Chapter 14 Oil Shop
“Peanuts! Selling peanuts! This year’s new peanuts, whoever wants to buy peanuts come and have a look!”
“If you don’t want to buy new peanuts from the greenhouse, come and try them... …”
Chen Ling found a spacious place in the grain area, parked the donkey cart, and started shouting at the top of his voice.
At this point in time, the number of people in the cereal area has just increased.
Chen Ling's shout immediately attracted many people.
I grabbed a few and peeled them open. I saw that they were really new peanuts that had just been dried. I thought they were quite rare.
When asked, Chen Ling said that it was grown in a greenhouse.
The crowd immediately became more lively, constantly asking Chen Ling this and that.
Some people asked Chen Ling which village he was in, and some asked him whether it was easy to manage the greenhouses he planted, and how much it cost to build a greenhouse...
People asked all kinds of questions, and during this period they all tasted Chen Ling's peanuts.
They all think it tastes better than ordinary peanuts.
But the sales were not as fast as Chen Ling imagined.
It’s not that no one buys it, but that few buy it.
They are all bought in quantities of two to three kilograms, and a little more is only five or ten kilograms.
The one who bought the most was only 50 kilograms, and he was the owner of a grain and oil store in the farmer’s market.
I told Chen Ling that peanuts are delicious, but I don’t know if they will produce oil. I will buy a fifty kilogram one and try it first.
If there is not much oil, just eat it yourself.
This made Chen Ling quite helpless.
I wonder if I have overestimated my purchasing power in this era.
Next, Chen Ling shouted a few words from time to time, and there was no shortage of people buying peanuts.
When I saw they were new peanuts and heard Chen Ling say they were grown in greenhouses, I was willing to buy them.
But there is still the same problem, that is, I don’t buy enough.
At about eleven o'clock, there were still about a hundred kilograms of peanuts on the donkey cart.
“Tsk, I used to think that these five hundred kilograms of peanuts were missing. Who knew that after shouting all morning, there are still so many left.”
Chen Ling shook his head, feeling quite helpless.
In fact, he also understands that this kind of thing cannot be rushed.
No matter in this era or in future generations, it is not easy to quickly open up the market and attract a large number of customers.
Just because there is a sun and moon cave in the sky, Chen Ling's expectations were a little high.
“And this is based on the market price, without much price increase.”
The current market price of shelled peanuts is 80 cents per catty, but that was last year's peanuts. Chen Ling used the gimmick of fresh peanuts and greenhouse peanuts to increase the price by 10 cents, selling them for 90 cents per catty.
People can still accept it.
But if the price goes up by another 10 cents, to 1 yuan per kilogram of peanuts, it won’t work.
Money is still relatively valuable in this era.
And the price difference of food is relatively small. Sometimes it is five cents higher than the market price and cannot be sold.
For wheat, rice, corn, and rice, the price difference is only a few cents. If you dare to pay 10 cents more, it is considered a time when the market is quite good.
It was almost noon, and the grain section was gradually deserted.
Chen Ling sold another ten kilograms of peanuts, and there was about seventy or eighty kilograms left on the donkey cart, which he could no longer sell.
So he decided to have a meal to fill his stomach first.
Then we will think of ways to get rid of the remaining peanuts in the cave as soon as possible.
The yield from one acre of land is about 600 to 700 catties. One acre of land the day before yesterday and two acres of land yesterday yielded a total of more than 2,000 jins.
If we sell it at the current rate, I'm afraid it will take several days.
After all, the market is deserted in the afternoon, so you can only buy half-day items in the morning.
For lunch, Chen Ling ate fried noodles at the farmer’s market.
Red oil soup, pork dumplings, a big hot bowl, the portion is extremely affordable.
Chen Ling was very satisfied with the meal. After paying the money, he drove the donkey cart out of the market and found a place to feed the donkey water.
The donkey couldn't bear it even if he didn't eat or drink for a whole morning.
In order to reward the stubborn donkey, after Chen Ling gave it water, he fed it some peanut vines and leaves left for the chickens in the cave.
Now, this guy is aroused.
He stopped on the side of the road and refused to leave. He screamed at Chen Ling and even talked back to him, asking him if he wanted more food.
"Damn you, with your attitude, you still dare to ask for food..."
"Don't even think about it."
Chen Ling had a dark face and shook the whip hard, He drove the old stubborn donkey to the county town.
He planned to visit the major oil mills or grain and oil stores in the county to see if he could sell more peanuts.
