Chapter 368 Continue writing in tons (720.01 million)
Adilijiang’s home has strong Xinjiang characteristics.
Cao Shujie looked around in the living room. He did not wander around in other rooms.
In addition to Adilijiang, there are also his wife and son at home.
Adilijiang introduced his son to Cao Shujie as Rezali and his wife as Gulizar.
The name is a bit convoluted, and it is difficult for Cao Shujie to remember it.
In addition to this, Cao Shujie also discovered something very embarrassing.
He could understand the Mandarin spoken by Adilijiang, but he could not understand the Mandarin spoken by his son Rezali and his wife Gulizar.
Fortunately, this problem is not big. The main thing is that Cao Shujie, Cao Zhen, and Adilijiang are chatting.
His wife first came over to meet him, but then she stopped coming.
Cao Shujie didn't know if there were any taboos here, so he didn't ask much.
Adilijiang's son, Rezali, was serving tea and water nearby. Perhaps because of his personality, he didn't talk much.
Not long after, Adilijiang's wife Gulizar brought over a pot of cooked mutton.
That's right, it's in a basin.
As soon as he put it on the table, Cao Shujie smelled the aroma of mutton, but the smell was not strong.
Not long after, the roasted leg of lamb was placed on a wooden tray and served, and she went out again.
"Please!" Adilijiang picked up a knife next to him, cut open the mutton cooked in water in the basin, and handed it to Cao Shujie and Cao Zhen first, then to him and his son.
According to Adilijiang, this pot of mutton was boiled in pure water, with only a handful of salt sprinkled on it.
Cao Shujie was still thinking about why he didn't add some aniseed to enhance the fragrance and remove the smell, but when he pinched a piece of bone, bit off the meat on it, and chewed it slowly in his mouth, it was only then that Cao Shujie tasted the more delicious mutton.
practice.
As the saying goes, the most delicious food is often cooked in the simplest way.
"It's delicious!" Cao Shujie said, extending his thumb repeatedly.
He's not polite!
As the owner, Adilijiang was very happy to see Cao Shujie like this. He cut two more pieces of bone-in mutton for Cao Shujie, and then cut a piece of meat from the roasted lamb leg and placed it on the plate in front of Cao Shujie.
: "You eat more."
"Thank you, you really don't have to be so polite, I can do it myself." Cao Shujie said.
"Okay, we must eat enough in our house." Adilijiang said.
He cut himself another piece and ate it.
After dinner, Adilijiang asked his son to bring some washed apples and handed them to Cao Shujie and Cao Zhen respectively: "These are apples from my orchard, you can try them."
"The meat show is coming." Cao Shujie thought to himself.
He took the apple from Adilijiang with both hands, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully.
The skin of the apple is red, and the skin looks smooth and bright, which is very conspicuous.
The size of this apple is not small, and it is quite different from their local apples, but not much different from the apples grown in his orchard.
"Crack!"
Cao Shujie took a bite, and the apple was very crisp and sweet.
The juice of the apple itself burst out in his mouth as he chewed it, making it look even sweeter.
After taking two consecutive bites, a quarter of an apple was eaten. Cao Shujie's eyes fell on the section of the apple he had bitten off.
The flesh is light yellow, with a darker part in the middle, which is similar to the apples grown in his orchard.
But compared with the apples grown in his orchard, there is still a big gap.
The flesh of the apples grown in his orchard is bright yellow, and the crystalline layer in the middle appears to be more, which means it contains more sugar.
"Adilijiang, your apples are really good and taste very good." Cao Shujie said with a smile.
Cao Zhen also nodded and said, "It's indeed delicious."
Adilijiang was very happy to receive praise and recognition from the two. He said: "I still have a lot of apples like this in the cold storage."
"Good guy, so direct." Cao Shujie and Cao Zhen looked at each other.
At this time, Cao Zhen said nothing, and the next scene was left to Cao Shujie.
Cao Shujie took the initiative to ask: "Adilijiang, how much do you plan to ship this apple?"
"How much do you want?" Adilijiang asked him.
Cao Shujie did not specify a specific value. He said: "The more, the better."
This made Adilijiang a little unsure of how much Cao Shujie needed. He said: "I have a total of 429 acres of orchards, all of which are planted with this variety of apples. The yield per mu is about 6,000 kilograms. This year's total harvest is less than 1,300 tons."
"Currently, I still have more than 800 tons of apples in my cold storage," Adilijiang said.
Cao Zhen was a little confused when he heard this. He thought that the fruit harvest in his hometown was still measured in kilograms, but other people's unit of measurement was calculated directly in tons.
This gap is really not that big.
Cao Shujie also had this idea in his mind.
He was still thinking that the apple yield in his orchard could reach more than 5,000 kilograms per acre, which was considered a high yield among them.
But the apple yield per mu in Adilijiang can reach about 6,000 kilograms. Even though the difference is only 1,000 kilograms, this gap is sometimes difficult to bridge.
