Chapter 20: Cheap Lemons
After dinner, Shen Ling repeatedly emphasized that he was fine, and Xu Zhen left with confidence!
However, this made Xu Zhen remember a man named Zhou Yan, a married man. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info he wants to see this man, why deceive his senior sister!
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For several days, Xu Zhen was busy in the lemon field, planting lettuce and Chinese cabbage.
In fact, at this time, according to the general seasonality, it is a little late to plant these vegetables, but he can't stand Xu Zhen's nutrient solution, and he has every reason not to be afraid of being late. Just after planting these vegetables, there is less nutrient solution to be used on the lemon tree. Now there are 200 acres of lemon trees, and it takes a lot of time for these lemon trees to absorb the nutrient solution.
"Erbao, pick our lemons and sell them! I heard that someone will come to the village tomorrow to collect it! Lin Yue'e heard from her neighbors that there were lemon sellers from the county who came to collect fresh lemon fruits.
In addition to planting some vegetables at home, Lin Yue'e also took care of the lemon trees on a few plots, but because the ground was not very fertile, and the shade was not sunny, the lemons did not bear much fruit. Maybe it's three or five hundred pounds!
"How much is a pound?" Xu Zhen didn't want to sell these lemons like this!
Although he had only been watering the nutrient solution for a short time, he believed that the lemons were no longer the same as the others!
Lin Yue'e said: "I heard that it is a piece of eight in the bag, and nine cents and five in the green fruit!" Anyway, it's just a little bit, and you can't eat it if you keep it! It's not like you have to sell it yet! ”
"Yes! Since there are some to collect, let's cut them and sell them! Xu Nian also nodded.
"Mom, we can't sell it directly to the second-tier dealers, then we will lose too much!"
"So what's your way? Besides, our family only has a few hundred catties of lemons this year! If you lose something, you will lose something! Xu Nian knew that it was useless to keep the lemons, except for a very small number that could be used to make wine or something, and they could not be eaten or fed to pigs, so they could only be sold.
"I know a friend who works as a bartender at a bar, and I'll send him a few to see if he can help us eat these lemons!"
Xu Zhen does have a friend named Zhang Xin who works as a bartender in a bar, and he often goes to this bar with Lin Sen and some customers, and he gets acquainted with Zhang Xin after coming and going.
After drinking too much wine in the bar, Xu Zhen knew that the bar generally consumed a lot of lemon fresh fruit. And the price of a small slice has risen sharply because of the difference in wine or drink!
And the bar he and Lin Sen often go to is not low-grade.
Once Zhang Xin joked with him, since you are from Eucalyptus County, why don't you do a lemon business, if you do it well, it may not be worse than doing it under Boss Lin!
Of course, Xu Zhen, who was high-spirited at the time, didn't take it seriously, but now that he looks at it, he is really going to take this road.
"Mom, didn't I ask you to send me some lemons last year? That's how I gave these lemons to my friends! In the outside market, the price of lemons in our eucalyptus county is not cheap, and the slightly better ones are more than 20 yuan a catty! We don't need to let the second-hand dealers make money! It's a big deal, I'll give these lemons away, and try to expand a little bit of the market first, otherwise next year or the year after that, I will go to the market when lemons are produced on a large scale, and then I will be passive! ”
"Okay, we'll just listen to you!" Of course, Xu Nian and his family think that what their son said is reasonable, in fact, Xu Zhen has been working hard outside all these years, and what he has done is the market.
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Although most of the land has been contracted, the villagers of the six communities in Heqian Village are naturally reluctant to see the land wasted, and everyone has to make use of even the most barren land.
Therefore, every household still has some land, and the government encouraged and even forced everyone to plant lemons, and each family has so many lemon trees.
After all, the amount of single households is too small, and if someone in the town buys it, they will not go to the countryside, but the farmers will carry it on their own shoulders, and the price is not high.
This time, the county buyer bought it a dime more than the town's buyer, and of course everyone was more willing to sell the lemons to the county people!
Because many farmers have lemon fruits to sell at home, few people come to work for Xu Zhen! Xu Zhen is not in a hurry to pick lemons today! He wanted the lemon tree to absorb two more days of nutrient solution, and then it would have a better quality!
Many people took action, and the whole family, old and young, went into battle together, carrying baskets and bamboo baskets. Flat shoulders, wheelbarrows.
Although the acquisition point was in the village office, the road of just a few hundred meters still made those old men and women tired and panting.
"Erbao, why don't you pick lemons? Don't want to sell? Xu Di, the uncle in the courtyard, asked puzzled when he saw that Xu Zhen was not picking lemons.
Xu Zhen nodded: "These dealers are too ruthless, and the price is so low!" Like this kind of unbagged one or two heavy green fruits, they can be sold for 10 yuan a pound in big cities, but these bosses actually give 7 cents! What's the difference between that and picking it up? ”
"Who says it's not, but what can we old farmers do, there is no way, and there is only such a little, where can we compete with others!"
Xu Zhen knew that what Xu said was also true, the biggest disadvantage of the peasants was that they were too scattered and could not form a unified whole, otherwise they would not let these middlemen make money!
"Erbao! You are a college student, knowledgeable and educated, and have contracted more than 200 acres of lemon land, next year your lemons will bear fruit, and then our lemons will follow you to sell! Let outsiders make money, it is better to let your own family make money! ”
Xu Zhen actually doesn't want their lemons very much, his future lemons can take a new path of green fruits, and their lemons are both fertilizers and pesticides, which definitely don't meet his standards! But now there is no need for him to refuse!
If you can't wipe off the love at that time, it's a big deal to sell the lemons they bought separately!
"Fifth grandma, how many lemons do you have, I'll take the motorcycle and pull it for you!" Xu Zhen saw that the fifth grandmother was carrying a basket of lemons and came over with difficulty to sell them on the main highway, so he hurriedly said.
"I didn't manage the lemons in my house well, so I ended up with such a basket, and I just carried it myself! The old man is really kind! ”
Xu Zhen noticed that the five grandmothers' back baskets of lemons are all green fruits, and the quality is not very good, they are all very small, and the appearance of the individual is not good-looking, and there are very scars, this kind of lemon boss gives a maximum of eight cents a catty, and the fifth grandmother's back basket is afraid that it is only thirty catties, that is to say, this back basket is hard to carry a kilometer, and it will be sold for 20 yuan!
This is still the price of lemons has risen this year, if it was last year, this kind of lemon may be three cents a pound!
Xu Zhen couldn't help but sigh, the individual strength is really too thin!
Sometimes it's expensive, but sometimes it's cheaper for less!
Imagine if Xu Zhen's two hundred acres of lemons are fruitful, it will be a few cars, even if it is cheap, it will not be possible to sell it for three cents and a catty!
Everyone in the society was busy selling lemon fruits, but Xu Zhen went to his own field to see the lemon trees hanging on their fruits. Compared with the villagers' lemons, Xu Zhen's lemons look bigger, and some of the bagged lemons look more watery, the color is also very bright yellow, there are no scars and black spots, and the size is also very uniform, which is completely first-class fruit.
Such fruit can be sold for 40 yuan a pound or even more in supermarkets in big cities! Even if you remove the logistics in the middle and the reasonable profits at all levels, the purchase price from them is only reasonable!
But this year, a first-class fruit like Xu Zhen is only two yuan a catty.