't grow any vegetables. This year, with so many vegetable plots, we can eat them all in summer and autumn. It's very convenient to pick them whenever you want.
There's no harvest this winter and spring, so let's go out and buy some more and store it. It only costs two or three hundred coins, and it's enough to last through the winter and early spring. It saves time and effort, and it's a great deal no matter how you calculate it."
"Next summer and autumn we can dry more vegetables for the winter, so we can buy less vegetables in the winter. But cabbage costs two cents a head, so even if we buy 70 or 80 kilograms less, we can only save 20 cents."
"We should be more diligent in collecting and planting medicinal herbs, and make more brushes to earn money. Compared to growing vegetables and grains, it is really labor-intensive and does not make money."
“Farmers really work hard to earn their money!”
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