Chapter 6: The Great Harvest
It rained for a day and a night, and many tender mushrooms grew on the mountain. The www.biquge.info morning breeze blew through the mountains, and the ground on the mountain blew a lot. "Mushroom picker, walking on the hillside...."Zhang Tao walked up the mountain with a mushroom detector on his back and sang his own modified song.
After coming to the mountain, walk to a place where there is no one, put down the backpack and open the small box containing the mushroom detector, close the power switch, and turn on the Bluetooth transmitter. Put the mushroom detector back in the back basket and turn on Bluetooth to receive the signal.
The screen of the mobile phone shows the detection image sent by the mushroom detector. This time it is much more convenient to pick mushrooms, and when you go to a place where hazelnut mushrooms are dense, the mobile phone screen is enlarged, and the small red dot on the screen of a hazel mushroom disappears, and the efficiency of picking hazelnut mushrooms has improved a lot.
At the end of the day, I picked 300 catties of hazelnut mushrooms and sold them for 900 yuan. When the mushroom detector was not transformed, the hazelnut mushrooms picked in a day could be sold for about 750 yuan, and the daily income increased by 150 yuan.
After selling hazelnut mushrooms in the afternoon, Zhang Tao came out for a walk and listened to the chatter of the neighbors, saying that Mrs. Zhu, who lived in Beitou, went up the mountain to pick mushrooms every morning when it was still dark, and she was afraid that she would not be able to see the road and went with a flashlight. When Zhang Tao heard this, he thought that I would also get up in the early morning and go up the mountain to pick hazelnut mushrooms, so that I could pick more of them.
After Zhang Tao returned home, after dinner, after washing, he set the alarm on his mobile phone until three o'clock in the morning, and fell asleep as soon as it was dark.
At three o'clock in the morning, the mobile phone alarm clock rang, Zhang Tao got up and washed his face, and slept for nearly eight hours without being too sleepy. After washing, I ate some leftovers from last night, the temperature at night was relatively low, and the leftover food was not bad in the shade.
After eating, it was 3:20 a.m., and Zhang Tao set off with a flashlight and a mushroom detector on his back. When I came to the mountain, it was not so dark, and it was not a problem to see the way through the moonlight in the sky.
Put down the back basket and turn on the power switch and Bluetooth transmitter of the mushroom detector, and then cover the lid and put it back in the back basket. Take out your mobile phone and turn on Bluetooth to receive the signal, take your mobile phone and walk towards the mushroom circle closest to you, and pick the hazelnut mushrooms when you encounter them on the way, and you don't waste time.
Since I went up to the mountain to pick mushrooms in the early morning, I had a few more hours, and after selling hazelnut mushrooms in the afternoon, I came home with suppressed joy in my heart, "Ha! Ha! Ha! Zhang Tao smiled while counting the hazelnut mushrooms sold today, more than 1,100 yuan. In this way, you can earn more than 3,000 yuan in three days, and you can earn so much by working overtime every day when you work in the capital!
In the next few days, I got up early in the morning to pick hazel mushrooms and made a few thousand yuan. After picking hazelnut mushrooms for a few days, there were fewer hazelnut mushrooms nearby, so I went to pick them from afar, and my income dropped a little. However, because of the extra hours in the morning, the daily income is still more than 900 yuan.
I have been selling hazelnut mushrooms for more than ten days, although I try to sell hazelnut mushrooms to different people every day with hazel mushrooms on my back down the mountain, but there are only a few people who buy mushrooms, and I am familiar with Zhang Tao in a few days.
Neighbors sometimes ask how the harvest is, and say that most of the baskets are firewood, and after a long time, some people will inevitably suspect that they are picking mushrooms.
The mushrooms contain water and weigh more than dry firewood, and the mushrooms that are suspected to be picked will also go to Zhang Tao to know where there is a mushroom nest on the mountain, and people who know the mushroom nest will pick more than those who don't know.
