Chapter 668 Buying Rapeseed


Chapter 668 Buying Rapeseed

In the yard, honeysuckle was planted all over the walls last year but has already climbed. Now it is slowly blooming as the weather warms up, ushering in the first flowering period of the year. .

The first blooming honeysuckle looks like only some silvery white and greenish flowers, which are still immature.

If someone who is not familiar with honeysuckle sees it, they may think that it is a leaf on a vine rather than a flower.

After seeing off several waves of tourists who came to inquire about accommodation, Zhang An walked to the wall facing the sun.

I picked up a budding silver flower and put it in my mouth. I chewed it a little and found that the taste was a bit bitter, but it was much better than the golden flower period.

Later, Zhang An went home and brought a small basin and picked the silver flowers on the vine.

When we picked honeysuckle last year, it was already the time when both the gold and silver stamens were in full bloom.

Zhang An thought he picked it very well, but he learned from Zhang Yixing that the honeysuckle, whether used as medicine or tea, has the best effect when it has just bloomed but has not yet bloomed. When it blooms.

Just like spring tea, one bud can be picked, one bud and one leaf can be picked, even when it grows to three leaves.

But when it comes to drinking, only the tip of the bud or the one with one bud and one leaf is the best, and the more expensive it is.

Zhang An didn't understand this before. Instead, he thought it was best to wait until the flowers bloomed and the stamens appeared, so he picked them so late last year.

Fortunately, the honeysuckle is growing well. It may be because there was too much spring water in the space where Zhang An watered it during that time.

So although the best flower picking period has been missed, Zhang Yixing’s appraisal showed that the medicinal effects contained in the dried flowers are acceptable.

Now that he knows the best time to pick honeysuckle, Zhang An will not miss it.

Only this time when picking the honeysuckle, he was not as anxious as before, picking them one by one. After all, this was not about picking and selling them for money, so there was no need to rush for efficiency.

With nothing to worry about, you can pick the most crisp, tender and high-quality flowers to ensure the best quality of this honeysuckle.

When picking, Zhang An did not pick the flowers as soon as he saw them. Instead, he cut them with scissors here and there.

After all, when their honeysuckle plant was first planted, it was mainly used to decorate the courtyard wall for viewing. As for picking the flowers, it was just a casual visit.

Furthermore, the reason why we were so anxious last year was because it was already the last flowering period of honeysuckle.

Looking back now, this is the first flowering period of honeysuckle this year. Even if the flowers fade after a while, they will bloom again several times in the future.

There is still a lot of time left for him to pick, so there is no need to kill the entire honeysuckle in just this one crop.

Although it is only in the state of silver flowers now, Zhang An clearly feels that there are more flowers blooming on the vine than last year. This is probably because the roots have been established.

However, although there are more flowers, the quality visible to the naked eye is not as good as last year.

Zhang An himself is somewhat self-aware about this, because last year, he was worried that the honeysuckle would die, so he came to water it with space spring water every three days.

But this year, he saw that the honeysuckle had survived and had not been watered once since the beginning of spring.

This may be the treatment of a new person turning into an old person. At first, he called her "Xiao Tiantian", but now he just calls her "Mrs. Niu".

Half pay, Zhang An just picked a small pot of silver flowers, only about two or three kilograms, when Chen Ze, who had just gone home for dinner, came back again.

“It’s so good, why are you picking these young leaves? Is it possible that they can be eaten?”

Obviously, Chen Ze is a person who is not familiar with honeysuckle. When he saw Zhang An in When I picked some emerald green silver flowers, I thought I was picking crisp and tender leaves.

"This is a flower that has just bloomed. Where are the leaves?"

Zhang An is not too harsh on Young Master Chen. After all, this is an out-and-out young man in the city, and he knows these things well. Rarely is a normal thing.

"So that's it. You picked them and dried them to make tea. My old man likes them very much. When they are dried this year, give me some."

Listen After hearing Zhang An's explanation, Chen Ze immediately remembered the honeysuckle tea he drank here at the beginning of the year.

Although there is a bitter taste in the mouth, it will slowly return to sweetness on the tip of the tongue, making it more acceptable than the bitter tea.

Especially elderly people like the old man of the Chen family like this kind of food.

