Chapter 173 Funeral Announcement
“Collect peanuts!”
“Collect peanuts to buy soybeans!”
When Chen Ling went to the wheat field, there were grain traders. He rode his bicycle slowly from the direction of the primary school, playing a long tune and shouting loudly as he walked.
So he stopped and asked: "What's the price of peanuts and soybeans?"
The grain seller was a dark, thin old man with his trouser legs rolled up and a wrinkled face. When he asked about the price, he spread his legs and stopped the car. He first looked curiously at the prey hanging on his body and the two dogs following him.
Then he replied: "Last year's old peanuts were one yuan two or one yuan three, and this year's new ones were two yuan five six..."
"Soybeans are all more expensive than peanuts. "Fifteen cents."
Chen Ling laughed when he heard this: "The price you gave is a bit cheap. I just went to the market two days ago, and the soybeans almost cost three yuan." "
"There are some for three yuan, but they are from big oil shops, and they want the best beans. The price depends on what they are..."
The grain seller nodded and asked: "How many soybeans do you have?"
Chen Ling said: "The total peanuts and soybeans cover more than five acres of land..."
"Oh, more than five acres!" ”
The grain dealer was immediately happy, with joy on his face.
The goods are scarce this year, so they still need ten or twenty kilograms. In this way, they can collect them sporadically every day, and if they add up, they can make a lot of money.
This guy Chen Ling has more than five acres of land, which is a rare big deal.
Can’t miss it.
"Sell it, brother?"
"Sell it, come to my house and have a look. If the price is right, I'll let you take it away."
"No problem, as long as the things are there Not bad, the price is negotiable.”
Chen Ling brought the grain seller back home. Wang Susu and several women holding dolls happened to be sitting in the yard, hammering soybeans and talking. When Chen Ling came back with a strange man, she was confused. Look over.
After finding out that it was a grain dealer, Zhang Qiaoling said: "We heard the shouting just now, and asked Su Su where he came. Su Su said that when it is all dried, you have to deliver it to the oil mill in the city. , the price is high, are the dealers in the village willing to give the price? "
Indeed, most grain dealers make money by selling their strength.
The bids are generally lower than those of oil mills.
Zhang Qiaoling said this deliberately to lay the groundwork so that the grain dealer would not deceive others by lowering the price.
Sure enough, before Chen Ling could say anything, the grain dealer became unhappy and shouted back: "You bitch are talking nonsense. What's wrong with the oil mill? Our business is not smaller than the oil mill in the county. The tractor is at the dam at the entrance of your village." It's parked on the road, and filling the bucket is worth thousands of dollars. Don't look down on me."
Zhang Qiaoling didn't argue with him when she heard this, she just curled her lips and said: "You should look at things first. Please give me a price. If the price is right, no one will say anything to you."
Then he turned to Chen Ling and smiled: "Is Fugui going to hunt geese? Why don't you tell me? They have been busy for a while. I didn’t catch a few, but you have had this much in the past half day, enough to feed you for several days..."
Several other women also praised them, and they were very rare.
Chen Ling responded with a smile, put down the prey hanging on his body, and handed it to Wang Susu. Then he picked up the big head that had already run over and stretched out his little arms towards him, and took the grain dealer to the warehouse to see the goods.
Inside are some that have been beaten, sifted and packed in the past few days.
"The peanuts are still a little moist. Let's take a look at the soybeans first. The soybeans have already rattled hard. They are all good stuff anyway."
Chen Ling opened the snakeskin bag. , grabbed a handful and handed it to him.
The grain seller took it, opened his hands and looked at it, threw two pieces into his mouth, and chewed them hard twice.
“Well, it’s not bad, it’s very well done...”
"Let me take a look at the ones below."
As he said this, he stretched out his arms and thrust them into the bag, took out two handfuls, looked at the color first, then threw a few more into his mouth and chewed them. , and experienced it again.
This is because I am afraid that it will be mixed with last year’s old beans.
"How is it?"
After he finished looking at it, Chen Ling asked.
The dealer heard this and asked: "Are the remaining bags filled with the same thing?"
"Don't worry, they are the same things."
"If not, go outside and take a look. My wife just hammered out some, put them together and compare them..."
Chen Ling said.
The grain seller was cautious, so he went outside to take another look.
"Well, in this case, I'll give you two yuan and ninety-five cents for soybeans."
After reading it, the grain dealer pondered for a few seconds, looked at Chen Ling and said: "It's basically this price when you send it to the oil mill. It's up to you. There are a lot of things, I won’t lie to you, I will give you the honest price, so that we can all be happy..."
"If you think it can be done, I will also take a look at the peanuts. It doesn’t matter if they are wet. I'll leave for you."
"Okay."
Chen Ling simply nodded in agreement.
It might be higher if you send it to the oil shop, but the difference is only a few cents at most, which saves you the trouble of tinkering with it yourself.
Moreover, I can’t finish the five acres of land even if I tinker with it in one or two trips.
Then he took the grain dealer to look at the peanuts and set the price. Although the peanuts were slightly moist, they could be dried in basically two days. Chen Ling originally wanted to ask the dealer to wait for the peanuts to be thoroughly dried every two days. Let's pretend again when we're dry.
