1994: Vegetable farmers strike back

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Just after four o'clock, Chen Jiazhi had sold all the vegetables. He looked at Yi Dinggan's place and there was not much left.

"Brother Yi, I'm going to buy some meat first. Do you want to eat anything?"

Yi Dinggan paused slightly and said, "Let's buy something good. Last time I saw some good prawns and oysters at the seafood stall. We can order some."

"Okay, I'll go buy it."

"Wait, each of you pay half, buy more." Yi Dinggan took out 30 yuan and handed it to Chen Jiazhi: "Brother, I made a lot of money today."

Chen Jiazhi took the money directly.

Yi Dinggan: "You should be more polite!"

"I'm being polite to you because I'm sick."

The price increase early this morning caused the price of water spinach to more than triple compared to before the rainstorm.

The same vegetables can be sold for three times the price, and the feeling of selling vegetables is completely different.

Both of them sold at least four or five hundred yuan today, and they thought it was reasonable to spend some money to improve their lives.

In the end, Chen Jiazhi bought more than two kilograms of shrimp and five kilograms of hairtail. When he came back, Yi Dinggan had just closed his stall. He looked at the seafood Chen Jiazhi bought and was a little dissatisfied.

"Where are the oysters?"

"Why buy that thing?"

"If you don't eat it, I will!"

"Are you weak?"

"I think you're just holding it in."

"You know I'm feeling anxious, but you still want to cause trouble."

"I'll take you out someday~"

"Damn it, is there a brother-in-law like you?!"

"What does this mean? It means we have a good relationship. Look at Xue Jun and Wu Chengyong. I don't even take them out to play."

Xue Jun and Wu Chengyong are Chen Jiazhi's third brother-in-law and eldest brother-in-law respectively, but they are slightly distant from each other.

Chen Jiazhi pedaled his bicycle faster and said loudly, "Now I just want to focus on my business and make it bigger and stronger."

Yi Dinggan also shouted: "That's fine, once you're rich and powerful, you can find any woman you want."

Chen Jiazhi: “…”

When I returned to the market, the sky was just beginning to turn pale with fish sauce.

Some early-rising vegetable farmers were already busy in the fields, and Li Xiu and Chen Jiafang had also gotten up and were cooking at the back door.

After Chen Jiazhi arrived at the back door, he gave the money to Li Xiu. The money looked very exciting when he stepped on it. Li Xiu happily took it and went back to the house to count the money.

Yi Dinggan, who followed him in, was stunned. He originally wanted to brag to Chen Jiafang about his victory last night, but Chen Jiafang looked at him straight, so he could only take out the money for the time being.

"Watch it before you put it in the pot."

After leaving a word, Chen Jiafang went to count the money.

Yi Dinggan complained, "Brother, you don't have to be so enthusiastic. We have to keep some money when we go to sell vegetables."

Chen Jiazhi smiled and said, "It's okay, Li Xiu just counted it. I will get it back with interest later."

Yi Dinggan: "What about me?"

Chen Jiazhi: "My second sister is also a reasonable person. If you can't handle her, it means you are not capable enough."

Yi Ding said angrily: "Damn it, you are just lucky to have met Li Xiu, who has a good temper~"

Chen Jiazhi: "My second sister has a good temper too."

Just then, Chen Jiafang, who had put down the money, saw the prawns and hairtails that the two men brought back.

"How much did these prawns and hairtail cost?"

"60 yuan." Yi Dinggan said first, "Jiazhi insisted on buying it and I couldn't stop him. He said it would improve Li Xiu's taste. Oh, it's a waste of money. It's 60 yuan, enough for many days of living expenses."

After saying that, Yi Dinggan looked at Chen Jiazhi provocatively. Spending 60 yuan on a meal was a bit too extravagant for people from poor backgrounds. According to Chen Jiafang's temper, he would definitely scold him.

