Chapter 112: A Little Girl Who Picks Mushrooms
Shi Yan knew Shi Guigui, they had to pass through Gaozhai Village to go back and forth to Heini Village, and her father and Shi Guigui were still old friends. Shi Yan drank a cup of cold boiled water in a disposable paper cup to quench her thirst, wiped the sweat on her face, and began to introduce the varieties of mushrooms she sold on her back to Shi Guigui: "Daddy, there are many types of mushrooms we picked up this time, including chicken longitudinal, porcini mushrooms, green head mushrooms, rhubarb mushrooms, small red mushrooms, and I have about three kilograms of spicy mushrooms here." ”
"Girl, these fungi you picked up are all good fungi. These chicken fir of yours are one-legged chicken fir firs, which have not yet bloomed, and are worth 60 yuan a kilogram. The spicy mushrooms on the hill near the small street in your black mud village are better, the mountains are all black soil, where the spicy mushrooms produced do not contain sand, easy to clean, will not knock teeth, these days can be sold for 180 yuan a kilogram. Qingtou mushrooms are 20 yuan a kilogram, and other mushrooms are uniformly said to be 23 yuan a kilogram...... "Shi Guigui laughed happily, skillfully helping Shi Yan and them sort the mushrooms, according to the company's own purchase grade according to the market sales situation.
"Daddy, the sign you set the price clearly says that today's spicy mushrooms are not 140 yuan a kilogram, why do you give me 180 yuan a kilogram?" Shi Yan asked curiously.
"The spicy mushrooms you pick are fresh, the size is just right, and you can tear out the most mushroom meat, which is the best quality and most delicious spicy mushrooms. We don't have to sort it anymore, it's a first-class product, this kind of spicy mushroom, we can sell it for at least more than 260 yuan a kilogram when we send it to Chuncheng. Such a good spicy mushroom, you should be given a special price. Shi Guigui kindly explained to Shi Yan the reason why the price he gave was higher than the list price.
"Hee-hee, Daddy, I found these spicy mushrooms when I got home last week. Just emerged, a petal as big as a melon seed shell, white raw. I didn't bother to pick them, so I sprinkled some pine feathers and re-covered them so that they could continue to grow, and I went to pick them this morning. "My own mushrooms can be sold for a good price, and I can also make the teacher full of praise. Shi Yan smiled happily, and proudly told Shi Guigui about her experience of picking spicy mushrooms.
Shi Guigui was happy, looked at Shi Yan and said, "Girl, you are not afraid of being discovered by others and will collect all of them for you." ”
"I'm not afraid, it's the hillside behind the orchard contracted by my family, and others won't go to our orchard to collect mushrooms. ”
"Oh, then you should remember which mushrooms are produced in which places, go to see them regularly, and pick them at the most suitable time, which is delicious and can weigh in pounds. Many kinds of mushrooms will come out in a fixed place, at a fixed time, and the regular ......" teacher began to teach them the experience of harvesting wild mushrooms.
Shi Yan's house is in Heini Village, the southernmost part of the dam in District 5, which is a Yi cottage. Where has been located in the five districts of the dam and Exian Xiaojie dam adjacent to the big mountain, the mountain is high and dense, the vegetation is well protected, it is the famous place of the five districts dam to produce good fungus. Most of these mushrooms were picked up by herself when she went home to the mountains on weekends, and some of them were picked up by her parents after they had finished their farm work.
Early this morning, I went to the mountains again to pick up mushrooms and came back, and after lunch, I packed up the pickles and snacks that I needed to live in the school, and Shi Yan led a few children in the village who went to school in the town middle school to carry the mushrooms that each family had picked up in the past two days, and the mushrooms filled with baskets went out of the village and returned to the town. They are all boarding students, and they plan to go early, go to the town and sell the mushrooms and go back to school directly.
Now that the nine-year compulsory education has begun, there are a lot of students in the village who are studying in the town middle school, and there are teachers who organize evening self-study to strengthen management during the school period, and they need to report to the students on time. They don't have time to go to the market to sell for nothing, not to mention the time, so many wild mushrooms may not be sold in the market.
