First of all, these melon seeds are what some people call black melon seeds, the thick-skinned ones, which are different from sunflower seeds. There are many types of sunflower seeds. For example, the black ones that are pressed for oil are called sunflower seeds, and the ones that are usually fried are called sunflower seeds. They produce less oil and are suitable for frying.
There are also white and slender ones that are now called horse tooth melon seeds. The ones about the same size as sunflower seeds are generally used to cook spiced melon seeds.
This is a digression, so I won’t go further.
The person who came to Liang Dacheng was Xu Jianjun. He didn't fish for it this year and was a little resentful towards Li Long, but there was nothing he could do. Who made him do so many things last year?
Of course, Xu Jianjun didn't think it was his fault. He felt that Li Long didn't want to see him. Later, after the editor-in-chief was over, each of those people received more than 300 yuan, which he envied.
It cost more than 300 yuan. At that time, we had several bicycles added to the team. I was really envious!
But envy is envy, and there is nothing he can do if others don’t want him.
Later, when Zhang Qiang caused trouble when he made a big broom, Xu Jianjun sent the big broom he made to Zhang Qiang. Anyway, he made the same money, and sending it here could make Li Long disgusted. Why not?
It's a pity that Zhang Qiang didn't survive. In the end, he had to go to Shicheng with a big broom from dawn to dusk to set up a stall. He was almost exhausted to death, but he still didn't dare to complain to his father-in-law Wang Tiansheng.
Also a coward.
He spent more than 100 yuan on a large broomstick, and his pockets were bulging, so he wanted to see if he could borrow some money to buy a bicycle.
There are more and more people with bicycles in the village, and he is jealous.
As a result, I heard that the three brothers of the Liang family were following Li Long to get melons.
Although Xu Jianjun had objections to Li Long, he knew that Li Long’s style of work meant that when people were asked to do work, they would definitely have to pay for it. Originally, Tao Daqiang must have had a part in this job, but now everyone in the village knew that Tao Daqiang was accompanying his wife to prepare for the birth of a baby, so they excluded him.
Li Long saved Liang Shuangcheng's life, and it was normal for him to have a good relationship with the three Liang brothers. Xu Jianjun came here to ask how much Li Long paid them.
"Jianjun is here." Although Liang Dacheng didn't like this guy, he was here and he was not a mortal enemy, so he had to say hello to those who should say hello.
Fortunately, most people in the village are not eating this evening, and there is no need to let anyone go. The conditions at their home are slightly better than in previous years. I guess they will just drink some sweet soup and eat some cakes during their stay.
"I heard that you went to the Li family to work in the melon field today?" Xu Jianjun was standing in the yard, chatting with Liang Dacheng.
"Well, go squeeze the melon seeds." Liang Dacheng said casually, "Well, you want to go too?"
"That can't be done, I can't go even if I want to. Besides, I’ve just finished tying the broom, so I don’t have the time to work anymore. Isn’t it comfortable to stay at home?” Xu Jianjun said this deliberately.
"That's true." Liang Dacheng didn't argue. If you talk about this kind of thing with such a person, if you don't get it out, it will be spread out in a distorted way.
"How much will Li Long pay you if you work for a day?" Xu Jianjun asked directly when he saw that Liang Dacheng did not continue.
"Ten yuan."
"Ten yuan? So little?" Xu Jianjun pretended to be surprised, "It costs more than ten or twenty yuan to stick a broom for a day, but it costs more than a day to beat melons. Are you tired?”
"Young Master?" Liang Dacheng said happily, "Jianjun, please find me a job that can earn ten yuan a day. Let alone ten yuan, eight yuan will do. As long as you can find him, I will do it every day." , you can do it in winter!”
Xu Jianjun stopped talking, he couldn't speak!
Why do you think ten yuan is too little? Isn't it because Li Long did three big jobs for the team in one year, weaving lifting handles, tying large brooms, and making reed handles.
It is only a few people who make money, let’s not mention it for now. Everyone in the village can participate in this activity of making big brooms and reeds. These activities allow each family in the village to earn an average of several hundred yuan.
If you are rich, some people will look down on ten dollars a day.
Of course, Li Long took this into consideration when he was able to offer ten yuan. He doesn't lack this little money, and he also wants to find people from the village. Otherwise, you can find people from other villages for five yuan a day, or even three yuan a day.
