Just after the New Year, all the pigs raised there were slaughtered. Now even if you want to eat meat, you don’t have to worry about it. It’s just the right time to release a batch of pork.
Just because poor families can’t afford to buy it doesn’t mean that people with more money won’t buy fresh meat.
This time she was targeting those who had enough money.
This time, Shen Ruofei thought that since it was just after the holiday, there wouldn't be many people buying pork, so she only ordered ten kilograms of pork.
One jin is about half a pig's leg.
The pigs raised on Yi Xiaoqiu's farm are not small. When a pig is slaughtered, the net pork weight is three kilograms, and this is the result of her asking the housekeeper to control it.
Nowadays, pigs are fed with coarse grains. From the beginning to the end of a pig's life, it weighs at most two kilograms, and the net pork is only a little over one kilogram, which is incomparable to the pigs on Yi Xiaoqiu's farm.
Yi Xiaoqiu didn't expect that Shen Ruofei would only order one kilogram of pork.
Shen Ruofei was a vendor in the county town, so the demand for her meat was definitely greater than that of the men down there. Yi Xiaoqiu felt very sorry for her, but she didn't say much.
Everyone has their own ideas, and she has no intention of influencing other people's ideas.
Su Mianmian ordered a whole pig. She didn't know much about people's livelihood, so she sold as many as she wanted.
Fortunately, this was the 1970s when supplies were scarce. If she had done business like this in later times, she would have lost everything in a matter of minutes.
Song Ying also ordered a pig. She often exchanged some game for money with people on the black market and knew how much the people in the city needed meat.
Lu Huaian and Xie Xingzhi each ordered only 30 kilograms of meat. As the temperature gradually rose, if they took too much meat, they would not be able to sell it because it would not last long. Since it was their first time selling, it would be better to take less meat.
This time, Yi Xiaoqiu did not collect the money for the pork first because of her personal reasons. She had delayed everyone for so long. Spring plowing was about to begin, and the goods would not be sold for long. Yi Xiaoqiu simply asked everyone to sell the meat and then pay for the pork.
This time, she didn't deliberately stagger their times to pick up the goods. They had all been picking up the goods for such a long time, they probably had some tacit understanding!
Besides, spring plowing is just around the corner and no one wants to postpone getting the goods.
Yi Xiaoqiu simply arranged it all for one day.
It was the day after Yi Xiaoqiu returned from work.
The next morning, Yi Xiaoqiu asked the housekeeper to slaughter three pigs.
After they set off, Yi Xiaoqiu divided the pork into pieces according to the quantity they wanted and put them into baskets.
Su Mianmian and Song Ying's tricks, they killed one after another.
Shen Ruofei, Xie Xingzhi and the other two could not divide up the whole pig, so Yi Xiaoqiu simply kept the remaining 100 pounds to make sausages.
Since several people only wanted meat, pig heads and pig feet, Yi Xiaoqiu kept them for himself and asked the housekeeper to braise them and make braised meat.
By the time Yi Xiaoqiu finished his work, the whole morning had passed.
Yi Xiaoqiu didn't know that it was not only Shen Ruofei who ran there from the county town, but Song Ying also went to the county town this time.
Song Ying finally saw clearly that Uncle Yi Xiaoqiu was a man of his own ability.
Since this is not a long-term business, she can't just stay in a few nearby towns. She needs to go to a bigger place to make money quickly.
The county town is her first step, so these pork are the most suitable to open up the market.
Anyway, whatever shape the things are put into her space, they can be taken out in the same shape. It is a golden finger for convenient transportation of goods.
Su Mianmian gave the pork to Ge Quan as usual this time.
The two are already acquaintances.
Without saying anything, Ge Quan bought all the more than two catties of pork at eight cents per catty.
They get it for eight taels of silver per pound, and their brothers buy it on the black market, selling it for at least one dollar and fifty cents, so it's a good deal.
Yi Xiaoqiu knew the price of pork on the black market, and her price was really not high. By setting this price, everyone could make a profit.
Xie Xingzhi and Lu Huaian set up a stall together in the black market.
The other lesbians are all traffickers.
Make money quickly and easily.
Sure enough, Yi Xiaoqiu guessed correctly. Shen Ruofei and the others only made three trips, and after a spring rain, spring plowing began.
The first month is spent in raising seedlings.
The Seventh Company has a lot of fertile land, most of which is used to grow rice, with only a small amount of dry land used to grow high-yield sweet potatoes and potatoes.
The whole month was spent by everyone in the seedling cultivation.
Sweet potatoes and potatoes are a little easier to make. Yi Xiaoqiu has experience in making them. He just needs to bury the sweet potatoes in the soil. Cut the potatoes into pieces, roll them twice in wood ash, and then dig a hole and bury them in the soil. It is not difficult.
But, raising rice seedlings is a very tiring process.
The seedbed must be prepared little by little. The top layer of mud cannot be large lumps of soil, but must be a layer of fine and soft mud, smooth and slippery, without a single weed.
Yi Xiaoqiu had been struggling with the seedling bed in front of her for a long time, her waist bent, and she was so tired that her waist could not even move.
She looked at her masterpiece with satisfaction, then shouted to the team leader.
"Team Leader, am I qualified?"
Yao Zhiguo walked over across the water in the field, took a look, and coldly spat out the three words "unqualified".
Yi Xiaoqiu looked at the neatly-made seedling bed in front of her and felt like she was about to become autistic. She thought it was already perfect!
It was so perfect, covered with rare earth that she had crushed carefully. It was so soft that she wanted to lie on it.
How could the team leader, with a mouth that was only 38 degrees Celsius, say such cold words?
Yao Zhiguo saw that Yi Xiaoqiu was not convinced, so he took a wooden rake and used it to make a straight line on both sides of the seedbed.
"If you put some on the noodles, you'll pass."
What else can Yi Xiaoqiu say? People have demonstrated it to you personally.
She looked at the seedbed that looked like a block of tofu and was speechless.
She worked on the surface carefully, but she didn't pay much attention to the edges, so they were crooked. After the team leader did that, they looked like tofu just out of the oven, but not the soft kind, but the black kind.
People at that time had a perverted obsession with food and had very strict requirements for production. It can be said that they treated crops like their ancestors.
If the troops of the Seventh Company wanted to plant rice, they would need to grow a lot of seedlings. It took the entire team a whole day just to prepare the seedbeds.
Sow the seeds the next day and cover with plastic film.
After the rice was planted, everyone started planting sweet potatoes and potatoes without stopping.
In short, once the weather warms up, farmers have no rest unless it rains.
Even when it rains, only some women and the elderly can stay at home, while the men have to go to the fields. If there is too much water in a field, they have to use a hoe to dig a hole in the ridge to let the water out, so as not to drown the rice seedlings.
There is a lot of rain in spring, and it rains continuously for several days.
Schools were also shut down.
Yi Xiaoqiu took this opportunity to rest for a few days.
Shen Ruofei and the others did not rest. They took this opportunity to order a lot of pork and went out to make money.
Because Song Ying knew the secret of the space, she never brought Lan Zhiqing with her when she sold goods.
Su Mianmian is the same, she always goes out alone to sell goods.
So these days, the people in the backyard and Xie Zhiqing and Lu Zhiqing went out early and came back late every day, except Yi Xiaoqiu.
It's not that no one has suspected that a few people went out to speculate, but they always went out empty-handed, and it doesn't look like it. Who goes out to sell agricultural products without big and small boxes?
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