Chapter 98 The Road to Wealth (Medium Cup)
Time flies.
In the blink of an eye, it’s early August.
Lychee is out of season and longan is on the scene.
The various departments, factories and farms of Hailufeng Company are also operating in an orderly manner.
Throughout July, the company's revenue continued to remain at around 158 million.
Yandunshan Feed Factory, which has been in trial production recently, also completed various tests and adjustments at the end of July, and at the same time rectified the problems pointed out by Jiang Miao.
Starting from August 1, some farmers called the acquisition office of Yandunshan Feed Factory to inquire about the acquisition status of Egyptian pond lice.
Yandunshan Feed Factory also took the opportunity to issue an acquisition announcement.
The village of Shioding, which is near the water on a first-come-first-served basis, immediately received the news that the Yandunshan Feed Factory was opening to collect Egyptian pond lice.
In a small fish pond in the north of Shiomachi Village.
A little old man with a weathered face, as if he was sixty or seventy years old, was making gestures on his hands and feet. Opposite him was a young man with a face somewhat similar to his.
"Dad, my second uncle called me just now. The Jiang family's feed factory has started harvesting. Let's put the fish away quickly!"
"Ahh...ahhh..." The little old man could only make ahhh sounds and gestured with his hands. It was obvious that he was mute.
At this moment, a tricycle drove over from the dirt path. In the car was a middle-aged man with a face somewhat similar to the mute old man. The man shouted to the two of them:
"Big brother, Aqiang."
"Ahhh..." The mute old man continued to gesture, and only those familiar with it could roughly guess what he was gesticulating.
"Uncle Third." Aqiang, a young man, walked over quickly.
"I pulled a net over and we will catch the fish together later, otherwise you and your son will not be able to catch them all until dark."
Soon Aqiang picked up the fishing net, and his uncle Lin Taining, wearing one-piece waterproof pants and long water shoes, went directly to the fish pond.
The mute Lin Tai'an took a tarpaulin and spread it on the back bucket of the tricycle. He also took a bucket and a pole, picked up a few buckets of water from the fish pond, and poured it into the back bucket covered with a tarpaulin.
At this time, uncles and nephews Lin Yongqiang and Lin Taining had already descended into the fish pond and pulled down the fishing net, preparing to force the Egyptian pond lice in the fish pond to the side of the road.
Lin Tai'an, who had picked up the water, stood aside with a bucket, a pole, and a long net bag, catching fish quickly with his hands and feet.
The Egyptian pond lice weighing four to five kilograms are very ferocious. If you put two or three in the net bag, it will be difficult to hold the net bag. However, despite Lin Tai'an's appearance as a little old man, he is actually only over fifty and his health is not bad.
The area of the fish pond was only seven and a half. After fishing for more than an hour, there were still many Egyptian pond lice jumping on the water. Seeing that the car body was already densely packed with Egyptian pond lice, he quickly gestured:
"Ahh..."
"Dad! Keep catching, I will send the fish to the feed mill."
"Aqiang, the car key is on the tricycle. Remember to bring your ID card and license plate."
"Know."
Lin Yongqiang hurriedly drove a tricycle, pulling more than 500 kilograms of fish to the Yandunshan Feed Factory.
Along the way, he saw many tricycles pulling Egyptian pond lice. Some people directly loaded them with buckets, while others used tarpaulins like his family.
Arriving at the gate of Yandunshan Feed Factory, there was already a queue at the door.
Fortunately, there was no queue for too long, and the Egyptian pond lice are very tolerant of low oxygen, so there is no need for oxygen.
Soon it was Lin Yongqiang's turn.
The tricycle drove into the acquisition room.
The factory employee shouted: "Bring me your ID card and license plate."
Lin Yongqiang jumped off the tricycle and took out his ID card and license plate from his pocket. The female buyer took the ID card and inserted it into the identification machine. Soon, relevant messages popped up on the computer page.
A male collector wearing a safety helmet opened the side guard of the tricycle. Several large plastic baskets were already placed beside it. As the guard was opened, the fish rushed down with the water and fell into several large baskets. middle.
Under the big basket is a trolley. As all the fish fall into the basket, a weigher wearing long water shoes pulls the trolley over and weighs them.
After a few minutes.
"A total of 273 kilograms."
"Is there any problem?" The male buyer looked at Lin Yongqiang.
"No problem."
