Entering October, the temperature in Saibei Province drops quickly!
It’s not even mid-October yet, but there is widespread frost in the ground. Every morning, ice particles will even appear on the banks of the river outside the village!
As the temperature drops, the Li family's business will be most affected.
On October 5, Li Yi personally borrowed the loudspeaker in the village to announce that the Li family would stop purchasing mushrooms from that day on.
In fact, as the weather gets colder and colder, mushrooms in the mountains basically stop growing. Even if someone goes into the mountains, it is difficult to pick mushrooms of good quality.
And now the people in the village don't have that much time to pick mushrooms, so when they heard that the Li family would no longer collect mushrooms, although everyone was very reluctant, they didn't say anything!
What's more, after the crops in the fields are almost harvested, everyone still has to collect firewood and divide the grass, hand in the mission grain, and distribute grain to the members. It's very busy!
Li Yi has not been idle these days. Since he doesn't have to run to the county every day, he and a few brothers are busy at the new house every day!
They need to pack the dried mushrooms into bags and put them neatly in the warehouse.
In addition, I have to go to my second sister’s house to bring back the dried mushrooms there.
On the one hand, the second sister's family has no warehouse and the whole family only has three small houses. There is no place to store so many mushrooms.
On the other hand, the preservation of dried mushrooms requires certain conditions. They must not be affected by moisture or soaked in water. The second sister's house does not have this condition.
Because there were so many mushrooms, Li Yi and six or seven little brothers worked hard for more than ten days before they were able to process all the dried mushrooms.
At the same time, Li Yi also calculated the weight of the dried mushrooms.
Good guy, in just three months from July to now, more than 100,000 kilograms of mushrooms have been exposed.
Based on the calculation of five kilograms of fresh mushrooms and one kilogram of dried mushrooms, that means that in three months, they recovered a total of more than 500,000 kilograms of fresh mushrooms.
Seeing this data, Li Yi also felt a little shocked.
But when I think about it, I feel relieved. This is the result of more than three months of work by the people of the two villages. This is because I deliberately limited the quantity. Otherwise, the quantity would probably be even greater.
Now all these dried mushrooms have been put into the warehouse. Next, we will wait for the price of dried mushrooms to rise before shipping!
One hundred thousand kilograms of dried mushrooms can normally be sold for more than two hundred thousand yuan!
But the total of all Li Yi's costs is less than 100,000, a 100% profit!
Unfortunately, the price of dried mushrooms is not high right now, so you have to wait at least one to two months for shipment.
After finishing these things, going to the capital will also be put on the agenda.
Although the relevant decree was issued by the capital on November 4, if we go there at that time, it will be too late.
Since the administrative order issued this time only allows ordinary people to engage in catering and small commodity trade, the business scope is somewhat narrow, so the industry is relatively concentrated.
It is conceivable that once the decree is officially announced, the prices of shops and stores in the capital will inevitably soar, and you may not be able to rent them if you arrive late.
Therefore, Li Yi needs to rent the store in advance!
After some thinking, Li Yi decided to leave before October 25th and reserve 10 days for himself to rent a store!
However, just when Li Yi was planning to discuss this matter with his family, he found that the atmosphere at home was not quite right!
Li's old house!
As night falls, the lanterns come on!
After Li Yi came back from the new house, he saw his third sister cooking at the stove, while his mother was helping out!
And my father was squatting on the pony at the door, frowning!
Tang Xue was not seen, but the lights in the west room were already on, so she was probably reading inside.
Ever since this girl made up her mind to get admitted to a prestigious school in the capital, she has focused all her energy on studying every day. Apart from eating, she spends most of her time reading and studying, and she studies very hard.
As soon as he entered the door, Li Yi felt that something was not right about the atmosphere at Dao's house. Everyone was silent, unlike before where they were talking and laughing.
"Dad, Mom, what's going on? Why don't you say anything? Are you quarreling?"
The father glared at him, and then said angrily: "If you don't talk, it will be a quarrel. Can you please let us be kind?"
"Then what's wrong with you? Why did you react like this?" Li Yi asked with a smile.
The father sighed and said: "Today the team posted the distribution plan. The head ration and work share ration are 50/50. Each person's ration is only 180 kilograms!"
"180 pounds, so little?"
No wonder Li Yi was so surprised. Although last year's harvest was not very good, each commune member still had 225 kilograms of food per head.
If you add in the work-shared grain, as long as you are a strong laborer, everyone can get about 420 kilograms.
But I didn’t expect that this year we would only have 180 kilograms of rations!
Don’t underestimate the fact that he only lost 45 kilograms. This is equivalent to one and a half months’ ration consumption for an adult in the village.
And this is only a small amount for one person. Some families in the village have more than ten or twenty people, and this small amount is several hundred kilograms of grain.
The father sighed and said: "There was little rain this summer, and the crops missed their growth time. The frost fell too early in the autumn, and the harvest of both wheat and oats was only 60% of last year's."
"If we take away the mission grains given to the country, the village's grain balance will not be much, so we can only reduce the number of grains per capita!"
Li Yi was silent for a moment, and then said to his father: "Dad, just a little less, our family won't be hungry anyway, so don't be unhappy!"
However, Li Shankui shook his head and said: "I'm not worried about our family having no food, but I'm thinking about the lives of other families in the village. With just such a small ration, many families will have a hard time."
"It's not bad, everyone has made less money following our Li family in the past two months, so you shouldn't be hungry!" Li Yi said.
"This is true, but most people now have money but no votes. It is not cost-effective to buy food with money!"
Then the father continued: "In addition, there are some families in the village who have many children. They have little food rations and many children, so their lives will be difficult!"
"The matter has come to this, there is nothing we can do!" Li Yi sighed.
"Aren't you quite capable? Can you think of something?"
Before Li Yi could speak, Zhang Yuehong quit and shouted at Li Shankui: "You damn old man, how dare you let your son get involved in such a thankless thing?"
"If you do it well, others will benefit. If you don't do it well, our son will be scolded, and your head will be kicked by a donkey?"
The third sister Li Na, who was cooking at the side, also said: "Dad, this is the food ration for hundreds of people in the whole village. Where do you want Xiaoyi to change it in the winter?"
When his wife and daughter said this, the father remained silent as always, sitting on the pony with his head bowed and saying nothing!
Li Yi thought for a moment and said, "Dad, do you really want me to help the folks?"
"Is there any way?"
"Yes, yes, but everyone needs to agree!" Li Yi said.
"Tell me what you think!" Dad said expectantly.
"Um!"
At the moment, Li Yi simply told his father his thoughts.
After hearing Li Yi's plan, Li Shankui immediately stood up from the pony, then pulled Li Yi and walked out of the gate!