Chen Jiafang looked at Chen Jiazhi and said, "Jiazhi is really mature now. You're right, he's about to become a father."

Yi Dinggan was a little dumbfounded: "This is 60 yuan!"

Chen Jiafang: "What's wrong with 60? Jiazhi made as much as you did today. What's wrong with spending a little more to improve your life? Unlike you, you didn't know what to buy with the money and came back empty-handed!"

I paid half of the money!
Yi Dinggan screamed in his heart and wanted to tell the truth, but he had already lied once, and if he confessed now, he would be scolded.

I can only grit my teeth and swallow it.

As they chatted, the families nearby also got a general idea of ​​what was going on and immediately started to join in the conversation. Yi Dinggan also started to show off how popular his dishes were last night.

Chen Jiazhi was not interested in this and went back to the house. Li Xiu had just finished counting the money. Chen Jiazhi said, "I'm going to the agricultural supply store later."

Li Xiu turned back and gave him the money, reminding him, "It's time to pay Ao Dehai and the other guy, so we need to prepare the money in advance."

"I know in my heart that the money I can earn from selling for the next two days should be enough."

After Li Xiu went to make breakfast, Chen Jiazhi took out "Agricultural Science of Guangdong Province" and started flipping through it again. He was quite interested in this book.

In recent days, I have also taken remedial measures on the seeds of the large-boned water spinach according to the contents of the book, such as selecting healthy water spinach for bagging and pollination.

However, breeding is a generational process, and how far you can go depends on long-term persistence and luck.

After reading for a while and having breakfast, Chen Jiazhi went to work in the fields. He went to check on the loofah, bitter melon, cowpea and green beans.

Li Xiu has been complaining these days about not having a shear for the loofah. He plans to pull out all the seedlings except the cowpeas and green beans. Chen Jiazhi finally decided to keep the loofah and bitter melon as these two vegetables are more resistant to waterlogging. Apart from the fact that their growth has been affected, there is no sign of seedling death.

At the same time, I also plan to try saving seeds of loofah and bitter melon.

At about half past ten, Chen Jiazhi went to the agricultural supply store. The prices of fertilizers and pesticides had increased significantly. Fortunately, Hong Zhong kept his promise and was willing to deliver the goods to him at the agreed price.

Chen Jiazhi bought some more seeds, including cowpeas and amaranth.

After paying the money, Chen Jiazhi only had 300 yuan left, but he would not have to use pesticides or fertilizers until early next year.

No matter how much the price of agricultural inputs rises, it will not affect him within half a year.

The rent was also paid.

This is equivalent to more than 80% to 90% of the sales revenue in the second half of the year will be net profit.

At the same time, Chen Jiazhi's impression of Hong Zhong also improved a little. This man still keeps his promises.

...

"Lao Mao, I warned you yesterday that the dishes you delivered were terrible. Most of them were spoiled when they arrived at the kitchen. The chefs in the cafeteria were all making a fuss. You're making it very difficult for me to work!"

"Manager Huang, I promise I won't do that again. I'll definitely send you some good food tomorrow!"

"For your uncle's sake, I'll give you one more chance. You can go to the cafeteria and take away the spoiled portion of today's food yourself."

"Okay, okay, I'll go right away."

The fan in the room was whirring, and when Mao Liangcai walked out of the room, his curly hair was still covered in sweat.

Manager Huang is the purchasing manager of a factory. Mao Liangcai was finally able to supply vegetables to the factory through his uncle's relationship. By lowering the purchasing price, he also made a lot of profit.

But it’s really hard to buy vegetables recently!
If you buy winter melon, pumpkin and other vegetables that can be stored and transported every day, you will be scolded by workers and management. Moreover, vegetables that can be stored and transported are relatively cheap, and the profit margin is far less than that of leafy vegetables, but leafy vegetables have generally been in poor condition recently.

After arriving at the back kitchen, Mao Liang saw a vegetable basket placed on one side. The cabbages inside had rotted into molten lava.