If he does this for dozens of days, it will arouse the suspicion of others, and Zhang Tao sometimes meets neighbors when selling mushrooms. Zhang Tao decided not to sell the hazelnut mushrooms he picked in the past few days, and kept them to dry them and went to the capital to sell.
I remember that when I visited the supermarket in Beijing, the dried hazelnut mushrooms on the shelves were 80 yuan/500 grams, and the estimated price of dried hazelnut mushrooms was forty or fifty yuan. The dried hazelnut mushrooms in the local market in Hengshan cost more than 30 yuan.
Now there are more than 10,000 yuan in the hands of selling hazelnut mushrooms, and then go to the Wujiaohua building and the electronic market in the capital to buy some high-end equipment to detect matsutake and monkey head detectors, August is the growing season of matsutake mushrooms, monkey heads begin to grow in summer, but they are relatively small, and it is not easy to find them on trees. In the fall, it will grow larger, and the big monkey head can weigh five or six pounds. Although hazelnut mushrooms can be harvested until early September, the autumn hazelnut mushroom tastes more gentle, and the price will drop a little less than the summer hazelnut mushroom. And when you make your own matsutake and monkey head detector, it is not difficult to find matsutake and monkey head in the eyes of others, and it is more cost-effective to pick matsutake and monkey head.
The price of matsutake mushrooms is between 200 yuan and 300 yuan, and sometimes matsutake mushrooms can be sold for more than 400 yuan a catty when the yield is small. Although the price of wild monkey head is cheaper than that of matsutake mushrooms, it can also be sold for more than 100 yuan per catty. The size of the monkey head is several times larger than that of matsutake mushrooms, and the number of monkey heads is also more than that of matsutake mushrooms. If you pick a few large monkey heads, it will cost thousands of yuan.
Every day, you can earn thousands of yuan a day by picking a few matsutake mushrooms and monkey heads, and you are not tired. It's really not too easy to make money!
Now the summer hazelnut mushrooms can be picked for more than ten days, and the hazel mushrooms can be dried for two days in sunny and windy weather. For the next ten days, Zhang Tao dried the hazelnuts while picking and drying in the open space in the yard. There is a wall more than one person high around the courtyard, and no one will see it.
There are still a few days before the beginning of autumn, Zhang Tao decided not to pick hazel mushrooms, after the beginning of autumn, he can pick matsutake mushrooms, go to the capital to sell the dried hazelnut mushrooms, and then buy some equipment to come back, should be able to catch up with the season of picking a mushroom. As autumn approaches, there is less rain and more wind, and the weather is good for these two days, and the hazelnut mushrooms will be dried after two days.
Before going to the capital, go home to buy something for my father and mother, and it will be better for relatives to bring the special products of the capital when they come back from the capital.
Although Zhang Tao worked in the capital for more than half a year and earned more than 10,000 yuan, he saved a few thousand yuan after rent, water and electricity, and food, and bought some experimental equipment in the capital, and there was not much money left. I can't buy anything good for my family, and I can't go to my relatives' house empty-handed.
Zhang Tao put the dried hazelnut mushrooms in a washed sack, and then put the sack in the warehouse where the family used to store grain. Lay a few sleepers on the bottom of the sack to prevent the hazelnut mushrooms from getting wet. A few rat traps and a few rat traps are placed on the sides of the sleepers to prevent rats from gnawing on the sacks. Dried hazelnut mushrooms give off a nice smell, and rats like to use sacks to grind their teeth.
Today's weather is very good, it is a sunny day and the weather forecast does not say that it will rain today, and the hazelnut mushrooms on the ground will not be confiscated. Zhang Tao put the money he earned in the past few days into his satchel, and the jewelry store in the market first spent more than 2,000 yuan to buy a gold bracelet for his mother.
Then I went to the bank and opened two passbooks, one deposited more than 10,000 yuan, and the remaining thousands of yuan were stored in the other passbook. If it is not good to explain to your parents that you can save all the money in a passbook, those who collect mushrooms and then sell them will double the price, and the good ones will earn nearly 10,000 yuan in a month. I went to the Beijing Tongrentang Pharmacy branch in the city to buy a few wild Ganoderma lucidum and returned home.