The female buyer raised her head and asked: "819 yuan, do you want to pay it in cash? Or do you want to pay it together after collecting it?"
"Finish and tie together."
"Okay, I'll write it down for you. You can take a photo to avoid mistakes." The female buyer operated the computer page and typed out a receipt.
Lin Yongqiang took out his mobile phone to take a photo of the receipt and drove away in a hurry.
Jiang Dafu and Lin Yongqiang from Xinxiang passed each other.
Jiang Dafu has a somewhat old face. Although he is only in his forties, his face is also full of traces of weathering, making him look like he is in his fifties or sixties.
Since his wife was paralyzed in bed and the work of his two children was not going well, he could only get up early and work till dusk every day, plowing the fields and growing vegetables, but the family's finances were still too difficult.
A few months ago, Jiang Dahai found him and asked him to plant duck grass, contract a piece of wasteland in the village, and open a fish pond to breed Egyptian pond lice.
Today is finally the harvest season.
Jiang Dafu, who was full of hope, borrowed a water pump alone early in the morning to pump the water from one fish pond to another.
This is the eighth carload of Egyptian pond lice he has pulled over.
"Dafu! Here again?" The weigher, who is also from Xinxiang, greeted with a smile.
"Yes! After pulling this car, you can take a rest at noon and clean the bottom of the pond in the afternoon. It is estimated that another one or two thousand catties can be removed. We will build another fish pond tomorrow." Jiang Dafu smiled broadly and changed his usual attitude. decadent.
"Here, help me."
After a while, his cart of Egyptian pond lice was weighed, totaling 462 kilograms.
"Payment!"
"Including the previous eight cars, the total is 4,068 kilograms, and the payment is 12,204 yuan. Check to see if there are any errors." The female buyer handed him a stack of documents.
Jiang Dafu quickly looked at it, then took out a small book, compared the above numbers one by one, and finally did the math. After confirming that there was no problem with the price, he said: "There is no problem."
"Cash? Bank card? Or scan the QR code?"
"Cash it!"
After a while, a large stack of red banknotes appeared in Jiang Dafu's hand.
His fellow countryman quickly reminded: "Dafu, when you order, please put the money away and don't lose it."
"I know, thank you." Jiang Dafu smiled and nodded, holding the money in his hand very tightly. He was counting on this little money to make ends meet.
The male buyer shouted not far away: "Drive the empty truck away quickly..."
"Okay, okay." Jiang Dafu hurriedly drove away on his tricycle, walked out of the entrance of the feed factory, counted the money again on the roadside not far away, and then stuffed all the money into his pocket.
After re-igniting, the tricycle drove briskly towards Xinxiang.
Along the way, the smile on Jiang Dafu's face never stopped.
His family has dug two acres of fish ponds and estimates that they can earn 30,000 yuan this time. With the addition of one and a half acres of duckweed, they are almost ready for harvest, which will be another income.
After more than three months of hard work, after deducting the capital, he had an income of almost 20,000 yuan, which made Jiang Dafu's originally very poor family feel a lot more relaxed.
People are in high spirits during happy events, no wonder he was smiling all the way.
We arrived at the Xinxiang intersection.
"Uncle, is the fish sold?"
Jiang Dafu stopped and saw his nephew Wang Baorui who was refueling at a gas station at the intersection. He smiled and nodded: "Baorui, have your fish ponds been closed?"
"Forget it, I originally wanted to pick it up today, but the tricycle got a puncture halfway through the drive. I just repaired the car, so I came over to refuel. Let's pick it up tomorrow!" Wang Baorui looked helpless.
"Not bad for this day."
"Uncle, what is the purchase price of the feed factory?"
"Three dollars! I took all the money."
"That's good. Several children are studying and school will start in September. It's just time for emergency."
"Stay a few more years! When Xiaofei and the others get to work, you and Lijuan can relax a little bit."
When Wang Baorui heard the gas attendant calling him to pay, he scratched his head: "Uncle, I'm going to pay. I'll come see you when I have time."
"Go! I'm going back to cook too."
After watching Jiang Dafu drive away, Wang Baorui went to the gas station counter to pay the money and then drove the tricycle back to Jinding Village.
His home is in the west of Jinding Village, near Xinxiang. As soon as he returned home, he saw his mother, Jiang Hongmei, returning with her little grandson.
"Mom, where is Lijuan?"
Jiang Hongmei took her grandson's hand: "She said she would go to your father-in-law's house to borrow a big net and she would be back later."
