1994: Vegetable farmers strike back

Chapter 38 Income at the Beginning of the Month

"Keep these 400 yuan for now. If Liu Minghua comes again today, give it to him first."

"it is good."

Li Xiu agreed, but her face seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"Just say whatever you want to say."

Chen Jiazhi wanted to laugh. The contrast between Li Xiu and later generations was too great. Li Xiu in later generations was not a shrew, but she was not that easy to mess with either.

But now she looks like a young wife.

Maybe it's because I suffered so much in the past few years that I became so strong.

However, he still felt that the current Li Xiu was better and listened to him in everything.

Li Xiu: "This morning, my second sister, Aunt Juan, and Sister Bai Yan were saying that we have too much land and are too busy to handle it. They asked me to persuade you to reconsider."

Chen Jiazhi: "What do you think?"

Li Xiu: "Of course I'll listen to you."

"Okay, then listen to me."

Chen Jiazhi smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's only six or seven acres now. It won't be a problem for me. I will have dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of acres in the future."

"Boasting again."

"How can I be bragging? I said I'd make you count money until your hands cramp, and I'm going to do it."

After breakfast, the rain was still falling, so Li Xiu, her second sister and others covered the small shed early in the morning.

Chen Jiazhi didn't go out either. He first made a note in his notebook that there was a new customer: a monk.

But the two customers 95976 and Wuxing Sanlun still haven’t seen it, maybe they have changed the market.

After sleeping for the whole morning, I got up, steamed the silver pomfret, fried some loofah with eggs, and made some loofah soup. After the full meal, I slept for a while before going out to work.

Even if it rains, we can’t harvest the vegetables so early.

Without letting Li Xiu go out, Chen Jiazhi went to take a look at the land that originally belonged to Liu Minghua.

There are about four acres in total, all concentrated together, which is very convenient for management.

The situation in the field is not complicated. Most of them are small seedlings. Only the water spinach in the small arch shed of about 0.3 acres is harvested immediately.

The growth is also very good, and the estimated yield is close to 1000 kilograms. The current price of water spinach is between 0.6 and 0.9 yuan per kilogram depending on its quality.

Liu Minghua’s vegetables are not bad, and it’s no problem to sell them at 70 or 80 cents per pound, which is 700 or 800 yuan.

In addition, there is a piece of open-air vegetable heart that is also quite large, and it can be sold for several hundred yuan when it grows up.

Adding other seedlings, including Chinese cabbage, mustard greens, peppers, and eggplants, the estimated price of vegetables at 1000 yuan is definitely an underestimate.

The half-year rent of 560 yuan is a bargain for more than 20 days.

But no one would think that Chen Jiazhi is a bad person.

You must have this awareness if you want to temporarily change your mind and quit. Many times you can't just change your mind if you want to.

When a lot of vegetable farmers quit, there was no one to take over, so they could only sell at 80% or 10% discount, or even just leave without taking anything and run away.
Chen Jiazhi estimated the total price to be 1700 yuan, and no one could morally blame him.

It also eliminates competitors.

There must be people in the vegetable market who are interested. After all, Liu Minghua’s vegetables will be harvested soon. He can make some money by lowering the price and reselling them.

And now, Chen Jiazhi offered a price of 1700 yuan, which directly stopped many people from thinking about it.

"Scholar, I'm looking at the land."

Four people were walking towards us. They were from the two families of Lao Liu and Zhou Shijun. Lao Liu's original name was Liu Qirong, and he was a relative of Liu Minghua.

Chen Jiazhi raised his eyebrows slightly, "What's the matter?"

Liu Qirong chuckled and said, "Then I'll be frank. It's about this piece of land. Logically speaking, Minghua's vegetable plot should be transferred to us..."

"Haha, Liu Minghua made it very clear last night."

Chen Jiazhi was not polite at all and sneered, "That doesn't make sense with me. If you want land, no way!"

Zhou Shijun said angrily, "Mr. Chen, don't be so ungrateful. Can you cultivate so much land by yourself? You just fancy the vegetables that can be harvested soon in his field. Why are you pretending so much?"

"So what if I like his food? Once the land is transferred to me, even if I leave it empty, it has nothing to do with you!" Chen Jiazhi looked at the two of them and said, "Get out of the way! A good dog doesn't block the road!"

After walking over, Chen Jiazhi turned back and said, "By the way, you still have a chance. Liu Minghua and I haven't signed the contract yet. You can contact him again and see if he's willing to transfer it to you."

Liu Minghua's attitude last night clearly showed that he hated the two of them.

