(Thanks to my friends EVFA, Fat Apes, max.zu, Book Friends 20170713175524701, and SKYQHB commuter tickets for encouragement)

Happy time always passes quickly, and even if they like to play with lions, they can't stay on the grassland all the time.

Xiao Miaomiao's performance is much stronger than the last time she separated, at least this time she can wave goodbye to the lions happily. What was it like last time? I feel so sorry for Lao Liu.

"It's so enjoyable, it's too enjoyable. Lulu, I don't even want to go back, I just want to raise lions here to play. Wang Shasha said while flipping through her photos.

"You still have lions? I think feeding lions is about the same. Xu Lu said angrily.

"Hehe, I just think about it, think about it and don't break the law. Wang Shasha said with a smile.

"Don't think about it yet, look out the window, and the hyenas are coming with you again. Lao Liu said with a smile.

Hearing Lao Liu's words, the two girls hurriedly ran outside to look over.

They were really shocked, and the hyenas followed. Fortunately, they followed for more than ten minutes and then stopped.

"Oh my God, Brother Liu, they can't be trying to kill for money, right?" asked Wang Shasha in surprise.

"Maybe I'm to blame for this, I shouldn't have thrown meat at them. Lao Liu said with a wry smile.

I've lived here for a long time, and I've learned a lot more. Normally, hyenas will only follow lions and leopards and then pick up their prey.

Now running with my own car, I'm afraid I think I can still throw meat at them. You'll have to pay attention in the future, it's definitely not a good thing to provoke such a bunch of guys.

When I returned home, it was not yet dark, so Lao Liu casually stewed a pot of rice and fried two dishes. As far as they were concerned, he didn't treat them as real guests anyway. That is, at the beginning, Jeon Joo-yeon was there, and I thought about it for a while, and now it's a normal meal.

And for him, now that he has the miso and the pickles, the dipping pickles are about to become the main dish on his table. Every time I eat, I will scoop a small plate and eat happily.

It's just that in the hearts of the two girls, the little monkey baby is more envious. Every meal is a delicate fruit feast, a treatment that some people can't afford even in China.

Lao Liu is also helpless, the little monkey baby is a pure vegetarian. Anyway, a big fruit plate is enough for these "babies" at home to eat.

It also turns out that it is not that lions have to eat meat. In Lao Liu's home, the food culture of this lion cub is slowly changing. Meat has to be eaten, and there is no shortage of fruit every day. Occasionally, you can also eat some rice and steamed buns, that is, to taste fresh.

What if Lao Liu is lazy? Make a pot of pimple soup and make some pieces of meat in it, which is also okay for the little lion.

"Boss, I've already inquired about what you asked me to inquire about. ”

While she was eating, Masika walked in from outside.

"You're just in time, have you eaten, come and eat some with us?" Lao Liu beckoned.

"Thank you, boss, I've already eaten, and I thought you had finished eating after coming back for so long. Masika said with a smile.

"I went around the prairie, and when the little ones got dirty, I gave them a bath. Have you figured out all the tea matters?" asked Liu Wenrui with a smile.

He originally planned to let Kipkerui inquire about this matter, but this product is a little out of the ordinary, and Comrade Lao Ma is more solid.

Masika nodded, "Boss, I only knew that there were many people in China who grow tea, and I didn't know much about it. Now I have inquired clearly, and the most planted is black tea. ”

"It's just that the auction price of red broken tea this year is not very high, at $2.1 a kilogram. And the cost of tea farmers to produce these red crushed teas is already close to two dollars. ”

"There are also specialty teas grown, such as purple tea, that are more exported to your home country. However, just like the cultivation of coffee trees, more farmers actually choose to sell their tea directly to buyers, that is, those large tea factories. ”

"They don't make a lot of money, and after all the expenses are removed, the profit will not exceed ten kent shillings per catty. But for them, it's still the best option. If the auction price goes down, not only will they not make money, but they will also lose money. ”

"Brother Liu, is the tea here so cheap?" Wang Shasha asked curiously after listening.