But that's not necessary. I spend most of my time in the county, but my eldest brother, including my parents and family, are still in the team, so I have to leave some favors.
Besides, the three Liang brothers have a good relationship with Li Long, so Li Long is willing to make money for them.
Xu Jianjun also came to his senses, yes, when did he start to feel that he shouldn’t do a job worth ten dollars a day? Ten yuan. Two years ago, when the land was not divided, some people had less than ten yuan left over at the end of the year!
Of course, he came here with some provocation, but Liang Dacheng was very clear-headed.
Xu Jianjun figured out the situation and saw that Liang Daben himself was very determined, so he wanted to leave, but in the end he said:
"Ten dollars is enough for us. But for him, Li Long, it's nothing, right? Don't talk about ten dollars. You three brothers have a good relationship with him, so twenty dollars should be enough, right? He has so much money..."< br>
“He earned so much money, what does it have to do with us?” Liang Dacheng shook his head. Shaking his head, "It's their business if they have the ability. I envy it, but I don't have the ability to earn this thing, and I don't want to share other people's money. I earn what I can, and as for the rest, that's not what I think about. Things."
Seeing that the provocation failed, Xu Jianjun laughed a few times and left.
You haven’t lost anything. If you can’t provoke Liang Dacheng, why can’t you provoke others?
We all come from that era, isn’t it easy to do something?
The next day, Li Long drove the tractor from the county back to his eldest brother's house, pulled the tractor on, put the pot away, and then drove to the melon field.
The two sisters-in-law, father and mother, have already started working in the yard.
When Li Long and others arrived in the field, the three brothers of the Liang family had already come over and were piling the melons together. There were other people in the village watching and talking.
Hear the sound of tractors, some people are leaving and some are still there. It was cold in the morning and no one was eating melons, but they were all curious.
After the story spread, everyone already knew that the seeds should be reserved for harvesting melons. How to get the seeds out is still a problem. The Li family came up with such an unorthodox method, which made everyone very curious and wanted to see it. Of course, they also wanted to learn it.
After all, growing food can satisfy you, but it is difficult to become rich.
The Li family is the first to grow melons. Economic crops are usually more valuable than food crops. If the Li family really makes money by growing melons, many people in the village will follow suit.
Forty years later, it has been like this. When farming in rural areas, it is difficult to be scientific, but it is too easy to follow the trend.
So it is not easy to be rich. Farmers themselves are at the bottom of the information end. Usually they only know this information when others get rich. By the time they follow them, they have become leeks, and others have already I made enough money and left the market.
For example, you are ruthless with garlic, you are playful with beans, you are an army with ginger and so on.
There are also things like snow chrysanthemum and black wolfberry that happened here. The game of capital has never been played without farmers.
Of course, this one from the Li family is different. It started in the village, so this one can be the same.
The Liang brothers watched the tractor drive into the field, and quickly came over to help unload the big pot and position it. Li Long discovered that Boss Liang and the others had made a pit in front of the pot so that it would be more stable after the pot seat was lowered.
Putting up the board, Mr. Liang and Mr. Liang immediately started beating melons.
Li Long and Li Jianguo were also pressing, and someone next to them asked.
Things like whether it can be pressed cleanly, how many kilograms can be harvested from this acre, where to sell it, etc.
Li Jianguo occasionally said a few words, and Li Long basically answered. Anyway, he is young, but he can make money, and everyone believes in him.
But if you really say something is wrong, others can't find fault. After all, "you can't do things if you don't have a problem with your words." You, a forty or fifty-year-old person, can't criticize a twenty-year-old person for his mistakes. How rigorous and beneficial.
"One acre of land contains more than 100 kilograms or 200 kilograms. Now the only ones that can harvest are roasted seeds and nuts factories and seed companies." Li Long didn't hide anything. He said everything that needed to be said. As for where the roasted seeds and nuts are? , where the seed company is, that’s another story.
Actually, these people thought that since Li Long was born, he should be easy to handle. But in fact, if we plant again next year, it is very likely that other people will buy seeds from the seed company and buy melon seeds grown by the Li family.
After all, there are not many people growing melons these days, but they are few.
“How much can this kilogram cost?” This is the question that everyone is most concerned about.
"More than one yuan, right?" Li Long gave a vague answer. He didn't want to say more than three yuan, after all, that number was a bit scary.
