Chapter 589: Hiiragi Leaves (1/3)
Successfully pass the exam for a shipping driver's license
The brothers were very happy, especially Zhang Yi, who was excited for a long time before gradually calming down.
"I don't know if it's difficult to get on the ship tomorrow?"
Zhang Yi seems to have exam anxiety, this guy has just passed the written test, and now he is starting to worry about the road test.
"Don't worry, the speedboat we took is not as difficult as the truck driver's license you test!" Zhang Feng smiled.
"Hehe, it's true!!" Hearing Zhang Feng's words, Zhang Yi was finally relieved.
Besides, the two brothers have long borrowed Uncle Xiaoqi's speedboat to practice, although the skills are not very exquisite, but there is still no big problem in passing.
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The weather was already very hot at the beginning of June
The asphalt pavement outside is about to melt away.
Suddenly a cool breeze blew, very cool, and the flowers and trees in the yard shook their heads listlessly.
Because of the rain and sufficient nutrition, the gold-leaf privet on both sides of the gate also rose slowly, and it had not been pruned for half a month, and it had already risen by thirty or forty centimeters.
Taking advantage of the free time now, Zhang Feng took a large pair of scissors from the utility room and pruned the branches and leaves of the privet with a click, just like a garden worker and a greening master, designing his own greening works.
"Haha, Xiaofeng, you are holding a big pair of scissors, how do you feel like Yue Laosan in Tianlong?" At this moment, Uncle Er Niu walked in, saw Zhang Feng holding big scissors in both hands, and said funny.
"I'll go, Uncle Erniu, are you old and dizzy, do you think there is such a handsome Yue Laosan in the world?" Zhang Feng rolled his eyes, and then said with a smile.
Yue Laosan in Tianlong, the whole shape is wonderful, bald, bearded, and Zhang Feng's image is completely incompatible.
"Hehe, I didn't say that you kid looks alike, I mean your equipment is very similar, don't you all have a big pair of scissors?" Uncle Er Niu blinked from Zhang Feng and said with a smile.
Zhang Feng shook his head speechlessly, "Come on, don't you have such big scissors?" I see that your figure is really similar to Yue Laosan, if I don't know that your acting skills are too inferior, I doubt that Yue Laosan is the one you played!"
"Gotta gotcha!!Don't talk nonsense with you kid, let's go, let's go pick some dumpling leaves!" Uncle Er Niu couldn't say anything about Zhang Feng, so he interrupted the topic just now, and then beckoned to Zhang Feng!
"Picking dumpling leaves?" Zhang Feng was a little confused, why did Uncle Er Niu suddenly sound this.
"You kid won't know that the Dragon Boat Festival is coming, right?" Uncle Er Niu asked exaggeratedly.
"Alas, don't you say that I really forgot!" Zhang Feng patted his head in annoyance, and then remembered that the Dragon Boat Festival was really coming.
The Dragon Boat Festival is also a relatively grand festival in China.
It is also a national holiday, and students in the school also have one day off.
On this day, everyone has to eat zongzi, whether it is to commemorate Qu Yuan or not, but it has become a traditional custom that has been passed down through the ages.
And wrapping zongzi definitely requires zongzi leaves.
However, Qingshan people generally do not use bamboo leaves to wrap zongzi, because the bamboo leaf area is too small to wrap too many things, and they only use small triangular rice dumplings.
Therefore, what Uncle Er Niu and Zhang Feng were going to pick was not bamboo leaves, but another larger plant called Hiiragi (zhong) leaves.
Hiiragi leaf is a arrowroot family, Hiiragi leaf is a perennial herbaceous plant, the plant height can reach one meter, the leaves are basal, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, petioles can reach 60 centimeters, and grow like a banana fan.
Because of its large and smooth leaves, it is very suitable for wrapping rice dumplings.
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There is a large piece of Hiiragi leaves on the edge of the bamboo forest of Uncle Niu's house, Zhang Feng took a rough look, it is estimated that there is about half an acre, which was planted by Uncle Niu's mother when he was alive, and it has been more than 20 years.
I have to say that the old man is still very discerning, and the Hiiragi leaves that were planted in the past are now worth a lot of money.
A leaf can be sold for two or three cents, especially around the Dragon Boat Festival, it is even more popular, almost in short supply.
"I said Uncle Erniu, why don't you cut the leaves to sell this year?" Zhang Feng asked curiously.
"What to sell, I can only earn five or six hundred yuan in a few busy days, I don't have that spare time!!" Uncle Erniu shook his head.
Now that he has made money, Uncle Er Niu no longer looks down on this little money, but if it was in previous years, not to mention five or six hundred, even one or two hundred Uncle Niu also worked very hard.
Zhang Feng smiled and nodded, this is understandable.
After all, everyone has money now, and when the cooperative settled the account this morning, the entire village of Moon Lake received more than 60,000 yuan per household on average.
That's only a month, and the money earned is almost equal to the income of the past two or three years.
So everyone was very excited and very happy.
After making so much money, who would spend so much time selling zongzi leaves, isn't that losing sesame seeds and picking up watermelons?
"By the way, Xiaofeng, when I went to the countryside to harvest mushrooms, someone from the next county asked me if I would accept them, do you say we want to collect them?"
"Oh, everyone in the next county knows about it?" Zhang Feng raised his eyebrows.
"Of course, how far can the next county be?" Uncle Er Niu nodded.
"Harvest, harvest as much as you want!" Zhang Feng thought about it, almost all the farm work at home has been done recently, especially as soon as the fruits in the orchard are picked, he is completely idle.
Anyway, if you are idle, you might as well collect more mushrooms, and in addition to Yelang Restaurant, Jiajiawang Supermarket also hopes that you can supply fresh and dried mushrooms.
Therefore, no matter how much you collect, you don't have to worry about running out of sales.
Moreover, the profit from the purchase of mushrooms is also very impressive, almost 100 percent, and dried mushrooms can even reach 200 percent.
Now as long as the rain comes, he can buy more than 10,000 catties a day, at least more than 100,000 yuan, if the scope of acquisition is expanded to a few counties next door, the profit will increase by two or three times a day, it is also very possible.
As for manpower, there is no need to worry.
Although the villagers are very busy, now that the fruit harvest has been completed, if Zhang Feng knew that he was going to find someone to buy mushrooms, the people in line would probably be able to line up from the head of the village to the end of the village.
Because Uncle Er Niu and a few people are in front, especially after Ah Hong's big mouth and publicity, no one in the whole village knows that they have made a lot of money.
You can make four or five thousand dollars in business a day, such a good thing, who doesn't rob it, unless it's really a fool.
I have to say that Zhang Feng's prediction was very good, as soon as the news was released that day, countless phone calls were made immediately, and many of them were villagers from other villages.
Fortunately, there are a lot of people needed this time, so Zhang Feng only rejected a small number of unsuitable ones, and most of them stayed.
That night, Zhang Feng convened a meeting and divided everyone's acquisition area, so that there would be no conflicts and everyone's interests could be guaranteed.