Chapter 96 96. Buying fry
There are many elderly people like Old Man Li in Yunqiao Village.
It is no exaggeration to say that in a poor mountain village like theirs with less than 30 households, Old Man Li’s age group accounts for about one-third.
This village did not have such a small population at the beginning. Once upon a time, there were more than 200 households in the entire village.
However, with the development of the times and the increase in commodity prices, mountain villages gradually began to fall behind. It only becomes lively in the months before and after the Spring Festival every year.
Because everyone in the village under the age of sixty has all gone out to work.
Even older workers in their 50s and 60s are not easy to do. They are basically hard-working jobs with an hourly salary of more than ten yuan, and most of them rely on overtime pay.
But there are old people at the top, and the children at the bottom may have just started a family, and a house, a car, and education for the children are free of money.
Children are having a hard time themselves, let alone supporting the elderly.
Working is also a forced way of survival.
This is exactly the case, even if Zhu Jun repeatedly promised that agricultural loans are now easily approved and the interest rates are still very low. If Song Tan is confident, he can apply to the credit union...
Is Song Tan sure? That is of course very certain.
But can she find anyone?
Can't find it at all.
The situation is the same in all the villages and towns. When you can't do farm work, you have to go to various villages to recruit these elderly people to do it, right?
At their age, they may not show off at ordinary times, but if they are not careful, they can fall down and cause big problems. And when it comes to recruitment and employment... they can't afford to spend a lot of money!
As for hiring young and strong laborers from elsewhere... what is the total labor cost?
It is better to start from a young age and grow up step by step. When the village gradually develops and stabilizes, there will naturally be young people who do not want to leave their hometown and come back.
This is not something that can be accomplished overnight.
For this reason, Song Tan never mentioned money when dealing with the elderly.
Song Sancheng chatted with Old Man Li about this year's climate, and then went up to the higher fields to see if the farmland had been cultivated carefully enough. When the circle was completed, was the work over?
No.
The excavator on the barren mountain pushed forward with its blade, buzzing incessantly, and a man had to be spared to rake aside the vines, saplings, branches and other things it had broken.
Otherwise, these leaves and branches will be piled into the soil in large quantities, but they will not be able to mature within a short period of time, which is very likely to delay subsequent planting.
Zhang Yanping stood numbly in the forest wearing a straw hat, looking at the work assigned to her uncle's family who specially took care of him, and then looked at the rake in his hand, with sadness all over his face.
Yes, at my own request, I didn’t go to the ground today, but went straight up the mountain.
Song Sancheng climbed up the hillside and took in this stretch of land, his whole body full of fighting spirit.
Looking further down, it was a pond within their contract area, with blue sky, green shadows and faint water and grass.
It’s just that the fish in this pond are very slippery and it’s hard to catch them!
Song Sancheng suddenly thought of another thing and quickly took out the phone:
“Tan Tan, didn’t you say you would buy some fish fry last time? Don’t forget it!”
By coincidence, Song Tan was sizing up the fishing ground in front of him!
This is a fishery in their city. People who do local business like this always focus on reputation. This fishery is small in scale, and the fry are mainly of common species.
The boss spoke in a local language urgently and quickly:
“Is this your first time raising? You can’t do too many. The maximum number cannot exceed 1,500 per acre! You won’t be able to handle more if you have no experience.”
The boss's questions were all about ideas. Even if Song Tan had the spiritual energy to cheat, it would not prevent her from learning more experience, so she answered 1510 times: "A pond is not big, about three acres, and the water is almost three meters deep. It is In the valley, there is a circle of water plants around it.”
“I mainly eat it at home, and I plan to sell the extra food.”
The boss pondered for a while: "Isn't that pond in the mountain valley dry? It's winter and it's troublesome to catch fish."
“There is no other water nearby that can be brought here. It’s too hot in summer and it’s easy to get dry and get sick.”
Song Tan nodded—if it were a really high-quality fish pond, even in a remote mountain village, it would cost eight hundred yuan per acre, not to mention one thousand yuan.
What’s the price now?
Three hundred.
What else to choose? It should be used as a water reserve for the orchards on the mountain. Song Tan wrapped it up, firstly for convenience, and secondly because in his own mind, this pond had never dried up.
This is enough.
The boss simply didn’t let her look at the lively fish in front of her. Instead, she went to another place where there were large and small separate boxes, filled with densely packed little fish that were just born.
"You don't have any experience, so just raise these, crucian carp, carp, grass carp, and silver carp. Buy them in combination. Although they are ordinary species, grass carp eats grass and can eat up the water plants beside your pond. Otherwise, I’m afraid it will be overgrown in a few years.”
“With the other three kinds of fish, the water in the pond will be well circulated and clean, and the fish will be strong and delicious, and they won’t get sick.”
"Aren't you going to eat it yourself? The fish pond probably hasn't been cleaned yet. There must be big fish in it, which will be enough for a while. Just buy these water flowers now."
Splash?
The boss laughed and said, "You have never raised fish before. We fish farmers call these newly born seedlings water flowers."
"If you think it's okay, I'll match it for you. Three acres of fish ponds, throw away the losses, and buy a total of five thousand fish."
Song Tan nodded: She can afford more or less, so the quantity is not a big problem.
But she had done her homework before, and what the boss said was so honest that she was willing to listen to her experience.
"How much?"
The boss looked uninterested: "Thirty, please."
Song Tan:…
Ah, it turns out that the price of water flower fry is so low.
The boss pointed to the fry on the other side: "The prices of these two-centimeter fish are different. They are 50 cents each. The bigger they are, the more expensive they are. It depends on what kind of fish you raise!"
Does it still need to be chosen?
“I need water flowers! Another 8,000 fish. I also have a larger fish pond at home. The terrain is good and I can release water.”
"Okay!" The boss also became happy: "I just see that you are a real person, girl, so I won't ask for more from you. I'll give you seventy-five."
Song Tan calculated in his mind and couldn't help but laugh: The price of co-authorship is only three yuan cheaper per person?
But thirteen thousand water splashes only cost 75 yuan in total, so why don’t you need a bicycle!
She readily gave the money, and then saw that the boss was not even willing to give him a foam box, and only carried two plastic bags:
"This bag is for eight thousand pieces, and this bag is for five thousand pieces. Don't worry, there will only be more and not less! If you don't trust me, you can just count them when you go home and you have some time."
“If you lose one piece, I will pay you a hundred pieces.”
Song Tan laughed out loud: "Uncle, that's not the case!"
Ah, regarding the exhaustion of the first two days, because my mother and my little cousin were both at home, it was difficult to get into the mood.
But they went back today, so they can update during the day tomorrow! Six or ten thousand tomorrow. It’s a new week, cheer up!
Thank you everyone!
(End of this chapter)