Chapter 15: Harvesting and Sowing
After the Chinese New Year, considering that Su Yuanyang would have to spend most of his time on farms and farms in the future, Su Yan sometimes followed Su Yuanyang around, and by September, Su Yan had also reached the age of elementary school, so Su Ji simply hired someone to come back and help in the store.
The person was introduced by Chen Xue, named Li Xinghua. It was the daughter-in-law of a relative in her village, who had been working in the field for many years, and Li Xinghua couldn't farm much land at home, so she simply let her rent out the land and go out to the town to help. After two days of trial in the store, Li Xinghua's skin is a little dark, but she is very energetic, she is very clean and tidy, and she is also quick to do work, Li Wanzhen is quite satisfied with her, and she offers a salary of 600 a month. Her job is also simple, that is, to place an order to collect money, and then send the order to the kitchen, after Li Wanzhen bakes the things, she takes them out, and every two hours she hands over the money in her pocket to Li Wanzhen, and when the store is closed, Li Wanzhen or Su Yan will match the amount with her according to the order in the kitchen.
Su Yuanyang looked at Su Ji and now that the manpower was stable, he also put his mind at ease and concentrated on doing things on the farm. Fortunately, the planting time of these four crops was staggered, otherwise the human hands would not have been busy.
Because the peppers were to be planted earlier, Su Yuanyang first cleared the land where the peppers were to be planted after determining the planting area a year ago, and began to sow them.
The other three crops are sowing a little later, and this time is just right to do preliminary work such as manure for the land.
After two weeks of busyness, the preliminary preparations for the farm were basically in place, and in March, Cheng Hui agreed to send a boat to pull oysters. It's still last year's settlement method and price, but this year, Cheng Hui's sales scope has expanded to hotels in provincial capitals, so the supply is much larger every day, 30,000 catties a day.
After starting to harvest oysters, Su Yuanyang had to spend half a day with the boat every day, and it took the afternoon to return to the village farm every day. The farm originally planned to hire someone to take care of it for a long time, and while he hadn't started sowing seeds during this time, after he came back that day, he hurried to negotiate the terms with the three people who had intended to come to work on the Su family's farm, and the salary was still the same as Su Xingqun and them. According to his plan, he hired five people, each of whom was responsible for the day-to-day management of the same crop, and when he was busy planting, planting, and dividing plants, he would hire additional temporary workers. However, the harvest has now begun on the oyster farm, and in two months Su Xingqun and Chen Wenyu will be able to get out, considering that Su Xingqun and Chen Wenyu are still more experienced than the two people who are currently managing the nursery area, after seeking their consent, he plans to wait for the oyster harvest in April, and the two people will come back to the farm to help.
By the middle of March, the pepper was about to start planting, in addition to the three people who had signed a contract with Su Yuanyang, Su Yuanyang invited ten other people to come back to help, and he was busy for two days to complete the work, leaving Su Lin, the person in charge of the pepper field, to continue the follow-up work such as fertilization, and the other people were transferred to the yam field.
The yam seedlings directly provided by Lao Ye are said to be harvested in the same year after planting. It took twelve men three days to plant all the yam seedlings. and left Su Wu to clean up the aftermath.
Others moved to the lotus root pool. The lotus root was planted the slowest, and it took five days of busy work to complete.
The day after these three crops were good, Su Yuanyang said that he wanted to treat the people who had been tired these days, and found someone to move more than 400 catties of oysters back, and distributed more than 20 catties to each of the people who came to work in the past few days. The remaining more than 100 catties were given to the families of the four managers of the oyster farm, Su Xingqun, Chen Wenyu, Su Cai, and Su Wengui. The village chief also sent more than 30 catties.
In the blink of an eye, it was the end of April, and it was time for the sweet potatoes to start planting. After eating the oysters sent by Su Yuanyang, the more than ten people worked harder, and it was relatively simple to grow sweet potatoes, and it was completed in two days.
The oysters have been almost harvested, Su Yuanyang transferred Su Wengui and Su Cai back, Su Wengui is in charge of the sweet potato field, Su Cai is in charge of the corn field, and before the corn is planted, Su Cai temporarily went to assist Su Wu in managing the yam field.
At the end of April, the number of oysters for this season was also sorted out by Su Yan. In addition to the more than 30,000 catties reserved for Su Ji in the town, the aquatic products company took away 1.77 million catties, 3.54 million yuan, minus the cost of oyster seedlings, Su Xingqun and Chen Wenyu's wages, various short-term labor expenses and other miscellaneous expenses, the net profit is more than 3.443 million. Su Yan reduced 30,000 yuan as Su Yuanyang's salary, and Su Yuanyang said on the spot that he would give 5,000 yuan to Su Yan as a bonus for her as an accountant. Su Yan smiled so much that she couldn't see her teeth, and with this bonus, her account would have 18,000 yuan.
Su Yuanyang called Su Xingqun and Chen Wenyu to his home the next day, fulfilled the promise he made when he invited them before, and gave each of them a bonus of 10,000 yuan. Su Xingqun and Chen Wenyu's hands trembled a little when they counted the money. Although Su Yuanyang is very generous, although they have also seen the harvest of the oyster farm, after all, they don't know the unit price, and they don't know how much they sold it, and Chen Wenyu also went out to work, and the so-called bonus of those bosses is just an extra few hundred and one thousand, as their overtime salary, which is already generous. So even if they secretly guessed in their hearts the bonus that Su Yuanyang might give, 10,000 yuan was an amount they never dared to think of, which was almost equal to their salary for a year.
The next day, I saw that Grandma Hua's waist was a lot straighter when she walked, and she had been blaming herself for all these years because she took care of herself, her son couldn't go out to work, and the director's family couldn't even afford to marry a daughter-in-law, and the matchmaker shook his head when he mentioned their family. It's good now, my son can earn 20,000 yuan a year, although my son told me not to tell me about the 10,000 yuan bonus, but even so, on the surface, her son's income is 12,000, which is not much different from those who go out to work. No, three matchmakers have come to the door in the past two days.
At the beginning of May, the village chief and the families who planted the corn came to Su's house to receive corn seeds. When the first few crops were sown, Su Yuanyang did not hide the various management work such as pre-planting preparation and post-sowing fertilization, and the village chief instructed that these were the key technologies for their village to get rich, so that everyone should not spread it, and they all expressed their understanding. Now the crops in the field are growing well, and the first stubble of round peppers has begun to be harvested, listening to Su Yuanyang said that it can be received all the way to July, and the days are getting more and more hopeful day by day, and everyone's faces are filled with heartfelt smiles.
After receiving the seeds, and listening to Su Yuanyang finish the technical essentials, everyone began to prepare for the sowing of corn with great enthusiasm.
Now there are few people in the village playing mahjong, everyone is very busy, even walking is much faster and more energetic than before, and they also discuss problems in the field together when they have time. The whole Sujia Village is full of momentum, everyone is unprecedentedly united, and the atmosphere is unprecedentedly good.