Chapter 522 522. Buy eggs
“What money?”
Ulan said while fiddling with his mobile phone: “In the early years, when Tantan was a child, there were people who came to collect eggs. It cost 8 cents a pound. Her father held a big tea scissor and worked on the mountain for several days. "
There were no electric or diesel ones at that time, so you had to use your hands. Holding the big iron scissors. After a few days of doing this, people will be useless.
Now...
Zhang Yanping thought about it for a while: "It should take a lot to cut tea leaves, right? It costs 8 cents per pound, which is an income at least. The price must have increased now."
Pruning can be divided into light pruning and heavy pruning.
Light pruning means only cutting off the green, tender and uneven part on the top. Heavy pruning means cutting off more than half of the old branches. The lower the tea branches, the heavier they are.
Eight cents a pound is really a good income.
But Wulan shook his head: "What a beautiful thought... It costs eight cents a pound, and people don't want old branches that have fallen off."
"And people who are doing business now are not fools. Seeing that there are not many people working in the village, and they have to raise the price to collect tea branches, they simply don't negotiate the price - if your family is willing to sell, they will be responsible for bringing the tea branches with you. The machine cuts it directly on the mountain.”
“After cutting it, we farmers can save labor. Although we have no income, we can save labor and the tea leaves will not grow poorly next year.” >
“In the past years, Tantan’s father went out to work, and this was how tea was sold at home.”
Zhang Yanping was amazed.
“It’s like saying... these cut tea leaves can be exchanged for two cases of beer?”
"Otherwise, look, there are only a few households in the village now, and even if he pays 80 cents per catty, there will be no one! If you hire someone to cut tea leaves, if the machine is equipped with oil, you can't do it without 400 yuan a day, no matter what You have to calculate the meal separately - how many tea leaves will you need to cut? "
Not to mention that I can't give you 8 cents.
Wulan waved his hand as he spoke:
“Since our tea is going to be used this year, I won’t register it, and I won’t be short of those two boxes of beer—— I'm going to buy eggs."
Here, Zhang Yanping drew back his neck silently, turned to his seventh cousin and said, "Look, I'm better off than Shen Wansan."
Who in business doesn’t have a plan in mind?
Seventh Cousin: ...
He looked at the handful of broken tea branches and leaves that Qiao Qiao had cut in the basin, and simply waved his hand:
" Boil water, I'll prepare boiled eggs later! I don't believe it, the tea is so fragrant, but the old branches have no taste at all."
"But..." Qiao Qiao looked at the thick things in the basin. Looking at the thin branches, I couldn't help but wonder: "But other people use leaves to make tea eggs. Can we use tea tree sticks? Will it be astringent when cooked?"
As he spoke, he picked up a branch and chewed it in his mouth.
The seventh cousin also fell silent.
Then he looked at Qiao Qiao: "Is it astringent?"
Qiao Qiao nodded: "A little astringent, and a little bit bitter."
Yes!
The tea egg dream was shattered.
But it doesn't matter, Qiao Qiao has already quickly picked out the broken leaves inside: "We can bring the tea branches back, then peel off the leaves and fry them to use to boil eggs."
Huh?
Cousin Seven thought about it: It’s not impossible.
As for the branches...
"Then use the leaves to boil eggs, and the branches to smoke meat and roast duck!"
Good guys, the old and the young are thinking about it, and they obviously know how to live a good life.
Zhang Yanping: ...
He thought for a while: "Then try it first. If it tastes good, Tantan, you and the seventh cousin will prepare some more and put them in Taotaobao shop. "Sell it?"
This kind of tea egg marinade packets should be sold a little cheaper. The seventh cousin looked over instantly, and the meaning in his eyes was too straightforward - Zhang Yanping, you said you don't know how to do business!
Song Tan listened silently, and finally couldn't help but say: "It's really not that difficult at home now..."
It was hard at the beginning, just to catch up with the weather. .
Later on, it was hard work, just to make the family feel safe and enrich the table.
Later... To be precise, since the move, except for Wu Lan and Song Sancheng who couldn't take any time off, there was basically no particularly stressful work at home, and they all hired people to do it.
The busiest days have been picking peaches.
If you prepare this stewed stuffed bun, wouldn’t it mean that you finally have some free time in midsummer and have a new job?
The seventh cousin looked at her disapprovingly:
"You will regret the lack of money when it is used! Now the family is rich. When the barren hills start to be built, you will pay back all the money you have. It’s not enough to open up land... I don’t want your share. I’ll write down the ingredients later, and you can find someone to pack it yourself.” It's delicious, why do you want to share it?
The reason for fishing was because of his efforts, and the seventh cousin would not give up what he deserved.
But this tea egg recipe...you can find hundreds of versions of the ingredients online, so why is he so embarrassed to ask for money!
When the seventh cousin thought of this, he felt more and more justified: "Besides, this has nothing to do with money - you are willing to use such a good thing as firewood? Isn't this a waste? "
Song Tan: ...Okay. No waste.
Let’s continue hiring people to do the work!
Anyway, with this arrangement, everyone in the village probably won’t have much rest before winter.
......
Here, Wu Lan also found a family that raised chickens -
"Sister-in-law Wang, do you have any eggs at home? I Buy some.”
The woman called Mrs. Wang had gone up to the mountain to pick peaches before. When she heard the shouting, she quickly came out of the house and said, “Don’t you have chickens at home? There haven’t been any in the past few months. Lay eggs?”
There are no secrets in the village. Everyone knows what Song Tan's family raises better than anyone else through casual chat.
It’s just that the chickens and pigs are kept in the back mountain. If you want to go there, you have to go around Song Tan’s house. Most people don’t go there to see it.
Ulan also knows the importance of keeping a low profile:
“Hey, there are only a few chickens roaming in the mountains, and they can only lay so many eggs. This time his cousin said If I want to make tea eggs, I think it will take a long time to save up for a whole family to eat dozens of them! I might as well buy some.”
Sister-in-law Wang didn’t doubt it either: “Yes, your family is so... …”
For a family of 13 or 4 people, there is no room for a table. If I were making dumplings, I would want to make a bag of noodles for every meal...
I can't bear it, I can't bear it.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Wang felt tired and panicked.
“If I had known that there were so many people in your family, I shouldn’t have bought all native chickens at that time. You should have some breed chickens. They grow fast and lay eggs quickly... How many years have our local native chickens grown? That's it."
Ulan also looked helpless: "I didn't expect there to be so much work at home... If you ask me, I don't want to raise chickens. It's not a big deal every day and I have to worry about it. They are looking for something to eat...don’t they have to raise their children? It’s okay for her to sell goods online now, so let her do it.”
"Yes..."
While the two were chatting, Mrs. Wang quickly picked up 40 eggs and took them out: "These were all just laid in the past few days, and the fresh ones haven't had time to be sold yet - are they enough?" ”
“That’s enough, that’s enough.”
Ulan quickly agreed.
It’s daytime! After writing last night, I ate crayfish and cucumbers turned into eggs. I really like the half-sized crayfish with tender shells...
(End of this chapter)