"There are still some from last year. If you want, you can take some back later."

I am afraid that the newly picked ones this year will not work. The newly picked honeysuckle must be completely dried. , it will take a lot of time.

And at the current rate, you can only pick a little bit at a time. Even if it is dried, there won't be much at all, so how can it be used to give away.

However, there were still a lot of sun-dried ones last year. Although they were not picked at the best time, the quality was passable.

The old man of the Chen family just drinks some on weekdays, which is fine.

"By the way, why are you so free today? You don't have to supervise the work?"

Zhang An looked at Mr. Chen who was reaching out to help pick flowers, and couldn't help but glance at him in surprise. .

In the past, Chen Ze had always been very leisurely, but he often had time to come over and chat with him to pass the time.

But since the construction of his hotel started, he has rarely been seen here because he has to go to the site to supervise the work.

“There’s no need to go. It’s basically completed now. There are only some things left to tidy up. Li Hongbin can be there to watch.”

For such a big hotel, it’s important to plan from the very beginning. It took Chen Ze a lot of thought and energy to get the plan to this point.

Now that the rough prototype has come out, he feels quite a sense of accomplishment.

"Huh? That looks pretty fast. It took half a year to build such a big building."

Hearing Chen Ze's words, Zhang An turned to face the bridge. Looking downstream.

Sure enough, the six-story building has been topped out, and many of the outer frames have been removed.

Looking at Hongyan Town, this is definitely the tallest and largest building.

“Since it’s almost finished, when do you plan to start the decoration? Is there any hope of opening during the National Day this year.”

Seriously, even if you have seen the renderings, Zhang An I'm quite looking forward to what Chen Ze's hotel will look like.

“I have already found the person responsible for the decoration. They will be able to enter the site only after Li Hongbin has finished it. However, this is a big project. It may be a bit difficult to complete it in a short time, but It should be possible to finish it by the end of the year."

Chen Ze silently calculated the time. It was only early May. If he wanted to open in October, he felt that it might be too late.

But as this year ends, there will be no surprises. After all, there are still six or seven months until the end of the year.

And the construction team responsible for the decoration was specially found by him from the provincial capital. The scale was quite good, just to get it done as soon as possible. "That's a pity. Look at the number of tourists who have come here in the past two days. It's simply terrifying. It's a pity that the accommodation conditions in the village cannot accommodate so many people. Many people can't find a place to live in the village and can only go to the town. During the National Day holiday, the flow of people is no less than now. If your hotel opens, then we won’t spit out the meat in our mouths.”

Although. Today is only the first day of vacation, but since last night, some tourists from nearby have already arrived early.

But no matter how you say it, Changqing Village is just a small mountain village. No matter how good the development momentum has been in the past two years, its size is still the same. As of this morning, all the B&Bs in the village were rented out.

Zhang An could only lament that his village was still unable to enjoy this overwhelming wealth.

Especially this morning, when he saw those people who came to ask about accommodation and rushed to the town one after another, he felt really uncomfortable.

Although he himself has never thought of engaging in this aspect, don't forget that he belongs to the Pixiu family and would not like the good news to flow to outsiders.

"There's nothing we can do about it. There's no point in being anxious. We can only take our time."

Chen Ze felt the same way. Seeing the overflowing people, he also felt As uncomfortable as Zhang An.

He chose Changqing Village because of its potential.

The facts showed that his vision was not wrong. This was just a short holiday, and the influx of people was more than he had expected. It would be okay if he waited until the summer vacation in a while.

At night, Zhang Laosan came to Zhang An’s house.

"Zhang An, didn't you say before that you want to buy several hundred kilograms of rapeseed? My rapeseed has been dried. If you want it, go and weigh it tomorrow."


A few days ago, Zhang An just mentioned that he wanted to buy hundreds of kilograms of bitter rapeseed to squeeze oil, and Zhang Laosan took it to heart.

No, their family had just taken back the rapeseed from the field and dried it in the sun when he ran over and told Zhang An.

“It’s so fast, I thought it would be a few days later.”

This year Zhang Laosan’s family planted all rapeseed, and Zhang An thought the harvest date would be later. Unexpectedly, it has been harvested and dried in the past few days.

