Song Tan's Notes

Chapter 1666. Little Zhu's Reflections

The live stream of earthworm castings lasted for half an hour.

Well, in the end, even people who don't have pothos plants at home bought an order, saying they'd go downstairs right now to dig up some soil and collect plastic jugs to plant onions...

In response, Zhang Yanping, who watched the entire live stream, could only say: "Qiao Qiao keeps luring people in like peacocks, but there are no orders to sell, so everyone is holding back and determined to spend money."

Another advantage is its pricing.

It's only 9.9 yuan. Leaving aside Mixue, you can't even buy a cup of milk tea from other brands at this price.

What's wrong with buying two pounds of earthworm castings?

Supporting Qiaoqiao, helping farmers, and cultivating one's own healthy hobbies might actually be a good thing, providing nutrients to flowers and plants.

In this way, Yunyun's two acres of land produced more than four tons of dried earthworm castings for the first time, with a total sales revenue of 39600 yuan.

There were a total of 4000 express deliveries, each costing 2.8 yuan. After deducting the cost of other items such as packaging bags, the profit this time was over 20,000 yuan!
Earning over 20,000 yuan after three months of hard work is nothing in a big city, but in a rural area, you can save all of that money!
Moreover, this is just the result of our initial exploration. Wouldn't the output be even greater in the future?
Even Qi Lin and his team guarantee the effectiveness of earthworm castings; once customers use them, they'll definitely see how useful they are.

Repeat customers may not be as quick to generate sales as they are now, but they can be a steady, long-term source of customers.

This is a very good business!

Yunyun was overjoyed!
Yunyun's husband was also overjoyed: "Now that the money has arrived, deposit it all."

Yunyun disagreed: "You've worked hard before, which shows you have strength, but you can't rely on that strength to suffer all the time. I asked Teacher Yan and the others, and they said that if you get a spray system with timed remote control, it will only cost a little over a thousand yuan. Don't skimp on that."

"And for picking up goods from the city, you should talk to them nicely and see if they can deliver here every day. We'll pay them."

These earthworms are being raised much better. In the future, they may consume 10 to 20 tons of feed per month, averaging nearly one ton per day.

She relied on her husband's little tricycle to haul goods from the city, which was not only exhausting but also tiring and dangerous.

Although doing so would raise costs again, Yunyun felt that it would be best if her family didn't have to suffer the hardships she didn't want to endure.

Her husband is obedient elsewhere, except when it comes to spending money...

Yunyun glared at him: "Isn't the money under my control?"

Then he thought, "Let me take another look and get Qiaoqiao a gold pendant... Don't be stingy. We earned more than 20,000 yuan in just half an hour with just one sentence. It would be a shame not to give something in return."

They're not short of money, and they're just doing what they can afford. It might not be expensive, but that's her attitude.

Yunyun's husband was somewhat reluctant to part with her.

but……

"You, you should hit the big one! Their family has been helping a lot, they've been helping from the very beginning."

"Next time I sell something, I'll make you a gold bracelet too."

Yunyun rolled her eyes at him: "Okay—hurry up and help put it in the delivery bag!"

……

Yunyun's success caused quite a stir in the village, and everyone couldn't help but feel envious.

But because life has obviously improved this year, this bitterness is mixed with a slight sigh:
"It's only right that they make money."

The work of rowing boats, blacksmithing, and grinding tofu is hard. He works in the sweltering heat, sweating profusely in the shed, toiling away all day. It's not easy for him!

“Look at them, it’s over 30 degrees Celsius, and they’re still turning the soil at noon… I told them my vegetable garden has bugs and I asked them to catch them morning and evening, but my husband got impatient…”

"This money is truly hard-earned money."

Compared to growing vegetables, this is much more tiring.

It's only natural that they should earn a little more.

Ulan also felt emotional when she mentioned it at home:

"That's why they say, 'Poverty breeds cunning, wealth breeds conscience.' When everyone's lives are better, the surrounding areas are also peaceful."

In the past, when people kept dogs in the countryside, they had to keep a close watch on them, especially during the Lunar New Year, otherwise someone would take them away. And chickens and ducks were always being stolen, and vegetables in the fields were often ruined.