"Little Tiger! Come on, let dad hug you." "Don't... your beard is too prickly..." The younger son resisted.
At this moment, Fang Lijuan was driving the eDonkey while scolding her second son who was sitting behind, and she arrived at the door after a while.
Wang Baorui helped his wife pull the fishing net off the pedal: "What's wrong?"
"This bad guy doesn't want to learn anything, but he learns how to swim and even goes to the beach." Fang Lijuan was very angry.
Hearing this, Jiang Hongmei's face darkened. She originally planned to persuade her daughter-in-law not to beat or scold her children, but at this time she lost her mood.
Wang Baorui's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot. He immediately dropped the fishing net and took off his belt: "Wang Xiaolong, kneel down before me."
"Dad! I don't dare anymore..."
"Kneel down!" Wang Baorui roared.
The second son Wang Xiaolong's face turned pale, and he knelt tremblingly in front of the statue of the landlord's grandfather on the side of the door.
Wang Baorui showed no mercy and directly took the waistband of his pants and grabbed his son's palm.
Snap!
Bang bang bang…
"Woooooooooooo...I don't dare anymore..."
"If I don't teach you a lesson, you still don't know what pain is!"
The reason why Wang Baorui reacted so strongly was because when he was a child, he did not take good care of his two younger brothers. The two younger brothers ran to the beach to swim and drowned.
This incident also caused his father to be stimulated. Not long after, he was also in a trance. He walked to the side of the road and was hit by a passing car. At that time, there were no surveillance cameras on the road nearby, and this incident also became a famous incident. A headless koan.
Therefore, although his family lives by the sea, they rarely go near it because they don't want the tragedy to happen again.
After slapping his palms more than a dozen times, Wang Baorui stopped and said angrily: "Next time you dare to go to the beach, don't come back to this home. Just think that I don't have you as my son."
As a person from the same village, Fang Lijuan certainly knew the past affairs of her husband's family. If it hadn't been for that incident, her husband would not have dropped out of high school.
People who live by the sea all year round are sometimes more in awe of the ocean because they have seen too many teenagers being mercilessly swallowed by the sea.
"Okay, calm down. We have to collect fish tomorrow. I'll talk about Xiaolong later." Jiang Hongmei pushed her son into the house: "Lijuan, you go and cook too."
In fact, the reason why Wang Baorui gave birth to five children was because he was worried that something would happen to himself or his children, so he gave birth to five children at once. This also caused his family to have financial difficulties. Compensation for land acquisition will make it even more difficult for families.
Now he can count on a good harvest from the Egyptian pond lice in the three-acre fish pond.
Just when Wang Baorui was about to ask the other children to wash their hands and eat.
Two small electric donkeys came to the door.
"What's going on?"
Jiang Hongmei, who was comforting her second grandson at the front door, turned around and found that it was a thorn in the village, and a strange young man: "Aunt Xia, what are you doing here?"
The prickly head with the nickname Xi Gu said with an apologetic smile: "Aunt Qi, I'm looking for Brother Baorui."
"Who?" Wang Baorui, who was in the house, walked out and found it was Aunt Xi and a stranger. He frowned slightly: "Aunt Xi, are you looking for me?"
"Brother Baorui, didn't you raise three acres of Egyptian fish? I'll guarantee one acre, how about fifteen thousand?"
Wang Baorui smiled and said: "Auntie Xi, do you think I am a fool? Fifteen thousand per acre?"
Shrimp Girl is still not giving up: "Brother Baorui, all the fish ponds in our village have been harvested today. One acre only costs over 10,000 kilograms. I will earn a hard-earned fee."
"Go find someone else!" Wang Baorui refused without thinking, because he knew the situation of his fish pond very well. His mother had been going to nearby seafood restaurants and food stalls every day for more than three months. He raised the leftovers to a very large size. He estimated that one acre weighed 15,000 kilograms.
How could he outsource the fish pond to others at this time?
"Brother Baorui, is there really no need to discuss?"
"It's nothing to discuss. When are you going to pay back the two hundred yuan you owe me?"
"Uh...I still have something to do."
Xi Gu took another young man and drove a small electric donkey away in a blink of an eye.
Watching the two people leaving, Wang Baorui just wanted to go in, but his mother Jiang Hongmei pulled him: "Baorui, I'd better go to the fish pond and watch. You can come back after you finish eating."