Think about it, right now, one acre of wheat yields a good harvest of 200 kilograms, but a poor harvest of more than 100 kilograms.
How much does a kilogram of wheat cost?
If you pay public food, it's 12 cents, and if you pay different prices, it's 18 cents. The average price is about 15 cents. I don’t know if it will increase this year. Let’s calculate it based on the highest price, which is 200 kilograms per acre. Then the gross income per acre will be 30 yuan.
One acre of melon seeds can be harvested by more than 100 kilograms. Even if the minimum is 100 kilograms, if calculated as one yuan, the gross income is still one hundred yuan.
Three times as much as growing wheat!
Of course, the investment will be more. After all, seeds are expensive and there is a lot of manual investment. For example, crushing melon seeds is a troublesome thing now. If you dare to say that one kilogram of melon seeds can be sold for three yuan, then one acre of land is a gross income of three hundred yuan. Even if the cost of one hundred yuan is deducted, it is still a net income of two hundred yuan.
If I really let everyone know this, they would go crazy!
This is much better than growing food!
Why is no one growing it on a large scale?
Because no one collects it on a large scale.
Otherwise, do you think there would be fewer people who know how to plant it?
Once planted on a large scale, this thing will be worthless. They may even be unable to sell and become overstocked.
Unlike food, food itself is a consumable. Not to mention that there is not enough food now, even if it is enough, it can be used for other things, including non-staple food, feed, and even industry.
But beating melon seeds doesn’t have much use.
Except eating.
So Li Long tried his best to speak as little as possible.
But he believes that as long as he sells melon seeds this year and the price comes out, there will definitely be a large number of people planting them tomorrow. After all, it is more profitable than food!
Fortunately, in a village, no matter how you plant, the impact will not be too big. After all, it goes without saying that it is necessary to pay public grain, so even if everyone grows it, it is still tentative.
Some people ask from time to time, and some people leave after asking.
The two big pots kept pressing here. An hour later, Li Long called Liang Dacheng:
“Dacheng, take a rest and move around. It’s getting hot. Let’s eat some melon to quench your thirst. .”
They didn't bring water - thinking about working in a mature melon field, if they needed to bring water, they would be laughed at.
The only uncomfortable thing is that after removing the melon pulp with my hands, it feels sticky and uncomfortable.
Five days later, all the melons in the field had been harvested. The three Liang brothers earned a total of 140 yuan from Li Long.
It was originally supposed to be one hundred and fifty yuan, but it was half a day's work on the last day. Liang Dacheng and the others only received half of the money, and Li Long made up a round figure.
There are more than 1,000 kilograms of melon seeds that have been flattened and dried, and some have not yet been dried, and the flattening work continues. The trouble lies in picking out the warped ones one by one.
After picking them out, it is relatively simple. Use two very flat boards to clamp the warped melon seeds, and press iron plates and stones on them. The pressure must be even, otherwise some warped seeds will be pressed. Flat, some cannot be completely flattened.
The Li family used a sieve to sift out about 50 kilograms of large melon seeds to save for seeds. There is no patent for melon seeds these days, so no one will sue them for growing second-generation seeds - something similar will happen forty years later.
Currently, some villagers came over to inquire about the price of melon seeds. They probably wanted to buy them for planting, but Li Long said that the seeds they bought from Wucheng were more expensive, six yuan.
If people in the village buy it, they will get a discount and it will be counted as three yuan.
Of course, this was said in jest.
No one in the village bought it, so Li Jianguo kept him alive, saying that because he didn't know the selling price this year, when the first batch of melon seeds were sold, he would sell them to the villagers for whatever price he sold them to others.
Li Jianguo didn’t mention favors to the villagers when it came to doing business like this. Everyone would understand if it was cheaper.
After all, we don’t know how many people want to buy right now. If there are really more people, is it cheaper to give one a lower price and another one a lower price? It’s cheaper, you buy more, and it’s the Li family that loses.
Why do people want it to be cheap? You can obviously sell it to a buyer such as a seed frying factory at a high price, but earn favors at a loss?
No need.
Just two years ago, someone in the village had a good wheat harvest. The yield per mu was extremely high, reaching 300 kilograms, and it was in the newspaper.
Farmers from other places come to buy wheat as seeds, and people from this village also buy it, so the price is the same. Treat everyone equally.
At most, people in the village can only pick one.
