Chapter 16 Picking Fragrant Fruits
"When I go back tomorrow, Achuan and I will go and see if there is any candy for sale. Then I will make jam when I buy some," Chen Xiayue said with a smile.
Anyway, allspice is like pears, and it should not be easy to preserve in this era without a refrigerator, so it is better to make it into jam.
When the Zhang family was busy dividing fruits. While they were cooking dinner, the rest of the village went up the mountain with the captain and the others to pick fruits in the Banana Valley.
The young and strong people in the village were all going up the mountain. It was almost dark and they didn’t allow women and children to go up the mountain. A group of men carried bamboo baskets similar to Zhang Chengchuan’s just now.
"Achuan said there are still many fruits, but I don't know how many more."
"Achuan said it was as big as two acres of land, and I don't know how many fruits it can bear."
"Achuan said that he still looks like he has thousands of pounds."
"So many fruits?"
"The fruit is very delicious, Achuan did a great thing this time."
Along the way, these men were discussing fruits, and of course, they talked about Zhang Chengchuan. Most men, who were about the same age as Zhang Chengchuan, envied him.
Zhang Chengchuan is not only enviable for being able to marry a beautiful wife in the city, but also for his elder brother and his elder sister to take care of him, which is enviable for many people in the village.
However, even though Zhang Chengchuan has a bad reputation and is not a diligent person, he has a good reputation. His bad reputation is that he is lazy and likes to be lazy. Of course, the most bad reputation is that he relies on his brothers and sisters to raise him.
But Zhang Chengchuan himself has a very good personality. Young people in the village who are about the same age as him like to play with him.
Everyone talked and laughed along the way, and soon arrived at the cliff of Banana Valley. Then the group of people widened their eyes when they saw Xiangguo.
"Oh my god, there are too many fruits, right?" One of the young men in their twenties was shocked when they saw the fragrant fruit on the branches.
"Are these all? There are too many?" Another teenager said in surprise. He ran under the fragrant fruit vine and picked a mature one and wiped it, then took a bite, and was immediately captured by the sweet smell.
"It's so delicious." The teenager said with a happy face.
The others also came over and picked one and started eating it. While eating, they looked at the fragrant fruits all over the branches, and were very excited.
"Captain, do we pick these fruits back and eat them or sell them? We can't finish them with so many fruits, right?"
"Captain, if you sell it, can you sell it to the county food factory? This fruit is so delicious."
"team leader……"
The group of people were very excited because the yield of fragrant fruit was very high. These people also found that not all the fruits ripened together. After the ripe fruit, there were some green and unripe fruits, and even some fruits that had just grown.
Of course, they also saw some white and yellow flowers on these vines, which were still blooming at this time, which means that the fruiting period did not pass so quickly.
"Pick it back first." The captain was very satisfied with the many fruits. At this time, everyone was poor. Now that they have income from such fruits, their village should be able to make some money.
With the captain's words, everyone chewed the fragrant fruits while picking the fruits neatly. They all automatically figured out which ones that could be eaten were not yet mature, so everyone picked them very quickly.
Soon the bamboo baskets everyone brought were filled with full bamboo baskets. The captain of the bamboo baskets that were first filled made a decision to carry them back first, and the rest continued to pick the fruits.
In this way, it took several hours to go completely dark and everyone was picking fruits on torches. Finally, it was almost done before they went home together.
Everyone did not pick all the ripe fruits, leaving about one or two hundred kilograms of ripe fruits for animals in the mountains.
Those fruits that have not yet matured should be almost ripe after a while. The captain and the people in the village are very clear about what to do.
After all, they are all farmers. Although they don’t know “sustainable development”, they still know the simple truth.
Because we planned to keep these vines and keep the fruits that were not yet ripe on the vines to continue to grow, everyone was very careful when picking the fruits and didn't pull off much of the vines.
The Yunhe Brigade was really lively that night, especially the children in the village were very happy because there were a lot of fruits.
The captain and the accountant, that is, Zhang Deping and the people in the village calculated together, and the fruits picked were about 4,000 or nearly 5,000 kilograms.
"Five thousand kilograms of fruit? Are there so many?"
"I heard that these fruits are only about two acres of land, but they can actually pick up five thousand kilograms of fruit."
"Wow, how much can so many fruits be sold?"
"It's a few hundred yuan, right?"
"Is this fruit delicious? Such a delicious fruit should be sold at a price."
The villagers were talking about it, and they all had high hopes for these fruits, hoping to make money with so many fruits.
After the captain and Zhang Deping counted all the weight of the picked fruits together, he told the villagers, "The fruits are collective and must be kept for sale for money. But we can't treat everyone badly. After all, they were picked by everyone, and everyone can't taste them."
"In this way, the family can take twenty or thirty to eat at home, and the rest must be kept and sold." After all, these fruits are grown in the mountains, so there is no cost to worry that they will lose money if they are eaten by the villagers.
"Really Captain? Can we go home with the fruit and eat it ourselves?"
"Of course, it's just that the fruits have to be kept for sale, so each family can only get twenty or thirty fruits."
"No problem captain."
"There is another thing. Keep the money sold by these fruits and then share the money when calculated at the end of the year. So we just count the work points. The fruit was discovered by Achuan, and he can get some work points."
Because Zhang Chengchuan discovered this fruit, even if he did not follow the villagers to pick it later, it would be considered his work points, but it was not as high as those who went up the mountain to pick it.
Zhang Chengchuan had no objection. After all, he didn't rely on this little work points to live. It was already very good to be able to get the work points.
Others had no objection, after all, Zhang Chengchuan didn't get much work points, and no one thought the captain was unfair to do so.
Everyone happily divided twenty or thirty fruits and went home. Zhang Chengchuan and the others calculated all the weight of the fruits and closed the warehouse and left.
Of course there are too many fruits. Although they are not food, they are also very important. The captain arranged a few young people to guard the warehouse.
Chapter completed!