1994: Vegetable farmers strike back

Chapter 53 Seed World
Curly Head was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and long pants. He was tall and thin, with a slightly hunched back. He trembled as he walked over, and people who didn't know him might mistake him for a second-rate person.

Because the movements and expressions when walking are really mean.

Especially when he was about to reach Chen Jiazhi's stall, he slowed down his pace, taking one leisurely step after another, and did not look like he was doing serious shopping.

In the past few days, Curly Cabbage Head has bought vegetables from Chen Jiazhi, but every time he comes to buy, there is always some personal grudge.

He bargained very hard.

He even teased him a bit, but in the end Chen Jiazhi still managed to sell the vegetables to him.

But today it seemed even more excessive, the look in his eyes seemed to have him figured out.

If Chen Jiazhi had asked, this dish might still have been sold today.

But seeing his arrogant look, Chen Jiazhi suddenly didn't want to pay any attention to him. He sat on the ground without moving, but took out a cigarette and lit it.

Curly Head slowed down his pace again and deliberately walked closer, but Chen Jiazhi still ignored him.

The curly cabbage head lost his patience and asked, "Mr. Chen, can you sell the water spinach at a lower price?"

"There's a little food left. You can take it all for 12 yuan."

"8 dollars."

"Not for sale."

"Think carefully, when the sun comes up, no one will come."

"Then it's none of your business."

The cabbage head paused slightly, a little confused. This was different from Chen the vegetable farmer's behavior these days.

A few days ago, she would rather endure some anger and sell vegetables to him at a low price, but today she was acting out of character, which made him have a lot to say but didn't know how to express it.

It's a bit uncomfortable to hold it in.

In the end, he could only snort coldly and walked away with his cheek bitten.

"Scholar, why don't you sell it to him at a lower price today? It's hard to handle these 40 or 50 kilograms of vegetables you have."

"Try to find out. If it doesn't work, you can just take it back or throw it in the trash~"

Even a clay man has some temper, not to mention that Chen Jiazhi has been selling vegetables for decades, and his main feature is arrogance.

In the years when he was able to supply goods stably, he was always the vegetable farmer who took the lead in raising prices and finally lowering prices in the market.

Later, when the market was often bad and he could no longer be arrogant, he had earned enough money for his retirement. The reason he continued to grow vegetables was simply to find something to do and earn some pocket money. However, he was still as arrogant as ever when selling vegetables. Some old customers who had cooperated with him for more than ten years had a love-hate relationship with him.

The reason why they are willing to lower their stance recently is because their foundation is weak and they need to snowball and accumulate capital as quickly as possible.

But the cabbage head happened again and again, and Chen Jiazhi had been holding back his anger for a long time.

Liu Minghua won't come tomorrow.

He can't pull so many dishes.

Today's food is rotten, it's only about 10 yuan.
After another half an hour, the sun began to peek out, and the short Liu Minghua disappeared at the intersection on his bike.

For the first time, Chen Jiazhi returned home with more than 20 kilograms of water spinach.

In fact, if we sell it for a while longer, we can sell it all at retail, but there is no need as we have other things to do at home.

After returning home, Li Mingkun and others who had returned earlier saw the leftover vegetables in his basket.

"Scholar, it turns out there are times when you have leftovers that you can't sell!"

Guo Mancang also joked: "In fact, the show was able to sell out, but I just didn't want to suffer the consequences, so I ended up with leftovers."

Chen Jiafang, who happened to be out, heard this and looked at the remaining water spinach in the basket. He said, "Why not sell it if you can? What's wrong with being offended? You haven't changed your temper, young master."

Huang Juan smiled and said, "Didn't the scholar say that if you want to be handsome, you should eat vine vegetables? Now you can eat as much as you want at once."

Faced with numerous teasings, Chen Jiazhi looked at Li Xiu, who also had a regretful expression.

"Wife, give me another 200 yuan."

"Oh, Ann? Good."

Li Xiu withdrew her gaze from the vegetable basket and went home to get the money. Chen Jiafang said, "Why don't you ask him what he's going to do with the money?"

Li Xiu wore a long-sleeved shirt with floral patterns and pants, which covered her body tightly, but her long arms and legs couldn't be hidden. "Business, huh?"

"Well, business."

Chen Jiazhi took the money, looked proudly at Yi Dinggan who was also sitting at the door eating, then turned and left.

Yi Dinggan was a little confused. No, why are you looking at me?

He subconsciously glanced at Chen Jiafang, who was standing with her hands on her hips. If he wanted money, Chen Jiafang would definitely not be a problem, but if he wanted to be as obedient as Li Xiu, he could just go to bed.
Damn, you even want to compare this!

...

There is a big banyan tree with a broad crown outside Hongzhong’s agricultural supply store. He likes to cool off here in the summer.

He is reading a book at the moment.

Suddenly, a bell rang next to my ear.

"Boss Hong, I'm reading a book. I brought you some vegetables. They were just picked this morning. They're very fresh."

Before going out, Chen Jiazhi took down the basket, filled a plastic bag with at least ten kilograms of water spinach, and sprayed it with a little water.

Hong Zhong took it and looked at it. The food looked fresh indeed. "What's the wind blowing today? Why are you so kind?"

Chen Jiazhi took out another 500 yuan, 300 yuan of which was from selling this morning.

"I'll have to trouble you to deliver fertilizer again today, and maybe again in two or three days. You have to keep the remaining goods for me."

Hongjoong smiled and said, “After I eat your food, I will definitely keep my promise.”

Previously, Chen Jiazhi ordered urea and compound fertilizer worth 2500 yuan, and only two deliveries were made today.

"Hey, that's what I was thinking."

Hong Zhong was also cheerful, his eyes twinkling: "By the way, Chen the vegetable farmer, have you ever thought about expanding your vegetable garden?"

"I do, I dream about it, but unfortunately I don't have the money. How about this, Boss Hong, you want to invest in me?"

"Haha, I'm just asking."

"It's boring."

Chen Jiazhi looked at the book that Hong Zhong placed on the table, and the page he opened revealed water spinach.

"Boss Hong, what book is this?"

"Oh, a friend from the agricultural technology station dropped him off at my place. He's talking about seeds, so I took a look when I had some free time."

"Can I turn it over?"

"Okay, if you can understand, then go ahead and read it. I'll go get the fertilizer for you."

Hong Zhong was a little surprised, but then he thought that it was not surprising that this small vegetable farmer knew about imported pesticides and was interested in related books.

Chen Jiazhi actually sat down and started reading, because he noticed that this page was about water spinach breeding.

He was just preparing to save seeds for water spinach.

Chen Jiazhi looked at the cover and introduction of the book: "Agricultural Science of Guangdong Province".

It looks authoritative at first glance.

So I started to read it carefully.

Water spinach is a cross-pollinated plant with a high natural hybridization rate. Gene recombination is prone to occur in offspring, which may produce single plants with strong disease resistance and vigorous growth.

But the probability of this is very low.

Therefore, the common breeding methods now are artificial selection and environmental adaptability screening.
"Before flowering, the target plants should be bagged to prevent insect pollination and hybridization..."

When he saw this, Chen Jiazhi knew it was too late.

The big bone green in the field has already bloomed, and it is probably already mixed with some unknown wild flowers.

However, he still insisted on reading the content about water spinach breeding, just in case it might be useful in the future?

You can never have too much knowledge.

(End of this chapter)