This also made Cao Shujie realize that he still has a lot of room for improvement.
Regardless of missing this matter, Cao Shujie is also wondering about one thing. It stands to reason that it is already early December, and the apples here in Xinjiang have already been picked in September. It has been three months now, and according to his total harvest, it has not yet been harvested.
What’s the point of selling half of it?
Cao Shujie thought about it over and over, but could never figure out this relationship.
Cao Zhen is also thinking about this issue.
Perhaps because he is more sensitive to numbers, Cao Zhen also paid attention to several key data mentioned by Adilijiang.
He also took out his mobile phone and calculated it using the calculator that came with it. The output was indeed as Adilijiang said, more than 1,280 tons.
But if it's what Adilijiang said just now, he has only sold one-third.
"Is it difficult to sell apples this year?" Cao Zhen had this idea in his mind.
He is not specialized in the fruit business, he usually buys very few fruits, and he is not very sensitive to this area.
Cao Shujie's apples were snatched up by fans in two days. He didn't feel that the apples could not be sold at all.
Thinking of this, Cao Shujie said: "Adilijiang, how much do you plan to sell your apples for?"
"How about 4.75 yuan per kilogram?" Adilijiang asked.
The price was the same as what he told Cao Zhen on the phone, 4,750 yuan per ton.
But Cao Shujie knew that the price of apples had dropped a bit in the past two days, so he said: "Another 8 cents drop."
"Too much." Adilijiang disagreed.
Cao Shujie is not in a hurry to get these apples tonight.
He knew in his heart that there were still more than 800 tons of apples left in three months, and there would definitely be no big change in one night.
When Cao Shujie and Cao Zhen left, the two parties did not agree on the price.
After coming out of Adilijiang's house, Cao Zhen drove and took Cao Shujie towards his home here.
At Adilijiang's house, his wife Gulizal was clearing the table in the living room. When she saw him coming back, Gulizal asked him how the Apple discussion was going.
Adilijiang shook his head: "We haven't negotiated yet. The price offered by this friend is a bit low. I'm thinking of asking him to raise the price a little bit more."
"Adilijiang, the price of apples this year has fluctuated too much, making it difficult to sell." Gulizal said: "We have been renting cold storage for such a long time, and the cost is not low."
"I know, but selling it at such a cheap price would be a huge loss," Adilijiang said.
Gulizar heard her husband say this and said nothing more.
Their son Hot Roll also helped his mother pack her things. He didn't know much about the issues his parents discussed, and he wasn't interested in learning about it.
…
Let's say that Cao Zhen and Cao Shujie returned to Cao Zhen's home in Changji. After Cao Zhen cleaned up the guest room, he said to him: "Shujie, you will sleep in this room tonight."
"It's okay, I can just sleep on the sofa." Cao Shujie had not deliberately contacted the Apple market. He asked Cao Zhen: "Cao Zhen, can you help me find out the price of Apple in the past three months?"
"What's wrong?" Cao Zhen asked him.
Cao Shujie said: "You also heard what Adilijiang said. He collected less than 1,300 tons of apples in total, but he still has more than 800 tons in his cold storage. This shouldn't be the case."
"Either he can stock up on goods, or Apple has been on the market in large quantities during this period, and its prices are unstable, making it difficult to sell." Cao Shujie analyzed the reasons.
He said: "I will check the recent market prices and talk to him tomorrow."
That night, Cao Zhen didn't sleep. He made more than a dozen calls to get relevant information.
Cao Shujie also called Zuo Le, Nie Bin and others to chat on the phone. Through insinuations, he learned that the recent Apple market price is a typical trend of opening high and moving low.
Especially towards the end of the year, the price of apples is more than 50 cents per kilogram lower than last month.
Zuo Le also asked Cao Shujie why he was asking about this price.
In his opinion, Cao Shujie has planted his own orchard well, and he does not need to pay attention to the price trend in the apple market.
The fruits grown by Cao Shujie are delicious, and no matter how high the price is, people in the market are rushing to buy them.
This truth is not difficult to understand.
After hanging up the phone, Cao Shujie saw that it was getting dark outside and it was indeed time to go to sleep.
"Cao Zhen, go to bed early and talk about it tomorrow if you have anything to do."
"Okay, let's talk tomorrow." Cao Zhen also went to rest.
…
In Caojiazhuang, Cheng Xiaolin still remembered what her husband said. After her husband left, she first called two local logistics companies in Pingyuan County and inquired about their freight prices.
Cheng Xiaolin knows very well that in the fruit industry, logistics costs account for a large proportion of costs. Naturally, she also thinks that the lower the price, the better. In this way, their costs can be reduced and their profit points can be increased.
After inquiring, Cheng Xiaolin made an excuse and did not decide on how many cars to use.
Now she has to wait for a call from her husband.
Only after all aspects are settled can the transportation contract be signed.
Otherwise, if you sign up for a few cars early, you won’t be able to use so many by then, and you’ll be in trouble.
