Chapter 385 Acquisition of Plantain
“By the way, my relative will bring the piglets over tomorrow, you should be at home.”
After chatting with Zhang An for a long time, Zhang Jianwen also He was about to go home, and before leaving, he told Zhang An about the piglet.
Zhang Jianguo had called before, but the man selling the piglets had something to do at home these two days, so he pushed it until tomorrow.
If Zhang Jianwen had nothing to do in the past, he would have driven the carriage back home by himself.
But there is no way, there are things going on everywhere in the village during this time, and I really can't do without him.
"I have nothing else to do tomorrow, but in the afternoon I will go to the other side to help Uncle Li cook the bottom of the pot. If you come, you can come and find me. I will be at home the rest of the time."
It's usually nothing Zhang An didn't even go out, let alone the city, he didn't even take a single step in the town.
Just to go to a place so close to the bridge, he said to Zhang Jianwen. At most, it wouldn't take much effort to go over and shout.
“You don’t have to wait until the afternoon, he will be here in the morning. He won’t delay you for anything.”
After seeing Zhang Jianwen off, Zhang An walked to the pen with an iron broom and cleaned up the pig pen at home.
Since the batch of fat pigs raised at home years ago have been killed and sold, the pig pen at home has become empty.
Since the new piglets are coming tomorrow, Zhang An will naturally prepare a clean and comfortable environment for them to receive the wind and wash away the dust.
Only in a comfortable and good environment can those piglets grow up happily and carefree.
After all, the quality of the meat of pigs that grow up in a happy state will be greatly improved.
"Xiao An, why do you want to come over and wash the pig pen?"
Every morning and evening are the time for the chickens, ducks and geese at home to lay eggs.
So during these two hours every day, Wang Fang would come to the circle to pick up the eggs that had just been laid.
But when Wang Fang came in, she found that her son, who usually didn't want to do anything, was cleaning the pig pen today.
"Mom, my uncle and I bought some piglets from mountain pigs. They will bring them over tomorrow, so I will clean up the pigsty first and then disinfect it."
Zhang Jianwen casually mentioned the matter of selling pigs to him before.
However, Zhang An had been busy raising seedlings for the past two days, and Zhang An also forgot to tell his family.
So Wang Fang still doesn’t know that Zhang An has already bought this year’s piglets behind their backs.
"My dad and I were still discussing last night whether we should take time to buy a few in a few days. Unexpectedly, you sold them. This will save us the trouble of going to the street again."
Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo have become accustomed to raising pigs at home over the years. It doesn't matter whether they sell them or not, but they must raise the pigs they kill for the New Year.
“But it’s not easy to raise mountain pigs. If you let them out, they might not come back.”
Wang Fang has raised pigs for so many years, so naturally she doesn’t know the temperament of mountain pigs. .
“Mom, you don’t have to worry about this. Just have two dogs to guard them when the time comes. Our dogs can even herd sheep, and this pig is no problem either.”
With so many big dogs at home, it’s time for them to come into play.
It’s all about raising an army for a thousand days and using it for a while. The big dogs at home have been raised for several years. Not to mention a thousand days, there must be hundreds of days. It’s time to make some contribution to the family.
Zhang An has already made plans and will send two of them to herd sheep in the mountains with his father, Zhang Jianguo.
Stay for two days to guard the house, and put the rest in the back mountain to guard those rolling mountain pigs.
Although mountain pigs are wild and like to roam around, they are as courageous as mice. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are as timid as mice.
When the time comes, let the big dogs at home guard you. They will definitely have to stay on the mountain and roll around.
Besides, Zhang An still has space. At worst, he can bring them in and tame them briefly.
They don’t need to be clever, they just need to remember how to go out and how to come back.
After all, they are a group of pig brains, and Zhang An does not have high requirements for them.
In the evening, while Zhang An and his family were having dinner, Fatty Lu called.
“Hey, Zhang An, do you have plantains planted in your orchards?”
After answering the phone, Fatty Lu briefly chatted with Zhang An. Let’s start talking about business.
"Yeah, it's estimated to be about a hundred acres. What's wrong, you changed your career?"
Fatty Lu didn't mention their fish, but instead thought about the plantains in the orchard, which made Zhang Anting Surprised.
