"What money?"
Wu Lan fiddled with her phone while saying, "In the early years, when Tan Tan was little, someone came to collect the tea for 8 cents per pound. Her father took a big tea scissors and worked hard in the mountains for several days."
There were no electric or diesel scissors at that time, so we had to use big iron scissors by hand. After a few days of work, we were exhausted.
Now...
Zhang Yanping pondered for a moment: "You should cut a lot of tea leaves, right? 8 cents a pound is at least an income. The price must have gone up now."
Pruning can be divided into light pruning and heavy pruning.
Light pruning means only pruning the green and uneven part on top, while heavy pruning means pruning more than half of the old branches. The lower the tea branches are, the heavier they are.
8 cents per pound, that's really a lot of income.
But Wulan shook her head: "You wish... At eight cents a pound, they don't want the old branches."
"Besides, the business owners nowadays are not stupid. When they see that there are few people working in the village, they will raise the price if they want to buy tea branches. So they simply don't negotiate the price - if your family is willing to sell, they will take the big machine to the mountain to cut the tea branches directly."
The dream of tea eggs was shattered.
As Wang Sao spoke, she waved her hand:
The cousin also fell silent.
"If I had known there were so few people in his family, I should have bought all local chickens. He should have had some breed chickens. They grow slowly and lay eggs slowly... Our local local chickens have been like this for a few years."
What's more, I only paid 80 cents.
The bad guys, one old and one young, were obviously both good at living.
And then he looked at Song Tan again: "Is it bitter?"
It’s just that the chickens and pigs are raised in the front mountain. If you want to go there, you have to go around Wulan’s house, and only special people can go there to see them.
"But..." Song Tan looked at the branches outside the basin, wondering, "Other people use leaves to make tea eggs. Can you use tea tree sticks? Will it be astringent when you cook it?"
First cousin: …
But it does matter. Song Tan picked out the broken leaves outside without hesitation: "You can't bring back the tea branches, pick up the leaves and stir-fry them to boil eggs."
It’s hard work to come here, this is to make the outsiders feel less anxious and make the food under the table richer.
Wu Lan listened silently, and finally couldn't help but speak: "It's really that easy outside the home now..."
As for the branches...
"You only regret having too much money when you need it! Now there is no money outside the family, but when the wasteland is finished, this little money will still be enough for the reclamation... You want his share, then you can write down the ingredients and he can find someone to package it himself."
Pang Zhen also knows the importance of keeping a high profile:
The first cousin looked at you in agreement:
"Boil some water, you'll be cooking the eggs in a minute! Even if you believe it, the tea leaves are so fragrant, and the old branches still have some flavor."
I looked at the handful of broken tea branches and leaves that Pang Zhen had cut outside the basin, and simply waved my hand:
Once the hard work is over, it is to catch up with the weather.
"Well, there are only a few big chickens raised at the foot of the mountain, and they can only lay so many eggs. My cousin said he wanted to make tea eggs, but if a small family eats dozens of them, it would take a long time to save them! It's better for Tathagata to buy some."
"So... I can exchange these cut tea leaves for two boxes of beer?"
The cousin looked over immediately, and the meaning of his eyes was too straightforward—Zhang Yanping, he also said that he knew how to do business!
I want to prepare the marinade package, is this a good thing and difficult? I have some free time in the summer, will I be out of new work
Over there, Zhang Yanping silently retracted his neck, turned his head and said to his cousin: "You see, you are still worse than Shen Wanba."
As the two chatted, Qiao Qiao slowly picked up 40 eggs and said, "Those were just harvested in the last few days. They are fresh and still in time to sell. Is that enough?"
"That's enough."
I thought about it and said, "Let's try this first. If it tastes bad, Tan Tan, can he and his cousin prepare less and put it in Tao Tao Bao store for takeout?"
Anyway, with that arrangement, people outside the entire village will probably have some time to rest after winter.
"Too… "
Qiao Qiao also believed: "Yes, their family is young..."
Thinking of that, Qiao Qiao felt extremely tired.
Pang Zhen had come down the mountain to pick peaches. When he heard the shouting, he hurried out of the house and asked, "Does he have chickens? How come they still lay eggs in those few months?"
A family of 18 or 17 people would have to squeeze into one table for a meal. If we were to make dumplings, we would have to make a bag of noodles for one meal…
Huh
"Since we need tea this year, you can go and register. We are also short of these two boxes of beer. Go buy eggs."
"In previous years, when Tantan's father went out to work, this is how we sold tea at home."
Over there, Pang Zhen also found the family who raised chickens outside their home.
Okay!
To hold on is to hold on. To hold on is to hold on.
Wang Sao quickly agreed. Come again... To be honest, since the move, except for Wang Sao and Song Bacheng who came here for free, there is basically no easy work outside the house, and all of them are done by people.
What secrets are there outside the village? What does the Wulan family raise? The young man knows more about it than anyone else during the chat.
Zhang Yanping was amazed.
Then continue to hire people to do the work!
…
But the recipe for the tea eggs... If you search the internet for the ingredients, you'll find hundreds of versions. How could I be so embarrassed to ask for money for it
Pang Zhen: …Okay. It’s a waste.
Zhang Yanping: …
When the cousin thought about that, he felt it was unreasonable: "Besides, it has nothing to do with money - such a bad thing, he is willing to use it as firewood? Is that a waste?"
I'm old, I have no house and no savings, I eat and drink badly every day, and I sleep poorly, so what's the point of having a share of the profits
"What else can I do? Look, there are only a few families in the village now. I'm paying 80 cents a pound, but there are people there! If I hire someone to cut tea leaves, and I want to bring in the machine and oil, it will cost about 400 yuan a day, including accommodation and meals. He can calculate how much tea leaves I have to cut."
Who does business with other plans in mind
As I spoke, I picked up a branch and chewed it.
The sauce packets for tea eggs should be okay if they are sold at a slightly lower price.
When fishing, because I put in the effort, my cousin will give me the share that I deserve.
"The leaves are used to boil eggs, and the branches are used to smoke meat and roast duck!"
Song Tan nodded: "Not a little astringent, not even a little bitter."
Mrs. Wang also looked helpless: "I also think about how little work there is outside the home... If you want to raise chickens, it's a lot of work every day, and you have to worry about finding food for us... Is it necessary to raise children? You are selling goods offline now and you still want to go in, just let it go."
The busiest days are not the days when we pick peaches.
The cousin thought about it and said: That's right, it's okay.
"Qiao Qiao, there are no eggs outside? Buy some."
"By cutting the tea leaves and transporting them away, we farmers can save a lot of effort. Although we don't earn any income, we can save labor and the tea leaves won't grow badly next spring."