Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 26 Harvesting Late Rice
The scale in Li Xiang's family has been passed down for decades. According to his grandmother, it was bought by Li Xiang's grandfather when he was young.

The scale rod was very smooth, solid, and blue-black in color. It was inlaid with a series of golden stars (copper stars) of various sizes, and both ends were also wrapped in copper. Li Xiang thought it was probably made of red Xunzi wood.

The reason why it is blue-black is because of the complicated dyeing process of the scale rod. The red Xunzi wood scale rod needs to be cleaned with lime water, then brushed with alum solution, then brushed with gallnut solution, and so on.

Among the old-fashioned weighing rods, the best and most practical one is "iron wood", which is difficult to cut even with an axe. The second best is red cypress wood, and then there are some other hardwoods, such as nanmu, jujube, jujube, golden silk plum, red silk wood, rosewood, rosewood, teak, etc.

It usually needs to be dried in the shade for more than a year, and then goes through a series of complicated processes, such as planing the scale rod, fixing the mouth, calibrating the scale and nailing the star flowers, grinding, cleaning, dyeing, trimming and polishing, etc., which takes a long time.

Some people will use the scale rod at home to carve beads and make bracelets. However, if the wood is really good and the scale itself is well protected, its collection value is much higher than the bracelet. If you use it to carve beads, it is a waste of resources.

There are sixteen stars on the scale bar, which means a sixteen-liang scale. A long time ago, Lu Ban carved 13 stars on a piece of hard wood based on the Big Dipper and the Southern Dipper in the sky. The regulation at that time was one jin equaled 13 liang.

Later, when Fan Li came to power, he added three more stars to the 13 stars. These three stars represent "happiness, wealth and longevity" respectively. That is to say, if you are short of something, you will have no happiness, little wealth and a short life!

Many people in ancient times believed in this, so they became much more disciplined when doing business.

Of course, not everyone believes in this "illusory curse", and some unscrupulous businessmen will still do what they should do.

This old scale in Li Xiang's home has been used for many years. Due to regular maintenance, the weighing is still relatively accurate. Li Xiang weighed it at home when he sent something before, and then took it to a SF Express outlet to borrow someone's electronic scale to weigh it again. The error was within an acceptable range.

To be on the safe side, Li Xiang usually puts in a little more to make sure it's just the right amount, which can be considered as a way of giving back to fans.

He would never do such a thing as shortchanging others in weight. His mushrooms are quite expensive, especially the black truffles, which cost 560 per pound. Even if a few dozen grams are missing, people might not notice. Not everyone will weigh the goods after receiving them.

Even if they find out, they can find other excuses, such as not wrapping it with plastic wrap, or that it may be caused by moisture evaporation, which is a normal phenomenon.

李响分门别类称重之后，具体收获就出来了。共有黑松露24斤6两，鹅蛋菌9斤5两，大脚菇13斤7两，松茸6斤4两，羊肚菌3斤8两。

Then, based on the fans’ messages, they packaged the items in plastic bags and sent them to their bank accounts one by one through private messages.

I had to stop halfway through. Damn, this stuff is not enough.

He counted and found that as of now, a total of fifty-six people had left messages. He calculated the gap and found that he still needed 29 kilograms of black truffles, 16 kilograms of goose egg mushrooms, 28 kilograms of big-foot mushrooms, 7 kilograms of matsutake mushrooms, and 5 kilograms of morels.

If you want to give a little more as a gift, you need to pick up a little more.

But it doesn’t matter. He replied and apologized to the fans who left messages very sincerely, telling them the situation. Well, he informed the other party that they don’t have to wait too long. He will ship the goods tomorrow morning and then go into the mountains again in the afternoon. He will guarantee to ship the goods within three days.

Fans also expressed their understanding and told him not to be anxious and to take it slow.

As for the other fans who had been "allocated", they were all very happy and basically transferred the money that same night. One or two might have had something to do at night and called the next morning.

Even some fans who didn't get their turn sent money to "confirm" it, so they wouldn't miss it later. Maybe these fans guessed that Li Xiang decided based on the order of receiving the money. In fact, it wasn't. Li Xiang only decided based on the time of leaving the message.

Due to the large gap, Li Xiang went into the mountains immediately after sending out all the goods he had to SF Express.

He brought two bamboo baskets this time. In order to catch up with the progress, he did not broadcast live or record videos, because he had no time. The rice in the field was still waiting to be harvested. If it was not harvested, the rice would fall. This time, Li Xiang picked mushrooms much faster. With the full strength of a first-level extraordinary person, he climbed over mountains and crossed ridges as if walking on flat ground. Wherever he passed, snakes, insects, rats, ants and other animals fled.

Even when he saw a fat rabbit, he didn't bother to catch it.

It only took one afternoon and one morning to get the job done.

Then we come back to pack the goods and mail them to the county town.

The price of black truffles is 560 yuan per catty, goose egg mushrooms are 80 yuan per catty, big-foot mushrooms are 150 yuan per catty, matsutake mushrooms are 200 yuan per catty, and morels are 500 yuan per catty. In the end, the total profit was more than yuan. With the previous sale, the profit was more than yuan.

Li Xiang sells fresh goods at a very reasonable price, cheaper than what is available on the market, and the quality is more guaranteed.

Fresh mushrooms are usually more expensive than dried ones, especially wild high-value mushrooms. The flavor and taste of fresh ones are better than dried ones, and their nutritional value is also higher.

After one fan received the goods, he took it to weigh it and was shocked. What a conscientious merchant! For such an expensive item, they actually gave me an extra 2 taels. They must have made a fortune!
Then I went to the video of Li Xiang picking mushrooms and left a message and liked it to express my gratitude.

Someone replied, I have weighed it, I bought two kilograms of morels, and they sent me several more. And the quality of morels is very good, the dishes made from them are so delicious, wow, haha, I won't say more, those who have eaten them will understand.

When other fans received the goods, some of them who had not yet started eating hurriedly weighed them, and sure enough, they also had a "little surprise".

"Brother Xiang is really a particular person. For such an expensive item, he even gave me an extra ounce or two. Well, I will definitely buy it again next time!"

Li Xiang expressed his gratitude one by one. He was setting up his mobile phone at the edge of the field and started recording a video of the late rice harvest.

After draining and drying the paddy fields, the mud had dried up a lot. Li Xiang was wearing rain boots and crouching low. He had big palms and gently grasped a large basket of rice straw with his left hand. With his right hand, he held a 30-kilogram Gaomi knife, which he lifted with ease. With just a light stroke, he cut through the roots of the rice stalks, making the cuts neat and tidy.

Originally, grandma wanted him to use a small and light sickle, because his high-density knife, when grandma tried to use it, was too heavy and not convenient to use it to cut rice.

As a result, Li Xiang insisted on using this, saying that it could help with physical exercise.

After all, it's only six or seven acres of land.

Seeing that he was playing with the rice, the grandmother left him alone. If the grandson likes to play, let him play. Anyway, there is not much rice, so it is not urgent to spend a day or two to finish it.

They are filming a video and using such a heavy axe. They definitely can't work fast, and it doesn't look like they are working seriously.

As a result, when grandma came to deliver lunch at noon, she was shocked!

I saw that all the rice had not only been harvested, but had also been tied into bundles and was being loaded onto tricycles.

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