novelaction Chapter 739: Sky-high Price Crab
Chapter 739: Sky-high Price Crab
They went there three times in total, causing the price of pine mushrooms in Yunzhou to drop lower and lower. Later, people like Wang Fugui simply stopped going there.
We dried and fried the fruits we found and saved them for eating in the winter, which is much better than selling them outside.
People from the neighboring villages did go back. After all, no matter how much they earned, they would earn something, which was better than having no money at all.
At this time Zhou Guo felt that it was time for her to take action. She spread the word that she would start collecting mushrooms, and only the best quality ones, and would take as many as she could at 38 cents per pound.
Now the villagers went crazy again. Thirty-eight cents per pound was much better than going to the provincial capital to sell it themselves.
They took it to the provincial capital themselves, and the best quality batch could only be sold for more than 40 coins per pound at most.
It would be better to sell it to Zhou Guo, who is right at his doorstep. After they finish selling, they can go back up the mountain, saving manpower and making more money than going to the provincial capital.
Several neighboring villages also received the news.
Now even people from other villages have followed them up the mountain. The fungus grows in many places, and generally speaking, those mountains are not their villages, so it is not right to always stop them.
What's more, they themselves had secretly gone to other people's mountains.
As a result, more people come to sell mushrooms.
Now that Li had something to do, she no longer insisted on going into the mountains to look for mushrooms. She stayed at home every day to collect mushrooms, and only collected the best-looking ones.
Zhou Gu was puzzled and asked, "Why do you only collect the best ones? There are not many mushrooms now, and there are not many of the best ones. We will eat a lot in one winter."
My family is a big mushroom eater now.
Zhou Mai looked at the baskets of mushrooms in the yard, and his jaw almost dropped when he heard Zhou Gu's words, "Brother, we can't eat so much, right?"
Zhou Gu said, "Why can't we eat them? Have you forgotten how many people we have in our village now? When have we ever been short of them when we eat delicious food? This year, each person gets three crabs! In previous years, when we relied on others for help, each person could only eat three crabs."
Yes, Zhou Guo was extremely generous to both his servants and Laizitou's gang of bandits. He would give them anything as long as the work was done well.
There were nearly three hundred people, and each person bought three crabs, so nearly a thousand crabs were gone.
How much can I get from selling these crabs?
But after a few days, Zhou Gu could no longer say this, because the amount of mushrooms collected increased day by day, and the number of people also increased day by day.
It seems that there are not many mushrooms left in the mountains, but these people can still bring out a few kilograms.
Later, no one in the village went up the mountain anymore, but people from other villages refused to give up and continued to go up the mountain every day.
Until there was no more mushroom to be found in the whole mountain, no one would go into the mountain again.
The Zhou family had collected enough mushrooms at this time.
Zhou Guo stored all these fungi away.
Li looked at the mountain of mushrooms and sighed, "This is at least tens of thousands of kilograms. Where did so many come from? Didn't they say they were all gone?"
We have stockpiled so much, can our family eat it all?
Zhou Gu said: "Second Aunt, these are not all from our mountain, there are also some from other villages. If you add up the number of villages, there will be a lot."
Li nodded randomly, "If we can sell all these mushrooms, how much money can we make?"
Unfortunately, it can’t be sold.
Zhou Guo said, "Mom, don't even think about it. As far as I know, several restaurants have stockpiled a lot of mushrooms this year. They bought them at low prices. Now that they are full, they will definitely not buy any more from us."
Not much higher than her thirty-eight cents per pound.
If she sells it at a high price, who would buy it?
None of them are fools.
While selling sheep mushrooms and flower mushrooms, she went to Yunzhou and checked with Cheng Ding. At this time of year, the restaurant didn't have any pine mushrooms on sale, and they wouldn't accept them.
I guess they will wait until this season is over before selling it out, and then they can sell it at a high price.
It seems that everyone has realized that they have advantages that no one else has.
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In September, we have already started wearing thin cotton-padded jackets, as the crabs in the pond are plump and juicy.
Zhou Guo had people catch thousands of them every day and take them to various counties to sell.
The price is five cents per piece.
When ordinary people hear the price, they turn around and leave without saying a word.
"This is simply a rip-off. A crab is so expensive. I might as well go to the creek and catch a few small ones. I don't need to spend more than this!!"
"Is this some kind of delicacy? So expensive??!"
Erpang and the others explained, "This is a crab. In the entire Northland, only the Baoyue Tower in Yunzhou has it, and then our family has it."
"It's very difficult to raise these crabs in the north. It takes a lot of manpower and money. Do you think it's easy to keep these crabs alive in the ice and snow? There must be a reason why they are so expensive!"
"That's right. Have you ever eaten it? If you haven't, why are you saying it's expensive? Look at this guy. He bought ten at once without even asking the price. He must know it's worth the money!"
Several people sang in unison.
Those who didn't buy were furious. "What do you mean? Are you saying we are too poor to buy it? Don't you see how wealthy he is? He runs a grain store. What can't he afford?"
There were many verbal disputes, but no one started physical fights.
After all, crabs are very precious. In order to prevent someone from taking advantage of the situation and robbing the crabs, ten people were sent from each county.
They were all strong men like Baldy Head. They would just stand there and glare at the people, and those who wanted to collect protection fees would not dare to come forward.
Of course, this trick cannot be used casually. What if it scares other people? Will anyone dare to buy crabs?
Three thousand were caught on the first day and three groups of people took them to three counties to sell.
When they came back in the evening, all the baskets were empty.
SOLD OUT!
A group of people had happy faces.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "You're so happy, but you sold out everything?"
Hu Zi was extremely happy, "Master, you don't know how good these crabs are, 500 coins each, 500 coins!! How come I didn't know these people were so rich!
They bought them in batches of ten. Some wealthy families would buy four or five baskets at once, with 30 pieces in a basket! Fifteen strings of cash for a basket! They spent the money without blinking an eye."
Er Pang said, "It's similar in our place. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to sell them because they are too expensive! Soon after we put them out, they were surrounded. Although many people can't afford them, those who can afford them bought one or two to try."
"The most important thing is the wealthy families who buy dozens of baskets at a time. I don't know how they can finish eating so many baskets. This is dozens of strings of cash! It's not a small amount of money!"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "What they lack is not the tens of strings of money, but the delicious crabs. Now that they have a place to get the tens of thousands of crabs in the pond, they can make a lot of money!"
I couldn't suppress my smile. There were about 10,000 or 20,000 crabs. If they were sold, I'd make nearly 10,000 strings of cash. Crabs in the north are really expensive!
It sells really well!
Er Pang asked, "Master, will you continue to sell in these counties tomorrow? One thousand per county as well?"
Zhou Guo shook his head. "No, let's wait a few days. Let's go to other counties tomorrow. We'll go to these counties six days later. We have to wait until they finish eating before we can wait a few days. After all, there are only a few big households in a county."