The price of firewood roosters in the market has risen to six yuan and five pounds, but when Ma Zhentang brought the good news to Wang Fumin, Wang Fumin's face did not show much excitement.

He's always like this, so calm that it makes people feel a little unreasonable.

In the evening, when Wang Fumin told Wang Shaodong that the market price of live chickens in the market had reached 6 yuan and 5, and their 24,000 chickens were still less than ten days away from being slaughtered, Wang Fumin asked his son if he had contacted Zhao Mingwei, the big chicken dealer in southern Thailand.

Because after listening to his son's words, he got 24,000 chickens, and now the market has come up all of a sudden, and their family is about to make a lot of money, so now Wang Fumin is a little superstitious about his son.

Wang Shaodong shook his head calmly and said, "Dad, believe me, there are not many chickens in Qilu Province now, we have so many chickens in our hands, we are not afraid that the chicken dealers will not come to inquire, why are we in a hurry?"

Wang Shaodong's analysis is correct. The chicken dealer has no chickens to sell and no money to make, so can he not be in a hurry? The chicken dealer is in a hurry, so he doesn't ask everywhere where there are chickens? With so many chickens in the Wang family's hands, can the chicken dealer not be able to find out?

Therefore, Wang Shaodong feels that what they have to do now is to wait for the call from the chicken seller, and then wait for them to raise the price for each other.

Wang Shaodong has been in sales for ten years, and he knows all these things.

On the third day of the lunar month, the entire small mountain village began to slowly show a taste of the year, with rich and no money, and everyone had a smile on their faces.

And this morning, the smiles on the faces of the Wang family were extraordinarily bright.

In the morning, Wang Fumin received a phone call, it was a stranger who said it was a live chicken dealer in Taishan City, and asked if they were willing to sell the chickens to him.

There is still a week or so before their chickens are slaughtered, and the chicken dealers can't bear it anymore.

Wang Fumin asked the price according to what Wang Shaodong told him, and then smiled perfunctorily, and then said that he would call again on the eleventh day of the lunar month to talk about it.

Now there are nine days left before their chickens are slaughtered, and there is no need for the Wang family to be in a hurry.

In this way, starting from the third day of the lunar month, the Wang family will receive calls from several strange chicken dealers every day, including Taishan City, Tainan City, Fei City, and even Jiaodong. The price of the chicken dealer is also getting higher day by day, and by the seventh day of the lunar month, the price of the chicken dealer's cart of chicken is close to five yuan.

Wang Shaodong is convinced that their batch of chickens has been sold well, and even the price of six yuan can be touched.

On the seventh day of the lunar month, Wang Shaodong received a call from Song Tao's father, first asked Wang Shaodong about his recent situation, and then shifted the topic to supplying old chickens to their fried chicken restaurant.

Song Daojiang spoke very old-fashioned, Wang Shaodong asked him how to calculate the purchase price, and he said let Wang Shaodong decide.

Wang Shaodong has already inquired about it, in the past two days, there has been a serious shortage of chickens in the fried chicken restaurants on Qishan, and at the end of the year, many of the parties will choose to find a fried chicken restaurant on Qishan, so dozens of fried chicken restaurants on Qishan are very popular at the end of the year.

If there is no chicken, then this fried chicken restaurant will not think about doing it in the future.

Because of the lack of chickens, the old chickens purchased from the chicken dealers by the fried chicken shop on Qishan have reached 14 yuan a pound in the past few days. Such a price has hardly been seen in recent years, and it is too high.

Moreover, even if it is 14 yuan a catty, you may not be able to buy old chickens.

This year's bird flu has already left few free-range chickens in the hands of the local people around Luzhong City. The old chickens of the chicken dealers are mainly collected from the hands of the common people, most of them are raised by the chickens bought in the spring of the first year, and in the bazaar, they meet the common people who do not know how to do it, and then the chicken dealers collect them at a price of seven or eight yuan per catty, and then send them to Qishan.

An old chicken that is more than seven months old can earn thirty or forty yuan by reselling it in the hands of a chicken dealer, which is more profitable than the next day's effort in construction.

Of course, this is an individual case, and most people still know the price difference between chickens that are more than seven months old and chicks that are five months old.

There is not much difference in weight between a five-month-old rooster and a seven-month-old chicken, but the weight of the feed eaten can be quite different.

A five-month-old rooster eats less than 10 pounds of feed, while a seven-month-old chicken eats about 22 pounds of feed, and the difference between the two is very large.

The five-month-old rooster weighs five pounds, while the seven-month-old chicken's weight, that is, seven pounds, eats 12 pounds more feed, but only grows two pounds of meat.

Chicken farmers know that if you want to sell chickens, selling baby roosters at four months and old roosters at seven months is the most profitable.

At the age of four months, the little rooster is just up to the standard of the cart, and then the weight ratio is the most suitable, so it makes the most money. And the seven-month-old chicken can just be called an old chicken, and it can be sold at the price of an old chicken, and then if you raise it, you won't gain much weight, but it will only increase the cost.

Wang Shaodong heard that Song Daojiang asked him to set the price, knowing that the other party really felt that the price given by the chicken dealer was too high, and he was embarrassed to say that the price was too low, and he felt that the Wang family's chicken was definitely not as good as the chicken that the chicken dealer collected from the people, so he felt that the Wang family's chicken should not be sold at the price of 14 yuan a pound from the chicken dealer.

"Uncle, I heard that the price of chickens you collect from chicken dealers has recently reached 14 yuan a catty?"

Wang Shaodong asked tentatively.

"Oh, who did you say?"

Song Daojiang did not answer Wang Shaodong's question directly, but asked Wang Shaodong where he got the news. Hearing it, Song Daojiang's words were a little dissatisfied, he thought that the price that Xiao Wang planned to set was 14 yuan a catty, so he regretted that he didn't say the price himself just now.

Wang Shaodong heard Song Daojiang's meaning and said: "Uncle, let's do it, our chickens are not as good as the chicken dealers, after all, we are raised in the greenhouse, if the chicken dealers are 14 yuan a catty, then ours will be 13 yuan a catty, what do you think?"

This is a reasonable price, and Song Daojiang can't make any other opinions.

In fact, the initial psychological price of Wang Fumin and Wang Shaodong was only 12 yuan, and if it was 13 yuan, then their 2,000 chickens would suddenly have to sell for an additional 14,000 yuan.

"Okay, this price is okay, just according to what we wrote in the contract, you'd better send it to us early tomorrow." ”

Wang Shaodong smiled: "No problem!"