Author: Mahjong Jun

Zhao Wenlin’s orchard.

The three brothers of the Zhao family, the third sister-in-law, Zhao Wenyan, Zhang Zhenshan and his wife, Zhao Wenlin's six-yuan warrior Zhao Wenyuan, Qian Erniu, Qian Daniu, Song Guanjun, Song Weixing, and Zhang Daming, all gathered together.

"Third brother, that boy Xu Peng went to sell wild vegetables!"

Qian Erniu was a little angry and sad. He thought Zhao Wenmu didn't know about this yet, so he said a little embarrassedly.

Qian Erniu accidentally saw Xu Peng's younger brothers and sisters digging wild vegetables in the mountains two days ago. After quietly asking around, he found out that Xu Peng had been selling wild vegetables since he came back!

He was so angry that he immediately went to Xu Peng for a fight, but Xu Peng was determined to sell wild vegetables, so he had no choice.

Zhao Wenmu looked at the bruises on Qian Erniu's eyebrows and knew that he must have gone to fight Xu Peng.

"Er Niu, Xu Peng told me that he was going to sell wild vegetables. Don't bother him again."

After a pause, he looked at a few people and then continued:

"If you want to go it alone, I won't stop you. Once you leave this door, we are still brothers. I will help you if you have difficulties, but there is no place for you in my business!"

Qian Erniu immediately blushed and shouted:

"Look who dares, I will break his legs today!"

Qian Daniu stared, "Er Niu!"

Qian Erniu's face was still unconvinced, but he also shut up and stopped talking.

Everyone could also see that although Zhao Wenmu spoke politely, his expression was very serious, and he was obviously unhappy with Xu Peng's actions.

In the end, it was Qian Daniu who came out to smooth things over. Although he was honest and honest, he was not dull.

"Third brother, we are all rough guys, there are not so many twists and turns. From now on, we will do whatever you say! If anyone has any bad intentions, I, Qian Da Niu, will be the first to spare him!"

"Me too!"

"Me too!"

Several people expressed their opinions one after another, how great it would be to work with the third brother, and only fools would think of doing it themselves!

Zhao Wenmu waved his hand to signal everyone to quiet down.

He did not say a few soft words to win people's hearts, but directly stated his intention to invite everyone to come.

"Starting from tomorrow, you will all go back to the village to collect moths (mushrooms)."

In dialect, moths are collectively referred to as mushrooms for convenience.

Among them, Qian Daniu and Qian Erniu were from Shandong Toucun. Shandong Toucun was a very large village with a population of 1,300. Zhang Zhenshan was also from Shandong Toucun.

Zhang Daming is from Sanli Village, which is similar to Shanqian Village, with only about 400 people.

Zheshan Commune, where these villages are located, has a large area of ​​barren hills. In summer, the temperature rises and there is abundant rain. All kinds of mushrooms, fungus, and ground vegetables are everywhere.

Villagers rarely pick mushrooms to eat. Otherwise, it just consumes too much fuel.

Well, that's it. Mushrooms absorb water very well, and frying mushrooms consumes a lot of oil. People usually don't like to eat mushrooms. I just pick up some and take them home to dry in the sun every summer, so that they can have more flavor in winter.

"Brother, can mushrooms be sold for money?"

Among the Zhao family members who had been listening quietly, Zhao Wenlin couldn't help but ask.

Ever since selling wild vegetables for money, he had become convinced of Zhao Wenmu's words. Even so, he still couldn't help but ask questions.

"Brother, we rural people don't like to eat mushrooms, but urban people like to eat mushrooms! Especially in winter, which household doesn't eat mushrooms?"

Everyone thought it was true. Wild vegetables can still be sold so well in the city, not to mention mushrooms are more useful.

"Third brother, what mushrooms should we harvest?"

"Matsutake, porcini, morels, chanterelles, red mushrooms, fungus, hazelnut mushrooms, all of them! Especially hazelnut mushrooms, the birch forest farm near Sanli Village is a rare hazelnut mushroom producer in Qilu Province

A great place! Da Ming, when you return to the village, you must organize the villagers to pick mushrooms."

The reason why Zhao Wenmu wanted to buy mushrooms was because he had a deep impression of mushrooms in his previous life.

In his previous life, he was still learning to cook in a state-owned hotel in Pingyang County. In the winter of this year, mushrooms from the Northeast were suddenly exported overseas in large quantities and no longer shipped to the Qilu area.

Not only that, because of the relaxation of policies, many southern merchants also came to compete for goods from the provincial state-owned dry goods factory. As a result, dried mushrooms were in short supply throughout Qilu Province that winter and prices remained high.

At that time, even the state-owned restaurants in Pingyang County could not buy dried mushrooms, especially hazelnut mushrooms, and many dishes could not be prepared. For example, the cabbage stewed chicken commonly eaten in Qilu area in winter must not be without mushrooms.

Li Guofu often complained about this matter.

One day Zhao Wenmu and Wang Youming even waited at the door of the dry goods stall in the middle of the night just to grab some dried mushrooms.

On a winter night, the two of them were wearing military coats and hiding in a corner shivering. This experience was so impressive that Zhao Wenmu would never forget it.

"Third brother, how much do we charge per pound?"

"Six cents a pound."

This price was decided by Zhao Wenmu after serious consideration. At this time, vegetables only cost about three cents a pound. The price given to mushrooms is not low, but it is not particularly high either.