Liu Wenrui nodded, "It was also in my expectation, but I didn't expect it to be much worse than the market of coffee beans." Red broken tea, that is, dry tea, is such a low price. One can imagine how much profit those tea factories and distributors can make in the tea industry. ”

"Masika, what about the varieties of black tea? not the ordinary varieties, but the high-end varieties that can be sold at a high price. We have a limited land area, just like coffee, and in the future we will only make high-quality products. ”

"Boss, the high-end black tea varieties are Assam black tea from India, Ceylon black tea from Sri Lanka, and the hybrid Manipo black tea. These varieties are grown on the estates of the English tea mills, and they export and sell them directly. ”

"But there's another problem, if we want to make dry tea from the tea trees we grow, we need to purchase a lot of wood. And now the state has issued a ban on logging, which has caused the price of timber to rise a lot, and it is more dependent on imports. ”

"Uh...... What does planting tea trees have to do with wood?" asked Lao Liu differently.

Wang Shasha and Xu Lu were also very curious, in their understanding, this was something that couldn't be beaten with eight poles.

"Boss, most of the boilers in many tea factories use this wood as the main fuel. Although oil is more convenient, the cost will be high. Masika said.

"If I hadn't inquired in detail, I didn't know that there would be such a problem in the future. If the boiler is driven by the use of oil, the cost per kilogram of black crushed tea will reach 2.4 US dollars, or even more than that. ”

"Tsk, there are a lot of doorways here. Lao Liu said with emotion.

The price of petrol in Kenya is now K119.32 per litre and Ksh 113.62 per litre of diesel. This price, if compared with the domestic oil price, seems to be nothing.

But don't forget, this is not in the country, and the per capita income level here is very low. So this seems to be a good oil price, but the cost is not low here.

Otherwise, it's so expensive to hire a car here, because the price of oil here is actually really high. This is from the original 16% fuel tax to 8%.

In the future, fuel prices may have to rise. Because Kenya's fuel is mainly imported, there is no cheap one for them.

Lao Liu thought that planting tea trees was a very simple thing, but he didn't expect that there were so many twists and turns here. In fact, now he really sympathizes with the agricultural operators here in Kenya, whether it is coffee or tea planting, the profits that real farmers can get are really not high.

Kenya's three major cash crops, coffee, tea, and flowers, have now been compressed to such a low level of profits from coffee and tea, and I'm afraid the profits of flowers are not very high.

When he went to Nairobi, he had also seen those flower shops, and it seemed that the signs hung were only two hundred shillings a bouquet. Although I didn't see it too clearly, there must have been more than fifteen flowers in that bunch, which looked very large.

This is still the selling price in the store, but what about the selling price in the hands of the flower farmers? I'm afraid it's much lower than that.

"Masika, after listening to your introduction, my mind is even more determined. It's still that principle, either don't do it, or do it, we will make high-quality products. Liu Wenrui took a hard bite of the cucumber and said.

"The sapling of the black tea tree chose the Indian Assam tea tree, I don't drink much tea, but this tea is still very famous. Since there is a good planting environment here, we are not bad at choosing this. ”

"Tomorrow, you can count and see how much land near my farm can be used to plan and plant tea trees, and then we will purchase saplings. Well...... Compared with the normal planting standard, our density can be slightly increased. ”

"As for the varieties of flowers, let's choose roses. As for the color, we can choose more. However, for now, the area should not be too large, and it should be controlled within five acres. ”

"But that's all our initial plan now, and the roses are actually planted after my beans are sold. Otherwise, I am afraid I can't afford such a high cost. ”

"Okay, boss, is there anything else going on?" asked Masika.

"There's nothing else, you just take them seriously on our land these days. See how these plots fit into the planning. Liu Wenrui said with a smile.

"But our road is not busy with construction for the time being. After the plan of Sunshine Company is completely finalized and a new route is planned, we will have time to operate. ”

"For the purchase of agricultural equipment, let's make way for these tea seedlings first. At the very least, the land near my farm is fine for tea planting. ”

Masika nodded with a smile, said a word to Lao Liu, and left here directly.

"Brother Liu, I can understand it, it seems to be the production base of those big enterprises here. Wang Shasha said with emotion.

"A pound of fresh tea doesn't earn more than ten shillings, how can I live that day? Compared with the situation in our country, it is really too bad. ”

"That's the way it is, so I decided to go the boutique route in the future. Lao Liu said with a smile.

"There is not much profit to be found in the cultivation of ordinary cash crops. So I went to the boutique, and by the way, opened up my trading industry. ”

"And my first target is actually our domestic market. I didn't think about it before, but I used my brain a little more after returning home last time. Coffee trading is our first test of the waters. ”

Although the two girls didn't know much, they also felt that he had a point. Because the money that the basic producers can make here is really too little.