Chapter 11: The Village Market (Part II)
After everyone dispersed, He Kun did not leave, but squatted in front of the stall and carefully looked at the honey on sale. "Big brother, what kind of honey do you need to choose, there are acacia and wattle flowers, here is rape nectar and royal jelly, hehe, small bee farm, there are not many places to run, they are all handmade honey by hand. Look what you want, I'll give you a cheaper price if you want more. The young man selling honey greeted warmly.
This honey seller looks much younger than He Kun, at most fifteen or sixteen years old, but he has a sense of honesty unique to the farmer's family, which makes He Kun, who is about to start land planting, have an inexplicable good feeling.
Looking at the vendor with an expectant face, He Kun suddenly thought that if he used the space spring water mixed with honey and gave it to his parents and grandparents, he could completely blame the special effect of changing the body on the honey's body, so that he could not only improve the body but also cover up the secrets of his space, killing two birds with one stone.
"How is this honey sold, how much is it a pound?" He Kun, who had made up his mind, asked.
"Acacia honey is 25 yuan a catty, vitex honey is 22 a catty, rape nectar is cheaper 15 a catty, and royal jelly is 100 a catty." The peddler said quickly with a grimace.
"Oh? …… Tsk, it's not too cheap, this honey is a lot more expensive than what is sold in the market. He Kun took the honeypot in his hand and sighed regretfully.
The guy saw that He Kun was too expensive and didn't want to buy it, so he was a little anxious, "Most of the people on the market are adulterated, and it's good to have 20% real honey in a bottle, I'm all real honey, it's not fake at all."
He Kun saw that the guy looked anxious, and smiled dumbly, where is this going, he is going to jump up in a hurry, and he is afraid that he will cry after teasing for a while. So he put away his joke and said to the guy: "Give me 60 catties of acacia honey, and 20 catties of royal jelly." Do you have small bottles here? ”
Originally, I only expected He Kun to buy a pound of money, but who knew that He Kun would buy so much at once, and the guy suddenly had a kind of psychological fluctuation like a roller coaster of great sorrow, his face was flushed, and he responded hesitantly: "Yes, yes." You wait a minute... Acacia honey here....not enough for 50 pounds, in the morning... Sold some, I... So I called my dad to send it. I'll be right away....wait a minute." The young man looked a little excited, and while making a phone call in a hurry, he told He Kun that his home was not far away, and words like he would arrive soon comforted He Kun.
"Hehe, just try to hurry up, I'll be fine later." He Kun knows what a 3,000 yuan business means to farmers. Take their hometown village as an example, many people don't have enough money to eat and drink in addition to their own food and drink all year round. It was very hard, so many young people in the village did not want to farm in the village, and all those who could go out went out to work. There are generally 20,000 or 30,000 a year, which is much stronger than farming.
Ten minutes later, a middle-aged man riding a small three-wheeler came to He Kun's side and stopped, and greeted He Kun while moving the things off the car, "I'm sorry, I made you wait for a long time, I didn't expect to sell so much, it's a little unprepared, and it's delaying your time." "The middle-aged man kept apologizing as soon as he came, for fear that he would mess up the deal.
The person who came was the young man's father, named Yang Chen, who was in his forties, and his body was very stout, but he looked very energetic. He is a veteran beekeeper. I live in a place called Meicun, not far from the town, usually farm at home, keep bees during the flowering period, and mainly go to Shandong and Sanmenxia to collect honey. is a relatively bold man.
"It's okay" He Kun nodded with a smile, looking at the honey altar that had just been unloaded, and the fragrance of honey came to his face, which was very rich. But unlike the sweetness of sugar, it has a sweet smell, which is very pleasant. "How much honey can you produce in a year?" He Kun asked casually.
"Hehe, this is not easy to say, there are few people, only more than 50 boxes of bees, more can not be served, a good flowering period in a year can basically have more than 1200 catties, like this year's luck is not very good is about 700 catties" Yang Chen looked a little depressed, heard him say that at the beginning, he just raised a few boxes for his own use, and sometimes he would give some to relatives and neighbors, the response was not bad, so he began to want to raise a few more boxes to sell near the town, and there was still some surplus when encountering a good flowering period, and he couldn't make any money.
He Kun saw Yang Chen's expression as if he was reminiscing, with pride and a hint of regret in his expression. Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and it must be another tear-jerking story, but this has nothing to do with He Kun, so he casually chatted a few words......
