The team leader, led by County Magistrate Wang, came to Lin Qingmei.
"Lin Qingmei, the team wants to leave early. Please arrange for people to load the crabs as early as possible."
"County Magistrate Wang, you are making things difficult for me. We don't have enough workers to begin with, and now we have to hoist the crab cages and tie up the crabs. It won't be done quickly." Lin Qingmei now wished she had three heads and three arms, as it was the busy farming season.
Everyone in the village had to go harvest rice and corn, so she wanted to hire some temporary workers to help her tie crabs, but she couldn't find any.
There are only eleven employees working at the farm now, and everyone is overwhelmed.
"If there is no one in your production team, you can go to the next door Hongqi Brigade to ask for help. I will ask my secretary to go there right away and try to find as many people as possible to help." After saying this, County Chief Wang signaled to the secretary behind him to ask him to go to the Hongqi Brigade.
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After receiving instructions from his leader, County Magistrate Wang's secretary hurried to the Red Flag Brigade. Not long after, he came back with a group of people, including Commander Yang and Yang Hongmei, whom Lin Qingmei had met.
Lin Qingmei and Yang Hongmei nodded slightly and pretended not to know each other, then turned around and enthusiastically greeted the others who came to help.
Yang Hongmei and Commander Yang stood aside without saying a word. The two girls were from the cowshed and it was not appropriate for them to get too close to other people.
Yang Hongmei's hands and feet were numb, but she tied the crabs very quickly. Before others started, she had already tied more than ten crabs.
Although Commander Yang had never done this job before, he learned it quickly. The other members of the Red Flag Brigade were also experts in tying crabs, and gradually, everyone caught up with the speed of putting up the crab cages.
With everyone's concerted efforts, all the crabs were finally loaded onto the truck.
After the convoy slowly drove away, Lin Qingmei finally breathed a sigh of relief. She was really too tired today. Not only did she have to watch everyone put up the crab cages, but she also had to help tie up the crabs. Her hands were still sore.
In the office, Lin Qingmei and Lin Jianguo were calculating the profits from selling crabs.
"I figured it out. We bought a total of 21,500 crabs this time and received 11,000 yuan in payment. Our usual feed, electricity, and machine costs add up to more than 50,000 yuan. We have a total of 50 crab ponds, and on average each crab pond costs more than 1,000 yuan. We have already fished 20 crab ponds today, which means the cost is more than 20,000 yuan. We are losing money."
Lin Jianguo was very happy at first to receive so much payment for the goods, but when he finished calculating the total bill, he completely collapsed.
How could this happen? They worked so hard, but still ended up losing money.
"It's normal to have losses in the early stages. The biggest investment in our farm is these machines. We should be able to make a profit in the future." Lin Qingmei accepted the fact that she had to pay out of pocket after working so hard for a while. After all, the farm had such a huge investment, it would be good enough if she could get her money back in the second or third stages.
Lin Jianguo sighed, "I hope so. We have to plan carefully from now on and try to make back our investment this month. We still have 30 crab ponds and can make another 10,000 or 20,000 yuan."
"Hey, don't be so sad. We sold our crabs today, you should be happy. It's too late to celebrate today. I'll go to the county town tomorrow morning to buy some pork and we'll have a snack at noon."
"Thank you, Director. I will tell everyone about the extra meal tomorrow so that everyone can have some fun tonight." When Lin Jianguo heard that there would be meat for lunch tomorrow, his previous depression disappeared.
No matter how much money the farm makes, it will never go into his hands, but he can eat a few more pieces of meat every day at noon.
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