Chapter five hundred and eighty eighth acquisition of wild vegetables
When Ji Tongzhong said this, the women all grinned and did not worry about it.
"Then your price is too low, isn't it? It's only 30 cents per pound, how much money can you make?"
"Auntie, please don't mess with me, a foreigner. Don't think I don't know. There are plenty of wild vegetables in your area.
I heard that there is a bald mountain here, and the whole mountain is covered with celery. You don’t even need to walk, you can just sit at the base of the mountain and enjoy it.
At this time, the big leaf cinnamon has grown taller than the scales. For someone as capable as my aunt, isn't it just like playing to pick up one or two hundred kilograms a day?
One hundred catties is thirty yuan, two hundred catties is sixty yuan.
Auntie, if you earn sixty a day, it will almost catch up with uncle's half month's salary.
When you go home in the evening, my uncle will prepare the foot-washing water for you, so that you can be comfortable, right?"
Who is Ji Tongzhong? Can he be fooled by several women? It’s good if he doesn’t fool others into lameness.
The dark-faced Nan Zhendong next to him almost laughed at Ji Tongzhong's words.
So he coughed twice and tried hard to suppress his laughter, which also told Ji Tongzhong to restrain himself and stop chatting glibly.
Nan Zhendong firmly remembered the task assigned to him by his father-in-law, which was to always pay attention to Ji Tongzhong and not allow him to get too close to any woman.
Originally, Nan Zhendong didn't really want to come to Donggang. He was a stubborn person, so he thought it would be good to plant some land at home and raise some livestock.
Although I earn a lot when I come to Donggang, I have to be controlled by others, which makes me uncomfortable.
A few days ago, when Su Weizhong learned that Xu Shiyan had signed a contract with Dongyi merchants and that Ji Tongzhong was the main force in purchasing wild vegetables, he became a little bit upset.
While not at work, I personally went back to Lie Camp and found Nan Zhendong.
Break it open, mash it into pieces, and have a good meal with my uncle.
Only then did Nan Zhendong agree, and he went out with his father-in-law to help his second brother-in-law Xu Shiyan run the wild vegetable business.
In addition, Su Weizhong also gave Nan Zhendong a secret task, which was to watch Ji Tongzhong.
The main reason is that Ji Tongzhong's face is so attractive, and he can have a very lively conversation with anyone.
Su Weizhong was worried that Ji Tongzhong had to go out to collect vegetables for a while. What if he was involved with a certain woman?
Yes, it is impossible to leave Ji Tongzhong alone, someone must be arranged to accompany him.
But who else can take care of Ji Tongzhong's affairs? Even Zhao Jianguo and others will not meddle in others' affairs.
So Su Weizhong asked Nan Zhendong to keep an eye on him.
Ji Tongzhong still respected these brothers-in-law, especially Nan Zhendong, who had a dark face all day long and never smiled, which could scare away women with ulterior motives.
"Look, this young man still listens to what he says."
The women were very moved by what Ji Tongzhong said, so why are they still here grinding away? Hurry up and go to the mountains to gather vegetables.
Shengli Forest Farm is the smallest forest farm on the northern line of Songjianghe Forestry Bureau, with only about a hundred households.
However, Shengli Forest Farm is close to the Changbai Mountain Reserve and is rich in various forestry resources.
There are few people and many resources. There are plenty of wild vegetables without having to go far.
This season is the interval between timber and silviculture production, and forestry workers don’t have much to do.
Therefore, many families carry baskets on their backs to the mountains to collect vegetables.
They are all locals and are very familiar with the surrounding terrain and distribution of wild vegetables, so they naturally know where the wild vegetables are thickest.
A thoughtful person will remember the location, keep it a secret and not tell others, and go straight there every year during the wild vegetable season.
Now I learned that someone had bought Da Yeqin, and the older girls, younger wives, middle-aged women, and half-old women all went up the mountain with dry food.
When you come to the foot of Tudingzi Mountain, you can just find a place to squat down and reach out to pick vegetables.