A person can pick about 30 to 40 pounds of mushrooms a day and earn about 2 yuan, which is already very considerable.

"Brother, is six cents a pound too expensive?"

The villagers had never sold this thing for money. Zhao Wenyan mentally estimated the amount that could be harvested in a day. She was surprised that she could earn more than 2 yuan a day, so she couldn't help but ask.

"Sister, the price is not expensive. If it is too low, you won't be able to get enough mushrooms."

Only then did everyone realize that Zhao Wenmu had not yet said how many mushrooms he would harvest. Subconsciously, they felt that harvesting mushrooms was the same as harvesting wild vegetables before, only 1,800 kilograms per day.

"Brother, how many mushrooms do you plan to harvest?"

"Brother, at least ten thousand pounds a day, the more, the better!"

Hiss, everyone gasped.

Ten thousand kilograms! One person collects 40 kilograms a day, which requires at least 250 people! And judging from Zhao Wenmu’s tone, ten thousand kilograms is not enough!

"Brother, can you sell 10,000 kilograms? The mushrooms will rot after two days. And if so many people go to pick mushrooms, will there be any problems?"

Zhao Wenmu did not expect that the person who asked this question was actually Zhao Jing. From the moment everyone arrived at the pergola, she sat aside and watched Zhao Wenmu's handsome appearance in control of the audience.

But looking at the trace of guilt and worry in her eyes, Zhao Wenmu immediately understood Zhao Jing's intention. She was worried that something would happen to her, so she had to give such a subtle reminder.

Zhao Wenmu handed her the letter of introduction from the state-owned hotel.

"Sister, help me read the contents of this letter to everyone."

Zhao Jing looked at the large title of Pingyang County State-owned Hotel on the letter of introduction and the bright red seal underneath, her eyes suddenly lit up, and her soft and melodious voice soon echoed in the pergola.

Everyone listened attentively. This was a letter of introduction to a state-owned hotel. The reputation of a county state-owned hotel was even better than that of a commune.

"Are we selling all the mushrooms to state-owned restaurants?"

"Only a few hundred kilograms are sold to state-owned restaurants a day, and the rest are dried and stored."

Zhao Wenmu made an agreement with Li Guofu this morning about selling mushrooms to state-owned restaurants. Because vegetables are plentiful now and the wild vegetables are no longer fresh, Zhao Wenmu will no longer supply wild vegetables to state-owned restaurants in the future.

There are also a few vendors selling wild vegetables in the city. In the future, the small amount of wild vegetables needed by state-owned restaurants can be dealt with by them.

The supply of mushrooms he and Li Guofu agreed upon was 200 kilograms per day, which also included the supply to the city's state-owned restaurants, and the price was 1.4 cents per kilogram.

In fact, he really doesn't like mushrooms. His income is only 28 yuan a day. Now the game supply to state-owned restaurants has reached 600 kilograms a day. Even neighboring counties are looking for supplies from them.

The gross profit is 660 yuan, and this is the big one!

"Everyone checked carefully when they got back. No poisonous mushrooms can get in. If any store sells poisonous mushrooms, they will not accept any mushrooms from them in the future. Do you understand?"

The mushrooms Zhao Wenmu purchased were all edible mushrooms that are common in the local area. Normally, villagers would not confuse them with poisonous mushrooms, but they must beware of intentional damage or carelessness.

Poisonous mushrooms are no joke. They can make people ecstasy at best, or even cause a whole village to have a banquet. Especially after they are dried, they are even more difficult to guard against.

"Third brother, have we dried the mushrooms and shipped them?"

"Every night you transport the harvested mushrooms to Shanqian Village and dry them in the open space next to my house."

The vacant land next to Zhao Wenmu's new home is about twenty acres. The land is included in the contract for the barren mountain, and he can use it as he likes.

Now the open space has been leveled and compacted, and can be used to dry mushrooms.

Not only that, Zhao Wenmu also asked Zhao Wenguang to speed up the production of a batch of multi-layer wooden frames, just like small beds, with wood as the skeleton and sorghum poles or reed poles as the bed surface.

Using it to dry mushrooms can make more efficient use of space and dry them faster.

You can also dry it indoors on rainy days.

Several long, square houses were built in the northeast corner of the higher-lying open space. The villagers were still discussing what they were used for, but Zhao Wenmu just said with a smile that they were "warehouses."

"Eldest sister, brother-in-law, Danniu, and Erniu, the four of you are responsible for purchasing mushrooms in Toucun, Shandong."

These four people all live in Shandongtou Village, and Shandongtou Village is a big village and needs more manpower.

"Da Ming, Champion, Satellite, you are responsible for the acquisition in Sanli Village."

"Wenyuan, I'll leave it to you to deliver goods to state-owned hotels from now on."

"Eldest brother, sister-in-law, second brother, and second sister-in-law, you are responsible for purchasing game and mushrooms in our village."

Zhao Wenmu handed over tasks in an orderly manner, basically arranging manpower according to workload and distance.

"good!"

"no problem!"

The chorus of response kept coming and going, and everyone was very energetic.

There was another person with his eyes wide open, looking at Zhao Wenmu expectantly, with words written in his eyes, "What about me? Where about me?"

That is Zhao Jing.

"Sister, I leave all the accounts to you!"

"Um!"

Zhao Jing nodded heavily, her eyes narrowed into a cute crescent shape.
Chapter completed!