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"Mom, are you worried that Aunt Xi might cause trouble?"
Jiang Hongmei knows the customs of the countryside very well. She is jealous of others when they make money, but she is afraid that someone will secretly add pesticides to the fish ponds. It depends on tomorrow, it’s better to be careful.”
After listening to what his mother said, Wang Baorui also felt that he was a little careless: "Okay! Mom, you go over and watch first. Lijuan and I will take turns keeping watch at night."
Xi Gu and another young man who left Wang Baorui parked the electric donkey at the entrance of the village.
"Xia Gu, your idea is unreliable!"
"Tietou, don't be discouraged! Why don't we go to a farm farther away?"
"There are very few Egyptian fish in the farms further away! I think we should forget it!" Tietou was already retreating.
But Xi Gu still refused to give up: "This is a good opportunity to make money. In a few days, people in other places will know about it, and we will have no chance."
"Farewell, I'd better go home and help. If you really get cheap Egyptian fish, I can lend you my license plate and I'll charge you a small fee. Goodbye." Tietou then tightened the handlebars and the little electric donkey flew away. Run out.
Obviously no one is stupid.
As for going to other places to collect fish, Aunt Xi gave up the idea after thinking about it, mainly because he was unfamiliar with it and could easily be fooled.
Tietou drove his electric donkey home and entered Changsha Village.
Before reaching the door of the house, I heard angry scoldings in the distance, and Tietou approached with a sneer on his face.
"What did you go to do?"
"Dad, a classmate from Kanamachi is looking for me."
Lin Songjiang said with a straight face: "Kamachi? That shrimp girl again? Didn't I tell you not to associate with this kind of person? What can such an idle guy accomplish?"
"Got it..."
"I know, I know, and I will say I know all day long. Are you going to piss me off to death? Don't be like your damn brother and be deceived into going to Southeast Asia." Lin Songjiang vented his inner frustration.
As soon as he heard about his eldest brother, Tietou didn't dare to be stubborn, because if he dared to talk back, his father would probably break his legs.
After scolding for a while, Lin Songjiang finally remembered the business: "You go to the fish pond for me this afternoon. If you dare to run out before the fish in the house are collected, be careful of your dog legs."
Lin Songjiang's family ate lunch in a hurry.
After one o'clock, I dragged my family to the four-acre fish pond contracted by myself.
A pond had been emptied out in the morning, but there were still many Egyptian pond lice in the mud at the bottom of the pond, so the family divided the work and worked together.
Tietou and his brother were assigned to clean the mud in the pond.
Lin Songjiang and his wife took their net bags and bait materials to the other two ponds to catch the Egyptian pond lice that were attracted by the bait.
Wearing ill-fitting long water shoes and straw hats, armed with blunt-tipped rakes and buckets, the Iron-Head brothers stepped into the mud and struggled to find the Egyptian pond lice hidden in it.
"Brother, at your feet..."
"Damn, this dead fish is too slippery."
After half an hour of fishing, we caught more than 100 kilograms of fish.
"It's too hot, take a rest."
The two brothers carried the water to the pond and stood under the longan tree to enjoy the shade.
Tietou picked a bunch of longans casually.
His younger brother was drinking from a mineral water bottle and fanning the wind with a straw hat: "Huh... Brother, these fish should be sold for several hundred yuan, right?"
"It's a beautiful idea, more than a hundred pounds, just over a hundred yuan." Tietou pressed open a longan and put it into his mouth.
"So cheap? You shouldn't make much money, right?"
Looking at his confused brother, Tietou also understood that his brother was studying in a closed school at the High School Affiliated to China Normal University and did not know the specific situation, so he explained: "The price of 1.5 yuan per pound is indeed cheap, but the Egyptian fish grows very fast, as long as there are people If you accept it, you will make money.”
"Then how much can our four acres of fish pond be sold for?"
"Sixty or seventy thousand!"
"That's all?"
"That's all? When you go out to work, you won't say such things. Study hard! Try to find an employer in the city."
"Uh..."
"Stop it, eat longan."
Lin Songjiang and his wife had already caught seven to eight hundred kilograms, so they asked Tietou and his wife to carry their fish over.
Soon, Lin Songjiang drove a tricycle and pulled away a car of Egyptian fish.
This scene was happening at the same time in five or six villages near Magong Town. Many farmers went out with their whole families.
The first batch of farmers who have been breeding for three months have tasted the first sweetness.
(End of chapter)