"What money?"
Wulan fiddled with her cell phone and said: "In the early years, when Tantan was a child, someone would come to collect them for 8 cents a pound. Her father took a big tea scissor and did it on the mountain with a bang. A few days.”
There were no electric or diesel ones at that time, so you had to hold big iron scissors by hand. After a few days of doing this, people will be useless.
Now……
Zhang Yanping thought for a while: "It should take a lot to cut tea leaves, right? It costs 8 cents per catty, which is a good income at least. The price must have increased now."
Pruning is divided into light pruning and heavy pruning.
Light pruning means only cutting off the tender and uneven top part, while heavy pruning means cutting off more than half of the old branches. The lower the tea branches, the heavier they are.
8 cents per pound is really a good income.
But Ulan shook his head: "What a beautiful thought... It costs eight cents a pound, and people don't want the old branches."
"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 goes up the mountain and cuts directly.”
"After cutting and then transporting away, we farmers can save effort. Although there is no income, we can save labor and the tea leaves will not grow poorly next spring."
"In previous 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 tea leaves are 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 We have to calculate the meal separately - how many tea leaves will we need to cut?"
What's more, I can't give you 8 cents.
Ulan said and waved his hand:
"Since our tea is going to be used this year, I won't register it. I'm not short of the two boxes of beer - I'm going to buy eggs."
On this side, Zhang Yanping retracted 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 the water, and I'll prepare boiled eggs later! I can't believe it. This tea is so fragrant, but the old branches don't smell at all."
"But..." Qiao Qiao looked at the thick and thin branches in the pot and 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? of?"
As he spoke, he picked up a branch and chewed it in his mouth.
The seventh cousin also fell silent.
Then he looked at Qiaoqiao: "Are you astringent?"
Qiaoqiao nodded: "It's a little astringent and a little bitter."
Come on!
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 back the tea tree branches, peel off the leaves, fry them, and use them to boil eggs."
Huh?
The seventh cousin 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, one old and one young are thinking about it, they obviously know how to live a good life.
Zhang Yanping:......
He thought for a while: "Then let's try it first. If it tastes good, Tantan, you and your seventh cousin will prepare some more and sell them in Taotaobao shop?"
This kind of tea egg marinade package is a little cheaper, so it should be OK.
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, I worked hard, just to make my family feel safe and to have more food on 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 marinated 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:
"Money will only be spent when it is used! We are rich now. When the barren hills start to be built, your little money will not be enough to open up wasteland... I don't want your share. I will write down the ingredients later and you can find someone to pack it yourself." Bar."
If you are old, you have a house and savings, you eat and drink well every day, and you sleep soundly, why do you want a share of this?
The reason for fishing was because of his efforts, and the seventh cousin would not give up what he deserved.
But this recipe for tea eggs...you can find hundreds of versions of the ingredients online, so why does he have the nerve to ask for money!
Thinking of this, the seventh cousin felt more and more reasonable: "Besides, this has nothing to do with money - you are willing to burn such a good thing as firewood? Isn't this a waste?"
Song Tan: ...Okay. No waste.
Next, 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.
…
And here, Wulan also found a family that raised chickens with familiarity——
"Sister-in-law Wang, do you have any eggs at home? I'll buy some."
The woman named Mrs. Wang had gone up the mountain to pick peaches before. When she heard the shouting, she quickly came out of the house: "Don't you have chickens at home? Why, you haven't laid any eggs in the past few months?"
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 just a few chickens roaming free on the mountain, and they can only lay so many eggs. This time his cousin said he wanted to make tea eggs, and I thought it would take a long time to save up for a big family to eat dozens of them! Why not come and buy some?"
Sister-in-law Wang had no doubts: "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...
Can't bear it, 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...Our local native chickens will only grow like this after a few years."
Ulan also looked helpless: "I didn't expect that there would 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 finding food for them... This is not what children have to do. Do you want to raise her? She can still sell goods online now, so I might as well leave it to her."
"Too……"
While the two were chatting, Mrs. Wang quickly picked up 40 eggs and said, "These are all just laid in the past few days. The fresh ones haven't had time to be sold yet - are they enough?"
"Enough is enough."
Wu Lan quickly agreed.
It's daytime! After writing last night, I ate crayfish and cucumbers turned into eggs. I really like crayfish that are half big and tender in their shells...
(End of chapter)