"Last year, I would have had to wait a week or so. The main reason is that this year the rain is good and the sun is sufficient, especially since the sun has been shining these days, so it is a little earlier, I guess. If I can get an extra hundred pounds of harvest, I will sell it to you.”

This year I am planting bitter rapeseed, and Zhang Laosan is already prepared for a failed harvest.

Unexpectedly, when I finally took it back and dried it, I found hundreds of kilograms more rapeseed than I expected.

Originally, what he could sell to Zhang An here was about two hundred kilograms at most, but now he can sell an extra hundred kilograms.

Although the extra hundred pounds would not fetch much, he felt that Zhang An would definitely be happier than before.

"How good is the harvest this year? If you want it, I will go and get it tomorrow."

Zhang An was very happy when he heard that he could buy three hundred kilograms of bitter rapeseed from Zhang Laosan's house.

Their family needs about sixty or seventy pounds of rapeseed a year.

After all, their family always mixes rapeseed oil with lard, so they don’t need too much.

But it takes at least three hundred kilograms of bitter rapeseed to squeeze out the sixty or seventy kilograms of rapeseed oil.

Originally Zhang Laosan promised him about two hundred catties, but he still had to find someone else to collect another hundred catties.

Now that Zhang Laosan can bring out three hundred kilograms here, he doesn’t need to find anyone else, which can save a lot of trouble.

The next morning, just after six o'clock, Zhang An got up. While there were not many people on the road in the village, he set up a saddle for Dahei and came to Zhang Laosan's house.

If he waited until seven or eight o'clock, most of the tourists staying in the village B&B would have gotten up. The road would be full of people by then, and it would not be convenient for him to lead Dahei on the road.

Actually, it’s not a good idea to go to someone’s house so early in the morning.

Because it is just dawn now, many people have just woken up, and there are even people at home who are sleeping, so it is most appropriate to come to the door later.

But according to his understanding of Zhang Laosan and his wife, they might have gotten up early.

Because when the kiwis were just planted two years ago, the two of them would get up before dawn to clean up the orchard. They were extremely industrious.

It is precisely because of this that although they own such a large orchard, they take care of it better than other families. This is because they work early and stay late.

So if Zhang An comes to visit now, there will definitely be no inconvenience.

When we arrived at Zhang Laosan’s house, it was just as Zhang An thought. The couple had been up for a long time.

At this moment, Zhang Laosan was touching the sickle in the yard, preparing to go outside to cut some grass and feed the cows.

"Third brother, I'm here to carry the rape seeds."

Zhang An entered the yard and greeted Zhang Laosan.

"Then follow me and leave it in the main room."

Zhang Laosan put down the sickle in his hand and led Zhang An towards the house.

As soon as he entered the main room, Zhang An saw the pile of rapeseed placed under their large wooden ladder.

"Anzi, come and see how the rapeseed is drying."

Zhang Laosan took their iron weight, then grabbed a small handful of rapeseed and put it on the He laid it on the ground with a weight and showed it to Zhang An.

This is the method used in the village to identify whether the rapeseed at home has been dried.

If it is dried in the sun and the weight is rolled down, you will not see much moisture. If it is not dried in the sun, it will be thinner when it is rolled out.

Zhang Laosan first showed Zhang An the rapeseeds, mainly to show that their rapeseeds had been dried and that they were not cheating on the scale. This was basically what other families did.

“This rapeseed is well dried, how many times has it been exposed to the sun in total.”

Zhang An only took a few glances and knew that the rapeseed in Zhang Laosan’s house was very dry. It should be exposed to the sun for more than one day.

“Actually, I only dried it for one day when I got it back, but when I was in the field, I dried it for most of the day while beating it, so that’s why I did it like this.”

Zhang Laosan laughed. He said with a smile, and then took out a large bag from under the ladder.

Seeing this, Zhang An quickly took out the nylon bag he had brought and poured the rapeseed that Zhang Laosan had picked up into his own pocket.

When dumping, Zhang An could feel that these rapeseeds were very clean, with very few remaining rapeseed shells and soil.

A discerning eye will see that it must have been blown by the wind, more than once, that's why it is so clean.

(End of this chapter)

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