"It's really not profitable?" Cheng Xiaolin turned her head and came close to her husband, keeping her eyes on her husband's glasses.
When Cao Shujie saw this face so close, Mengmeng was not there, so he was polite and kissed his wife on the cheek with a pout.
"Bo!"
"Are you annoyed or not? This is what you do, right?" Cheng Xiaolin pushed him away with her hands like a fly.
"roll!"
Just as Cheng Xiaolin finished scolding, Mengmeng, who was playing with her grandfather downstairs, suddenly ran to the stairs and shouted: "Mom, why don't dad come down yet?"
Cao Shujie: "..."
"Did you see, your dear daughter is calling you!" Cheng Xiaolin said to him with a teasing smile.
"Dad!" Mengmeng didn't hear her father's response, so she ran up the stairs.
Cao Shujie wanted to slap his wife, but when he saw that his daughter had already appeared on the stairs, he still wanted to avoid any bad influence.
"Here, I'll go down after I finish my work. Mengmeng, why are you coming up again?" Cao Shujie said.
Mengmeng's eyes flickered at her father, with an expression of disbelief in her eyes.
She said: "I don't believe it. Are you bullying your mother again?"
"Nonsense, let's go down quickly and don't disturb your mother's work." Cao Shujie said.
Watching Cao Shujie go downstairs, she followed suit and asked her father, "Dad, do you want to go out?"
"Yes, I'm going out for a walk. It's too hot outside. You can play with grandpa at home." Cao Shujie said.
Mengmeng curled her lips and said, "I'm not afraid of the heat."
"You are not afraid of heat, but if your skin is as tan as black charcoal, it will not look good." Cao Shujie said.
"Dad, you lied. Why don't you tan like black charcoal?" Mengmeng was seriously doubtful.
Cao Shujie thought to himself that his daughter was getting harder and harder to deceive.
"Do you really want to come with me?" Cao Shujie had just finished asking when he saw his daughter nodding.
"Okay, I'll put on sunscreen for you and put on a hat." Cao Shujie finished cleaning up for her, and another ten minutes passed.
When the father and daughter went out on their electric scooters, Cheng Xiaolin was still on the second floor telling him: "Shujie, don't stay out for too long. Come back as soon as you're done."
"Mom, don't worry, it's OK, I will watch over dad." Mengmeng shouted.
Cao Shujie looked down at Mengmeng sitting in the small seat in front, thinking: "What are you looking at me for?"
Cao Shujie was not in a hurry to find Cao Jianlong. He walked west along the road and observed the flow of people in every orchard.
After walking and stopping like this for about half an hour, Cao Shujie had a good idea.
He then called Cao Jianlong. After asking where he was on the phone, Cao Shujie rode an electric bike directly to find him.
After arriving at the place, Cao Shujie saw Cao Jianlong standing on the ground before he stopped the car.
Seeing him coming, Cao Jianlong greeted him directly: "Shujie, are you done?"
"Uncle Long, I'm basically done with my work, but I have to go to the county tomorrow." Cao Shujie looked very busy.
There wasn't much to do in the village, so what Cao Shujie did was his freedom, and Cao Jianlong never asked.
"Hello grandpa." Mengmeng shouted with her little face raised.
The sound of "Grandpa" made Cao Jianlong very happy.
He looked at Mengmeng, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it: "Mengmeng is so good, it's so hot, why don't you turn on the air conditioner at home?"
"I don't want to play at home, I want to follow dad." Mengmeng's little hands grabbed Cao Shujie's clothes, looking like she didn't want to let go.
When Cao Shujie heard what his daughter said, he felt happy, but he said in a disgusting tone, "This girl is so annoying. She always follows me around and delays things."
Cao Jianlong looked at the smile on Cao Shujie's face and didn't want to say anything to him: "Shujie, you also saw that there are fewer people, right?"
Cao Shujie nodded. After completing the circle, combined with the content in the comment area of his wife's video, he actually had some guesses in his mind.
He said: "Uncle Long, I just had a general understanding of the situation. I should know what's going on."
"What's going on?" Cao Jianlong asked anxiously.
He was thinking, is this just a flash in the pan?
In essence, there is still a big gap between it and the orchard run by Cao Shujie himself?
I was thinking in my mind and heard Cao Shujie say in my ears: "Uncle Long, just like the problem I mentioned to Mayor Liu last night, to put it bluntly, there are still few people."
He said: “Through the video my wife took, we can only attract so many customers. Others either have other things to do, are at work, or are really far away from us, so they only need two days to get back and forth.
It’s not enough to waste time.”