Liu Qirong said in a deep voice: "Don't be complacent, you took over for 1700 yuan, and you didn't make any money!"

Chen Jiazhi laughed twice and left.

Zhou Shijun looked at his back and cursed, "1700 yuan to take over, it's a shame he offered that price." Liu Qirong: "He doesn't just want to harvest the vegetables, he might really want to farm these four mu of land."

"He must be crazy. He's alone, and he's bringing a pregnant woman with him. How can he manage it?"

"It's best if he can't grow enough crops. He's been so proud of himself lately, but one day he'll end up in the ditch."

The rain was heavy, but the temperature was not low either. The whole vegetable market felt like a sauna.

And it rained all morning,

Some overly densely planted outdoor leafy vegetables may suffer losses.

If the rain continues like this, Chen Jiazhi will consider tearing down all of Liu Minghua's current seedlings and starting over.

When the rain stopped, he would not manage the crops too much and let them grow naturally. If there were vegetables, he would harvest them; if there were none, he would prepare the land and sow seeds again.

However, all the land will be covered with small sheds one after another.

They come in batches.

So don't rush.

It was past five in the afternoon when Chen Jiazhi and Ao Dehai began to harvest the vegetables.

Li Xiu stayed at home to make some plastic red ropes, which could be used to tie up the cowpeas and later the water spinach.

In fact, she wanted to come out and pick loofahs.

How could Chen Jiazhi agree? He had been cutting crooked and cracked fruits these past few days, and now he finally had the chance to experience the feeling of cutting good fruits.

Click~
Click~
He cut the beautiful and smooth loofahs one by one and put them into the bamboo basket.

You know what, it’s quite exciting.

A handsome guy and a beautiful girl, it really doesn’t lie to me.

The only thing that isn't so nice is the rain.

Luffa, bitter melon, cowpea and green beans are all in the picking season and are also blooming and bearing fruit simultaneously.

After a rain, subsequent production will be affected.

Moreover, you cannot spray pesticides excessively at this time because you need to keep picking.

Especially now, pesticides such as omethoate and dichlorvos are highly toxic, and related food poisoning incidents occur every year.

However, hot and humid weather is most likely to breed diseases and pests.

Chen Jiazhi discovered thrips in the flower buds of cowpea. The commonly used pesticides now are malathion and dichlorvos.

The recommended safe interval is 5 to 10 days.

These two are highly toxic and extremely toxic pesticides.

How can the pesticide residue level not be high?

Chen Jiazhi doesn't think his moral integrity is very high, but after long-term training and learning, he also knows that he cannot easily cross the bottom line.

If there is a first time, there will be a second time. How can you go the high-end route in the future?
Therefore, existing pesticides should be used rationally, and low-toxic pesticides such as imidacloprid and avermectin should be used in combination with physical means...

After harvesting these vegetables, the rain stopped and Chen Jiazhi went to remove the film again.

At some point, Li Xiu also came out and asked, "Don't you need to help Ao Dehai and the others harvest the vegetables?"

Chen Jiazhi shook his head and said, "I'm estimating the time. I plan to wait until there are more vegetables, then ask them to collect them and charge by time."

It takes a lot of effort to harvest leafy vegetables.
Therefore, large vegetable markets in later generations generally have division of labor and cooperation, including harvesting group, pesticide spraying group, water and fertilizer group, vegetable selling group, etc.

Chen Jiazhi also plans to refer to this approach.

Liu Minghua did not show up today until the vegetables were harvested. Perhaps he knew that Chen Jiazhi could not raise enough money at the moment.

Selling vegetables in the early morning also went smoothly.

In the end, it was sold for exactly 480 yuan.

The same thing happened for the next two days, sometimes it was cloudy and rainy, sometimes it was sunny, but no matter how the weather changed, Chen Jiazhi went to sell vegetables without fail.

The one acre of Chinese cabbage in Field No. 5 was sown in four batches. The earliest batch has been harvested, and the second batch can be harvested and cleared today. In addition to harvesting vegetables, Ao Dehai and his companions also began to participate in land preparation and other work, and officially became his workers.

I still haven’t harvested any water spinach in the past two days, but my daily income is very stable, 479 yuan a day and 473 yuan a day.

From the beginning of May to now, I have sold vegetables for 5 days and earned a total of 2300 yuan, after deducting expenses and the 400 yuan advance paid to Liu Minghua.

Chen Jiazhi now had more than 1800 yuan in activity funds.

When I have money, I want to go to the agricultural supply store.

However, Liu Minghua reappeared two days after disappearing and asked him to transfer the contract.

(End of this chapter)