Seeing the old party secretary and Ma Huanshui selling their own mushrooms to the little girl who came to harvest the mushrooms from Shanhai Trading, the villagers had different expressions. After struggling for a while, Yang San was the first to stand up.
"My house is also sold!"
"Yang San, are you crazy!" Wuquan quickly grabbed Yang San and asked anxiously.
"Uncle Wuquan!" Yang San smiled and said, "I'm not crazy. No matter what, I believe in Wang Zhong."
Wuquan was silent, not knowing what to say.
Seeing Yang San taking the lead, many villagers followed suit after hesitating for a while. Suddenly, the whole square became lively. The driver and the villagers were weighing and loading the truck, and the little girl was recording and counting the money. In between, there was a bit of a lively scene.
The old party secretary looked at this scene with great relief. He looked at each other and smiled at Ma Huanshui.
Wang Zhong had spoken to the two of them a long time ago, and explained the market factors and cost factors clearly to them. The villagers wanted to make money, and although Wang Zhong was willing to help, he definitely couldn't lose money.
Although many villagers chose to sell mushrooms because they remembered Wang Zhong's kindness in the past, some of them felt that the price of two yuan was too low and wanted to wait and see.
That night, Wang Zhong, who returned home, naturally knew the news, but Wang Zhong didn't say anything, and he had no intention of explaining it to the villagers.
Early the next morning, there were several more cars on the road into the village, all of them were vegetable sellers harvesting mushrooms after hearing the news.
The price offered was not much higher, just two yuan and four dollars, but it was still forty cents higher than the price offered by Wang Zhong Company.
The folks who didn't sell the mushrooms to Shanhai Farmers yesterday were so happy that they all sold the mushrooms they saved yesterday. Those folks who sold the mushrooms yesterday also secretly regretted that they shouldn't have been thinking about Wang Zhong. Due to affection, they followed the old party secretary and Ma Huanshui to sell the mushrooms.
This resulted in that, for three days in a row, Wang Zhong's Shanhai Farm Trade received basically no mushrooms, except for a few here and there.
Wang Zhong didn't mind either, and still asked the mushroom harvesters to drive to the head of each village to wait there every day, and he wasn't afraid of wasting the gas money.
On the fifth day, Shanhai Farmers' car drove to the square at the head of the village at around six o'clock in the morning as usual. The driver and the girl moved the folding table and shed out of the car and set up the shed, just like yesterday. After setting up the table and stools and placing the big scale beside them, the two of them sat on the stools boredly, putting their hands on the table to support their heads, and dozed off.
Anyway, it's a day when it's busy, and it's a day when it's not busy. The boss specifically told them before they came that they had to set up the stall there regardless of whether they harvested the mushrooms or not.
When you receive the mushrooms, you leave as soon as you have collected them. If you don't receive them, you sit there for a long time and come back in the afternoon. You will receive as much as you can.
The old party secretary had his hands behind his back, and Li Dayou pulled the cart with three baskets of mushrooms and walked to the mushroom harvesting point. Seeing the little girl dozing off on the table, the old party secretary couldn't help raising his hand and knocking on the table, coughing twice. Voice.
"Get up, harvest the mushrooms!"
The little girl quickly got up and saw that it was the old branch secretary. A bright smile appeared on her face: "Uncle, it's you again!"
The driver also jumped up and stood up quickly.
"Yeah!" The old branch secretary said with his hands behind his back: "What's the price of these mushrooms today?"
"It's still two yuan!" the little girl said to the old party secretary with a smile.
"Okay!" The old party secretary nodded: "Sell it!"
"Uncle, it's two hundred and forty-three pounds and four taels. I'll give you two hundred and forty-four pounds. It's a total of four hundred and eighty-eight yuan. Take it!" Miss Xia counted out four hundred and eighty yuan from her bag. Eight yuan, handed to the old branch secretary.
The old branch secretary took the money and counted it carefully before putting it in his pocket.
This money was to be taken back to Shui Wang's mother. Although Li Dayou was greedy, he also knew that his father would not cheat on his wife's money, so he didn't say anything less.
The old party secretary had just gotten the money, and Ma Huanshui and Debao's mother also pulled a cart and brought the mushrooms that had just come out of the shed.
Ma told the Shui family that they had fewer mushrooms, only over two hundred, so they got more than four hundred yuan.
Next to them, the villagers were also moving the newly picked Agaricus bisporus to the field one after another, waiting for the mushroom vendors to come and harvest the mushrooms.
After a while, the vendors harvesting mushrooms arrived late, and the folks had been waiting for a long time.
Shanhai Farmers' car was still parked in Pingchang. The little girl took out a handful of melon seeds from her pocket, sat on a stool, and ate melon seeds while watching the villagers swarm up and surround the vendors.
