Ye Mo's uncle had something to do in the afternoon. After dinner, he went to the orchard to pick mangoes.
Some golden mangoes were specially left on the tree.
Dongmen Town mainly grows two types of mangoes, Jinhuang mango and Kate mango.
There are relatively few Jinhuang mangoes planted, and they are easy to sell after being put on the market. Ye Mo’s Jinhuang mangoes started to be picked in early July, and some were specially reserved. Until now...the mangoes still on the trees have matured naturally. Picking
You can eat it as soon as you come down.
The ripening period of Kate mangoes is still early.
They sell fruits here, and the fruit buyers will come over in advance to have a look and negotiate the price in advance.
Once the price is negotiated, the price cannot be changed. When it comes to picking, whether the price of Kate mangoes increases or decreases has nothing to do with the fruit grower. It is equivalent to selling in advance...
Selling in advance is of great benefit to fruit growers.
In the fruit market, the prices of fruits vary greatly. In the past, buyers only came to look at the fruits after the fruits were ripe, and quoted prices... and negotiated purchases based on market prices.
Fruit merchants made little preparation in advance, and as long as the output was larger, a series of problems would arise. In the early years, that is, three or four years ago... local mangoes with slightly lower quality were cheaper than Chinese cabbage. Also
The mangoes in the orchard cannot be sold because they are rotting on the trees.
Negotiate the purchase price in advance and estimate the approximate output. The fruit dealer will be prepared, and the fruit grower will be prepared as well.
The quality of the mangoes from Huacheng is beyond compare.
But the geographical location of Huacheng is surrounded by mountains. In their local area, all kinds of tropical fruits are very cheap. When shipped out, the transportation cost accounts for a large part.
When Ye Mo was in Shenzhen, he went to the supermarket to buy Kate mangoes from Huacheng. Extra-large fruits cost twenty or thirty yuan per catty. Ordinary fruits, that is, mangoes of about one catty, also cost more than ten yuan per catty.
But those are all terminal selling prices.
For example, the mangoes from Ye Mojia were combed three times, and the remaining mangoes were large in size and good-looking... The wholesale price is 3.5 yuan per catty. If the quality is worse, it is more than 2 yuan per catty, and there are cheaper ones.
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Chen Chen is going back.
Ye Mo rode a battery car and sent him back.
Some fruit purchasers are negotiating the price of mangoes in their area...
Chen Chen's father, whose legs were inconvenient, was sitting on the steps under the shade of a tree by the yard.
"Third uncle." Ye Mo shouted when he saw Father Chen.
"Hey." Father Chen smiled and stood up: "I discussed the two pieces of land on Gaotupo with Chen Chen's mother and sold them."
"Thank you, third uncle."
Father Chen took out his cigarettes and lit one for Ye Mo: "Thank you for nothing. The price you gave is very high. Our family took advantage."
"I don't understand the land transfer process very well. Do I need a certificate from Murakami?" Ye Mo asked.
"No need. There is Huang Laosan in town. He is a real estate agent and also does land transfer. Whenever you have time, we will ask him to help draft a contract and he will take us to the town to go through the procedures." Father Chen
He said that land transfer is not new here. As a large mountainous area where tropical fruits can be grown, land contracting and transfers here are relatively frequent.
Chen Chen's second uncle originally had more than 30 acres of orchards, but he transferred 15 acres.
You have to manage your orchard to have a harvest, and you have to manage it well. No matter how hard you work, you will gain a lot...
It takes a lot of sweat to harvest good fruits.
The wages of local farmers are very high, especially during busy farming hours. It costs almost more than 300 yuan a day.
It is very difficult for a family's labor force to carefully manage a mango orchard of about 20 acres.
Growing fruits is similar to growing grains and vegetables. There are busy farming periods and slack periods. During busy farming periods, it is really hard.
"Okay, I'll drive over to pick you up tomorrow morning and go to town to sign the contract," Ye Mo said.
"good."
"See you tomorrow morning..." Ye Mo said, waving his hand and looking at the towering mountains in the distance, ready to go to the mountains to have a look.
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"Dad, are you really ready to sell the two pieces of land over there?" Chen Chen watched Ye Mo leave, turned to look at his father, and said.
"Sell it. There's no use keeping it..." Chen Chen's father said that it would take a lot of money to reclaim the land to grow mangoes. Their family has no money...
Chen Chen himself was somewhat reluctant to part with the land there.
Dad Chen smiled, pulled him to sit next to him, and said, "Ye Mo gave him 660,000 yuan, which is not cheap. It is 160,000 yuan more than the previous boss Kuang. The previous boss Kuang gave him 500,000 yuan. I actually wanted to
Sold. We can’t cultivate that piece of land. In exchange for 660,000 yuan, we can buy you a house in the city and marry you a wife.”