Start by gathering vegetables. After a while, the basket on your back is almost full and you feel tired, so you sit down to rest.
During the rest, I picked the leaves of the big leaf celery and tied them up smoothly.
This way you don’t have to worry about packing it up after going down the mountain, and removing the leaves can also reduce the weight, so you can carry more when going down the mountain.
After a busy day, the basket on my back was filled to the brim and compacted over and over again.
In the end, I staggered down the mountain and walked back. When I came to the purchasing point, I weighed myself directly.
There were few scales at this time, and most of them were large steel scales. Ji Tongzhong hired two young men from Shengli to help carry the scales.
Ji Tongzhong looked at the scale and kept accounts, Huang Shengkai settled the accounts, and Nan Zhendong paid the bills.
Wild vegetables are all time-sensitive. After this price, they will be old and cannot be used.
So when we came out this time, everyone was divided into several groups.
Ji Tongzhong and others went to Shengli Forest Farm, while Zhao Jianguo, Li Daniu and Yang Chunsheng went to Qianchuan Forest Farm and Dajianchang Village.
Brothers Feng Yue, Feng Yuan, and Sun Xiaofeng's younger brother Sun Xiaoli went to Ma'anshan and Caozihe Forest Farm.
The wild vegetable resources there were not as good as Maekuan and Shengli, so Feng Yue and the others took turns buying them from the two forest farms.
The prepared large-leaf celery costs 30 cents per catty, and Cantonese vegetables cost 20 cents per catty.
Cantonese cuisine also requires a height of about 20 centimeters, no hands can be stretched out, the roots should be straightened, and tied up with rubber bands.
After purchasing these two vegetables, you have to cut off a small section of the roots and then pickle them with salt.
At this time, these two kinds of dishes are in time. In a few days, it will be time to eat the cow's hair and eat the monkey's legs.
Niu Maoguang and Monkey Legs are both dried vegetables, so if you have enough time, you won’t be in a hurry.
Ji Tongzhong and others collected the vegetables in the evening and hurriedly cut and pickled vegetables during the next day.
This time they brought a lot of big white plastic buckets and salt. They put the wild vegetables in bundles in the buckets, sprinkled a layer of salt on top of each layer of vegetables, and sent a cart back to Donggang after collecting enough.
It happened that Su Anying bought the original courtyard of Donggang Hospital and built two rows of sheds. The plastic buckets were placed directly in the sheds and they could be transported away by car after a while.
Su Anying, Huang Shengli and others are not involved in this wild vegetable business. It is all run by brothers and relatives of each family.
The company's name is only used for signing contracts, and 30% of the money earned is counted as the company's profits, and the remaining 70% is shared by Ji Tongzhong and others.
The key is that Huang Shengli and the others are too busy, so how can they have time to get involved?
It would be better to help the brothers from each family and find something for them to do.
Xu Shiyan is even busier. He has taken so many orders at Yishen Market, so why not hurry up and produce?
When Xu Shiyan decided on the direction of new product development last winter, the factory stocked a lot of various medicinal materials.
Last year, not much of the ginseng was sold to the provincial medicinal company. A ginseng farm kept a large part for its own use to develop new products.
The main ingredients in ginseng coffee are actually various medicinal materials. Although there are also coffee ingredients, the proportion is not too high.
The required coffee has been imported from abroad through relevant departments, which is enough.
Ginseng and snow clam honey requires the use of snow clam, which is what the locals call toad oil. This is not difficult.
Xu Shiyan had already suggested to Guo Shouye that he could encourage the families of Forestry Bureau employees to contract mountain forest river sections, cultivate understory ginseng, and breed toads.
Last fall, I purchased some of the toad oil from others, and I estimate that I will be able to receive large quantities of toad oil this fall.
As for deer antlers, there are plenty of them at the breeding farms. This year’s deer antlers will be harvested soon, so we don’t have to worry about the raw materials. This chapter has been completed!