Chapter 77 Orange Planter(1/2)
Shen Ruobing left, and Gao Baosheng felt empty in his heart.
In this era, it is beyond imagination to marry a wife with a rural household registration who is registered as a commodity. What’s more, a young man from a poor mountain village in the northwest is marrying a beautiful college student from the south!
Walking alone on the street, Baosheng saw the strange looks from the people around him and knew that they thought his clothes were too vulgar. There was a big gap between the clothes of the people in YJ City and Suicheng City. The difference between the clothes of the people in the two places was at least ten years.
Seeing a clothing city, Baosheng entered and bought himself some clothes. Then he went to the barber shop to get a haircut and put on a pair of genuine leather shoes. His image suddenly took on a new look, and he attracted the attention of many young girls as he walked on the road.
Feeling the difference between this place and northern Shaanxi with your heart, Baosheng stopped to take a look when he saw strange things. He saw that there were very few state-owned shops here, there were dozens of times more fruit stalls on the streets than in northern Shaanxi, and there were shopping malls everywhere.
"Boss, how do you sell these bananas?" Gao Baosheng returned to the hotel door at noon and planned to buy some fruits. He planned to take a good look at the [Power Fruit Tree] alone at noon. He had planted the [Power Fruit Tree] for more than three months.
I really want to try if this fruit really has miraculous effects.
"A pound of banana costs three cents!" the boss said.
Baosheng couldn't help but be startled after hearing this. Bananas in Suicheng City are not affordable for ordinary people. They cost three yuan per pound, and the cheapest ones are not less than two yuan. But here they only cost thirty cents.
Think about it, the most difficult thing about bananas is transportation. If the transportation time is too long and the bananas are broken, you will lose money. This YJ city is the banana production area, of course the price is cheap, but to drive from here to Suicheng City, it takes more than two thousand kilometers at least
It takes four days, and northern Shaanxi is too poor to have enough purchasing power, so it is understandable that the price is too expensive.
"Buy me... ten pounds of oranges. What's the price of these oranges?" Baosheng said in Mandarin. The boss thought he was from the capital and was very polite to him.
"Oranges cost two cents per catty and five cents per catty," the boss said.
"Give me ten kilograms, and give me some of the other fruits here." When Baosheng heard what his boss said, his first thought was to rely on his own warehouse to see if he could make a profit.
Back at the hotel, Baosheng closed the door and put the fruit on the table. He peeled a banana and took a bite. He never realized that bananas could be so delicious.
I ate too much of this food in my previous life and it was nothing unusual. It was the first time in my life that I ate Baosheng and it was extremely delicious. He felt that if he could bring some bananas back from here, he would definitely be able to make money.
"There are too few people in Suicheng City who can afford to buy bananas. Even if I take them back, it would be too difficult to sell them. It would be a good idea to go to Chang'an City, but Chang'an City must have their fruit transportation channels. If I enter rashly, I may cause trouble."
Trouble, it's not worth it for a little money.
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Oranges are very common in Suicheng City and Yuyang County every year, and oranges can be stored for a long time. Rural people often buy them. A pound of oranges costs more than a dollar in Yuyang County. If I go to the orange orchards here to buy them, the price will definitely be higher.
Cheaper." Gao Baosheng thought.
With so many fruits, Baosheng felt that oranges should be the main business, with bananas as a supplement. Other fruits were either difficult to store or too expensive to sell in the north. Finally, he decided to go to the countryside outside the city in the afternoon.
After eating half full of fruits, Baosheng put the remaining fruits into his space warehouse and entered the space to check the condition of the [Power Fruit Tree]. Baosheng found that the nine [Power Fruits] were much yellower than in the morning.
"Look at this, [Power Fruit] will be ripe soon, either tonight or tomorrow." Gao Baosheng thought happily as he stared at the lush [Power Fruit Tree].
After a two-hour nap at noon, Baosheng woke up, had lunch, and then went to the south of the city and boarded a shuttle bus to the countryside and left the city.
The shuttle bus to the countryside is similar to the shuttle bus to Suicheng City, and the farmers are not as fashionable as the city people. Everyone wears simple clothes, but they look a bit whiter than the people in northern Shaanxi. Although they are also poor, they are not as fashionable as the people in the city.
Been hungry.
We came to a township, which is only more than ten kilometers away from YJ City, but the roads are still rough dirt roads. China's convenient transportation has not yet developed, even in the towns around YJ City.
"Boss, would you like to collect the oranges? Our oranges are big and sweet!"