"What! Two dollars?"
Not long after, the crowd burst into loud shouts, the sound almost reaching the sky.
"Isn't it two yuan and two yesterday? Why is it only two yuan today?"
"The price of mushrooms changes every day. Yesterday, the selling price in the market dropped to 2.8 yuan. I don't know what the price will be today. Two yuan is considered high. We can't pay you to collect mushrooms." ! If you want to sell it, buy it. If you don’t want to sell it, you can find someone else and see if anyone takes it."
The vendors are also very helpless. They are not as big as Shanhai Trading. They work hard to collect mushrooms and earn hard money.
Moreover, by doing this job, it was obvious that he was competing for food from the Shanhai Farmers' rice bowl. They had all heard that this Agaricus bisporus was grown on the farm of the owner of the Shanhai Farmers.
The number of mushroom farmers is large and the output is high. They harvested 70,000 to 80,000 kilograms of mushrooms on the first day alone, and more on the second and third days. With so many Agaricus bisporus, even if they were scattered to surrounding counties and cities, they would be harvested all at once. It can't be digested either.
After all, although Agaricus bisporus is good, it is not a staple food. Those with slightly better family conditions only buy it occasionally to try it. Even those from Fujian Province don't eat much.
Ordinary people, when they hear such a high price, immediately back down. With this money, they can weigh a pound of mutton to make dumplings, make steamed buns, stew them and eat them, and even make soup. Come in a big pot.
Buying Agaricus bisporus is not only expensive, but also takes a lot of oil to fry. Even if many people buy it once out of curiosity and cook it, they only eat it once or twice.
After all, this thing has just been launched, and the method has not been studied yet. It is either stir-fried or stewed with mutton.
But fortunately, Agaricus bisporus has another advantage, that is, there is no weighing scale for this thing. Even fresh mushrooms are not weighed very much.
"Two yuan is too little!"
The folks sold the mushrooms to Shanhai Trading because they only charged two yuan for the mushrooms, and the small vendors like them paid more.
"How little is that?"
The hawker shook his head and said, "That's a lot!"
After all these days, these vendors come to harvest mushrooms every day. Could it be that they can sell the mushrooms on their own every day? That's definitely not the case. There are quite a few people selling a hundred or ten kilograms a day at a stall, but it's not so easy to sell thousands or even tens of thousands of kilograms.
The mushrooms they bought a few days ago have not been sold out yet. The reason why they came here to buy them is because they saw that there is still profit to be made here. Otherwise, who would bother to come here to collect the mushrooms?
Those who come down to collect mushrooms should not be called hawkers to be precise, but should be called dealers. They collect Agaricus bisporus from mushroom farmers at low prices, take them to the city or county vegetable market, and sell part of them themselves. Give it to other vegetable vendors and let them sell part of it.
Strictly speaking, these vegetable vendors are just making a profit in the middle.
The folks bargained with the stock dealer for a long time, but the stock dealer just refused to let go.
"It's only two yuan a pound. In that case, we might as well sell it to Shanhai Farmers!" Wuquan said loudly when he saw that the stock dealer wouldn't let go.
After hearing this, the villagers also expressed their support for the five squats.
The mushroom dealer didn't force them to sell. It was their freedom to tell who they sold to, and he had no right to stop them.
The little girl from Shanhai Trading, who was rushing to watch the show, saw such a scene.
First, several villagers came over and asked them about the price of harvesting mushrooms. After learning that it was still two yuan per pound, all the villagers gathered in front of the purchasing point of Shanhai Farm Trade, holding plastic baskets filled with white Agaricus bisporus. A big circle.
The little girl's eyes lit up and she immediately became energetic. She quickly called on the villagers to line up. She checked the quality of the mushrooms by the baskets, and the driver was responsible for the scales. The villagers loaded the mushrooms into the car themselves and replaced them with new plastic ones from the driver. basket.
Like the choice made in Jintan Village, almost all the villagers who knew the price of mushrooms had dropped chose to sell the mushrooms to Shanhai Farmers.
Shui Hua looked at Wang Zhong and couldn't help but curiously asked: "Why don't you raise the price of mushroom harvesting from the beginning? Otherwise, you won't be unable to harvest mushrooms in the past few days."
Wang Zhong smiled and said: "My silly wife, we are doing business, not purely charity. If we harvested mushrooms at such a high price the day before yesterday, the villagers would sell all the mushrooms to us, even if we have several The cold storage can’t hold so many mushrooms. Do you think if the price of mushrooms drops, will we make a profit or a loss?”
"Don't we have channels from other provinces? The worst we can do is send it to Xi'an!" Shui Hua said.
Wang Zhong shook his head and said helplessly: "The losses will only be more."