"It's better to heal your leg first. We still owe uncle and the others 110,000...the money will be repaid first." Chen Chen said: "It's not cost-effective to buy a house in the city, so it's better to build a small villa at home.
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"this……"
"Dad, listen to me. Let's pay back the money first, then heal your leg...and then build a villa at home. After your leg heals, our family's life will definitely get better and better."
"Yeah. Okay, I'll listen to you. When the villa is built, if there is still money left, I can buy you a car." Dad Chen said with a smile: "I think Ye Mo's car is very nice. How much does it cost?"
Money?”
"Brother Ye Mo's car is a Hongqi, a large SUV... That car is very expensive, estimated to be around 600,000 yuan."
Father Chen took a deep breath: "So expensive."
"In the future, if we manage the 26 acres of orchard at home well, we can earn more than ten or two hundred thousand a year. When we get rich, we can also buy a good car."
"Hahaha...ok."
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Follow the country road to the end.
Ye Mo rode on the dirt road, and after walking for a while, he reached the foot of Gaotupo Mountain.
The dirt road on Gaotupo was opened up by the Ye family and the Chen family together. One side of the dirt road spirals up a gentle hillside. It is only seventy or eighty meters high...
After going up, you will find a large piece of flat land, which is similar to the orchards at the foot of the mountain. In most areas, you can directly plant fruit trees without cultivating terraces.
Generally speaking, the top of the mountain is a small hill with a large protruding earth bag.
The big dirt bag covers an area of just over twenty acres, which is the size of two standard football fields.
Two standard football fields are not too small.
The mountains are desolate.
All the large shrubs and trees that used to be were cut down. But there are new small shrubs that have grown...
The weeds are not particularly lush, and exposed rocks and soil can be seen in many places.
Chen Chen and his family used to plant mangoes on the top of the mountain. Due to restrictions on manpower and funds, the mango orchard here was abandoned. The mango trees that were not managed very much, and the ones that were still alive, grew like shrubs. Every tree was covered with trees.
vine.
There are not many mango trees on the mountain, probably only a few hundred to less than a thousand. Their growth is very poor.
The total is 150 acres, which is the registered area. The actual area should be larger.
undulating gentle slope.
Follow the dirt road to the durian garden...
The durian tree here was planted by Ye Mo when he was a freshman in high school. Ye Mo even came over to help dig the soil.
750 durian trees were planted that year, and many more seedlings were replanted later.
Durian saplings were very expensive at that time, 750 of them, plus later replanting... there were a thousand trees in total, and it was said that they cost hundreds of thousands. Grandpa Ye Mo borrowed that money from his second master, but he has never paid it back.
The second master was rich and ran a pig feed business in Dongmen Town. The second master never married... After his death, the house in the town was given to his grandfather. After his death, the house in the town belonged to Uncle Ye Mo...
They have a hot and dry valley climate here, so many types of tropical fruits can be grown, the typical one being... jackfruit.
However, jackfruit can only be grown at relatively low altitudes.
The altitude here is close to 1,500 meters, which is the top of the dry hot valley...
It is difficult to grow tropical fruits at altitudes above 1,500 meters. Durian requires higher accumulated temperatures to grow.
Everyone said that Grandpa Ye Mo was deceived, but he was a pervert and could not listen to others' advice.
Others say durian cannot be grown here, but he just doesn't listen.
When grandpa was still here, this durian orchard had always been managed. Every year, grandpa would call Dad Ye, his second uncle, and his younger uncle to come over to fertilize and water the durian trees.
After grandpa left, the durian trees were not managed much.
There were at least 700 durian trees surviving back then. Due to lack of management, some of the trees that were entangled with vines have died in recent years.
Ye Mo came to the side of the durian garden and looked up.
The tallest of these trees is about six or seven meters tall. It should be higher than a two-story building...
Short tree, about five meters.
I don’t know if there are 500 trees still alive today.
The durian trees have been growing for more than ten years, and the climate here is pretty good. These durian trees are thriving.
There have also been flowers and fruits in recent years...
Ye Mo looked at the tree carefully, searched around, and saw two durians on the tree. A large forest, two durians... The durians were not big, with long handles, shaped like footballs.
"The result?" Ye Mo marveled and took out his mobile phone to take two photos.
More than 20 acres of durian, two fruits...
But at least it proves that durians can be grown here. Durian trees can be grown and bloom and bear fruit... but the fruits on the trees will not grow big.
But there are two durians on the tree now. If Ye Mo allows all the durian trees to bear fruit in the future, it won't be strange.