inspire-indiana Chapter 763 Song Mushroom Mountain
Chapter 763 Song Mushroom Mountain
Despite this, Li still felt uncomfortable and unhappy.
Zhou Guo came back in the evening and saw her listless appearance. He was curious, "What's wrong with you? Who pissed you off?"
Wu Ya told the story.
Zhou Guo laughed and said, "Mom, you are wrong. They are looking for a good market and a high price. We can't be angry if they don't sell it to us. If it were you, you would bring it to the city for 200 to 300 coins per catty, or more than 100 coins, and sell it to me for 40 to 50 coins per catty. How would you choose? Even a fool would know what to choose."
Li said, "How could I not know this truth? I just feel uncomfortable. Every time they are desperate, they come to our house and treat us as a retreat. How can they do that?"
Zhou Guo didn't care much, and hugged her arm and said, "Don't worry, it's fine now. Think about it, if they all send mushrooms to me now, how can I collect so many?
If they collect too much and can’t sell it, it will be a waste of money. When they can’t sell their mushrooms anymore, they can come to me and I will buy them all. Then they won’t be able to complain about how much I sell in winter, and there will be fewer disputes.”
It was she who spread the news that the first crop was in a good market. She couldn't need that much mushroom from several villages combined.
After hearing what she said, Li finally let go of the grudge in her heart.
It was just that she had good intentions, but she didn't expect that other people were so disappointing. The price of two hundred wen per catty only lasted for two days, then it increased to more than one hundred wen, and then to dozens of wen. After five or six days, it fell below fifty wen, and after seven or eight days, it became a very cheap price.
At this time, people don’t go to the provincial capital or the county town anymore. The provincial capital only sells at this price, so how much more expensive can the county town be?
They all flocked to Zhou's house again. After all, their village had someone to back it up, so it was good as they would all make money anyway.
After some consideration, Zhou Guo decided that the price this year would be higher than last year. He gave them 68 cents per pound of mushrooms and only bought the best ones.
But there are not so many of the best ones. The rest are not of such good quality. I can’t bear to eat them at home, so I take them to the county town to sell them. If I spend that time, I might as well stay at home and pick a few pounds of good mushrooms in the mountains. I can earn much more than this.
Some of them came to Zhou Guo out of pity and said, "Even if you bought it for ten cents a pound, you can't just leave it at home and rot."
Zhou Guo refused, "Ten cents a pound also needs money. I accepted yours, but why should I accept others'? If you can't sell these mushrooms, can't you take them home and eat them yourself? Your family can't afford this now, right?"
The visitor was embarrassed, "Who would complain about having too much money? How could our family afford to eat such expensive mushrooms?"
Zhou Guo said, "This mushroom was expensive in the past. Is it still expensive now? It's not expensive anymore. You can dry it and eat it slowly in winter. It can also be a dish."
She has a hard time selling so many high-quality mushrooms. If she gets more, she really doesn’t know how she will sell them all.
But later, more and more people from the neighboring villages came to her, asking for the good ones to be accepted. These ones were not that bad either, so they begged her to accept them.
There are many people from more than a dozen other villages here. Now these mountains are open to outsiders, and how many you can find depends on your own ability.
She looked at these people coldly. They were definitely no match for the people in their village. Their clothes were ragged and so dirty that the color couldn't be seen anymore. They probably hadn't changed their clothes. The children's clothes were too short, revealing their ankles and wrists, with two big dirty snot hanging from their noses.
Look at her with big eyes.
In the past two years, she managed to keep these people well fed, but she had no way to deal with the extra money.
After they knelt down and begged again and again, they finally agreed.
The price is ten cents per pound. I don’t want the bad ones, but the rest are fine.
As a result, the Zhou family collected more mushrooms. In addition, there are more people and the mountains are wider now, so they collect more mushrooms every day than before.
Fortunately, there are not as many mushrooms in the mountains in recent years as at the beginning. After only about ten days of harvest, the mushrooms in the mountains gradually disappeared.
Otherwise, she would really regret it. She would not know where to put so many things.
Li looked at the mountain of mushrooms at home, and her eyes went dark. "With so many, how can we sell them? Even if we eat them ourselves, we can't eat that much!"
What's more, we spent money to buy this, how can we bear to eat it ourselves?
Everyone in the Zhou family stared at the fungi with wide eyes.
They have never seen so much. In previous years, they just transported the food away after harvesting. This must be about 80,000 or 90,000 kilograms, right?
The old man had his hands behind his back and looked worried. It turned out that there was too much food, which was a worry. It also didn't taste very good, and suddenly he didn't want to eat it anymore.
Zhou Guo took a deep breath and said, "We'll sell as much as we can. This year we harvested more than 20,000 kilograms of the best mushrooms. These mushrooms will be distributed to various prefectures, and the rest will be circulated in these counties. It's not expensive anyway, we can sell them for 200 to 300 coins per kilogram."
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone in the Zhou family turned to look at her.
Zhou Mai said worriedly, "Didn't they say that no one in the county knows about this fungus? With so many people selling it, it only costs a dozen cents per pound, or at most forty cents per pound."
Zhou Gu shook his head and said, "What you said was last year and a few years ago. This year is different. The county can sell this mushroom for fifty coins per catty, but as more people sell it, the price has dropped to a dozen coins per catty. People simply stopped selling it and bought it and sent it to our house. We sell it for fifty-eight coins per catty."
The wind of pine mushroom has been blowing for so many years, but these counties still haven't heard of it. That's something fishy.
Zhou Guo touched his nose, waved his hand and said to Da Pang, "Take out 50 baskets of mushrooms that we collected at 10 cents per pound. Let's eat them to our heart's content before selling them."
It’s not expensive anyway.
Big Fat responded excitedly and happily asked people to go. To be honest, they had never eaten enough of this thing. They had never eaten fifty baskets of it like this year.
Zhou Guo also moved a lot of things. He fried, roasted, deep-fried, stir-fried, stewed them into soup, made them into meat sauce, dried them, fried them and sealed them in jars. In short, he used everything that was edible.
It is also dried together with dried shrimps and ground into powder for seasoning.
There is always pine mushrooms in the yard every day.
Half a month later, the old man would avoid this thing whenever he saw it. No matter how delicious it was, he couldn't resist eating it like this. Such good food, such a delicacy, had become like this. He didn't know what he would be able to eat in the future.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Master, don't look at me as if you are tired of it. It's just for a while. When you can't eat it anymore, you'll miss it again. Isn't it the same when eating crabs? It's the same when eating pine mushrooms at this time of year in previous years. You'll miss it in less than a year."
The old man rolled his eyes at her and counted on his fingers, "Matsutake mushroom sauce, pine mushroom oil, dried pine mushroom, pine mushroom seasoning, just tell me, when do you not eat these things?"
Zhou Guo said with a smile: "In previous years, there were also pine mushroom oil and pine mushroom powder. These things have only a little flavor at best, and are far inferior to the fresh ones."