"In addition, kiwi fruit is different from strawberry. It needs to be ripened after being brought back, and it will not be edible for at least three or four days. Those customers who came here on Friday and Saturday have almost no chance of coming back today."
When Cao Shujie said this, Cao Jianlong understood immediately.
This is no different from what Cao Shujie told Mayor Liu Furong last night.
"Shujie, do you think your friends can digest all the kiwis in our village?" Cao Jianlong asked worriedly.
"Uncle Long, don't worry. There are still no problems in our village. Don't think about other things." Cao Shujie said.
Some of it will be digested one after another later, and Cao Shujie will sell some of it online in a few days, so there won’t be much of a problem.
After hearing what Cao Shujie said, Cao Jianlong also knew that he would help sell kiwi fruits from other villages, so there was no need to think too much.
After calming down, Cao Jianlong suddenly felt that it was good for his village to reach this stage.
As for whether planting kiwi fruit will make money next year, Cao Jianlong is not worried about this.
He feels that no matter what market it is, it has a self-correcting function.
This year I was deceived by some unscrupulous fruit farmers, but it may not be the same next year.
After a busy weekend, all the 14 fruit farmers in Caojiazhuang are settling accounts.
During the three days of Friday, Saturday and weekend, almost all the kiwi fruits in their orchard have been sold.
There isn't much left, just scattered here and there, just take out.
If it doesn't work, they send it to the county or city fruit wholesale market. At this time, it doesn't matter if the price is a dollar cheaper.
Whether it is Cao Shudong, Cao Jianmao, Cao Shuying, Cao Shuhe, Cao Jianzhen and others, they all understand that the village director Cao Shujie has done a lot for them, and no one can expect too much.
After talking to each other, several people decided unanimously to calculate the price difference and send it to the village committee.
In the last three days, Caojiazhuang sold a total of 246,415 kilograms of unsalable kiwis. As for the remaining kiwis in the orchard, it was estimated to be less than 60,000 kilograms, which means that each household would not have much left.
Faced with this number, the 14 fruit farmers are relieved.
Calculated at 3.5 yuan per catty, each fruit farmer’s household with these sales would have an income of more than 60,000 yuan on average.
If you add in the kiwi fruits that have not been completely digested in the orchard, on average, the income of each of the 14 fruit farmers in Caojiazhuang is more than 70,000 yuan.
This is much better than other farmers who make a living by growing food.
On Monday morning, 14 farmers collectively sent 128,207.5 yuan to the village committee.
This is the price difference that was agreed upon before, and the village committee will get 5 cents.
This money will be used as the village committee's construction fund, including the later construction of the village committee's town hall, including the payment of subsidies for the volunteer staff recruited by the village committee.
When Cao Shudong and 14 fruit farmers came together to send money, the village party secretary Cao Jianlong, security director Cao Zhengcun, women's director Lu Ping, and Caojiacun's new accountant Gao Changyin were all there.
But the village director Cao Shujie, whom Cao Shudong and the others particularly wanted to see, was not there.
"Secretary Cao, is Director Cao not here?" Cao Jianmao asked directly.
There was even a little disappointment in his tone.
He knew very well that they could still make money this time, thanks to Cao Shujie, not the four people in front of him.
Cao Jianlong was not angry. He told Cao Jianmao and others: "Shujie has something to go to the county. If you have anything you want to convey, I can tell him."
"Or you can talk to Shujie after he comes back from the county."
Cao Jianmao quickly shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't have anything to say. I just want to thank Secretary Cao, Director Cao, and everyone else for their help."
Cao Shuying has a carefree temperament. She stood up and said: "Secretary Cao, we agreed at the beginning that for every pound of kiwi fruit sold, there is a price difference of 5 cents from the village committee. We will send this money together today."
After finishing speaking, each of the 14 families took out their own account books and handed them to the accountant Gao Changyin, asking him to put the accounts together again.
After finishing, seeing Gao Changyin nodding, Cao Shudong said: "We have calculated the account several times, and the total is 128,207 yuan and 50 cents."
The two young men at the back came over with a bag and said, "The money is all here. Accountant Gao, please click on it and see if it's correct."
When Gao Changyin was carrying the bag containing the money, it felt as heavy as a ton, and his hands were trembling.
To be blunt, he had never taken so much cash at once in his life.
Not to mention him, Cao Jianlong, Cao Zhengcun, and Lu Ping were also a little excited.
This is money earned by the village committee member Zhengerba, unlike the previous village party secretary Cao Jiangang who secretly made money from his own family.