As soon as Baosheng got out of the car, someone surrounded him. When he saw the old farmer speaking dialect to him, he looked at him with hope.
This old man may have misunderstood. Baosheng originally thought that at the beginning of China's take-off, people began to have money and have higher and higher material requirements. These oranges would definitely not have to be sold. The people in the south should be very wealthy, but look at this town.
This does not appear to be the case.
"How do you sell your oranges?" Baosheng came to see the oranges, so he didn't hesitate to ask.
"Boss, come to my house and see the oranges and then we can discuss the price." The old man heard what Baosheng said and was about to take him to his house.
"Boss, go to my house. I have five acres of oranges."
"Boss, my oranges are big!"
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When many people saw Baosheng really buying oranges, they all gathered around. Baosheng waved his hand to signal everyone to get out of the way, and he left with the old man who first asked him.
"Old man, this is my first time doing this orange business. Don't you have someone here to collect the oranges? There are so many people waiting to sell oranges!" Gao Baosheng asked.
"What about unified acquisition? There is a cannery in our village, but we only pay three cents per pound. This year, YJ City has a bumper orange harvest, and the cannery has lowered the price. It sells as many as it can. In a few days, the oranges will all turn yellow.
I can only send it to the cannery." The old man was also a kind person and said to Baosheng.
"How many oranges do you have at home, uncle? How much do they cost per pound?" Baosheng asked.
"It seems that you really don't understand the orange business, and you still go to our hometown to buy oranges alone. Last year, we sold oranges for ten cents a pound, but this year most of them are sold for nine cents. I have two acres of orange trees at home, and I still have
There are more than 4,000 kilograms left, if you can buy them all, how about I give you eight and a half cents per kilogram?" the old man said.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Eight and a half? Four thousand kilograms is only more than 300 yuan. My orange tree only earns 200 yuan per acre. It seems that it is not easy for you all.
"Baosheng couldn't help but said after hearing this.
In the north, one acre of wheat yields 600 kilograms, which costs two cents per kilogram, and one acre of land earns 120 yuan. Planting oranges is actually just a little better than growing wheat. The lives of people in the south are not much better than those in the north.
But if you want to say that all the profits from these oranges have been taken away by the middlemen, it is not necessarily the case. To transport a cart of oranges from here, according to the calculation of a medium-sized truck like Baosheng, the load of a cart is about 6,000 kilograms. Two people take turns driving to pull the oranges back.
There were no expressways at that time, and driving more than 3,000 kilometers from Yj City to Suicheng City cost more than 2,000 yuan in gas expenses. It took more than half a month, and it was calculated as one yuan per kilogram back home, so I could only earn 2,000 yuan at most.
On average, it’s more than 100 per day, which is about the same as hard work of pulling sand and soil, and the risk is even greater.
When Baosheng arrived at the old man's house, he didn't bargain with the old man. He settled on all their oranges with a deposit of fifty yuan. When the old man picked them from the tree tomorrow, he would ask a car to take them away.
"Young man, there are still a few households growing oranges in our village. Do you still want oranges? If so, take them all!" The old man accepted the deposit from Baosheng and happily introduced him to other oranges in the village.
"I can only collect about 10,000 kilograms this time, and the truck won't be able to pull it if it's too much!" Gao Baosheng thought for a moment and said.
It was his first time doing this business, so Baosheng didn’t dare to be careless. Although the space warehouse had a capacity of 100 cubic meters, Baosheng couldn’t stuff all the oranges in it.
He still has to wait for Shen Ruobing to come back. If it takes a long time, he might do some transportation work to earn some money, or pull dirt and sand, as long as he can rent a car.
He thought that just buying 10,000 kilograms of oranges would be enough, but in the end, after walking around the old man's village, Baosheng bought several kilograms of oranges. These oranges were worth 2,300 yuan. If they could be shipped to Qin Province, he would earn at least 10,000 yuan.
Nearly 30,000 kilograms of oranges took up more than 20% of the space. Baosheng checked some oranges that were still growing on the trees, bought 1,200 cardboard boxes and tape, and asked them to pack all the oranges into the boxes tomorrow.
These cardboard boxes cost Baosheng another 160 yuan.
He originally wanted to visit the banana farm, but after thinking about it, Baosheng finally decided to forget it. Let’s get rid of these oranges first, and then consider other things. If this goes well, selling southern fruits to the north every year will also become his regular source of income.
Business.
