Chapter 243 Selling Late Rice Seeds
After Wei Ruo left, Shi Dayou asked the villagers to go back to work in the fields, while he returned home carrying the hoe.
The contracting matter that Mr. Xu just told him was his top priority right now.
After returning home, Shi Dayou called several prestigious old people in the village to his home, told them in detail about cooperating with Mr. Xu, and asked for their opinions.
Several elders were very supportive of this. There was no stipulation on how much the rent should be paid, and they would only take half of it. Naturally, they would accept such a thing as a sure profit without losing money.
Moreover, there is already a surplus of labor force in their village. If they can be twisted together and do something else to make a living, maybe everyone can have a prosperous year this year!
The elders told Shi Dayou to treat Xu Heyou well. The people in their village had no other skills and livelihoods, and they didn't know how to deal with people in the city to make money. Now someone was willing to give them a hand and give them a way to survive. , they must grasp and cherish it well.
With the approval of the elders in the village, Shi Dayou then sent a message back to Wei Ruo.
Wei Ruo did not delay. After all, time waits for no one, and neither does the land in spring. It must be cultivated and planted immediately.
So Wei Ruo immediately signed a relevant contract document with the people in Stone Village.
On the day the contract was signed, Shi Dayou took the selected people to work on the sandy land purchased by Wei Ruo.
When selecting personnel, Shi Dayou also took into account many factors. The first principle was voluntariness. Some families had a small labor force and their own fields were too busy to handle, so naturally they could no longer take care of other jobs.
However, some families have less land and more brothers, so they are eager to seize this new opportunity to make money.
On the basis of everyone's voluntary registration, Shi Dayou will do some coordination with several village elders: for example, if there are three people in the family who sign up, usually one or two places will be allocated according to the family situation, and they will try to distribute as many places evenly as possible. .
But because each company is still quite surprised, it is impossible to achieve a complete average.
Fortunately, the village chief Shi Dayou and the elders in the village were in charge of the overall situation, and the villagers were quite satisfied with the final result.
Then, these villagers went to the large piece of sandy land bought by Wei Ruo and started working: weeding, clearing stones, turning the soil, and fertilizing appropriately.
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Wei Ruo took the matter of late rice planting to heart. Two days later, after calculating many factors, Wei Ruo asked people to go to the villages that were affected by bakanae disease to publicize that she had late rice seeds. Even if they were planted now It’s not too late to raise seedlings.
After hearing the news, the villagers rushed to Wei Ruo's village.
Outside the gate of Wei Ruo's Zhuangzi, there are many bulging sacks piled on the ground outside the wall. At this moment, there are still people moving sacks out of the village.
When the first few villagers arrived, their eyes shone brightly when they saw the sacks. They guessed that the sacks contained the late rice seeds they wanted.
However, the seven or eight tall, muscular men standing next to these sacks made them afraid to step forward easily.
At this time, Wei Ruo came out of the village, and several villagers couldn't help but gathered around to ask.
"Mr. Xu, I heard that you have rice seeds here that can survive even if you sow them now. Is it true?" an old man asked Wei Ruo cautiously.
Wei Ruo looked at the old man who looked familiar. After thinking for a while, she remembered that she had met him when she went to Mrs. Xu's farm. She persuaded him to change the seedlings, but he said that she was cursing them.
This was also the only time Wei Ruo used his identity as Wei Qingruo to remind the farmers of this incident. When he later went to other villages to remind others, Wei Ruo used his identity as Xu Heyou.
Therefore, the old man did not know that the person in front of him was the person he despised and cursed that day.
But it doesn't make any difference whether he knows it or not. Wei Ruo has no intention of settling accounts with anyone and treats everyone who comes today equally.
"It's true." Wei Ruo answered affirmatively. Hearing the affirmative answer, several people were extremely happy.
Then they showed tangled expressions again. After hesitating for a while, the old man carefully asked Wei Ruo:
"Mr. Xu, can you share this rice seed with us?"
"Want the rice seed?" Wei Ruo looked at it. Looking at the people in front of him.
Several people nodded quickly.
"Rice seeds are sold, not given away for free." Wei Ruo said.
"Sell?"
Upon hearing the demand for money, the light in several people's eyes dimmed instantly.
Several people looked at each other for a few times, and then the old man continued to ask Wei Ruo the price: "Mr. Xu, how do you sell this rice seed?"
"Ten coins per catty." Wei Ruo replied.
This is the original price of these rice seeds. Wei Ruo did not deliberately raise the price. Wei Ruo sold it to Yun at this price before.
The millet used as rice seeds is carefully selected, with plump grains and excellent quality. Naturally, it is slightly more expensive than ordinary millet.
And even the ordinary millet produced from these rice seeds, after being shelled, would be sold at Xu Ji Grain Shop in Wei Ruo for a hundred cents per dou.
However, after hearing this answer, the expressions of the people in front of Wei Ruo changed.
"Mr. Xu, what you are selling is too expensive!" The old man said with an annoyed look on his face, "The husked rice only costs a few cents per catty, how can you buy ten cents for your rice seeds?" One acre of land costs just a few cents
. It takes three to five kilograms of rice seeds. Generally, if a family has three to five acres of land, this rice seed will cost as much as ninety yuan.
This expense is now unaffordable for many farmers. Life has been difficult for everyone in the past two years. The family is almost unable to open the pot. In addition, they spent a lot of money on the newly dead seedlings. How can they come up with so much? money to buy this rice seed.
Several other people also agreed:
"Yes, Mr. Xu, this is too expensive. How can anyone sell such expensive rice seeds?" "
Besides, if your rice seeds don't work well, you still won't be able to harvest this year. what to do?"
"That's right, you said this is late rice seed, and you can make money by planting it late, but we don't know if that's true."
Wei Ruo said unhurriedly: "It doesn't matter if you can't afford it. I have a second solution. Plan, if you sign a document with me, you can take away the rice seeds for free, as much as you need. When the autumn harvest comes, you can pay back five times the amount of rice you took." "For example, if you take it from me
, Ten kilograms of rice seeds, just give me fifty kilograms of rice during the autumn harvest. Of course, if my late rice seeds are useless and I can’t catch up with the autumn harvest even if I plant them now, I don’t need to pay me anything.” Wei Ruo’s late
rice It takes three kilograms of seeds to plant one acre of land, and Wei Ruo's rice seed yields twice as much as the ordinary rice they grow. Generally speaking, the yield per mu can reach about two thousand kilograms. The specific value will be affected by the weather and weather conditions of the year. The influence of other objective factors such as water and fertilizer.
Therefore, the fee charged by Wei Ruo was fifteen kilograms of the two thousand kilograms.
(End of chapter)