After all, every time this guy calls, he can't leave Zhang An's family in three sentences.
For a moment, Zhang An felt that this man had changed his profession from selling fish to selling medicinal materials.
"No, no, I have a friend who makes medicinal materials. There is a big gap in plantains there now. I was thinking that you have a large area in your orchard, so I asked him for it. , do you have any plans to sell it?”
I don’t know about other Fatties, but he is very familiar with plantain.
Why, because they are everywhere in Zhang An’s orchard. Every time he goes to Zhang An’s orchard, all he sees are alfalfa and plantain. It would be weird if he didn’t leave a deep impression.
When his friend heard that there were so many, he begged Fatty Lu to ask to see if Zhang An had any thoughts of betrayal.
After all, it would take a lot of time to play with such a large piece of plantain. If he were to collect it piecemeal, it might take a lot of time.
If Zhang An sells it here, he can save a lot of effort and avoid a lot of trouble.
Although he knew that the plantains in Zhang An's orchard had never been sold since they were planted, they had always been there.
But he didn't agree on Zhang An's behalf. Instead, he called to ask first.
"It's too troublesome. To sell that thing, I have to find someone to dig it up. I'm too lazy to bother with it."
Although there are so many plantains, if you dig them out and sell them, maybe It doesn't sell for much.
Zhang An, with his lazy temperament, would definitely not find trouble for himself.
He just thought that Fatty Lu wanted to introduce business to him, so he refused without thinking.
"Zhang An, your grass won't be of much use if you keep it in the orchard anyway. You might as well sell it. This is a very good friend of mine. The gap on his side is really big. And he is also willing to raise the price.”
It turns out that Fatty Lu’s friend has an important pharmaceutical client.
The factory received a very large order this year, and one of the necessary ingredients for medicine is plantain.
Usually this thing is rarely used, so they don't have much in reserve.
A big order suddenly came in this year, and naturally those pitiful reserves couldn't supply it.
Generally, such large orders are not only related to how much money can be earned, but also reflect the overall strength of a pharmaceutical factory.
So the factory didn’t want to give up, so the pharmaceutical factory began to look for help from these suppliers of medicinal materials, and Fatty Lu’s friend was one of them.
This time the demand is relatively large and it is not easy to handle.
But it is not easy to refuse at this time. Once you refuse, the customer will stay away from you in the future. So Fatty Lu’s herbal medicine friend gritted his teeth and agreed.
Hearing Zhang An's rejection, Fatty Lu didn't think Zhang An wanted to raise the price, but felt that Zhang An had no such intention at all.
Because Zhang An initially planted alfalfa and plantain in the orchard, not for the purpose of selling medicinal materials.
The purpose is to improve the soil quality of the loess slope in the back mountain. Fatty Lu and the others have known about this for a long time.
But now that the soil quality in Zhang An's orchard has improved very much, there is no use in leaving those plantains there.
Both parties were friends, so Fatty Lu wanted to help make peace.
Anyway, the price of plantain has increased a lot now. If we can reconcile it, we can get money and solve the problem at the same time.
"Since you said it is so urgent, I will ask people to start digging in the next two days. You can prepare a car to pull it over, but the things dug out are all raw and there is no time to dry them."
Zhang An was afraid of trouble before, but Fatty Lu said so, so he thought about it and agreed.
For Fatty Lu to say this, he must be a friend with whom he has a very good relationship.
“No, no, no, just dig it out, no need to dry it, then I’ll let him go in the next two days.”
On the other end of the phone, in addition to Fatty Lu’s voice, Zhang An I also heard another very excited voice, probably the friend Fatty Lu mentioned.
"I won't say thank you very much. If anything happens in the future, it will depend on my buddy's performance."
Fatty Lu knew that Zhang An was able to agree in the end entirely because of him.
Although Zhang An can make money from selling this time, Fatty Lu knows that this little money is nothing to Zhang An.
Therefore, he must accept this favor.
"Okay, okay, what a big deal, by the way, my fish pond was dug up by me..."
"What? Some of your fish pond was dug up? "
Before Zhang An finished speaking, he was interrupted by Fatty Lu and asked loudly.
Don't blame him for being excited, because Zhang An's small pond is simply his life.
He couldn't sit still when he heard that Zhang An had dug the fish pond.