There was someone who leased a fishpond before. He made some money in the first year and was working on it again in the second year when the fish were almost ready to be harvested. The fish were poisoned and killed, and the whole pond was ruined.

There were no surveillance cameras back then, and the village was sparsely populated. Where could we find the culprit?

We can't even get any evidence, it's really difficult.

Village Party Secretary Xiao Zhu, who was eating a melon nearby, laughed and said, "So the country's revitalization of rural areas is not just about economic considerations, but also about our moral education and future development."

A place that is filled with evil will never be able to develop.

"To be honest, I've benefited from my family's connections. I've been working here for over a year, and I've done a pretty good job, haven't I?"

"That's wonderful!"

It's not that Wulan is biased; it's true that Secretary Zhu has helped her family a lot, but if it were someone else's family that could boost the local economy, she would help them too!

Yunyun's family hasn't been built up yet. Has she been putting in less effort?
She also helped with the registration process by asking questions and offering suggestions.

Besides, just from how she handled that argument between Song Dafang and his wife at home, you can see how lucky you are to have a leader who understands things and doesn't compromise when it's inappropriate!
The town mayor is now completely uninvolved, which makes the Song family very happy.

Unlike Shitoupo, which was already so poor, when city kids came back and wanted to tidy up their old homes, their applications for old house renovations were never approved.

Finally, having no other choice, we invited our elders, brought two bottles of good wine, and booked another table...

If you say he's making money off this, he didn't make much from it; he just ate, drank, and loafed around.

But if you ask whether this was disgusting or not, it really disgusted the young people.

We all started with compulsory education and work in big cities. Although we sometimes need to ask for favors, most of the time we can handle our own problems by tapping on our phones. It's no longer the era of clerks who had to collect and process everything.

It's too difficult to get people to come back and adapt to these rural customs.

Ulan then told Secretary Zhu about this:
"These days, people are either making short videos online to show off their terrace gardens or renovating their houses and gardens in the countryside."

"Young people are thinking that they can't drift around outside their whole lives. They want to make some changes so that they can live comfortably, and maybe they can even gain some online traffic."

"It's not a big deal if there's no data, anyway, his main purpose is to make his family more comfortable."

"They even discussed it with us, saying they'd put up a sign along the field of sunflowers and wild chrysanthemums. I thought about how hard it must be for them, so I agreed."

Who knows!

In short, the house hadn't even been renovated yet when the owner got angry, so the plan fell through. They decided to just do a simple renovation and rebuild, and then move back to the city.

Party Secretary Xiao Zhu also sighed.

Shitoupo has been poor for so many years, and nothing has changed at all. It's hard to say how to sort things out in a short time. She took another bite of melon, but Ulan had already changed the subject in the conversation:
"Did your grandparents enjoy the melons and cucumbers I sent back last time?"

Great, that's wonderful.

They are old and can't eat many agricultural products, such as pickled foods, salted vegetables, and sauces. Some people really can't handle even a little bit of them because their stomachs are already damaged.

But these fruits and vegetables are different. They're fresh and pesticide-free. No matter how much you can't stand them, a sip of tomato juice shouldn't be a big problem!

The taste was amazing; the cucumbers didn't even need to be mixed, the old ladies could just rinse them with water and gnaw on them.

The old men wanted to smash some cucumbers and open a bottle of their precious wine, but were strictly forbidden from doing so.

There is nothing we can do.

Now let's look at the tomatoes.
My family sliced ​​it, sprinkled it with white sugar, and put it in the refrigerator for a few hours. When we took it out, we took a sip.

Oh, that cool, sweet and sour tomato juice!
Two people with diabetes couldn't make it through.

Oh my, even Secretary Zhu felt hungry when he heard that.

She slowly chewed the melon in her mouth, eating what was in her bowl while thinking about what was in the pot:

"Are we pressing tomatoes with sugar today?"

Ulan was unaware that her thoughts were wandering everywhere, and therefore she did not hesitate:
"What's the big deal? We'll just pick a few from the field, chop them up, sprinkle some sugar on them, it's that simple."