Under the chef's dissatisfied look, Mao Liangcai took the dishes away and threw them into the nearby garbage dump.

At the same time, he was also struggling with what vegetables to buy tomorrow morning. Speaking of good dishes, the ones that he remembered most were those from Chen Cai Nong. But he had just been tricked last night.

Damn, are all vegetable farmers nowadays so arrogant?!

On the other hand, monk Xu He was also worried. When he was picking up the goods last night, Jiangxin Vegetable Market informed him that the market had suffered heavy losses due to heavy rain, and the supply of vegetables was cut off again, and the supply would be cut off for more than 20 days.

...

Early in the morning of June 5.

Chen Jiazhi came to the market carrying the same amount of water spinach and Chinese cabbage.

As soon as the car was parked, customers came one after another to ask for prices and place orders. Chen Jiazhi raised the price again, directly raising the price of water spinach to 2 yuan per catty.

The price increased by 4 cents in one go, which is brutal.

Yi Dinggan, who also came with a lot of water spinach, was a little confused, let alone the people who came to buy vegetables.

"Damn, it was only 1.6 yuan yesterday, and it's only 2 yuan today. What a jerk! Is there anyone selling vegetables like you?"

"Who the hell is buying your vegetables?"

A group of people went to ask Yi Dinggan cursingly, and as expected, they got the same answer. They turned around and left angrily.

Yi Dinggan: "Brother, can this really be sold?"

Chen Jiazhi lit a cigarette for him confidently. People nowadays are too gentle. They are even tentatively trying to raise vegetable prices.

It’s not like now, as long as there is a shortage of supply on that day, the price of vegetables will double.

"Don't worry, Brother Yi, look around. Which small vegetable farmer has as many vegetables as we do?"

Yi Dinggan actually stood up and looked around. What he saw was that most small vegetable farmers only had one or two small baskets of vegetables, and very few leafy vegetables.

"Really? Don't these people grow vine vegetables?"

"Just look at Qi Yongfeng and the others and you'll understand."

The weather was good in the early stage, and the price of water spinach fell all the way, reaching the lowest point of 30 to 40 cents per pound. After the temperature rose, the growth rate of water spinach increased, and many people drastically reduced their sowing.

Qi Yongfeng even followed the example of others and pulled up the water spinach seedlings that could be harvested for more times, and he didn't even bother asking Chen Jiazhi about it, which made him very angry!
Chen Jiazhi and Yi Dinggan happened to be sowing during this vacuum period. At the same time, a rainstorm caused a large number of competing vegetables to fail to be harvested, and the supply was greatly reduced.

Raising prices is really easy.

The two of them waited for only more than ten minutes before the customer who had asked about the price came back.

“Vegetable farmers, can’t you make it cheaper?”

"No, this is the price today."

Even if old customers come, Chen Jiazhi will still charge the same price. He can keep some food for you, but he won't sell it to you at a lower price.

"Pretend, pretend."

"There's really nothing I can do about you."

One by one, the customers began to compromise, and both of them became busy. Without Liu Minghua's help, 300 kilograms of vegetables would be enough to keep Chen Jiazhi busy for a long time.

At the corner, Mao Liangcai looked at Chen Jiazhi who was busy packing vegetables and was very conflicted. In the end, reason overcame emotions and he walked forward to Yi Dinggan's stall.

"Pack me 50 kilograms of water spinach."

"Okay..." Yi Dinggan thought that a big customer had come, so he agreed. When he looked up, he saw that the person coming was Curly Cabbage Head.

"Oh, it's you. Why don't you go ask next door?"

"What does it have to do with him if I buy your food?"

"That's fine too. Water spinach is 2.5 yuan a pound. Do you want some?"

"Are you bullying me? Just now you were selling it for two yuan a pound, but now it's only two yuan and a half for me, right?!"

