flstandardbreds Chapter 190 The crocodile in the melon field
Chapter 190 The crocodile in the melon field
Now the pigs were about to be sold. When Wu Xin saw that there were so many pigs and he was the only buyer, he suddenly changed his mind and decided to lower the price.
As the name suggests, he is a villain who does not keep his word.
Gu Xi followed the villagers and went in to take a look at the pigs they raised. They were all fat and strong.
"Director Xu, how many pounds does each of these pigs weigh?"
Xu Qingbing said:
"They weigh about 300 to 400 kilograms."
Gu Xi calculated in his mind that there were 100,000 troops in the north, and they would need to consume about 60 to 70 pigs every day to barely allow each person to eat half a bowl of meat.
She bought all the pigs in the village, which was enough for the soldiers to eat for half a month.
However, how to transport these pigs is a problem.
In ancient times, there were no refrigerators and meat could not be stored, so Gu Xi wanted to buy live pigs, but the transportation of live pigs was difficult.
She couldn't just touch them one by one and put them into the space. There were a thousand of them. If she wasn't exhausted, she would at least smell like Second Brother.
Seeing Gu Xi frowning, the villagers became nervous, fearing that she would say she would not buy it.
Gu Xi said:
"Director Xu, do you know where I can buy a pig transport truck?"
After hearing her ask this, everyone felt relieved.
Xu Qingbing said hurriedly:
"We have them in our county, but they're quite expensive, costing three hundred thousand yuan. If you're not in the pig buying business for a long time, you can also rent a car."
Gu Xi thought that the people of An Ning were still not well fed and there was no extra food to raise pigs, so ordinary people could only eat meat a few times a year.
She would have to buy pigs or piglets to raise in the future, so she might as well buy a few pig transport trucks.
"Director Xu, how many pigs can a pig transport truck carry?"
Xu Qingbing said:
"The three-story cart can hold about a hundred heads."
"Okay, then I'll buy ten and take all the pigs from your village away at once."
Gu Xi asked Xu Qingbing to lead the way and went to the county to buy a pig transport truck, spending more than three million.
She hired a designated driver to help her drive to Xugangzi Village.
The villagers began to weigh the pigs and load them onto trucks.
After all, it is a major pig-raising county and the villagers are very experienced.
Xu Qingbing's wife is called Li Chunfeng. When Xu Qingbing led his men to load the pigs, she was responsible for entertaining Gu Xi and Chu Zhao for lunch. During the meal, Gu Xi asked:
"Sister Chunfeng, is there a chicken farm near you? I want to buy 100 tons of eggs."
Gu Xi thought about it and decided that after sending the pigs to the north, he could build a pigpen to keep them in a pen and slaughter a batch of them every day for meat.
Moreover, pigs eat everything and are easy to raise. Soldiers can feed them for half a month just by collecting some grass.
But raising chickens is rather troublesome, as chickens eat food and have wings, so they will fly everywhere.
We should go to the farmer's market and buy a batch of chickens that will be enough for one day to improve everyone's meals, and buy a few trucks of eggs and put them in the north. If each person eats one egg a day, that will be about one hundred tons in half a month.
Li Chunfeng thought for a while and said:
"There is a chicken farm in my mother's village, but eggs cannot be stored for a long time. A batch is taken out of the warehouse every few days, and the inventory is not too large."
That's true. No chicken farm would keep so much inventory.
Li Chunfeng added:
"If you need a large quantity and are in a hurry, you can only contact large agricultural and sideline product companies. They have large warehouses and will have a lot of inventory. Or you can ask the leaders of the town or county government to come forward. They will definitely be willing to help you."
Gu Xi said:
"I know about the agricultural and sideline products company. I just think it's better without the middleman to make a profit from the price difference, but I really need it urgently, so this is the only way."
As for government departments, she didn't even consider it. No matter how much money she had, she was not willing to give it away for free as it would earn her political achievements, as someone might even embezzle it.
Gu Xi flipped through her address book. She had bought eggs at the agricultural and sideline products wholesale market before. Because she ordered a large quantity, the other party even left her a phone number.
When he called, the other party heard that the quantity was too large and said that it would take him half a day to adjust the goods, and asked Gu Xi to pay a deposit.
Gu Xi transferred the deposit and left the delivery address at the warehouse she rented in the logistics park.
There are countless vehicles coming in and out there every day, so it won't attract any attention.
The pigs were packed, more than a thousand pigs, weighing a total of 350,000 kilograms. Gu Xi paid 3.5 million yuan and also left her phone number for Xu Qingbing, saying that if he raised more pigs in the future, he could sell them to her.
The designated driver drove a pig transport truck behind Gu Xi's SUV. This place was originally a rural area, and there was a forest not far away. There was no one around, so Gu Xi stopped the car and said that someone was here to pick them up, and paid the designated driver.
After the designated driver walked away, Gu Xi quickly put the ten cars into the space.
Then he said to Chu Zhao:
"The eggs won't be delivered to the warehouse until tonight. We're not in a hurry. Let's take this afternoon as a picnic and show you the rural scenery of our country, China."
Chu Zhao had been smelling the scent of Second Brother for the entire morning, and now he could finally smell some fresh air.
"Ah Xi, I see a lot of people selling watermelons along the way. I've never seen how watermelons are grown. Shall we go take a look?"
There were no watermelons in Anning Country. When he ate watermelon for the first time, he was amazed.
"Of course, let's go."
The two got in the car and drove for a while before they saw a stall on the side of the road selling watermelons. There was a sign hanging next to it with a few crooked words written on it: Watermelon Picking Garden.
But there were few pedestrians on this road, with only an occasional car passing by. A melon farmer selling melons was lying on a mat taking a nap with his face covered by a straw hat.
"Uncle, how much is this melon per pound?" Gu Xi asked.
The melon farmer was awakened by her. He took off his straw hat, rubbed his sleepy eyes, yawned and said:
"One yuan per pound, cooked."
"Do you have any more melons in your patch? Can we pick them ourselves?"
The melon farmer said lazily:
"Yes, you need to pay a 10 yuan ticket per person to pick the melons, and the melons you pick are also 1 yuan per pound."
Gu Xi scanned the code, paid twenty yuan, and took Chu Zhao into the melon field.
Seeing the ground covered with big round watermelons, not only Chu Zhao, but also Gu Xi felt very excited.
When people see a watermelon, they have an instinct to knock on it, regardless of whether they know anything about watermelons or not.
Chu Zhao jumped around like a civet in a melon field.
The two of them knocked and picked, and soon they had a large pile of them on the ground.
The melon farmer slept for a while and found that the two men had not come out yet. Why is it so difficult to choose a melon?
So I walked over to take a look, and saw that the pile on the ground was more than a person tall.
Gu Xi could have put the watermelon directly into the space, but she could rob the rich and help the poor, but she would never do anything to bully ordinary people.
The melon farmer was anxious, and ran over quickly, shouting:
"Oh my, you two kids, what are you doing? You picked so many, your car can't hold them all!"
Gu Xi laughed and said:
"It's okay. We have a truck in the back. I'll drive it over later. Uncle, I want all the melons in your field."
"Really?" The melon farmer was very excited.