As a result, he wanted it urgently, and the price was given to two and eight yuan, and he wanted to pack it all and leave today.
"Don't worry, we will beat and bag the peanuts and beans. My brothers are very strong, so you don't need to exert any effort."
This guy made Chen Ling lament their hard work.
I guess I was afraid that my peers would snatch it up, so I didn’t want to wait more than two days.
That’s fine too.
Otherwise, the yard will be full of these things every day, and you will have to watch chickens, ducks and nearby birds destroy them all the time. Selling them as soon as possible can save you some worry.
“Isn’t the price you gave me comparable to the price at the oil shop?”
Wang Susu asked after seeing off several women.
"It's not a loss, it's not much different. We can't make much money at this price. I guess it's not sent to our county oil factory..."
Chen Ling said.
In fact, Chen Ling's second uncle, Wang Susu and her second brother Wang Qingzhong, are a grain dealer. Otherwise, Wang Qingwen wouldn't have said that there was a lot of food stored in the grain cellar on the mountain when he came.
The grains were hoarded by Wang Qingzhong during his daily business.
Grain dealers like them make money from the price difference, but the price difference can be divided into three types:
The first is the regional price difference. For example, if there is a large oil mill and a large factory in a neighboring county, the county will charge it at a low price. If you sell it, if you are lucky, you can make a difference of two to three cents. If you can pull a thousand pounds in one trip, you can make a gross profit of two to three hundred cents, which is pretty good.
The second is the seasonal price difference. Just like Wang Qingzhong, he buys at low prices in the peak season, hoards a lot, and sells at high prices in the off-season.
The third is the price difference between quality and price. Dealers deliberately devalue the quality of grain and collect it at low prices in the countryside, and then sell it at high prices. Or they mix high-quality new grain with old grain and sell it as inferior. .
Most of the grain dealers in this era were from grain purchasing stations and were very clever.
In the past few years, the country carried out the reform of the grain circulation system, and a large number of people in the local grain department were "voluntarily laid off". These people transformed from employees into grain dealers.
But many of my contacts are still there, and I know the price news better than the mud-legged guy in the countryside.
Regularly take advantage of poor information and make a lot of money.
The last time my uncle Wang Qingwen came to the house, he just wanted to give him some advice. If it didn’t work out, he would become a grain dealer. After all, it is much more convenient to collect grain here than in the mountains. As long as you don’t look at it, this business can be done. After getting familiar with it, you can at least support your family. "That..."
"Uncle, uncle, that..."
The dealer rode his bicycle to the entrance of the village to call for someone. Suddenly, the boss ran over again, took Chen Ling to the door, and pointed to the peanut branches and vines piled up next to the firewood pile. Show it to him.
Looking carefully, it turned out that there was a small thing on the branches and vines rubbing its wing feathers, making a hoarse cry.
Chen Ling smiled: "Oh, it's a grasshopper. Uncle, I'll catch it for you."
In the peanut field in autumn, there are many grasshoppers in the millet field. Every year, millet and peanuts are harvested. I can catch a lot and string them together with grass. After finishing my work, I sat on the ridge and lit a fire to roast it. It was very fragrant.
Sometimes I would carry one or two of them on the branches and vines at home, and they would crawl around in the yard without anyone paying attention. At night, I could hear the chirping of grasshoppers on trees and grape trellises.
However, due to the late harvest of these crops this year, there are also few grasshoppers. The current one is an old grasshopper, with a blue face and a black body. It does not avoid people when they are close, and it appears to be reactive. Very slow.
Chen Ling reached out and grabbed it and caught it in his hand. He pinched the back of the grasshopper's neck and handed it to the little baby: "Come on, grab it. I'll let you drink it when I get back."
< br>"Feed the scorpion tiger, uncle, go feed the scorpion tiger..."
The big head raised his head, opened his black and white eyes, looked at him, and pointed towards the courtyard with a small hand.
"Okay, okay, if you feed the scorpion and tiger, feed the scorpion and tiger."
Chen Ling asked him to get the grasshopper, carry him to the hole of the peach tree in the yard, and let him feed the scorpion and tiger.
Scorpion tiger is actually the native name of gecko, also called scorpion tiger.
Ever since Chen Ling caught two extra-large mountain geckos and raised them in a tree hole, his parents have to hold the baby over every time he comes home.
And they watched him for a long time, making Wang Jusheng and Zhang Qiaoling doze off. They coaxed and lied to him every time, and it took a lot of effort to get him home.
Now he held the grasshopper in his small hands and handed it to the entrance of the cave. The old grasshopper was quickly swallowed into the mouth by a mountain gecko. It was brought back to the tree hole and crunched by its companions. In a few seconds, only the thighs and wings were left. .
The little kid watched without blinking until the two geckos had eaten all the grasshoppers. Then he turned his head and grinned, exposing his half-grown baby teeth to Chen Ling and patting her. Little hands, giggling all the time.
When he was happy, he got down from Chen Ling's arms, pointed at the pit of the peach tree, took off his crotchless pants, and started peeing.
"Good guy, who's bad boy is this? Let me cut off the cow for you..."
