When the tractor chugged back to the village, many people paying attention heard it.
If you have a normal relationship, you are too embarrassed to come to her now. After all, she has just returned from selling melon seeds in Shicheng, so you would be too eager and utilitarian to come and ask her?
Anyway, there are always those who are more urgent and those who are more closely related, so just listen to these and pass them on.
For example, Sister Lu.
Liang Yuemei, Du Chunfang and Chen Lirong were all pressing the last bits of specially picked melon seeds in the yard, the ones with curls.
The others were sunbathing in the front yard, and Chen Lirong would go there from time to time to take a look, not to guard against thieves, but mainly to chase away chickens and birds. No one dares to steal things in other people's yards in broad daylight. If they find out, they will be beaten, and even if they are beaten to death, no one will hold them accountable.
This is different from later generations.
I can only say that slowly, the world has changed.
So in later generations, Li Long watched a video about someone who stole something from someone else's house and was injured and died. He asked the owner's family to compensate and then took the case to court.
How can the court still accept such a case? It really feels like a big joke in the world.
The most disgusting thing is that the owner is clearly not responsible, but they still have to pay a certain amount of humane compensation.
Isn’t this just encouraging those immoral people to do evil?
The tractor drove back to the yard, Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo got off, and Li Long turned off the engine and got off.
He planned to rest for a while and then drive the tractor back to the county. Anyway, it will take a day or two to dry the remaining melon seeds, so there is no rush to go to Shicheng.
Sister-in-law Lu rushed over from the opposite door.
"Uncle, your melon seeds are sold out? How do you like it?" Sister-in-law Lu is planning to plant melons, but she still has to ask about the price. If she asks clearly, she will know the price next year.
"Two dollars and eight!" Li Jianguo's voice was loud and clear. He had discussed it with Li Long on the way and said what needed to be said. Anyway, this matter can stand the test. Yuan Guomin also said that their roasted seeds and nuts factory harvests a lot of melon seeds, not to mention a few tons or more.
So if there are many races in the team, sales will be no problem.
But Li Long also reminded Li Jianguo that this thing was not for sale to others. Why? Rushing is not a business.
This thing itself is a niche agricultural product. If it is grown on a large scale, it will really drive down the price. So what Li Long meant was to keep about one or two hundred kilograms as seeds, keep some for Liang Donglou, share some with those he has good relations with, and keep some for himself.
As for others, if they arrive early, they can sell some, but if they arrive late, they can only say sorry.
"So high? Then your family can harvest more than 100 or 200 kilograms of melon seeds per acre, but you can't collect more than 500 yuan per acre? That's about ten acres of wheat!"
Sister-in-law Lu is naturally so surprised for a reason.
Not to mention this era, just thirty or forty years from now, if one acre of land for growing grains does not receive subsidies from the state, the net income will really not be much.
But the bowl must be held in the hands of one's own people. The country's plan is very clear. No matter how low the price of food is, farmers must be encouraged to grow it and subsidies must be provided.
After all, I have been cheated by the four major international grain merchants, and the soybean incident has taught me a profound lesson.
But farmers still hope that farming profits will be higher. That's why Sister-in-law Lu is so surprised. The income from this acre of land is enough for many people and their families to work for more than a year!
Li Jianguo smiled.
Liang Yuemei was also surprised. The tractor had just arrived in the yard. Before he could ask about the melon seeds, he asked Sister Lu to ask.
Chen Lirong also looked surprised. Although the farming situation in my hometown is different from that in northern Xinjiang, the fact that growing food will not bring much profit is the same.
One acre of land costs more than 500 yuan! These days, Chen Lirong has learned intermittently from Liang Yuemei that there is a certain amount of investment in growing melons. The seeds are expensive and you have to buy a seeder yourself. If the melons get sick or have insects in the later stage, you will have to apply pesticides. After that, you will have to press the melon seeds. Hire people and so on.
With such a large investment, she was also worried about whether the seeds could be sold. After all, I have lived here for so long, and I have feelings for him. It would be a lie to say that I am not worried.
Now that she heard that these dozen melon seeds were so expensive, she was not only happy but also a little surprised.
If your family is in this team and you have so much land, it would be good to grow some melons in addition to growing food.
The income from one acre of land is equal to half of my husband’s salary for a year!
Du Chunfang was not particularly surprised. She blindly believed in Li Long. It was Li Long's idea to grow melons. Li Long got the seeds and the jukebox. Li Long even went to Wucheng to ask professors for advice on management and treatment.