Curly Cabbage Mao Liangcai said angrily that he knew the two were together before he came, but he still deliberately avoided Chen Cabbage Farmer. He didn't expect that they would be replaced by someone more ruthless.

Yi Dinggan: "Sorry, the price has increased. You can go to the next door and ask how much they will sell it to you."

Chen Jiazhi also noticed the movement at this time, and when he looked over, his eyes happened to meet the cabbage head.

Mao Liangcai held his breath and asked, "Mr. Chen, how much is a pound of water spinach?"

"Two dollars and a half."

"We're all in business, there's no need to hold me back."

"That's not what you said when the vegetables were not selling well a few days ago. Not only did you not think of helping me to sell some, but you came here every day to rip me off."

"Okay, you're awesome. I'll remember that."

Chen Jiazhi thought he was going to pack the vegetables, but the curly cabbage head left again. The two of them didn't care and continued to pack the vegetables. He was just a customer, and there was no shortage of buyers in today's market.

After a while, the dishes were almost served and the two began to take turns serving them.

When Chen Jiazhi returned from delivering vegetables again, he saw a familiar person waiting in front of his stall.

Xu He said, "It's just a few vegetables, pack them all for me."

Chen Jiazhi shook his head. "Sorry, this is already ordered. We haven't had any extra choy sum in the last two days. You'll have to look elsewhere."

Xu He was stunned for a moment: "What about tomorrow? You can't collect more tomorrow and give it to me evenly. It's ok if the price is a little higher."

Chen Jiazhi still shook his head: "There really isn't much left. 30 kilograms of choy sum a day is already the limit."

Xu He: "How about this, I'll give you a higher price, 3-5 per jin, and you give me these 30 jins of choy sum."

Chen Jiazhi: "It's not a question of price. I also need to stabilize my customer base."

"You're just a small vegetable farmer. Why maintain a customer base? Making money is the most important thing!"

This time, Chen Jiazhi simply didn't reply to him.

The monk also realized that he had said the wrong thing. He paused and said, "Then when did you get extra vegetable hearts?"

This batch of Chinese cabbage was sown on May 5.9th and was harvested early. The next batch was sown on May 5.18th. Chen Jiazhi thought that in a few days, the batch being harvested now would also reach its peak production period.

"On the morning of the 2nd of next month, we should be able to harvest an extra 50 kilograms of choy sum every day."

"Then I'll come back on the 2nd. Please prepare 50 kilograms for me."

In fact, Xu He wanted more than 50 kilograms, but now he didn’t care whether there were enough vegetables or not, it was good enough to buy some.

Chen Jiazhi also nodded in agreement.

Just at this time, stall No. 18 also came to pay and placed an order for choy sum for tomorrow. He also noticed the monk standing in front of the choy sum, but did not say much. He just paid and left.

Seeing this scene, the monk was a little surprised. There really is someone who has established a long-term trading relationship with small vegetable farmers!

"Brother, your choy sum is also very comfortable. 30 kilograms a day, selling for more than 70 yuan. If you get 80 kilograms a day, you can sell 200 yuan a day just for choy sum."

After the monk left, Yi Dinggan immediately started chatting with Chen Jiazhi.

Chen Jiazhi smiled and said, "It's really good that the choy sum has been planted. I plan to focus on planting choy sum in the second half of the year."

"Summer is here, and planting and management are becoming very difficult."

“The bigger the wind and waves, the more expensive the fish!”

Mao Liangcai walked around the market several times and bought all the other vegetables, but he didn't find any suitable leafy vegetables. Thinking of Manager Huang's warning yesterday, Mao Liangcai had no choice but to walk towards where Chen the vegetable farmer was.

Compared with money, face is nothing.

When they were only about twenty or thirty meters away, they saw Chen Jiazhi and the other man riding away on their bikes.

Mao Liangcai checked his electronic watch. It was only past four o'clock, and they were already sold out?!
(End of this chapter)