He added, "It's summer, and drinking these ice-cold drinks is so refreshing."

Secretary Zhu was immediately satisfied.

She touched her belly, and thought with some distress:

If I become picky about food here, and then get transferred to some impoverished county or something, how am I supposed to stay there?

This delicious food and drink is really good at eroding one's willpower.

But then again, "Song Tan, could you prepare one of your pigs, cows, or sheep for me for the New Year?"

"One pig, one cow, and twenty sheep."

"Can it be done?"

Song Tan: ...

The quantity isn't large, and we can afford to supply it. I just wonder how crazy Boss Chang will be when he finds out.

She sighed, "I'll have Chen Chi and his brother pack it up quickly, and you can find a refrigerated truck to transport it back yourself."

“Live subjects are not allowed, Qiaoqiao will not allow it.”

This was also known to the village secretary, Xiao Zhu.

She even thought that the reason why beef and mutton taste so good was related to this slaughtering method.

After all, every time they were about to slaughter someone, they would first feed them a meal of fermented rice wine, making them feel drowsy and confused, so the Chen brothers could easily and efficiently kill them.

"People in ancient times said that 'a gentleman keeps away from the kitchen,' and our Qiaoqiao now has that same spirit."

It's good to keep this simple and natural disposition.

A virtuous person would feel compassion upon seeing living beings being slaughtered, but Qiaoqiao would insist on her own ideas and do her best to prevent them from suffering and fear.

It's really good.

Moreover, since ancient times, their education has been implicit, not about not eating this or that, but about making the most of everything and ensuring that nothing is wasted, so as to avoid more indiscriminate killing.

Secretary Zhu smiled and thought: Indeed, Grandpa's insistence on teaching me to read more classic texts is truly meaningful.

Song Tan then asked from the side, "Don't you want the chicken and duck? And what about the mugwort paste and mugwort sticks we sent before?"

how about it?
That's completely different.

Actually, there isn't much need for mosquito prevention on the mountain. Although the vegetation is lush, there is regular pest control.

However, no matter how much disinfection is carried out, in order to reduce the harm, it is impossible to completely eradicate it.

Mosquitoes are something that everyone who has experienced them knows: they are not very lethal, but extremely insulting.

It doesn't need to do anything; just buzz around a few times, and it will make people want to kill in the middle of the night.

Since they got that mugwort mosquito repellent cream, the old men have stopped using air conditioning at home.

He put on a tank top and shorts, applied some body cream, fanned himself, and sat down under the shade of a tree in the pavilion, holding a chessboard and his phone.

Let's talk about health preservation or not.

That feels so good!

And that moxa stick—Dr. Guo repeatedly emphasized the importance of it, and Secretary Zhu received the same medical advice as Secretary Wang.

The health care physicians on the mountain have more time to spare than Dr. Wang.

They gradually adjusted the moxibustion according to each person's body. Not to mention anything else, after the moxa sticks were sent back for more than half a month, none of the families who received them had any illnesses or relapses.

If it weren't truly good, would Secretary Zhu have had the audacity to ask for more?

As for chickens and ducks, that goes without saying!
She was embarrassed not to say so, but Song Tan took the initiative to ask, so how could she refuse?
“You know, my grandfathers are so old, they deserve to eat well, right? And I also have some grandmothers who are still alive, they’ve worked themselves to the bone their whole lives…”

Song Tan: ...

She snorted: "If you pay enough, you can have anything."

Secretary Zhu's eyes lit up.

"That honey, white fungus, fish, shrimp, eel, tea..."

She rattled off a menu like she was listing dishes, trying to encompass the entire area, which gave Song Tan a headache:

"Are you trying to ruin your life? You sent so much this time, what if you suddenly send less next time? How are you going to explain that?"

Party Secretary Xiao Zhu: ...

Those involved are often blinded by their own perspective!
Without hesitation, she said, "Then wait a moment, I'll write a form later and go ask them for the money when I have some free time..."

A little bit this month, a little bit next month, a steady stream will eventually flow!

I didn't reach 4000 words today, but I wasn't far off either. [Saving money]