Chapter 13 Sugar-fried chestnuts
He wrote it on the mountain this afternoon.
This is also the result of his desire for a few days, at a young age, his current opportunities to make money are indeed limited, and he can only rely on his parents to improve the family's economic situation. But the parents can make money in the business is also limited, pigs, now the price of pigs is also cheap, in case of bad luck, encounter any serious illness, can only kill their own food, and a family to raise two pigs is already the limit, and then raise more, the feed that pigs eat will become a problem.
Starting from the existing conditions, sugar-fried chestnuts is a more realistic choice. When he was in elementary school, one year, chestnuts were sold for 5 yuan a catty, which was the highest price in history, and now it is up to 3 yuan. Everyone thinks that the sale is cheap, but there is no way, farmers have always had little say in the price of agricultural products.
Say this stuff again, he'll do it.
After joining the work, he saw fried chestnuts with sugar, and he would buy some from time to time. It's not that I like to eat, mainly because since I was a child, I help my parents collect chestnuts every year, starting from beating chestnuts, picking chestnuts, peeling chestnuts, and finally selling chestnuts, which is busy for more than 10 days. But in my impression, the family has never eaten a meal of chestnuts, even if it is a bowl of boiling. It is estimated that the whole village is the same, even if it is sold cheaply, everyone is reluctant to eat it, at most, when it is peeled, those that are broken, they will be eaten raw.
To paraphrase a sentence, after joining the work, he bought fried chestnuts with sugar, but he ate not chestnuts, he ate the shortcomings of his childhood.
Just like many people still listen to the children's song "Let's Swing the Sculls" as an adult, listening to it is also a childhood regret. When Feng Yiping was wearing old clothes that he had changed from his sister's small clothes and helping the adults in the family to work, the children in the capital were dressed up beautifully on weekends and rowing in the park surrounded by green trees and red walls not far from **. Because of this, Feng Yiping's family came to Beijing to play, and he took his son to Beihai Park for a boat.
Zhang Yan loves to eat chestnuts, which are sold at the entrance of the shopping mall and the entrance of the farmers' market, and she will buy them almost once a week, when the sugar-fried chestnuts have been sold for 16 yuan a catty. After my parents went to Guangzhou to help, especially my mother, when I saw that a small paper bag of chestnuts cost nearly 20 yuan, I felt that it was not worth it, so I said, if you like to eat, then I will make it.
But she didn't know how to do it, Feng Yiping checked on the Internet, it was easy, there were steps, there were special fried sand for sale, they tried to do it a few times, and they also constantly adjusted the ratio of sugar and oil, and added other spices, and later, the enhanced version of the sugar fried chestnut made was definitely better than the taste bought outside.
What I have to do now is just to fry one or two catties at a time, which I originally made at home, into a dozen catties at a time in a big iron pot.
Feng Yiping put forward such a suggestion, and there is another consideration.
Because my parents have always been financially poor, they take money very seriously, and they can't wait to break it in half and spend it, and over time, it has become a habit. Even if Feng Yiping made some money later, this concept still can't be changed. After living together, the parents were thrifty to the habit of slamming the door, even Feng Yiping was not used to it, that kind of saving was all-round, from food, clothing, housing and transportation, all aspects, to save a piece is a piece. What's more, even if Zhang Yan's family background is good since he was a child, he is not used to it, so because of spending money, there have been many conflicts between his parents, Feng Yiping and Zhang Yan.
Feng Yiping remembered that Jia Pingwa once wrote something like this, "In my eyes, two yuan is not two yuan, it is a pile of salt for nothing." ”
In the eyes of parents, money is not money, it is really life, spending money is their life, and they were old at the time, and it was very difficult to make them change. This time, Feng Yiping is confident that he will do better than the original, and he also wants his parents to make some money when they are young, and not to value money more than life like before.
