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Chapter 1327 The one draped in silk is not a silkworm raiser.

Although they said Wang An didn't need to go over and help, after Wang Dazhu and his wife left, Wang An, along with Huang Zhong and Wang Yi, still went to each house to see who was making slow progress and offered to help.

After all, 50 square meters of crops are easy to manage, but 50 square meters of spinach, including harvesting and bundling, is not so quick.

However, to Wang An's surprise, these relatives all got up very early in the morning and worked very efficiently.

When Wang An led Wang Yi and Huang Zhong to visit each household, they had already harvested all the spinach. The spinach had been bundled into small bundles with hemp rope and neatly placed on the empty spinach mats.

Finally, Wang Dashu and Wang Daliang, along with Wang Yong, Wang Shun, and a few other younger brothers, all waited at Wang An's house, just waiting for Wu Dong's car to arrive so they could load the vegetables onto it.

It was clear that everyone was very happy because they were about to exchange the vegetables for money, and their faces were full of smiles they couldn't hide.

Wang An had already told everyone that because the Chinese New Year was approaching, the price of spinach would be higher than usual, at 6 cents per pound.

That's right, the price Wang An quoted to his relatives was 6 cents per pound, not 7 cents per pound as Wang An had told Wu Dong.

The main reason was that although Wang An was not short of money and did not want to make money off these relatives, he absolutely could not allow them to help sell vegetables for free.

As the saying goes, "family is family, and money is money," and these two things should not be confused.

Because it is foreseeable that by next autumn, these relatives will have added even more greenhouses.

Furthermore, many people in the village, seeing that the Wang family had made money by growing greenhouses, would also build some greenhouses. As for other towns and villages, under the intervention of agricultural chrysanthemum, it is very likely that some greenhouses will also appear.

At that time, there is a high possibility that the sales of fresh vegetables will face some pressure.

The reason was simple: in those days in Northeast China, transporting fresh vegetables in winter was very difficult. For small trips, vegetables could be wrapped in cotton quilts and transported by horse-drawn sleds.

However, if the quantity is too large, then we can only rely on faster vehicles to transport the vegetables out in the shortest possible time and sell them in the shortest possible time. Otherwise, the problem of vegetable spoilage alone is something that ordinary farmers cannot afford.

Therefore, Wang An had to earn the money he was supposed to, otherwise he would be letting down the people he had helped out.

Amidst the expectant gazes of his relatives, Wu Dong and a driver finally arrived in a large Jiefang truck.

It was now almost 10 a.m.

After a brief greeting, Wang An took the initiative to say:

"Let's go, drive the car to the backyard, and then we'll start loading the vegetables."

As they spoke, the group followed the car to the backyard.

Arriving in the backyard, Wang An pointed to the entrance of the greenhouse and said:
"Brother Wu, just back the car up so it faces the entrance. That way the spinach won't freeze after it's taken out of the greenhouse."

The truck bed of the Liberation truck has a common iron frame, and the frame is covered with a thick felt cloth, so the insulation of the truck should be quite good.

The temperature inside the car was sufficient, and the temperature inside the greenhouse was also sufficient, but Wang An had absolutely no confidence in navigating the distance from the car to the greenhouse.

Wu Dong smiled, pointed to the car, and said:
"Don't worry, we know more about hauling vegetables than you do."

As he spoke, Wu Dong lifted the felt curtain behind the truck bed.

To Wang An's surprise, the truck bed of the Liberation truck was filled with wooden boxes, each about a meter square.

Wu Dong pointed to the wooden box, grinning smugly:
"Open it and take a look, hehehe."

Wang An took it down, opened it, and his eyes widened in surprise. He muttered to himself, "Holy crap, your company is really extravagant!"

Wang An said this because the bottom, lid, and all four sides of the wooden box were covered with thick cotton quilts, just like the boxes used by small vendors selling popsicles on bicycles in those days.

However, Wu Dong and his group's boxes were much, much bigger than the boxes used to sell popsicles.

Speaking of such a large box, the wooden planks themselves are not expensive, but the thick cotton quilts inside are not cheap at all. The quilts in one box would cost at least thirteen or fourteen yuan to make.

In other words, Wang Andang couldn't even afford a month's salary for a defense officer to make such a box.

Upon hearing Wang An's words, Wu Dong's smile widened, and he said:

"Absolutely! You need the right tools for everything you do. Otherwise, if the vegetables freeze or get crushed, the losses will be even greater!"

Wang An gave Wu Dong a thumbs-up and said two words:

"Brilliant."

Wu Dong laughed and didn't say anything.

The relatives were also shocked when they saw the extravagant box.

With the boxes, packing vegetables becomes much simpler. Take the boxes into the greenhouse, weigh the vegetables, pack small bundles of spinach into the boxes, load the boxes onto the truck, and you're done.

Only two large boxes were used to pack all of Wang An's spinach.

After loading the vegetables for Wang An's family, they loaded the vegetables for Wang Li's family, and then continued loading them for each family in turn, until finally they went to Sujiatun and loaded the spinach for Mu Xueli's family as well.

Finally, the results were obtained.

Wang An's vegetables totaled 105 jin (approximately 52.5 catties).

Wang Li's family's vegetables totaled 339 jin (approximately 164.5 catties).

The vegetables from the two greenhouses owned by Grandpa and Third Brother Wang Gan totaled 722 jin (361 catties).

The vegetables from Wang Yong's family totaled 362 jin (approximately 181 catties).

The vegetables from my second brother Wang Shun's family totaled 358 jin (174 catties).

The vegetables Mu Xue left home weighed a total of 334 jin.

The seven households harvested a total of 2220 jin (1,160 catties) of spinach, which could be sold for 1554 yuan. Except for Wang An's household, each household earned more than 200 yuan from selling vegetables this time.

This income is quite respectable these days!
Keep in mind that this is the harvest from only a quarter of the greenhouse area. Once the remaining three-quarters of the vegetables are sold, it is estimated that at least another four or five hundred yuan will be generated!

In other words, the money these relatives spent building the greenhouses could very well be fully recouped in just one winter.

However, some problems can be seen from the weight of the spinach sold by each family. Apart from Wang An, Mu Xueli, and Wang Li's families, the rest of the relatives' families basically did not eat much spinach. Instead, they chose to sell all the vegetables to make money.

This scene carries a touch of sadness, reminiscent of the saying, "Those adorned in silk robes are not the silkworm raisers."

I've worked so hard to grow these fresh vegetables, but I can't bear to eat them myself. Is this life worth it or not?
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