inspire-indiana Chapter 603: Gong 1
Chapter 603: Gong 1
Zhou Guo returned to the house and took out a pair of gongs, saying, "Go to a few nearby villages and spread the word about our fertilizer. If the mountains don't come to me, I'll go to the mountains. Can a living person be suffocated to death by urine? Brother, let's go!"
Zhou Gu's eyes lit up and he turned around to harness the carriage.
The old man smiled and said, "Once your gong sounds, everyone in the surrounding area will know about it."
I don’t know if the fertilizer available on the farm is enough. It seems I really have to hurry up.
Mrs. Li was also impressed by her daughter and had come up with this idea. She took a basket and packed some food for the two of them. "Here, take it. Eat something when you're hungry."
Zhou Xing said: "This method is really good. When the gong sounds, everyone in the village can hear it. It is much faster than the villagers going out to inform the people in other villages one by one."
If people from other villages knew about this profitable deal, it would be a big deal even if only ten families came from each village.
Soon, Zhou Gu pulled the car out from the back door.
Zhou Guo set out with a basket in one hand and a gong in the other, looking heroic and confident, as if he was going to a war.
Zhou Gu was driving the car in front, and the two of them set off in the car.
The Li family and the others watched from behind and looked at the sky. They didn't know how late it would be before they returned. In fact, wouldn't it be the same if they went tomorrow?
The two men first went to the farm and brought two sacks of fertilizer before setting off.
Zhou Gu asked with great interest: "Which village shall we go to first?"
Zhou Guo said: "We can go to any village along the way. There are so many villages anyway."
The villages vary in size, some are big and some are small, some have hundreds of households, and some have only a dozen or twenty households.
The first one they passed was a small village with only about twenty households, which was quite far away from other houses in a mile.
Zhou Guo didn't despise him and said to Zhou Gu, "Let's go into the village."
The village is located on a mountain path, and oxcarts cannot go up.
The two had to abandon the car and walk.
Zhou Guo also carried half a sack of fertilizer onto the car.
When we climbed halfway up the mountain, we saw that it was the time when people were working in the fields. All the doors of the houses were closed, and it seemed that they were all working in the fields.
Even better in the field!
The two walked around the mountainside and finally saw the villagers on a southern hillside. There was a large piece of land here, but it was divided into small pieces. The land was not very big, and no one knew what everyone was busy with in the land.
Zhou Guo counted and found that there were about ten people. He didn't know where the rest of the villagers had gone, but this was enough.
Put down the fat bag, hold the gong in one hand and the hammer in the other.
"Ding ding ding... ding..." In the mountains, which were originally quiet with only the chirping of birds and the buzzing of insects, a shrill gong sounded.
The people working in the fields raised their heads and looked towards the direction where the gong was sounding.
Zhou Guo said to Zhou Gu, "Let's go down."
Take the lead.
Zhou Gu picked up the sack on the ground and followed behind.
The people in the field were confused. "Who is this? Someone from the township has come again? Is he going to serve in the army?"
"It doesn't look like that. I've never seen it before."
Zhou Guo walked to the field in a few steps and quickly looked around at the people there, including men, women, young and old.
He smiled and said, "Everyone is busy. They are weeding."
Everyone looked at each other.
One of them, a skinny, tanned old man who looked about fifty years old, asked sternly, "Who are you and what are you doing here?"
The others also looked alert.
Zhou Guo threw half a sack of fertilizer onto the ground and said with a smile, "We are from Cangshan Village next door, not far away."
"Cangshan Village? Are you from Cangshan Village?" Everyone looked them up and down, and their faces were full of envy when they heard the word Cangshan Village.
"I heard that a god of wealth appeared in your village. He led your entire village to turn the mushrooms in the mountains that no one knew how to sell into treasures. They cost 70 or 80 cents per pound, right?"
"Your Cangshan Village is different now. Look at what you are wearing. Is this cotton? You are plump and white. The people in Cangshan Village are indeed rich. So what are you doing here?"
The people in the field now became enthusiastic, even the thin old man who had originally looked serious softened his expression.
Zhou Guo said, "It's like this. Recently, someone in our village has been selling fertilizer from the fields. You can buy as much as you want. All the people in Cangshan Village have bought it. I want to ask if you want to buy any?"
Zhou Gu followed closely and said, "If you apply more fertilizer, the crops will grow better and the harvest will be greater."
Everyone was very disappointed, because it turned out that they were not there to make money from them, but to make money from them.
One of the women said expressionlessly, "Buy fertilizer? Look at us, we can barely afford to eat, how can we afford to buy fertilizer? Do we have the spare money to do that?"
"That's right. If I had that much money, I wouldn't know how to buy a few more plots of land. And why buy fertilizer?"
Zhou Guo said, "Don't worry, you can keep the fertilizer for now and use it yourself. You can sell the extra grain after the autumn harvest to pay back the money. If that doesn't work, you can still use grain to pay it back."
Everyone was stunned.
Zhou Guo continued, "Look, I don't want you to pay a penny for the fertilizer now. You can go and pull it yourself. Keep a record of how much you pull. When the autumn harvest comes, the yield of the crops in the fields will definitely increase because of the extra fertilizer. You can use the increased yield to offset my fertilizer."
Zhou Gu emphasized again, "We don't ask for your money now, and we won't ask for your money after the autumn harvest. You can give us whatever you have, and you can also give us 30% beans and 70% grains."
After the two of them finished speaking, no one among the dozen or so people spoke.
They looked at each other without a smile on their face.
Zhou Guo's heart skipped a beat. No way! She had put so many conditions on the table, but no one was willing to take her?
You don’t even want it for free?
"What good things can be given for free? What do your fat things look like?" someone suddenly spoke up.
Zhou Guo looked over and saw it was the thin old man and smiled.
"Many things given away for free are not good, but mine is not. You have to buy it yourself. It's just that the way to pay back is a little different." He bent down and opened the sack. "I know you may not be able to do it. Here, look, I brought all the fat. It's all like this. Take a look."
Lift the sack over.
The thin old man looked at her, frowned, leaned over and grabbed a handful of
Others also gathered around, wanting to see if there was fat in the sack.
A group of people looked at it carefully for a long time. They were all farmers. The fertilizer was obviously good and no worse than the one they had at home.
The thin old man asked again: "How do we know if you are cheating us with the fermented food in your backyard?"
Zhou Guo said, "That's easy. We're not delivering the goods now. Why don't you go to Cangshan Village tomorrow and see for yourself? It's not far from here. If I ask you to bring something, you must check it yourself. If you think it's not this, can I force you to bring the fertilizer back?"
Zhou Gu nodded and said, "We don't have any trouble selling our fertilizer. Many people from the nearby villages will go there. And there's not much fertilizer this time, so you'd better buy it early."
"So, what's the price of your fat?"