Chapter 54: The First Harvest

Shen Hong quickly adapted to the work in Xiaolu Mountain, usually ploughing, fertilizing, and irrigating these tasks are all in charge of Xu Lin, Xu Bo and Li Bo assisted him, and the three of them worked together to keep Xiaolu Mountain in order. And Lu Ci still continued to take care of her eight acres of cherry tomatoes, as well as the flowers and plants in the courtyard of the bamboo building and the Jifang Garden.

After that, the chain hotel will send people to inspect, Yunli wants to enrich the types of crops in the manor, so the experimental field is re-planned, and even the hilly land on the side of the bamboo building is used, squeeze out ten acres of land, plant all kinds of vegetables and fruits, and Shen Hong will be responsible for this area.

Two people live in the same room, see each other every day, eat at the same table, and can't go without talking all the time. But after Shen Hong came, he became the microphone for Yunli and Lu Ci, and if there was anything to tell each other, the first thing that came to mind was to find Shen Hong to convey it, even if the other party was beside him at the time.

During this time, Shen Hong repeated the most words, either "Ah Ci asked me to sue you", or "The boss told you", she laughed and said that she was a human phone set, one end was here for him, and the other end was connected to her, real voice translation, full signal, on-call, no charge, Xiaolushan special, you two deserve it.

The first to be harvested were the eight acres of cherry tomatoes. On this day, five employees in Xiaolu Mountain, including a total of six people from Shangyunli, each holding a small pair of scissors and carrying a small bamboo basket around their waists, shuttled through the fields to pick ripe cherry tomatoes.

Due to the last hailstorm, the harvest of the first cherry tomatoes was delayed for more than three months, and many plants can still see the trauma left by that disaster.

Each cherry tomato is half a man tall, and the fruit is bunched in bunches, like bunches of grapes, but not so dense, hanging from the branches and stems of the plant. Before hanging the fruit, they have tied the fruit strings with rope and fixed them to the trellis to reduce the weight of the plant and prevent the fruit from falling to the ground and being damaged. On the bunches of red and green fruits, those that are red indicate that they are ripe and ready for harvest.

"These little guys, they are pleasing to look at, and they are so delicious, they will definitely be very popular when they are sold in the market, and I don't think those sold in the supermarket are as good as ours." Shen Hong used scissors to pick a bright red cherry tomato, which was larger than the average one, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it again, as if he had found a treasure, and raised it and said.

Lu Ci next to her, and Yun Li, who was in the opposite row, were all attracted to her, looking at the cherry tomatoes in her hand, a smile appeared on her face, she couldn't help but glance at each other, and quickly moved away.

"It's too time-consuming to sell it ourselves, and we don't have the manpower and energy, so we can only rely on the acquisition station for the time being." Yunli sighed and explained.

"Alas, the acquisition station will definitely keep the price very low, after all, they are only the first supply chain, and there is a layer of interest division up to the top, and they will work hard to bring them bigger, and the biggest profit will be taken up by others." Shen Hong was very familiar with the operation of agricultural product suppliers, and shook her head in displeasure.

Yun Li continued to concentrate on finding ripe fruits, and replied: "If things go well, after a while, we will be able to find another supplier, and then we will have a lot more autonomy, and you will have to be busy." ”

Their batch of cherry tomatoes, the size is round and well-proportioned, the skin is crispy and the meat is tender, sweet and juicy, it is definitely the top grade of cherry tomatoes, it is indeed a pity to sell them to the acquisition station, but now Yunli has no better way, so he can only wait patiently for the opportunity to appear.

"It's better to be like this, now every day wandering in the fields, I'm about to spoil me, your money is really easy to make, no wonder every time you recruit odd jobs, the people in the village are like ducks who have been hungry for a few days, stretching their necks to squeeze here." Shen Hong said as she stretched her neck to imitate it, which was so vivid that Lu Ci couldn't help laughing.

"You are still laughing, you don't care about your own money, when will you be able to earn enough money to build a house and get married and have a baby, you two plan to open a good hall, right?" Seeing that Lu Ci was laughing, Shen Hong admonished seriously, in addition to helping the two of them pass the word, making fun of the two of them is also one of her daily jobs.

"Talk less, do more." Lu Ci smiled and said coldly.

"Yes, hostess!" Shen Hong replied loudly, and then continued to wave the small scissors, picking cherry tomatoes neatly, making Lu Ci's face flushed with anger, but he didn't know how to refute.

They worked in groups of three, and Xu Ping and Xu Bo and Li Bo were in a group, and it didn't take long for the cherry tomatoes on eight acres of land to be harvested. This time it was Lao Luo and his wife who came back, they parked the truck at the edge of the field and greeted Yunli with a smile on their faces.

"Teacher Yun, every time I come back to Xiaolu Mountain, the changes I see are different, it seems that the corn field is about to be harvested, Xiaolu Mountain is really a treasure of feng shui." As soon as Lao Luo got out of the car, he walked quickly to Yunli's side and patted him on the shoulder and complimented.

"Uncle Luo, sister-in-law Luo, business is booming." Seeing Lao Luo and his wife, Shen Hong also came over and said hello.