Now that melon production has increased and the selling price is so high, what does this mean? It shows that my younger son is really awesome!
Du Chunfang looked at Li Long, then at the melon seeds pressed under the board, grinning there.
“Then give my family ten acres of seeds, and I’ll ask Tietou’s father to send the money later!” Sister-in-law Lu made the decision immediately.
Liang Yuemei asked with a smile:
"There are so many of them, why don't you discuss it with Tietou's father?"
"What are you discussing? We're going to discuss it again and again. Should the land be planted? My family doesn't do that! Your family is planting it. That's good, my family is like that! Unlike some people, they can't even keep up with the hotness even if they doubt this or that!"
"Hahahaha!" Mrs. Lu said so vulgarly that everyone laughed. Liang Yuemei went to get the weighing plate, and Li Jianguo went to weigh the dried melon seeds.
Sister-in-law Lu asked again:
“Then how do you sell your melon seeds by seeds?”
"Three yuan," Li Jianguo said.
I went to Shicheng and sold it for 2.8 yuan. I found it on my own initiative. The fuel cost of the tractor must also be taken into account. If you sell it at home, the price will be three yuan. This is the unified price negotiated with Li Long.
"Okay." Mrs. Lu didn't bargain with the price, and it's not easy to bargain with this thing.
She is not sure. Li Long and Li Jianguo know that this is the only one like this.
The kind of love you want or not.
Sister-in-law Lu was a big talker and went back with the seeds. Lu Yingming quickly sent the money over. Nowadays, every household has some spare money, and this money cannot be owed.
Next, Tao Jianshe came over and weighed the seeds on ten acres of land and gave them cash.
He also chatted with Li Jianguo for a few words:
“I originally planned to plant five acres, but Da Qiang didn’t want to, so he said he had to plant at least ten acres. It’s easy to say. If you don’t understand, I’ll come and ask you later.
It’s hard to pick out the seeds when harvesting melons. Then Daqiang said that he was going to come by himself in the past two days. I’m about to give birth and I don’t dare to come over.”
Liang Dacheng also came over and weighed the seeds from ten acres of land.
Maybe Li Jianguo planted ten acres of land this year, so everyone defaulted to ten acres of land.
Anyway, each family has a lot of land. In addition to grain fields, there are also some contracted lands. The task of handing over public grain and the requirement of eating fine grain can be fulfilled in ration fields, so what is the contracted land used for?
Isn’t it just to make money?
These companies alone have eliminated more than half of the number of seeds that Li Long suggested to Li Jianguo to reserve.
Next, he beat the melon seeds and dried them. Li Long drove the tractor and took Li Qingxia, Li Jianguo, and 40 to 50 kilograms of fish to Shicheng again.
Sure enough, when the net was launched again, there were not so many fish.
Yuan Guomin, chief of the raw material section of the roasted seeds and nuts factory, kept his promise and inspected the seeds very carefully. However, seeing that the quality of the melon seeds was fine, he still gave him a "high price" of 28 yuan.
When they came back from Shicheng, Jia Weidong came over and bought five acres of melon seeds, followed by Xu Chengjun and Xie Yundong, who each bought five acres of seeds.
The Li family only has about ten kilograms of seeds left.
Ma Jinbao actually ran over too.
Li Long is not here, but Li Jianguo is at home.
"Old Li, I heard that you sell melon seeds for 2.8 yuan per kilogram?" Ma Jinbao looked unbelieving.
"Yes," Li Jianguo was picking up the deflated melon seeds. There were not many melon seeds like this, so it was not worth using a wooden shovel, and there was no suitable wind, so he took the dustpan to shake the melon seeds and winnowed out the completely shriveled ones.
"Hey, such a high price...is it fake?" When Ma Jinbao heard the news, his first feeling was that the Li family had lied in order to sell their melon seeds.
"How can it be false?" Li Jianguo wasn't angry at all when he heard Ma Jinbao's words. This is just the way this man is. If he really wanted to quarrel with him, he would have just followed Li Long's words.
If you lower your IQ to be like him, wouldn’t that make you a spoon?
"I heard that your melon seeds sell for three yuan? No one buys them now, right? How about selling them to me for ten kilograms for one yuan?" Ma Jinbao is a thick-skinned person. He said such a thing without thinking. Strange.
"Not for sale." Li Jianguo spoke in a calm tone. At this time, he felt more and more that what his brother Li Long usually said was very reasonable.