"Not to mention anything else, just the transportation fee and the cost of wear and tear on the road are a huge expense. And even if Agaricus bisporus is shipped to Xi'an, how much can it sell for per kilogram? Don't forget, we are talking about three One pound."
Shui Hua rubbed her head nonchalantly, with a slightly embarrassed smile on her pretty face: "I forgot about it!"
As he spoke, the expression on his face changed again: "But now that the price of mushrooms has dropped so low, won't the income of the villagers also drop accordingly!"
Wang Zhongdao: "Although this Agaricus bisporus is not a hen that lays golden eggs, let alone the purchase price of two yuan per catty. If we don't open up channels outside the province, we will see the first few species." The mushroom business is making money, and all the villagers will follow suit and grow mushrooms. When the time comes, our mushrooms will be like potatoes in the fields, how can you expect it to be sold at a high price!"
"Besides, how much money did we invest in the mushrooms grown by the folks?"
Speaking of this, Shui Hua's face became serious: "Our four cold storages alone cost more than two million and almost three million."
Wang Zhongdao: "Not to mention our investment in other manpower and various costs. Our money does not come from strong winds."
Shui Hua nodded thoughtfully, her eyes flashed, and she was a little surprised. At the same time, she looked at Wang Zhong with a blank look on her face and said: "I said when I signed the contract, why did you keep saying that after next spring, As for supplying mushrooms to other provinces, did you expect that the villagers would be dissatisfied with our purchase price and sell the mushrooms to others?"
"Isn't this an obvious thing!" Wang Zhong sighed and said helplessly: "Businessmen are looking for profits, and our price of two yuan per pound for harvesting mushrooms is indeed a bit low."
"But the price of mushrooms has dropped so quickly, which is a bit beyond my expectation."
Wang Zhong really didn't expect that in just a few days, the price of mushrooms would plummet, changing every day. Now it's more than two yuan, not even three yuan.
"Originally, I planned to wait for them to harvest mushrooms for two more days and then make a fortune from those mushroom dealers."
Wang Zhong said a little disappointed.
"Earn money from the mushroom dealer?" Shui Hua was stunned for a moment at first, then realized and his eyes lit up: "You mean our cold storage?"
Wang Zhong nodded and said: "Aren't they hard at work harvesting mushrooms in the development zone? According to Professor Ling's estimation, in the past few days, the 432 mushroom farmers have produced at least 100,000 kilograms of mushrooms. Especially, since Among them, our Jintan Village produces the largest amount of mushrooms.”
"In the counties and cities near us, they can digest five to six thousand kilograms of mushrooms a day. How long do they have to sell these many mushrooms?"
Shui Hua said: "In the current weather, fresh mushrooms can be stored for up to three days before they start to go moldy. If they are stored for a week, they will start to turn black and become moldy."
"This is due to the dry weather and lack of water here. If we go to the south, where the air is humid and hot, the time will be even shorter."
Shui Hua frowned and said, "Since those mushroom dealers still have a lot of mushrooms in their hands, if the price of mushrooms continues to drop like this, won't all the mushrooms they have saved be lost?"
Wang Zhong stepped forward, hugged Shui Hua into his arms, and comforted softly: "Okay, everyone has their own choice. Since they chose to sell mushrooms, they should pay the price for their own choice. Our abilities are limited. I can’t help everyone.”
"I understand!" Shui Hua is not a great sage. He knows his own things well. He can do things that are beneficial to others and harmless to himself. Even if he is not familiar with this kind of help, or simply a stranger, he can help. Nothing.
But if he harms his own interests and helps others, Shuihua asks himself, he is not that holy yet.
"That's wrong!" Shui Hua suddenly realized, broke away from Wang Zhong's arms, looked directly at Wang Zhong, and asked: "In just a few days, the investors have produced so many mushrooms. From now to the beginning of winter, there will be one or two more Months, according to Professor Ling, these months are the high-yield period for Agaricus bisporus."
"If we continue at this pace, by the time winter comes, won't we be able to produce hundreds of thousands of catties of fresh mushrooms?"
"Maybe more than that!" Wang Zhong said with a smile.
"That's just a few million dollars just for buying mushrooms?" I don't know if it's because of accounting in the past few years, but Shui Hua has become more and more sensitive to things like numbers.
Wang Zhong smiled and said: "What's wrong, you can't bear to leave?"
Shui Hua shook her head: "Although the cold storage can keep fresh, the time is limited. If the time is too long, it will still affect the taste of the mushrooms. I'm afraid that there are so many mushrooms, and we don't send them to other provinces. If we can't sell them all, then... It’s all wasted!”
"Don't worry, your husband is not the kind of person who likes to do business at a loss."
Looking at the confident Wang Zhong, although Shuihua didn't know Wang Zhong's plan, she never doubted Wang Zhong's words.