Cao Jianlong took a deep breath and said to Gao Changyin: "Accountant Gao, when you count the numbers, you must keep good accounts. After settling the accounts for those who work, save the remaining money as soon as possible."
Gao Changyin nodded: "Secretary Cao, don't worry, I will take care of it right away."
"For such a big matter, I have to tell Director Cao," Cao Jianlong said.
To put it bluntly, before he got the money, Cao Jianlong didn't expect that the 5 cent difference would be so much money.
But he knew that the money was not earned by him, but by Cao Shujie.
Cao Zhengcun and Lu Ping also nodded, thinking that they should tell Director Cao Shujie.
Unknowingly, the two of them could be Cao Shujie's grandfather and aunt in terms of age and seniority, but they no longer thought of themselves as elders.
This was the first time that the title "Director Cao" stuck in their minds.
…
Cao Shujie is currently looking for help from Lian Xuezhu in the county town, asking him to find someone to apply for a business license for him as soon as possible.
Cao Shujie has done this kind of relationship-finding thing many times since last year, and he is very skilled.
Here at Lian Xuezhu's house, he really didn't regard himself as an outsider. When he saw Lian Xuezhu's face, he talked about his uncle and gave Lian Xuezhu 10 boxes of kiwi fruits that he had specially brought.
In the words of Cao Shujie, gifts should be given generously and generously. They are not expensive gifts. What is there to be afraid of?
When Lian Xuezhu saw the 10 boxes of kiwis brought in by Cao Shujie, he did not refuse. He also poured tea for Cao Shujie, and the two chatted while drinking tea.
Until Cao Shujie's cell phone rang, he took out his phone and glanced at it. When he wanted to hang up, Lian Xuezhu didn't care. He said, "Shujie, if you have something urgent, just answer the phone first."
"The call from our village party secretary should be nothing serious," Cao Shujie said, but he still answered the phone.
Then I heard Cao Jianlong tell Cao Shudong and his 14 fruit farmers about sending money to the village committee. After hearing what he said, Cao Shujie was also a little surprised: "Uncle Long, is it more than 120,000? That's really not a small amount.
!”
"Accountant Gao just finished collecting the accounts and sold a total of 240,000 catties."
"Haha, that's pretty good." Cao Shujie smiled.
This result has exceeded his expectations.
Next to him, Lian Xuezhu heard Cao Shujie and Cao Jianlong talking on the phone. Hearing the sensitive figures of 240,000 kilograms and 120,000 yuan, his eyelids blinked, thinking what did this kid do again?
Don't break the law!
Before he could figure it out, he heard Cao Shujie say to the person on the other end of the phone: "Uncle Long, please pay the volunteers' subsidies for the past few days first, and then do some calculations. Each of the five of us will receive 1,000 yuan in subsidies."
Post it and keep the remaining money for the Great Hall."
"Damn it, this kid really dares to take it." Lian Xuezhu thought to himself.
After Cao Shujie hung up the phone, he immediately asked: "Shujie, what was going on when you called just now?"
He was too puzzled.
Cao Shujie didn't hide anything from him, and told him exactly what happened, starting with the unsalable kiwi fruits of the 14 fruit farmers in Caojiazhuang.
Including how he found sales for Caojiazhuang's unsalable kiwis, how he attracted people, and why he took the 120,000 yuan, everything was explained clearly.
After finishing speaking, Cao Shujie said something extra: "Uncle, this is not corruption. We all rely on hard-earned money."
Lian Xuezhu wanted to hit someone, but he always felt that there was something in this kid's words. Was he secretly accusing someone?
Inexplicably, Lian Xuezhu didn't want to see him today, so he threw him a phone number and said: "This is the number from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. You can just go over and call him directly. Just say I asked you to go. If you have anything to do with him,
I can do it for you directly, so hurry up and get out of here!"
This was what Cao Shujie was waiting for, and he walked away with a smile.
"Uncle, I'll finish my work another day. I'll come back and treat you to dinner." Cao Shujie shouted after leaving the house.
When Lian Xuezhu saw Cao Shujie's back, he really wanted to step forward and kick him.
But I have to sigh with emotion, Cao Shujie is really capable.
In just a few words, Lian Xuezhu understood what was going on.
The reason why the Caojiazhuang Village Committee can earn this money has nothing to do with the other members of the village committee. It is purely a reflection of Cao Shujie's personal ability.
He muttered and said: "Caojiazhuang is really blessed, but this guy is just a village director. Isn't it a derogation of his talents?"
As soon as this idea came to his mind, Lian Xuezhu thought of Cao Shujie's lazy temperament and shook his head: "Forget it, let him do it himself."