"No, Zhang An, why are you digging that fish pond? It's not big to begin with, so you dug it."
"Okay, okay, how old are you? You don’t even want to finish the sentence, right?”
Listening to Fatty Lu howling like crazy on the other side of the phone, Zhang An couldn’t laugh or cry.
“I mean I dug my fish pond again and now it’s expanded to four acres. If you want to fish next time, you’ll have to drive two cars over here.”
"It's expanded. This is a good thing. Do you know that it almost scared me to death? Your fish pond is my life. If it is gone, how can I live?"
Listen When the fish pond was still there and had been expanded by Zhang An from half an acre to four acres, Fatty Lu immediately came back to life.
And I am even happier than before. After all, a small pond of half an acre can produce so many fish.
Now it has become four acres, an increase of eight times. He can’t even imagine how many fish he got at that time.
There is only one thought in my mind, it’s time for me to take off.
Although he has never experienced vigorous love in this life, at that moment, he had already experienced what it means to regain something lost.
The feeling just now was like the girlfriend who had been hiding her identity and falling in love with him suddenly disappeared.
When he was in a state of despair, the other party suddenly appeared in front of him and told him that she was like a very rich eldest lady in her family.
"Okay, that's your life, then I'll fill it in now. I'll see if your life is really gone."
"Don't, Zhang An, This kind of joke is not allowed. Brothers don’t want to be so scary. Well, my friend just said, if possible, we will go there tomorrow and watch you dig it.”
"Okay, anyway, I'm always at home, so you can come anytime."
It seems that Fatty Lu's friend is really in a hurry, otherwise he wouldn't have thought of coming to the scene to supervise the troops.
After hanging up the phone, Zhang An shook his head and went back to the table to eat.
"Is it Xiao Lu calling? Why does the phone sound like a slaughtered pig to me."
The sound of the phone these days is very loud even if the speakerphone is not turned on.
Through a wall, Wang Fang could still hear that the call was from Fatty Lu.
“It’s nothing, I just told him that our fish pond was dug again, but he didn’t listen and thought I filled the fish pond, so he died there.”
Zhang An explained what happened on the phone, and everyone in the family was made to laugh by Fatty Lu.
"By the way, Mom, after you finish your meal, go to the village to find some people. We have work to do tomorrow."
Zhang An thought of digging plantains, I told my mother Wang Fang. After all, as the HR manager of the family, Wang Fang has always been in charge of hiring people.
And this time we were invited to dig plantains, and we had to invite some women. Men basically couldn't do this job.
So most of them have to invite Wang Fang’s group of old sisters.
"Is there any more work at home? Why do you need to hire someone all of a sudden?"
Wang Fang thought for a moment and felt something was wrong. The work at home had just been done, and it was basically nothing important. , why are you starting to hire people again?
“That’s it, Fatty Lu has a friend who buys dried medicinal materials. This time he needs a large batch of plantains. He knows that there are a lot of plantains in our orchard, so what he just called is That’s it.”
“Hey, can that thing still be sold for money? We used to cut a lot of it to feed pigs.”
When Wang Fang heard this, the plantains in the orchard were still there. Someone can buy it specifically, and it sounds like it can be sold at a high price.
I feel a little distressed at the moment. I didn’t know how much I cut back to feed the livestock at home.
“What’s so strange about this? Plantain is a kind of medicinal material. In the past, Mr. Wang’s wife dug all over the fields and dug it up to boil water for her husband.”
Things like plantain, ground pepper and dandelion are often used to treat diseases in rural areas.
It's just that some people don't pay much attention to it, so it's not very clear.
"Anyway, they need it urgently. Mom, please invite more. Anyway, there is not much work in these two days. It is convenient to hire people, and try to hire as many women as possible. After all, this kind of work cannot be done by those macho men. You’re not careful.”
“Then after I finish eating, I’ll go out for a walk and let them come over to dig tomorrow.” Fang went out for a walk, and there were as many people as she wanted.
Last time Zhang An’s family invited people, many people wanted to come, but Zhang An’s family couldn’t ask for so many people, so many people couldn’t come, which was quite disappointing.
This time it’s okay, this time Wang Fang can call out all those who have thought about it but failed to come.
(End of this chapter)