Chapter Ninety-Seven: Keep It as a Coffin
When Gu Jihai returned to the front of the house, as soon as he turned around to face the open door of his home, he saw two people sitting in the corridor in front of the door, one was his father and the other was from the next village.
The two were having a good conversation.
The two people who were talking also heard Gu Jihai's steps and turned their heads one after another.
"Jihai, you're back. This is the table of the Jiang family's house. ”
When Gu Daoyuan saw that it was Gu Jihai who came back, he immediately happily introduced that person to Gu Jihai: "Didn't you help someone buy an osmanthus tree?" There are quite a lot of tables in the house, and the ones planted by my cousin father are quite large. ”
Gu Daoyuan is obviously very familiar with the person who came to the door, and he seems to be very enthusiastic.
"Hmm."
Gu Jihai responded coldly, his face was not interested, he didn't look at the person, and walked towards the door without pausing, without pausing for half a second, as if no one existed.
Seeing that Gu Ji was about to walk towards the house, and he didn't mean to stop for half a minute, the man was in a hurry.
Hurriedly got up from the stool, and a side step blocked in front of Gu Jihai.
"Big nephew. Didn't you talk about those osmanthus trees last time? Jiang Fangzheng licked a swarthy and thin old face, and said with a smile: "When are you going to dig it up?" ”
"Dig it up earlier, I'll be digging the ground and planting vegetables."
Growing vegetables in an orchard? Wouldn't that have to be to dig up all the fruit trees to death? What a good excuse.
Gu Jihai sneered in his heart.
No matter how good an excuse you make, it's useless to paint your ugly, snobbish face.
"Aren't you not selling?" Gu Jihai said mockingly.
This Jiang Fangzheng, Gu Jihai dealt with him before he found the father and son of the Wei family.
There are seventeen osmanthus trees in Jiang Fangzheng's house, all of which were planted by his father more than ten years ago, and they have grown so big. At that time, Gu Jihai went to see it and told Jiang Fangzheng and his wife about buying osmanthus trees.
What a bonus!
Jiang Fangzheng and his wife are both natives of the countryside, and they never thought that the osmanthus trees that his father dug up in the mountains and planted in the orchard could be sold for money. At that time, he was overjoyed and asked Gu Jihai what the price was.
Since Jiang Fangzheng's osmanthus tree has not been evaluated by experts, and Gu Jihai has no experience, he doesn't know the specific price, so he told the more loyal couple the lowest price given by a fat man, as long as it is qualified, it will be 1,000 yuan a piece.
It made the couple so happy all at once. Gu Jihai still remembers Jiang Fangzheng and his wife's skeptical but overjoyed expressions at that time. That's the excitement of winning the jackpot!
He has seventeen in his house, and if it costs a thousand yuan a piece, it will be ten thousand seventeen.
Seventeen thousand!
You must know that now that you are working hard for a year, the peasants will only earn one or two thousand yuan, which is not pure profit.
For those who don't know, this may seem incredible, but in terms of current crop yields and prices, it is really the same thing.
For example, the average level of professional farming households in Shuilong Township is generally planted with 5 to 20 acres of rice, and 20 acres is already the limit of a family's labor in a year.
One acre of land grows in the absence of natural disasters, and the yield is only 600 catties of millet, and the better fields can produce 700 catties. The purchase price per 100 catties of millet is 50 yuan. In other words, the gross income of one acre of land is about two or three hundred yuan. Planting ten acres of land, leaving the grain to eat, and bearing the inevitable disasters of the impermanence of summer rain, hot weather, and millet germination, the gross income that can really be earned in the pocket is only 2,000 yuan a year.
That's how money is worth in '96. Do you think two or three hundred dollars a pig is a joke?
Therefore, if the osmanthus tree can really be sold for 1,000 yuan a piece, 17,000 pieces of 17,000 is equivalent to nearly ten years of agricultural income, and it will be in the pocket at one time without work. How did Jiang Fangzheng not be overjoyed?
Seeing that the couple were happy, Gu Jihai was also happy for them.
Then, under the courtesy of Jiang Fangzheng and his wife to treat their ancestors, Gu Jihai went to Jiang Fangzheng's orchard and took photos of all the osmanthus trees in the four directions.
Everything went smoothly until Gu Jihai went to Jiang Fangzheng's house for the second time and informed the other party to get ready, six of the seventeen osmanthus trees were tested in the preliminary trial, and the remaining eleven that passed would be overheard the next day and someone would come over for the second trial and trade the osmanthus trees that passed the second trial.
Where did Gu Jihai think that Jiang Fangzheng didn't know where to inquire about the news, the osmanthus tree is very popular in the big city, and as a landscape tree, it can generally be sold for two thousand yuan.
As soon as they met again, before Gu Jihai could say the specific details, Jiang Fangzheng retorted at the time, saying that 1,000 yuan a piece was cheap, and the starting price was 2,000 yuan a piece.
I thought that Jiang Fang was an honest person, but I didn't expect the other party to look so ugly when he was black.
Gu Jihai frowned at that time.
Gu Jihai didn't think about pit Jiang Fangzheng anything, whatever price the experts under Li Fatzi offered, they would give Jiang Fangzheng whatever price he said, as for the unit price of 1,000 mentioned before, it just made Jiang Fangzheng have a bottom in his heart. One thousand is the lowest price.