"Dad, Mom, I'm back!" After Zhang Tao entered the door, he said to Zhang Yongwen and Zhao Junzhen with a smile.
"Son, you're back!"
"Oops! Our sons are all thin and dark! ”
"Ahh Mother! Father! I am back! ”
"Son, what are you doing when you go home, why are you so tanned!" Zhao Junzhen asked with a smile.
"Ahh I've been collecting mushrooms at home for the past few days, and I've been sitting outside and drying them every day! Hehe! Zhang Tao replied with a smile.
Zhang Tao didn't say that he picked it himself, firstly, he was afraid that his father and mother would worry about him, and secondly, he would not believe it if he said it. Let's just say that mushrooms are harvested.
"Mom, Dad! I bought you some wild reishi, Mom! I bought you a gold bracelet! Zhang Tao said while handing the lingzhi and gold bracelet to Zhang Yongwen and Zhao Junzhen.
"Hey! What are you spending this money for? How much does it cost? It's not easy to make money! This money is saved for use when marrying a daughter-in-law. How much you spend, I'll give it to you! Zhang Yongwen said.
"It's good that I have this silver bracelet with me, how much money can you make by collecting mushrooms! How much money do you spend, let your dad give it to you! Zhao Junzhen also said.
"Dad! Mother! I make a lot of money collecting mushrooms! Take it! Zhang Tao said, took out a moneyy passbook from his satchel, opened it and put it in front of Zhang Yongwen and Zhao Junzhen.
"Look! This is the result of my month! Zhang Tao said.
"How can you sell it for so much money! Is harvesting hazelnut mushrooms so profitable? Zhang Yongwen asked.
"Oh! After I finished collecting mushrooms, I ran around and went to the market and restaurants to sell them! My friend opened an online store and I asked him to help me sell some of it! Zhang Tao said what he had thought out in advance. The mushroom detector is too cumbersome to explain, and there is no report on television or online that scientists are expected to develop something similar. Zhang Tao is such a person who has just graduated from college, and he has made such an advanced thing by himself, no one will believe it when he says it.
After hearing this, Zhao Junzhen said with a smile: "I didn't expect my son to be so powerful!" Better than your dad! Thank you for the gold bracelet you bought for your mom! Mom just took it! ”
Zhang Yongwen patted Zhang Tao's shoulder and said with a smile: "My son!" Definitely better than me! Is one generation stronger than the next! Back off that! Society will not progress! After a pause, he said: "Three hundred and sixty lines, the line is the champion!" Son, since you can make so much money, it means that you have talent in this area! Do this, too! What are you going to do with the mushrooms when you're done harvesting? ”
"I plan to go to the capital to sell hazelnut mushrooms, the hazelnut mushrooms in the capital are more expensive than ours here, I will bring some hazelnut mushrooms to the capital first, after opening up the market, you and my mother will help me send the hazelnut mushrooms with logistics." I put those hazelnut mushrooms in sacks in our storehouse that used to hold grain. Zhang Tao said.
"Good! Son, be careful when you talk about business, don't let people deceive, I'll send it to you when you say it! Zhang Yongwen said.
"Thank you, Dad! Thank you, Mom! Zhang Tao said with a smile.
"No thanks! Your mother and I will move in with you when you're gone. Zhang Yongwen said.
"Son, mom will cook you something delicious! Look you've lost weight! Zhao Junzhen said with a smile.
After Zhang Tao had dinner at home, he took the car back to the house at the foot of Hengshan Mountain, and the hazelnut mushrooms had to be put away at night, and the hazelnut mushrooms would return to the tide at night if they were not put away. The hazelnut mushrooms have been blown by the wind for a day, and most of them are dry. Put the hazelnut mushrooms in a sack and put them in the warehouse, and take them out to dry for half a day tomorrow, and it is estimated that they will be completely dried.