After a while, Yang Chen's father and son weighed and packed the honey and royal jelly that He Kun needed after learning that they didn't need to be packaged first, tied a rope buckle that was easy to carry, and tied more than 20 small plastic bottles together. After discounting 9%, seeing He Kun paying happily, Yang Chen happily told He Kun his phone number, hoping that he could take care of it next time he needed honey, and he would definitely give discounts or something, and then asked He Kun where they would send the honey in a while.
He Kun refused the kindness of Yang Chen's father and son's delivery, and carried the honey jar to feel that the weight was acceptable. said goodbye to Yang Chen and his son, and picked up the honey altar and walked away easily under the stunned gaze of the two of them.
He Kun didn't know that the amazing strength of his body transformed by the spring water had frightened Yang Chen and his son, and he didn't go until he walked to a no-man's corner before sending the honey altar into the space, and went out through another exit, He Kun saw that it was still early, and continued to walk around the market.
After buying honey, He Kun didn't have much money left, and it was already very good for the Moonlight Clan to save some and bring it back during work. However, after this period of consumption, it is almost bottoming out, and now the only income is counting on the vegetables that have matured in the first two days in the space.
He calculated that the vegetables he planted in the space were two-thirds shorter than the maturity period outside, which surprised He Kun, and the quality of the vegetables was extremely good, all of them were tender and fat, and the yield was extremely large.
For example, ordinary large tomatoes, it is very good to be able to hang dozens of them. But each plant in his space has 6 layers, and the number is increasing layer by layer, and a tomato is about to grow into a small pine tree, He Kun probably counted it at that time, this one has at least a thousand fruits, all of which are fat and ripe tomatoes, which are several levels higher than the taste of the vegetables that grandpa ate last time.
He Kun was afraid that if the picking was not timely, the vegetables would rot in the ground, so he deliberately took advantage of the night when everyone was sleeping, and worked all night to pick all the vegetables in an acre of land, but he also unexpectedly found that the space still has the effect of preservation.
After all, it is a rural town, every family has their own vegetables, and the price is not high, so he can not give He Kun a favorable reference, it seems that he has to take the time to go to the market before the Chinese New Year to understand the market of vegetables, and secondly, he is ready to sell some space vegetables to return to the next fund.
Then He Kun went to the agricultural technology station again, bought some vegetable seeds that he usually needs, and filled in the types of vegetables in his space, so as to strive for more types and more sales.
He Kun looked at the time, and he was almost done, so he went to the street market next door to find his grandfather who was wandering around and the elders in the village, and after greeting him, He Kun was teased by some slightly younger uncles.
'Grandpa, uncles, have you bought all your things?' Seeing his grandfather happily watching himself being teased by the elders with his hands behind his back, he couldn't help but feel a little helpless, so he diverted the topic.
Seeing their helpless expressions, the elders were even happier, but they also stopped joking. An uncle of the third grandfather's family told me with a smile, 'Yes, everything that should be bought has been bought, and the ancestral worship items have been placed, no, there is still time, go around, everything is stored in the grocery store opened by your third uncle, and you will take it when you leave, what about you, what have you bought?' He asked, seeing that I was carrying a large bag of things.
"Some vegetable seeds, no, when I saw that the land on the side of the mountain was empty, I wanted to cultivate it and plant something to see" He Kun knew that he would have to trouble the uncles and elders in the village in the future, and he couldn't hide it if he wanted to, so he said it.
'Hey, you still want to go back to the village to farm, hehe, it's really strange, other young people in the village want to come out, you're good, but you want to go back to farming, what's wrong? See through the red dust? Hahaha' After saying that, the uncle and several elders in the village laughed again.
"Alright. You guys still have a little bit of the appearance of elders, just joking with juniors, but what...... Xiao Kun does have the idea of planting, but it will have to be discussed after the New Year. I might want you to help me with the work," the old man saw that the uncles were getting more and more unseemly, so he frowned and said.
Seeing that the grandfather who was the oldest in the audience spoke, everyone stopped laughing, and responded with a respectful face, "That's that, when Xiao Kun needs to help, just say something, I will definitely come to help" "Yes, yes, I will definitely come to help when the time comes"
Seeing that a few uncles and uncles who were not serious immediately became honest after their grandfather's speech, He Kun couldn't help but laugh in his heart, he had already heard his father say that when he was young, the children in the village were not afraid of anything else, they were afraid of grandpa, and if the children were disobedient, they would call you the second uncle. Immediately honest. It can be seen that grandpa's prestige is left, although it can't reach the person who heard it to stop crying, but it is not far behind.
After the uncles expressed their attitudes one by one, Grandpa stroked his beard and nodded with satisfaction, looked at the time, and said, "It's not early, go to the store and get something and hurry back to the mountain." It was the end of this meeting where the uncles expressed their loyalty.