A loyal face and a philistine face. The gap between the two images is too great. made Gu Jihai feel a little sick to his stomach all of a sudden.
Although I was very unhappy in my heart, I thought that the preliminary positioning price given by the experts was high and low, and the average price was only 2,000 yuan. However, Gu Jihai still told Jiang Fangzheng about the fact that six of them were knocked out in the first trial, and one or two might be knocked out in the second trial.
Jiang Fangzheng didn't expect Gu Jihai to agree so happily, he was stunned for a moment, and immediately smiled, his attitude took another 180-degree turn, and he and his mother-in-law enthusiastically moved a stool for Gu Jihai, boiled tea and handed water.
Gu Jihai didn't want to stay for a moment, but Jiang Fangzheng, who was suddenly enthusiastic, and his wife sat down helplessly.
You say you're snobbish, forget it, hide it, don't be so conspicuous, okay?
I didn't even boil a pot of tea beforehand, and it was clear that I had a stalk in my heart, and now you untie the knot and want to tie me, don't be so ugly, okay? A smarter person will make a mistake and make a mistake with a glass of water to hide his previous misdeeds, and you are so stupid that you and your wife take firewood to make tea in front of me!
In this way, it's okay to expose the little Jiujiu in your heart, but I can't hang it on my face.
Speechless and speechless, Gu Jihai had to turn his head to look into the distance and not look.
Out of sight is out of sight.
This pot of tea boiled for a long time, Gu Jihai repeatedly wanted to get up and withdraw, but finally held back.
Anyway, everyone is also from a neighboring village, and if you don't look up and look down, you will have to get along in the future. It's better to offend a gentleman than a villain.
"Big nephew, if you want to buy osmanthus trees, buy all my osmanthus trees together. Just some good, don't let the bad. I don't sell it. ”
Just when Gu Jihai was waiting impatiently, Jiang Fangzheng came out, but he didn't serve tea in his hand, and he opened his mouth to say this.
As soon as he heard this, Gu Jihai instantly understood.
No wonder this pot of tea boiled longer than a porridge, and the two couples calmed down after being happy, and the hearts of the people were not enough to swallow the elephant, ** swelled again, and then discussed how to calculate themselves in the house.
As for what Jiang Fangzheng said not to sell, Gu Jihai didn't believe it.
It is useless for Jiang Fangzheng to keep the osmanthus tree, and the income that can be sold for ten years is simply a blessing of pie in the sky, and Jiang Fangzheng can refuse this sample**?
"Uncle Jiang, you must first understand one thing."
"Those osmanthus trees are qualified, and those osmanthus trees are not qualified, it's not what I said. It's not like you want to sell everyone and buy it. People have their own standards. If it is not up to standard, it can only be kept for firewood, and no one else wants to give it to others. ”
At this time, Gu Jihai's face was already very ugly, if it weren't for the fact that he had spoken well and polished more smoothly in the years when he ran the business in his last life, and if he said it ugly, he would have been a little cheaper than Fang Gang, and he would have gone away a long time ago.
Chirp crookedly, do you like to sell or not. You can't buy it as a brother? It's just to take care of you for the sake of the proximity of everyone's residence. Do you really think that after leaving your house, no one will plant osmanthus trees in the entire Shuilong Township?
Also, among the seventeen osmanthus trees in your house, due to untaken care, two main poles are dead, and there are only a few deformed branches left to stretch out alive, which can be split with one foot in the air, and you still want to sell them for money? Hehe.
"There's nothing to talk about, it's 3,000 yuan a piece." Jiang Fangzheng knew that Gu Jihai was right, so he used his brains on the price.
"Three thousand?"
Gu Jihai exclaimed.
This Jiang Fangzheng really dared to think about it. Use money as money paper!
You must know that the highest price among the seventeen osmanthus trees offered by experts is only two thousand nine. You want an average of 3,000 pieces, and the rest of the money will definitely not come out, I'll make it up to you? You didn't wake up.
"Huh. I'm going to ask the owner of the tree about this. Gu Jihai reluctantly squeezed out a smile, in fact, he had already begun to leave.
This Jiang Fangzheng is catching a cow to milk a cow, it's really unscrupulous.
Although Jiang Fangzheng was a little greedy, he was not stupid, and he saw that Gu Jihai was interested in Yan Shan and had no intention of staying, obviously this fortune was about to fail.
Suddenly, Jiang Fangzheng's heart was poured with cold water and he came to his senses. knew that he had repeatedly made inches to annoy Gu Jihai. All of a sudden, his face suddenly changed, showing panic and chagrin.
It's just that I regret it now, it's too late.
"Oh, you're a niece."
At this time, Jiang Fangzheng's wife, who was hiding behind the door, appeared on the stage, and her mouth was a shrew's gesture of scolding the street: "You can't shout that you want to buy it all, and you can't call you an expensive karma cub, why do you make so much black money?" Bury your daddy. Or the crippled Karnio is going to retire. It's a shame to earn less karma. ”
Gu Jihai's already not good-looking face instantly became gloomy, as black as a dark cloud pressing down on the city tower.
"I'm going to tell you two things."
"First, what the owner gave me was a fixed remuneration, how much to buy osmanthus trees, and which ones to buy, I couldn't earn a penny of the difference."
"Second, I won't buy the osmanthus tree in your house, no matter how cheap it is. Keep it for the coffin! ”