Then this turn of events was really beyond Chen Ling’s expectation. He only went over after filling up the donkey cart again.
As a result, I transferred to the first oil shop and unloaded 300 kilograms.
And this oil shop is not big.
The boss tasted it and it was fresh peanuts. Although the soil outside was fresh, the peanut kernels were very dry and could be squeezed directly for oil.
Hearing that it was grown in a greenhouse, I happily passed the scale and paid for it.
Finally, I told Chen Ling to leave three hundred kilograms behind to try out the oil. If possible, I would ask him to send it here next time.
Chen Ling was quite confused after hearing this. Why did the owner of the farmer's market only keep fifty kilograms of the oil when he bought it and tried it again? Why would a small oil shop with such a small quantity keep only three hundred kilograms?
After asking around, I found out that although the oil shop seemed not as big as the grain and oil store, the customers it faced were different.
The customers supplied by the oil mill include restaurants, supply and marketing cooperatives, department stores, grain and oil stores, etc. Even a small oil mill has a wider sales market than ordinary people imagine.
At the same time, the bean cakes and peanut cakes left over from the oil extraction are also very popular.
Sold to feed mills, sometimes the profit is no less than oil extraction.
In most cases, grain and oil stores deal with ordinary individual consumers.
The shipment volume is relatively small.
Only then did Chen Ling realize that he had taken the wrong direction from the beginning.
Now based on the information I have inquired about, I can understand it after a little thought.
It was also in his previous life that he had relatively little contact with these things and had not deliberately understood them. He could not tell the difference between an oil shop and a grain and oil store.
Otherwise, I would not have made such a low-level mistake.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Ling took advantage of asking about the oil shop and asked a few more tentative questions.
Then I learned.
In this season, peanuts are still in short supply, and the peanut reserves of various oil mills are gradually running out.
The new peanuts have not been planted yet.
So as long as you go to the oil shop and the quality of peanuts passes the standard, you will keep some.
Start at least 200 pounds.
The entire county of Lingyun is not that big, but there are still quite a few oil shops.
So Chen Ling spent most of the afternoon throwing out a thousand kilograms of peanuts.
Including what was sold at the farmer's market in the morning, it already weighs about 1,500 kilograms.
You can tell from the thick stack of blue notes in your hand that this day has been a fruitful one.
"Well..."
"Waiting for these oil shops to try out the oil, we don't have to worry about the sales of peanuts in the future."
Chen Ling's thoughts on Dongtian Peanuts watered by streams have confidence.
Of course, even if the entire county of Lingyun is saturated, you can still visit the township oil mills below.
It’s really not possible to go to the neighboring county.
This is not a problem.
After counting the money in his hand again, Chen Ling went to buy a plow and a columbine rake.
I bought a few more bags of various rapeseeds and other miscellaneous seeds, and then I drove the donkey cart back home.
But before leaving the county town, I met Liang Hongyu and Qin Rongxian, a couple I had met at the farmer's market.
The two men were still dressed in the same clothes, sitting on two small horses and fishing on the river.
It has just passed the tenth day of the second lunar month, the weather has not started to warm up yet, and I don’t know where the leisurely elegance comes from.
"Little brother, have you sold out your peanuts?"
Liang Hongyu greeted him first, and then Qin Rong, who was playing with the bait, raised his head first and noticed that it was Chen Ling.
"Yes."
Chen Ling got off the donkey cart, shook his head and smiled: "After working hard for a long time from morning to now, I finally sold out..."
"Little brother , I have always wanted to ask you, why did you choose to grow peanuts in a greenhouse? Shouldn’t you grow some vegetables and fruits if you have a greenhouse?”
Qin Rongxian asked, “I have seen greenhouses used in other places? Those who grow mushrooms, watermelons, and vegetables, I have never seen one who grows peanuts."
Chen Ling listened and replied with a smile: "I just built a greenhouse, vegetables and fruits. I’ve planted a little bit, and I want to try out what sells well.”
"As a result, after planting, there was still an open space, so I randomly lit two fields of peanuts."
Of course this was an excuse.
Actually, I didn’t have any suitable seeds in my hands two days ago. I also have red dates, walnuts, melon seeds, peanuts and other dried fruits that are easy to preserve at home.
Among them, only the peanuts are easy to collect. The others can be planted in wasteland and watered with some water from the cave sky stream, and they will grow into trees, which is not easy to hide from people.
Peanuts are worry-free. As a necessity for oil extraction, the price is not too low, just right.
(End of this chapter)