Li Long and Li Jianguo discussed taking a batch of beaten melon seeds to Shicheng Roasted Nuts Factory and asking about the price. If the price was acceptable, they would sell a batch first.
"How much?" Li Jianguo asked.
"Pump a ton, right? If appropriate, sell them all." Li Long meant that the seeds have been saved, and although the rest haven't been weighed yet, it feels like it's almost a ton.
In other words, this year’s harvest of melons is considered to be a bumper one, with one acre of land weighing almost 200 kilograms.
A lot!
“How much is appropriate?” Li Qingxia asked from the side.
“I think one dollar and a half is appropriate.” Li Jianguo really doesn’t have much ambition to harvest two hundred kilograms from one acre of land. In other words, in his opinion, the weight of wheat harvested from one acre is the same as that of wheat. It's almost there, but this is not a good place to produce two hundred kilograms.
It can be sold for RMB 1.5, so one acre of land is 300 RMB. Even excluding the seeds, manual tillage and water charges (sowing is also manual), these are a lot of calculations. Counting 100 RMB, the net income of one acre of land is RMB 200. For ten acres of land, the net income is RMB 200. Two thousand, who dares to think about this?
"That won't work, I still have to pay two and a half yuan." Li Long came from the previous life, and his thinking was different. Although there are few places to harvest melon seeds, there are also few places to grow melon seeds. Maybe my family owns the only ten acres of land.
Since there are few crops, and rare goods are available, can we negotiate a higher price?
"Hey, if you want to earn two and a half yuan, you can't get a tractor from these ten acres of land?" Li Qingxia quickly calculated the income.
Li Jianguo also said:
"If I really want to get two and a half yuan, I will buy a tractor after the sale is over!"
Hey, Li Long is happy, even if he wants to go with his eldest brother, he has to negotiate for more than two and a half yuan. , preferably three yuan!
If you only need three yuan, you can earn almost six thousand yuan from ten acres of land. You can really just buy a tractor.
After all, the eldest brother should still have some savings in his hand, which is enough for daily emergencies.
Besides, I still have myself.
He knew that his eldest brother had a strong self-esteem and didn't want to use his younger brother's money to buy a tractor, so he should try his best to use his sharp tongue and negotiate a higher price!
Li Long did not return to the county that night. He mainly packed the dried melon seeds into the bucket of the cart. Li Qingxia also wanted to follow, but it was not because he had bargained for the price in the past, but because he hadn't caught any fish these days and he was addicted.
Tao Daqiang didn't come over, and Li Long didn't dare to let his father go down the net alone, so he accompanied him. Li Qingxia made two pots this time, while Li Long rode a tire to the center of Haizi to lower the net.
There are many people setting nets around, so the fish no longer move around, so not many fish can be caught with each net.
It is a good job to ride a tire to lower a net in the depths of Haizi, but there are not many people who can lower a net while riding a tire. This tire is difficult to find in the first place.
Li Long lowered ten nets and rowed the tires back. He came back with his father and had to get up early tomorrow to fetch the nets and fish.
Fortunately, there is a tractor, so distance is not a problem and time is not a problem.
Li Long was still a little uncomfortable living in the big courtyard at night, but he thought it would only be for the past two days.
It was slightly brighter the next day, and Li Long asked Li Qingxia to wake him up, and then they went to get the net together.
Now there are fewer pikes that can be caught in the pots. The two pots combined can catch more pike than the original one.
But Li Long's net set deep in Haizi yielded much more.
No one else came over at this time, and it was very quiet here in Haizi. After Li Qingxia took the basin and went ashore, he listened to the crackling sound from Li Long's side and heard his heart itching.
How many fish are there? Why is there so much movement?
When he and Tao Daqiang lowered the net together, Tao Daqiang rode a tire to Haizili and did not dare to go too far. After all, he did not have Li Long's ability, and it would not be easy to collect the net if he went too far.
Li Long himself didn't care. People with good skills are bold and will go down wherever they feel there are more fish.
It's been a long time since he went online, so he was quite excited to do it once in a while.
I was even more excited when I took out the net. There were actually a lot of fish!
There were also a lot of big fish. With only two nets, we caught two big carp weighing more than three kilograms, with red heads and red tails. It looked so festive!
Hey, great harvest, a good sign!
I don’t care how much the fish sells for. Does this mean that selling melon seeds today will have a good result? (End of chapter)