Taking the shuttle bus back to the hotel in the evening, Baosheng asked the front desk clerk hopefully, and received the news that Shen Ruobing did not come back today, and there was no call to him.
Feeling a little disappointed, Baosheng returned to his room and took out some food from the space to fill his stomach, then entered the space.
The color of the [Power Fruit] in the space is getting brighter and brighter, and it looks delicious. Baosheng saw the water level in the pool. The large pool had not been taken care of for many days, and the water level had increased a lot. Baosheng had nothing to do, so he took the big pool.
The water in the pool continued to be transferred to the small pool. By the time he had almost transferred the large pool, the water volume in the small pool had exceeded 400 cubic meters, and the pool area had exceeded 200 square meters.
Baosheng went to the night market alone in the evening, and he couldn't help but think about Shen Ruobing's current situation. When Shen Ruobing left, he didn't even ask her for her home phone number. Now he doesn't have any contact information for Shen Ruobing, or even
I don't know where their home is.
Waiting is lonely. Baosheng thought a lot that night. No matter how deep his relationship with Shen Ruobing was, the two had only known each other for three months. In the face of reality, love may not be as firm and indestructible as in TV dramas.
Baosheng couldn't sleep alone in the hotel room, so he entered the space to check the maturity of the [Power Fruit].
The nine [Power Fruits] have turned into pure yellow, and the peel is very thin. It seems that you can see into the fruit pulp at a glance. The [Power Fruit Tree] still looks lush and green. Baosheng looked at the [Power Fruit Tree] that was already more than five meters high.
During this time it continued to grow taller.
Check out the small-leaf red sandalwood and ginseng. Baosheng plans to go here tomorrow to ask how much the arm-thick red sandalwood is worth. If he can sell it for money, he will work hard to sell all this batch and plant a new crop.
The land around the space pond does not need to be irrigated now. Baosheng fed the fish and saw that the fish feed in the warehouse had bottomed out. He rented a truck to haul the oranges tomorrow and tried to buy some feed. The fish in the small pond are getting longer now.
As time went by, most of them weighed more than three kilograms, but Baosheng hadn't seen any fish laying eggs in the small pond yet.
Waiting until 12 o'clock, the [Power Fruit] became more transparent, but it has not fallen yet. Baosheng didn't know if there would be any side effects if the fruit was not ripe, so he didn't dare to pick it, so he just waited for it to ripen.
He landed on his own.
When he woke up, it was already bright. Baosheng entered the space and planned to dig up a small-leaf red sandalwood tree and a ginseng plant to ask about the price. When he entered the space, he saw that nine fruits on the [Power Fruit Tree] were missing!
He hurriedly looked under the fruit tree and saw that nine [Power Fruits] had fallen to the ground, and they did not appear to be damaged.
"Fortunately, space did not swallow up the fallen [Power Fruit]. The color of the fruit seems to have become a little dull!" Baosheng picked up nine fruits that were only the size of a finger. After thinking about it, he took them to the warehouse and placed them in a shelf box.
, although this fruit will not be swallowed by space when placed next to the space pool, its energy seems to be decreasing.
Back in the room, Baosheng stretched out his hand and a fruit appeared in his hand. He put the fruit into his mouth and felt that the [Power Fruit] tasted similar to the ginseng fruit, a little sweet but very refreshing.
When he felt the taste, Baosheng felt that the fruit turned into a stream of clear water and entered his belly. The fruit actually had no pit.
Without the core, there is no possibility of continuing to expand the [Strength Fruit Tree]. Baosheng savored the changes in his body, but the fruit seemed to have no effect, and his strength did not increase significantly.
"Forget it, let's go eat first, and we will study the specific functions of [this power fruit] later." After leaving the room, Baosheng went to the hotel restaurant to dine. Maybe it was because of the power fruit. Baosheng felt that his appetite was very good, so he ate alone.
Breakfast for two.
After leaving the hotel, I found a large Chinese medicine pharmacy. Baosheng took out the ginseng he had just dug out. The boss looked at Baosheng's ginseng for a while and gave a conclusion.
"The ginseng grown is very good, but it is less than six years old. If you want to sell it, if it is of this quality, I can give you 350 yuan per pound." The boss said to him in the local dialect.
There are about one or two ginseng in this plant, and it only costs more than thirty yuan to sell it. Even if he sells all the ginseng in the space, he will probably only be able to sell it for more than two thousand yuan.
"Sorry, I got this ginseng by accident. I bought it when I saw it was selling well. Will the boss accept this ginseng?" Baosheng asked with some disappointment.
To be continued...