Feng Zhenchang looked at the piece of paper repeatedly and handed it to Mei Qiuping, "It's not difficult to say, the river sand is easy to say, and the shovel that you pick up by the river is sugar and tea oil, and it's easy to buy, but I don't know if we can make that taste." ”
"Also, where to sell it? Needless to say, the county seat sells for 6 yuan a catty, it is estimated that there are not many people and few people to buy, I think it is not easy in the city, there are many people in the province who should buy, but we have never been to the province, and we are not familiar with the place. Also, in the province, you always have to find a place to live, plus buying sugar and tea oil, and a stove, which costs money, and adds up a lot. Feng Zhenchang continued.
Feng Yiping said, "I'm not saying that we have to go to the provincial capital to sell sugar and fried chestnuts, this is just a way, this doesn't work, we think about other things." My main consideration is that the big item here, chestnuts, we have them ourselves, we don't need to spend money to buy them, there are not enough at home, Brother Zhiming's family has a lot, you can borrow a few hundred catties first, sell it to him for money, this should be no problem!"
Feng Zhenchang nodded, "It's okay, his children are small, and now there are few places to use money, so he should be able to borrow some after discussion." ”
"The key question at the moment is, can we fry the chestnuts well, so I mean, at the latest by the end of this month, the chestnuts will be harvested, so don't rush to sell them first, let's fry them first, if they taste good, then we can consider doing this." It should be no problem if you don't have 10 pounds a day, do it for two months, you can buy 600 pounds, 6 pounds a pound, gross income 3600, my uncle has not been in the provincial capital, ask him to help us rent a house, the rent is 200 a month, bring your own rice, 200 should be enough to buy vegetables every month, the total cost of travel is 300, stove, plus sugar, Oil, 200 is enough, so it adds up to 1300,600 pounds of chestnuts, 1200 yuan, that is, almost 1100 yuan, more than 500 yuan a month, and if it is done well, this business can be done for many years, 5000 yuan a year should be no problem. ”
Feng Zhenchang worked as an accountant in production in his early years, "You also counted the 400 catties of our family, and if the 400 catties are not counted, you can earn almost 2,000 yuan in two months?"
Feng Yiping said, "If you want to do it for a long time, you still have to calculate the purchase price." ”
Feng Zhenchang nodded, but Mei Qiuping was a little stunned, from her illness to building a house, over the years, she owes more than 3,000 foreign debts, she is an anxious person, she worries every day, according to the current income, these debts are afraid to be repaid for a few years, how can my son calculate this, do this well, in two months, this foreign debt can be repaid more than half?
She asked eagerly, "Yiping, did you miscalculate?" ”
"Can't be wrong," Feng Zhenchang said, "just this account of more than 1,000 yuan, how can it be wrong?"
"More than 1,000 yuan, you said it lightly," Mei Qiuping is also a temperamental person, "In the past few years, from the end of the year to the end of the year, there are more than 100 yuan left in the family." ”
Feng Zhenchang was dumbfounded, and Feng Yiping hurriedly said, "Mom, it won't be wrong, I'll write it down for you." ”
Holding the paper, "It costs 200 yuan a month to buy vegetables?" She first questioned, "This is to eat big fish and meat every day!"
"Mom, this is an approximate number, it's better to be generous. Feng Yiping explained.
Mei Qiuping looked at it several times, "That's right, in this way, I can indeed earn more than 500 yuan a month, even if I earn half of it, more than 200 a month, I am content." ”
Feng Zhenchang was also in the mood to joke at this time, "Before you skim the eight characters, you will earn more than 200 yuan a month." ”
Mei Qiuping said, "Anyway, this is a way, according to Yiping, if he is admitted to university in the future, he can't afford to rely on us to farm, so he can only pull new debts before the old debts are paid, and it is easy to borrow money?
"According to what Yiping said, it's worth trying!" Feng Zhenchang agreed.
He was also difficult, affected by his father's landlord, he did not get married until he was 37 years old, and he has been working hard to farm the land, but he can't change a few dollars. In the village, although he is old and respectful, everyone has seen it, either called uncle or father, but he has not paid back the thousands of yuan owed for his wife's illness and the house he lives in now.
At present, his son is his pride and their hope, and what his son said is also that tuition fees are getting higher and higher year by year, and college is even worse. But I don't have a good way, and my son's idea is a way out.
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