But it was Zhang Qiaoling who saw that his family had a lot of food, so she went home and called Wang Jusheng Come over.
Wang Jusheng was playing with his son, and the grain seller's tractor also arrived.
"Oh, sister-in-law too, why did I wake you up? You just went on duty tonight, go back and sleep well. I just happened to shoot a few geese. Waiting for you to be refreshed, I will come over for a drink in the evening. Order..."
"Hahaha, your sister-in-law didn't tell me this. I would have brought you two bottles of wine if I had known. The pot of old wine given by my third aunt in the city is very delicious."
"Wait a minute, I'll go back and get it first. I'll have some when I finish the work later."
"I don't have to do much work today. My sister-in-law just remembered to call me home. Didn’t you hear the grain seller say, we don’t have to worry about it today, they are loading the soybeans on the tractor themselves, and I can handle a dozen bags by myself.” br>
"Ah? Is that so? That's okay. I slept for a long time and I'm not sleepy at all. It just so happens that the three of us in the family can help you keep an eye on things to prevent them from causing trouble."
Just as he said this, the grain seller Then he brought a burly middle-aged man into the courtyard. The man was carrying a bundle of snakeskin bags and a large pole scale. When he arrived, he threw the two things on the ground.
Then he said a few words to Chen Ling and asked him to clean up other debris in the yard and back the tractor in.
"Sister-in-law, please take Datou and Susu into the house to rest. It will be very dirty in here later."
After warning, Chen Ling put away the debris. , and asked the other two to back the tractor into the yard.
It was a semi-old tractor that was making a bouncing sound. The body of the tractor had been modified. It was thick and long and looked quite strong.
After parking in the courtyard, Chen Ling went back to the house to carry the soybeans. The snakeskin bags were packed evenly, with each bag weighing about 120 kilograms.
Chen Ling carried out two bags, and the grain dealer tied them together with a rope, hooked the rope with the iron hook of the steelyard, and weighed the bags while Wang Jusheng recorded the weight.
When the soybeans are weighed, there is no rush to load them on the truck body.
The two grain dealers unloaded the truck body of the tractor, opened the front of the tractor, and crushed it back and forth on the soybean poles.
In this way, all the soybeans are finished quickly.
Peanuts were a little more troublesome, but the two grain dealers were not slow in their work. With Chen Ling and the others helping from time to time, they were finished before two o'clock in the afternoon.
In the end, the soybeans and peanuts added up to another nearly 10,000 yuan.
This guy is so awesome that he shocked Wang Jusheng and his wife so much that they were speechless for a long time. Last time, the red eel cost more than 10,000 yuan. They knew it. Only half a year later, it cost another 10,000 yuan. , plus the vegetable seller, the villagers always said that Chen Ling made a lot of money from selling. After doing this, the two of them were confused.
Xin said, when did money become so easy to earn?
It looks like it was blown by a strong wind.
Fortunately, for the sake of safety, the grain dealer did not carry so much cash with him when he went out.
Otherwise, seeing so much money at once, neither of them would dare to stay here any longer.
In the afternoon, wait for Chen Ling to come back from the county town with his bankbook.
Wang Susu was also full of joy.
I feel like I can afford to raise two more sons now.
Drag Zhang Qiaoling into the kitchen to kill the wild geese.
The two of them joined hands to pluck, disembowel and disembowel the goose. They cleaned up everything and left the rest to Chen Ling.
I am happy that I made money today.
Eat wild geese stewed in an iron pot and make pancakes.
As the saying goes: "It is better to eat two ounces of birds than half a pound of animals."
People who know how to eat know that the less meat, the more delicious it tastes.
Especially the ones flying in the sky, the whole body is full of fine meat. Whether it is stewed, roasted, braised or grilled, the taste is extremely fragrant.
Just like the wild goose today, stewed in an iron pot over firewood, the goose meat is tender and delicious, smooth and firm. After the fire is sufficient, the soup is rich and fragrant. Take a bite of the bone. They are all crispy.
It is really a comforting experience to drink it with the mellow old wine.
At this time, the white flour pancakes and corn tortillas have also absorbed enough of the soup. Use chopsticks to pick out the steaming pancakes. After drinking wine and eating one, your stomach is warm and you feel a real sense of satisfaction. You can't help but It's so satisfying.
"Auntie, I'm hungry, and I still need..."
The big head stretched out his oily little hand and shouted at Wang Susu.
Wang Susu had already torn the meat into small strips for him, and now handed him a piece.
"Susu, leave him alone, you eat yours..."
"It's okay, sister-in-law, I'm almost ready to eat."
The two women were guarding the baby.
Chen Lingze and Wang Jusheng were drinking and chatting. Although the two families often moved around, they hadn't sat down to eat together for a long time.
This time it was very lively and we ate until dark.
After sending their family away, Chen Ling and his wife went to bed early because they drank.
What people didn't expect was...
Last night at almost two o'clock in the morning, when he was intoxicated in a sweet dream, someone came to the house and called him.
They are brothers Chen Ze and Chen Jiang.
"Fugui, Fourth Grandma is dying, let's go there together."
(End of this chapter)