For such people, we should treat them as nothing and leave them alone. Otherwise, you will stink yourself.
Ma Jinbao couldn't tell whether he meant to anger Li Jianguo by saying these words, but at least now it seemed that he had miscalculated. Li Jianguo refused to take hard and soft advice, and there was nothing he could do.
"Okay, I think you can find melon seeds in other places, right?" Ma Jinbao said as he walked out, "I don't know what they sell them for."
Li Jianguo I laughed after hearing this.
He could tell that Ma Jinbao meant that if your family doesn’t sell it, others will. I can't believe I can't find a cheap one.
In fact, there are many people in the team who have similar thoughts. Zhang Qiang and Xu Jianjun both said similar things to the sales department. The general idea was that the Li family advertised that the melon seeds were sold for 2.8 yuan, which was definitely false. They said the price was so high just to sell the seeds.
Maybe the melon seeds will be sold for only 50 cents. They say this in order to sell their melon seeds at a high price. There is still a market for this.
It’s not that those who listen to these people don’t believe the Li family, the main reason is that the prices of agricultural products are generally relatively low these days. The price of oil sunflower does not exceed 50 cents, and the price of white sunflower does not reach 50 cents. One piece, how much does it cost to beat melon seeds for 2.8 yuan? This is no joke!
This is where people’s limitations lie.
“Let’s see what happens next year when so many people grow those melon seeds.” Some people are waiting to see a joke, although the joke may take a long time.
"Then if they really want to charge more than two yuan, these people will make a lot of money."
Of course, the wavering people are also waiting and watching. They are worried that the value reported by the Li family is fake, and they are also worried about the ten thousand yuan. First, it is true that my family did not catch this money-making bus.
"How could it be true? The Li family themselves didn't say how much they would plant next year. They just told others how much they would plant." Some people thought they saw it more clearly, "Isn't that just to trick others? ?”
In fact, Li Jianguo left seeds on twenty acres of land, but there was no more suitable land. After all, you need sandy land to harvest melons. The land at home is only about a dozen acres, so the whole piece of land would be enough to cover the sky.
Secondly, if sowing on demand and final pressing of seeds are both labor-intensive, planting too much will easily compete with other food crops for labor, especially in the early stages of sowing.
That would be more troublesome.
There is a high probability that Chen Lirong will go to Kuitun next year. The husband and wife will be working at home then. Even if there is a tractor as planned, they will not be able to make it.
Only people with good relationships know this, but others don’t.
Under such circumstances, Wang Caimi came to Li Jianguo's yard.
Li Jianguo has gathered all the melon seeds. He would buy the remaining ten kilograms of seeds if anyone came to buy them, and leave them alone if no one would buy them.
The Liang family had already sent it over. They also told them what kind of land to plant and how to plant it. Liang Donglou was very happy, but of course the most excited person was Liang Wenyu.
He has actually been thinking about making money in this way. There was little land in the village here, so he had always been thinking about how to grow it most cost-effectively. Unexpectedly, his brother-in-law and the others came up with it first.
This is quite unexpected.
"Brother Li, do you still have the melon seeds?" Wang Caimi also asked this matter when he came.
“There’s not much left.” Li Jianguo was cleaning things in the yard.
He was already planning to actually buy a tractor. The things in this yard need to be tidied up, otherwise the tractor will come in and storage will need to be considered.
The carriage and the horse were sent directly to my father-in-law's family as Li Long said. I told Liang Yuemei about this, and Liang Yuemei was very excited.
After knowing that it was Li Long who suggested this, Liang Yuemei felt that those years of hard work were really not in vain!
"Brother Li, tell me the truth, are melon seeds really so expensive?" Wang Caimi asked softly.
"Of course." Li Jianguo was not annoyed and said calmly, "The Shicheng Roasted Seeds Factory is here. If you don't believe it, you can go and ask directly."
This is the limitation of some rural people at this time. They would rather trust their own guesses and judgments than go to some public places to ask.
The fear of dealing with yamen has been accumulated over thousands of years and cannot be changed in a short time.
That’s why in later generations there will be many things that drive honest people crazy.
An honest person really doesn’t want to face an official in a hurry, but if he is really pressed for help, then he really can’t care about anything.
Wang Caimi smiled awkwardly as he listened:
"I'm just asking. Did you buy your seeds from a seed company?"
