Chapter 88 Mutual Benefit
On May 14, heavy rain fell in Hunan Province, and Long Jianhua and Pan Wenhua drove back in the heavy rain.
When Shajuan City was still about 200 miles away, I found a landslide ahead, which blocked half of the road.
The two got out of the car and checked, and found that they needed to dig about three feet before they could pass.
Long Jianhua turned his head and looked at about ten houses not far away, and said to Pan Wenhua, "Let's go, let's borrow tools."
Pan Wenhua shook his head, "No need to pay for this matter, at worst we can go around for a long time."
Then he cursed, "Damn, I collected some copper coins this time. I was happy, but I encountered this. Jianhua, do you think I shouldn't get rich?"
Long Jianhua laughed and said, "Have you heard the words 'It's going to rain'? Can you stop it? We are already laying it out as soon as we come out. It has something to do with your collection of copper coins? Let's go, three feet wide, and you will dig it in a while."
When he walked towards the nearest family on the ridge of the field, Long Jianhua saw the loach at the mouth of the water below and immediately patted his forehead heavily, "Damn, I actually forgot this."
When he arrived on the first floor, he saw the male owner sitting in the doorstep of the main room watching the sky outside smoking. The female owner was placing the soles of her shoes. He walked under the eaves and asked, "Comrade, can you lend us a basket and a basket?"
The hostess looked up at the two of them, lowered her head and continued to pick up the soles of her shoes. The hostess took a sip of cigarettes and said, "What are you borrowing that for?"
Long Jianhua told him frankly, "Catch loaches."
The male host laughed and said, "You still need to make money? You pay for it, we will help you get it. How much does it cost?"
Long Jianhua nodded, "You can make money, five cents per pound."
The male host said readily, "Okay! You sit at home and wait."
Then he asked uncertainly, "How much does it cost to collect?"
Long Jianhua patted his chest, "Car as much as you can! By the way, I will ask you to dig the road through ten dollars, and dig four feet into it."
The male owner shook his head, "Ten dollars are not enough, at least fifteen dollars."
Long Jianhua seemed to hesitate for a moment, "We paid the money ourselves, just to avoid detours... Let's go there 15 to 15, dig it out early, we will go back early."
The hostess quickly put down the needlework in her hand, put on a straw hat, put on a straw raincoat, and walked out of the door with a basket and a basket in the main hall. The hostess put on a straw hat, put on a straw raincoat, and carried a hoe to a house not far away. Soon, she called out four men with the same equipment, and two women with the same same mistress.
Pan Wenhua shouted, "Jianhua, are you crazy? Loaches are everywhere, just catch them yourself; Shajuan City costs one cent per pound, how many people buy them, and they still need to buy them here for five cents per pound?"
"This road is not clear, we can just go around. Why do we spend that fifteen yuan in vain? Even if we don't want to go around, rent their hoe, which costs up to fifteen yuan, you can buy three hundred copper coins and sell them for 180 yuan!"
Long Jianhua and the other party were so fast that they had already set off in just a few strokes, and he broke out at this time.
Long Jianhua pulled him up the mountain and laughed, "Brother Wenhua, our main task now is to pick strawberries, all kinds of strawberries."
He pointed to the raspberries on the ground and the red strawberries on the slope of the field and said, "Last time you went to Team 9, I only ate one. These two are completely different and tasted better than that."
On the side of the hillside are raspberries, the big ones are the size of a big thumb, the small leaves have short stalks, and the delicious taste is rich. There are no strawberries above the ditch, and the big ones are like hollow steamed buns as big as a thumb when picked off.
After eating two, Pan Wenhua quickly picked it and threw it into his mouth, laughing, "I have never eaten it before, it is really delicious! Jianhua, how could you know so much?"
"You are a town resident, and I am a farmer, so naturally you know something you don't know."
Pan Wenhua looked at him, "..."
After eating, Long Jianhua returned to the banana tree beside the farmer's house and pulled off a banana leaf. He pulled it off and rolled it into two cones. One was handed over to Pan Wenhua and the other held the strawberries himself.
Such wild strawberries will not be seen on the market even if transportation is convenient in the future, because they are not delicious and cooked and cannot withstand transportation.
The two of them took the strawberries to the back row of the cab and spread them out carefully, and came to the landslide to check. The speed was still very fast, and in a hundred minutes, the five men dug half of them.
Pan Wenhua turned around and pulled Long Jianhua toward the red place again, "Jianhua, let's pick strawberries, but we haven't eaten enough yet."
At this time, the hostess shouted, "Comrade, I'm full of baskets, where to weigh it?"
Long Jianhua responded, "Get it in the car."
Now he only brings a canvas bag when he goes out for a short trip, and there is nothing to hold loaches, but this car is just a big container.
Her basket was only 32 pounds and 6 taels. Long Jianhua poured the loach into the truck and gave her a piece of 60 cents. She grabbed the basket and ran back to the field quickly.
Long Jianhua no longer went to pick strawberries and stood by the car waiting for them to send loaches.
At 5:40, the road was finally cleared. After the two drove the car over the landslide, they saw the male owner still blocking the front. Long Jianhua poked his head out, "Comrade, haven't you given the fifteen yuan? You have all divided the money, what else do you want to do?"
The male owner pointed to the women who were still fishing for loaches in the field, "You said you can harvest as much as you want, and they still have them."
Long Jianhua smiled bitterly, and actually forgot about this matter. He turned to the field and shouted, "Come on the loach seller quickly, otherwise we will leave~"
These people have actually caught all the terraced fields and now they are not sure whether they are the second or third time. Although the harvest of the second and third time will not be 30% of the first time, it is also money.
After collecting all the loaches sent by the three women, the two set off again. Pan Wenhua drove the car and started talking again.
"Jianhua, you can buy loaches, but you don't have to buy more than 200 kilograms, right? I felt irritated when I saw the dense loaches in the car bucket..."
"Really, we rent... no, buy their hoe for three dollars, which will be worth it in the future. You said that we can save the thirty dollars by digging ourselves and earn 330 dollars. Why can't you settle the score..."
Long Jianhua couldn't hold it in anymore and smiled, "Brother Wenhua, it's much easier for us to make money than them. Fifteen yuan can buy 300 copper coins, but we don't want to buy more. If it weren't for that fifteen yuan, could you dig a path within three hours? Can you eat such good strawberries? This is a kind of mutual benefit."
Strawberries were warmly welcomed by their family, but so many loaches made the family very tired.
The family processed until 11 o'clock that night, and the next day, Long Jianhua and his grandparents were tired at home for a whole day, and in the end there were still about 40 kilograms left without processing because there were really no utensils to hold.
Chapter completed!