"Isn't this the old Shen family's Ah Hong, I haven't seen you for a long time, is your mother's leg better?" Sister-in-law Luo recognized Shen Hong and greeted with a smile. The couple used to be from Shanglu Village, and they were not far from Shen Hong's house, so they were no strangers.

"It's still the same, but it hasn't gotten bad, thank you for your concern." Shen Hong replied with a smile.

"By the way, last week, did you beat up the owner of the Fortune Hotel in the town next door? I said, you guys are so easy to provoke, why do you provoke this kind of person, he has a wide range of connections, and there is some relationship between black and white, I heard that he can't lie down on the ground now, if you really want to retaliate, you have to be careful. Sister-in-law Luo turned to that matter, she had a very loud voice, but when she talked about it, she deliberately lowered her voice, which shows that the power of the fat boss is indeed not small.

"It's just a clown, thank you for your concern." Yun Li smiled, and replied casually, judging from his expression, he really didn't care much about this matter, and after speaking, he glanced at Lu Ci and gave her a reassuring look.

"Haha, young people are going to have this momentum, let's not talk about this for now, let's go and see how this batch of cherry tomatoes is." Lao Luo snorted and said. In his work, he has been dealing with different people for a long time, and his eyesight is naturally not weak, and from the look Yunli showed just now, he knows that he is really not afraid.

Regardless of whether he has something to rely on or has a special background, it doesn't matter to Lao Luo, he only cares about the production here in Xiaolushan, whether it will be affected by this. Seeing that Yunli was full of confidence, he was also a lot more relieved, after all, Yunli was a big customer for him, and the crops produced here in Xiaolushan were much better than other places, very popular, and very profitable, he didn't want Yunli to have any accidents and cut off this financial road.

The skin of cherry tomatoes is brittle and tender, and they can't withstand too much gravity, and they also need to minimize friction, so Yun Li and they spread out a large canvas at the edge of the field and concentrated all the cherry tomatoes they picked on it.

Except for some professional farms, there are very few individual farmers who grow cherry tomatoes in the nearby area, because the fruit is expensive to grow and requires a lot of investment in the early stage, especially in terms of fertilizer, which needs to provide a variety of mixed fertilizers in order to produce delicious fruits. The second is that cherry tomato plants are difficult to take care of, there are many insect pest problems, sometimes the harvest is not a few times, the plant will wither for no reason, and it turns out to be eaten by insects or ants, which is more risky.

But these are not a problem here, there are special green fertilizers, coupled with the storage of the wood magnetic array, so that the vitality of the cherry tomato plant is extremely tenacious, and Yunli can also adjust the effectiveness of the wood magnetic array through guò to achieve the effect of insect repellent and sterilization, although the effect is not obvious now, but compared to other places, it is much better.

How many times has Lao Luo confiscated this kind of agricultural product, but it is still enough in his eyes, Yunli This batch of cherry tomatoes, whether it is appearance or taste, has reached the level of top grade, and he also unceremoniously picked a few to eat, and he already has a rough judgment in his heart.

"It's better than I imagined, so let's do it, according to this year's market price, the nearby areas are charged three yuan a catty, we agreed before that it was three yuan two, and I will mention three cents, just three yuan five, how about it?" After Lao Luo finished the inspection, he turned around and said to Yun Li.

"No problem, let's just decide, let's weigh it first." Yunli nodded in agreement.

After that, Lao Luo and his wife moved the weighing scale and basket out of the truck, beckoning everyone to load the cherry tomatoes into the basket, and then pick them up and weigh them one by one.

Temporarily gave Yun Li three cents, Lao Luo was still happy in his heart, not to mention three yuan five, even if it was four yuan, there were a lot of people who came to collect it, especially since there was a hail disaster before, which made the prices of most crops rise in different ways. At the same time, he also admired Yunli very much in his heart, this young man, what kind of planting, looking at the cornfield, it was a fruitful scene, it was really amazing.

Lao Luo is willing to raise the price, Yun Li naturally will not refuse, in fact, in his opinion, let alone a big supermarket or a big hotel, if he puts this batch of cherry tomatoes in the small supermarket of his school, he can sell them for ten yuan and eight yuan a catty. But here, he can only sell at such a cheap price, which will make him a little uncomfortable, and at the same time, he is more eager and looking forward to the future cooperation with the hotel.

Carefully put the cherry tomatoes into the basket, each basket can not be too much, about one-third is enough, and then weigh one by one, subtract the total weight from the weight of the basket, and the total amount of cherry tomatoes picked from eight acres of land will come out. Less than 8,000 catties, 7,700 catties, the average yield per mu is less than 1,000 catties, and the results are very unsatisfactory.

You must know that these eight acres of cherry tomatoes, starting from seedlings and harvesting, Lu Ci has poured all his efforts into them, taking care of them meticulously, if it weren't for that damn hail disaster, the first batch of harvests would not have been delayed to this day. Originally, Yunli estimated that the first batch of cherry tomatoes would yield more than 2,000 catties per mu without a problem, but today's results are not even half of the expected, which is really tricky.