"Yes." Li Jianguo nodded. This is no secret. Someone asked me while chatting while planting melons. At that time, no one thought that this thing could sell for such a high price, so no one cared. Who knew it would be like this now?
"Shicheng Seed Company or Ma County?"
"No, from Wucheng." Li Jianguo understood, this Wang Cai fan must have believed that his own melon seeds could sell for so much Expensive, but I don’t believe in the quality of the melon seeds sold at home.
This is to get to the root of the matter. I plan to buy it from a seed company, right?
In fact, this is nothing, it is normal.
Sure enough, after Wang Caimin asked, he rambled on and left.
I never mentioned buying melon seeds again.
But melon seeds really don’t have to worry about the seller. That afternoon, a man who surprised everyone came to Li Jianguo's house and bought the remaining melon seeds.
Ma Yinbao.
Ma Yinbao's son Ma Long stole the Li family's melons. He was beaten by Ma Yinbao until he howled for several days, and then he followed his father to work in the fields.
It can be regarded as forcing a gangster to change his ways in advance.
Although Ma Yinbao is a little confused, he is still different from Ma Jinbao. He is very serious about farming and wants to get rich from the land.
After he bought the seeds, he was scolded by his brother Ma Jinbao, but Ma Yinbao didn't tolerate his brother and responded directly.
Anyway, the two families had long since separated and lived separately, and Ma Yinbao looked down on his brother.
When someone went to Li's house to inquire about harvesting melon seeds, Li Jianguo directly announced that the seeds were sold out.
Then two days later, the Li family came back with a tractor.
Most people didn't pay attention, thinking it was Li Long's tractor driving back.
But Mrs. Lu, who was across the street, soon discovered the difference.
This is a new tractor!
New new!
It has been a long time since Li Long bought his tractor and he didn’t take care of it very much. There are a lot of dirty things on the tractor.
This one is different, it is really brand new from the inside out!
She hurriedly called her husband Lu Yingming out and pointed it out to him.
The couple looked surprised, so they walked to Li's house and looked at the tractor carefully.
Li Jianguo looked proud and placed the rocker in a reserved manner.
"What? Bought a new one?" Lu Yingming was still shocked.
"Well, don't you make money by beating melon seeds?" Li Jianguo was waiting for him to ask, "I just want to buy a tractor."
"Don't Xiaolong have one? ?" Lu Yingming was envious and puzzled at the same time.
"His car travels everywhere, sometimes to the mountains, sometimes to Shicheng, not sure. It would be troublesome if we can't find it when we use it, so we might as well buy one ourselves."
It's so easy to say, just like buying a bicycle.
Hey, it’s not easy for some people to buy bicycles.
To put it another way, it’s as easy as buying a basket of eggs!
"What about your carriage?" Sister-in-law Lu couldn't help but ask. She was touching the tractor's page board when asking. This tractor looked so beautiful!
“The carriage is being driven to Juan’s grandpa’s house.” Li Jianguo said, “He doesn’t have a carriage at home, so it’s just the right thing to do.”
Lu Yingming and his wife were really envious of the tractor. In the eyes of rural people at this time, a car was less practical than a tractor. This thing is really good.
The fact that the Li family bought another tractor immediately spread throughout the team through Sister Lu’s mouth.
She also specifically explained that the Li family bought the tractor after selling melon seeds.
These days when she is chatting with the aunties in the village, she is often criticized for being cheated when buying seeds.
Now it is finally time to fight back.
There is no need to wait until next year. Right now, people are selling melon seeds and using the money to buy a tractor. The real machinery is there. Is there anyone who can still say it’s fake?
Some people would say that Li Long paid for Li Jianguo to buy the tractor, but this was refuted by others.
Two reasons. Firstly, people who gossip like this don’t believe that their younger brothers would buy such big things for their older brothers; secondly, most people in the village know what Li Jianguo is like, and they would say that Li Long bought something for Li Jianguo. He may still want a bicycle, but if he wants to buy something big, he can't ask for it.
That’s how he is. No matter whether the people in the team are good or bad, he still knows what Li Jianguo is like.
Otherwise, the 18-inch color TV should be placed in Li Jianguo's house instead of Li Qingxia's house.
So, for a while, many people came to Li's house to ask about beating melon seeds.
"No more. Except for some flat ones that my family plans to cook spiced melon seeds for the New Year, the rest are all sold out." Liang Yuemei felt proud this time.
“I want even a deflated one!”
“What?” This time it was the Li family’s turn to be surprised. (End of this chapter)