The town middle school is not far from the street, and they have time to play on the street and know more about what is happening on the street. Those of them, who attend the town's middle school, know that a new farmer's trading company has emerged in the town, and during this time, it mainly buys wild mushrooms in large quantities and ships them to be sold in Spring City. The purchase price of the farmer's trading company is published daily on the blackboard at the door and is adjusted according to the market. But they learned that the purchase price of the farmer's trading company was higher than that of those who went to their village or blocked the mountains to buy wild mushrooms, and it was more cost-effective to come to the town to sell them to the farmer's trading company in bulk, and there was a price difference.
So, when they came home on the weekend, they told their families about the situation. There are more than 10 kilometers of mountain roads from the town in Heini Village, and it is inconvenient to come to the town from the village to sell wild mushrooms, and the quantity is small, so it is worth sending them to the town to sell.
But these students have to go back to school, and it's much easier for them to take them to town. So, these middle school students collected the mushrooms they picked up in the mountains when they went home on the weekend, as well as the mushrooms they picked up at home, and carried them to the town to sell when they returned to school. Although they can only sell them once a week, they are young, and the number of wild mushrooms they can sell at a time is limited, but the difference in price generated by this is enough for them to live on the school for a week.
What reassures their parents is that the wild mushroom farmers who are sold in the town by these students are not refused. As long as it meets their requirements, the farmer's trading company buys them all, and parents don't have to worry about not being able to sell the wild mushrooms that they carry out of their homes, causing trouble for those students and delaying them from going back to school. What's more, let these students carry wild mushrooms back, and the family doesn't even have to give them cash, and the living expenses can be borne with the money from selling wild mushrooms, which is more convenient. As a result, those mountain families who have dolls to go to school in the town are more motivated to go to the mountains on weekends to pick wild mushrooms, and those middle school students can carry more and more wild mushrooms to sell every week, which are more and more high-quality and valuable.
Qi Jingtao stood beside him, looking at these students who came to sell mushrooms on the way to school to drink water and rest, waiting for the teachers to help them sort them one by one and weigh the mushrooms they carried. Listening to the content of Shi Yan and Shi Guigui chatting while sorting the mushrooms, his heart was full of feelings. These children are really sensible, how old are the dolls in junior high school, thirteen or fourteen years old. At such a young age, I knew that I was self-reliant, and I was able to make full use of the gifts of nature to help my family eat from the mountains.
Especially the little girl named Shi Yan, who is smart and clever, good at interacting with people, and good at inquiring about the market situation in conversation. The resources that can be controlled by one's own family also know how to use them rationally to maximize their own interests.
Although the Qiguan camp is in the dam, there are overlapping mountains all the way along the back mountain, and there are many fungi produced on the mountain. Before work, whenever he went home from school during the summer vacation, when he was not busy with farm work, going up the mountain to pick wild mushrooms was also Qi Jingtao's favorite.
He has been there more times, and he is also familiar with the places he frequents, and every time he goes up the mountain, he can always have a good harvest to take home. Because, he didn't go up the mountain blindly, as long as he went to those familiar places, he knew which mountain produced what kinds of wild mushrooms, those places would produce chicken fir in that season, and there were porcini mushrooms, hunger-filling mushrooms, and green head mushrooms in the woodlands on the hillside. It is known that there are more aeruginosa and September yellow under the pine trees, and there are often porcini mushrooms, sheep liver mushrooms, and hunger fungi in the hemp chestnut bushes. Thatched slopes with humus and ridges are good places to grow spicy mushrooms.
These are the basic common sense of picking up wild mushrooms in the mountains, as long as you go more, observe more, and summarize more, you can get your own set of experiences and action routes.
He doesn't have too many wild mushrooms to pick up, and he's not rich enough to sell them on the street, so he mainly eats them for his own sake. In the countryside, in this way, the ingredients that you can get, especially wild mushrooms, which are craving-relieving and hungry-hungry mountain delicacies, are generally not easy to spend money to buy on the street to eat at home, and do it yourself!
Su Min didn't know when he came to the store, and when he saw Qi Jingtao also watching the excitement here, he came to him and watched the purchase of mushrooms with him. She has lived in the city since she was a child, and she is very interested in rural life, and the business of the agricultural trading company is now mainly the purchase and sale of wild mushrooms, and she also hopes to learn more about the harvesting of wild mushrooms.