"Old Yu, I see all the garlic sprouts in the small shed in the backyard are ripe. We can't eat them all at home, so we might as well harvest them and sell them to the supply and marketing cooperative."
"Okay, this thing is a bit troublesome. It can't be exposed to the sun and needs to be covered with a layer of straw. But it can be harvested four or five times."
"We'll sell a few crops and then we won't cover them with thatch. We'll let them continue to grow into small garlic sprouts for our own consumption after the New Year."
Yu Yuan excitedly circled his plot, watching this one ripen today and that one ready to eat tomorrow. His mood was always full of joy.
"Mom, let me go with you to sell it."
He has grown up without any good thing happening in Old Yu's family, and he has never been to the supply and marketing cooperative once.
His parents now love them very much and have become bolder.
Yu Weimin stroked his son's hair and said with a smile.
"Sure, Xiaorou and Xiaoyuan have hardly ever been to the city. Let's go together as a family."
Yu Yuan jumped three feet high.
"Hey, Dad! I'll go borrow a cart and we'll load the vegetables onto it and push it over."
Yu Weimin and Cao Xiu began to remove the thatch and plastic film, and Yu Rou took a sickle to cut the garlic sprouts.
"Mom, I won't go. It takes half a day to go there and back, and I can weave four or five small baskets."
She braids ten and sells ten a day, saving over thirty yuan. Money in hand brings peace of mind. She's determined to earn more, and to ease the burden on her family.
"Let's go. Don't stay at home all the time. Let's go for a walk today."
This eldest daughter is good in every way: pretty, sensible, considerate, and hardworking. She keeps the house tidy. But she's too introverted.
Cao Xiu thought that she should take her out more often in the future to exercise.
This small greenhouse is one meter wide and twenty meters long. After all the crops are harvested and tied up in bundles with straw ropes, they weigh more than three hundred pounds.
A small cart couldn't hold it all, so Yu Yuan went out and borrowed another one.
The two carts were filled with garbage piled high and covered with straw mats, so the people pushing the carts could not see the road ahead at all.
"My daughter and I will go ahead and lead the way for you."
On the way out of the village, Cao Xiu and Yu Rou were walking in front, followed by two carts, which quickly attracted people's attention.
"Xiu'er, what are you pushing? Where are you going?"
Cao Xiu looked at the person who came down. It was a woman who had a good relationship with the original body. She was originally a neighbor of the Old Yu family.
"Aunt Lin, she's grown some vegetables in her own plot of land. She can't eat them all, so she's thinking of selling them to the supply and marketing cooperative for some money."
As Cao Xiu spoke, she walked to the cart, lifted the straw mat, and took out a handful of garlic sprouts.
"Grow it yourself, take it home and try it."
Aunt Lin found it very strange when she took it in her hand.
"What is this?"
People in the village rarely go out to buy vegetables, so Aunt Lin has never seen garlic sprouts.
Cao Xiu smiled and said, "This is what Wei Min grew with garlic. It's freshly cut and looks like leeks. It won't keep well. It's delicious when you stir-fry it at home."
Aunt Lin was even more surprised.
"How can you grow something in the middle of winter?"
Cao Xiu explained, "We have a few greenhouses at home. You can go and have a look tomorrow when you have time. We are busy going to the city, so we will leave first."
Aunt Lin waved her hand while holding the garlic sprouts: "Okay, go ahead."
After the family of four left, the villagers gathered around Aunt Lin and looked at the garlic sprouts with curiosity.
"Wei Min is really talented! These vegetables are very fresh and tender. How much would two large carts of them cost?"
"Yes, you can still grow vegetables in winter. Why don't we go and have a look tomorrow?"
Word spread quickly, and soon the whole village knew that Yu Weimin's family grew vegetables and sold them to the supply and marketing cooperative.
Li Yongde, Zhao Qianjin and Guo Min naturally heard it as well.
Before, they only thought of growing these vegetables to eat themselves, but now Yu Weimin actually took them to sell for money.
Can't we exchange the money from selling this for food? That's what it means to have a full meal!
Guo Min sighed, "Uncle Wei Min is really smart. He actually sold the vegetables to the supply and marketing cooperative."
Li Yongde felt anxious and stood up.
"Come on, don't delay any longer, let's go door to door."
The cart full of vegetables was difficult to push, and it took the family of four nearly three hours to get to the city.
Feng Xudong, manager of the supply and marketing cooperative, received them personally.
"Auntie, you said you wanted to sell us some vegetables?"
"It's not just one batch. There should be other vegetables in a few days. Do you want to pick them?" The chives at home can grow several crops and need to be sold.
"Take it! How can I not take it?"
There is a severe shortage of vegetables in the city now, and cabbage and radishes are rarely sold.
"Auntie, this is garlic sprouts?"
His family is well-off. His father is the deputy director of the commune and his mother is the women's director of the commune.
When garlic sprouts are ripe, although they are rare among locals, they can still occasionally appear on his family’s table.
"This stuff smells so good when scrambled with eggs. Where did you get it?"
Cao Xiu asked, "Don't worry about where you got it, how much would you like it for?"
Feng Xudong thought for a moment and said, "Auntie, you know that vegetables are scarce in winter. Plus, garlic sprouts are rare, so they must be valuable."
"But prices in our small county aren't high. Cabbage is only a penny a pound. I'll charge you a dime a pound for the garlic sprouts. Is that okay with you?"
He didn't plan to keep the garlic sprouts here to sell. He thought of finding a car to take them to the city and selling them wholesale to the city's supply and marketing cooperative for 1.5 cents.
The city has many factories and wealthy people, and the supply and marketing cooperatives there are also large. At 20 cents a pound, people are probably rushing to buy it.
Cao Xiu said cheerfully: "Okay, why not?"
This is ten times more expensive than cabbage, which is quite good.
Feng Dongxu asked someone to unload the truck and weigh the goods, and Yu Rou came forward with a basket.
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