Chapter 96 96. Buying fish fry
There are many elderly people like Old Man Li in Yunqiao Village.
It is no exaggeration to say that in a poor mountain village like theirs with less than 30 households, Old Man Li’s age group accounts for about one-third.
This village did not have such a small population at the beginning. Once upon a time, there were more than two hundred households in the entire village.
But with the development of the times and the increase in commodity prices, mountain villages gradually began to fall behind. It only becomes lively in the months before and after the Spring Festival every year.
Because everyone in the village under the age of sixty has all gone out to work.
Even older workers in their 50s and 60s are not easy to do. They are basically hard-working jobs, with an hourly salary of more than ten yuan, and most of them rely on overtime pay.
But there are old people at the top, and the children at the bottom may have just started a family, and a house, a car, and education for the children are all free of charge.
Let alone supporting the elderly, the children are having a hard time.
Working is also a forced way of survival.
This is exactly the case, even if Zhu Jun repeatedly promised that agricultural loans are now easy to get approved, and the interest rates are still very low. If Song Tan is sure, he can apply to a credit union...
Is Song Tan sure? That is of course very certain.
But can she find anyone?
Not found at all.
The situation is the same in all the villages and towns. When you can't do farm work, you have to go to various villages to get these old people to do it, right?
At their age, they may not show off at ordinary times, but if they are not careful, they can fall down and cause big problems. And when it comes to recruitment and employment... they can't afford to spend a lot of money!
As for hiring young and strong laborers from elsewhere... what is the combined labor cost?
It is better to start from a young age and grow up step by step. When the village slowly develops and stabilizes, there will naturally be young people who do not want to leave their hometown and come back.
This is not something that happens overnight.
For this reason, Song Tan never mentioned money when dealing with the elderly.
Song Sancheng chatted with Old Man Li about this year's climate, and then went up to the higher fields to see if the farmland had been cultivated carefully enough. When the circle was completed, was the work over?
No.
The excavator on the barren mountain pushed forward with its blade, buzzing, and a man had to be spared to rake aside the vines, saplings, branches, etc. it had broken.
Otherwise, these leaves and branches will be piled into the soil in large quantities, but they will not mature for a while, which will most likely delay subsequent planting.
Zhang Yanping stood numbly in the forest wearing a straw hat, watching her uncle's family take care of the work assigned to him, and then looking at the rake in his hand, his face full of sadness.
Yes, at my own request, I didn’t go to the ground today, but went straight up the mountain.
Song Sancheng climbed up the hillside and took in this stretch of land, his whole body full of fighting spirit.
Looking further down, it was a pond within their contract area, with blue sky, green shadows and faint water and grass.
The fish in this pond are very slippery and cannot be caught easily!
Song Sancheng suddenly remembered something again and quickly took out the phone:
"Tan Tan, didn't you tell me to buy some fish fry last time? Don't forget!"
Coincidentally, Song Tan was looking at the fishing ground in front of him!
This is a fishery in their city. People who do local business like this always focus on reputation. This fishery is small in scale, and the fry are mainly of common species.
The boss spoke in a local language urgently and quickly:
"Is this your first time raising? You can't do more than one, the maximum number per acre cannot exceed 1,500! If you do more, you have no experience. It can’t be done.”
He asked again: "What's the pond like? How big and deep is it? Where is it? Do you plan to raise fish for sale or just raise them in your own pond?"
This boss's questions are all about the idea, Song Tan Even if she had cheated with spiritual energy, it would not prevent her from learning more experience, so she answered accurately: "The pond is not big, about three acres, and the water is almost three meters deep. It is in a mountain depression, surrounded by a circle of water plants."
“I mainly eat it at home, and I plan to sell the extra.”
The boss pondered for a while: “I’m afraid the pond in the mountain valley won’t be filled with water. Let’s do it? It’s hard to catch fish in winter.”
"There is no other water nearby that can be brought here. It is too hot in summer, and it is easy to dry out and get sick."
Song Tan nodded - if it is really a high-quality fish pond, even if it is a remote mountain village, Not to mention one thousand, eight hundred yuan per acre is always necessary.
What’s the price now?
Three hundred.
What else to choose? It should be used as a water reserve for the orchards on the mountain. Song Tan wrapped it up, firstly for convenience, and secondly because in his own mind, this pond had never dried up.
That's enough.
The boss simply didn’t let her look at the lively fish in front of her. Instead, she went to another place where there were large and small separate boxes, filled with densely packed little fish that were just born.
“You don’t have any experience, just raise these, crucian carp, carp, grass carp, and silver carp. Buy them in combination. Although they are ordinary species, grass carp eats grass and can take over the water plants on your pond. It won’t grow enough to eat, otherwise it will be full of fish in a few years.”
“With the other three kinds of fish, the water in the pond will be well circulated and clean, and the fish will be thick and delicious, and they won’t get sick. . ”
“Aren’t you going to eat it yourself? The fish pond probably hasn’t been cleaned yet. There must be enough fish in it for a while. Just buy these water splashes now. ”
Splash?
The boss laughed and said: "Just say you have never raised fish. Our fish farmers call these newly born seedlings water flowers."
"If you think it can be done, Well, I will match it for you. Three acres of fish ponds, and if you throw away the losses, you can buy a total of five thousand fish."
Song Tan nodded: She can afford more or less. On the contrary, there is not much problem.
However, she had done her homework before, and what the boss said was so honest that she was willing to listen to her experience.
"How much?"
The boss looked uninterested: "Thirty, let's give it."
Song Tan:...
Ah, it turns out that the price of splash fish fry is so high Low.
The boss pointed to the fry on the other side: "The prices of these two-centimeter fish are different. They cost 50 cents each. The bigger they are, the more expensive they are. It depends on what kind of fish you raise!"
Is this still a choice?
"I want splashes! Another 8,000 fish. I have a bigger fish pond with good terrain and can release water."
"Okay!" The boss also became happy: "I will Seeing that you are a real person, girl, I won’t ask for more from you, so I’ll give you seventy-five.”
But thirteen thousand water splashes only cost seventy-five yuan in total, so why don’t you need a bicycle!
She readily gave the money, and then saw that the boss was not even willing to give him a foam box, and only carried two plastic bags:
“This bag is for eight thousand pieces, and this bag is for five thousand pieces. Don’t worry, there are only more and not less! If you don’t trust me, you can just count them when you go home.”
“I will pay you a hundred if you are missing one.”
Song Tan laughed out loud: "Uncle, that's not the case!"
Ah, regarding the exhaustion of the previous two days, because my mother and my little cousin were both at home, it was difficult to get into the mood.
But they went back today, so they can update during the day tomorrow! Six or ten thousand tomorrow. It’s a new week, cheer up!
Thank you everyone!
(End of this chapter)